The Insider System

Chapter 425: Time Skip Prelude

"The God of Light is ready for you now Tiff." Tiff hadn't expected the Temple Head to be the one who came to get her for the meeting, but when she really thought about it, she thought maybe the Temple Head planned to talk to her on the way to the meeting. "Okay."

After saying bye to Dawn and quickly changing her clothes, Tiff followed the Temple Head towards the Oracle while waiting for the Temple Head to say something to her. When they made it to the Oracle's room with nothing being said, she started to think she had been wrong, but as she was opening the door, the Temple Head finally stopped her to say. "I did my best on your next mission. I'm sorry if it seems like it's too much. The God of Light Seems to think you can handle more than the rest of the army on your own."

Tiff was a bit taken aback at first because this was the first time the Temple Head had ever said anything that came off as criticizing the God of Light's judgment, but she felt it was coming from a place of worry, so she decided to reassure the Temple Head. "I can't tell you how my first mission went directly, but he's probably right that I can handle it."

Right after saying it, Tiff could tell the temple head was taking her words seriously because the look on her face changed drastically before the Temple Head said. "In that case, forget what I said a moment ago."

Tiff knew the Temple Head was probably embarrassed that she had second-guessed the God of Light so openly, but Tiff felt it was coming from a place of caring for her safety, so not only was she not offended; she was a bit touched. Ever since she could remember, she'd felt the Temple Head was distant in some way, so her being worried about her was a nice turn of events that made her think they'd gotten closer in the past weeks.

"Don't worry, I think that kind of stuff all the time. I don't think anyone will hold it against you even if you're the head of the Temple." After Tiff said this, she gave the Temple Head a small smile before she turned to go through the door. Even if she would have liked to keep talking to the Temple Head for a few more minutes, she would be making the God of Light wait, and she was sure he didn't have enough time for that.

The first thing Tiff saw when she entered the room was that Greg was already waiting near the circle of light that surrounded the oracle at all times. "Were you waiting for me?" In the past, Tiff would have stayed silent in the Oracle's presence, but she'd realized that the Oracle was friendly and wouldn't mind her speaking to someone briefly.

"Oh, what is it?" Tiff had been thinking she was done here because of the way the God of Light had said the last thing. "There's a chance I'll be forced to play along and sign a deal with the Demon Lord as well, so I need to tell you about Greg since there's a chance you would be confused if you saw him and do something you shouldn't if no one told you what was going on. Greg has both an affinity for Holy and Unholy and he could be traded away if the details I'm hearing about the deals the Demon Lord's making are true."

After hearing the God of Light's words, it took her a few seconds to process what he had just told her and understand it. Having one of these affinities was already rare, so the fact Greg had both was almost unbelievable to her, and not only because people getting opposing affinities was one in a hundred.

She had known Greg for a really long time, and while there were times he creeped her out in a hard-to-explain way, she didn't think she had ever felt any Unholy magic coming from him at all. "We had it sealed to help keep it hidden."

Tiff didn't have anything to say anymore, so she just asked. "Are we done now?" Getting a nod from the God of Light, Tiff made a brief bow before she saw the world she was in fade away. Letting go of the Oracle's hand and standing up, Tiff took a glance at Greg before walking towards the door to get ready to leave the Temple.

...

Stepping off the elevator into Lucas' office, Lake watched as the journals they'd retrieved were added to the shelf with the others before saying. "I'm going to go change. When do you want to meet back up for this lesson on curses you said you'd give me?"

"Don't leave just yet. I have some new papers on my desk, and one might be about that fortress you told me about. Remember when we had some people go check it out?" Lake hadn't been thinking about anything like that with them just getting back, but he guessed he might as well stick around.

After Lucas took the time to read through the papers, he shook his head and said. "Nevermind. They're not back yet. Come back in three hours, and we'll have the lesson, and we'll talk a bit more about the expedition you proposed on the way back."

On the way up to his room, Lake couldn't help but wonder how Lucas would find the time for an expedition that would probably be a month-long at the least when he could barely find a few hours to do something other than work. "He'll find the time if it's good for the guild."

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