Hearing the Pope say this, Elaine couldn't help showing an embarrassed expression. He couldn't hide it even if he tried to hide it, and it was a bit difficult to get off.
"Just give me such an important [Holy Stone], is there really no problem?" Elaine then asked.
"In fact, there are many [Holy Stones], but not many people can correctly guide the power of the Holy Stone." Eugene IV said: "Anyway, let's try it first. I believe you have this qualification, and in your heart
The purity of the sacred stone can also guide the power of the holy stone in the right direction."
Anyway, give it a try first. There’s no harm in giving it a try. Is the Pope really a reckless person? Or is this just testing Elaine’s mettle?
Elaine held the holy stone tightly in his hand. To be honest, he was very nervous.
What if the Holy Stone doesn't respond at all? What if the spirit summoned by the Holy Stone is ugly and twisted, disappointing the Pope?
"You don't need to think too much. Just think about the wish you want to realize." The Pope repeatedly reminded him hypnotically: "What wish do you want to realize? What do you want, what do you pursue, what do you achieve? Put it in your heart
Recite your most sincere wish silently, and the holy stone will respond to your call."
This is exactly the same as the round table system. Elaine has not experienced the real round table system in the Pure Land of Avalon, but Constantine mentioned it to him privately.
Wish...?
When it comes to wishes, even if she doesn't think about it deliberately, the figure that lingers in Elaine's mind is the figure of a person.
No, there should have been at least two people. But Leo... Leo's side is more urgent... The one Elaine is most eager to save now is Leo Porter.
(Leo...)
He closed his eyes, and all he could see before his eyes was the voice and smile of the lion-man boy. He had been trapped in this different world nine hundred years later for ten years, but he never stopped thinking about that child.
All he thought about were the things that made him regretful.
He didn't eat the breakfast that Leo made specially for him.
He didn't even say goodbye properly when the kid left.
When he saw Leo again, he could see the haggard look on the child's face.
Elaine knew that she was not a kind and gentle person, maybe not even pure.
(Leo...)
The phantom of Leoport that he saw in [Paradise] not only did not relieve Elaine's longing, but made him even more depressed.
In a strange world, I am doing things I don’t want to do, acting I don’t want to act, telling lies I don’t want to tell, and being myself that is not myself.
He has been enduring, enduring, enduring, just for the sake of the child. But he can hardly bear it anymore, and his mind is about to go crazy.
------Who comes and makes all this stop!
------Let it come to an end!
Elaine's thoughts became more and more confusing. He didn't know whether it was his random thoughts that led him to become obsessed, or whether the holy stone was affecting him. No matter which one it was, Elaine was initially trapped in the invisible ice coffin and almost suffocated.
My mind has long been on the verge of collapse.
Originally I just wanted to find a place to stay.
Since when did everything become so difficult and complicated?
The world is so big, but he can never find a place for him. He finally finds it, but it always slips away from his fingers.
Could it be said that this is fate?
------But.
A thin figure hugged him gently from behind.
It's almost imperceptible, but it's definitely there.
"Let go of the burden on your shoulders." The boy's voice echoed leisurely in Elaine's mind.
"There is nothing to worry about. Everything is fate." The voice said: "No matter when and where you are, I will be with you."
When he heard that voice, Elaine's long-standing feeling of suffocation suddenly disappeared like ice and snow. Even if it was just an auditory hallucination, or even if he was just deceived, maybe what he wanted was such a promise.
"Leo..." Elaine shed two lines of hot tears, and the originally green holy stone turned into another light in his palm.
Something appeared next to him.
"Oh!" The Pope exclaimed in surprise.
Elaine hadn't opened his eyes yet, because his vision was blurred by tears. But he knew from the exclamation of Eugene IV that something should have appeared. He successfully used the [Holy Stone] to summon the so-called "angel"
".
He slowly opened his eyes, turned his head and looked in the direction of the light, wondering what he had summoned. What he saw surprised him.
A golden lion, glowing with golden-white light like thunder, was also staring at Elaine silently.
Simply...just like Leoport.
So, this is indeed the realization of his wish.
"Leo...!" There were no more tears. Elaine no longer cared about his manners in front of the Pope and had no time to act. He desperately rushed towards the platinum lion, hugged it tightly and howled.
Cry loudly.
The platinum lion has a body size similar to that of a real lion, and even the body temperature is almost the same. No, that's not right. This temperature was the temperature Elaine felt when she held Leo in her arms that day.
It radiated brighter than ordinary thunder and lightning, with a white-gold flash of white brilliance, and also made a faint thundering sound of electricity, but Elaine did not feel being hit by the electricity when she hugged the platinum lion. This
The special electric light is probably just the excess light generated by photons, which is the same principle as the heatless firelight on the Phoenix, but now it is replaced by electric light. In any case, this is the spirit body created by Elaine using the [Holy Stone].
The spirit body that belongs to him will naturally not harm him.
As to whether this is the Holy Spirit, an evil spirit, or something in between, no one can tell clearly.
Seeing Elaine hugging the platinum lion, the Pope must have been shocked. He didn't know what was going on, and it didn't matter if he didn't know.
Although it was just a phantom, the embodiment of Elaine's wish, he did see what he wanted to see.
It’s just that [missing] turned into [body].
Although I understand that this is not Leoport himself, my feelings of missing him will not change.
While being embraced by Elaine, the platinum lion also looked at the Pope with hostility, probably knowing that the Pope might harm Elaine. But the lion's glare seemed to have changed in the Pope's eyes. Eugene IV saw
It's just the majestic appearance of the platinum lion.
"How holy and majestic." The pope exclaimed: "You are indeed just as I imagined, with magnanimity and purity far beyond that of mortals. It's great that the angel who made a contract with you is not an ugly and evil figure.
."
Elaine didn't answer. The Leo he imagined couldn't be ugly and evil.
It has nothing to do with the correctness of the wish itself. For those who are greedy for power and wealth in the world, their wishes will naturally appear in a twisted and dark way. No matter how devout the believers are, they cannot avoid it. Moreover, how many people in the church are there?
Or are they truly pure believers? Of course, there are even fewer people in this minority who are willing to join forces with the Pope.
The people who join forces with the Pope are probably not good people, and the spirits summoned by them using the Holy Stone will naturally not be any better. That's the truth.
...But what if a large number of holy stones were stolen and handed over to Arthur and the others?
This idea flashed through Elaine's mind, but he knew that it was extremely difficult to achieve. Such an important resource as the Holy Stone is naturally closely guarded by the church, and it is impossible for it to fall into Elaine's hands. Even if it can be stolen,
How to escape with the stolen holy stone without being noticed and hand it over to King Arthur and his party is also a very challenging task. If Elaine escapes, his disguise will be completely gone. Of course, it is impossible for him to do this.
.If you want to escape, you must at least get information about Queen Greenville (Joan of Arc).
Elaine was puzzled, and the platinum lion rubbed its face against Elaine, looking like it was getting close to the fat white man.
Familiar with him? This lion is just like Leo Porter. He likes to cling to Elaine when he sees him. Although he doesn’t look exactly like the real lion boy (if he summons the same boy as Leo in this world)
The same orc would probably scare the people of this world), but its temperament did imitate Leoport.
The more she thought about it, the more Elaine realized that she was like this------
Lonely.
He hugged the platinum lion tightly again. Fortunately, the lion's spirit body would not feel pain when being hugged hard by a big man like Elaine. Instead, he put the lion's paw on Elaine's head to comfort him. But this level of comfort
, can’t really untie the knot in Elaine’s heart.
No. Stopping here will not help matters.
Fatty Bai wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes, gathered his mood and turned to the Pope: "Sorry, I'm sorry. Because he is so much like my former friend, I unconsciously..."
"Your former friend was a lion?"
"...It's just that he has the temperament of a lion, a person like a lion." Elaine answered in a roundabout way.
"If Richard I, the Lion-Hearted King, was not from two or three hundred years ago, I would have thought you were talking about him." Eugene IV said half-jokingly: "The temperament can be as majestic as this angel, and he is worthy of it."
There is no one with the title of [Lion] in this era."
There are indeed no people in this era. Elaine thought to herself. Even if there are people, they are not from this era.
"I, what should I do?" Elaine asked again: "The Pope gave me the Holy Stone... shouldn't it be for free? It should be for free, right?"
"You don't have to do anything, just show up in the church and let the Papal Knights know that you have made a contract with such a holy angel." But Eugene IV said: "Just in this way, you can give the troops a great deal of help."
of encouragement."
"Really? Just, just like this, just...?"
"What they need has never been a physical enhancement, but a spiritual one," the pope said.
To put it bluntly, the "angels" summoned by the Papal Knights are probably very... ugly. Because there are so many ugly "angels", even the church people don't have the confidence to call them angels.
That’s why I want to find positive examples so that the Papal Knights can regain their confidence.
He just planned to use Elaine's platinum lion as a vase...is that what he meant? A drop of cold sweat broke out on Fat Bai's forehead. But this is better than asking him to go into battle with the platinum lion. God knows.
Will Ryan meet Arthur and his group one day? It's hard to decide whether he will pretend to fight and run away, or whether he will directly defect to the other side. Pretending to fight is probably very difficult to act.
"However, if you want to help, there is one thing that can help." The Pope changed the topic and said: "How about treating it as a publicity for Lord Angel's first appearance and asking him to help exorcise the undead?"
"Death... undead?" Elaine had a bad premonition. (To be continued)