The scroll contained magic that enabled Aria to teleport wherever she wanted.
Carl glanced at the scroll in Aria’s hand, his eyes filled with regret.
“You’ll make a clone that can replace me while I’m away, right?”
Carl nodded in response.
Aria smiled.
This was why she chose to expose her identity to Carl.
Now, Aria could freely roam outside the palace without anyone knowing.
“You may be able to deceive the eyes of normal people, but His Majesty and His Highness will know right away.”
“I’ll be back before anyone finds me.”
“Ha, I’m not so sure about that. I’ve given you that scroll. So if you are in danger, just come back right away.”
Aria nodded.
She was in the middle of tearing the teleportation scroll when suddenly…\nSaintess Veronica was the first person to have found and retrieved the relics of this temple.
‘At least, she was able to in the past.’
When Aria arrived, she took about five steps from the walls of the temple, and then she knocked on the floor.
Afterward, she circled the place and repeated the same behavior over and over again.
At one point, she knocked on the ground and heard a hollow sound.
‘It’s here.’
Aria swept the dirt with her hands and soon enough, she found a wooden plank.
There it was… the entrance to the secret passage.
Aria grunted as she lifted the wooden plank.
But suddenly….
“…Ugh. So noisy…”
She heard a human voice.
Aria stiffened.
She slowly shifted her gaze.
There was a vagrant who had slept like a dead man on the floor. He suddenly turned his body in another direction.
“Hmm.”
Before long, he fell asleep again.
‘Thank goodness…’
Aria, who was silently relieved, lifted the plank again.
Then she climbed the ladder and carefully descended to the ground below.
Although the place was dark, Aria was able to walk around with ease thanks to her good senses.
‘There are only dust and spider webs.’
Not long after, she found a black box.
She opened the lid of the box.
‘God’s judgment.’
The temple had also written about the relic.
To punish those who tried to challenge the authority of God, a thunderbolt would strike down the earth, and those that got hit would bear the powers given by God.
‘I found it.’
Aria closed the lid after checking its contents.
Now, the only thing she had to do was to leave this place.
As she was about to stand up…
‘What? Something just… ‘
She felt something the moment she touched the wall to support her body.
‘It’s just a regular wall.’
Aria tapped the wall.
Was there something beyond the wall?
‘I can’t just knock down the wall.’
Aria started examining the walls.
Then, she found a brick that could be removed.
Aria grabbed the rattled bricks and carefully pulled them out.
There was a hole that was only big enough to fit in Aria’s hand.
She hesitated for a moment but decided to put her hand through the wall.
And as she was rummaging around the hole, she could feel something touching her fingertips.
‘This is…’
A velvet box about the size of a palm.
She opened the luxurious box that didn’t match the place at all.
Inside was a beautiful necklace crafted like the shape of a water droplet.
‘The necklace that saints always wore.’
Why was this here?
She wondered if it was a sacred object, but it didn’t seem like it was. She could hardly even feel the divine power.
Rather, there were only traces of it that remained in the necklace.
‘What is this for?’
She didn’t think that the saints would just mindlessly leave these here.
‘Whatever. I’m out of ideas.’
Aria rose from her seat and wore the necklace around her neck.
She could think about it later. Her priority was to get out of this place.
Aria climbed back unto the ladder and lifted the wooden plank.
But when she got out…
“You’re finally back.”
Aria found herself surrounded by a bunch of ruffians…