Chapter 93 - An Angel Who Has Dog Problems

Yani who lived many and knew several worlds before he died had already known the angels, mainly after their descent into the apocalypse. Therefore, it was not strange for him to feel the powerful sacred energy he identifies as this power being belonging to an angel. 

On the other hand, Azarphy was slightly surprised and annoyed by the daring of the demons, he had left Arabeth with Emery to keep the human safe while his body was doing a long process of self-healing. 

The fallen angel was a little, just a little, worried about Emery, since his body was in a strange process of self-destruction and restoration, the human's life seemed to be by a thread. 

The most frustrating thing was that he could do nothing to help, after all, the demonic energy and sacred energy were coming into conflict within him, only the energy of nature restored his body and mana tried to keep the conflicting energies under control. 

If Azarphy tried to interfere would only make the situation worse, it would leave him quite powerless, and consequently, this weakness left him frustrated and angry, both because of the situation and for allowing himself to be concerned about a human being that he should sincerely despise. 

On the one hand, he was annoyed on the other hand the noise outside gave him an excuse to do something and release the frustration he felt, even if that was helping the other human he didn't like at all. 

"Hey, the useless demon takes the demonic relic and hands it over to Arabeth," Azarphy said to Bao telepathically. Poor Bao was all fluttering because of the angel's sacred aura, but he dared not be slow and took the relic that was badly damaged.

Before Yani could utter anything to stop Bao, the little dog disappeared into the darkness with the demonic relic. 

"Human" Azarphy began to speak, only to realize that there was another human trembling and kneeling on the ground, he was prostrate and afraid, but he seemed to be in worship. 

The short messy black hair and injured hands gathered in a position of worship was a very peculiar scene and not pleasant to see. 

"Humans take this other human away from the room. I don't want to smell the unpleasant smell of blood in the bedroom" Azarphy said after a moment of silence, he couldn't act as he wanted in front of another human. He did not want to be disturbed, he well knew that if his existence were known there would be many worshipers around and he could not act freely as he liked. 

"Lord of the Light allows me to live, I promise to pretend that I saw nothing! Please, I can only be here so my big brother can't find me! Please don't let him catch me!" the novice asked tremulously in a faint prayer that only Azarphy could hear since it was directed to the God of Light.

If the human were praying to Satan, Arabeth could hear, the same thing when an Elf makes a prayer those who are the servants of the God of Nature can also hear the prayer. 

Azarphy usually blocked such a thing, after all being in an Abbey of the God of Light he would have much to listen to the prayers, requests, penitents, and curses that the inhabitants of the abbey would make to the God of Light. 

However, the prayer of the kneeling novice was so desperate and so painful that it overcame Azarphy's protection, which showed how powerful that weak human's will was. 

On the other hand, Yani was on alert, he managed to understand that the angel was apparently all the time in Emery's room.

"Does that mean Bishop Darcy is not only an exorcist but is he a summoner?" Giovanni asked Yani, he had also understood that the angel "lived" in Bishop Darcy's room. 

"It's likely that it is. No angel would want to live with humans if they didn't have a contract with them. The angels are much prouder than the Elves and much more possessive than the demons" Yani explained to Giovanni. 

"I can hear you; you know?" Azarphy said very coldly to Yani. He could listen to Yani, but he could not hear Giovanni as he was hidden inside Yani's soul fragment. 

As Yani was taking care of Giovanni's body, then his mind could be read by Azarphy. 

The biggest reason is that Yani took no precaution about it, after all, he as Warlock and with a powerful mental power could block anyone from reading his mind unless the angel was not just an angel and was an archangel.

Emery: (...)

Author: (...)

Arabeth: Do I say, or do you say?

Bao: It's best to be quiet for now.

Emery and the Author: I agree!

Now Yani couldn't take precautions on this, since it would be strange for a weak novice to block thoughts for an angel who should be much more powerful than him. 

"Come on, I'm going to help you get this novice to his room... Here" Azarphy said this and cast his power upon the novice's body, using the novice's faith to spread his power and heal the wounded body. 

The novice winked and felt a great calm, his body stopped shaking and his wounds were gone, he looked at himself and saw the light that permeated his body, thus realizing that he had been blessed by the sacred being. 

Unlike Yani who knew Azarphy was at least an angel, for the other novice he just knew it was a being sent by the God of Light could be an angel or anything else. 

In the mythology of the God of Light, the angels were the most powerful and the closest to the God of Light, but there were other beings created by the God of Light who served with the purpose to collect faith and distribute requests, these creatures were known as Enlightened Spirits. 

The poor novice could not even dream that he had been blessed by an archangel, if he knew this, he would have thought he would have spent all the good of his life for that blessing. 

"Thank you" the novice humbly thanked him. He knew that the Enlightened Spirit had no obligation to heal him, only letting him escape alive from that dangerous situation was enough, so he sincerely thanked him. 

"Just don't get into any more trouble. And keep your promise not to talk about what happened today. It will be very problematic if humans know about the demonic relics." 

Azarphy said with a cold tone in his voice that made the novice get scared and Yani feels uncomfortable. 

"What's your name?" Yani asked after a heavy silence settled in the environment. 

"Niall Byrne," the novice said rising from the ground, he looked humbly at Yani, even knowing Giovanni's recent fame of having become bishop Darcy's newest "patron", despite being all informal. 

Many disdained or envied Giovanni for having achieved such good luck, but mainly the priests spoke with certain malice about the patronage of the novice since there were malicious conversations that reported that Bishop Darcy when he was in the capital behaved with debauchery and had several sexual partners. 

Of course, close to hero fame these comments were only malicious and not many took it seriously, but as Bishop Darcy showed little before them, this kind of conversation fueled the collective imagination of a hero who had a dark past. 

"Byrne? Isn't that the family name of the Duke of Northern Light  Kingdom?" Giovanni commented with Yani. He had studied a little about the important nobles of other regions, of course, it was just a little.

However, Byrne's surname was very famous because of the Mana mines they had control, they also had links to the Northern Light kingdom royalty.

"What was a member of Duke Byrne's family doing here outside the Northern Light  Kingdom?" Yani wondered, too. 

"Brother Niall, are you in the new novice class?" Yani asked observing the strange pallor that took over Niall's young face. 

Niall was young, but he should be about 16 at the age of 16, he should be in the third-grade class. The first-year class usually had young people between 12 and 14 years old, such as Theo who was 14 years old. 

"I'm a transfer student of Northern Light Kingdom," Niall said after a moment of thinking about it. He had no reason to lie, moreover, his name was so different that it was clear that he was not originally from the Kingdom of Dawn.

"I thought the church in the capital of Northern Light  Kingdom was much better than the church in our capital" Yani commented as if to bring up the subject, but was probing Niall.

"I just wanted to know other places, besides, I don't want to grow the shadow of my family," Niall said a little hesitantly but ended up making up a lie. 

"You two come in conversation, let's take this weak human to where he should be," Azarphy said interrupting their conversation. 

"Your Excellency, I may take..."

"Your Excellency, I can go..."

" Are you questioning what I say?" Azarphy said interrupting Yani and Niall's words.

The two humans quickly shut up before the angel's sarcastic words, they did not want to be on the bad side of such a sacred entity. 

"I will accompany you" Azarphy finally said after leaving the humans in a heavy silence. 

Azarphy was more afraid that Giovanni would bring more useless humans to join Emery, as is the case with Niall, if Emery were there for sure it would be another "dog" that he would adopt. 

Life was already so difficult in having to share Emery with Arabeth and Giovanni, would he still have to share the human's attention with one more dog?

Bao: (...)

Author: I think he has problems with dogs.

Bao: *cries*