67 The Necromancer and the Priestess 1

Yin Mei returned to the white space, where she was greeted politely by the system. She didn't even need time to recover, immediately asking him to present the skills that she could take.

She looked at them.

This time, new skills had appeared.

Dancing, Singing, Etiquette.

She still couldn't understand the logic of these skills, but after a moment, decided on dancing. It would either be that or singing, but she really thought that dancing would also be beneficial to her martial arts and fighting, which seemed to be important even a seemingly harmless modern day world.

The system next provided her with a choice between three random worlds again.

Western Fantasy: Classic sword and magic world, with fantasy races. An epic story of heroes.

Ancient China: Alternate Ancient China during an era where war is brewing between countries. A story of war and love.

Death Game (Game World Ver.): Trapped inside a game world where death has become real, one must play until the end in order to return to the real world.

Yin Mei wanted to ask just how many different type of death game worlds there were in order for it to be picked twice randomly... although it looked like it was a different type of world from the one last time. She considered the three of them. All of them seemed fairly dangerous, but the one that caught her eye was the western fantasy world! Magic was romance!

She happily chose western fantasy. She didn't regret! Even if it might not have been the best choice, she wanted to use magic, magic! Cultivation techniques are already similar to magic? Bah! It wasn't the same thing okay?

When she next opened her eyes, she was in a spacious stone-walled room, knelling in front of an altar and well carved statue of a beautiful woman. She glanced around, and saw that there were no windows, and the room was dimly lit by a multitude of candles. The altar was filled with beautiful fresh white flowers, while luxurious tapestries hung from the walls.

Yin Mei felt that her hair was long and soft, and looking down, it was wavy and blond. She was a blonde haired foreigner now!?

She quickly dived into the memories and information.

This was, as stated before, a western fantasy world. There were in fact different races like elves, dwarves, dragons, fairies, and etc., but these races were actually rare and almost never seen. Yin Mei felt slightly disappointed.

Anyways, continuing, they were currently on the main continent of the world, where there were three empires and five large kingdoms that split the land between them. They were currently on decent terms with each other - that being said, there were tensions between some of the countries, it just had yet to develop to the point of war.

In addition to that, there was obviously magic, which mainly used the elements and invoked the power of the gods. Of course, there was also religion in the presence of real life gods. The most popular religion was that of the Goddess of Light - whose statue that Yin Mei was kneeling before at this very moment.

The Church of Light was the most famous and worshipped church in the main land, and Yin Mei's identity was also closely related to the church - she was the church's high priestess.

Her identity was a young 16 year old girl called Celestina, who had been raised in the church's orphanage from a young age. It was discovered that she had an especially strong affinity with the light element, perhaps one of the strongest seen in centuries. Because of this, when she was only ten years old, she was established as the church's high priestess. Although it sounded like a prestigious title, she had no real decision making power - though she did have some measure of authority, it could not be compared to the church's true decision maker, the Bishop.

In addition, there was one problem to being the high priestess. She could not leave the church. She physically could not leave the church. Yin Mei felt a thousand grass mud horses run across her heart. The high priestess herself was a intermediary for the seal that sealed the great demon laying underneath the church. Because of that, she was bound to this location, unable to go outside the church grounds.

The desire to curse was welling up in Yin Mei's heart. If she couldn't leave the church, then how in the world was she supposed to complete her mission! She demanded a setting change!!

After calming down, she continued to calmly go through the rest of the information.

The male lead of this time's plot was a member of the church's Knight Templar - knights that guarded the wellbeing of the citizens and protected the interests of the church. He was a man with a strong sense of justice and loyalty toward the church.

As for the female lead... she was the slave of the villain, who had fallen in love with the male lead and thus betrayed the villain, leading to his death.

Yin Mei quickly looked at the villain's identity, all while wondering if he was her demon king this time as well. She wanted to hurry and meet him to confirm, but d*mmit, she remembered she was still stuck inside this damnable church!

The villain this time was a necromancer that did many heinous deeds, becoming this continent's most infamous and wanted criminal. He had massacred hundreds of innocents, experimented on even more, and had dabbled in all sorts of forbidden black magic.

But this necromancer, El, had a shocking other identity. He had actually been part of the same orphanage that Celestina had, and had been tested as possessing a very strong dark affinity - the opposite of Celestina. At a young age, he was thus brought into a secret squad of spies and assassins that the church trained and used. A couple of years ago, he had defected and thus became the well known criminal of today.

Yin Mei read on further, and now understood the reason of Celestina's ending. Celestina had died, killed by the male protagonist, who afterwards sealed the demon that had become unsealed through El's methods using a new method that would no longer require a human intermediary, and instead used a holy weapon that he had been granted by the Goddess of Light.

The reason that he had killed Celestina, who was someone that he had admired as the holy saints of the church, was because he had found out that Celestina had colluded with El on multiple occasions. Though, colluded was probably not the word that Yin Mei would use. In the first place, stuck here in the church, there was a limit to what the young powerless priestess could actually do, aside from slightly impeding investigation and subjugation attempts a little. But Yin Mei understood Celestina's reasons - she blamed herself for El's actions. Because the reason that El had defected was in order to find a way to release the seal that bound Celestina to this one location, and free her from the confines of the church.

Yin Mei felt that this love story between El and Celestina would be much better than that of the male lead and female lead - but she was also very biased toward the villain and against the male and female leads.

Yin Mei stood up, closing her eyes. She could somehow feel the dark and menacing presence of the demon deep under the grounds of the church, still struggling against the chains of light that bound him here.

She already roughly knew the way to escape the seals, as it had been described in the final scene of the plot information that had been provided. But this would need the cooperation of El and the male lead, Kai. In addition, the method for releasing the seal was slightly vague, though they did detail the ingredients necessary - it would just require El to continue researching the method.

After that, she would be free from the seals that bound her to the church.

Then she would now simply need to contact El. Actually, this wasn't that hard, and was also the reason that Celestina had gotten caught - it was because El used a hidden passage to enter the church. It was a passage known only by their close friend group from the orphanage, of which now only Celestina and El were present in the capital. Their other three friends from that group had spread out across the mainland.

That was right. El was actually still in the capital! Hidden right underneath the noses of the church, he actually operated as a professor of the prestigious Erindal Empire's number one Magic Academy.

At this moment, there was a rustling as a hand reached out and pulled open one of the luxurious tapestries hanging on the wall from behind, and a beautiful man wearing a priest's garb exited from the dark hall behind him, which disappeared behind a stone wall the moment he stepped out.

Yin Mei glanced at him, her bright blue eyes blinking at the man. He had on a pair of frameless glasses, his hair pitch black, and his eyes an emerald green. He had thick lashes, and a seductive aura. When he looked at her, his cool expression was replaced with a naive smile.

Celestina's memories flashed through Yin Mei's brain and she knew that this was El, in disguise. His true colors were a beautiful white hair with blue eyes, but since he was a wanted criminal after all, he had vaguely disguised himself with the appearance and identity of one of their friends from the orphanage who had died in an epidemic, Riel.

Yin Mei looked at him and could already see six points out of ten of similarity to his former lives. Looking at his true appearance in Celestina's memories, she could see that if he took off the disguise, he would look even more similar.

It was her demon king. It was her zombie emperor, her Yao Heyan.

Much to El's surprise, the moment he saw Celestina, she had on an expression like she was about to cry, immediately flinging herself into her arms and hugging him tightly. He didn't know what had happened, but he immediately began comforting her. "Celes, did someone bully you? Tell me who it is and I'll take care of him," he said in a frantic manner.

Yin Mei pursued her lips, refusing to let her tears fall. Did he forget her again? No matter. Even if he never remembered, she would, for the both of them.

She let go, rubbing her not yet existent tears away as she turned her head so that he couldn't see her red eyes. El wondered what in the world had gotten into Celestina. She had never cried again in front of them after she had become the high priestess. Because of this, El didn't know how to deal with a crying Celestina.

Yin Mei once more looked into Celestina's memories, comparing them to the timeline in the information.

Like usual, they were starting near the beginning of the plot. El's slave, a girl names Rosella, had already encountered Kai. Celestina thought that she needed to immediately separate that ungrateful b*tch who betrayed El from him.

Yin Mei turned back around, her expression calm again. Celestina had a very youthful and cute, almost loli like face, immediately making El want to dote on her. El didn't know why he and Celestina had always gotten along so well. aCtually, with such strong affinities for contrasting elements like this, they normally shouldn't even be able to stand in each other's presences. The priests at the orphanage had always marveled over the fact that despite possessing a strong light and dark element, they seemed to almost harmonize with each other.

"El, send that girl you're taking care of to me," Yin Mei said after some thought. Celestina already knew about Rosella, as El had used her to send messages to Celestina occasionally.

"That slave brat? Why do you want her? A little dirty thing like that isn't-" El began to say, but saw that Celestina was staring at him. She stared, and stared, and stared, and El immediately surrendered. "Alright, I'll have her come see you." He finally said with a sigh, and Yin Mei smiled brightly. El returned it with a wry but doting smile, patting Celestina's head. It couldn't be helped. He had never won against her since they were young.

They continued talking about little things for a while, before El finally left. Yin Mei didn't speak about his affairs, and neither did El. Clestina and him seemed to have a sort of unspoken agreement about this. Celestina never wanted to hear about it, as it only made her feel guiltier, while El didn't want to dirty her ears with those morbid matters.

Yin Mei exited the basement shrine, heading up and up a spiral set of stone stairs until she reached a wooden door. Opening it, outside was the beautiful inner sanctum of the church. The place seemed as if locked in an eternal spring, the water of the marble fountain glistening under the warm sunlight, the sound of birds chirping resounding through the blue sky, and the smell of fresh flowers tickled the nose.

Very few people were here, as this was considered to be accessible only to the high ranking members of the church and was the high priestess's quarters. There were only a few priestess's who served Celestina and some guards present.

Yin Mei closed the door behind her, walking over to the fountain and sitting down at it's edge, relaxing in the warm spring sunlight. Even if it was winter, this inner sanctum would forever stay locked in time like this. Protected by a barrier and almost completely isolated from the outside world. Celestina was truly like a little bird locked in a gilded cage.

She looked at this world's main mission.

Main Mission: Unseal the demon under the church.

She closed her eyes, and as a few priestess's passed by, they couldn't help but think about how holy and pure the high priestess looked - after all, she was different from the normal people. Her light aura spilled out from her, bringing peace and warmth to those around her.

Yin Mei was limited in her actions. But she wouldn't let that stop her. She would make sure that they had their happy ending this time too. And she wouldn't let anything get in her way of it.