5 Chapter 5

"Tonight I will teach you about our goddess." The priest said while sitting around the campfire and adding more firewood to it.

"About our goddess? The one who saved me and send you to me? The one who blessed me with the ability to understand you?" Raven asked from the priest and got visibly excited about the subject.

As that goddess send the teacher to her. Because that goddess she got a name. So she wanted to learn more about the goddess, as she had done so much to her already.

"Yes child that one. I have served my whole life her and I don't regret it at all. Not even a single day. But let's not talk about that now. Let's talk about the goddess. Rodona is the goddess of lost souls, bad omen, darkness, insight, wisdom, and death. She might sound evil goddess, but that she isn't at all. She takes care of the soul's and guides them to the afterlife. She makes sure that everyone is judged fairly and has a chance to redeem themselves. Many think that she is an evil goddess, but that just lies that the other churches started to spread about her. As she is an old goddess and once she was a very strong one with many believers, but then the other gods and goddesses got jealous of her and wanted to overthrow her and steal her power to themselves. So they sent a divine command to their churches to hunt down every believer of Rodona, to weaken her power. Now it has been about 5 years when that started and I'm the only priest left now. And our goddess powers she doesn't have any now and she's slumbering now. Gathering her powers again. But in these five years, our reputation has been lowered and as I said many think that she's an evil goddess. And some other gods and goddesses have taken her place now. But I still haven't lost my faith and do the ceremonies to her." Before the priest could continue, Raven asked from him.

"Teacher is that why we are constantly moving and changing our locations? Because there are people after us and those people want to harm us?" Raven looked towards the priest eyes that were calm as a serene lake.

"Yes my child and you are quite a clever one." But before the priest could continue there was suddenly noises around them and then before Raven and the old priest could react there was a crossbow bolt on the old priest stomach.

The Raven who was in shock ran near to the priest and started to cry.

"Don't cry, my child. I'm going to meet Rodona now. You go with those men and treasure this with most in the world it doesn't make you forget." The old man who was wiping out the tears from the girls face suddenly started to form a small dark ball of something and made Raven swallow it.

"That contains all of my memories and what I know about Rodona and most of my skills, but for now I'm sorry that I have to do this and wipe out all of your memories about me and Rodona." The priest said and started to wipe out the memories about him and Rodona from the Raven's mind.

Raven falls asleep while forgetting everything that she had experienced with the old priest.

"You will remember this all when you are high level enough. So, my child, I hope that you work hard."

The man who was hunting down the priest came to the campfire and one of them said.

"Look at that monster he had a little girl here. You there go an make sure is the girl alright."

One of them went towards Raven and then looked at the girl and answered.

"Her face has one scar and what I can see, there are also scars at her back."

"That monster was using that little innocent girl at her sadistic and unholy ceremonies. Good that we stopped him now and saved that girl, as who knows what that man could have done next to the girl. But captain what are we going to do with the girl now?" Answered another member of the team.

The captain of the team answered to them.

"We cannot leave the girl here. She has suffered enough already, so we are going to take her as our disciple and teach her our god's way. To give her a better life without any fear now that she needs to be tortured or any other cruelties."

The team who listened to their captain's speech were impressed and praised him, as he was so kind and caring towards one unknown girl.

The team took Raven and gently carried her to their carriage and put her to there to sleep, while the captain stayed with the old priest's body and burned it down with his every belonging and said.

"Now you and your evil goddess are no more. You have killed and tortured enough humans and your cruelty couldn't even know the limits, as you had one little girl here and I don't want to even know how you treated her. But the scars tell enough to us already. So burn you a heretic and I hope that we don't see you anymore."

The captain started to walk towards the carriage where the child was sleeping and asked from his team.

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"Now when we are done here. Let's continue our journey back to our holy place."

The rest of the team nodded and started to prepare themselves and the carriage to the journey back to their headquarters.