Chapter 29: Akal the Betrayer

Chapter 29: Akal the Betrayer

Around 2 hours later, Lake hadn't really made any progress; he had thought he was about to get a bunch of new spells, but in the end he was only able to make a defense spell called Light screen. After a while he had given up on defense and moved on to attack spells, but no matter what he tried it always became Light Blade.

Deciding to give up until he leveled Light Mage up a few times, Lake looked around his room for something to do, but there really wasn't much in the room other than the bed and the table that had the sundial on it. Continue reading on No_veLbIn

Looking closely at the table Lake noticed it had a drawer in it. Sliding it open Lake saw a book that said Light goddess on the cover. Picking it up Lake opened it and looked through a few pages. Lake found that it told the history of the goddess up until the point where she was killed by the Demon Lord. Lake guessed this was here because these rooms were usually used by Holy Magic users, but seeing he had some time this was a great opportunity to get some more information on the history of this world.

Skipping to the end, Lake started looking for pictures, because any good book would have some. Not finding any Lake was disappointed and almost put it back in the drawer but stopped because one of the names in the book had caught his attention. "Akal."

"You mean the betrayer, no one calls him Akal anymore." Looking up Lake saw the Temple head was standing in the hallway, but she wasn't looking into his room. This made him smile. He loved when people knew how to act. "I'm here to get you for breakfast, It's about to be served." Lake stood up and walked into the hallway.

"It's good to see you've taken an interest in the goddess." The fact she was here was an obvious sign that they planned to ask him for something before he left. Lake had been a little worried yesterday when he guessed Laka had been the betrayer, because The temple head had said they had an oracle that seemed to be in contact with the god of light.

If fate was real there was no way his wouldn't be intertwined with the Light temple. It had not escaped his notice that the Temple head seemed to know about him before he even walked through the door, or the fact that they put him down here with Mimi even though they could have put him somewhere he would of never seen her, or found out about her secret.

It was starting to feel like he was intertwined in their grand plan before he even walked through the door; or maybe his massive brain was overthinking things and this was all a coincidence. Either way they didn't seem hostile so he was fine eating their breakfast.

Realizing he was beside the best person to ask about Light magic, Lake asked, " How do I learn more spells? I've only been able to Learn one defense and one attack and since then it always becomes them no matter how I try to make something new."

"That's how every branch of magic is. You can learn the two basic spells but to go any further you have to actually understand the element's properties. Every branch has its strengths and weaknesses, if they all had the same exact spells there would be no point in there being more than one." This kind of made sense to Lake he didn't really even understand what he was doing.

Walking up to where the temple head had been sitting, Lake saw he was about to sit in the middle of a group of 5 people his age and foresaw that he was about to get to know each and every one if he didn't do something about it. Thankfully, he already knew Mimi and she would've already prepped the introductions, so he could seamlessly integrate into the group with a small introduction. "Hello I'm Lake, I'll be here for the next few days."

After Lake said this Mimi stepped up to the plate, and said. "This is Lia, Maky, And Tims. They are members of the Temple. And this is Cas she's like us, and only here for protection." Lake didn't want to beat around the bush. The first three were boring, they just worked here, so he forgot about them. He wanted to know more about Cas, he bet she had an interesting story. "Why are you being protected?" She had taken the words out of his mouth, but at least after he answered she would reciprocate.

"The dark guild alliance attacked me after they discovered I had a legendary skill. I also killed a member of the Assassins guild during the fight, so I guess there's more than one reason" All of them looked shocked when he said he killed someone from the Assassins guild. It must be a well known rule to just let them kill you.

"You don't have to go into detail about the skill, but would you mind telling us what job it's from."

"Alchemist, I got it at level one so I really didn't know how big of a deal it was going to be, so I handled myself in a dumb way, I just walked into the guild. If I knew what I did now I would have traveled to the capital first."

"I bet they were going to use you for poison production." Said Lia. "You're probably right." This was probably exactly what he would have been doing for the Dark Guild Alliance.

"I'm in a similar situation I received a Legendary skill for hunter and stupidly told someone what it did. The next day the temple came and got me before the Assassins guild could kidnap me, apparently the skill I got is well known for being one of the best for Assassins because it lets me erase my presence. They planned to force me into becoming an assassin." Lake had to agree this skill would be helpful for Assassins. He could see why they wanted her. "So do you just have to stay here forever?"

"No, but since the Assassins guild has said that for them to leave me alone I'd have to pay what they will lose if I don't work for them." This sounded crazy; it was like they could do whatever they wanted, and people just had to put up with it.

After being annoyed at the Assassins guild for a moment Lake started to feel weird. He felt like something in his core was saying if he joined the light temple he could not only destroy the Assassins guild, but also make a large profit in the process.

Lake felt it was maybe the natural instinct of The Insider to side with weaklings with no concern over right and wrong, and it was probably a similar choice that Laka had made when he had been in Lake's position. Laka had also sided with the underdogs; it just happened to be the Dark guild alliance at the time, but he had made off like a bandit for doing so.

It was like the Insider had a nose for profit and it was showing him how to kill two birds with one stone. Lake guessed this was a result of its massive experience. There wasn't much of a point not to target the stronger side they probably had better stuff to steal anyway.

Lake heard a bell ding, and saw that food was starting to be brought and placed onto the table. "We'll talk more later, enjoy your food." Lake saw that everyone had stopped talking to eat and wondered if this was something the Temple head used to make the woman next to her leave her alone during breakfast.