“Welcome to Sylven the city of conniving bastards.”

“Is that how you greet every traveler?”

“Of course because people who come here either are running away from something or want to make a name for themselves”

(Before you enter remember don’t interfere with other people's business.)

“Why is that?”

(You’ll make enemies that you don’t want to make enemies out of.)

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

I then continue to walk into the city and immediately see a group of people circling up around me. The presumed leader of the group steps out and says “Pay up 10 gold for protections fees or pay the price.”

“Emma, can you tell how strong they are?”

(Let’s just say that they could beat you with their eyes closed.)

“I thought I was supposed to be 3 times stronger than an ordinary person.”

(You are but people who live in big cities aren’t ordinary are they.)

“True, but is there anyway for me to beat them?”

(Yeah, just scare the shit out of them by using a tiny bit of divine or infernal energy.)

“I’ve only tried messing around with mana how do I use infernal energy?”

(You should feel a small amount of heat in your head imagine using that heat to create a demon's shadow behind you)

I try to sense this so called heat the Emma is talking about.

“You have ten more seconds to decide.”

“Just trying to find my coins.”

I begin to panic. I continue to try to find some other energy beside my mana ocean.

8..7...6...5...4...3

I suddenly sense a island inside of my mana pool which is constantly erupting with lava. I try to take some of its energy and thankfully it succeeded. I sense an image forming behind me. I try to have the image roar. Then I hear a screech from nightmares roar out behind me.

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I then see the leader cowering and trying to say “r-r-ru-run aa-a-w-ay” but all of his comrades were on the ground with blood dripping out of their orifices.

(That was unnecessary don’t you think?)

“I didn’t think that it would do that much damage and why is the leader not dead like his lackeys?”

(The leader was probably a veteran who has experienced demon attacks.)

“Is the war on going?”

(This war has been going on for around 100 years and there is no end in sight.)

Right before I was going to ask more about the war a middle aged man walked up to me and then immediately started saying “James, God of honor, justice and the magnificent sun may you please bestow upon me a spear of justice to smite down this stain upon our earth.”

(RUN NOW!)

“Wait wh-”

A gigantic golden spear suddenly appeared in the air and was pointed down at me.

The man said “Say your last words scum”

(Damn it I didn’t want to do this but repeat after me “Emma, Goddess of the pure and untainted moon please bestow me with a shield that is as incorruptible as my undying love for you.”)

“Emma, Goddess of the pure and untainted moon please bestow me with a shield that is as incorruptible as my undying love for you.”

A shield so white that even snow looks impure appeared in front of me. The spear that was just about to kill me suddenly dissipated. The man walked up to me and said

“I’m Alex and sorry for the misunderstanding fellow priest.”

(Say that your bloodline went out of control and how anybody could make the same mistake.)

“I’m Lugh no problem after all my bloodline went out of control and any other priest could have made the same mistake.”

“May James bless you with eternal glory Lugh.”

(Say “May Emma bless you with undying love and don’t say his name after”

“May Emma bless you with undying love.”

***

There was a church made out of pristine metal. Inside this church there Alex and he was talking to a man that was clad with a behemoth of armor and a sword which is planted in the ground by his side.

“Master, there is another arch priest in town”

“Are you sure that it’s an arch priest and what god is he devoted to?”

“Yes. master i’m sure that he’s an arch priest and he worships Emma.”

“Emma, huh. Tell the rest of the church to keep their hands off of him”

“As you wish master.”

***

“What was up with the whole you prayer and you telling me step by step instructions on how to talk with Alex?”

(Unlike infernal energy you need to pray to some divine icon to use divine energy and Alex was testing you with his conversation.)

“Testing me?”

(He was trying to find out if you were a real priest or if somebody was helping you from the shadows.)

“Why would somebody help me from the shadows?”

(The churches are all at odds with each other and churches thrive on their reputation and if a demon got let loose in their church their reputation would be tarnished.)

“Anyways where is your temple?”

(In the religious district.)

“Wait, there are districts?”

(Yeah, Central, Religious, Market and Guild districts.)

***

I arrived at the temple. Well it wasn’t really even a temple is was more like a small shack with a pristine full moon right in front of the door.

“You're sure that your a god and not some made up myth right?”

(I’m a fully fledged major god it’s just that the last 7 Harbingers I’ve had have died before they could fully bloom.)

“How strong are you compared to other divine entities?”

(Weaker than any minor angel.)

“So you’re basically the weakest divine entity there is.”

(Yup.)

“There's a long road ahead of us isn’t there.”

(It’s actually more like an highway but yes.)