The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 114

Chapter 114 Marked

Karl waved to the cleric as he got the team moving. "False alarm. It is probably the students. We had an encounter with a Holy Relic, remember? They've grown much more than expected in the last few days."

"They're from our school. Those two are professors, not High Priests, but strong with Holy Magic. I don't know the guards, but the other students are familiar faces. I didn't know that they were out here as well. The High Priest only told us we were leaving, not anything else." The cleric boy with them explained.

"Well, at least we can confirm that they're really clerics. Let's get there and get settled in for some storytelling. They are not going to let us just silently board the train without giving them all the details. I hope that you are ready to relive the dangerous parts." Karl whispered back.

"I think so. It's not my favourite memory, but I doubt that I'm going to panic if I happen to remember it." The boy replied.

The guards moved to encircle them once they got close to the group. They were all facing out, alert for some sort of danger, and definitely not threatened by the students. But Karl still had that creepy feeling, like something was wrong.

Only now that he was close, he could tell that it wasn't coming from this group of people, just from this area in general.

So, he didn't relax, and he prepared to bring the Refreshing Lightning barrier up as soon as he sensed a threat. Calling the beasts out would be a last resort, as he would have to explain to all the soldiers beforehand, but keeping the barrier up shouldn't be too much of an issue.

Everyone expected the Elites to have some sort of supernatural powers.

The two clerics came over to the group and began examining the students they had rescued, while the other four students looked on in envy. Even they could sense the power from the two newly arrived students, and it was obvious that they had been gifted with magic by the trial.

"This does pose a bit of a dilemma. It is holy magic, but so much of it might make the Government believe that they are Serum Awakened, and not just common clergy." The older of the two sighed.

"Is there a distinction within the church?" Karl asked, hoping it wasn't rude.

"There is. The ones who awaken cleric marks with the divine injection are sent to us, while the ones raised by us that awaken other marks are sent to the Academy. There weren't any last year, only one got a mark, and it was a cleric, but our group does not have many students to begin with." The priest explained.

The other four boys nodded in unison.

"There are only eight of us in our year for the whole region." One of them offered.

That made sense, the Seminary Academy was normally raising selected orphans as priests and nuns to help keep the church running, not to become elite magic users. The main orphanages were in the big cities, where there was the most need. The fact that some of their intended helpers did gain exceptional levels of holy magic either from the Serum or from their faith was just an added benefit.

"If I didn't know better, I would say that you were awakened by the Serum. Have either of you gotten a mark on your body after the trial?" The cleric asked.

Both of them carefully took off their gloves, revealing the mark of a bishop's sceptre with a dragon wrapped around it.

That wasn't the mark that the cleric in front of them had, Karl noticed. His was a simple ankh, a cross with a looped top on the back of his right hand, but these two were much more ornate and detailed. They were also larger. Much like Karl's claw marks, they took up an entire forearm.

But the cleric knew what they were right away.

"You, Team Leader, do you have an emergency phone?" He asked.

"Of course. Do you need to make a call?" Karl replied.

"Cleric Class Professor 8675309." The priest replied as soon as Karl hit the speaker button. _{fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm}