NOVEL NEXT Chapter 4: The temple of Vita
The day finally comes for Kyrie to go to the temple to find out his magic attributes.
Yue, in her cute and small porcupine form, is looking at Kyrie with a disappointing face. She might have given him the wrong body. Kyrie is dazing into his thoughts while laughing like a creeper. His facial expression totally ruins the aesthetics of his face.
[What will I get for the magic attributes? Will it be like Ian's? I don't mind having electricity as my attribute! hehehe... Wouldn't it be cool if we actually have the same attribute? Standing next to him while the electricity crackles on our swords... OMG! It would look so soooo cooooooool!!!!!]
Kyrie rolls around the bed, fanboying at his own thoughts.
Yue looks at him with a cringe and whispers, "No medicine or god can save this child anymore..."
The servant knocks at the door to announce, "Young master, everything is ready for the temple visit."
The door opens up quickly, and a youth comes out radiating light and blooming flowers. The servant gets almost blinded by this bright existence. Maybe this world should start manufacturing sunglasses.
Kyrie smiles and replies to the servant, "Thank you. I will get going now."
The servant presses his hand on top of his heart, trying to calm down the dangerous thing. He is a married man with a kind wife, blessed with a cute child. Plus, he has received the benefits of working here as a servant, so he would not bear to make his young master into a one-sided homewrecker. Worse, he is one-sidedly seduced without the other lifting a finger.
The maids, on the other hand, squeal as they hold on to each other's hands. Their hearts are proud of today's selection. They always get into heated arguments about what Kyrie should wear daily, so Kyrie gets to try all kinds of outfits due to the maids' heated debates. One day, he looks like a military sergeant. Next, he looks like a flower boy. Then, he looks like a badass CEO.
This made him look like someone with split personalities.
"We made a good choice of giving our young master the white outfit!!! He looks so great in it! I am so jealous of the woman who will stand next to him in the future!" says one of the maids with her eyes tearing up.
Yue, on Kyrie's shoulder, is out of words. There are black lines on her face as if she was ill to the stomach.
In her mind, she feels a bit of pity for them, "Don't get fooled by appearances!!! Your master is a pervert!!!"
Meanwhile, in Kyrie's mind: [OMG! What should I do when I actually meet him? Should I go for a kabedon? hehehe...]
Only then, Yue is regretting her choices and starts to re-examine her role as a god.
The sound of footsteps catches the Marquis and the Marchioness's attention, so they turn towards where the sound is coming from. Kyrie enters into their view.
The young man's hair combed up neatly, radiant of silver glow. Settled like calm waters, his amber eyes exceed his age's maturity, betraying the youth of his countenance. His features bring out the best of the well-tailored suit. Everyone can catch his aura of elegance with a single stare.
Marquis Rowan holds the Marchioness's hand as they both see him come down. Their child has grown into a fine young man, and their hearts soften from the contentment they feel watching Kyrie.
They go into the carriage together. It is Kyrie's first time looking at this new world. He looks at the magnificent garden that felt never-ending from the sight of the carriage window. The metal gates open, the carriage leaves the mansion to encounter the trees surrounding a single well-paved path. The rows of trees soon end, and a colossal fortress wall comes into view surrounding the city. The buildings wrap around the gently elevated hills of a mountain. From far away, he can see the temple that stood most noticeable from all the other city buildings. The size of an impressive garden seen from far away and the pure color white makes their presence much more clean, refined, and essential.
The carriage stops in front of the temple. From far away, Kyrie sees the temple like it is the size that can fit his palm. Right now, no matter how much he stares upwards, leaning back his body, tilting his heels to the limit before he tips off his balance and falls to the ground, his sight cannot see the top of the temple. The building gives an illusion that it extends in the attempts to reach beyond the sky's limits. The temple feels like a presence that goes higher and higher towards the heavens to Vita, the goddess the kingdom cherishes and believes.
He enters through the entrance and walks on a golden carpet that leads the way. The priests and servants of the temple were busily walking around the distant corridors. Some carry artifacts and other scrolls and books.
A priest, along with a servant, greeted them when they arrived in the main hall.
The priest says, "Greetings Marquis, Marchioness Rowan, and young master Rowan. Welcome to the Temple of Vita. The procedures for young master Rowan to determine his attributes will be done shortly. Before the procedures, one of our archbishops would like to invite you for some tea."
The priest smiles at the couple; however, Kyrie senses the greed in his eyes.
[It seems that this world does not lack greedy people... Well, the novel does say that the church was deeply plagued with corruption until Imogen came and drove them off.]
Yue also stares daggers at the priest that led Marquis and Marchioness Rowan away for the donations.
Yue says, "I still wonder why Vita does not do anything until ten years later and complicates things by letting another human solve it for her. Her temple is riddled with pests..."
Kyrie curiously asks, "If Vita just drove off these kinds of people, what is the use of a saintess? The novel will not even exist."
Yue grumbles without rebuttal to Kyrie's argument. As a matter of fact, the novel revolves around the saintess that will get summoned into this world. Classic isekai stereotype saintess in looks but with a horribly twisted personality; the saintess is not really a saint. She is as crooked as a human can get. The only reason she was able to get so many "good" deeds done to uphold the title of saintess is because of the restrictions and requirements that Vita put on her.
[Vita has the power to intercept things, yet she does nothing for Ian... She is ruthless if you ask me.]
Yue replies, "Normally, gods do not get involved with human affairs because the balance will be broken, and worse consequences could happen. There is always a dilemma if some god decides to intervene with fate. Would you choose one person versus a group of people? Can you control what happens next within all the possibilities that exist? These questions are headaches, so normally, gods don't do anything and let Vita handle the rest. After all, she is the judge of all living things."
[Then, why did you intervene?]