Damn! Light magic! This is seriously embarrassing. Looking at the four people’s expectant gazes, I helplessly raised my right hand and silently chanted in my heart: ‘Heavenly spirits, earthly spirits, Lord Guan, please show your power!’
“Lightning Finger!” With a loud roar, a bolt of lightning struck down from the sky and hit me. The lightning surged through my body at a speed of 300,000 kilometers per second, finally being completely absorbed by the spot on my stomach that used to glow. The next second, a pillar of electricity shot out from my fingertip. The dazzling blue beam, accompanied by its unique crackling sound, blasted straight into the chapel.
The next moment, a powerful explosion rang out, and the chapel in the courtyard was reduced to a pile of rubble, from which a bunch of black, human-shaped figures came running out.
“Has the Dark Magic Cult attacked? Where are they? Come out!” The leader, a man completely blackened from head to toe, held a cane that looked like a piece of charcoal, with many black fragments falling off it.
“Judging by the voice... it seems... that’s Pastor Dent, right...?” I pointed at the guy who was even blacker than any black person on Earth, and asked the four battle priests beside me in an uncertain tone.
“Should we... maybe get out of here first?” Mark looked at the group of priests on the verge of going crazy in front of us and made a very constructive suggestion.
The four of us immediately nodded lightly and said, “I agree...”
Just as the five of us were tiptoeing away, Pastor Dent spotted us. At the same time, he also discovered the culprit who turned them all into black ghosts—me!
There was nothing I could do! When I cast “Lightning Finger” just now, some of the current didn’t shoot out, but instead formed a net of electricity full of holes around me. Anyone could tell in this situation that I was the criminal who caused the chapel to collapse.
“George Washington! Stop right there!” In a fit of rage, Pastor Dent unleashed his full potential. This guy used to get out of breath after just a few steps, and even if he ran, he was only twice as fast as a turtle. But this time, Pastor Dent was actually faster than an Olympic 100-meter champion, which really made me suspect he’d taken the latest kind of stimulant.
Pastor Dent’s anger didn’t last more than a few seconds before it fizzled out again. He caught up to me and, to prevent me from escaping, actually—actually reached out and grabbed my shoulder! He actually grabbed me while I was surrounded by the electric net.
The only possible outcome was that the guy collapsed to the ground, foaming at the mouth, eyes rolled back, and limbs twitching. As he fell, his ever-faithful black cane also hit the ground and turned into a pile of black ash.
Chapter 14: Super Awesome Magic
“You all saw that... you can’t possibly blame me for this too, right?” I looked innocently at the furious priests in front of me. If it weren’t for my status as a battle priest, if it weren’t for the electric net still crackling around me, if it weren’t for the ruined chapel behind them with bricks still falling off from time to time, I’d probably be on my way to heaven to flirt with God’s daughter by now.
Nolan had also been zapped black, but after being electrocuted, he actually looked even more handsome. Just like how Louis Koo looked better after getting tanned, he was even more attractive than his previous pretty-boy self. His level of handsomeness was almost half as much as mine.
“Treating Pastor Dent is the priority!” Nolan’s suggestion was immediately met with a chorus of agreement from the priests. In no time, healing spells, recovery spells, blessing spells, and all sorts of basic magic rained down on the poor guy foaming at the mouth. Instantly, his skin turned rosy and healthy, way better than anything you see in commercials. If I weren’t worried these guys wanted to kill me, I’d really want to go over and get a beauty treatment from them too.
“George Washington!!” After waking up, Pastor Dent did a kip-up, shouted at the top of his lungs, and then fainted again.
Damn! Does this guy really think these blessing and healing spells are some kind of divine miracle? Don’t you know that just because you’ve recovered some stamina and your surface wounds are temporarily healed, you’re not actually fine inside? That’s just wishful thinking!
Looking at Pastor Dent who had fainted again, and the group frantically trying to save him, the five of us battle priests quietly snuck back to our own battle priest hall.
“You really are something. You barely have any magic power in your body, yet you managed to summon such a huge bolt of lightning. You call that Lightning Finger? I think Lightning Cannon would be more accurate.” Rick wiped the sweat from his forehead as he spoke, still shaken.
The big guy, on the other hand, was excited: “I told you he’s suited for light magic! Why not take this chance to teach him healing magic? I bet the results will surprise us.”
The other three priests immediately nodded in agreement, not the least bit worried that I might cause more trouble.
“Healing magic requires a heart full of compassion, praying to God for the right to heal! As long as you have absolute faith, the incantation is...” The big guy excitedly began teaching me. Mark climbed out the window and stole a rooster, and to help me practice healing, Mark even broke one of the rooster’s legs on purpose.