Knights and Magic Wand
Chapter 680: 318: What are you doing here for me?_2

Chapter 680: Chapter 318: What are you doing here for me?_2

Leon shrugged helplessly. He was an Earthling and came from a humble background. He had only become a noble in this lifetime, so he didn’t have many scruples. Unless it was a matter of principle or life and death, he wouldn’t bother with trivialities in special circumstances.

“When the situation is urgent, we must act wisely. We’re just taking emergency precautions for our own safety, like how I had to steal two robes to help us sneak out, avoiding questioning and trouble.”

Leon smiled without any hesitation, “Besides, we helped the church of Seryan retake Rolannar Holy Land City in the past and haven’t even asked the church for a reward yet. If we take something from the church now, we can consider it a bit of hard-earned compensation.”

“~You really know how to put it~” Ines was amused by his righteous explanation and covered her mouth with a light laugh.

Seeing the young girl regain her composed and graceful smile, Leon felt relieved.

In any case, at least he and she were temporarily out of danger.

As for the other people within the Royal Palace, Leon knew that worrying was useless, hoping that his random fumbling had successfully activated that ancient magic to incapacitate those Magicians.

Moreover, since it was already daylight, the troops and officials in Oran City might have already discovered the anomaly within the Royal Palace.

The two of them walked past a street corner, and Leon saw a few children playing and noisily chasing each other past an alley. He suddenly reached out to stop one.

“Child, I’m a traveling Cultivator. Could you tell me what this city is called?”

Leon bent down, wearing a friendly smile on his face, and tried to restore the original Seryan border dialect as he asked for the name of the place.

He thought that asking such a peculiar common-sense question would be less suspicious when directed at an innocent child than if he asked an adult in the city.

“Good day, sir Priest.” The boy was momentarily stunned when stopped.

He looked at the young man in front of him wearing the Church’s robe, feeling somewhat nervous and confused:

“… You… don’t know where this is? … This is Rolannar! The Holy resting place of the Prophet!”

The child’s answer was like a thunderclap.

Leon raised his eyebrows at the words, stunned in bewilderment.

What?

——Rolannar???

He suddenly straightened up, turning back to look at the street they had just walked along.

He looked into the distance, where the silver-white Holy Sun Temple gleamed under the sun… Memories flooded Leon’s mind.

He was astonished to find that this place did indeed look very much like the parts of the Great Temple and palace area that he had seen restored to reality after the Battle of Rolannar.

It was no wonder that he had constantly felt a vague sense of familiarity with his surroundings just now.

But… hold on a moment.

The victory in the Battle of Rolannar was just over a year ago.

This city had sustained heavy damage when returning to real-time, especially the temple structures in the Great Temple area. The demonic distortions in the Cursed Domain had led to collapses when they dissipated.

Now, could it really have been rebuilt and restored so quickly?

The whole city was so severely afflicted, and in just a little more than a year, the Church had already restored the Holy Land City to a thriving scene?

The governance ability of the Holy Sun Church is incredibly formidable.

Leon still clearly remembered after the battle at Holy Land City, when the Spiritual Field dissipated, the entire Rolannar City was left with broken walls, bloodstains, and scattered corpses, resembling a city of death in all its tragic splendor.

This was also why from the beginning, he subconsciously didn’t consider this place might be Rolannar.

The boy, seeing this strange reaction from the priest, quickly ran away to rejoin his playmates since there were no more questions.

Ines followed Leon’s gaze back to the street of the Holy City they had just passed, quietly marveling, “So this is the Rolannar you reclaimed with the Holy War Army. It’s no wonder this place looks even more prosperous than Oran City. Indeed, it is worthy of being the Holy Land City that has stood for thousands of years.”

But when she turned back, she saw the suspicion in Leon’s eyes and tilted her head in some confusion, “What’s the matter? Leon, your expression—is something wrong?”

Leon withdrew his gaze, shook his head silently, and wasn’t surprised that Ines didn’t feel the same astonishment as he did.

After all, the Third Princess had led the main force of the Alliance to hold Kilmerton Pass Fortress and had never visited Rolannar, so she hadn’t seen the post-battle devastation of Holy Land City.

His gut suddenly felt an inexplicable unease, and Leon didn’t dare to delay, hastening their search for a market.

The two of them found a secluded dead-end alley, where Leon stood at the entrance with his back turned to guard while the Little Princess kept watch.

Once Ines removed her outer clothing wrapped in a travel veil and rewrapped herself in the Priest’s Robe, they quickly asked directions from someone to the nearest marketplace and proceeded to a shop for pawning valuables to exchange for money.

Subsequent negotiations with the pawnbroker were entirely handed over to the more eloquent Ines.

Leon watched quietly as the Little Princess engaged seamlessly with the merchant in price negotiations. The final amount exchanged left him somewhat astonished.

The finely luxurious little coat, along with Ines’s beautiful gemstone-encrusted boots, surprisingly fetched a pawn value of 20 Serrian gold coins.

This amount was nearly equivalent to 24 Orland Gold Crowns. It’s notable that commissioning a complete set of common noble plate armor from top to bottom would only cost around 38 gold crowns.

After waiting for a while as the merchant counted the payment, the two finally solved the predicament of having no money on them.

20 Serrian gold coins were indeed a considerable fortune for a common person.

Tying the weighty money pouch to his waist, Leon returned to Ines, who was seated on a chair in the front hall, from the counter where he had been watching the money being counted.