Chapter 415 - 407. Fake Paladins
The Temple sent two people who, from the uniform they wore, seemed to be high in rank within the Temple Management.
To prevent the meeting from being tied up to Trinity, they did it in another place; in the new house that Iron Shield purchased so they could have a base close to where Zein stayed at. It was basically an Ishtera townhouse, and the two representatives with their templar guards wouldn’t be able to do anything there.
And for that, Bassena held back from accompanying Zein. After all, they didn’t want the meeting to have a narration of intimidation.
The townhouse was just one of the flats in a calm neighborhood overlooking the river. Not too far from where the outbreaks happened last year, and coincidentally was one of Zein’s favorite spots. They sat in the living room, facing the paned glass window that showed them the serenity of the now-purified river.
Rather a fitting place for a talk between guides.
While Senan personally prepared the tea for them, Zein observed the templar guards. He knew of their existence; people who received the blessing from the Goddess to fight, not to guide. They weren’t counted as espers, because their power was gained through the Temple and not the Tower, which meant they could not ’level up’ in rank like espers would.
But they were pretty strong, supposedly. They should be strong enough to at least restrain a troublemaking esper who tried to coerce the Temple’s guides. Their ability, naturally, mostly lay in defense and movement restriction. It made them look sturdy, and the blessing of the Goddess made them look fairly good-looking.
For Zein, however, they just looked useless.
He stared at them with cold eyes, and they could sense it; a crawling sensation of dread, which reminded them of the time when the Goddess was enraged.
And if the guards could sense it, so did the High Priests.
’Truly a Saint candidate,’ one of them thought; a woman in her late thirties by the name of Agatha. She was one of the people in charge of the Saintess’s business and honestly...she didn’t know whether she wanted to lament or cheer the current situation.