Sss…

A dark underground prayer room.

As a faint light seemed to emerge, it soon transformed into a girl wearing a long black dress.

“Krr… krrrr… krrr…!”

Upon seeing Leanna, the brown wolf chained to an iron chain suddenly writhed and howled. It seemed like the chain could unravel at any moment, and it would rush forward to bite.

She had successfully revived the brown wolf with a healing spell.

However, it was impossible to restore the soul of this creature.

The brown wolf had now become an undead, a moving corpse being consumed by insects.

Leanna, shocked by the gruesome result, had attempted to return it to its original state. However, it didn’t go as planned.

In the midst of her confusion, the sounds of the beast attracted priests and soldiers. Startled, she quickly dodged out of the way.

“Sorry, kept you waiting, huh? I was searching for the lost item.”

“Krr… krrrr…!”

“It’s a pendant, a memento left by Dad. Have you seen it by any chance?”

Leanna created a small cluster of light on her palm, illuminating the dark underground space.

“If it’s not here, it’s a big problem. Inside, there’s a portrait of Dad. Our dad was really handsome, you know. He was excellent at hunting and a very kind person.”

Leanna, murmuring to herself while searching for the pendant, suddenly looked gloomy.

For a moment, she remained silent, gazing at the brown wolf with sad eyes.

“But why did you die? Our dad was also part of the wolf clan, like you.”

So, Leanna was concerned about this brown wolf.

She had witnessed her father being cruelly executed by the Church, but she felt he might still be alive somewhere.

“If I find the pendant, will you leave with me? I’ll definitely revive you. Not like these undead creatures.”

“Krrrrrr…”

“Do you agree?”

“Krrrrrr…”

“All right, from now on, we’re on the same side. Got it?”

Leanna brightly smiled at this dreadful carcass of a beast.

For a moment, her blue eyes sparkled.

“Ah, I found it!”

Her pendant was lying beneath the iron chain that bound the brown wolf.

Without hesitation, she reached out her hand.

Clang! Clang!

Simultaneously, four square iron bars dropped down towards her.

“Leanna, did you come to find this?”

Inside the iron bars, Morris revealed himself.

In his hand, he held the sparkling pendant.

“Give it to me!”

Leanna reached out her hand to grab the pendant.

“Eek!”

However, the moment her hand touched the iron bars, she cowered in pain as if scorched by fire.

Morris shook his head, indicating it was futile.

“Give up, little one. These iron bars were created with the sacred power of the priests. I admit your skills are exceptional, but you can’t win against everyone here by fighting.”

Around the iron bars that confined Leanna, top-ranking priests and his disciples had surrounded her.
The blue light emanating from their bodies is creating the iron bars.

Morris was right. While it was possible to win in one-on-one combat, facing them all at once was impossible.

“You bastard, Morris!”

The priests were startled by Leanna’s curse.

She was always seen smiling, almost seeming inadequate. Now, it seemed like she understood everything Morris said.

Morris laughed loudly, finding something amusing.

“As expected, Leanna, you’re an amusing one.”

“If I leave from here, I’ll kill you first, Morris!”

Leanna’s gray eyes were like blue flames.

“Sorry, but you can’t leave until you die.”

“Don’t joke! You’re weaker than me!”

“It’s not that I’m weaker than you; I just don’t waste strength as foolishly as you do.”

Morris chuckled, looking at her pitifully.

“What?”

“You must have used quite a bit of power to resurrect that beast as an undead. So now, you can’t win against an intermediate priest, right? Of course, I’m unbeatable.”

Leanna also felt that the power remaining in her body was not much.

“How about it? Do you want to live?”

“Hmph, who would beg for their life from those Church bastards?”

In fact, Leanna detested the Church.

Despite that, she pretended not to hear the Church’s orders while working, just to get a chance for revenge.

The Church traditionally used children who pretended not to hear as informants. It was to prevent the information they shared from leaking outside.

Knowing that, Leanna, through her efforts, gained the Church’s attention. Thanks to this, she learned quite a lot of prayer spells and information known only to the past Popes.

“Well, it makes sense to do that.”

Click!

Morris opened Leanna’s pendant.

Inside, there was a portrait of a handsome man with silver hair and gray eyes.

“You were his daughter. I remember. The wolf clan warrior we captured. We chased you for a long time, and in the end, you were inexplicably caught. Now I see, it was to protect your daughter.”

Leanna’s face twisted as if she was about to cry.

It was around the age of 8 when she was stricken with Scarlet Fever, struggling between life and death.

Her father, who had been living in hiding in the forest, carried his dying daughter and entered the Church.