I Don’t Want This Bad Ending

Chapter 153: SNEAKING AND BREAKING IN: PART 2

Chrisfold also made mannequins using his earth magic and that will stay under the covers and will likely hide that they aren't there in the rooms that they have provided.

It's a counter measure if ever Elise decided to send an assassin or spy when the rest of Evelyn's company are not in the room of the knights quarters.

The crystal like dome temple can be seen in the far distance. 

"Are the statues still there in that crystal temple?" Evelyn asks, they are at the top of the roof of the temple where people can't see them because it was also dark.

"It was still there but they changed the room. It was more secured now as they moved it to the lower ground."

"Of course, they will guard it more than before they will also change the location because Silvester was here now and he was here too when the explosion happened that the two of you did before."

Chirsfold and Gil just shrugged their shoulders at what Evelyn just said.

"Let's go"

"Before that here, I'll give you this."

Chrisfold handed Evelyn a necklace with an emerald color stone.

"What's this for?"

"So, you can have a conversation with an Elementalist even if you don't hold my hand. And if the plans were changed, you can talk to us using our connection..."

"Oh! Alright. Thank you"

Evelyn immediately put the necklace on and voices rushed to her head.

"She can hear us now"

"Hey It's been a long time!"

"Are you going to do something fun? Let us in!"

Evelyn's peaceful mind became chaotic with that cheerful voice of the elementals that were surrounding her.

"Be quiet for a while. I need to think." She said.

"Yes!!"

"Okay~"

"Fine"

After that the voices died down and Evelyn has brought her peaceful mind back. She then beckoned to Gil, Chrisfold, Bern to start their little journey inside the temple.

"Let's go...

Swoosh!

The four of them jump with their light feet. The action didn't even make a sound as everyone of them were skilled with hiding their presence.

Evelyn and Gil will try to sneak in the basement of the dome-like temple and search for the source of the black mana while Bern and Chrisfold will go to the upper floors and find something that is valuable to the temple and snatch it from them.

That was the plan Well, Evelyn just wanted to split Gil and Chrisfold as she doesn't know what calamity the two will do if they are together again.

The area within the temple was full of guards patrolling that Evelyn and the rest will have a hard time sneaking in if they didn't have the map memorized.

"There's the back door. Any minute now and one of the trainees of the temple will go out to change shifts." Evelyn said towards Gil.

They are hiding in one of the buttresses of the temple that was giving them enough shadow to camouflage themselves in the dark.

Chrisfold and Bern were on the other side of the temple and jumped to one of the balconies. They will start their search on the second floor.

'Nine said that the trainees of the temple who are watching over the statues will take shifts two times every two hours. They were preventing people from learning about what the magicians are doing inside and some of them only knew that they were just guarding the statues that will be distributed to the masses and thought nothing about the black mana that was hypnotising the people.' Evelyn thought.

Creeeaak!

"Here it comes!" Gil said.

When the temple trainee came out, Gil made sure to leave the door open ever so slightly and when there's no people surrounding the back door, they made their move.

He activated his powers and lightly lifted his body using the air that was concentrated in his feet. Evelyn did the same.

Swoosh!

A gush of air brushes the bushes and then enters the back door without problem.

"Hmm? What's that?"

"What is it?"

"I just felt some chilly air brushed at my back."

"Don't worry about that it's because winter will arrive in the next few months, that's why it's getting cold now."

"You're right!"

The guards who arrive a bit later than Evelyn and Gil who successfully sneak in without problem just felt the magic from them.

Meanwhile, Gil and Evelyn arrived inside and saw the one way hallway with doors attached through each side.

'As expected, so the map was true. The back door leads to a dark hallway with so many doors.' She said through her head and to her spirit, Gil.

"So which door leads to the basement?" Gil asked through his mind.

'It's not on the map They must have made changes in the last minute. Nine didn't get to know about it I suppose'

'Are you really trusting that assassin?' Gil asked.

The two were walking inside with light steps as they hid their presence. Gil was checking every door with his wind magic that he sent through every gap whereas he could feel what was inside behind every door. 

Evelyn could only stand watch as she didn't have that precise ability to control her magic and feel the presence inside the closed doors. She can only do that in an open space where her winds are free to move around.

And Gil can do it within a minute, he's powerful enough to do it alone.

She then answered him, 'Like what I said before, I don't trust him, I trust his ability and how he made his life a priority. He's greedy enough to abandon his master and choose his precious life. Those kinds of people will do anything to attain freedom.'

'Just like you?'

"Yes Just like me"

Evelyn smiled and Gil smirked.

'I'm finished checking The door to the farthest right has a hollow room and there's a stairs leading down."

"That must be it. Let's check!"

Before they could arrive and walk to their destination, they heard a click on one of the doorknobs.

'Shit!'

Gil immediately pulled Evelyn to one of the doors on the hallway before the one who made the sound see them.

It was a priest that came from one of the doors, he was holding a book that was thick enough to read them through the whole two weeks with a minimum of 8 hours of reading.

"Hmm?"

The priest turned his head where Evelyn and Gil were standing before and he saw nothing.

"Must be my imagination"

He walks towards the door that leads to the back door.

Creaaaak! Thud!

"Haaaa!"

Gil let out a sigh. He then felt a tap on his arm.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

He looked down and saw Evelyn with her face flushed. He immediately let his hands go that were blocking her nose and mouth.

"I thought I was about to die!"

She yelled in a kind of whisper way. Enough high range for a close proximity.

When they calmed down, they saw what was inside the room that they went in.

There was a large board with a map of the Levingstone and red marks throughout different locations.

"What is this about?" 

Evelyn looked at it and its every inch of the map. She was engraving it through her memory. She has the skill photographic memory which is activated when her sunset eyes are displayed and her irises glow remarkably and the pupils stretch and become like the cat's eyes.

"Evelyn, we don't have time" Gil eventually called out to her.

However, he was ignored. Evelyn was still looking at it while her mind was doing all the work.

"I don't know what this is about but there must be something here why would they mark the locations that were near the rivers of Levingstone as well as the borders with minimal population. Just give me 30 seconds more."

Gil understands what Evelyn wants. If she can get as much information about the temple of light's plan, she will try to get it.

"I'm done Is the coast clear?"

"There's no presence, we should immediately go done. We only have an hour before the shift starts again and the guards will make a patrol again. The trainees will also come back from their break. There's only one person guarding the basement right now."

"Okay, let's go"

They arrive at the stairs that lead to the lower floor of the basement, with their feet not touching the ground and their presence that was none existence, they moved according to plans.

While Gil was still sending a small gush of winds to make sure that no one's in the vicinity. Evelyn called out to the Elementalist that was around them. The emerald colored necklace glows indicating that she can communicate to the small spirits.

"It's our time to shine!"

"We're ready! What's your command?"

"I'm hungry"

Different voices and opinions quickly came to Evelyn's mind.

Gil and Evelyn stop for a bit. She then mumbled.

"Find out what that one guard is doing, and if you can knock him out."

"Alright!!!"