The Insider System

Chapter 320: Silver

"I guess it wasn't that mountain." They had just passed over another mountain in their look for the dagger and Lake decided this would be their first break. Coming to a stop, Lake waited for everyone else to gather up. "Why are you stopping?" Lake pointed at a nearby stone and said. "I'm going to sit down for a second while I ask you about who we're chasing."

They had been running for a long time already so he was sure at least one of them wanted to sit down for a while. Walking over to the rock he sat down and opened his bag to dig out something to eat while they talked. Eating was his real reason to stop but he might as well ask them about who they thought they were after while he did this.

"What do you expect this guy to be like? Tiff you seem to think he'll be nice but if he isn't is he strong?" Lake really only needed a couple bites of bread so they wouldn't be here long meaning he should get straight to the point. "He seems pretty strong but I don't think he'll be anything the four of us can't handle."

Lake wasn't sure if that was actually true since the guy they were after was him but without knowing if he could beat the Temple Head Tiff was probably right. "What about the dagger? He isn't able to use it right?

"No but even if he was it wouldn't really be something that would be more dangerous than a normal weapon. Holy magic is really only deadly if you're an undead." Hearing the Temple Head start talking about Holy magic Lake saw an opportunity to ask about something he had wanted to for a while. "What's so good about the dagger if that's the case. I understand it's a weapon against the Demon Worshipers but is it really worth this much effort."

"It's not really something I want to explain to you just yet since you're still new but just know something like the dagger is important to more than just combat and is irreplaceable with the Holy Goddess gone." Lake could make a few assumptions to what that could mean but decided to just finish his bread and get up so they could start running again.

"Ok, in that case let's get after it." When they started running again Lake took it kind of slow and didn't rush off right away so no one got left behind. As a group got bigger, moving got more complicated and it didn't really matter what speed you were talking about because there was always a chance someone could trip or turn the wrong direction after an obstacle.

Once they got moving though they were able to get over another mountain every few minutes and Lake realized he was quickly running out of time if he wanted to make it seem like they were actually after someone. "I'm starting to think whoever we're after might be resting. The direction they're in hasn't seemed to change for a while. This is the perfect time to move in."

After he said this he raised his speed as high as he could because with the stakes this high the Temple Head would probably be fine if just the two of them were able to move forward while leaving Tiff and the other guy behind to return to the carts. He just hoped he was actually fast enough for them to start leaving the other two behind.

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When Tiff saw Lake speed up again she couldn't help but widen her eyes for a second. She hadn't known just how much he had been holding back and figured he was already going near his top speed up until now. "Temple Head, he needs to slow down or we're going to get left behind."

It seems she wasn't the only one who had been thinking this because before she was able to say anything Henry spoke up to have the Temple Head do something about this. "If he thinks this is our chance I'm not going to have him stop so we can all go together. Henry go back to the carts and tell them we're on the trail of the dagger."

Tiff was about to ask the Temple Head what her orders were but before she had the chance the Temple Head reached out and grabbed one of her hands. "Would you rather I carry or pull you?" Tiff didn't have to think about this for long and said. "Carry is fine, let me onto your back." When the Temple head heard her she swung her around onto her back and said. "Hold on."

This wouldn't be the first time she had been carried by the Temple Head so she knew she wanted to get on her back opposed to being in her arms. It was pretty obvious but having someone carry you in their arms like you were a baby was rough. She would much rather have to hold onto the Temple head than have to go through that.

After a few seconds of being on the Temple Heads back they had already caught up to Lake who gave them a brief look before asking. "Am I going too fast? I'll slow down if you need me to." Tiff felt it was a little late to say this but she understood he had probably thought they would be able to keep up with him through some means."

"No it's fine just get us to the dagger." With the Temple Head saying this it was set that this was their new speed for the rest of this trip. This meant that no matter how long it took for them to get to the dagger she was in for a ride. It was worth it though if this did actually result in her finishing her first mission for the God of Light.

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"It looks like Rigbis has picked a spot, should we go down?" Usually Donny would have said no since they were able to see for miles up this high but he wanted to hear what was being said down below so he started to lower them to the ground. "Don't split up in case he wants us to go back up."

Donny had had to find them all before he was able to take off last time and it had taken longer than they would have if there was a reason to go back into the air. Once they were on the ground and he had sealed the formation again he walked over to hear what Rigbis was telling the group.

"Spread out to find if there is anything else nearby but don't go too far. Donny guessed Rigbis was setting up a guard rotation to make sure they were alone but he felt like he would have been a better choice since he could move through the air and get a good look of the area but he wasn't going to interrupt so he let Rigbis continue to give orders.

"You split up and guard this clearing." Donny was surprised when the next thing Rigbis did was split all of the mages that were around and was about to follow his new orders when Rigbis stopped him. "Not you, come with me."

Letting himself be dragged away from the rest of the group by Rigbis, Donny asked. "What is it?" He knew it had to be important if Rigbis was ok with making skin to skin contact with someone else this soon after almost being killed. "I need your help with the golem. It's out of mana and it won't be able to transform by itself. Me and you are probably the only two who know anything about silver magic and can do anything to solve this problem."

"Silver, is that what this golem is using?" Donny hadn't really expected for the golem to belong to a Demigods element instead of the God of Metal's which would have made it a lot more to him but he guessed there would be a reason like the fact silver had a purifying effect like Holy magic did.

He didn't think that was a good enough reason though. "The Temple knew that there was a mana siphon aspect to the Demon Worshipers plan so they chose to make the golem last as long as it could since they knew it wouldn't be able to gather mana inside the city. They also got rid of some of its internal formations and replaced them with mana storage so that's why me and you have to help it recharge."

"Ok but I don't know Silver magic." When it came to nonelements like Silver you had to be able to make the element yourself by changing the principles in mana and he wasn't able to control the principles that were in Silver so he wasn't able to make the mana the golem needed to recharge. "That's fine I just need you to help me make a formation."