Chapter 5 - Divine Ritual

In a dark room decorated with candles, Arthur can be seen sitting on a wooden chair without a shirt, revealing his rather muscular figure. Behind him was an old man holding a book and looking at his back.

"Are you prepared for this?" Father Adam, the head priest of Aram Church, asked him while patting him on the back of his shoulder — Father Adam is a tall and slender man in his fifties. However, he would appear younger if not for his gray hair and long white beard, which can be compared to a certain wizard from a famous trilogy movie about rings.

He was also the man who raised Anne and Arthur in the Orphanage with the help of Sister Iris. He is basically their father figure...

"Well... Yeah, I'm pretty sure that I'm ready for this." Arthur answered without any hesitation in his voice.

Father Adam nodded his head sagely. He then closed his eyes, chanting in a different language which was pretty unfamiliar to Arthur even with all the memory he had gained. After finishing the chant, Father Adam opened his eyes and took a deep breath.

"Good, then I will start it now." He pushed his right palm on Arthur's back.

Arthur began to see things...

Sword clashing against each other...

Dark cloud discharging lightning to the ground...

Surrounded by beautiful women in the bed...

Staring intensely at a naked woman with lust...

Sucking hungrily on a woman's breast...

A naked woman with a blurry face chained in a place full of crystal...

"My beloved."

"Hah Hah Hah...What was that?" Arthur snapped back from those images with heavy sweat covering his body. What did he just see? What with the last one? 'My Beloved'? Aren't that the voice he heard in his dream? Too many questions yet little to no answers.

And what with the hot one? Is he really that pervert to imagine such a thing during a ritual?

'Oh wait... I'm that pervert.'

"Oh, Arthur, you are back from Vision of Aria." Father Adam mentioned while looking at a piece of paper in his right hand. "So, how was it? Do you enjoy seeing Lightning hitting on the ground and swords clashing with each other?"

"Wait...How did you-"

"Vision of Aria."

"Seriously? You know that you can't just say 'Vision of Aria' and doesn't give any explanation to me. Do you expect me to be all-knowing or what?"

Father Adam raised his eyebrows at Arthur's sarcastic remark. Arthur had never acted like this before; Did something happen to him? Father Adam shook his head; there was no need to question his surrogate son's attitude, considering it had been five months since they spoke. In that period, some people can ultimately become new individuals.

Not to mention, Anne also had changed when Father Adam came back from the Capital Mission. She had grown closer to Arthur to the point where they held hands when they entered the church. Didn't Anne doesn't really like Adam after she turned sixteen? They did grow apart after that, and the only conversation they had was when Anne brought the lunch to Arthur when he was working.

Father Adam is probably the reason why Arthur turned up to be so dense...

"Vision of Aria is a dream sequence that happens to an individual right after the Divine Ritual. This dream is intended to show the individual what blessings they received and, at the same time, give them information on how to use it."

"...I see, Child of Lightning; give me the ability to cast a lightning spell without chanting, while Prodigy of Sword gives me the ability to learn all of the sword skills faster than everyone else...But what about the other four?"

"Other four? Arthur, you only have two Blessings, not more than that, but still, Child of Lightning and Prodigy of Sword are pretty rare Blessings."

"Only two?" Arthur was confused by Father Adam's statement. He swore to God that he saw six visions, not two. Those visions are still apparent in his head, surrounded by many beauties in a bed while doing ahem ahem stuff, staring at a naked woman with big tits and ass, sucking on tits hungrily like a baby, and lastly, a bombshell woman with her face blurred...

Were that only normal lewd dreams instead of the Vision of Aria?

"Here, take a look at this." Father Adam handed the paper to Arthur, who gladly took it with his right hand. "It is likely that you are tired from the ritual, which makes you think of something else; the Divine Scroll indicates that you have only two blessings."

Arthur takes a look at his Divine Scroll...

Name: Arthur

Rank: -

Strength: D [35]

Agility: C [75]

Endurance: E [15]

Mana: F [7]

Water: -

Earth: -

Fire: E [20]

Air: -

Lightning: D [37]

"The fact that you have achieved this status actually surprises me quite a bit. In spite of the fact that you possess Lightning Magic, which has been regarded as a rare element to obtain, you only possess Fire Magic out of the Four Primary Elements, when most people possess two of these elements...Are you listening to me right now, Arthur?"

Father Adam asked as he noticed instead of focusing on his speech, Arthur was looking intensely at his Divine Scroll with narrowed eyes. It wasn't because he was unsatisfied with the result of the Ritual but instead...

Prodigy of Sword: C

Child of Lightning: B

King in Bed: A+

Eyes of Eros: S

Knight of Ambrosia: S

Champion of Lust: ??

It is because he doesn't understand the [Blessing] that had been written under [Child of Lightning], not to mention their ridiculous grade, which ain't suitable for someone who had just received his [Blessing] less than an hour...

*Bam*

The door was slammed open with a loud bang, catching both of their attention — It was Sister Iris, her nun habit soaked wet, and her breath was relatively unstable. Her whole body shakes uncontrollably.

"Iris? What happen to you?" Father Adam asked in concern.

'What the heck!?' Arthur widened his eyes as soon as he saw Iris. Instead of only seeing a hot, sweaty nun with a pair of huge mountains, he saw something that he shouldn't see...