I AM AN ATHEIST

The Hidden Truth

" Come, come join me "

Fiona invited the duo to eat the rice along with him.

But there was not more than one plate, Mona got confused.

" Don't worry, we all can eat in a single plate"

Fiona said as he seemed to understand the thoughts of Mona.

" I am not hungry"

Mona replied. She was annoyed because it was a common thing among only couples or brothers, they share the food and eat in the same plate.

She had an absolute right to refuse it, she was neither his wife nor his brother.

Then Fiona looked over Xavier and said: " What about you little brother?"

Xavier knew it would be rude of him to refuse the invitation to the food, especially it was from his saviour and caretaker of his maid.

So Xavier did not hesitate before sitting opposite to Fiona.

" little brother, don't be shy, eat "

Fiona said while taking a handful of rice in his hand.

Xavier did not refuse as he grabbed the rice grains with his fingers and put them into his mouth.

" Haha little brother, how is the rice? "

Fiona asked with a small laugh.

" Good" Xavier replied, but to be frank, it was tasteless, Xavier wondered how this guy can eat something so tasteless and plain.

However he knew his priority was not rice, it's about Faiza and how to save her, so he decided not to point out anything about the rice.

Xavier thought that if he stated the shortcomings of rice, he would have to continue to talk about it for a while, he did not want that, he was impatient to know the way to save Faiza.

" Little brother, you are bad at lying, you even put your middle finger onto the forefinger"

Fiona replied with a smile.

Hearing Fiona, Xavier cursed his bad habit inwardly and at the same time Xavier noted that Fiaza was a guy quite a guy with good observation skill, he had to vary of him

" I know you are lying because it is tasteless and plain".

Fiona said then he paused for a while before he said: " My wife cooks much better, but she is busy because of certain someone".

" Cough! Cough!"

Hearing Fiona, Xavier who took the rice in his mouth, coughed.

" Are you ok? " while panicking Mona appeared next to Xavier and patted his back.

Xavier did not expect Mona to comfort him, but it could not be denied that he felt good for being cared.

After gulping down the rice, Xavier replied: " yes, I am"

Then she looked at Fiona in anger and shouted: " Fiona, you better stop teasing him."

Feeling that he was facing a lioness, who was saving her children from him.

" Sorry, sorry my bad little brother, don't mind me, it is just I am not feeling well for the past four days"

Fiona corrected himself, at the same time he mentioned the past 4 days, that is from the day when they were attacked and Faiza was under the treatment.

" No problem" Xavier replied, but he knew this guy was quite upset with him.

" Little brother, you have met with my wife, she should have already told you that the girl did not have much time left"

Fiona said. The topic finally revolved around the point, the reason behind why Xavier was willing to chat with this guy.

"Listen, brother, you should be proud of being one of those lucky dogs who got his ass saved by a girl by sacrificing herself"

Fiona said as he took another handful of rice from the plate.

" Is that a compliment?" Xavier asked as It looked more as if he was being bad-mouthed on his face.

" of course it is a compliment " Fiona replied.

Shameless! Mona cursed inwardly by looking at how shameless her fellow disciple was acting.

He was calling that a compliment, she did not like his behaviour at all.

" Now let's get serious," Fiona said as he carried a serious face.

The sudden change in his expression also grabbed the attention of Mona.

As Xavier was looking forward to his words, he heard: " There are two ways".

Xavier did not understand, so he closely looked at Fiona.

" There are two ways to save your woman"

" One of them is to travel to the cathedral of Anna, the cathedral of the goddess of medicine and request the higher-ranked blessed ones"

As Fiona was explaining " wait, wait, what do you mean by higher-ranked blessed ones? Do you mean that blessed ones have the ranks among themselves? "

After being disturbed by Mona, Fiona looked over to her and yelled: " That's why you should not sleep in the class".

Hearing Fiona's shout, Mona recalled that she would sleep in the special classes of Guru for teaching the general information.

The reason was that she would find it unnecessary, she was here to learn to fight not to study about the world.

Hence Mona kept her head down as she realized she should not have asked it.

At the same time, Fiona understood that he should explain more about the blessed ones because the listeners were not aware of them at all.

" Little brother, the ranks among the blessed ones are divided into the same number as us Aura Masters, they are from rank 0 to rank 12"

" Rank 0 Aura Masters are someone who could barely emit aura, similarly rank 0 blessed ones were also barely able to use their abilities"

" The ranks of Aura Master increases as the aura's density and usability increases, similarly the ranks of blessed one's increases as their strength of ability and usable time increases"

" My wife is a rank 3 blessed one, she could not save your woman, it means we need much high ranked blessed ones from Cathedral of goddess Anna"

" But this is not possible, the reason is the Cathedral of Anna situated 2000kms from here and it would take more than 7 months to travel such a large distance"

" Even if we assume that somehow, we reached there within 7 months, the cathedral may refuse to help"

" So this option is not possible"

Fiona said, then he gulped in another handful of rice.

Xavier pondered over the words, he was not an i***t, he knew how arrogant the priests from the cathedral are, they would not help right away and travelling itself made it a much harder task.

He knew that he could only go for another option, so he asked: " What's the other option? "

Fiona stopped eating and looked at Xavier in his eyes said: " The second option is dangerous, you may lose your life, are you still gonna try it?".

Xavier nodded, he was not afraid of death, the reason he was alive now is only because of Faiza, she saved him, so he was not willing to run away when it's his time to save her.

"it's related to the hidden secret "

" The secret why my wife is here, why butchers are here and why people from the various cathedral are here "

" Now, I am gonna ask you again, do you still wanna involve yourself? "

While beating the plate, Fiona asked.

" Yes, I am"

Xavier did not back down.

" So listen, and don't tell it to anyone"

" Somewhere in the Harbinger Valley, there is a pond, and in that pound, there is a lotus"

" This lotus is heavily guarded by some Minotaurs, I don't know the exact number "

Fiona paused for a moment.

" You might have already guessed the reason for all of them coming here is this Lotus"

" You are right, and what is so special about it? let me tell you "

" The lotus is called Anna's Hairpin because it was rumoured that Goddess Anna uses lotuses as hairpin"

" And once in a while, she would throw this hairpin down and replace it with the other"

" The discarded one would somehow be assumed to end up in random places "

" Being the hairpin of the goddess of medicine, it inherited the medical properties directly from the goddess"

" As long as a severely injured man did not die, even if he had only one breath left, the lotus could bring him back from the dead"

" That's is not it, it also makes him younger and stronger by removing all the impurities from the body and makes his skin just like the newborn while removing all the scars he got in his life "

" Although to save your woman, we don't need the lotus, only the water from the pound would be enough, I would like you to retrieve the lotus itself"

Fiona said as he completed his meal.

" Fiona, Have you gone mad? He is just a new trainee, and you want him to fight with all those people for the lotus "

Mona shouted out, in her head she saw the scene where Xavier was crushed by all the strong guys who were after the lotus, she knew Xavier was weak.

" Mona, you misunderstood, I am not telling him to go right way"

Fiona said then he looked at Xavier and said: " Do you remember the Minotaur that attacked you? "

" Yes," Xavier replied, how could he forget the Minotaur that one which defeated him in a single strike.

" Minotaur? Xavier, you said only butchers attacked you, did you lie ?"

Mona interrupted as she turned towards Xavier.

" Sorry Instructor, I indeed lied to you, Faiza's condition is because she took a hit from Minotaur, not because of the butchers "

Xavier clarified.

" You damn prince, how dare you to lie to your big sister "

Mona roared, but Xavier ignored her as he asked Fiona " What about it? ".

" Do you know, what Minotaur hate most?"

Fiona asked again.

" No, I don't" Xaver replied sincerely.

Meanwhile, Mona continued to roar :

" You damn prince, I am talking to you".

Ignoring Mona, Xavier looked at Fiona for the answer.

" The thing that Minotaur hate most is the blood of humans, they are attracted to the blood and go berserk in worse case"

" Now do you understand why the butchers attacked the travellers?"

Xavier understood the butchers made a m******e to lure out the Minotaurs guarding the lotus and grab it in the meantime.

" Yes, they succeeded in luring out the Minotaurs, but still they did not take the lotus, could you guess why? "

Fiona asked.

Xavier put his head to work, but he did not get any answer, he did not know why they let off such an opportunity.

" Haha I know you can't"

" According to the information, I gathered, when the butchers went to grab the lotus, they saw the lotus is still in the adolescent phase and it did not bloom completely"

" They could have taken the lotus right way, but they did not because the unbloomed lotus have very fewer properties than fully bloomed lotus"

" Hence they decided to wait until it blooms up, and intentionally they spread this info around, their objective was to make sure that the others should not pluck the lotus before it blooms"

" The estimated time for it to bloom is seven months"

" Do you understand? There would be a big battle in the Harbinger Valley after seven months, you have seven months to become strong enough to retrieve the lotus, you don't need to fight them all? "

" And why I can not do it, it's because Guru restricted us, he did not want Gurukul to interfere in the battle"

" So I am asking you again, Will you do it?"

Fiona said as he put the empty plate aside.

" prince, don't listen to him, he was trying to use you as a pawn " Mona continued to roar.

Xavier ignored her and pondered a while before replying: " Yes, I will do it, I will bring that lotus ".

Author's thought: I accidentally deleted the draft, so had to write this over again?.