14 C14 Saving a Lost Soul

"My lord, the Divine Spirit of Life and Death, how should I save him?" the Plague Master asked with a hopeful expression.

"Use the energy from my mark."

The Plague Master was delighted when he heard an answer from Allen. He could not help himself and praised his wonders.

He closed his eyes and connected to the divine mark on his soul. There is indeed energy in the divine mark, but he did not know how to use it. But the divine mark seemed to know what he wanted to do. It released divine energy and let it flow towards the body of Jeremy. Then Jeremy's body began healing at a rapid pace. After a few minutes his body was completely healed, good as new.

The Plague Master was delighted by what he saw. But in just a moment he felt pain in his body. Then the divine energy stopped flowing from the mark and Allen's voice sounded on his mind.

"You cannot use too much divine energy. Your body was still in the process of being altered by divine energy."

The Plague Master was overjoyed when he heard that his body was being altered by divine energy. He was looking forward to the time when his body was fully altered. He wondered what would happen by that time. Will he get strong? Or perhaps, he will be able to use Allen's power.

After a while, Jeremy opened his eyes and looked at the Plague Master.

"Who are you?" Jeremy asked.

The Plague Master replied, "it does not matter who I am, all that matters is that my lord has commanded me to save you."

"Who is your lord? I must thank him." Jeremy said with gratitude.

"He is the master of life and death. He was from ancient times. He is divine." The Plague Master in hood said zealously. "If you want to call him, you can call him but I am not sure if he will answer. All I can do is that he fancies you and he wants to bring you into his light."

Jeremy's eyes twinkled, he did not know who was that master that fancied him. But no matter who it, he was full of gratitude.

"My lord, the Divine Spirit of Life and Death, I pray for safety through the night," the Plague Master said. Then, the divine mark released a small amount of divine energy and formed the barrier that isolated the both of them from prying eyes.

Jeremy was confused. He was not sure if it was the Plague Master's power but he did not feel any fluctuation of spiritual energy. Instead, he felt a different kind of energy that was more potent than the known spiritual energy.

Meanwhile, Allen was glad by how the event turned out. He now has a potential follower. He knows that the Plague Master will be able to make him his follower.

Allen heard all the requests that the Plague Master prayed. He will hear everything as long as the name that he recognized was mentioned. He will form an inexplicable connection to them and he will receive a flow of divine energy as well as the information that they wanted him to tell. 

At the same time, a strand of divine energy will also be generated. The more zealous a follower when he prays, the more divine energy that will be generated.

At dawn the next day, the Plague Master did not wait for Jeremy to wake up, after doing his morning prayer, he went back to the Base 335.

The Plague Master had been pondering about what Allen said. All his life he had been living in the shadow of the city. Although he was an infamous assassin, he did not want that. He wanted to be someone who does not need to hide and he thought that by following Allen he would be brought to limelight.

From the moment that the seed of faithfulness was implanted to him, the plague master had truly become one of the followers of the Divine Spirit of Life and Death, the only one, for now. He had become loyal to Allen.

Meanwhile, Jeremy woke up but he did not see the Plague Master. He was alone in the wilderness but the barrier that isolated them is active. He was safe and sound despite being surrounded by the beasts in the wilderness.

He thought for a while before deciding to try the prayer of the Plague Master, "My lord, the Divine Spirit of Life and Death, I pray for protection as I walk back to the camp."

But contrary to his expectation, he did not see anything like the barrier or something like when the Plague Master prayed.

"Eh? Is it just me or is there really nothing?"

Jeremy put it in the back of his mind, for him it was fine since the prayer did not cost him anything. In fact, he was even saved by whoever the master who fancied him.

Jeremy walked back to the camp. On the way, he noticed that his travel was a lesser hassle than before. He did not meet any beast in the wilderness. Unlike when he went here, no matter how he hides himself, there are still beasts who can find him.

He was bewildered when he thought of it.

Unbeknownst to him, the camp had already set a rescue mission for him to the second year to look. But before anyone could accept the rescue mission, he was already back. Then, the A.I. automatically terminated the rescue mission.

*beep* *beep* *beep*

Jeremy's watch beeped as he received a message. It was the message that called him to the detention office for questioning. He knew that he had violated two rules: not going back to the camp, and being absent. He was not bothered by it since the evidence that he was attacked was still visible on his clothes. The only thing not visible are the injuries that he got. It was already healed by the Plague Master.

Jeremy did a quick prayer and no longer hesitated to enter the office. The first thing that he saw was the grumpy face of Captain Liberto. He stared at him from head to toe.