The World seems Realistic but Why do I have a Leveling System?

Chapter 115 - The Church's Power

After making sure that the two couldn't escape as his subordinates surrounded them, even more, Angelica still seems to be injured simply looking at her clothes covered with her own blood. Though she looks calm on the surface, she must have been enduring the pain till now which means the girl is in no state to resist against him for sure. Looking at the custom handgun in her hands, the priest couldn't help but take a second glance at it before his expression turned serious as he thought, that is not a normal handgun. 

"Oh? That handgun in your hand, it's not a normal one, is it?"

Seeing where he was looking, Angelica's expression also turned serious as she determined to kill the priest herself so that he won't be able to let the higher up in the Church made known about the handgun existence. Angelica snorted before opening her mouth and said as she pointing the handgun toward the priest.

"Do you want to test it whether it is real or not?"

When the priest saw the gun pointed straight at him, he simply pulled a dark-red cross out of his pocket and with her eyes turned bluish within the masked, Sheila could see some kind of change happening as a transparent barrier seeming surrounding the priest. Looking at the red-haired girl next to her and the priest who had an arrogant smile on his face, Sheila concluded that Angelica didn't know what was happening in front of her. Was the red cross some kind of protection charm or something? It doesn't look strong but that's not for sure yet as I haven't attacked it just yet to know how durable it is. With that thought in mind, Sheila opened her mouth and spoke with a different voice to Angelica.

"There's some kind of invisible barrier protecting the priest, did you know anything about that bloody cross in his hands?"

The words coming from Sheila surprised both the priest and Angelica as the former didn't expect for the masked girl to know about the use of the red cross in his hands as it was an item only exists within the Church, it was not widely spread for anyone to simply know about it. As for the latter, though she knows that the Church has its own capabilities to be able to contend on the same ground as her family who made a couple of breakthroughs in hundreds of years and the handgun in her hands was one of the special cases for it. As far as what was widely known to her, the Church can use some sort of magecraft, specifically only for them and it was called Light Magic.

They could freely called upon a miracle power of light from their God and made use of it as the believer of the Church, no outsiders can use it no matter how hard they tried and research about it, it was a worthless effort to their end. And of course, not everyone within the Church could use it, not even the Saintess. But in Saintess's case, it was different as she had the huge cross with her, no miracle power could contend with it as everything she desires would be burned to ashes by its power. Though she had no talent in the Light Magic, she was chosen as the Saintess when the Pope decided to pass their holy artifact to her which was the huge cross now floating around her. No one knows why the Pope did it, but there are some rumors that stated, the Saintess was chosen due to her being the daughter of the Pope, but it stayed as rumors since none was able to prove it.

Anyways, the reason why Angelica was shocked was that she never heard of the Church discovering new kind of magecraft, Did they made a breakthrough and decided to keep it a secret? But then why did this priest in front of me using it in broad daylight without any care of the world? He must have underestimated me so much that he exposed one of the church's secret easily like that, just the look from his face already tell me this. But even so, the more amazing person here is the girl next to me, to think that she could see the invisible barrier as no matter how hard I tried, I see nothing at all.

With his expression hardened, the priest brought another cross with him, but this time colored in light blue as he spoke with a serious tone in his voice.

"I didn't expect someone so young to be able to tell its use right away, you must not be left alive. I will personally kill you right here and now to silence you."

With a wave from his hand that was holding onto the light-blue cross, both Sheila and Angelica suddenly feel their power being restrained by something unknown as no matter how hard they tried, it was futile as nothing happened. Even Sheila couldn't help but be shocked at the sudden development, she had thought she would be fine after all the grinding she had done, but the feeling of something restraining her power told her otherwise which caused her to sulk within the mask. Seeing their reaction was as he expected when he waved the cross in his hand, the priest smiled before laughing as he cried out with his arms spread wide.

"Behold! This is the miracle of God! No mortal could possible went against it! Now, embrace the death that is coming on your way."

Looking at the priest's fanatic antics, Sheila couldn't help but shook her head and thought, That was no miracle, it was simply the power of a magic item. Even I could restrain just anyone when I used the full power of intimidation skill coupled with binding from shadow magic. It was unfortunate that I was caught in theirs first though, but even so, I think I should be fine as though I can't use magic, that doesn't mean my physical strength is gone. With that thought in mind, Sheila looked at Angelica who appeared to be alarmed by the sudden development as the handgun that was supposed to be in the grasp of her hands had now turned back into its normal form that of a red bracelet.

Understanding that Angelica was conflicted, and before the priest could send out an attack on their way, Sheila put the handgun back into her inventory before sprinting toward him with her hands gripped into a fist. She was going to take down the priest first before taking care of his subordinates.