Chapter 831: Seal of Dawn
Translator: Dess Editor: EbonyFrost
Compared to the resonance of Dawn Force and the [Seal of Dawn, Outer Seal], the resonance from the chapel behind Kieran was much stronger.
The most direct proof was the system notification.
[Energy resonance, Musou Knights of Dawn Body Tempering Art acquired a decent amount of experience, leveling cost decreased by 1000…]
[Energy resonance, Musou Knights of Dawn Body Tempering Art acquired a decent amount of experience, leveling cost decreased by 10,000…]
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The first one was from the [Seal of Dawn, Outer Seal] and the second was from inside the chapel. The moment the resonance started from the first notification, the [Seal of Dawn] was completed.
[Name: Seal of Dawn (Unable to level)]
[Skill Type: Ancillary]
[Effect: 1. Inner Seal, 2. Outer Seal]
[Special Effect: None]
[Consume: Stamina]
[Prerequisite: Knights of Dawn Body Tempering Art (Master)]
[Remark: The sole existence of the seal is to support Dawn Force]
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[Inner Seal: Steer Dawn Force to operate faster through movements, it will increase Dawn Force's recovery and increase the speed of training Knights of Dawn Body Tempering Art]
[Outer Seal: Using a specific simple drawing to slightly enhance Dawn Force. Within the duration of the drawing, it is treated as an offensive magic brand with the lowest (Weak) and highest (Powerful) attack. The magic brand is effective against any being within a 10-meter radius. (Attack rank +1 automatically against negative energy beings)]
[Note: The higher the level Knights of Dawn Body Tempering Art is, the better the Seal of Dawn's effect]
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Kieran already had a clear idea of the possible attributes of the [Seal of Dawn] during the lesson with Sister Moni, the really surprising thing was the chapel before his eyes.
'St. Paolo School, it was transformed from St. Paolo Church 50 years ago and it is the place where the Goddess of Dawn first had shown her godly miracles!'
The description of Sister Moni unconsciously came afloat in Kieran's mind.
"Godly miracles?" Kieran muttered softly.
He then walked into the chapel with a careful manner.
To Kieran, he could never be too careful against things that were related to divine beings, especially when he was passing himself off as a "God's Child", who knew what would happen?
Standing in front of the door of the chapel that was already opened, Kieran's eyes saw through the door and tried to inspect the interior.
There was nothing different than what he remembered, including that Bernadette's statue that was very concerning.
Her look and gaze under the moonlight was still merciful, other than the resonance feeling, nothing was unusual.
However, the more normal it looked, the more vigilant Kieran was from the bottom of his heart.
Kieran's mind then spun rapidly.
"The resonance triggered by the [Seal of Dawn, Outer Seal] and Dawn Force… In the current Church of Dawn, Sister Moni and Guntherson can achieve this as well but they didn't tell me! This shouldn't happen! Unless… They couldn't resonate with this energy? The real believers of the Church of Dawn couldn't trigger a resonance but I can?"
Kieran squinted his eyes unconsciously.
He just stood at the entrance of the chapel, looking at the system notifications that popped up one after another and until the resonance feeling faded off, he didn't step into the church.
Kieran counted all the notifications, a total of 10 to be exact.
Including the first notification that resonated with the chapel, the first 5 notifications decreased the required points by 10,000 and the last 5 notifications changed to 5000, showing a rapid plummet.
Though the benefits of the notifications were self-explanatory to Kieran.
He has acquired a hefty 75,000 Points in a short period of time and even for Kieran, it wasn't a small number.
Looking at the required leveling cost to Transcendence which still had a hefty 96,000 Points and 18.5 Golden Skill Points even after the Origin Force discount, Kieran didn't further blindly trigger the resonance anymore.
He turned around and headed towards the office building of the school. He wanted to ask the elderly sister about the chapel.
Sister Moni's office was still bright. A fierce discussion came from inside without stop.
Even without further guesses, Kieran was certain the discussion was about the students who left the school.
"Principal Moni, we need to bring back the students!"
"Otherwise, our school image will sweep the floor!"
"That's right Principal Moni, our school is preparing to expand and without the students, it will become the joke of all the other schools in the city!"
"Please Principal Moni, please ask for the parents' forgiveness as soon as possible, bring the students back!"
"Ya! We can't stay in a school without students!"
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Obviously, the ones who said such things weren't the school security members that Kieran always saw. From their address of at Sister Moni, they should be the teachers responsible in different subjects.St. Paolo School was huge and has almost a hundred students, it wouldn't be possible for Sister Moni to teach all of them alone, it was just natural to hire other teachers.
But…
The teacher's attitude sounded a little aggressive, weren't they?
They didn't bear the attitude of a hired teacher and instead spoke like the higher authority pointing people around.
Kieran who was in the shadow inspected the middle-aged male teacher in the middle of the crowd who obviously was the one who led them to this argument.
Kieran's gaze turned judgemental at the teacher. The man had a common look and a long face, slightly bald and his temperament was almost identical to the others around him but his outfit was surely different.
The other teachers around him could only be considered as neatly dressed but the man in the middle was a little luxurious in terms of dressing.
Aside from the shirts that was obviously well sewn, the fact that one of his fingers had platinum rings embedded with emerald and a gold ring with a ruby told that it wasn't something a teacher could own.
Although Kieran didn't ask how much the salary of a teacher in St. Paolo was earning a month, Kieran was sure in the current dungeon world, a proper working gentleman would only earn around 30 to 40 local currency a month.
That two rings combined would cost around 500. The young officer Carl grunted at him more than once, complaining how expensive a gold ring was and it would cost him almost a year worth of salary; Carl's annual income was around 200.
Regardless how high this male teacher's salary was, it was not possible for him to reach several times Carl's salary.
Even more so, did the male teacher stop eating and drinking?
"Did he make an unexpected profit from somewhere or something? Or did he promise someone to put the elderly sister in a difficult situation at this time, not to just earn a tidy sum but also to secure a better working opportunity?"
Only that could explain his attitude towards the elderly sister.
Who else would further put the elderly sister in a difficult position?
The ones who bore ill-intentions!
It was very normal for them to bribe one or two people in St. Paolo for their purposes. Then they would use the opportunity to take action against the elderly sister, forcing Guntherson out of hiding and making him set foot into another trap.
Once the thought came into his mind, Kieran silently appeared behind these teachers and signaled the elderly sister who was going to open her mouth with his hand.
"Very well, I shall take your opinions into serious consideration! I will provide you all with an answer tomorrow morning!"
The elderly sister altered the words that she had prepared when she saw the signs.stepping on dog sh*t luck! If it was me who gets his lordship's favor, this house would be mine! I to bet Cyan doesn't even know what his lordship's plan is! He is just a low-level dog!"
"Yeah right!"
"How dare he act high and mighty in front of us?"
"Let's wait for tomorrow. When tomorrow comes, all we need to do is know who that lord is and with our abilities, we'll surely catch up from behind!"
"Yes! We will!"
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The conversation between the teachers perfectly displayed the hideous side of human nature.
Likewise, they also provided more information to Kieran who was hiding in the shadows.
However, compared to the few teachers who were not even lap dogs, that low-level dog seemed to know more.
In fact, it was.
After sending off his colleagues, Cyan welcomed another new guest, or rather, because of this guest, Cyan brushed away his colleagues in a hurry.
It was a woman with decent looks yet dressed in a raffish way.
The low tube top and the short skirt showed off her figure and fair white thighs. Usually, these kind women were not uncommon in the red light district.
Though, Cyan faced the woman with a face full of respect.
"I've prepared everything, now I'm just waiting for his lordship's arrangements in the morning! So what is his lordship's plan?" Cyan asked.Just like his colleagues had speculated, Cyan didn't know either.
"Ask what you should ask, don't ask about those you shouldn't."
The raffish woman said in an impatient tone.
"Yes, yes! Then, of what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?"
Cyan nodded and bowed slightly, showing a stopping manner in reply to the woman's impatient words.
"Of course to make sure his lordship's plan to progress smoother…" Then, the woman revealed a seductive smile.
Cyan was stunned when he saw the smile, he was infatuated with her from the look of his eyes.
"Madam, you…" Cyan asked as if he held certain anticipation in his mind but before he finished, the woman went into his arms.
The sudden scene made Cyan close his arms on the woman like he was bewitched by the loving glance.
Though at the next moment, Cyan's arms froze in mid-air.
The woman's long index finger poked into Cyan's head between the eyebrows just like that and when she removed her finger, her neatly cut nail was tainted red and white.
The woman stuck her tongue out and licked the brains off her finger, enjoying the taste.
Then, she held Cyan's head up and placed her mouth onto the hole.
Sucking sounds sounded ceaselessly after that and a while later, Cyan's head was left with bones wrapped with skin, his eyes and the meat on his cheeks were sucked into the woman's stomach.
After a fulfilling burp, the woman carefully used her fingers to rip apart Cyan's skin, and tore it off his body completely.
She then took off her clothes and wore the skin, getting dressed like a common woman going to work but when she was done, the woman that she was a moment ago vanished.
What replaced her was an entirely new "Cyan".
"Cyan" looked at Cyan's body remains, she didn't plan to let it go to waste. She picked up the body with ease and headed to the kitchen.
Kieran who was in the shadows slightly squinted his eyes and when he heard cutting and mincing noise from the kitchen, his heart spun swiftly and gave up the intention of interrogating the monster.
Not only because Kieran's entry-level interrogation skills would be completely useless against such a monster who sucked people's brains and flesh like that but he also had a general idea about what these people's plans were.
"If that's the case…"
Kieran silently left the room but he didn't leave the house immediatly.
He waited to make sure there wasn't anyone else showing up and also made sure the monster didn't notice him before he truly left the premises.
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Back at St. Paolo School, the elderly sister had been waiting for quite a while.
"2567, is there a problem with Cyan?"
Sister Moni asked when she saw Kieran walking into her office.
The elderly sister wasn't stupid either, and it was obvious she noticed Cyan's unusual behavior as well.
"Yup! Cyan was a very big problem but first, Sister Moni, can you explain to me in details about St. Paolo Church?" Kieran asked.able to see the driver-less wagon moving forward with only the horses.
Ding Dong, Ding Dong!
The bells hung over the horses' neck was emanating a clear chime as they moved forward but the police officer on duty at the police box acted like he didn't see the wagon and turned a deaf ear at the chime.
"Huh? Why is there a wagon here?"One of the patrolling security members of the school noticed the wagon parked in front of the school gate.
His face was baffled with questions because with the police box in front of the school, St. Paolo forbade any wagons to be parked in front of the gate, even the rich and wealthy student parents stopped their wagon at the police box and walked towards the gate to receive their children from school.
With questions lingering in his head, the security member went up to the wagon.
"Sorry, but this place is… EH?!"
The security member lifted his head up while he spoke and suddenly he realized the Wagoner was not around.
"Umm, Hello?" He frowned but maintained his manners, knocking at the carriage door.
Then, the security member didn't move anymore as he froze in that position of knocking.
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"Where's Ecker?"
"Isn't his shift due now?"
"Don't tell me that guy is slacking off again!"
"Damn it, the captain just went off a while ago and he starts slacking off, what a… Eh? Where did this wagon come from?"
Another security member was walking towards the dorm grunting, wanting to wake up his lazy colleague until he saw the wagon parked in front of the school gate with a glance.
The oil lamp on the wagon was too obvious, as long as one wasn't blind, one could easily spot it.
This security member walked forward out of curiosity and when he saw that the wagon was absent of its Wagoner, he instinctively wanted to knock on the carriage door as well.
However, he was stopped just in time. A palm was laid on his shoulder.
At the same time on the street outside the school, a group of people was swarming over.
Dozens of wagons were sprinting with the Wagoners driving, yet the Wagoners wished they could sprint faster since they had ordered.
Pak, Pak Pak!
They weren't stingy in swinging their whips at the horses and with the pain from the whips, the horses sprinted even faster.
It only took almost 15 seconds to reach the school gate from the street entrance.
When the wagons stopped, a bunch of intimidating people gushed down from the carriage.
Chapter 834: Slander
Translator: Dess Editor: EbonyFrost
Each of them that came down from the wagons bore an intimidating look yet they dressed like either nobles or wealthy commoners.
When they saw the black wagon, their steps slightly paused before dashing forth even faster.
"Emy!"
"Warlyn!"
"Sarlco!"
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Cries sounded from the people's mouth and anxiety followed tightly behind.
Especially when there wasn't the slightest sound from inside the black wagon, worries started to fill their heart, increasing their anxiety further.
Their anxiety reached an all-time high the moment before the carriage door was opened.
When the carriage door opened up, the worries, anxiety, restlessness all turned into devastating sorrow.
Four naked dead young girls appeared in the sights of the crowd.
Their face had the lingering fear of death and the countless wounds on their body told the crowd what torture they been through before they died.
"My child!"
One of the ladies in the crowd broke out in tears.
Following the agonizing cry, the sorrowful crowd was awoken, rage flooded them like the rising tide.
How sad they were a moment ago, how enraged they were at this moment, especially when there was someone who sowed dissensions among them.
"We are too late! Although I've tried my best in contacting everyone!"
"Cyan" walked forth from behind the crowd and when she saw the bodies in the carriage, her eyes instantly turned red and said as she choked on her own sobs, "I-I'm sorry everyone!"
"No, Mr. Cyan, it isn't your fault! You've fulfilled your duty as a teacher. It is that devilish woman's fault!
"Cyan"'s words and expressions were on point, it further increased the fondness of the crowd to her since they already appreciated her because of telling them the news in the first place.
The crowd started to comfort the responsible teacher.
"No, I didn't fulfill my duty as a teacher… If it wasn't for my hesitation, the girls, my students will never face such a horrible end."
"Cyan" who was choking on sobs before had broken into soundless cry completely.
The couple of teachers followed behind "Cyan" exchanged gazes with each other after the scene, they saw shock in each other's eyes.
Before they arrived, they never would have thought such a huge incident would go down.
Based on their shallow guesses, they initially thought it would be just a scheme trying to get more speaking rights within the school or even compete for the principal's position but the thing that didn't come into their minds was "Cyan" and that lord behind the scenes wanted to completely destroy St. Paolo School and the principal.
Look at the four bodies and the enraged parents!
They could already imagine how this incident would develop but…
Were they left with any options?
Even if they spilled the truth now, what good would it do?
Aside from the fact that "Cyan" warned them about the lord before this, once the teachers spoke, the only possible outcome was they were treated as accomplices and the enraged crowd would tear them to shreds!
They had already wet themselves before this and now they wanted to quit?
Stop joking! It was impossible and too late for them to back off.
Moreover, the rewards!
Once they thought of the rewards from the lord, the teachers didn't care anymore and the struggle in their hearts swiftly vanished into nothing.
"Yeah, we never thought the school would commit such a disgusting act in the first place!"
"We didn't want to believe it at first but as more evidence was shown, we were forced to believe it!"
It's so surprising that respectable principal used her students as products to provide services to those disgusting people!"
The few teachers who forgot their consciouses because of benefits started to give their best effort in playing along with "Cyan".
Those words were originally taught by "Cyan" to them but a few of them tried to display themselves, thus exaggerating the matter.
The parent crowd's faces started to change. Being prejudiced by first impressions, the crowd had started to believe what the teachers said.
When the parents thought about their own child being placed in a dangerous situation, they were completely enraged. Even more so since they had quite the authority and wealth among the common citizens.
The rage from them was different from the parents who lost their children, they, whose children were spared for a horrible end, felt rage from provocation.
"Cyan" saw the looks on the parent's face and her heart couldn't help but smile. She knew the situation was progressing as the lord has expected it.
However…
"Cyan" looked at the four bodies inside the carriage, her eyes shone a little.
"How fortunate! Seems like Reed's death made the security team loosen up their guard! Otherwise, if one or two security members appeared together, it would be solid evidence! But still, even with this… it is our victory! So what if Guntherson is powerful, what can he do against this? Fight the entire city?"
"Cyan"'s heart laughed out coldly, she then stood aside and watched the situation quietly.
At this point, she wouldn't need to say or do anything more, someone else would take over her role in all this and in fact, it already happened.
A mere 3 to 4 seconds later, a middle-aged man who lost his daughter stood up from the crowd.
He was holding a kerosene lamp in his hand and took the flintlock pistol from his wagon.
"Everyone, I am going to burn down this place! Don't stop me!"
The man then strode into the school's compound.
The rest of the parents instantaneously followed up tightly but the really surprising thing wasn't the enraged parents themselves, it was those attendants that overtook them from behind.
Compared to the parents, each of the attendants had at least some intimidating aura around them, when they picked up the swords and guns, it gave them a professional look that they employer didn't possess.
Because of their own safety, the parents weren't stingy in spending and the retired mercenaries and bounty hunters needed a steady job as well.
So two sides clicked together with ease but none of them would have expected a scene like this.
The attendants from the families who lost their daughters looked extra cold and bore killing intent in their eyes because they knew even if they burned down the school, their career would be over.
No one else would be willing to hire mercenaries and bounty hunters that failed to protect their employer's child.
The thought of going from a sufficient life to worrying when would their next meal be made the attendants grip their weapons tighter, they wanted to retrieve their honor and names if possible.
As for the guy who stepped out suddenly and tried to stop them from moving forward, no mercy would be shown.
"F*ck off!"
One of the attendants shouted loudly at the hooded figure in front of them who appeared without their knowledge but the other attendants didn't care much and raised their weapons at the figure.
There were swords and flintlocks, all of them launched their attack at the figure but none of their attacks landed on the target.
The figure was like an illusion, all the swords and bullets went through his body yet no harm was done but the attack that came from the figure, sending the attendants flying backward told the crowd the figure was real.
The paradoxical sensation between real and unreal stunned the enraged crowd uncontrollably.
They instinctively halted their steps and glared at the figure before them.
"Merciful God, please forgive these men who are blinded by lies!"
The figure said slowly.
As the figure spoke, a layer of faint white brilliance appeared on his body. His voice that sounded flat at first felt holistic and compassionate under the brilliance.
Right away, everyone who saw the layer of white brilliance changed their expression differently.
Some smiled coldly, some were shocked but most of them were astonished.