Chapter 237: The Holy Night

The gears of time turned rapidly.

Three days had passed in the blink of an eye since Yun Mu, relying on the revelations of the Lady of the Dark Night, resolved the sewer crisis—an event that could be considered a major incident for the entire Frostfall City.

During these three days, the people at the Guard Hall had not stopped their investigation into those cultists for a single moment.

Through past files, it was learned that they were indeed a cult organization that had existed in Frostfall City for a long time, officially named by the authorities as the Scarlet Cult.

The threat level was low.

Because their sphere of influence was only a small area of Frostfall City, and the number of Believers did not even reach fifty.

They couldn't even beat the local gangs.

The only thing worth noting was the holy relic they spoke of, which was Lucy's corpse.

If those guys hadn't developed some kind of flesh bomb that could parasitize and hide inside a human body to detonate, increasing their threat,

the Guard Hall wouldn't even have bothered to mobilize so much police force to deal with them.

Later, after a joint cleanup by the local Church of Frostfall City and the Guard Hall, no more news was heard of them.

The above information was consistent with Yun Mu's previous speculation; Lucy's corpse must have been taken away by Bishop Land during the joint cleanup.

Generally speaking, such things should be destroyed the moment they are seized, but Bishop Land not only did not destroy it, but was instead seduced by the power of the Scarlet.

These were all matters for later.

It was just unexpected that even with the holy relic lost, those guys from the Scarlet Cult hadn't disbanded, and had even been brewing something big.

If it weren't for the Lady of the Dark Night giving a warning in advance, if those monsters had broken through the blockade of the Mecha Unit and rushed into the city just like in Yun Mu's dream, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Besides this, there was actually one more piece of information worth noting.

That was, it was said.

There was an existence in the Scarlet Cult referred to as the Saintess, only there was no specific information about this Saintess in the Guard Hall's files.

Yun Mu's intuition told her that the Saintess was likely the Scarlet Messenger Natavia.

But this was just intuition, there was no evidence, so she just thought about it and never voiced this idea.

As for Lienie, she couldn't research anything in just three days.

Getting rid of those already parasitized was out of the question, but preventing normal people from being parasitized was doable.

Lienie developed a serum—it should be a serum, Yun Mu didn't really understand this.

The effect was that after injection, it could guarantee that one would not be parasitized by the larvae of the Parasite for three hours.

The effect was quite good, and Brenna and Bishop Muse decided to equip everyone with two doses on October 20th.

Of course, it had to be injected in advance; if injected after being parasitized, it would be useless.

Lienie explained the specific principles at the meeting for a long time; anyway, she didn't understand a single word, though Brenna and Bishop Muse were able to chat with her a little.

After finishing with other people's affairs, let's talk about her changes these days.

First is the character level.

Perhaps because many people had read the Comic, the experience points for 【Fallen】 were not settled for her immediately after each person finished reading.

Instead, it was notified by the Game Panel at exactly twelve o'clock that night.

【Your work "Torina's Adventure Journal" is gradually spreading in Frostfall City. Based on the effect of the trait 【Fallen】, you have gained a large amount of experience points.】 This was the system report from last night, October 19th.

After three consecutive days of settlement, Yun Mu's current level successfully reached lv25, which is the highest level for a Second-tier Elite.

Attributes increased by 10 points.

Specifically, 2 points in Maximum HP, 2 points in Attack Power, 3 points in Spell Strength, 1 point in Resilience, and 2 points in Precision Correction.

The following are her current attributes: 【Name: Yun Mu (Favorite of the Gods 【8/15】 · Civilization Spreader · Sleepy Cat · Painter) 【Divine】

Level: lv25 (Elite) Race: Frost Person · Bloodline

Age: 15 years old

Maximum HP: 92 Attack Power: 50 Spell Strength: 50 Defense: 20 Resilience: 11 Dodge: 75 Speed: 28 Precision Correction: 80 Critical Hit: 22% 【Omitted】】 HP is only eight points away from one hundred, and both Attack Power and Spell Strength have reached fifty.

Besides this, there were changes to the Path.

Good news, she finally unlocked the 【Comic】 Path.

Bad news, this Path did not bring her any attribute enhancements.

【Oil Painting · Comic】

These two painting-related Paths actually merged into one on the Game Panel, with the effects only slightly changed.

【Oil Painting · Comic lv2: Spell Strength +5, Precision Correction +10, all skills related to Painting have their effects doubled!】 【All skills or items related to Oil Painting · Comic have their effects enhanced by 45%.】 This Path effect is actually very powerful, it's just that it had always been ignored by Yun Mu.

Think about it carefully, not to mention the bonuses to Spell Strength and Precision Correction, all skills related to Painting have their effects doubled.

Plus the 45% enhancement to skills and items related to Oil Painting · Comic.

Doesn't that mean that when she releases a Supernatural Painting skill, the effect is directly enhanced by 145%? It's a pity that this effect only takes effect when choosing the 【Oil Painting · Comic】 Path in a Dungeon; in fact, compared to outputting damage, she needs the Scarlet or Desire Path more.

Path effects that can increase her own attributes or combat gains.

After all, it's not like she lacks damage.

*Cough cough*, getting off track, let's go take a look at the promotion conditions for the Painter.

【1: Job as 【Painter】, and level reached lv25 (Completed!)】【2: Master at least two Paths related to Painting. (Completed!)】【3: Raise the level of at least one Painting Path to lv3! (Incomplete)】【4: Create a work, and the popularity must reach at least 【Emerging】 (Incomplete)】【5: Draw a blue-quality Spiritual Painting, and use this painting to defeat an enemy whose rank is at most 5 levels lower! (Incomplete)】【6. Create a Painted World. (Completed!)】 Completed and incomplete conditions each account for half.

She can only slowly grind the Path level over time; as for the blue-quality Spiritual Painting... she feels it's close, as long as her 【Spiritual Painting】 skill level increases by one more, she should be able to do it.

As for the popularity of the work, just look at the new title added after her name, ah no, the moniker.

【Sleepy Cat】

【This is the pen name for your works; you can view the work reputation under this pen name under this moniker.】

【Torina's Adventure Journal (8)】 【Little Known】 【Using a Comic as a medium to publish adult content is not a very innovative thing, but your unique art style, as well as the mature techniques that have formed a system of their own, have clearly attracted the attention of a large number of old perverts.

In Frostfall City, almost all connoisseurs who pay attention to adult-oriented content have heard of the great name of this work; the only difference is that some of them have not seen it yet.

Many people want to give their first time to the uncensored version, and others are unable to recommend this work to others because they feel too ashamed.

This hindered the speed of the work's spread to some extent, but it didn't matter, because gold will always shine, right? 【Emerging】 requires 11 points of reputation, and currently, Torina's adventure log has reached 8 points.

In other words, it is still 3 points short.

Hmm, Rain Curtain Magazine has only been published for three days; the momentum clearly hasn't picked up yet, and it needs more time to ferment.

This condition can certainly be met, it's just that the specific time cannot be determined. One can only wait patiently.

"Sigh, in the end, I still couldn't advance before the Sacred Night."

Yun Mu sighed with some regret, then stood up from the bed.

With her thoughts mostly organized, it was time for her to get up.

Arriving at the window, she looked outside.

As early as two days ago, because the holiday was approaching, many decorative arrangements had appeared on the streets.

For example, ropes were wrapped around street lamps, and glowing plants that emitted a faint fluorescence were wound around the ropes.

It is said that these glowing plants were all transported from the Dixia Shijie; they have extremely strong vitality and can survive for more than half a month even after being picked, which is completely enough to last until the end of the holiday.

Besides those glowing plants, the streets were also decorated with pumpkin lanterns, plaques of the Dark Night Church, and patterns of Elsa the Bright Moon—it could be said that they attached quite a lot of importance to it.

It wasn't night yet; once the sun set, the Bishop of the Dark Night Church, namely Bishop Land.

Would take other Believers of the Church, dressed in special religious or traditional clothing, holding religious artifacts such as statues and the Bible, loudly reciting scriptures or singing religious songs, and ride in a parade vehicle.

They would circle the city, accompanied by music, Dance, and various celebratory activities, until the parade vehicle returned to the church and held a banquet inviting the city's nobles and the local lord... These were all things Brenna told her, and their action would be carried out after the banquet began.

"Do I still need to disguise myself as you?"

During the time the two were eating breakfast, Yun Mu sat opposite Brenna and asked her.

"Of course." Brenna nodded: "I've already practiced, so it shouldn't go to waste."

"Uh, actually I don't mind that."

"It's not just for that reason." Before Yun Mu could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Brenna: "We have to wait until all those nobles leave before we can act, otherwise it would be troublesome if Bishop Land took them hostage."

"Before that, our mission is to keep a close eye on Bishop Land during the banquet and not let him run away."

"If it's just that, there's no need for me to disguise myself as you." After hearing Brenna's words, Yun Mu was still a bit puzzled.

"Hehe." Smiling a bit embarrassedly, Brenna winked at her: "When the banquet starts, those nobles will definitely come to pester me."

"I'll have to trouble you to use my identity to fool them for me~"

"Enough talk, come to my room later, I'll do your makeup~"

As she spoke, she stood up and wanted to escape from the room, but the next second, Yun Mu, who had been prepared, grabbed her wrist.

"Helping you deal with the nobles is fine, but you must help me wash the dishes today!"

For nearly a week, she had been the one making breakfast, and she was also the one who washed the dishes after eating; today she had finally found an opportunity, and Yun Mu would absolutely not let her leave!

"Bu, but I have to go prepare the things for makeup." Brenna lowered her head and looked at the wrist held by Yun Mu.

"It's okay, washing a few dishes won't waste much time." She responded with a smile.

"Ugh, alright." Seeing that Yun Mu was insistent, Brenna could only agree.

The two went to the sink together, and in less than two minutes, they had washed all the used kitchenware, as well as the bowls and chopsticks, until they were spotless.

Afterwards, Yun Mu followed behind Brenna into the other's room and began to formally apply makeup... my foot.

Brenna directly took out a Stone Mask of the same style as Dunn's and placed it on Yun Mu's face.

She injected Spirituality into the Mask and immediately felt a set of pre-set facial features.

In just a few seconds, Yun Mu had disguised herself as Brenna; looking at it from the outside, there were almost no flaws.

"What happened to the makeup supplies you were supposed to prepare?" Feeling that she had been tricked, Yun Mu asked Brenna with black lines on her forehead.

"Hehe." Smiling a bit embarrassedly, the other party decisively changed the subject: "I asked Mr. Dunn for this, how is it, is it exactly the same as me?"

"It is indeed exactly the same..." Yun Mu hadn't expected things to be resolved this way; she clearly had a Stone Mask on her person, yet she had subconsciously ignored it.

Although she couldn't mold Brenna's face herself, Dunn could!

Why hadn't she thought of going to Dunn sooner?

Yun Mu couldn't help but feel a bit annoyed.

"Mr. Dunn said you also have a mask on you, can you give it to me?" Brenna said to Yun Mu at this time.

"Sure."

Without hesitation, she took another Stone Mask from her bosom and handed it to Brenna.

"Let me try..."

Brenna took the mask and put it on her face; soon, a Face of the Ancient God that made Yun Mu reveal the "old man, subway, mobile phone" expression appeared before her.

"You should just use the preset in the mask." She said.

"Is it that ugly?" Brenna glared at her with some dissatisfaction, then looked in the mirror: "Ghost!!"

After being given a huge fright by the face she had molded herself, Brenna obediently used the preset Lilith face in the mask and walked out of the Frost Bank with Yun Mu.

There was still some time before nightfall, and the two decided to take advantage of the festive atmosphere to have a good time.

After all, everything that needed to be prepared had been prepared; the rest was just doing one's best and leaving the rest to fate.

If they failed, this would be their last bit of leisure time.

"Miss Yun, this is for you."

Brenna stopped for a moment in front of a stall, then hurried to Yun Mu's side and handed her the item in her hand.

"This is..."

Yun Mu took the item from her hand and discovered it was a dark purple metal plate engraved with a Moon on the surface, surrounded by stars.

"The stall owner said this is an amulet." Brenna pointed at the pattern on the metal plate with her finger.

"The Moon and the stars represent Elsa the Bright Moon and the many stars, while the dark purple background represents the dark night."

"It means that the Lady of the Dark Night and Elsa the Bright Moon will protect you together~"

"How much does one of these cost?" Yun Mu asked with some curiosity.

"Well, this one is 10 Frosts." Hearing her words, Brenna appeared somewhat embarrassed.

"Hehe."

Yun Mu smiled indifferently and tucked this protective talisman into her inner garment pocket.

"I'll accept it as if it were real for now."

(End of chapter)