Chapter 139: Advancing Cleric (Please Subscribe)

On the same night, under the same moonlight.

Green Forest Cathedral.

Cleric Nicholas Inamu, with his soft facial features and a rich, magnetic voice, rose from his bed and prayed silently in the darkness.

The object of his prayer was the "Holy Spirit," and without a doubt, this fictional deity would not provide any response.

"I swear, I shall be content with poverty... I swear, I shall be merciful to others... I swear, I shall strictly uphold the Taoism of Light!"

Nicholas muttered, his face suddenly turning resolute: "I swear... I shall resist darkness and corruption... I shall... become the Light!"

As a Nicholas who had been adopted by a church orphanage since childhood, grew up in church schools, and successfully entered the ecclesiastical court to become a Cleric, his piety was indisputable.

"Facing a suspected Non-human Existence, once you are suspected by him, you are one hundred percent dead!"

Tomasu was a thin and tall young man, who was muttering incessantly at this moment, his expression stiff and rigid.

"Chris's residence, the Archbishop's residence, the vault, and also... the underground storage room!"

With the radiance of a martyr, Nicholas ignored the movements outside, staggered toward the door of the underground storage room, and pulled it open with a boom.

"Regardless of the outcome, the arrangements I left behind will take effect; there will be special letters sent to the Investigation Bureau..."

The corridor was silent, with only the sound of Nicholas's own footsteps echoing softly.

Roar!

He recalled the face of his mentor within his organization, as well as the other's gentle voice:

"We of the 'Sunset School' accept you, provide cover for you, and teach you Secret arts so that you can evade the Investigation Bureau's inquiries, not to have you go and throw your life away..."

Buzz!

They were so thriving, filled with Vitality.

"The church... has become a little more filthy again... It is precisely because people like the mastermind behind the scenes exist that the Holy Spirit Church has become increasingly corrupt... I will cleanse all of this!"

"Even if it is a Non-human Existence, once the Investigation Bureau gathers personnel and sets up a plan, he will definitely be brought to justice by the law!"

The power contained within this Talisman was such that even if Nicholas kept his eyes open, he might be blinded!

Immediately following, his entire body melted under the light.

"With such a big commotion, is this still a Secrecy investigation?"

Dense sounds of flapping wings arose from all around.

Sizzle!

"Who... is it?"

"Give up... the other party has already completed the scheme, successfully hidden behind the scenes, and evaded the Investigation Bureau's pursuit; he will go silent..."

Pure white flames, ten times and a hundred times more violent than before, suddenly surged from the golden Talisman and erupted within the corridor!

"Mother insect... command... guard..."

In an instant, a miniature sun seemed to be born in the corridor!

Under the illumination of this illusory Chunbaitaiyang, those clusters of black insect clouds were rapidly subjected to Purification, leaving not even ashes behind.

After everything dissipated, Nicholas pressed his temples, enduring the terrible state of his Spirituality being nearly exhausted, and looked ahead.

"No matter what the other party's conspiracy is, it is already impossible for it to succeed!"

But at the same time, looking at the increasingly corrupt church, Nicholas's heart was filled with pain.

At this moment, that small insect flew up.

"In any case, that mastermind should have appeared by now, right?"

"Light!"

In his eyes, Tomasu's two eyes were ash-gray, and a small black insect was crawling upon his pupils, which had completely lost their color and luster.

As a "Light-Bearer," Nicholas spat out a Spirit World Language word; his Spirituality surged, generating a white beam of Light in mid-air, its edges seemingly carrying the temperature of flames, which fell upon the black insect cloud.

A small portion of the insects were directly melted by the white flames, but more insects, as if provoked, swept toward Nicholas.

That small door representing the unknown and the truth appeared formally before Nicholas's eyes.

As for the Archbishop's living quarters?

He subconsciously did not want to suspect it, preparing to first investigate the vault and the underground storage room.

The originally familiar cathedral, under the moonlight, gradually became ferocious and eerie...

"Ah!"

Tomasu had already disappeared, with only a little bit of ash remaining on the spot.

"If Chris is not the real culprit, the person who framed him must be inside the cathedral!"

"Tomasu..."

Nicholas was about to step forward when he suddenly heard a voice coming from the darkness.

"Haha... haha..."

"I will find his flaw and then report it to the Investigation Bureau!"

Cluster after cluster of dense insect clouds were spat out from his mouth, like black clouds, surging toward Nicholas.

Tomasu let out a miserable shriek; his lifeless eyes were directly blinded by the light, exploding like two water bubbles and spilling black-red blood.

"It is already September now, which is somewhat incredible..."

Nicholas shone the Horse Lantern toward the other's face and suddenly froze.

Nicholas did not have much of a reaction and arrived at the entrance to the basement.

This place belonged to Cleric Tomasu, and only he was equipped with a key, but Nicholas pulled a piece of wire from his bosom and poked it into the lock; before long, the wooden door opened with a bang.

Nicholas closed his eyes, his expression suddenly becoming extremely resolute, his hands clasped in front of his chest, and he quickly threw out that golden Talisman, praising loudly:

"Praise the Dawn!"

"Although the vault is hidden and safe, everyone inside the church is staring at it, and it is too easy to be discovered if it is tampered with... therefore, the place most likely to have a problem is still the underground storage room!"

Nicholas bypassed Chris's original residence; it had already been searched many times by agents of the Investigation Bureau, and although it was still somewhat suspicious, there shouldn't be much left behind.

"Tomasu, I... I just came to take a look..."

Nicholas spoke a lie that even he himself didn't believe, but in his haste, this was the best he could manage.

It was precisely because of this pain that when he came into contact with the world of Secrecy and gained a slight understanding of the various paths and aspects, he chose 'Sun' without hesitation! He chose the Light!

At this moment, Nicholas thought again of the intelligence regarding the 'Sting Sword' from that day and pulled a golden Talisman from his bosom.

Tomasu, who seemed to have become one of the Living Dead, looked at Nicholas with dull eyes, unblinking, and suddenly opened his mouth wide.

Watching this scene, Nicholas laughed as if he had gone mad, laughing until he doubled over and tears streamed down his face.

He carried a Horse Lantern and walked inside.

Nicholas looked at the high-level Talisman in his hand, which he had paid a significant price to obtain, gripped it carefully in his palm, and walked out of his room.

Closer, even closer...

Nicholas walked through the darkness.

"Guard... Defense..."

As an insider, he had already ruled out many places during the day, and now only a few suspected locations remained.

He turned the Horse Lantern and saw Cleric Tomasu in the corner of the Shadow.

The orange light shone on his Shadow, casting it onto the wall like a baring-fanged, claw-waving monster.

Nicholas walked through the garden and heard the chirping of various insects beneath the Plants.

As the radiance of the Horse Lantern shone, what appeared before Nicholas was a cocoon...

A giant cocoon with countless Mysterious Talismans roaming its surface, containing its own light source, and with some powerful, evil, pitch-black thing wriggling inside!

(End of this chapter)