Immediately, I could feel my body churn at the foreign power entering through my bloodstream.
"Hoooo."
After my body successfully imprinted the new Holy Blessing into me. The system window made sure to remind me that I had gotten the blessing.
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✦ Name: Eliot Permassian.
✦ Spirit Taming: None.
✦ Holy Blessing: Intimidation.
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The holy blessing was there, sitting there and looking at me with hopeful eyes.
Holy blessings were far and few, and anyone could have more than one, it just had to have correlation to their first holy blessing. Like a set piece in Gacha games.
Dew of Regression was compatible with every single holy blessing however, so I could get a second holy blessing easily at the start.
Three holy blessings is where things start to worsen and become not worth it.
People with three blessings start to develop a dissociative identity disorder and spiral out of control from the madness of holding too much divinity in their mortal shells.
I was no exception to this, so I took very good care of choosing the best and most optimally efficient holy blessings without hindering the main characters growth too much.
Well that didn't matter anymore, so I took the coolest and most useless blessing I could get early on to aid me in making my quality of life far better than the last runs.
Happy with the quick acquisition. I head back, fully ignoring the minotaur still playing dead and waiting for someone to touch it and activate its second phase. Which would detect me through stealth, making touching it an absolute no-no for me.
'By now they should have detected the dungeon gate's wavelength and are heading towards it....So leaving right this instant is the most optimal choice.'
And that is exactly what I did. I ignored every single living thing in the dungeon and headed straight for the exit.
The cool air struck me immediately, striking me just as hard as the utility of stealth.
Stealth, while it does consume a lot of my stamina, it can be calibrated to fit the level of enemies, allowing for efficient use of my stamina at the cost of making it weaker.
'Reinforcing it again doesn't even take that much effort, it's maintaining it what makes it so difficult.'
Which correlates to another reason as to why I didn't want the materials from the minotaur whatsoever.
Killing the minotaur at my level was just impossible and wasteful.
It's meant to be avoided basically.
I had no problem with that.
Getting out the gate wasn't that hard either.
'You can actually leave it whenever you want, it's just when you fight the boss, the gate closes on you and 'opens' only when you 'kill' it.'
Reinforcing stealth to avoid the minotaur from detecting my leave was all that I needed to do.
Truly...A free and easy burglary.
"Hooo."
I take in a deep breath as I make myself down the mountain trail.
"You there."
As I lift my thin veil of stealth from my body, my presence was instantly detected by the Awakeners Association.
The association solely responsible for most of my failed runs now coldly brushed their noses in my business.
Reluctantly I respect the agent's existence instead of flushing out hundreds of rehearsed slurs.
"Yes?"
"Did you come from that mountain."
"I don't live around here, I'm just hiking. Is something the matter?"
"R-right, but that's not what I meant..."
The agent with the neat suit and immaculate slicked back hair slurred over his words.
"Then?"
"I'm just asking if you saw anything weird up in that mountain."
I mull over in my head on what to do.
'Should I tell him?'
Now I may not like the association, but at this point of time, they aren't really an organization that I can just turn my back on, so as much as I hate them. I couldn't just leave them with nothing to work with, plus the chances of me becoming some sort of suspect would be heightened.
There....Were many with twisted hobby's in the association after all.
"Well, I saw a strange blue light when I was at the peak climbing a tree, I didn't approach it since I thought it was just someone camping. But that's about it."
The agent, ecstatic from my words just blindly thanked me.
"Ahaha. Thank you very much, truly I'm sorry for taking some of your precious time!"
Without wasting a single second. The agent turned on his heel and made a sprint, probably to their senior. The bystanders tugged the sides and avoided the middle of the road where the madman of an agent kept sprinting like he had the energy of a child.
I stare at his retreating figure, mind drawing up a blank.
It stayed like that for a long while before.
Trrrr!
My phone rang and vibrated.
Perfect.
Picking the phone from my pocket. I answer the call.
Static dug deep into my thoroughly detached mind.
Each word of the call being archived.
Soon, my lips crawl into a tight smirk.
"I see. I will be there tomorrow."
I felt a pang inside my chest, I knew that my choice would derail everything further from my original route.
Yet despite that knowledge. I could feel myself growing more and more excited at fulfilling my desire, no matter how far-fetched and stupid it was when putting the world on the scale of importance.
Instantly, without a sliver of hesitation. I pull out my GPS and type in the address.
It was the third primary school in section 15 of Baltan City.
It didn't have a particularly well known name, aside from one specific one after extensive research on my phone.
The school that births troublemakers.
That was the name, and a name that didn't really make me feel anything.
'Could've been worse.'
With a yawn. My steps slowed, in an environment completely different from previously.
Smooth, carved stone recoiled the sound of my steps in the hollow space of the subway. Using my stealth to completely skip and get on the train free of charge.
'Kind of sucks that I have to reinforce stealth to hide myself from the cameras, well it doesn't really matter.'
A thick veil of glistering black fell over me as the train for section 15 slowly pulled up.
Without wasting a moment, I follow some random guy and enter the train.
Or at least was about to do so.
"Ticket?"
A young girl, no older than me at this moment stopped me dead in my tracks, seeing through my veil of stealth instantly.