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Following behind the captain, Leyton took a winding path to the basement of a building behind the library.
"This building is where we usually work. To the public, it's a newspaper office and Writers' Association building. Don't be too surprised. The staff inside are all members of the Church. The main operation is the Clock Tower Academic Journal," Captain Icanton said as he walked.
"Many members of the Church have a need to publish academic papers or articles, so the Church simply founded its own newspaper. These newspapers and books circulate in both the Northern and Southern continents, as well as at sea. Of course, the most popular areas are Lenberg, Masin, and Feynapotter. If you have such needs, you can also try it. The review standards for internal Church members are lower." Captain Icanton gave a more detailed explanation seeing that Leyton seemed very curious.
"Newspaper office? Writers' Association?" Leyton repeated these two words in a low voice.
"This may be related to the advancement ceremony of a certain sequence later on," Leyton speculated in his mind.
"Don't be too surprised. Our Church is different from the other six Churches. Our Knowledge Church is more like a large academy where a group of people who love academics and knowledge gather together." Captain Icanton gave a brief explanation.
Leyton inexplicably felt that the other party's description was quite apt. Apart from the Knowledge Church, no other church spends all day reading, studying, and publishing papers. Even ordinary universities don't have this kind of learning atmosphere.
"We're here!" Captain Icanton stopped in front of a stone door covered with strange symbols.
"Captain? Where is this? A morgue?" Leyton asked uncertainly, remembering that his captain had said that the member of the Moses Ascetic Order was already a corpse.
"A morgue? Why would you think that? This isn't a hospital. Where would we get a morgue! This is the evidence room. If we weren't thinking that letting you see it might yield additional gains, we would have disposed of the body long ago. After all, that corpse has been damaged beyond recognition." Captain Icanton said.
After speaking, Captain Icanton walked closer and reached out to push open the door, explaining at the same time: "The runes drawn on this door mainly isolate external prying, identify the person opening the door, and protect the environment inside."
"Well, these runes, I can't understand them at all." After hearing the captain's words, Leyton stared at the stone door curiously for a while, and finally came to the conclusion that he couldn't understand these symbols at all.
"Haha! That's normal. You haven't studied this kind of knowledge. This kind of rune is a variant of Dragonese. Dragonese itself possesses mystical power. The Church has modified this ancient race's language to form a unique system." Captain Icanton explained with a smile.
"Dragons? Are there really such creatures as dragons? What do they look like? Are they the same as described in those novels and picture books?" Leyton asked curiously.
Although he knew that there was a dragon race in this world, knowing was one thing, but Leyton had never seen one. Whether as Leyton or Luo Yang, he was very curious about dragons.
"Maybe similar? Even rumors that are grasping at shadows have a certain basis and prototype. However, dragons have long disappeared from people's sight. I have never seen one either, but it is said that there are dragons in the Church, but that should be at the Church headquarters in Lenberg." Obviously, Icanton didn't know much about dragons either.
"The Church actually has dragons!" Leyton's voice involuntarily rose a little.
Although somewhat shocked that the Knowledge Church actually had dragons, thinking that the God of Knowledge and Wisdom himself was a dragon, and in ancient times was a subsidiary god under the Dragon of Imagination, Ankewelt, it was reasonable for the Knowledge Church to gather a few dragons.
While Leyton was still shocked by the fact that the Church actually had dragons, Captain Icanton had already walked to a long table on the side. On the long table was a black cloak, and inside the cloak were some scattered things that made the cloak uneven.
"Are you ready?" Captain Icanton asked.
"Ah? Ready." Leyton was a little dazed.
"Huff~" Icanton lifted the black cloak, revealing some charred pieces of meat inside. The dark red blood on the surface of the meat had already solidified. The pieces of meat were of uneven size, but not too large, and it was difficult to distinguish what parts they were.
"Ugh!" Leyton felt a little nauseous, especially as his mind involuntarily conjured up and pieced together the original appearance of these pieces of meat. Leyton, who was originally not afraid of these things, was made a little nauseous by himself.
Leyton quickly turned his gaze away, and it took a while for those disgusting images to stop appearing in his mind.
"Scared?" At this time, Captain Icanton walked to Leyton's side and pressed Leyton's shoulder, and Leyton felt that the psychological discomfort was reduced a lot.
"Not scared." Leyton shook his head and said: "But the subconscious appearance of restoring and piecing together these pieces of meat in my mind is a bit disgusting."
"This is your instinct as a Sequence 8 Student of Ratiocination. You must learn to restrain and adapt. You can't have this reaction every time you encounter this kind of thing. It's okay usually, but this is a very fatal problem in combat." Captain Icanton explained.
"Yeah, I understand." After calming down, Leyton turned his gaze back. With the previous experience, Leyton tried to control himself not to think too much. This time, he didn't let the images of restoring and piecing together these pieces of meat reappear in his mind.
"Well, that's a good thing. It shows that your control over that Beyonder characteristic is quite good. If your situation weren't so special, I'd even think you could apply for advancement to Seer, Sequence 7, before long," Captain Icanton commented on Leyton's condition again.
"But Captain, this state can't really be considered a corpse anymore, can it? There's so little flesh left, and it's all charred. It's hard to even identify what kind of creature it is in this state!" Although he had temporarily overcome the problem of his brain always filling in the blanks automatically, Leyton was helpless when faced with this pile of flesh. He was just an unstable Sequence 8.
"There's no choice. This was a Sequence 6 Scrolls Professor. If he hadn't been in the wrong state, it would have been difficult for us to deal with him, and it wouldn't have been possible to preserve a complete corpse during the battle," Icanton explained.
"Captain, what pathway is the Sequence 6 Scrolls Professor from? Are they very powerful?" Leyton fully expressed his curiosity about this knowledge, so that he could provide a reasonable source for the knowledge he knew when needed in the future.
"It belongs to the Mystery Pryer pathway. Beyonders of this pathway are all affected by the Evil God, the Hidden Sage, so Beyonders of this pathway are very prone to losing control. This pathway is mainly controlled by the Moses Ascetics Order, a cult organization, and the Element Dawn, led by Queen Mystic, one of the Four Kings of the Seas," Captain Icanton gave a general overview of the Seer pathway.
"Whether it's the former or the latter, they are organizations not recognized by the orthodox churches. You must be especially careful when encountering them. You've already met a member of the Moses Ascetics Order, and I think you should have a deep understanding of that," Icanton reminded Leyton again to be careful and guard against Beyonders of this pathway.
"Yes!" Leyton nodded solemnly in response.
Although the original work didn't feature the Moses Ascetics Order much, and most of it revolved around some descriptions of Admiral of Stars, Cattleya, it was only known that this was an organization that believed in the Evil God, the Hidden Sage.
However, Leyton, who had accepted the original Leyton's memories and learned some information from the Knowledge Church, had a deep understanding of why the Moses Ascetics Order was defined as a cult organization. Although the Moses Ascetics Order didn't create terrorist incidents everywhere like the Aurora Order, it wasn't much better.
"Does this member of the Moses Ascetics Order have any relics? Captain?" Leyton thought that the captain couldn't have called him here just to take a look at a pile of flesh that was no longer identifiable. There should be other things, so he asked.
A rare smile appeared on Icanton's face as he replied, "Yes, that's why I asked you to come. This member of the Moses Ascetics Order does have a few relics. The one I need you to look at is an ornament. The prediction made by the Sealed Artifact was that you would gain some additional information by touching it. That's why I called you over."
"Sealed Artifact?" Leyton was a little curious about this Sealed Artifact that could make predictions. To be able to make predictions, it should at least correspond to Sequence 4 of the Reader pathway, or Sequence 3 of the Mystery Pryer pathway.
"Yes, Beyonder characteristics and some items merge together, or items with Beyonder abilities are formed after Beyonders die. These items generally have serious negative effects. We collectively call these items Sealed Artifacts and classify them according to the level of danger. The Sealed Artifact with the ability to predict is very high level, and it's not something you can understand at your current level. You can look at the relevant information when your permissions are higher," Icanton explained the situation of the Sealed Artifact in detail.
"I see," Leyton nodded in response.
"Alright, come over here and take a look. That strange ornament is placed here." Captain Icanton reached out and covered the Moses Ascetics Order member, who had already turned into fragments, with his black cloak again.
He walked to the shelf next to him, casually picked up a package placed on the shelf, and picked out a uniquely shaped ornament from it.
This ornament was bright bronze in color, the size of a baby's palm, and its overall style was like a ring full of gears, composed of many intersecting lines surrounding it. In the middle of the ring was a vertical eye without eyelashes, and the ornament was also connected to a small silver chain.
"This? What is this?" Leyton frowned slightly, searching through his memories but couldn't find anything related to this pattern, not even a trace of an impression.
"We don't know either. You can take it and have a look. We've already checked it. There are no traces of any mystical elements remaining on this ornament. You can rest assured, and it doesn't point to any known rituals or mystical existences. There is no danger," Icanton reached out and handed the bright bronze ornament to Leyton.
Leyton took it and carefully looked at it several times, confirming that he really didn't have any impression of this thing. Whether it was Leyton's or Luo Yang's memories, there had never been anything related to this.
Shaking his head, Leyton handed the ornament back.
Captain Icanton didn't take it but said, "Keep it for now. Since the prediction says you can get some information from it, it shouldn't be wrong. Perhaps the timing isn't right, but although we've confirmed that this thing doesn't have any harm, you still need to be careful and pay attention to whether there are any unexpected factors in your life."
"The time wasted today is already a lot. You can go home first. Starting tomorrow, you will need to report here every day. You don't have any tasks during this time. Follow Mr. Kosith and study hard to make up for the accumulation of the Reader stage that you missed as soon as possible," Captain Icanton nodded slightly, indicating that Leyton could leave.
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