Chapter 66: The Demoness Sect

Chapter Sixty-SixThe Demoness Sect

“Sequence 8: Instigator. Skilled at drawing out the evil desires hidden at the bottom of each person’s heart. Skilled at intensifying contradictions, provoking conflict, and creating bloody incidents…”

The description is not detailed enough. It looks like the Nighthawks do not understand this potion’s abilities very well… But it does indeed match the characteristics of the Clover tragedy…

Klein’s gaze shifted upward, landing on the Sequence 9 corresponding to Instigator.

“Sequence 9: Assassin. Able to alter the body for brief periods, obtaining feather-like lightness, while solidifying eagle-like vision and night sight. Every Assassin is skilled at hiding within shadows, possesses nimble footwork, and can unleash all their strength in a single strike…”

After reading the description, Klein once again sank into profound confusion.

Assassin…

The advancement after Assassin is Instigator?

This is just as strange as the advancement after Seer being some profession skilled in technical combat…

Why are some Sequence pathways gradual and perfectly normal, like Spectator, while others seem to violate intuition and logic?

Mm, perhaps not necessarily. Perhaps there is some hidden commonality I have not discovered…

For instance, Assassin and Instigator both bring disaster to others…

But for Seer, I still cannot make sense of it no matter how I think! Heh. Could it be the path of old Master Gandalf? Add a little support magic, then pile every other skill point into strength and technique?

Silently grumbling, Klein shook his head. He turned the materials to the section on the secret organization connected to Instigator: the Gnosis Society.

“The Gnosis Society is a secret organization that appeared only at the beginning of the Fifth Epoch—that is, the present epoch. They believe that the spirit is the essence of a person, while the body is merely a cage that imprisons the spirit. They believe people commit evil because of the influence of the flesh, and that one must obtain knowledge through spirituality, allowing the spirit to gradually break free from the body. After passing through layer upon layer of trials in the astral plane, the spirit may ultimately leave the material world behind, return to the purest and truest self, and obtain eternal salvation.

“Therefore, many extreme members of the Gnosis Society take the destruction of others’ physical bodies as their goal and have created no small number of bloody cases. It can be clearly seen that the Sequence pathways they control are divided into two types. One is the relatively common pathway within their organization: Apprentice and Trickmaster. The other is the rarely seen Assassin and Instigator. For now, no evidence proves that the Gnosis Society possesses potion formulas for Sequence 7 or above.

“How the Gnosis Society was established is unknown. Analysis can only be made from the two Sequence pathways they possess, suggesting two possible origins. First, Apprentice and Trickmaster easily bring to mind the Abraham family of the Tudor Dynasty during the Fourth Epoch; the possibility of the Tamara family, who intermarried with the Abraham family over a long period, cannot be ruled out. Second, Assassin and Instigator point toward the Demoness Sect.”

The Abraham family, the Tamara family, the Antigonus family, the Zaratul family, the Black Emperor of the Solomon Empire, the Blood Emperor of the Tudor Dynasty, the Trunsoest Empire—as well as the Jacob family and Amon family mentioned by the Hanged Man…

There really are a great many secrets hidden in the buried history of the Fourth Epoch. Perhaps there are also a great many truths…

Klein read with endless emotion. He felt more deeply than before that the Fourth Epoch was shrouded in a dense fog.

Yet merely glimpsing the outline through that fog was enough to make one’s heart tremble. One could almost imagine an era when the extraordinary had flourished to its peak—an epoch in which…