Mixed Blessing System

The only woman in Sebastian’s group understood Lothur’s question and said. “Indeed, we are after someone like that, but our best investigators are already chasing the suspicious trails.

The rest of us can’t stop cultivating or looking for ways to strengthen ourselves.”

The Seraphim Church had 20 level 20 cultivators, with the strongest being the High Priest. Above them was the Supreme Pontiff, currently at level 21.

But just because the Supreme Pontiff was the only publicly known member of the Church at that level didn’t mean there weren’t more.

The Church did not function like a normal organization. The spirit of the Seraph recognized the Church leader, and until that person died, he could not be replaced, even if people stronger than him came along.

It was also like that for the position of High Priest.

Therefore, if any elder reached level 21 or even higher, they would still be below the position of these two.

But once at level 21, they would cease to act publicly and become ghost members of the Church, a group that only acted in times of great need.

The goal of each in this group before Lothur was to grow stronger, not to replace one of those two men, but to reach the requirement to join the ghost group.

So as much as the Church was searching for the hybrid that had appeared in Leopoldine, not all of their experts were hunting it, and it was more valuable for these people to hunt well-ranked demons.

By killing the hybrid, they would only get one bone for their leader.

Any Soul Bone from Emperor demons or hybrids should be offered to the Church leader for him to absorb. Only if he could not have such a bone would that resource pass to the second in succession and so on.

So none of these people would have the chance to absorb this bone, and as much as they wanted to help their leader become stronger, they didn’t even know where such a hybrid was.

As such, they preferred to let the Church’s level 20 investigators do their job while they focused on other relevant things.

Hybrids or no hybrids, demons still existed worldwide, and their primary job was to hunt these creatures down!

Sebastian said. “Don’t underestimate us, Liam. Even in our absence, the Church can deal with this hybrid. Once he is identified, not even if he is stronger than us will he be able to survive.”

“Is that so?” Lothur laughed.

“Yes, if you want to, you still have a chance to join us… Think about it, with your skill and our strength, we can kill dozens of demons in a few years and raise our strength a lot.”

Lothur nodded and said nothing more on the matter, realizing that the Church’s forces were stronger than ordinary people thought.

There was no record of all the current members of the Church in a place like the Cultivation House.

That organization did have a catalog with the names of demon hunters, but from what Lothur had seen and knew, that was only for hunters up to level 18.

Above that level, someone like him would not be able to hire the Cultivation House to get information about these demon hunters.

There was probably a record of these beings, but it should be incomplete and out of date, and even if it had some names, it was certainly something the Cultivation House would not sell.

The responses of this group and Sebastian warned him well of the strength of this organization!

‘I’ll have to watch myself. If I act arrogant after absorbing a new bone, I still have a good chance of becoming easy prey for the Church.’ Lothur pondered as he heard the group deciding to leave.

Soon they left that city and headed for the forest where Lothur and Sebastian had spotted the demons days ago.

There, they stopped and gave Lothur space to demonstrate his skills.

One With Nature!

Lothur didn’t hesitate to use his skill, showing his relatively weak soul cultivation for someone at level 20.

From Sebastian’s point of view, Lothur’s strength had hardly increased after days of seclusion. After all, his Soul attribute remained the same.

‘Hmm, he’s not that talented. He was lucky to get the help of an expert and reached this level… Well, it’s not bad. At this level, he’s already an expert and has an outstanding support skill.’ Sebastian considered, but he couldn’t help but wonder what Lothur was doing not to have improved even 1% of his strength after 9 training days.

But soon, Lothur would open his mouth to talk about the demons, and Sebastian would put his thoughts aside.

“I found their tracks. We’ll have to go about 20 kilometers and then stop again so I can analyze their route again. Please accompany me.”

Lothur went ahead of these people, and they followed him, eager to see where this would lead them.

Everyone there could feel how Lothur’s skill worked, so no one doubted his capabilities.

On the other hand, although eager to find the demons and kill them, none of them were in a hurry or thought they could reach these creatures quickly.

With nine days to spare, the demons could be anywhere within a radius of tens of thousands of square kilometers.

If they were lucky, it might take a few days for them to find their targets. But if they were unlucky, it could take even more than a whole month!

Lothur’s skill was fantastic, but he depended on nature to function. Somewhere demons could enter a city, and their tracks would become harder to follow.

But this group would not blindly follow Lothur all the way. They were experienced demon hunters who knew this state well and were aware of news and information that this young man was not.

When his skills failed, they would take action to get Lothur back on ‘track’ and go in pursuit of these dreadful creatures!

…

Thus, the group’s first three days of searching would pass in the blink of an eye, with them traveling a long way after leaving the previous city. ｏｖ𝚕．ｃｏ𝚖

After leaving the border of Rablus and Norid further north in the empire, they moved through the northern region of that state, but in an easterly direction.

By the route of those creatures, they hadn’t stopped at a single city until the place where Lothur had managed to analyze. But from what the trees and vegetation where he was standing told him, the 9 days gap from his group to the trio of demons had shrunk, and now they were only 5 days apart from these creatures.

They were moving faster than the demons, so eventually, they would reach their targets!