CHAPTER 518: CHAPTER 36: PLACING AN AD IN THE NEWSPAPER

Radiant History 2462, Cold Star Month, Day 4.

Awakening in his second-floor bedroom at the academy residence, Anvis opened his eyes, and through the gossamer canopy between the bedposts, he saw the faint golden hues of dawn twinkling on the square platinum ceiling.

Slowly sitting up from the bed, Anvis glanced at the Magic Clock on the bedside, where the exquisitely crafted Mithril hands pointed precisely to six o’clock in the morning.

Yawning lightly, with a slight stir of his thoughts, a brand-new academy uniform flew over and dressed him automatically.

Some say meditation can replace sleep. Perhaps it can, but to Anvis, normal sleep seems more relaxing.

At the same time, this was also an instinctual effort to maintain habits from his time as a human.

After breaking through the Seventh Rank, the body structure of Professionals is already entirely different from that of ordinary people.

"Tap tap—"

The sudden knocking sound drew Anvis’ attention.

Through the translucent Magic Crystal, in the clear morning sunlight outside the window, a small white figure with a pack appeared on the outside of the windowsill, gently tapping the window with its little paw.

"It’s a Magic Messenger, would you like to come in for some snacks?"

Recognizing the messenger he had arranged, Anvis lifted the window’s sealing spell, smiling as he opened the window to let in the fresh air and the little kitty.

"Meow~~"

However, the little kitty did not enter the room, but very humanely shook its head at Anvis, flicked its tail, and pointed at the white small side bag it was carrying.

Thus, the latest edition of the Empire Morning News and a letter flew out of the bag, gently landing in Anvis’ hands.

"Meow—"

With the delivery confirmed, the little kitty meowed again and with an agile leap, it jumped down from Anvis’ window and quickly vanished into the dense shrubbery of the Magic Garden.

Sitting back at his writing desk, Anvis began to read the news published in the newspaper, taking advantage of the pale golden sunlight of the early morning outside the window.

The front page headline of today’s newspaper would likely shock many readers.

’[Truth Circle] launches a surprise attack on the top-secret base of the Church Court, Saint Messia III enacts the Holy Judgment Order!’

Underneath the bold and emphasized title, the Magic Image of a building’s ruins was clear to discern, and from its silhouette, it could still barely be made out as a church originally.

"It’s been reported already? The efficiency this time is unexpectedly high. Just how long it can delay, I wonder."

After carefully reading the news, Anvis put down the newspaper and looked out the window at the beautiful morning, murmuring to himself in calm contemplation.

"Never mind, we’ll take it one step at a time. Research involving Super Ninth Rank entities isn’t so easy to conduct."

Although Anvis’ main body has already returned to Pamir Academy, this does not prevent him from causing trouble through his avatar.

With information obtained from the depths of Yanile, Anvis learned the secret location of the Saint Plan research conducted by the Church Court, and he brazenly chose to attack immediately.

In the several days following the receipt of the information, he had his avatar set off directly, and the outcome, as evident from the newspaper, was clear.

Like most top-secret bases, that research base was not in the visible world, but rather situated within a small Half-plane.

The only area that connects to the Main World, located within a small church to the west of Eternal Radiance City, is personally guarded by an Archbishop at the Ninth Rank Limit.

Under normal circumstances, such defense can be said to be impregnable. Within the church, which is their home turf, even other entities at the Ninth Rank Limit would be unable to withstand an Archbishop who can briefly borrow the ’God’s’ power.

However, with Yanile’s cooperation, Anvis staged a play with him, pretending to attack him on his way out of his base, temporarily luring the Archbishop away from the church.

Then, seizing this extremely brief window of opportunity, Anvis went directly to the space gate of the Half-plane, and threw in a third-generation Magic Nuclear Bomb.

Although Anvis’s avatar was discovered and restrained by the furious Archbishop in the next instant, it was already too late.

As Anvis’s personal strength improved by leaps and bounds, the Magic Nuclear Bomb had also been upgraded to the third generation.

As the power of fission-type weapons is limited by critical mass, Anvis applied Space Magic to the Lakensham Metal core sphere, stacking Multiple Curse Metal layers on top of one another through spatial overlap.

At the moment of detonation, the instantly effective mini Anti-magic Field would disrupt the structure of the Space Magic, causing the restored space to ’knead’ all the metals together.

As for its power, Anvis was not yet certain, but the quality of the ingredients he used in this nuclear bomb was a hundred times that of the one used to blow up the underwater ruins, so it was bound to not deviate too much even if things went awry.

The Archbishop still wanted to forcibly rush into the Secret Realm to stop the destructive explosion with the Rule Power.

But in this critical moment, Anvis suddenly launched an attack on him, interfering with the operation of the space gate at the crucial time, resulting in the Archbishop’s hopes of entering the Half-plane being completely dashed.

Of course, afterwards, that avatar of his was directly annihilated by the Archbishop.

Upon learning the outcome, the Pope immediately initiated the Holy Judgment Order, mobilizing the entire Empire’s strength to hunt him down.

While the Truth Circle in the public eye drew everyone’s attention, the Black Ring Commerce Alliance also began large-scale operations.

They made a conspicuous arrangement of their subordinate Chamber of Commerce forces to take their place in the Saint Messia Empire, all poised to once again expand their business territory.

Of course, due to the strict control over combat Mechanicals within the Saint Messia Empire, what the Black Ring Commerce primarily promoted this time were various production-type Mechanicals for construction, transportation, and other fields.

In this world, Low Rank Professionals still make up the majority. When strength is lacking, Magic-guided Mechanicals can help solve many troublesome issues.

To this, the many major powers had no particular reaction; an external Chamber of Commerce alliance, even if sizeable, is still insignificant on the level of the Empire.

However, they could not remain calm about the intelligence of the reappearance of the Truth Circle.

The Truth Circle suddenly attacked a secret research facility?

Why did they do this, and what exactly is in that research base?

Many are closely watching, waiting for further developments on the matter.

After searching for a while, Anvis finally found a small section in the corner of the newspaper that reported the recent market expansion of the Black Ring Commerce.

Overall, he was quite satisfied, because the effect was indeed not bad.

He set down the newspaper after reading it once, and then picked up the letter next to it.

The envelope carried a faint violet color, with a delicate Secret Technique seal stamped on the flap of the letter to confirm the recipient’s Identity.

And on the sender’s section of the envelope, a graceful name was outlined in silver-white ink, Claire Liddle.