Free Web NovelChapter 242: Chapter 155: Level 2 Scholar
The Ritual for Spiritual Extraction has been prepared.
Yuna’s Spirituality would be temporarily extracted, then gathered and preserved at the center of the Ritual Array.
This Ritual had already been tested on Demons and death-row inmates.
The extracted Spirituality could be perfectly preserved for a short time without dissipating.
"Yuna, it’s about to begin."
"Relax..."
By Yuna’s side, her mother grasped her hand.
Yuna whispered, "Mm... I will."
VMMMM—
The entire Ritual Array began to spin, and as it did, Yuna’s Spirituality started to peel away.
Yuna stared up at the stained-glass dome of the Promotion Hall, feeling her intellect slip away.
Her mind was slowing, her thoughts growing dull...
’What are the people around me saying?’
’I can’t seem to understand them anymore.’
’Am I... getting stupider?’
The knowledge she remembered so clearly began to fade, her elevated thoughts tumbling back down to the mundane.
The Ritual process was painless; there was no feeling of agony whatsoever.
Yet tears welled in Yuna’s eyes as a wave of sorrow and grievance surged through her.
’I can’t remember anymore.’
’All the knowledge I’ve learned... it has suddenly become fragmented and void.’
It felt as if all her learning hadn’t come from her in the first place.
Instead, it came from that lofty Spirituality.
’Am I me, or just a vessel for Spirituality?’
Lu Cang saw the extracted Spirituality with perfect clarity.
As he watched this scene, an incredibly strange emotion stirred in Lu Cang’s mind...
It was a feeling akin to a fox mourning a dead rabbit—a sense of shared sorrow for a fellow creature.
"Yuna."
"The drop in your Spirituality will create a sense of loss. It’s only temporary..."
Though her mother’s voice was right in her ear, to Yuna it sounded so distant.
It seemed to take a long moment of thought for her to even understand the words.
’It was just one sentence.’
’How have I become so slow-witted?’
"Elder, I’ll have to trouble you with the promotion now."
Her mother looked down at Yuna and said, "Yuna, you’ll have to endure it for just a little longer..."
The Elder responsible for the promotion stepped forward.
He proclaimed with solemn gravity, "The gate of cognition opens for you."
"To the far shore of knowledge, the great gate of the Scholar. You shall learn of all things in this world, and from the start of your enlightenment, you will explore the path to omniscience."
"I shall initiate your enlightenment."
DONG—
The echo reverberated through the Promotion Hall.
Unlike his previous promotion, where he hadn’t been able to see anything clearly, Lu Cang could now see everything. As the Elder in charge of the promotion finished reciting the prayer...
...a strangely shaped hole appeared in the air above the Promotion Hall, from which flowed countless text-like symbols.
These symbols converged on Yuna’s body.
Kumironi, however, stood up.
"It seems it was a failure."
Kumironi raised a single hand.
Lu Cang saw it as well. Where a normal person would see nothing, he could perceive several faint, black, tadpole-like specks of corruption swimming among the flowing symbols, heading for Yuna’s body.
Kumironi simply lifted one hand.
A sweep of jade-green Light passed over, dissolving the invisible corruption.
At that same moment, however, scalding steam began to rise from Yuna’s pale, tender body.
Lu Cang saw those text-like Runes coiling around Yuna’s body.
She was too young.
The promotion also placed a burden on the body.
He had heard that before his own first promotion, Kumironi had conditioned his body while he was fast asleep, which was why the promotion on that day had proceeded without a hitch.
Yuna’s situation was completely different.
She was undergoing this promotion for the Prophet Project, and the project couldn’t always have Kumironi around. Kumironi was merely serving as a supervisor and a last resort.
Naturally, no one had prepared Yuna’s body beforehand.
Otherwise, it would be tantamount to admitting that the Prophet Project could not succeed without Kumironi’s presence.
Instead, the Scholars of the White Tower had used their own methods to try and minimize the physical backlash.
But even so...
Lu Cang’s Perception allowed him to see through Yuna’s clothes, and he could still see bloody wounds appearing one after another on her body.
The wounds were like red-hot branding irons, searing crimson Spells onto Yuna’s skin in the form of countless unreadable characters.
But the Spells quickly blurred, eventually becoming searing, indistinct scars.
They weren’t fatal and wouldn’t leave permanent damage.
It was just that the pain of the process was unavoidable.
"AHHH—!"
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She thrashed about as an extremely long gash suddenly split open on her abdomen.
Lu Cang urgently shouted, "Kumironi!"
Kumironi had already seen it and immediately waved a hand!
A speck of jade-green light shot out instantly.
It landed on Yuna.
Instantly, the injuries on her body were healed.
Only then did Yuna’s breathing steady somewhat.
’The backlash... was it really that severe?’
You could see her intestines through the gash that had just split open. No wonder there were almost no eight-year-old Reincarnators, even in the past when the law didn’t forbid it.
This kind of backlash was simply not something a child could endure.
Tsk...
’Is this project really allowed?’
As the jade-green Light circled within the Promotion Hall, the spiritual pollution was destroyed.
The many wounds on Yuna’s body had also been completely healed by Kumironi’s treatment.
With Kumironi around, there wouldn’t be any major problems.
Next was to return the Spirituality to Yuna’s body.
This part of the process, at least, went off without a hitch.
As if parting the clouds to see the light once more...
After her Spirituality returned, Yuna’s clouded eyes once again became clear and full of life.
