Chapter 80: Moonlight and Marks

Translator: Kris_Liu Editor: Vermillion

Lucien had no choice but to accept the dark power, although he had no idea what the evil power would do to his body.

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At the same time, outside of Lucien’s shack a foot stepped out of the darkness.

The silver moon in the sky suddenly lit up a bit, and the moonlight that entered Lucien’s shack through the window became even brighter, as if there was a thin layer of frost around the place.

In his blurry consciousness, Lucien saw a beautiful silver moon in his meditative starry sky and felt his body was covered with the gentle moonlight.

The light became brighter and brighter.

In the moonlight, a weak power which was hiding in Lucien’s body woke up and was rapidly developing. Within only a few seconds, the new power overthrew the dark power and dominated the body.

Lucien’s Blessing had finally awakened, and his power was related to the silver moon.

His heartbeat gradually slowed down, calm as usual, although his body still felt limp and numb.

Nothing like this was ever mentioned in the witch’s notes or in the books that Lucien read before. He had no idea why the environment could affect his way of awakening the Blessing.

Outside of the shack, the other foot also took a step forward, leaving the shadows. On the feet there was a pair of black leather shoes. Then the leather shoes went back into the darkness and disappeared. The silver moon dimmed.

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Lucien stood up from the ground, feeling the power in his body.

His hands became way stronger, and now could easily break a person’s neck. However, compared with the obvious increase of strength, Lucien could tell that the major benefit of his Blessing was the great improvement to his agility, speed and coordination.

Lifting one foot, Lucien started to ran in the lab. Although he was fast like a shadow, Lucien did not run down anything in that small place.

“My speed and my agility can almost compete with the level two knight with the ‘Shadow’ Blessing that I met before, even though my power was awakened by the potion. Thus, if a level one knight has the same Blessing I have, I’m sure that he would be even more capable in terms of agility when compared with a level two knight whose Blessing is different.” Lucien stopped to evaluate his power, “However, regarding constitution and strength, a common level one knight can easily defeat me.”

Lucien calmed himself down to carefully feel the power, and started to try the different aspects.

“Dark Vision. I can see about two hundred meters away at night.” A silver light appeared in his black eyes.

“My body can be dematerialized into moonlight to protect myself, but right now I cannot do this completely, so the protection is relatively limited, for now.” Lucien’s hands gradually became transparent, “Only level seven radiant knights can do this dematerialization completely.”

However, for now Lucien was already immune to the attack of common weapons such as swords and arrows, and could better stand the damage caused by magic weapons, divine power weapons and shockwaves, elemental damage caused by fire and acid, as well as necromantic power. Although currently the protection of Moonlight seemed to be inferior than the night watcher’s Dragon Scale from the Blessing of the Red Dragon, Lucien was still pretty satisfied with his own Blessing.

Then Lucien cut himself with the silver dagger on his hand. The wound bled a bit and quickly recovered.

“To some extent... self-healing” Lucien recorded.

Unfortunately, Lucien’s Blessing couldn’t be really used for launching attacks. Moonlight was not a dark Blessing.

The church had compiled a book about the knowledge of the most common Blessings in order to help the new knights to improve themselves faster and also for other uses. Lucien read the book in the association’s library before, and he also heard John mentioning to him about his most yearning Blessings, which helped him a lot to know about his Moonlight Blessing.

According to The Handbook of Blessing, the power of Moonlight could be further improved in general when the silver moon was present. However, at the same time, it would be weakened under the midday sun, but not as badly as the dark Blessings, such as Darkness, Silver Moon, Vampire, etc.

Lucien finally smiled for the first time in the last days. In general, Moonlight was an ideal Blessing for him.

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When Lucien was casting the spell to preserve the experiment materials, he surprisedly found that his spiritual power had been improved a lot as well.

Now Lucien was only one step away from becoming a senior apprentice, and he could cast nineteen apprentice spells successively before his spiritual power was drained.

The improvement was such a bonus for Lucien, but soon he calmed down. Putting all the stuff into boxes, Lucien was planning to secretly move them away to the house when there was a chance.

The corner of the lab was piled with many grey stones, which were previously dirt from when Lucien was digging the basement. Some of the stones had been thrown away, but Lucien purposefully left many stones there as well. When he was digging, with an easy spell Lucien turned the dirt into stones and now it was time for the stones to come in handy again.

Lucien arranged the stones to make sure that they were in the correct position. When the chance was appropriate. Lucien would come back and easily fill the basement with dirt again adversely using the same spell. Although more dirt was definitely needed to fully fill the place and make it even with the ground level, it would not be too difficult for Lucien since now he was almost as powerful as a knight.

After Lucien finished doing all of these, he walked to the wall and activated a small magic circle on it. Part of the stone wall gradually turned into dirt and then he started to dig.

Ten minutes later, the passage he was digging directly connected to an old one—the passage which was built by the witch to the sewers!

As early as when Lucien was building his magic lab, he knew that a second secret exit was definitely necessary. And the easiest way of doing this was to link his secret passage to the one of the witch, since the deeper part of the witch’s secret passage was still intact.

Briefly concealing the new passage that he just dug, Lucien ran into the sewer as fast as he could with his Moonlight Blessing. His figure disappeared in the darkness like a shadow.

Within Lucien’s expectation, the church’s security already decreased, as two to three months had passed since the last time the heresy was performed down here. Therefore, it did not take Lucien long to come back to the ground through the sewers, safe and sound.

Lucien could see very well in the night with his Dark Vision.

Instead of finding the kidnappers who were monitoring him in the area, Lucien first came to the old wall close to auntie Alisa’s place, and wrote down a series of simple patterns, which meant:

“I read about a magic relic named Emden in an ancient literature, which sat in the southeast of Melzer Black Forest. Owl, please find me a guide who knows the place among the apprentices in Aalto.

“Make sure that Philosopher, White Honey and yourself are safe.

“Professor”