Almost three months had passed since the Catacombs had been cleared. During that ti, nearly no major events had occurred. Jas and Ariel had passed the 27th floor together, and then one thing had happened that could perhaps be considered a 'big event' in a small way.
The Church of Night began to expand.
The powers below the 75th floor were, of course, shaken by this, but most of the higher gods were unable to make a decisive attack because of their respect for Nyx and the fear that accompanied it.
In the anti, Jas had gathered artefacts from the ruined and now ancient Church of the Night and placed them in the main guild building on the 5th floor.
So of the artefacts were not suitable for Jas to use at the mont, most of them were broken and disassembled, and of course, it was obvious who had destroyed the churches, even Jas himself knew that, let alone Nyx.
The gods and goddesses who hadn't fallen, and especially those who hated Nyx among them, had destroyed the churches and stolen most of the ruins when they were close to crumbling, which told so of the story of how the Fallen Gods had returned.
Jas had made his plans for the Church of Night known, in short, he planned to complete everything, restoring the church to its forr strength was his main goal.
In the anti, Nesis herself had co to the main guild hall to collect the broken artefacts or relics and take them to her mother for repair.
Almost every one of the artefacts had been created by Erebus and Nyx specifically to help Desmond. This ant that Jas himself was the rightful owner of the artefacts.
Datura and Aether had successfully fulfilled every single order that had been given to them. Emperor Ahil gave the rank of Archduke to Jas within the empire.
The only reason for this was that Jas would not accept the rank of emperor under any circumstances, and it was made clear by Nyx to the goddess-worshipping Ahil and his family that Jas was the rightful holder of the throne. Desmond's na was not revealed, and not many gods knew, but the Church of Night, and subsequently every human being who worshipped Nyx, understood the lineage of Jas.
Everyone knew he was a descendant of the one who founded the Church of Night and the Sun Empire, and Desmond's identity was, of course, kept secret for Jas' safety, as stated.
This caused every single person connected to the imperial court to begin worshipping Jas.
Jas' Holiness status suddenly doubled to 60.000. After this point, Jas was strangely only able to win one item:
[Crystal of Life(Godly )
This Crystal contains one of the essential essences of the tower, reality. It has been created by the hands of the creators throughout history and has beco a Crystal that can be obtained by the most valuable people.
It must be known to the user that the use of the crystal is to turn it into a jewel.
In the hands of the wrong person, the crystal will beco a piece of rubbish.
When the crystal is used, it increases the user's vitality by 100%.
When used, the crystal increases the aura of authority around the user by 100%.
This crystal can only be used by the leaders of all things].
When Jas obtained this crystal, he knew who to give it to.
He sohow managed to get the crystal to Athena in a short ti. He could have given this crystal to Ronald, but he knew that the best person for this job was Athena, who had gained a rank in handcraft.
On top of that, Jas was constantly taking lessons from Vlad himself. As his mastery of the elents had increased during his battle with the catacomb guardian, he had, without realising it, co a long way in the second part of Desmond's Sword Art, the cutting. Vlad had intended to make this path iron so that Jas would never regress.
According to Vlad, Desmond had mastered 'Disarm and Bluff', the two styles in the 'Capture' section of the Sword Art that were the easiest to learn.
Jas, on the other hand, was able to master these two styles in two months, practising for almost ten hours every day. Still, things were the sa in the first part, the piercing part, Jas hadn't improved that much since his last 'epiphany'.
Of course, he was still improving, every day he was getting better and better and more consistent in his attacks, but that didn't an anything.
He still wanted too much, it was greed, he was trying to develop too fast, but he was not 'strong' enough to do it, after all, enlightennt was not so easily achieved.
These were the events of the last three months, and Jas looked up at the mountain, no longer made of ice, but permanently in possession of a cold ecosystem.
After he had paid the asking price, he owned the mountain itself, and with the orders he had placed, the construction of the huge palace had already begun, Jas wanted this to be the place where his family would live in the future and where the Church of Night would have its headquarters and the guild would have its main building.
In short, this would be the place where the Black bloodline would continue.
To do this, though, he had to create a rule that Nesis could stay here, in short, he had to bend the 75th-floor-down rule set by his ancestor.
He had a long, long way to go.
"I never thought I'd co back to this mountain," Emily suddenly said, and the smile on Jas" aunt's face was obvious.
With these words, Jas asked Emily a question that he had been wondering for a long ti but had not had the opportunity to ask:
"Really, you are my aunt, so you can't have died a long ti ago, so how co you appeared on this mountain trapped in a ring?"
After Jas' question, Emily's spirit turned towards him and said "Of course it's Chaos, he already realised your potential and asked and I agreed, our whole bloodline agreed, everyone is waiting in various parts of the tower to pass on to you the experience they have gained from certain things. And you found , your aunt, by chance."
Upon Emily's words, Jas suddenly realised that the Sword Scabbard to which Vlad's soul was bound had co to him by Chaos.
Chaos himself must have tied the souls of all his ancestors and family mbers to an item and put it on the tower floors for Jas to find them.
Jas was not only surprised when he realised these words, of course, he hoped that one day he would et his other ancestors, but he still wondered what would beco of those he would not find.
After all, Jas had only reached the 28th floor and he did not know where to find them, after all, he could not find all his bloodline mbers, his ancestors, by chance any more than he could find his aunt by chance.
"Master Umbra, a ssage from Mistress Ariel."
Jas had suddenly heard what Datura had told him, and even if he didn't understand why Ariel hadn't sent him a ssage directly, he was still curious about the content.
"Tell ," Jas said, and with that, Datura spoke:
"20. 22:00, sa."
Jas smiled when he heard these numbers and the word sa. There was one more thing Jas had done in the last 3 months.
It was to find soone, Jas realised that one of the paintings inside the church on the 20th floor was missing. It was not one of the paintings in the main throne room, but it was one of the paintings that was still a gift to the church.
A direct order had been given to Ariel and a few others, and after clearing a few more floors with Ariel, Jas was completely focused on finding that thief.
What Ariel sent as a ssage was the floor, ti and the place.
Still, punishing the thief was not what he wanted to do.
Even if the stolen painting was not very well guarded, it was still a painting in the second most active church in the Church of Night. It would have required perfect secrecy for soone to enter the church, pass unseen through all those rooms, all those priests and all those nuns, unlock the locked room and steal the painting.
And to slip out of there unnoticed would have required even greater skill.
Jas was well aware of this, what he wanted to do was to find the thief and make himself a new comrade. In the last three months, Jas had begged Thanatos to give him a few more servant-master contracts, and in the end, Jas had received two more.
If he could get the thief to sign one of these contracts, Jas would have one of the most perfect spies he could ever have.
In short, Jas would have a shadow. A shadow that will hunt for him, search and perhaps steal information for him.
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