Twelve hours.

  That was how long it took for Aleph to raid the three bases. He had to fly from the Mu tio the Far West. His flight time alone reached more than six hours. If not for the fort the nuclear suit brought, he wouldn’t be able to do it.

  Throughout those raids, Aleph entered simir things to Donnie Valdez’ base. The underground research ducted by those Fire MOTH cilors were revealed to him.

  The sheer amount of human lives poured into it reached thousands at the very least.

  Fortunately, the other two weren't as crazy as Donnie who pced a self-destru option in his death. It alloh to ihe base more peacefully pared to the first one.

  “Sigh…”

  He sighed as he felt a pain in his head.

  Click-!

  The moment he nded, his first a was to close the small gap above the ceiling of the abandoned hangar.

  Seeing the familiar workpce slightly eased his fatigue.

  Tap-!

  Tap-!

  Tap-!

  He stepped onto a ptform before leaving the bck metal suit. Moments ter, it slowly desded to its ste room below. Its battered and stained appearance was the testament of his battles st night.

  “Harnessing honkai… Mobius reached that level with pure hard work.”

  He pared the progress of the cilors to Mobius. The former had to sacrifice thousands of human lives for their experiments. Meanwhile, all Mobius had to rely on was her hard work. Her work was far better pared to theirs.

  “Vill-V…”

  His mind moved towards the girl who helped him stage the entire chaos st night.

  “There’s a reason why she was detained ihe sed institute.”

  Vill-V’s abilities are too terrifying. She tributed to Aleph’s raid by remotely accessing highly-secured works. As long as a “fw” existed, their defenses were no different from paper.

  She already showed what she could do once during her raid in Fire MOTH. The higher-ups are not dumb enough to let her be free.

  Now that she has hiddeernal help, the degree of what she could do increased greatly.

  “Sigh…”

  Everything he entered today exhausted his mind. There were mere jectures before, but seeing how bad it ersonally was ahing.

  Knowing there could be tens of thousands who died due to fellow humans made him sick. It showed him how human power was limited.

  Even if he could fa entire army alo was still too difficult to affect the entire humanity.

  Before, he thought that as long as humanity did their job, it’ll be good enough.

  Now, it seems like the status quo of humanity’s internal struggles o be destroyed.

  “Mei’s matter o be settled with.”

  Aleph sat on one of the couches ihe hangar. His body doesn’t feel tired, but the familiarity it brought gave enough fort to his mind.

  He took the towel soaked in a metal bowl filled with ice. It was the thi from the freezer.

  “Huh…”

  Upon pg it on his eyes, an unpreted chill came from it. The iced towel added to the fort he felt.

  For a few minutes, he didn’t do anything. It was only when he felt his mental fatigue alleviating slightly did he open the ‘logs’ from his [Achievement Hunter].

  [Achievement Unlocked: Serial Killer

  [Reward: Tattered Robe]

  [Serial Killer: Kill one hundred humans.]

  [Achievement Unlocked: Nemesis of Schors ]

  [Reward: Fountain Pen]

  [Nemesis of Schors: Kill one hundred schors.]

  [Achievement Unlocked: Sword of Damocles]

  [Reward: GN Sword V (Blueprint)]

  [Sword of Damocles: Punish a grave evildoer with one’s hands.]

  [Achievement Unlocked: Dark Undercurrents]

  [Reward: Kyrie Eleison]

  [Dark Undercurrents: Assist wronged souls in their revenge.]

  Last night, Aleph ushered in numerous rewards. There are more than a dozen achievements he has unlocked. Though, he only paid attention to four of them.

  [Tattered Robe: An item embedded with Presence cealment (B). Wearing it redue’s presence.]

  [Fountain Pen: A pen stained with schor’s blood. Writing with it increase the ces of inspiratioed to a study.]

  [GN Sword V (Blueprint): A on used by a specially-made mecha. It is extremely fit with GN Particles, allowing it to ge into three forms.]

  [Kyrie Eleison: The prayer which brings salvation to the dead. Using it against dark creatures allow them to rest in peace.]

  These lines of text fshed in the midst of darkness. It doesn’t matter whether his eyes are open or not when it es to this strange thing.

  “If the robe be stacked, I will have three yers of stealth.” He thought. “I’m being more of an assassin, not that it matters. As for the prayer…”

  Kyrie Eleison was the thing that made him ied the most.

  “Are honkai beasts treated as dark creatures?”

  Such a simple question hid innumerable answers. Up to date, there isn’t a standard when it es to honkai. They are enemies of humanity due to their nature of attag humans no matter what.

  If the [Achievement Hunter] judges them as dark creatures, it means that their presence brings harm to everyone. If the trary happens, there might be other things in py.

  After some thought, Aleph decided t all of them out. He removed the now warm towel from his eyes and stood up.

  The [Tattered Robe] was true to its name— a piece of bck tattered robe. When he wore it, something ged.

  Aleph could no longer hear the sound of his owhing. His footsteps left no traces on the ground. He became an invisible man iruest sense.

  “It’s a lot simir to Sphere Boundary…”

  Aleph set it aside and chose the bluepri.

  Under his surprised gaze, stacks of paper appeared out of nowhere. They are more than several hundred pages long.

  “Theory of GN Particles and its effects… Aeolia Sberg,.”

  Aleph read the name of the author. It sounded extremely unfamiliar to his ears.

  “Another world…”

  It subtly firmed his theory of his past life more.

  The hing was the Fountain Pen. It appeared like an ordinary fountain pen in Aleph’s hands. Though, he could feel that his ideas are popping up at a much faster pace. He examis ink and found out that it seemed to be bottomless.

  The final item was the [Kyrie Eleison]. It resented in the form of a small booklet.

  Aleph was immediately reeled into it.

  “Deuteronomy… Sacred t… thaumaturgy…”

  The moment he finished reading everything, the booklet turned into motes of golden lights. At the same time, a memory appeared inside his mind.

  “...I see.”

  Just like the blueprint, this [Kyrie Eleison] seems to have e from another world. It was the ‘thaumaturgy’ used by priests to exorcise evil spirits. Though, its true effect lies in its capability to affect the so-called “soul”.

  “The soul truly exists…”

  Aleph was slightly dumbfounded. He didn’t expect this ‘magic’ to firm the existence of souls, something that has beeopic of debate for hundreds of years.

  Acc to it, evil spirits are ‘souls’ that aren’t permitted to interfere with the world. Their rese was the one who anchored and allowed them to stay.

  After reg the single line from the “Bible”, Aleph could then “exorcise” these evil spirits.

  “Yawn… I o think about it ter.”

  Despite being only nine in the m, Aleph dragged his body across the institute.