D-class hidden mission completed You have obtained the special badge 'Storm Will Extinguish' Badge effect: Favorability of nearshore lifeforms +20% You have obtained Origin Knowledge—Sequence: Knight's Code—Compassion. Advanced knowledge access unlocked Advancing to Tier 2 requires collecting Transcendent Knowledge: Tribunal Laws Required Transcendent source essence: Storm Eagle Feather, orderly-side Sublimation Laws (unlocked: Dawn Priest, Storm Watch)
At this moment.
Seeing these words.
Su Wen combined them with the Transcendent abilities he had obtained earlier.
He clearly understood:
When Transcendents advanced in life rank, there could be overlaps between Sublimation Lineages.
Just as Captain Adrian had advanced from the Tier 1 'Navigator' to the Tier 2 'Sea Current Observation'.
And his own next advancement was not Spring-Fal's 'Great Navigator,' but rather 'Anchorer.'
A Transcendent's advancement path was not entirely fixed.
But what he needed to consider now was not dawn.
It was what lay before him.
The night that belonged to the eve of dawn.
At the same time.
A crackling transmission came through Su Wen's earpiece.
The voice came and went:
"Detective Kevin, can you hear me?
This is the Lorenz Riel communications channel, the 'Aether System.'
This is Sidney.
Riel Academy and the Night Watch are currently simulating multiple methods of psychic energy diversion, trying to break through the Storm Forbidden Zone created by the Tidal Sect.
Please hold on.
We'll find a way to rescue you."
Sidney spoke those words.
With grief in his heart.
After all.
How long could a Tier 1 Transcendent hold out against Tier 2 and Tier 3 cultists, the unhinged, and Abyss Apostles?
Even he himself probably would not last ten minutes.
But Su Wen's answer that followed held neither tension nor anger.
His voice was detached and calm:
"Don't worry.
To show respect for every departed soul in this cemetery.