Being a Saint from the Age of Myth

"Please, there's no need to be nervous. I'm from the Sanctuary, here specifically to investigate this incident!" Seeing the many soldiers point their muskets at him, Wuxin calmly announced his identity and burned his Cosmo, manifesting three silver streams of Sekishiki that circled him.

"Supernatural power?"

The soldiers' commander immediately furrowed his brows and ordered his men to lower their muskets. He addressed Wuxin earnestly. "Your power is beyond anything we can stop. Please, go in!"

As he spoke, he ordered his men to clear a path.

One soldier did not quite understand and whispered, "Commander, Saints aren't the only ones with supernatural power. What if he isn't..."

The soldier said no more, but his meaning was already clear.

Unmoved, the commander replied quietly, "Whether he is or not, he's not someone we can deal with."

"If you aren't afraid of dying, go stop him!"

"Uh-"

Hearing this, the soldiers nearby immediately understood.

Wuxin was no opponent they could handle. Rather than throw their lives away, they might as well turn a blind eye.

If the Sanctuary questioned them later, they could simply say they had been deceived.

Chapter 22: Summoning spirits to seek a trail

Although the soldiers had lowered their voices as much as possible, Wuxin had already reached the Silver level. His hearing far surpassed that of ordinary people, and he heard their little scheme perfectly clearly.

However, he said nothing more, because it meant nothing to him.

Striding into the temple, Wuxin immediately spotted the three-meter-tall statue of Athena in the main hall, along with the corpse impaled on the stone spear in the statue's hand.

Blood had flowed down the stone spear, staining the pedestal beneath the statue's feet red.

"Now, let me see who killed you!" Wuxin raised his right index finger, and a stream of Sekishiki shot out, sinking into the corpse impaled on the stone spear.

Generally speaking, after someone died, some lingering thoughts would remain in their corpse.

This was especially true of those who had died unjustly. The stronger their resentment before death, the stronger the thoughts they left behind. He could manifest these with Sekishiki and ask about the circumstances.

"How could there be nothing?"

Wuxin directed his Sekishiki through the corpse and around it several times, yet still found no lingering thoughts.

"This isn't right! She died so horribly. There's no way she wouldn't have any resentment!" Withdrawing his Sekishiki, Wuxin gazed at the corpse with a grave expression.

He could clearly see countless tiny wounds on the corpse's surface, as though someone had slowly cut her with a small knife. Even her limbs were twisted unnaturally, evidently broken by someone.

For someone to die so horribly yet leave no resentment behind was wrong no matter how he looked at it.

"Looks like I'll have to take her body down and examine it more closely!" Wuxin sighed and grabbed a piece of burlap from nearby.

Then he leaped up, covered the priestess's corpse with the burlap, and pulled it straight off the stone spear.

But after examining the corpse further, Wuxin discovered to his horror that the situation was far worse than it appeared.

Before her death, the priestess had not only suffered inhuman torture but had also been violated. The murderer had even deliberately left traces of bodily fluids on her corpse.

"What an absolute bastard!"

At the sight of this horror, even he could not help feeling a flicker of anger.

Athena was not only a deity of Olympus but also a renowned virgin goddess.

Violating a priestess, then deliberately murdering her and dumping her in the temple, went beyond merely provoking Athena and the Sanctuary. It was an outright slap in the face!

However, that was not why Wuxin was angry. He was furious that the priestess had been humiliated and murdered like this.

The perpetrator was clearly targeting the Sanctuary, yet rather than attack it, they had chosen a far weaker ordinary person, bringing this undeserved disaster upon the priestess. She was truly pitiful.

"Rest assured. I'll find the murderer and give you an answer!" Closing the priestess's terrified eyes, Wuxin silently made up his mind.

At present, the only clue was the bodily fluids the murderer had left on her body.

Unfortunately, Wuxin knew no tracking techniques and could not use those bodily fluids to track the murderer.

Now, he could only try his luck by questioning the nearby residents and seeing whether he could find other clues.

With Sekishiki's ability to strip out souls as an interrogation method, he believed no one would dare lie to him.

Wuxin then left the temple and began questioning nearby residents, working outward from the temple.

Unfortunately, even after going door to door, he still found no clues.

Suddenly, inspiration struck, and he laughed at himself. "How could I forget something so important!"

Sekishiki could not only strip souls from the living but also summon the souls of the dead.

Generally, souls fell into the Underworld after death, but there were always some who lingered in the human world for various reasons.

They normally remained unseen by ordinary people, but Wuxin could actively summon and manifest them.

"Appear before me, souls of the dead lingering and wandering here!"

"Sekishiki Meikai Ha!"

Wuxin pointed one hand at the sky. Streams of silver energy immediately flew from his fingertip, swiftly searching the surrounding area with him at the center.

Soon, he detected two ghosts with his Sekishiki and pulled them over.

However, one was a cat, making communication impossible. Fortunately, the other was human, an old man he could speak with.

"To think there's someone like you in this world! You can even summon a ghost like me! Could you tell me who you are?" the old man's ghost asked with some curiosity.

"I'm a Saint candidate from the Sanctuary. There's no need to be surprised, sir!" Wuxin replied calmly.

"A legendary Saint? No wonder you have such miraculous power!" The old man was thrilled, never having expected to meet a Saint.

Wuxin got straight to the point. "The priestess in the goddess Athena's temple was murdered. I've come specifically to investigate. Do you know anything about it, sir?"

"Yes, yes!"

The old man nodded repeatedly and said earnestly, "For some reason, my soul was bound to a large tree not far from the temple. I happened to witness the tragedy that night!"

"I'm willing to help you find the murderer, my lord. I only hope you can do me a small favor, free me from that tree, and let me enter the Underworld to reincarnate."

"I've been trapped in that tree for fifty whole years. It's been unbearable!"

Over those fifty years, he had watched his friends and family pass away one after another. He had completely lost any desire to linger in the human world, leaving only endless loneliness and solitude.

"No problem!"

Wuxin nodded. "As long as you can help me find the murderer, I'll personally send you to the Underworld!"

As he spoke, he split off a stream of Sekishiki and opened a dimensional passage to Yomotsu Hirasaka directly before him.

Sensing the summoning force from the other end of the dimensional passage, the old man immediately grew excited.

"The Underworld! That's the Underworld calling me!"

Although he had never been to the Underworld, his instincts told him that this peculiar force calling to his soul could not be mistaken.

"Then please tell me, sir. What exactly did you see that night?" Wuxin asked, closing the entrance he had just opened.

"Of course, no problem!" the old man readily agreed.

But just then, accompanied by a fluctuation of Cosmo, a figure descended from the sky and landed outside the temple.

Wuxin immediately looked over and saw a muscular young man wearing blue-green armor.

"That's... a Saint from the Sanctuary!" Wuxin immediately recognized his identity from the armor he wore.

However, although he recognized the other man, the other man did not recognize him.

"You villain! Not only did you desecrate the goddess's temple, you even dared capture innocent souls!"

"Absolutely unforgivable!"

"Let me, Ursa Major Mike, send you to hell!"

Seeing the souls Wuxin had bound, the man flew into a rage and attacked outright, giving him no chance to explain.

Chapter 23: Encountering comrades

"Raging Blow!"

Ursa Major Mike threw a punch. A giant brown bear manifested behind him, then lunged fiercely at Wuxin.

"What an impatient fellow!"

Wuxin felt somewhat helpless at the sight, but remained standing quietly where he was, showing no intention of dodging.

From the Cosmo the other man unleashed, he had already determined that this was a Bronze-level Saint, roughly capable of ten thousand times the speed of sound.

A Saint of this strength was not enough to threaten him. In fact, he could not even be considered troublesome.

Just as the enormous bear paw was about to fall, he opened his free left hand and met it.

Boom!

The bear paw fell, but could advance no farther. Wuxin blocked it completely, and a powerful shock wave spread outward.

Rumble!

The ground shattered, sending countless fragments of rock flying. Even the surrounding trees were uprooted and blasted away.

"What?!"

Ursa Major Mike paled in shock and immediately made his judgment.

"A Silver Level opponent?"

For his opponent to block his blow so effortlessly, he had undoubtedly reached the Silver level.

Although both were still in the realm of the Sixth Sense, the gap between them was enormous.

He dared not continue fighting. He immediately withdrew his attack and leaped backward several times, opening up the distance again.

At that moment, another figure descended from the sky, landing directly in the center of the battlefield.

It was a man wearing silver armor, whose Cosmo was clearly far stronger than Ursa Major's.

"I didn't expect to run into a Silver Level enemy on this outing. I've certainly caught some fine prey!" Looking at Wuxin a short distance away, Walter of Canes Venatici smiled confidently, as though everything were under his control.

At this, Wuxin did not know whether to laugh or cry. "Say, could you two stop rushing to attack and figure out who's friend and who's foe first?"