Olsyvia Academy’s southern branch for members of the Church’s, the St Louis Academy.
It was currently late into the night and the chaste light of the full moon lit up the entire St Louis campus. Different from the other four branches, the St Louis Academy’s students were basically all members of the Church of Light, able to take up positions within the Church as soon as they graduate.
Due to the branch being managed by the Church of Light itself, there were a lot more regulations and rules here than at the other four branches. Based on an anonymous survey conducted by the Olsyvia Academy’s 10th ranked student association, the News & Information Association, girls from the St Louis Academy were the hardest to pick up when compared to the other branches.
Apart from the Olsyvia Academy’s festivals and major ceremonies, the girls of the St Louis branch would almost never leave their campus, making it much harder to get into contact with one. The easiest to pick up were naturally the students from the commoner’s Francis Academy. Of course, if you had money, it was even easier to pick up girls from the neighbouring ‘arts school’, the Antoinette Academy.
The buildings within the St Louis branch were constructed much like the Church of Light’s grandiose churches and cathedrals. The security here was tight, essentially on par with that of the royalty’s Euphemia Academy.
The students of the academy had to abide by the Church’s curfew, meaning that all students would have to be within their dormitories by 10pm at the latest. During the night, the only people who wandered the campus were the security details that patrolled the academy.
This made it significantly harder to infiltrate the St Louis branch, as without other students walking around, intruders stuck out a lot more. Due to the curfew, the St Louis Academy was nearly completely impossible to infiltrate at night.
Most of the branch’s school buildings had already closed for the night and the only source of light coming from buildings was in the dormitory district. Not far from the walls that separated the St Louis branch from the other branches, two shadowy figures were currently moving at a rapid pace. The two of them were both dressed in tight black under a thin cloak that made the two almost impossible to see with the naked eye.
After entering the Academy through the main gates, the two had remained completely undetected despite the large number of guards that they had passed by.
“It looks like the 2,000,000 Sin Points that I spent wasn’t a waste, these invisibility cloaks are definitely worth that price! It’s a shame that Asmodeus only had two for sale, or else I would’ve bought a hundred!”
The two infiltrators were Bella and her accomplice Noreya. The two of them were currently wearing invisibility cloaks that Bella had purchased from the 7th of the 【Seven Sins], 【Lust] Asmodeus, back when she was visiting Halifax, the City of Sin. These were true and authentic high-quality invisibility cloaks created by Asmodeus herself, the cover that they provided was levels ahead of those on the market currently and their price showed too, 1 million Sin Points each, one would have to slaughter countless beings to obtain such a large number of Sin Points.
There were three main ways of detecting intruders who were wearing invisibility cloaks in this world. The first of which relied on a guard dog’s strong sense of smell to sniff out the intruder, but that had no effect on Bella as her cloak masks all of the wearer’s scent. Another way was a special magic formation that detected the warmth given off by the body to determine if anyone unauthorized had entered its radius, this method also had no effect against Bella as her cloak would adjust the heat signature that it gave off to match that of its surroundings, meaning that there would never be any inconsistencies in temperature if Bella were to walk through one of these special magic formations.
The last method was to have a special type of magical device designed to detect the heartbeats of humans, this device was one of the biggest enemies of all assassins as it made it impossible for them to remain concealed. However, this final solution was also rendered useless by Asmodeus’ invisibility cloak, Asmodeus told Bella of one of the most crucial requirements for wearing this invisibility cloak, that the wearer couldn’t be human.
When this type of invisibility cloak was worn, the wearer’s heartbeat would be forcefully stopped by the cloak’s magic, meaning that if they were living humans, they would be dead within a couple moments of wearing the cloak. As a demon god simply possessing an already deceased body, Bella naturally had no problems lacking a heartbeat as Felia’s body could easily be sustained by her true form’s power.
The biggest weakness, probably, of these invisibility cloaks was that they could be seen by other people who were wearing the same type of cloaks. As Asmodeus only had two of these for sale, that shouldn’t be a problem.
Asmodeus had kept these two cloaks hidden away and if it wasn’t for Bella, they would likely never see the light of day. Even if they were for sale, the price would most likely be at least tenfold of what Asmodeus had sold it to Bella for.
Due to the fact that these cloaks also had effects on demon gods as well, Worldbreakers weaker than the top 20 would find it hard to detect the wearer of such a cloak until they were attacked. Selling it as such a low price to Bella, and both of them as well, it showed a little bit of Asmodeus’ special feelings towards Bella.
Apart from the two high-quality invisibility cloaks, Bella had also purchased a large amount of special equipment from Asmodeus, some of them definitely would come in handy during tonight’s operations.
Something that Bella found strange was that her pathfinding assistant, the assassin Noreya, was also able to ignore the limitations of the invisibility cloak, meaning that her heart stopping did not affect her. Originally when Noreya had offered to help Bella, Bella had turned her down and she hadn’t told Noreya of the requirements needed to wear the invisibility cloak, but she hadn’t expected for Noreya to simply throw on the cloak and follow behind her.
It seemed that Noreya wasn’t a normal human either. Now, Bella could confirm that of all the beauties that shared a dormitory with her, none of them could exactly be considered normal, or even human for that matter. Perhaps this was a strange type of fate?
Having a professional assassin leading the way was a big benefit to Bella’s infiltration, simplifying the process quite a bit. Noesha had originally planned to come as well but Bella’s ‘sources’ within the St Louis Academy had warned her that the guards of the academy had ways to detect when an infiltrator used spatial magic.
Bella didn’t know if Noesha’s level of spatial magic could still be detected, but she didn’t want to risk it, so she had left Noesha behind at the dorm to keep an eye on the Disciplinary Committee’s head chair, Natasha. Even though Natasha didn’t have a habit of patrolling this late in the night, but it was always good to be a little cautious.
“Bella, where did you get these cloaks, there’s no way that humans… it shouldn’t… be something that most humans can wear it!”
“Don’t ask, Noreya, I just want to know that if you feel uncomfortable at all when you’re wearing the coak! Like your heartbeat…”
“No, why would I not have a heartbeat, I don’t know what you mean!? Quiet now, there are some guards on patrol heading our way.”
Seeing that Noreya denied her suspicions, Bella chose not to further press her with questions. The shared the same dormitory after all, and there was enough time for Bella to slowly discover her dormmates’ secrets.
Following the information that her ‘sources’ had given her, Bella led Noreya in a straight bee-line for the St Louis academy’s female dormitories. The underground room that the forbidden texts were sealed away in required a key from the St Louis branch’s student council president, Maria, to open. Bella didn’t have an exact idea of where president Maria kept the key and the only thing that Bella could do right now was to infiltrate Maria’s room and hope to find it in there.
As a master assassin, Noreya also possessed the bread and butter ability of her close counterpart, the thief, lockpicking. After entering the St Louis academy’s dormitory district, Bella and Noreya headed straight for the tallest and most extravagantly designed dormitory building. Whether it was this world or the last, important people always seemed to love residing in such eye-catching structures, making it all that much easier to assassinate them.
This dormitory building’s main gate was firmly closed and guarded by rows upon rows of guards clad in golden plate armour, each with a golden student association armband. These guards were students from the student association ranked top three in combat power, the Door of Enlightenment. The Door of Enlightenment was backed directly by the Church of Light and their combat power was even stronger than that of the Brotherhood.
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