Chapter 147: Departure

Valefor stood no chance at all against the Mortician's Damned Soul and he was quickly devoured.

Calvin watched as the last vestiges of Valefor's soul consciousness dissipated.

As the fires of Valefor's soul disappeared, what remained was the Mortician's Damned Soul floating in the dark space in front of Calvin.

The Mortician's Damned Soul, after being continuously nurtured by Calvin since he got out of the asylum now possessed a lot of power. The evidence to this was the fact that it managed to immediately suppress the fragment of Valefor's soul.

In short, the Mortician's Damned Soul was not something that even the Captain of the Ashmelion's Branch of Cavaliers could handle.

But why was Calvin so confident?

He even had a smile on his face at this moment despite the overwhelming negative energy radiating from the Mortician's Damned Soul.

It was because he had the Emperor's Commandment of the Goddess of Compassion and Light.

Under the authority vested unto him by the Goddess of Compassion and Light. Calvin reigned supreme over all evil. But this would be another story if the Mortician's Damned Soul possessed a physical body.

It was because even though Calvin could vanquish the soul behind the physical body that the Mortician's Damned Soul was possessing, he might be injured in the process since the soul was empowering a physical body that could physically harm him in the material plane.

Speaking of the material plane...

There exists three planes of reality in the world of Las Felipinas.

The material plane where all beings alive and walking live...

The spirit plane where souls and all sorts of strange creatures and beings reside.

No one knows exactly who created the spirit plane and its purpose, but its existence was vastly important for it served as the home of the spirits of the dead.

Without the spirit plane, these souls would roam the material plane instead and if the living and the dead were to live together, it wouldn't be long until the world became devoid of life.

Lastly, the third plane of reality was the astral plane.

The astral plane was rumoured to be the place where the Seven Gods and Goddesses lived along with tens of thousands of Subordinate Gods.

Of course, like the spirit plane, no one knew how the astral plane came to being and its purpose, but its existence was important for it maintained stability and balance for the material and spirit plane since supposedly...

The astral plane was where all vanquished spirits go.

And to be consumed by the nothingness that it possessed.

The Emperor's Commandment that Calvin wielded enabled him to rule over the creatures that live or has the power of the spirit plane in their bodies. Since demons had souls and their affiliation was usually evil. Calvin was naturally their natural nemesis.

Before even Calvin could make his move, the Mortician's Damned Soul had already prostrated onto the floor and submitted.

It had no sentience whatsoever, but the intelligence it showed towards recognizing threat astonished Calvin while also making him appreciate the might of the Emperor's Commandment even more.

Calvin let out a sigh and he summoned his Aspect.

The quill pen radiating a golden light calmly floated there as if it was waiting for the wind to urge it to move.

"My Aspect shall be your new home."

Calvin declared.

The Mortician's Damned Soul obeyed without saying any complaints.

It dove into the quill pen and its golden light seemed to have considerably dimmed.

Perhaps, this was the influence of the Mortician's Damned Soul's evil attribute.

There was no way that Calvin would let the Mortician's Damned Soul inhabit his quill pen until the end.

It was only a temporary replacement until Dandelion who was still in hibernation awakened. Calvin's plan was to transfer Dandelion from the Notebook of Secrets That Will Destroy Your Life into his Aspect.

With the nurturing of an ancient Relic, the experience points that Calvin would get from recording significant daily events in his life onto his diary would probably grow exponentially.

After all, despite Dandelion's strange personality, he was still an ancient Relic. He was a creature that could never be underestimated.

Calvin let out a sigh.

With a will, the Notebook of Secrets That Will Destroy Your Life manifested in front of him and he held it dearly. It had been so long since he sealed his own memories. Ever since that day, he hadn't written a single diary entry or word.

His hands felt itchy, it was as if he was a gaming addict once again.

But this time, instead of games...

It was writing.

"Dear Diary, I met with the Goddess of Compassion and Light during the Profession Bestowing Ritual. To be honest, I was pretty scared that my original plan would fail similar to how my plan of attracting the Cavalier's attention before I sealed my memories failed..."

"Sometimes, plans just don't go well, but thankfully, everything went better than expected..."

"As expected of a Goddess, she quickly noticed the vestiges of the seal in my memories created from the art of Runecrafting. She also caught on what I was hinting at, and she undid the seal on my memories..."

"If all of these didn't happen, then I would still be a clueless, cripple, yet a loving husband..."

"Speaking of a loving husband, I really did not expect that the me who had his memories sealed would take a daughter and wife!"

"I just left for like a few weeks and the fucker got me a daughter and wife!"

"Well, I can't really say that I didn't like what he did since the two were indeed pitiful, but oh well... Since the rice is already cooked and there is no medicine for regrets anyway, I can only take responsibility and man up."

"The Cavaliers are better people than I have expected... Bruce is sometimes childish but reliable, Vice-Captain James seems to be strangely attached to Captain Ron, while Captain Ron is more laidback than I had expected. I can't feel the aura of a Captain from him at all. As for Ashlynn...?"

"Fortunately, I had a hand on a lot of women in my previous timeline..."

"If I hadn't and I was an inexperienced man, I would've probably fallen for her antics already! I really am concerned regarding Bruce's mental health, especially when he has to handle the teasing of Ashlynn every day..."

"Yesterday, we celebrated... The Captain and the others drank a lot and ended up getting wasted..."

"On the other hand, I was dragged by Bruce into the back so he could verbally inform me about everything that a Cavalier should know. He also gave me a tutorial on how I could use my Predator Senses..."

"It's quite amusing knowing how I am older than his father and maybe his grandfather, yet I am being taught by him..."

"It's a strange feeling."

"In the end, Bruce and I had to clean after the mess of the Captain and the others. Everything went better than expected. I had a blast with Bruce, did some cooking there and here. But the very next morning..."

"I got a mission order right at the bat, even though it's just my first day as a member of the Cavaliers."

"I suspect someone from the church may be targeting me..."

"The Mission Order had interesting details that I could vaguely connect to what had happened back then, so I accepted it."

"Tomorrow, I should be on my way to the Village of Sleeplessness."

Calvin wrote so much that he filled two pages of the notebook. In the end, he scanned through the pages and nodded in satisfaction.

Then, he closed the notebook.

[A diary-entry has been detected!]

[Experience Points + 5]

[Experience Points: 5/1000]

[995 Experience Points necessary for Ascension to Scribe.]

"Wow... I wrote that much, yet I only got five experience points? Talk about unrewarding..."

Calvin couldn't help but roll his eyes at the notebook that he held in his hands. But he wasn't really that dissatisfied. To be honest, it didn't matter to him how huge or little the reward was since he would still be able to ascend sooner or later with how he liked to write.

In fact, the little reward was now becoming a source of motivation for him.

"Only 995 experience points yet before I can ascend to Scribe..." Calvin dismissed the transparent windows.

Calvin's current class which was Diary-Keeper didn't possess any offensive abilities at all.

But this changes when Calvin ascends to Scribe.

It was because a possessor of the Scribe class had the ability to record an ability that they had seen with their naked eye into their notebook and once the Scribe was correct regarding the description and the name of the recorded ability, he would be able to use that ability once.

But the prerequisite was that he had to see that ability being used with his naked eye.

Combine that with the Notebook of Secrets That Could Destroy Your Life which had the ability to sacrifice one of its pages to summon the historical projection of any human being that the owner of the notebook fully understood.

If Calvin summoned the historical projection of some ancient being and he made that ancient being use an incredibly powerful spell then record it as a Scribe...

Calvin would have one heck of a trump card in his hands...

A smile crept from Calvin's lips, he was really interested in solving the mysteries of the Village of Sleeplessness.

Eventually, Calvin emerged from the dark space.

In his hand was the golden quill pen now embued with the Mortician's Damned Soul. Ron Samuel checked it and fortunately, Valefor's soul fragment was not so different from any other evil souls. They radiated the same aura signature, sinister and evil.

The next day, Calvin prepared to go to the Village of Sleeplessness.

He didn't even bother to visit his daughter and wife since he had heard that Charlotte told Cecilia that he would return in the next few weeks. That was such a convenient reason for his disappearance and he didn't want to break it by visiting the young lass.

Of course, since Charlotte was an accomplice...

Calvin had to ask Ron Samuel to bullshit his way out of explaining Calvin's disappearance to Charlotte.

At first, Ron Samuel wanted to refuse.

But after Bruce, Ashlynn, and James Branzuela simultaneously protested that he should do the job since he was the Captain of the Ashmelion's Branch Cavaliers...

He couldn't do anything other than letting out a sigh.

After this small event, Calvin was finally on his way out to the Village of Sleeplessness.