Fanatics of the Magic Academy

After wiping away Tiana's tears, Rose comforted her.

Tiana's emotions gradually stabilized with Rose's comfort, so she wanted to show that she was useful by helping Rose clean her new house.

However, Rose was quite certain that Tiana was not full at this moment.

Only after Rose's supervision, reassurance, and assurances that she wouldn't be lost did Tiana begin to finish the remaining half of the bread.

After Tiana finished eating, Rose told Tiana to take good care of her diet and not to run around for the time being.

Rose told Tiana that he had some things to take care of recently and told her to stay home.

Tiana's eyes showed unease, but she still nodded obediently in the end.

After Tiana was settled in.

He then left the house he had rented.

He decided to minimize contact with Tiana until he had dealt with the sorcerer behind the gang.

He only returned to the house when he needed to stay and take care of Tiana.

Anyway, his current concentration is enough to allow him to stay outside for a long time while continuously casting spells.

Moreover, if he were to engage in a shallow form of Ancient Dragon Meditation, he would not reveal his identity as an Ancient Dragon follower.

Because the alienation effect of Gu Long's followers on the body rarely affects the appearance.

Apart from the changes in his eyes, there were almost no other abnormalities manifested on his body.

However, although it was only a very brief observation, Rose, with his high level of rationality, easily observed and noticed that...

The physical transformations experienced by these fanatics were intense; those who worshipped wild beasts underwent numerous physical mutations.

The eyes, beard, tail, and feet are also somewhat detached from human feet.

Those who believed in angels even grew wings.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that this is the result of manual screening and does not represent all believers.

Because the believers in these "observation points" all have practical value, the gods they worship may have been selected.

The selection of beliefs that embody physical abnormalities and possess audience and market value has undergone three thousand years of human selection and market regulation.

Ultimately, only those beliefs that involved strong physical mutations, had practical or decorative value, and conformed to human aesthetics remained.

And so, another question inevitably emerged as Rose pondered.

Since the deities in the "observation points" are almost all manually selected, then a logical and reasonable fact is:

"There should be no uncastrated gods in the observation point."

So what about his god?

It can give him the inheritance of the ancient dragon faith, although these inheritances are all based on one's own great power and do not require a god to act as an intermediary.

But Rosell, as His follower, was able to perceive one fact:

His god is not powerless, he simply has not yet manifested miracles.

Moreover, Rose had other questions:

That is, as a follower of the Ancient Dragon, apart from the abnormality in his eyes, there were no other abnormalities related to the Ancient Dragon.

Even though he had already advanced to the level of [Shining Ancient Dragon Follower].

This is strange.

The strange changes among the followers of Gu Long seem to be concentrated within their bodies.

For example, the ancient dragon current flowing through the body, the sleep deprivation, and the increasingly powerful but not outwardly apparent physical qualities and muscle density.

Of course, for now, this is a good thing for Rose.

Benefiting from this, when he closed his eyes during [Ancient Dragon Meditation],

Others observed that his appearance was no different from when he was in a materialistic state.

Therefore, as he advanced to the level of [Radiant Ancient Dragon Follower], his control over his body increased during [Light Ancient Dragon Meditation].

He is able to achieve the state of not unconsciously opening his eyes after ending meditation, but rather closing them and activating [materialism].

In this way, he can hide his identity well in this world led by magicians and extremely hostile to believers.

Because as long as his concentration doesn't run out, he won't reveal his identity as a believer.

The believer's identity will not be revealed during the process of regaining focus.

Unless an extreme situation occurs, he is unlikely to reveal his identity as a believer now.

He even had a premonition that if specialized training were conducted,

He can control the fact that after ending a deep meditation, he unconsciously opens his eyes and then enters a materialistic state.

In this way, the first of the two logical starting points for raising Tiana is achieved: not revealing the identity of the believer.

So there's one left—

Engage in a free-for-all with that magician, kill him, and then handle the aftermath.

Well, he should be able to find the answers to his questions about his own faith after he finishes dealing with other matters and accepts the divine invitation.

However, before that, Rose must first deal with the troubles left over from the previous rescue of Tiana.

First, we need to observe the aftermath of Hope's death, intervene if necessary, and escape in advance if danger is anticipated.

Because Rose is currently unsure how the three musketeers at the police station will handle the situation.

Although, based on the information he gathered from various sources, Rose roughly judged that the three brothers would most likely close the case hastily if they had a way to back down.

However, Rose decided to play it safe.

Rose began to frequent the area around the soup kitchen, using his WindNet Perception to continuously observe the situation at Hope's house.

Of course, during this time, several homeless men also had their eyes on Rose.

Of course, for Rose in his current state, he doesn't even need magic to deal with them; his left fist deals high damage, and his right fist deals high damage.

Two punches cleared the eyes of the homeless men, and the homeless men watching from the sidelines were filled with respect.

Rose began a more regular life because he lost the concept of sleep; he only needed to go home and eat something to restore his focus after his concentration was somewhat depleted.

And because of this pattern these days, even though he often doesn't come home, Tiana knows that he hasn't abandoned her.

But there was something really going on.

The unease and anxiety in her eyes gradually disappeared, but overall she wasn't as lively as when I first met her.

On the contrary, they were so obedient that it was heartbreaking.

In fact, at present, Tiana's obedient and sensible nature is more conducive to Rose's actions.

Rose decided to wait until everything was resolved before slowly correcting Tiana's views.

So he began observing the Hope family every day.

In his observation, several people from the soup kitchen had indeed come to Hope's house these days, and they seemed to have been brought by a police officer from the slums.

Rose frowned and activated [Wind Network Perception] to observe them.