Four Split Personalities

Holy Calendar Year 9571, Month of Poetry, Chanting Day 3

Hei Fan finally found the north.

——"The Years I Wandered in the Clouds • Black History • Fragment" by Jun Wu/Contributor: Annie, who prefers to remain anonymous

"Th-th-th-this..."

Walking on Solar Flame Avenue, Motan looked down at the metal piece in his hand and let out a soft exclamation, "This is just too awesome!"

[Custom Made Navigation Disc]

Creator: Luna Lynch

Category: Special

Quality: Uniquely excellent

Effect: In most cases, it indicates the directions ’east,’ ’south,’ ’west,’ ’north’ for the user.

Trait: Direction discernment

Hidden Trait: ??? (Discover on your own or consult the creator)

Current Status: Working stably

[Note 1: Do not swallow, to be used under adult supervision]

[Note 2: Almost new alchemy trinket]

"But this remark really is full of malice..." Motan was quite indignant as he closed the item description and gritted his teeth, "What do they mean ’do not swallow’? What’s this ’requires adult supervision’? So, the common sense in this world is that anyone over three and a half years old can differentiate between east, south, west, and north? Who are they looking down on!"

Of course, complaints aside, Motan really loved this navigator, even though it often struggled to help him find the correct route, but it could at least show him the right direction. This way, he could largely avoid the awkwardness of asking for directions, like...

"Turn north at the next intersection."

"Sorry, is north on the left or right?"

That kind of situation ↑

[Really, where’s the embarrassment? It’s entirely normal to get confused about directions. Otherwise, things like compasses wouldn’t have been invented. Assuming that someone can find north on their own is just a prejudiced notion! Those capable of finding north on their own wouldn’t get lost. Since you’ve decided to kindly help, please be a bit more considerate! Emphasizing that you only know front, back, left, and right—it’s so embarrassing!!!]

Muttering these complaints to himself, Motan entered the inner city area of the City of Light.

There were no checks or questioning; the holy knights stationed at the gate of the inner city area were less guards and more like a part of the convenient services of the City of Light: giving directions to pilgrim believers, temporarily acting as a daycare and lost and found for mischievous kids, not the typical ’guards’.

So, one might wonder, since the City of Light has many young men and women wearing red bands (a sign of spirit), why didn’t Motan seek their help when he was lost?

Naive, so naive...

Actually, he had asked, more than once, and not just one person. But just like Luna’s guidance style, the knights also used ’east, south, west, north’—these profound technical terms to give directions. Even if Motan understood the directions, his uniquely talented self would become confused after at most three turns or getting distracted and would have to ask for directions again, almost being mistaken as a stalker by a young lady from the Fertile Sect on patrol duty. So, to avoid embarrassing the Church of the Dawn (mainly the hot-tempered, face-saving, pain-inflicting Xia Lian), Motan decided to just ask some unrelated passerby for directions, which led him to Luna.

By the way, although this place is the City of Light, the number of unbelievers is not small at all.

...

After several twists and turns, Motan finally successfully arrived at the Dawn Great Cathedral located in the eastern part of the inner city. Setting aside the help of the navigator disc, it was not very difficult to find this place because the so-called ’cathedral’ was actually a huge complex of buildings, overall even bigger than the Tri-color Courtyard of the Violet Imperial City, especially the two spires standing dozens of meters high with the Church of the Dawn’s emblem floating above, really hard for anyone to miss.

As one of the core sects of the Holy Church Union, the Church of the Dawn certainly had presence in this place.

However, correspondingly, the security level here was heightened; even in places open to the public, the duty holy knights occasionally stopped newcomers to ask politely a few questions.

And so...

"Hello, Priest."

A rather delicate and elegant half-dragon holy knight stopped Motan, asking gently, "The Great Cathedral is just ahead. Today is not an open worship day, so unless you have some other business..."

He gave a slightly apologetic smile.

[Advanced Stage Holy Knight, if only we had more of these powerful figures back then...]

Motan looked at the faint golden enchantment marks on the other’s chest armor, and subconsciously sighed to himself.

"I’m sorry."

The other slightly blushed and stepped aside, his tone somewhat colder, "Please... show some respect."

"Ah?"

Motan was first taken aback, then suddenly realized the other was wearing female knight armor, and immediately waved his hands in embarrassment, "Sorry, sorry, I didn’t mean anything by it, I was just lost in thought..."

"Thinking while staring at someone’s chest?"

The pretty and handsome half-dragon female knight chuckled dryly, then shook her head with some resignation, "Anyway, you can’t enter here before the public worship day. If this is your first time in the City of Light, you can visit the Dawn spires on either side. For prayers, the small chapel on the right is open all day, and in two hours a great nun will lead everyone in singing hymns. If you want to read, the second floor of the left spire has a library with a complete collection of scriptures and Divine Arts, though access depends on your sect rank. For low-level pastors... well, there’s not much you can see, but it’s definitely more comprehensive than other places."