Only Wisdom Awakened - Chapter 106

Chapter 106: Evil
Someone was secretly tailing Hans, and he had no idea who could’ve been the one to dare.

Was there perhaps someone else in Lans’s team that they hadn’t taken down?

That didn’t seem like it, right?

After seeing his master being beheaded he would’ve returned somewhere else to report, or just straight up escape.

Then…

Could it have been That crazy woman?

Hans hoped with all his soul that it was not, as he turned around and cast his {mystic insight} towards the branch of a tree.

[name: Jackson Taylor

Age: 49(29)

Class: dark knight (common)(evil)

Title: none

Lv: 246

Strength: 204 Dexterity: 174

Endurance: 165 Wisdom: 31

(evil)class skill:

{sacrifice:

Description: you can sacrifice a month of your lifespan for a stat point

Effect: increased stats

Note: the lifespan will be taken from the start not the end, meaning that your body will age as your lifespan decreases}

Skills:

{Daggers mastery}(B-rank)

{silent steps} (C-rank)

…

Description:

A talentless person who has given up his will to the devil???, as long as he reduces his lifespan he will be able to overpower others awakened at his same level.

He has a strong blood stench on him and has been frequently killing people over the last few months.

Evaluation: high (A-rank) if he uses about a dozen years of his lifespan he will surpass the A-rank peak, and enter the S-rank.}

Hans was left incredulous reading the name of the person spying on him.

He was one of the teachers, more precisely, he taught fighting tactics and was one of the two most trusted aides of the dean.

Someone like that had an (evil) inclination in his class?

An evil inclination, or evil class, are the two terms used when referring to people who have given their services to demons.

No one knows where these demons are, or what these demons are capable of, but there is something commonly known about them:

They can give whoever offers them their service incredible powers.

While normal awakened can get stronger by using righteous methods, like hunting and killing monsters, the evil classes can get stronger by using vicious methods, things as offering people or their own lifespan.

When this was first discovered seven and a half years ago, governments from all over the world had a meeting, in which they came to the conclusion that revealing such information was the best option.

It would’ve caused a massive wave of evil awakened, but it would’ve also made normal awakened keep their guards up all the time.

It would’ve also made it clear that the government and the association were just and made it so they would’ve avoided any hindrance while arresting evil awakened.

As expected, many chose to take on the path of evil classes, and it fueled the chaos of those years even more.

Not only monsters but also awakened began being a problem during that period.

Those kinds of people are truly a shame for humanity, and Hans had only met three of them so far, well, now four.

The first one he met was Elijah, even if he wasn’t completely sure since in his status window there wasn’t any mention of sacrificing anything or anyone.

After him were the two attackers of the academy from the red tyranny, and now it was one of his coworkers.

‘Man, I really need to develop the habit of checking the status of everyone I cross paths with, otherwise I’ll keep getting surprises like this one.

I have always tried to keep my eyes away from others’ status windows just in case I found out some dark secrets of theirs that would make it awkward for me to stay around them.

Anyway… I was wondering how the Red Tyranny managed to enter the association without worrying about the barrier, even an S-rank wouldn’t be able to break a sixth-rank one, so I thought they used an artifact or item of some sort, but if Jackson has some connections with them, it might be possible for him to be the one who opened the formation.

And also, I remember that the dean’s most trusted aid died during the assault, she was a mid A-rank, she was battling against an A-rank, and she also had Jackson’s support.

They said she died taking a fatal hit instead of the students, but… she might’ve been betrayed.’

As the presence he felt on the tree disappeared, he eased up and decided not to follow the man.

He would’ve talked about him with the dean before deciding on what to do, after all, it could’ve caused quite the misunderstanding if he killed another teacher without any proof.

After returning to the academy, the dean’s injury caused quite a stir among the teachers and those who managed to hear about it.

Fortunately, she had just exhausted her energy and hadn’t sustained a great injury, so in just four days she managed to get back to her peak, and it was just in time for two important events:

First of all, Caleb, who had been sent to Japan to check the place where the transfer students would stay returned.

He caused a huge fuss as soon as he heard that both Hans and the dean returned injured, but he gave up trying to figure out what happened as soon as the dean called for him and told him to stop.

Secondly, tomorrow would’ve been the set day for the strategic meeting, in which they would’ve discussed how to proceed with the raid of the improbable gate.

In these last few days, Hans had been diligently practicing his skills and meditating to recover his mana and upgrade his wisdom.

He only occasionally stopped to hang out with his students and Aiden since it would’ve been the last few days he got to stay with them for a long time.

‘Those brats… they look like completely different people now.

And I’m not just referring to their strength or their mana, but their mindset.

They have now experienced life, while before they were just kids sheltered by their parents.

I’m truly happy about how things have been for the past few months, maybe, and just maybe, once all this snake hunt thing is finished I’ll become a teacher.’

These were Hans’s thoughts while walking towards the dean’s office.

‘Knock knock’

“Come in”

Hans entered the room and sat right in front of Ava.

“What have you summoned me here for?”

“First of all…” The dean’s serious face while speaking hinted at a serious situation, worrying him a bit.

“I would like to thank you for your help” She bowed deeply and sincerely.

‘Ah, it was just that’

“There’s no need for this, we are in this mess together, so of course I had to help you out”

“No, really, thank you”

“Uhh… alright”

“Other than that, it’s shameless of me, but I might have to ask you for a favor, more precisely, I would like to ask your association for a favor”

“My association?”

“Yes, I accidentally discovered your identity as an executive of the night market, I hope this won’t hinder our partnership”

She wasn’t watching Hans in the eyes, but she hoped with all her heart that he wouldn’t have tried to silence her.

Truth be told, Hans had absolutely no fricking idea of what this woman was talking about.

‘Night market? Executive? Me?

Also, since when did we have a partnership?

Aren’t you my employer? A partnership is usually an equal footing agreement.

Did she get the wrong person?’

“I… truly don’t know what you’re talking about”

Said, Hans surprised.

‘So that’s how he’s going to play huh?’

“Alright alright, let’s say it’s like that.

Then I would like to ask you something…

‘This woman… she really doesn’t listen to people, does she?’

“… I think there’s a spy in this academy, they belong to either the Immortal Construction, the Red Tyranny, or some other associations dealing with them, could you send a few guys to investigate?”

Hans flinched a bit when hearing this, it surprised him a bit the fact that the dean had already managed to figure it out.

‘She sure hasn’t climbed up to this position just because of her strength and her looks.

Anyway, if I tell her right now I’ll face two problems.

First of all, she will probably feel bad when knowing that one of the people she trusts the most is the traitor.

And other than that… if I tell her right now she’ll just think I’m part of the night market…

Uhhh… sigh.

I guess I’ll give up trying to clear the misunderstanding in order to help her out.

“Are you sure you want to know about it?”

Asked Hans seriously.

The dean raised her head and watched him in the eyes before replying: “yes”

“I’ll tell you then, but don’t freak out when you hear the truth.

I don’t know if it was him who opened the barrier, but there’s someone with an evil class among the teachers…

and that someone is…