"Hold on! For what you believe in! For everyone we care about!"
Corvin’s voice rang clearly in Leo’s mind.
Because of that voice, his pain slowly began to fade. His courage rose again.
The Awakening Stone in Corvin’s hand was melting. In his palms, it was purified again and again, until at last it became a single drop of golden liquid.
The drop floated through the air, drifting toward the center of Leo’s stomach.
It doesn’t happen like this in an ordinary knight’s Awakening. But after Corvin’s purification, this holy drop held not a single speck of impurity. It was pure gold. And it sank into Leo’s body.
*Pff!*
The moment the drop entered, a blinding golden light flared on Leo’s forehead.
The light joined with the Bright Blessing and slowly rose above Leo’s head. Then it climbed higher.
Corvin stared at the golden pillar with nervous eyes.
That pillar would decide how bright Leo’s future would be with the Holy Attribute.
During the Sacred Awakening, knights receive the Holy Attribute in their Inner Spiritual Energy. And in that same moment, the amount of their innate Inner Spiritual Energy is set. It’s one of the most important ways to measure a knight’s potential.
Put simply, a knight whose innate Inner Spiritual Energy can’t even pass 10 will never get beyond the third stage.
Suddenly, a line of golden light shot up from above Leo’s head and stretched backward.
It reached the score of 10 almost at once.
Leo’s body was still shaking with pain. But the speed of that golden line was truly shocking.
10... 20... 30... 40...
When it hit 40, Corvin couldn’t stop his fists from clenching.
If a knight’s innate Inner Spiritual Energy reaches 40, the Knight Temple already counts it as a rare talent.
But that golden pillar kept rising at the same speed.
Such enormous natural mental strength!
Corvin couldn’t help sighing in his heart. He had suspected Leo’s mind wasn’t ordinary. But before the Sacred Awakening, there had been no way to be sure.
Now he could see how truly extraordinary it was.
50! It passed 50!
55... 58... 60! Amazingly, it went past 60 too!
Corvin remembered that in the Knight Temple, he himself had been called the greatest talent of the century. And in his own Sacred Awakening, his Inner Spiritual Energy had peaked at 77.
For the past year, he had trained Leo’s foundation through meditation. Still, Leo going over 60 said so much.
And the golden pillar of light kept climbing.
65... 67! It had already reached 67! Find the original chapter at novelping.com.
Corvin’s pupils shrank.
In innate Inner Spiritual Energy, every 10 points equals one stage. If Leo’s passed 70, his power to use holy magic would be no weaker than any Mage of the light element.
70! It really hit 70!
Corvin held his breath.
The moment Leo’s innate Inner Spiritual Energy broke 70, his trembling stopped.
Another *pff* sounded.
Countless lines of golden light burst from Leo’s body. All the pain was gone. But the golden light burned away his clothes.
His clean white skin glowed like crystal.
Thin golden lines swirled and gathered over his whole body, covering it in gold.
That golden circle slowly drew itself into the center of Leo’s chest. In the end, it shrank to the size of a tiny soybean.
When Leo’s innate Inner Spiritual Energy reached 70, he felt something very strange.
The pain in his whole body had vanished. In its place was a feeling like heaven itself.
His heart, his soul, everything became clean and clear. That thick, holy air polished his whole body.
His Inner Spiritual Energy was still rising. And through the power of light’s laws, some kind of change seemed to be happening inside him.
*Heavens!* 80! His innate Spiritual Energy had actually gone above 80!
Corvin’s body trembled again.
This frightening natural power didn’t make Leo unbeatable right away. But its effect on his future potential would be enormous.
81... 83... 85...
The golden light kept climbing, just like before. Even after passing 70.
In the whole history of the Knight Temple, that feat had been recorded only 17 times. Of those 17, all but 6 became the strongest Divine Knights in history.
But here, the innate Spiritual Energy had gone past 80.
That had happened only three times in all of history. Of those three knights, two couldn’t go any further. Only one succeeded.
In the year of his 36th birthday, that one knight crossed the threshold of the ninth stage of his path. A Spiritual Energy score of 10,000. The Crown of Ten Thousand.
*Heavens above!* 90! Was it really 90?!
In the whole history of the Knight Temple, nobody had ever reached a score of 90!
Corvin froze, stunned.
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Now the golden pillar seemed to be reaching its limit. It slowed down a lot. It only crept upward, bit by bit.
If a person’s innate Inner Spiritual Energy was 70, it was called the Seraph-Born Body. If 80, the Heaven-Kissed Body.
And above 90? This case had never come up in the Knight Temple. But in the true records written by the Temple’s ancestors, the name of such a body was written down.
The Dawnborn Vessel.
The purest holy body that could exist.
Such a person could use any Radiant Arms from birth. And could form a friendly bond with every Magical Beast of the light attribute.
At last, the golden pillar could rise no further. It stopped at 97.
Innate Spiritual Energy score: 97.
The golden light slowly faded. Father and son came back into view.
"That feels so good!"
Leo had just come out of that special holy air and woken up.
He opened his eyes. And froze.
His father stood in front of him with a face full of deep shock.
"Papa, what happened?" he asked quickly.
Corvin’s body shook. The moment he came to his senses, he looked into Leo’s eyes.
Leo’s deep blue eyes had turned a strange golden color.
Light golden eyes weren’t completely unheard of. But Corvin had never seen golden eyes this clear and see-through.
"A Dawnborn Vessel! It’s really a Dawnborn Vessel! May the heavens bless humanity! May the heavens bless the Knight Temple!"
Corvin couldn’t control his shaking voice. Still speaking, he took back his Bright Blessing.
"Papa, what is a ’Dawnborn Vessel’? Wait... and where did my clothes go?!"
A cold wind blew across the mountain. Leo shivered.
Only then did he realize he was standing there with no clothes on. He yelled in panic.
Corvin snapped out of it too. His right hand moved, and a long robe appeared in it. He wrapped it around Leo’s body.
He looked at his son closely.
Leo’s skin now carried a golden shine. But it only showed in sunlight.
And strangely, after the Sacred Awakening, Leo didn’t give off nearly as much holy aura as other knights.
All of that holy aura had sunk inside his body. Not even a little leaked out.
Only Corvin’s eyes could see this special condition.