Chapter 23: The Potential of Genius

His tone was gentle, even a bit annoyed that he could not gentle his cigarette.

However… it inexplicably revealed an amazing conceitedness and confidence… in an period the place contractees have been turning into the pillars of the empire, the place the Church and religion maintained the social construction, and the place the Holy Mild and believers unfold all through each nook of the world.

He, an unusual mortal with no contract, a commoner from the decrease district of London, a non-public detective whose religion was not that agency, was capable of make the Excessive Priest earlier than him pause for a second.

Shortly after, the admiration within the outdated priest’s eyes did not wane in any respect; if something, it grew to become even stronger. “I’ll make a telephone name to rearrange your consecration ceremony.”

“Um… is not it a bit too quickly? I am fairly busy lately.”

The nonchalant tone made the admiration within the outdated priest’s eyes immediately crumble. He forcefully patted the sting of the mattress. “Are you able to please take note of your angle? I’m a Excessive Priest, a priest of the Church! Do I must bow and negotiate with you about this?!”

“Okay, okay.” Sherlock unexpectedly nodded with embarrassment.

The Excessive Priest gave him a disdainful look earlier than regaining the dignity that ought to befit a priest. He spoke slowly, “Additionally, I’m making ready an excellent job for you as a thank-you for saving me… The London Safety Administration Affiliation wants a detective. It is a company collectively established by the Church and the federal government, and it often handles demon invasions and peculiar occasions. The Church can also assign some duties to them, and…”

Earlier than he may end, Sherlock interrupted with a faux smile. “That… I am actually busy lately…”

“This group has a a lot increased standing than your personal detective work. Throughout missions, you’ll have the complete cooperation of the district’s legislation enforcement officers and the police.”

Sherlock scratched his nostril and checked out a bit of damaged stone beneath his toes.

“Fifteen kilos a month, or sixteen in the event you do not want lodging.”

“Oh.” Sherlock nonetheless maintained his nonchalant demeanor.

“And you’ll have the authority to entry all case recordsdata in the complete district… If there are any troublesome, perplexing, and extraordinary circumstances from the Church, they may search your cooperation.”

Sherlock lastly raised his head. “I may be concerned in circumstances associated to the Church?”

“In fact. In case your talents are deemed worthy of consideration, you would possibly even encounter some extraordinarily troublesome, puzzling, and weird circumstances. As an unusual detective from the decrease district, it will be unattainable so that you can come throughout such circumstances in your total lifetime…”

The outdated priest now not held again and confirmed a ‘I knew you’d fall for this’ expression.

“Sure, similar to me, he’s able to remotely controlling demons. So, if his contracted creature just isn’t too weak, given sufficient time, he’ll undoubtedly obtain higher accomplishments than me.”

Catherine understood that control-type contractees have been extraordinarily uncommon as a result of it required an immense capability for response, reasoning, calculation, creativeness, reminiscence, and willpower, amongst different issues. Their direct fight talents may not be that formidable, however their performance was undoubtedly irreplaceable. Simply the flexibility to regulate a demon from a number of tens of meters away, and even a whole lot of meters, offered them with a bonus that others could not match.

Nevertheless, Catherine additionally knew that the draw back of control-type contractees was the great pressure on their brains. The particular causes could possibly be mentioned later. In any case, the extraordinary deductions and reasoning carried out by Sherlock in the course of the battle have been undoubtedly a results of his mind working at an overclocked state. If he remained in that overloaded state for too lengthy, his mind would possibly burn out.

Subsequently, control-type contractees have been nearly unable to evolve to the third stage. In any case, controlling giant demons would undoubtedly surpass the human mind’s capability restrict.

…

At this second, subsequent to a destroy outdoors the tent:

Sherlock could not smoke, which made him really feel considerably disagreeable. He casually sat on a collapsed stone, tilting his head again to look at the rain fall from the sky.

The dense rain veiled his imaginative and prescient.

Amongst them, a raindrop would fall on his nostril after 0.7 seconds, then trickle down his cheek from the precise facet, converging with the earlier raindrops and disappearing into the sting of his collar.

The wind within the evening regularly subsided, and the temperature remained at 5 levels Celsius. In

the gap, sporadic footsteps could possibly be heard. Naturally, these sounds fashioned some sort of picture in his centered thoughts:

Two personnel concerned within the aftermath of the battlefield have been carrying a scrapped armor. One among them was over 190 centimeters tall, whereas the opposite had simply twisted their left foot. Additional away, a wounded soldier had been moaning for greater than 5 minutes. His ankle was shattered, so somebody over there must be reminded to not bandage it forcefully; in any other case, it will trigger bone displacement.

And additional, additional away…

Even additional…

Voices, rain veils, light breeze, lights, moans…

These numerous items of data converged right into a river in Sherlock’s thoughts, silently flowing.

If Catherine or the outdated priest have been to know that his deductive reasoning capability was not an explosive overload of the mind however reasonably a unconscious norm, who is aware of how shocked they’d be.