Roma was startled. "Where is it?" She turned her face and looked for Uriel's hand. Her excitement frightened the apprentice to let go. "Where is it? Or is it too young?"
"Before your eyes," he said angrily, "I have found it, Lady Magdalene."
"Then give it to me."
The stream is gurgling, flowing through the green river banks. Uriel raised his head and met Mabel's jewel-like green eyes. "I may offend the holy land of your dreams, Your Excellency."
A smile spread across her face, and the master of the garden understood the cleverness of his words. "You are not a follower of Heather, and besides, this is just a dream." Her voice was also unusually gentle. "Come on, let's find out the answer to the mystery. I knew you could do it. Uriel. You know a lot about things that are supposed to be unknown. This will definitely not be a problem for you."
She seems to have forgotten that I didn't come here just for the White Night Knight's "gift", Uriel thought, but he was sure that I would accept it. "Please wait." The Black Knight couldn't force me to join the association, he made up his mind, so you can't force me to accept the mysterious item.
"Where are you going?" Roma watched the apprentice approaching Silver River and hurriedly stretched out his hand. "You can't go down! This is Knox's first river and Heather's great miracle." She moved too slowly and missed the opportunity.
Uriel had already stepped on the silvery water waves, stepping on an ice floe under his feet. It seems that there is no mystery limit to the use of magic in dreams. Originally, he was worried that the battle between the Black Knight and Ms. Mabel would have hidden conditions that he could not meet no matter what. This time he wasn't worried. "I try not to make the goddess angry." Uriel walked forward, and the water on the top layer froze. Silver Pond was still far away from the river here, and the water was calm. He quickly crossed the stream and got into the blue-purple trees.
The little lion stared at the condensed river for a while, lost in thought. "Is it in there, Lady Magdalene?" Roma asked the owner of the garden. She wasn't expecting an answer, but the elf lady shook her head in denial. This is a bit strange. She suddenly discovered that Mabel's attitude towards her was somewhat different from Uriel's.
"It's a good thing you didn't know."
This vague feeling was confirmed after the little lion heard this sentence. "Do not know what is this?"
"He found it," Mabel replied.
After the woods on the other side of the river, Uriel had arrived at the pool hosting the waterfall. He continued to move forward with the help of ice floes until he touched the black stone monument behind the water curtain. Its surface temperature is colder than mountain springs, smoother than running water, and not as rough as stone. I really don’t know how long it has been standing here... This thought quickly disappeared, because Uriel suddenly remembered that the "gift" needs to change its position every day. For Mabel, she had to dream about it every day.
"I can find it too." Seeing this, the little lion announced loudly, "It's too easy. How conspicuous!" She then became anxious again, "I'll help you lift it."
"No, it's very light." Uriel even dragged the stone tablet all the way to the elf lady alone. No wonder Wolfgang can travel with it, the apprentice thought. It turns out that he only needs to consider the space it takes up, not the weight.
It was only now that he saw the entirety of the stone tablet. Its shape had been shaped by stonemasons, but the water seemed to have left no trace of etching on it. Uriel originally thought it was black, but this thought was incorrect. The entire rock is dark blue, and its surface is covered with a large number of strange plant roots. The inscriptions are not described, so that the lines are fragmented and it is difficult to discern any words or patterns. Uriel didn't know if these were the goddess poems spoken by the little humans.
"What is it?" Roma touched it with her paws and felt that it didn't feel like stone. "There are scratches on it."
"This should be the St. Valorin Monument in the dream, but it is not shaped by magic." He said. But what it was specifically, Uriel couldn't tell.
Only one person can give the answer. "It wasn't originally like this," Mabel told them, her eyes still following the apprentice. "Perhaps you know what it is."
She had her eyes on me from the beginning. Uriel's heart was beating wildly. He had been on tenterhooks ever since he saw the Black Knight again in the Cottage of Seven Lamps. Of course, Uriel didn't think that the other party would come for him. But after meeting the demon lord of the starless night in just a few days, he couldn't believe it was a coincidence. He seemed to be following me, and the thought lingered. The key is when it started. In Shimmer Forest? Hollytown? Or earlier, after he left Brumnot?
Uriel went back through his memories and discovered that he had dealt with demons more times than he thought. As soon as they took the cloud train to Knox, the apprentice met the necromancer Newell, followed by the dentist Hope Ockham and the king of Alainvor Nikleus. In Brumnot, the frequency of encounters with the Nameless One reached a peak, all because of his contact with Witek Shazo, a member of the secret society. From his words, Uriel realized his difference for the first time.
...No, if you count from the beginning, Joey was the first unknown person he met, but Uriel didn't see it at all at the time...and he can't see it now either. It was only after he confessed to the other party that everything came to light. Moreover, there was not enough time at that time, and there were many questions that the apprentices had no time to ask.
Maybe he was thinking in the wrong direction. Apparently Starless Night doesn't pay attention to every nameless person hiding in the city, such as Bertha Verner and her brother Hobson earlier. The enemy of the association is the entire Knox, but in Uriel's view, those who hate them are actually the mysterious side of the order who are obsessed with defeating the Battle of Dawn a thousand years ago and inflicting the mistakes of their ancestors on the descendants of the bloodline. Demon hunters were born and passed down to this day, and they have become the most feared executioners of the Nameless Ones. As a secret society, Starless Night is bound to focus on their sworn enemy. Things seem to be getting clearer. Joey is a sky-level demon hunter. Obviously, only Uriel knows the fact that he is also a demon. But Joey is not the only one who knows Uriel's secret.
This may be why the Black Knight came to him...
It's just that Starless Night and Joey are okay, but if Ms. Mabel Magdalen also knows the truth, I'm afraid it won't be so easy to let me go. By that time, Uriel had no doubt that Croita's identity as apprentice would not save him. Besides, it's not just his own business, Joey will be in trouble too. "Why do I know this?" You must not lose your composure now.
The elf lady asked him: "You have heard many legends, right?"
"What does it matter?"
She blinked. "Is there any story about "Confessions"? "
Hope it doesn't have anything to do with demons. "What is that?" Uriel was still thinking about the Black Knight.
"That's it." Mabel touched the stone tablet with her bright fingers, and it slowly melted and turned into a thin book. Ripples of magic spread through the air, and Uriel saw tiny gold stars on the cover. "This is the mysterious item Wolfgang asked me to keep, an ancient code."
"Gospel?" He recognized it immediately.
"It seems so. As the Holy Book of the Church of Gaia, many people think that there is only one copy of the Confessions."
"The Church of Gaia? But there is Lucia's symbol on it." Roma pointed out.
"That's not the case. The Church of Gaia only collects a book of Confessions, which does not mean that it is from the School of Silence." Ms. Magdalen told them, "The Book of Confessions is a picture book left by the gods to mortals. It is not just a book of Confessions. Asia or Lucia. You can find stories from different faiths and sacred texts from more than two sects in the book.”
"There's more than one copy?" the little lion asked again. This is of course a question Uriel also wants to know, but he can't speak faster than Roma.
"This is what I realized after seeing it. In any case, the text recorded in this book of Confessions is completely different from the holy scriptures of the Silent School, only the cover is the same. At the same time, it has all the mystery of the church's holy scriptures, It's obviously not a fake."
"I haven't heard of any holy scriptures in the Church of Gaia." Little Lion said, "But could it be a counterfeit alchemy product?" She raised a possibility.
"I am convinced that its mystery comes from the same source as the Holy Scriptures of the Gaia Church." Mabel objected again. "It's an unquestionable fact: there are two different Confessions of Knox. Two. And that's just the one I've seen...so why can't there be more?"
More. "So, you think I also have such a book?" Uriel then understood what the elf lady meant. Gaia is on top. He breathed a huge sigh of relief.
"Maybe you've seen it."
The apprentice asked: "Your Excellency Magdalen, how do you think I have seen it?"
"You found it in my dream." This was the excuse. He felt that the elf lady must have noticed it when they met. During the vision, I tried to avoid her and the Seven Lights Cottage.
Mabel slicked her long hair back. "This is not something that just anyone can do. There is some mysterious connection between the Confessions... Again, this is what I just discovered. When the Black Knight came to the door, I knew he had another copy Confessions. Do you know about the theft of Gaia Church?"
"Stolen?" Roma pricked up her ears. She was happy to hear the news of the Gaia Church's misfortune.
"It happened not long ago, and it was still at the headquarters of your Sky Tower." Mabel said. Uriel now understood the reason for the elf lady's change of attitude. It seems that the Black Knight came to Blumnot just for the Confessions, and giving Gunther the magic mark was just a matter of convenience, let alone following me. After feeling lucky, Uriel couldn't help but feel ashamed for his unfounded worries.
"I know about this," he admitted, "but the tower was not involved in the whole process, I can guarantee that."
"After meeting you, I completely believed that the astrologers had no involvement." The owner of the garden said, "Because just now, three confessions appeared at the same time."
