"That's really fun."
Shade made a dry comment and did not continue on this topic. However, Priest August remembered another thing and asked Shade with his pipe:
"Tomorrow, that is, Tuesday night, there will be a large banquet in the city. The venue is the courtyard of Fort Midhill Mechanical College and part of the castle. The nobles and businessmen in the city, and even the church, are invited. I I also got the invitation letter, detective, are you interested in going together? I can get another invitation letter."
"Who hosted the banquet? What was the theme?"
Shade asked.
"Hosted by the local chamber of commerce, this week is the local traditional festival of Fire Worship. The Fort Midhill Chamber of Commerce will hold an autumn charity dinner as usual. At that time, some goods will be auctioned and then donated equally to the charity of the Five Gods Church. Auction There might be some relics among the items, which would be very interesting.”
Priest August said with a smile.
"Charity dinner? In the summer, I attended a charity auction in Tobesk, and I seemed to have met Dr. Schneider."
Shade thought in his mind:
"Then......"
[…Then you left the dinner party to fight the Silver-Eyed One, and the banquet was actually a ceremony for the coming of the Lord of the Blood Feast. 】
"She" added about the incident a few months ago.
Shade couldn't help but have a worried expression on his face:
"Priest, I still won't go. It's not appropriate for me to appear in front of too many people at Fort Midhill."
"That's fine."
The old priest nodded without forcing it, and then talked about another thing:
"Also, I heard rumors in the church that there seems to be a vampire commotion in the city recently."
"Priest, are you too idle in church? Why do you know everything?"
Shade joked, and then confirmed the news about Priest August:
"I also know this. The nuns of the Spiritual Order mentioned that the local vampires already have three sage-level relics in their hands. They seem to be planning something big."
"At this time, those dirty blood-sucking things should not cause trouble."
The priest muttered that vampires are not a kind race in the eyes of the Orthodox Church.
After lunch, the priest gave Shade a file bag, which contained new information about the death chamber that he had compiled in the past half month. Although the priest did not enter the narrow room again, he also learned more things while following the Natural Church in arranging the ceremony, and then understood more things that the Church did not know.
And when the two shook hands and said goodbye, something unexpected happened.
Shade's hand came into contact with the palm of Priest Augustus, and then the thaumaturgy [Ancient Voice] actually activated itself, bringing Shade a piece of information about the original era:
[Angels are the original gods created by God in the first era. The first angels are also the first creations. It knows those ancient secrets, but it is also forced to reduce its power due to the departure of the ancient gods. 】
"What's going on? Could it be that the level 0 relic that Priest August encountered when he was young is really related to the original angel, and that relic is actually in Priest August's body... said Get up, more than a month ago, the priest and I met members of the [Truth Society] who were trying to fuse relics in the cemetery outside the city of Tobesk..."
Shade controlled his expression and did not let the priest see what he was thinking. After that, Shade sent the information to the Home for the Blind, and it was still handed over to the church by the Spiritual Order. Afterwards, he returned to his home in Tobesk, taking the cat and the coins in his hand with him. Using the "divination cat" as an excuse, he met Luvia again at the Prophet's Association on Silver Cross Avenue.
First, he briefly explained what he heard about Iluna and the steam airship, and then told what he saw from the boy, Sister Devlin and Priest August this morning.
Finally, he took out the blood money and the upright coin, and pushed them together to the purple-eyed girl across the table:
"Just like how I divined Darkness last time, please divine whether I have met the Chosen One today."
Luvia's "price divination" cannot directly divine the identity of the chosen one, or in other words, they simply cannot afford the price they need to pay. But it is still possible to perform divination from the side. For example, this time it is divination of "Shadow's knowledge", rather than directly tracing the source to the chosen one himself.
"Don't waste the blood money easily. This is the only relic in our hands that can detect special coins of the same type. Look at this, before Iluna left, she took the [Soothsayer's Silver Coin] and the clerical relic that is said to be able to find the dragon treasure. [Dragon Blood Treasure Money] was left to me.”
Luvia took out a silver coin with a smiling face and a crying face on the front and back, as well as a blood-red coin, which was three times the diameter of a one-shilling coin.
Twist the [upright coin] and throw it into the sky together with the silver coins and blood coins. But they did not turn into ashes in the air, but fell back intact.
"The 'monetary' properties of these three coins are not very strong."
Shade said without surprise:
"Louvia, spend your blood money, now is not the time to save."
Luvia thought for a while, bit her lower lip unwillingly, but still threw all four coins into the sky. But the situation is still the same as last time, four coins cannot be used for divination.
"It's really strange. I remember when we divined Darkness, we only used one [Colmo Empire Gold Coin] and one [Death's Atonement Coin]. Why can't four of them work this time? Is it because of death? The chosen one is stronger...is it Sister Devlin from the Eleventh Ring?"
"No, it could be something else."
Luvia held the coins and narrowed her eyes slightly:
"For example, the chosen one is actually someone other than the three people you know, but you accidentally met him. Or, Shade, have you ever thought that among those three positions, there may be more than one candidate? .”
Before the ceremony is held, the chosen person can only be called the candidate of the chosen person, and there is more than one candidate in order. Only the candidates at the top of the list die before the ceremony is held, and the candidates at the back are eligible to hold the ceremony. If the candidates at the front still exist, or someone has successfully performed the ceremony and then died, then the candidates at the back will not be able to succeed in any case.
If the candidates for a certain qualification know each other's identities, then a high-intensity hunting operation may be difficult to avoid.
The characteristics of the chosen ones described in the "Mumbling Poem" all point to the first candidate, but other candidates with higher rankings will also have similar characteristics to the first-ranked candidate.
However, when the candidates for balance and darkness appeared, Shade and Luvia immediately locked in on the first candidates, which were Iluna and Darkness, so there was no need to consider other candidates at that time. . Thinking about it now, Shade even suspected that Dr. Schneider was one of the candidates for the "Dark" Chosen One. It was a pity that Darkness only died after a ceremony.
"More than one of the nun, the priest, and the boy is qualified, right?"
"Yes, so divination becomes more difficult."
Luvia nodded and added:
"Of course, this is just a possibility. But at least I can be sure that among the ring warlocks you have met so far today, there is definitely at least one candidate, and basically it is between Priest August and Sister Devlin. With that boy."
"I really hope it's a priest, but... forget it, when Iluna arrives at Fort Midhill on Tuesday, I'll find a way to tell her the news."
Shade sighed:
"That city is in serious trouble."
After saying goodbye to Luvia, Shade didn't even have time to send the cat home, so he immediately rushed to Dr. Schneider's psychological clinic in a carriage.
He really has a lot of things to do today. He has to deal with the sealed Balrog tonight with the doctor. Shade is now preparing to get the key to the clerical relic [Traveller's Travel Door].
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