Chapter 679 Candidates

"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 evenly donated to the charity of the Five Gods Church. The auction items There might be some relics there, 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 banquet to fight against the Silver-Eyed Man, and the banquet was actually the coming ceremony of the Lord of the Blood Banquet. 】

"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... In Fort Midhill, it's not suitable for me to appear in front of too many people."

"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 knew those ancient secrets, but was 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. Speaking of which, it took more than a month Recently, 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 "cost divination" cannot directly divine the identity of the chosen one, or in other words, they simply cannot afford the price that needs to be paid. 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 that 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 'currency' 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 stronger chosen one is 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 met him inadvertently. 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 earlier candidates still exist, or someone has successfully performed the ceremony and then died, then the later candidates 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 [The Traveler's Travel Door].