“Now?” Lumian was shocked.
Although he was also very anxious about exploring the underground of the church, he was not anxious to this extent!
As soon as his thoughts turned, he asked back:
"Can't we wait until night
At that time, it was late at night and there were only two or three servants left in the church. Wouldn't that allow Extraordinary people like me to sneak in easily
Ryan said gently but forcefully:
“Now is the best time.
"Think about it. We can imagine that there are few people in the church at night and there is a lack of protection. Wouldn't the parish priests have thought of this
"I suspect they will send strong members of the team to take turns guarding, or set up sufficiently secret traps that will sound an alarm once triggered.
"Now, it's almost noon, and all the villagers have gone home. No one will go to the church to pray at this time. In addition, it is daytime, so the traps will not be activated to avoid accidental triggering. The two priests and the servants are all in the church, which makes it easy for people to lose their vigilance. In other words, the strong people in the team will eat at home without worry, and we only need to face the parish priest, the deputy parish priest and the three servants."
Lumian nodded thoughtfully and helped Ryan finish the rest of the sentence: "Before April 3, the parish priest was still an ordinary person and had not obtained any extraordinary powers."
Today is April 1st.
"Also, although the deputy parish priest is abnormal, he is obviously not a core member of the parish priest's team. The same is true for the three servants." Leah smiled and added, "Can't the four of us Beyonders deal with five ordinary people silently?"
Lumian thought for a moment and said:
"but
Will it keep us from waiting until Twelfth Night?"
This is equivalent to touching upon the abnormality on the parish priest's side, and "history" must change accordingly.
"You said it yourself. Compared to us, the parish priest and his men want to remain silent until Lent and welcome the arrival of the Twelfth Night. As long as we don't kill him, when he wakes up and finds someone has entered the basement, he will just pretend that he didn't notice anything and speed up his progress in obtaining extraordinary power." Leah smiled, "Once the prayer for the 'Gift' is successful, he may bring people to hunt us down. But Cordu Village is not small, and our strength is not weak either. If we hide and delay for a while, we can still wait until Lent."
Lumian agreed with this reason:
"Okay, now."
He then reminded, "But at this point, Aurore's eyes haven't fully recovered yet, so I'm afraid she can't help us."
Before going to the castle to visit Lady Puaris, Lumian went back home and talked with Aurore for a while to confirm her condition. Her eyes might not return to normal until the evening.
"It doesn't matter. Don't we have Mrs. Pualis to back us up?" Leah said half-jokingly, with the bell above her head ringing slightly.
Lumian no longer objected, but only made a cautious suggestion:
"Before going to the church, we walked around the village to make sure that dangerous guys like Shepherd Pierre Berry were in their homes."
In order to avoid any accidents, I would run into Pierre and other people who have already obtained the "gift" as soon as I entered the basement.
Ryan nodded approvingly and agreed.
After they exchanged the details, Valentine glanced at Lumian and asked with a cold expression:
"Do you need to purify?"
Liya hurriedly explained to her companion: "You entered the castle and came into contact with Madam Puaris, so you may have been contaminated to a certain extent."
"No, I believe Mrs. Pualis will not do this this time. It doesn't make any sense." Lumian was very sure.
He was not sure it would work, and he did not dare to let Valentine purify him again. Compared to yesterday, he was now a "dancer". The evil aura had come out of the seal and onto the surface of his body. Once he was purified by holy water, he would probably run into big problems.
According to Aurore's analysis, he is now the type who needs to be purified.
Seeing that Lumian himself thought it was okay and it was just a momentary thought, Valentine naturally didn't say anything more.
Next, while they were wandering around Cordu Village, Lumian returned home and told his sister about his and their actions.
Aurore was a little annoyed that she couldn't participate and couldn't provide her own strength. She could only volunteer to go to the edge of the village and take on the responsibility of triggering the cycle if anything went wrong.
This does not require much vision, as long as you can see the road clearly.
After agreeing to restart the cycle if no one came to see her by 12:30, Lumian said goodbye to Auror and met up with Leah and the others.
At this time, the three official extraordinary people have already confirmed the whereabouts of the core members of the parish priest gang, including Good Shepherd Pierre Berry.
After walking half a circle, they followed a path to the side of the church, which was the door through which they broke into the parish priest and Mrs. Puaris's affair in the previous loop.
Lumian was about to volunteer to use the small piece of wire he carried with him to open the door that was rarely opened, but Leah had already walked over, fiddled with the keyhole twice, and pushed open the dark brown wooden door.
Seeing Lumian looking at her in surprise, she smiled and said:
“This is an essential skill for investigation.”
Don't make picking a lock sound so noble... The reason why Lumian didn't say what he was thinking was because Leah had already taken two steps into the church.
The little silver bells on her veil and her boots remained motionless and made no sound.
Lumian tried to interpret:
"It's safe to enter the church, isn't it dangerous?"
Liya looked back at him and said:
"Please add the prefix 'purely entering the church to deal with the people inside'."
Does that mean the danger in the basement is still unknown? Lumian roughly understood what Leah meant, and also had a certain understanding of divination. However, even if his spirituality was enhanced by the "Dancer", he still had no divination ability.
At this time, Ryan walked past him and walked into the church with Leah.
After a few steps, a servant came from the side.
In the blink of an eye, Ryan rushed to the servant, raised his right hand, and struck him behind the ear.
The servant fainted without a sound, and Ryan caught him and dragged him to the nearest room.
Leah rushed over, took out a glass bottle filled with colorless liquid from somewhere, unscrewed the lid, and gave the servant a sip.
"What is this?" Lumian asked curiously.
Leah maintained her original smile and said:
"sedative."
Well prepared, Lumian sighed to himself.
In this way, they controlled the three servants without alerting the parish priest.
Then, Leah carefully followed the shadows along the edge and sneaked towards the room where the parish priest rested.
She turned the handle silently and pushed the wooden door open a crack. She saw the most powerful man in Koldu Village lying on a simple wooden bed in a white robe with gold thread, breathing slowly and steadily.
Near the door, on the table were plates and silver knives and forks for lunch.
Leah took a quick look, then jumped in like a cat, using the church as a knife and hitting the priest behind his ear.
Then she poured most of the remaining sedative into Guillaume Bennet's mouth.
"Is it done?" Lumian poked his head out from beside Julia.
Isn’t this too easy
"What else? What do you want as an ordinary person?" Leah asked back with a smile.
Lumian hummed, took the initiative, and began to lift the priest's robe.
What are you doing?" Leah was surprised and suspicious, but her smile remained unchanged.
Lumian replied without even turning his head:
"Check his body."
He wanted to see if the current parish priest had the black thorn symbol on his chest.
Soon, the parish priest Guillaume Bennet's upper body was exposed, with nothing on except a few obvious tufts of black hair.
There is no black thorn symbol, nor is there a black mark representing a special contract.
Lumian nodded slightly and said to himself:
"It seems that this is a symbol that is obtained when accepting the 'Gift'. Or, it is already there, but it can only be activated through meditation
"And how did I get mine, on Twelfth Night?"
Thinking that the parish priest Guillaume Bene might not have the black thorn symbol at the moment, Lumian couldn't help but have some evil thoughts:
“Will killing him now not trigger the cycle
"What kind of changes will it bring if we kill this guy in the cradle in advance?"
Considering the importance of the parish priest in the subsequent events, Lumian, who was still waiting for Twelfth Night, finally defeated himself.
After leaving the parish priest's room, Ryan said to him and Leah, "I can't find the deputy parish priest.
"Ah?" Lumian was startled at first, then he understood what was going on. "Maybe he went home. He is not allowed to live in the church, and no one brings him food."
"This servant of the devil is so domineering." Valentine glanced at the priest in the room and cursed.
The four of them did not delay any longer and walked in the opposite direction of the altar.
There was a staircase in the corner. The stone steps were very narrow, only enough for one person to pass through, and they were high and steep.
It spirals upward to the top of the church and downward to the underground.
Leah was still in front. After she walked down a few steps, the four small silver bells on her veil and boots rang at the same time.
Ding-dang-dang, the sound is not loud and only echoes in a small range, sometimes rapid and sometimes soothing.
"What does this mean?" Lumian found it difficult to interpret based on his previous experience.
Leah turned her body and smiled:
It means there is a certain danger, but I cannot predict the extent of the danger."
“We can tell by divination even if we go to the castle…” Lumian said to himself in astonishment, “Doesn’t this mean that the underground is even more dangerous?”
"Not necessarily. Maybe there is something causing strong interference." Leah comforted him, "Wasn't Madam Pualis away at the castle?"
Having arrived here, faced with such a small incident, they could no longer retreat. They entered the stairs one by one, going down step by step.
Soon, the four saw the old brown wooden door of the basement.
Leah raised her hand and pinched her brows, turned on her "spiritual vision", and then came to the wooden door.
Although Lumian had not yet mastered the simple movements to open his "psychic vision", with the spiritual enhancement of the "dancer", it didn't take long for him to open his "psychic vision" and see that everyone was rosy and healthy.
After her companions were ready, Leah opened the door to the basement.
Lumian twitched his nose at the creaking sound and smelled a familiar scent, elegant and sweet.
He immediately made some connection and told Ryan and the others:
“It smells like gray amber.”
This is the material used to worship the mysterious being named Destiny!