Xia De hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell the truth:
"It's not like I've been spending the night alone... In fact, Princess Leicia asked me to go to the opera with her tonight... in the box."
The girl in the headscarf raised her eyebrows:
"Speaking of the princess, I still don't understand why Dorothy agreed to let her live with you..."
She couldn't talk about it in public:
"Have fun tonight. I hope that poor princess remembers to bring the Leaf of Eternal Youth."
She stopped talking because Xia De's expression suddenly became serious.
The stranger looked towards the stairs again:
"Someone else showed up."
"who?"
Luvia did not look over there, as too many glances would make the sensitive ringmaster alert.
"It's really interesting. They are from the Apna Library. Are they also here to see Miss Pavlo? Then they will need a bigger table. There are three people in total. I don't know the first one. I met the second one when I was helping Old John receive the goods. The third one is... the Guidance Moon?"
"What is Guidance Moon? Do you know anyone with this nickname?"
Luvia asked with a smile, and waited until Shade confirmed that the three new people had sat at the table next to Miss Pavo and the other four before she slightly turned sideways to look at them.
She stared for about half a minute before turning her head away with a relaxed look. She gently pulled her headscarf to ensure that her face, which was covered with strange makeup, would not be seen more clearly by Xia De.
“I finally found it.”
"Found it... .. huh? Found what?"
"Of course I'm the one I came here to find."
Luvia said, tapping the table with her fingers painted with strange purple nail polish:
"What else could it be?"
"The Chosen One has really appeared? Who is it?"
Xia De was extremely surprised. He never expected that he would have such a gain this afternoon.
"The 'guiding moon' you mentioned."
Luvia picked up the wooden cup of juice. In winter, the price of juice in the Three Cats Inn became much more expensive:
"Since you know him, tell me who he is. We are quite far away, and although I can't see his face clearly, I don't think I have seen him before."
"Sir Richard Prisher, who is a member of Princess Margaret's entourage."
Xia De frowned:
"But how could it be him? Not only is he a correspondence student at the Sukses Higher Medical College, but he is also suspected to be an academic spy at the Apna Library."
"So what?"
Luvia smiled as she confirmed the identity of the chosen one. The annoyance she had felt for the past few weeks was swept away.
"Compared to Yin Luna, Yin Fan Darkness, and Qiao Yin Barton, this identity is not particularly strange."
She stared at the cup, and Shad stared at her. No matter what, on this snowy winter afternoon, the identity of the fourth chosen person was finally determined.
Although she knew who the chosen one was, Luvia was not in a hurry to leave. She rarely had the opportunity to be alone with Shade in a place like the Three Cats Inn, so she specifically ordered two glasses of wine and asked Shade to drink with her.
Unlike the two previous chosen ones, Mr. Kimes Prissier of the Guidance Moon has a complicated background. Not only does he have identities in two ring wizard organizations, but his own ordinary background is also quite extraordinary.
This also led to the fact that this was not a person that Shade and Luvia could easily win over. Yinfan Darkness was from the Blood Spirit School and was destined not to work with the church; although Qiao Yin Barton had never done anything bad, he was affiliated with the Truth Society and was unlikely to cooperate with the church immediately; as for Sister Defulin, the blind nun was the leader of the Ring Warlock Organization and had some ideas about Shade, so she could cooperate with the two.
But if Sir Prisha really wanted to seek help, it would be much more convenient for him to choose the church than to choose Shad and Luvia.
The stranger and the female fortune teller knew this, so Luvia did not mention it this time, and asked Shade to confirm whether Sir Prisha could cooperate with them:
"You need to confirm whether this is a good person or a bad person."
The girl in the headscarf said that tilting the wine glass to let the beer flow onto the plate is a divination method called "water divination", but it is not very common in this era. Diviners of this era prefer to use divination cards, coins and crystal balls.
“It’s not so easy to define good guys and bad guys.”
Luvia said softly, her beautiful purple eyes staring at the liquid flowing in the plate:
"What you need to confirm is what his attitude is towards the world and civilization if he really becomes the chosen one. After all thirteen chosen ones appear, the door that is opened will determine many things. Even if we can't cooperate like we did with Yin Luna and Sister Defulin, we must at least determine what kind of person he is."
What Luvia implied here was that if Sir Kings Prisher was an anti-social and anti-civilization madman, or had other intolerable habits behind the scenes, then they would have to find a way to get rid of this chosen one; if he was a truly good person, then they could secretly help the knight become the real chosen one.
Miss Pawvo and her group of seven did not stay for too long. After just over ten minutes, they got up and left one after another, without attracting much attention.
After confirming that they had all left, Shade stood up and went to where they had just sat, trying to listen to the sound with "Echoes of the Past". But unfortunately, it was impossible to accurately hear the sound of a certain period of time in a place like the Three Cats Inn, where there were guests almost 24 hours a day.
Moreover, among the seven people including Ms. Pavo, someone seemed to possess the power of time, which greatly affected the casting of "Echoes of the Past". Shade tried several times and gave up, and returned to Luvia:
"I don't know what they talked about, but the Pantanal Voodoo Society of the Truth Society and the Apna Library showed up together, so it shouldn't be to discuss the price of vegetables in the city."
Luvia smiled:
"How many coins do you have?"
"Two coins, Cat and Dog Coins and Wisdom Coins. But I haven't been to Coldwater Port recently, maybe I can get some in the black market there."
"I still have the fortune teller's silver coins here. Yesterday, Yin Luna sent me an elephant coin, which was confiscated by Yin Luna's team when they searched for contraband."
The elephant coin is not the official name of the relic. The official name is the clerical relic animal coin. The number of this coin is unknown. Each coin has a number on the front and an animal on the back. For example, a coin with an "elephant" pattern is an elephant coin, and a coin with an "elk" pattern is an elk coin.
The only feature of this coin is that after tossing the coin, the animal corresponding to the coin is summoned at the cost of the coin itself.
At this time, the black iron coin that Luvia pushed from the table to Shade could summon an elephant anytime and anywhere.
The reason why animal coins are clerical grade (level 4) is that when using coins to summon animals, there is about a one in ten chance of summoning some strange creatures that look like animals but are not actually animals.
"I heard from the old fortune tellers of the Fortune Teller Association that about fifteen years ago, a local ring magician in Tobesk used an elephant coin to summon a white elephant and raised it in an abandoned manor outside the city."
Luvia whispered about the past:
"Later, that ring sorcerer was captured by the church for selling potions with serious side effects on the black market. When the church went to deal with the elephant, the eleventh ring sorcerer who led the Dawn Church claimed that what he saw was clearly a white rabbit."
Xia De was intrigued:
"Then what?"
The girl with purple eyes shook her head:
“That manor was directly razed to the ground by three Thirteenth Ring Warlocks who were temporarily transferred from other places. The old fortune tellers in the association were very sensitive about this and refused to explain all the details of the accident to me.
At the time of that incident, Dr. Schneider was the only one in our group who had become a ring wizard. Later, when I asked him about it, he recalled for a long time before he remembered that in the summer of that year, the college suddenly issued a warning to local correspondence students, claiming that an evil creature with powerful reality-distorting abilities had appeared in the Tobesk region. It was equivalent to an angel-level relic out of control incident, and the local students were strongly advised to go to other places for shelter. "
Shade opened his mouth slightly to show surprise, and Luvia seemed to have expected his expression:
"Don't worry, that's all in the past. There are always several major accidents in this city every few years, and the church usually handles them well."
Shade nodded, wondering if there would be a "cat coin". As for the black iron coin in his hand, its density was greater than expected, so the weight was somewhat surprising. The patterns on both sides of the coin were consistent with Luvia's description, and there were very difficult to observe lines on the side of the coin:
Zoos imprison them, the world imprisons us.
"Let's use this. This relic sounds much more dangerous than the others, so don't keep it. This time, we didn't spend any coins, and we found the identity of the Chosen One directly. We have plenty of coins, so there's no need to save them here."
Shad said.
Luvia nodded, closed her eyes, and pinched the coin between her right thumb and index finger. As her fair, slender fingers twisted slightly, tiny cracks appeared on the surface of the black iron-colored coin, and the cracks soon spread to the entire coin. At the same time, rust appeared on the surface of the coin, and the rust gradually wrapped around the coin itself. After reaching a certain limit, the elephant coin completely turned into dust.
But before it even landed on the table, even the dust disappeared.
The eyes under the headscarf opened, and only Shade could see the flash of purple light in his eyes. It was the first time he knew that when Luvia used special divination, throwing the coin into the sky was not a necessary action.