Princess Margaret's banquet that night was held at the Canary Manor where she was staying. The manor belonged to the Cavendish royal family and was specially used to entertain foreign dignitaries. It was located in the northern part of the South District of Tobesk, close to the university area, and about a 20-minute drive from St. Teresa's Square.
In the morning, Xia De did not understand why the vice president of the Truth Society appeared at the Third National Institute of Mechanical Engineering. In order to prevent her from appearing again at the evening banquet, he took advantage of the afternoon time to go to Blackstone Security Company to find Yin Luna and informed her of Miss Pavlo's appearance.
Yin Luna then informed the church of this matter, so at the banquet held at Canary Manor at night, there were more ring wizards from the church.
And when Shade entered Canary Manor at 6:30 in the evening, the heat from the badge on his chest reminded him that there was definitely more than one witch appearing here tonight.
Miss Carina is also at Canary Manor, but I don't think she will show up at the party.
Although it is in the city, the Canary Manor covers a large area. Xia De has come here to "learn foreign languages" several times, so he is quite familiar with the interior of the manor.
Tonight's banquet was held in the banquet hall on the first floor. Although only those who were in the lecture hall this morning were invited, quite a few people attended the banquet for various reasons. People seemed to treat this as a diplomatic banquet.
Although the bombing was still mentioned, people were more concerned about how the Principality of Latin America would be punished. In peacetime, such a terrible thing rarely happened. Even when Queen Diana was shot in the street in the summer, it did not cause such a big reaction.
Princess Margaret showed up briefly at the beginning of the banquet and then disappeared. Count Herposs, a member of the visiting delegation, was responsible for receiving the guests.
Shad did not see Miss Pavlo appear again at the banquet, and wanted to find time to go upstairs to meet Miss Carina and ask whether the parliament remembered Miss Schultz Theresa's past. However, he had just taken two steps towards the stairs with his wine glass when he saw Princess Margaret's personal maid coming over.
"Mr. Hamilton, did you see the man who dropped the note?"
Princess Margaret asked anxiously as soon as they met in the study on the second floor. She really needed the Grey Eagle to surrender, but since they met in Midhill Castle in the fall, the Grey Eagle had never contacted her again, and had not even gone to collect the 1,000 pounds reward.
At this time, the mysterious ace agent appeared again, and Margaret Anjou knew that this was another opportunity.
"Oh, Your Highness, why do people always like to ask me this question?"
Shade shook his head:
"I almost didn't have lunch at Redwich Court at noon. If Miss Carina hadn't sent someone to take me out, I probably wouldn't have been able to attend the party tonight. So, what's going on? I found that people are more concerned about the note than the bomb."
"I'm so sorry, Detective, I'm so sorry to have to drag you into this... I can't tell you the truth and drag you into this messy political vortex."
The princess pressed her palm to her forehead in an unladylike manner:
"This matter is related to the Gray Gloves and MI6, Mr. Hamilton. You should have heard of these two organizations. So, I'm sorry, I can't say too much. I can only tell you that the person who dropped the note is a remarkable person."
Shad nodded in agreement. He had always believed that Mr. Sparrow Hamilton was quite remarkable, and there was no doubt about that.
"Again, I'm sorry for involving you. Oh, and I also want to thank you, thank you for finding the note."
"It's nothing. I involved you in this demonic matter, but you didn't accept my apology, did you?"
Xia De said, taking a look at the study:
"The evil demon from the Third Age will not threaten us for too long. Don't worry, this matter will be resolved soon. But before that, I will still come to visit you once a day."
"No problem, we are friends. From now on, you can just call me by my first name."
The princess nodded and walked Shade to the door of the study. She patted her cheeks after Shade left. Thinking of Shade who had just left, she sighed in her heart. She now understood why he could win the favor of the beautiful duchess:
"Handsome, powerful, steady, and without bad habits... If I didn't want to be a teacher's apprentice, I would probably like this kind of person."
On the other side, Xia De returned to the first floor from the second floor. The atmosphere of the banquet was very lively. He took another wine glass, then looked up and saw Dr. Schneider, who should not be here, among the guests.
"Um... ... "
This often means weird things are happening.
The doctor also attended the banquet in a formal dress, standing at the window of the banquet hall with a wine glass in his hand, looking at the people at the banquet with a melancholy look. The senses of the six-ring warlock were very sharp, and when Shade noticed him, the doctor also quickly saw Shade.
The expression on the doctor's face at that moment was probably similar to Shade's.
The two of them soon met at the window, each holding a glass of wine. Xia De tilted his head and asked the doctor:
"Doctor, you don't want to say that the devil is at this party?"
The doctor kept a straight face and controlled his expression:
"Yes, isn't that why you came here?"
He asked with some surprise in his tone, and Xia De was even more surprised:
"You found it, why did you come here alone instead of informing me?"
"I didn't find it, I just suspected it was here."
The doctor lowered his voice and took a sip from his wine glass:
"Do you know why I haven't found it yet? Its injuries are more serious than I thought. It can't survive independently, so it hides in a human's body to move around. I found it once on Thursday and seriously injured it again, but it was very cautious and immediately changed its body."
The evil spirits and demons of the Third Age have the ability to coexist with humans. This has been demonstrated by the demons in the stories of demonologists, the "arsonists" possessed by fire demons, and the "human pus". This can be regarded as a kind of "racial talent".
"I definitely won't be able to catch it tonight. It's very good at escaping. I want to mark it tonight so that it won't be able to escape next time."
The doctor drank the champagne:
"The only problem now is that I don't know who it is hidden on, so I'm still looking for it."
As he spoke to Shad, his eyes were fixed on the banquet hall.
Even Shade couldn't easily spot a possessed demon. When he first met Yinfan Darkness in Coldwater Harbor, Shade didn't notice anything unusual about him until he took off his red gloves and revealed the "devil's mouth" on his palm.
Although Shad could detect who the devil was by his abnormal reactions when he wandered around with his badge, this would also let the other party know that he had been discovered, and Dr. Schneider had no time to mark them.
Therefore, only doctors can find the devil, and Xia De can only wait for good news from the doctor.
So Shade stayed with Doctor Schneider for the rest of the banquet. The doctor got the invitation from his patient and didn't know anyone at the banquet, so he worked with Shade and listened to Shade talking to people about Rhodes cards, interesting stories about the nobles, and the follow-up of this morning's incident.
By about nine o'clock in the evening, Shad had already sat at the Rhodes table and won three games in a row before the doctor coughed lightly.
He knew that the doctor had found his target, so he said goodbye to the baron who was playing cards with him, stood up and walked towards the bathroom.
“Found it.”
The doctor put it succinctly:
"He's not a guest at the party. He's possessed the manor's servant. Come with me. You restrain him for at least twenty seconds. I can then mark him with a mark that won't disappear for at least a year."
Originally, the doctor was going to do this by himself, but now that Xia De is here, it would be better to have someone to help. If the mark is put, the doctor is confident that he can finish this by next Tuesday.
Canary Manor was where Princess Margaret stayed, so theoretically, the guests attending the banquet were not allowed to enter other areas of the manor at will. But for Shade and the doctor, ordinary guards could not stop them, so they just had to avoid the church's ring wizards.
Following the doctor, Shade walked along the corridor on the first floor to the left, and after crossing the corridor, he climbed out of the window and entered the area on the right side of the mansion. He then passed through the evergreen bushes in winter, entered the stone path, and circled all the way to the garden behind the manor.
Now it was winter, and even if the royal family paid for the upkeep, the garden was no match for the summer. Beside the snow pile under the grape trellis, the servant being watched by the doctor was actually talking to another person, and the gentleman opposite the servant possessed by the devil, Sir James Prisher, was quite familiar to the doctor.
"Power? No, no, power is not so easy to obtain."
When Shade and the doctor carefully lurked over, the two had already started talking for a while. Although there was a Silencing Spell on the ground, the doctor just poked it lightly with his finger and the sound came over. The Silencing Spell was a basic spell, and although the effect was good, as long as the ring magicians found the spell, they would naturally have a way to deal with it.
The person who was speaking was Sir Prissy. The doctor motioned to Shad to be quiet while he prepared to cast a spell. Shad pricked up his ears to listen to the private conversation between the two people under the grape trellis, illuminated by the moonlight.
"It's certainly right to pursue power, but it depends on this."
Jazz pointed to his head in a stern tone:
"Instead of relying on something like you that I don't know what it is."
The manservant looked to be about thirty years old, and was dressed very smartly, but the smile on his face was something that a normal person would never show:
"Do you know what great power you have?"
It asked, and Shade and the doctor immediately frowned because this was actually demon language.