Because of the intensification of the snowstorm, the delegation led by Princess Margaret could not leave immediately after arriving in Huntington, so they stayed in the city temporarily. Therefore, Miss Sylvia had enough reasons to stay here. After Miss Aurora arrived, the three witches lived in the Bauhinia Manor in the city.
It was the private property of the Aurora family in the local area, just like the Aurora Mansion in Coldwater Harbor. Of course, if Miss Aurora had not come, Miss Carina would also be able to get a manor to live in the local area. Among the three great witches in Huntington City at this time, only Miss Sylvia did not have such financial resources.
Sister Defulin would not set out with them. She had already entered the Pantanal region with the local church team. In addition to the two high-ranking nuns from the spiritual order, there was also a red bird. It was the phoenix that died in the battle of Midhill Castle. After it was reborn, it followed the nun alone.
The three witches were all happy about Shade's arrival. On Tuesday night, Shade also learned about the witches' action plan. The Witch Council took a neutral attitude towards Lakins Prisha this time and would not stop him from holding the ceremony, but would try its best to prevent him from releasing the evil creatures sealed in the Pantanal region.
Of course, that is not the main purpose.
There are two other reasons why the parliament sent three great witches to participate in this event. One is the enlightenment radiated to the surroundings during the ritual of the chosen one. Miss Carina seems to want to use this to try to spy on the secrets of the demigod witch. On the other hand, after knowing that there are candidates for the chosen one, the parliament wants to confirm whether there will be a candidate with a lower ranking this time to defeat Legins Prisha in advance.
In short, no matter what happens, the mission that Miss Carina, Miss Aurora, and Miss Sylvia accepted in the parliament is just to observe this incident from the sidelines and accumulate intelligence for the other nine chosen ones who have not yet appeared. If possible, they can help the Five Gods Church at the right time. They can make their own decisions on these matters.
As for Shad, this time he was not alone in facing danger. In the best case scenario, he only needed to follow the three witches and witness the end of Lakins Prisha with his own eyes.
Of course, if Lakins Prisha could really hold the ceremony successfully, Shade would send him to death after the ceremony together with Iluna and Sister Davelin. He did not tell the witches about his plan, after all, only the chosen can defeat the chosen. Compared with the earliest Iluna and the high-level warlock Sister Davelin, Lakins Prisha has no advantage in experience or strength.
"But, will things go so smoothly?"
On Tuesday night, after saying goodnight to the ladies, Shad went to sleep alone in the manor guest room. Because of his worries before going to bed, he had a strange dream that night.
In his dream, he saw a big lake in the center of the Pantanal swamp in the heavy snow. The lake was not frozen in the darkness, and in the center was a small island shrouded in thick fog. The lighthouse located northeast of the island in the middle of the lake was flashing red light.
When Shad in his dream approached the lighthouse, he discovered that the light of the lighthouse was actually the eyes of a terrifying giant monster. But before the strange creature tried to devour Shad, the Witch Queen Miss Violet saved him again, just as if he was still on the island in the middle of the Lost Lake in the spring of the Fifth Era 5177.
“Why did I dream about Miss Violet? The adventure of 5177 years has long ended.”
After waking up, I was still a little dazed. I waved my hand to let the curtains slide to the side. Outside the window was the early morning in Huntington City in the heavy snow:
"If the snow doesn't stop, even if the evil in the Pantanal is not unsealed, there will definitely be big problems in the western part of the Old Continent."
Although the Five Gods Church's faith spreads throughout the material world, the Pantanal Swamp is an area where the power of a few churches is extremely scarce. In order to successfully resolve this major incident, the Five Gods Church mobilized an unprecedented 9 13th Ring Warlocks to participate in the operation, plus Miss Danister, the 13th Ring Warlock of Saint Byrons, and Mr. Gost, the 13th Ring Warlock "Necromancer" of Zarath Academy of Literature, a total of 11 13th Ring Warlocks entered the swamp from the four directions of east, west, south and north.
Among them, Iluna entered from the north, accompanied by the "Sunshine Greatsword" who left Tobesk with her, the "Red Moon Witch" of Saint Byrons, and the thirteenth-ring warlock "Hand of Annihilation" of the Peace Church stationed in the southern border city of Draurion; while Sister Devlin entered from the west of the Great Swamp, and there was only one thirteenth-ring warlock accompanying her, the "Nightmare Witch" of the Church of Nature. According to the witches, the two were friends who had known each other for a long time.
The church team had already set out from Monday to Tuesday, but Miss Carina and her two companions planned to arrive later than the church to let the church deal with the problems ahead first.
The original departure time was Wednesday noon. With the help of the parliament and a special relic, Miss Sylvia forcibly opened a road to the core area of the Great Swamp. But before the departure at noon that day, something happened, which almost delayed everyone's departure. At that time, Shade had just visited Mr. Bernhardt and returned to the manor in a carriage:
"What? Was Legins Prisher seen in town?"
When Shade heard the news, he felt very surprised. He asked the witch with beautiful brown wavy hair sitting opposite him. Miss Aurora, who had not been seen for a long time, was still the same. She looked a little older than Miss Carina, about 27 or 28 years old. At this time, she looked at Shade with a little annoyance:
"Yes, it is indeed incredible. The church has even set out, but Lakins Prisha is still in the city. If it weren't for the poem fragments that clearly pointed out the location of the ceremony, I would even suspect that the information provided by the Apna Library was to deceive the church and conceal the real location of the ceremony."
There was a lot of snow outside the window, and the whistling sound was so loud that it made people feel creepy:
"Carina and Sylvia have gone to the place where Prisha was seen to investigate the situation. I will stay here and wait for news. If you want to go and see, I have prepared a carriage for you."
Miss Aurora and Miss Carina have a good relationship, so she calls Miss Carina by her first name, but she calls Miss Sylvia by her last name.
"How did you know I would want to go and see it?"
Xia De asked curiously, and the twelfth-level witch smiled and said:
"Wasn't it the same when you were at Fort Midhill and Coldwater Harbor?"
As she spoke, she hooked her finger at Shade. After Shade stood up and approached, the witch in the purple dress said:
"I heard that you have a good relationship with Sylvia? When this matter is over, tell me what happened between you and her in Tobesk."
There was a smile in those dark golden eyes.
Looking at the witch up close, although Miss Hill Aurora only has light makeup on her face, she looks even more charming.
"Nothing much, she just wants me to be her apprentice."
"Oh? Then I'm really surprised that Carina didn't fight with her."
Miss Aurora's followers saw Sir Prisha in the city, near the White King Club in the city center. After the carriage carried Shade to the destination in the heavy snow, he did not immediately see the two witches who arrived half an hour earlier.
The city was covered in white, and there were almost no pedestrians on the road. If the residents of Tobesk had seen similar heavy snow before, then for Huntington, where the climate was mild all year round, this winter might be the worst winter in the past few hundred years.
After walking around the nearby streets in the snow, Shade found traces of a fight between ring wizards in the alley, but didn't see anyone. After continuing to search, the first person he found was not a witch, a church ring wizard, or a chosen one, but a beggar who was curled up in the alley, using a cardboard box to shield himself from the wind and snow.
Beggars were not uncommon in this era, but the problem was that this was a human-shaped relic.
The whispering element on it was very hidden, and until Shad noticed the cardboard house covered in snow, he didn't even find any trace of the element.
As he was hesitating whether to approach, a dark-skinned, fifty-year-old "beggar" with weathered eyes and gray hair poked his head out of the cardboard house:
"Good man, would you mind doing me a favor?"
Xia De was stunned. The whispering element on the other party was indeed not strong, and the mental pollution ability was also weak among the humanoid relics he had seen. He had seen many similar relics this winter:
"Secret keeper?"
The gray-haired old man smiled and nodded:
"How about it, young man, are you willing to provide me with some help? Help me three times and I can fulfill one of your wishes. First, please go to the city and help a child in urgent need of help, so that she or he can spend this winter safely. But the crowns that can be used cannot exceed 1 crown, and you must use your wisdom to solve this problem."
"It's really a secret keeper!"
Shade was startled, and then immediately realized that the reason why Lakins Prisha had not yet entered the swamp area was most likely because he had not yet collected all the "Wise Pyroxene". In other words, except for the Witch Council, Sister Develyn, Luvia, Shade and the Guiding Light Hermitage, no one knew that the poem fragments in the "Secret Art of Immortality" pointed out that the number of Wise Pyroxene required was five, so he was still actively seeking Pyroxene.
In fact, if you count, including the pyroxene given to him by the demon with a desire for value, Sir Prisha only has three pyroxenes in his hand. Even if he finds the keeper before leaving Tobesk, he can only get one pyroxene at most.