It was still early in the spring, and the sunset on this Friday was still more than an hour away, so Shade took a carriage to the public cemetery in Green Lake City. The public cemetery in this ancient city also had a long history, and Shade came here just to find a new tomb that was built half a year ago.
The tomb of the former grave robber "Harde Ferrero" is located in a corner of the cemetery, crowded with other poor people. It can be seen that no one has visited him for a long time. The tomb is entangled with weeds that have grown this spring, and the tombstone is covered with dust.
Although strictly speaking, night is the best time to rob a tomb, Xia De didn't have time to wait until night. After making sure that no one was nearby and that the choking fog could obscure his vision, he used an illusion to cover the surroundings, then skillfully took out a shovel and started digging.
He had already mastered this technique when he and Megan were on the island.
The excavation went smoothly because the coffin was not buried very deep. As soon as he saw the shabby wooden coffin, Shade knew he had found the place. He felt the unique spirit and elements of the power of the angel of death.
Where there is the power of the angel of death, there is no need to worry about the presence of undead spirits, so Shade pried open the lid of the coffin of the former tomb robber with confidence, and found the bone fragment that was placed in the box among the shabby burial objects such as metal cups around the rotten corpse.
The white bone fragment was about a quarter of the size of Shade's palm. But the power contained in it was far less than that of the other "Angel of Death Remains" that Shade had touched before. This harvest was probably better than nothing for Priest Augustus, but it at least proved that the Edwards family really had Angel of Death Remains in addition to the two powerful angel finger bones.
"If we continue investigating and delve deeper into Edwards' secrets, we may find more."
Shade was optimistic about this, but he was also confused about what Edwards' ancestor, the powerful thirteen-ring fortune teller, wanted to do when he originally found these precious materials.
After refilling the grave and cleaning up all traces of his presence, it was time for dinner.
Shade did not stay in Green Lake for long. Instead, he returned home after throwing away the crystal shoes, had dinner with Mia, and then came to Green Lake City again.
In the deep night, he came to the casino he visited in the afternoon. It can be seen that the casino business is even more prosperous at night. Even before entering the four-story building, Xia De could hear the noise inside.
At the same time, there are many more guards in the casino at night than during the day. In addition to the gatekeepers, there are people guarding important places such as the corners of the alleys that are connected to the casino. It is certainly not easy to get close to it by ordinary means, but fortunately, Shade can turn into a cat. And these casino guards are not responsible for preventing cats from sneaking around in the nearby alleys.
The deepest room on the fourth floor had no windows, so it couldn't fly in directly. But the other rooms on the fourth floor had windows, so Shade Cat transformed from a cat into a red butterfly on the roof near the casino, and then flew to another window on the fourth floor.
I thought you were going to sneak into the casino disguised as a Rhodes player, gamble a few times, preferably get some special cards, and then take the opportunity to go upstairs.
"She" whispered softly in the ears of the butterflies, and Xia Dedie felt that she was misunderstood:
"I've said it before, I've always hated gambling. As for betting with others on special cards, that's another matter."
“She” smiled gently, and the red butterflies under the moon, which had become transparent by magic, successfully flew out of the window on the top floor of the casino.
Although the window was locked from the inside, Ragra's jumping allowed him to move as long as he could see, so Shad used his spatial transfer ability to enter the temporarily empty room.
However, this was not the room where he met with Barry in the afternoon, but the warehouse where the casino stored its account books. Shade recalled the structure of the fourth floor that he had observed in the afternoon:
"There are doors in front of and to the left of the stairs. The door on the left leads to Barry's office. There are doors on both sides of the office. The door on the left is the private room, and the door on the right seems to lead to here."
He looked at the familiar door on the side wall of the room, walked over in the darkness, put his ear to it and listened, then opened the door with the "door key".
Behind the door was also an unlit room, and dark vision allowed him to see every detail of the office scene. Shade smiled and walked towards another door on the side wall, but this time after he put his hand on the door handle, he did not open it immediately because he sensed the traces of the element:
"Reconnaissance? Counterattack? Or an alarm?"
Because he didn't know what the elements on the door represented, Shade didn't open the door, but put his hand on the wall next to the door:
"Fossils to mud!"
The arm went straight through the wall and into the next room. Then Shade turned into a group of butterflies and flew through the hole where the arm went into the windowless secret room.
There was a light source in the secret room. Several long white candles were placed on the ground. These were long-burning candles that could burn for a long time and were basic alchemical items. With the help of the candlelight, Shade turned back to look at the door and saw traces of the ritual on the back of the door:
"If the door is opened by some other method than the corresponding key, the person who set up the ritual will know immediately."
He deciphered the effect of the ritual, which only worked on the door and not on the walls.
Shade did not lament the other party's negligence in defense, but looked towards the room.
This place was indeed arranged like a special prayer room, with long-burning white candles on the ground placed one by one on the nodes of a huge ritual array drawn with blood. However, the meaning of the ritual array was just to make people concentrate, and there were no directional symbols or symbols.
There was a faint element of blasphemy in the secret room, which meant that there were extraordinary people praying to the evil god here for many years. However, there were no statues or holy emblems in the room, and there were no words on the notebooks and papers placed here.
The only possible clue was the innermost wall of the room covered with blood-red ropes. There was a low table under the wall, which should have been used to worship idols or holy emblems. As for the fact that there was nothing there at the moment, it was probably because Rotten-Eye Barry had temporarily taken away those sensitive items during his absence for safety reasons.
“The soundproofing here is really good.”
Entering this room, you won't be able to hear the noisy voices of the gamblers downstairs. In addition, this room must be the only one that comes to this room, and the sound he makes after entering here can only be the sound of prayer, so -
“Echoes of the past.”
Closing his eyes and listening, he first heard the sound of doors opening and closing, followed by low complaints about the weather. After a moment, he heard footsteps approaching the innermost part, and then the solemn and serious prayer of the one-eyed man entered Shade's ears.
This is the most crucial passage:
"Praise the first dead of the deep sea. You are the controller of the ocean and corpses. You are the guardian of the mystery of death. Praise my Lord! Praise - the God of the Drowned in the Deep Sea!"
Xia De opened his eyes suddenly, and suddenly, the shadow of the evil god who had confronted him for the first time in Tobesk City on a midsummer night last year was about to appear before his eyes again:
"Now, the three evil gods of Lengshui Port are complete."
Among the three traditional evil gods in the Coldwater Harbor area, the followers of the Lord of the Scarlet Spiral, the fishmen, attempted to flood the Coldwater Harbor, but were stopped by the church and Shade. Shade even got a drop of divinity from the golden pearl, and that pearl became a gift to Queen Diana.
The followers of the Raging Storm appeared at the grand Lakeview Manor wedding banquet during Margaret's visit to Tobesk. After Shad was struck by the thunder containing the power of the evil god, he absorbed the divinity in the relic and obtained the Thunder Spirit Rune. The Thunder Spear he often uses now also comes from that experience;
As for the God of the Drowned Deep Sea this time, Shad's contact with her was limited to when he was still a ring. In order to save the souls of the flower girl's family, he unfolded the puzzle match girl and, under the witness of Dorothy or Leicia, used the "divine afterglow" state to fight against her gaze... ...
"Aren't most of this god's followers active in coastal cities, archipelagos, or oceans? Why did they end up in the Green Lake area? This is inland of the Old World, very far from the east and west coasts."
The cult of the deep-sea drowned is usually called the "Drowned Cult". Of course, the members of the cult are all living people, but they are good at manipulating drowned corpses, so they are hostile to the "Scarlet Cult" to which the "fishmen" who are born to swim belong.
Raising and manipulating water ghosts is clearly the specialty of the Drowned Cult:
"That makes sense, so Rotten-Eye Barry has the smell of a water ghost."
He closed his eyes and listened again. Although this was not a church, it was a real prayer to God after all, so the subsequent listening was not very smooth. After confirming that this was not the most important base of Rotten Eye Bali and there were no other clues, Shade left along the same path. Of course, he did not forget to fill the hole in the wall.
After confirming that the gang leader was a cultist, Xia De could have reported him directly. However, this person also had clues related to tomb robbers and even the island. Therefore, Xia De was not in a hurry to let the church handle it.
He returned to the Green Lake Hotel. The interior of the hotel was warm and bright in the night. Shade asked Mr. Soren Green, who was on duty behind the counter:
"Can you contact the pharmacist lady? Megan."
Mr. Green was surprised:
"Did she tell you her real name?"