The conversation with the two elders was more of a way for the church to show the three colleges that they could share information. They themselves could not provide St. Byrons with much valuable information. However, the books they gave to the church contained some interesting information, which was the most important source of information.
Therefore, the conversation between Miss Danister and her group and the Gemini God believers did not last too long. They politely ended the meeting and left.
Shade also followed Miss Danister, thinking about Grace and Helen, whether she would be interested in meeting them. The Red Butterfly girls had a complicated view on the Twin Gods. It was indeed this god who gave them the power to be together forever, but it was also this god who led to their fate of suppressing the seal of Mount Xikar.
The conversation at St. Byrons ended relatively quickly, but the conversation between the professors of the Sexes Higher Medical School and the believers of another old god had not yet ended, so Miss Danister and others had to wait.
The professors of the Zalas College of Literature knew that the old lady was not very valuable, so they did not rush to visit her, but chatted with the professors of St. Byrons. They had learned in advance that among the people who sealed the central island of Green Lake in ancient times, there were believers of the Old God's Transformation Gate, so they might be able to obtain important information by contacting the Old God's believers here.
"Miss Danister, I'm going to the bathroom."
After greeting the red-haired sorceress, Shade temporarily left the reception room. To show respect, the church did not arrange too many people in the nearby corridors, so when Shade saw the twin old ladies in the corridor in front of the bathroom, he thought they were lost here.
He walked forward to greet them, but the two old men seemed to be waiting for him here. Their old faces were still smiling in the thin sunlight outside the window. They seemed to be the entities of the ancient but shabby image of the declining cult. Looking at them, one could see that a once prosperous organization had now reached its end:
"The Holy Sons, have you been chosen?"
"What?"
Shade looked back and confirmed that there was no one around. The old people were indeed talking to him. The word "saint" they used did not contain gender connotations, but meant something like "saint".
"Excuse me, are you guys talking to me?"
Shade was confused, at least that was how he acted. The old man on the left squinted his eyes and put his stubby fingers in front of his mouth, making a gesture of silence. The one on the right smiled kindly and took out a small box from his pocket with trembling hands and handed it to Shade:
"They have been secretly taking care of the cult for thousands of years, but we have given them such a heavy responsibility. The cult has let them down. The ups and downs of the past thousand years are not something our generation can explain clearly. Now Red Butterfly has finally gained her freedom from the hands of the alcoholic duke. This is really a miracle, but it's really good."
She motioned for Xia De to open the red jewelry box. Xia De looked around again and confirmed that there was no one nearby before hesitantly opening the lid. Inside was a dark red bead that showed no elemental reaction, but it was obvious that it was not an ordinary item.
The bead was crystal clear and its surface was extremely round. If he hadn't known that there was no silver or red version of the "Source of Chaos", Xia De would have thought that the bead was related to the sage-level relic in his hand.
"What's this?"
The two old men were silent, and when Xia De pointed the round, warm red bead towards the sun outside the window, he saw a red mist-like swirling scene inside the bead, and unexpectedly saw the pattern of a red butterfly. In the absence of light, nothing could be seen inside the bead.
"What's this?"
He asked softly in his heart, and "she" answered gently:
A specific gift reserved for a specific being that does not belong to you.
Xia De understood something in his heart and put away the red bead. He also wanted to ask the two ordinary elderly people in front of him what else they knew, but they just shook their heads.
There were footsteps on the other side of the corridor, and Shade walked into the bathroom. Soon, the ring magicians sent by the church to take care of the two elderly people found them and left with them.
He was very confused, but he did not tell anyone what had just happened. Soon he returned to the waiting room to meet up with Miss Danister and her group. At this time, the professors of the Zalas Academy of Literature had already set out to visit the two twin old ladies, and the meeting between the Sekses Higher Medical School and other Old God believers had not yet ended.
The Peace Church probably also considered that it did not want to waste the professors' time, so it temporarily found other people to meet with St. Byrons and his group.
The door of the waiting room was pushed open, and Mr. Wood, the eleventh-ring warlock of the local Peace Church who was responsible for entertaining the group, walked in with the Forlan brothers and introduced them to the professors as "descendants of Edwards."
Behind the obviously nervous Furen brothers, Yin Luna also walked in with a bored look. This was not the first time that Saint Byrons had cooperated with the Church of the Five Gods, and Miss Danister certainly knew the original chosen one.
Yin Luna exchanged a few polite words with Miss Danister, then looked at Xia De behind her.
In order to prevent Shade's identity from being exposed, Shade's face was not only covered by his own illusion, but Miss Danister also cast an illusion to protect him. But even so, Yin Luna still recognized who it was at a glance.
So her boredom about the meeting immediately disappeared, and she looked a lot more energetic.
Most of the information about the Forlan brothers came from Shad or Megan, so Shad was not very interested in them. He just took a look when they took out the finished key.
Yin Luna kept winking at him, so Shade left the room again, using the excuse of "going to the bathroom". Miss Danister knew that Shade knew Yin Luna, so she helped him cover up, which also prevented Shade from being considered "ill" because of his frequent visits to the bathroom.
"I just heard about the situation of the followers of the Old God - Yaobianmen last night."
In a quiet corner of the corridor, Yin Luna quickly explained the situation:
"The church used some special means, okay, some relics that cannot be named, to investigate who originally sealed the central island of Green Lake. That happened in ancient times, and the results of the investigation were very vague. The only ones who can be confirmed are the followers of the old god Yaobianmen. But the ones who are uncertain should also be the cult of the ancient god-the original rift."
Although the thirteen ancient gods left one after another at the end of the first era and the beginning of the second era, most of the ancient god cults have continued to exist in other ways. For example, the origin of the Five Gods Church has a vague connection with the ancient god cults, the "Prophet Association" is simply the Fate Cult with a different name, the believers of the "Father of the Infinite Tree" still exist among the ancient elves, and the cult of the ancient god "Ancient Death" split into two parts and became the current "Spiritual Cult".
But no matter how hard Shade thought, he could not imagine where the believers of the ancient god who symbolized the authority of "space" were hiding now.
Yin Luna saw Xia De's doubts, which was also what she was confused about when she heard the news last night:
"The investigation into the Ancient God Cult was not smooth. This matter can be traced back to the early Second Era. Even the Orthodox Church today cannot give an answer. But what is certain is that the problem on the island did exist in that ancient era, and it could not be suppressed in the middle and late Third Era. This led to those unknown people working together to seal up the 'other island' and use two overlapping islands to maintain the balance of space."
"Have you, the Sun Church, already talked to those believers of the Old God?"
Yin Luna nodded:
"I remember you once looked for clues and information about the old god, the Gate of Brilliance, so you should know that this god's followers are not large. Although the one found by the church now has some information, it is also very limited. For example, he knows that 'fire' is the key to maintaining the seal, and that the reason why Green Lake intermittently turns green is not because of algae reproduction, but because the power of another island intermittently affects reality. However, the two most critical pieces of information he knows are actually..."
Yin Luna lowered her voice:
"First, even if we find a way to another island, we must use some special means of transportation to get there. Otherwise, even if we see the 'entrance', we can't get in. This is the wonder of space. Secondly, we must not let the space mutation in the Green Lake area go to the last step, otherwise the problem will be serious."
"What is the last step?"
Yin Luna frowned and replied:
"Green Lake folded north and south, and the city of Green Lake and the city of Mikaela Blast Furnace became one."
She paused and looked into Shad's eyes:
"Because of the existence of the national border, the developed industrial cities and the poor old cities on the north and south banks are clearly close to each other, but they are truly the 'most distant neighbors'. If they really fold into one, then it may not just be these two cities that will be destroyed. The entire world will slowly but unstoppably fold towards the Green Lake area.
The church even believes that the area of the material world in the sixth era is far less than that recorded in the fourth and fifth eras, which is because similar things have happened before. And this time, it is probably not just a simple reduction in the world's area. "