This is true. The demon sealed by the doctor is a big problem. The priest will definitely suspect that the doctor is possessed by the demon. Although the priest is related to angels, the power of the angel of death is too dangerous after all. It is normal for the doctor to doubt the priest.
Even if the two were willing to share their secrets, which was a low probability, it would be hard for the priest to believe that the doctor could control the demon all along, and Shad could guess whether the doctor was willing to trust a priest who possessed angelic power.
Without Shad, the doctor and the priest would have to go out constantly to collect the remains of demons or angels. Add to this the matter of the chosen ones, and in the end, their relationship would become completely hostile. It is not impossible that situations like "I'm helping you, Bill, put down your gun" and "Priest, why don't you believe me" would appear.
"So, how did my joining make you trust each other?"
"Isn't this simple? Your attack at the manor and your subsequent performance have shown that no matter what happens, you can control anyone in the group. Moreover, you have actively participated in other people's affairs since then, and everyone has continued to benefit from you. As long as you are still here, everything is controllable, and even I have begun to trust myself. Everything is moving in a good direction, so there is no need to suspect each other."
The doctor's tone was very relaxed, and he thought he was just chatting with Shade. But Shade thought of the Sixth Era without him. In the cycle of those past lives, the long-haired Luvia was probably the end of his life.
The doctor and the priest are hostile to each other, and without him to solve the problems of Dorothy and Resia, it is not known whether he can make it to the end. When Luvia witnesses the thirteen chosen ones and reaches the end, there is probably no one around her.
"Meow~"
The sound of a wild cat came from afar, and Shade thought of the silver-eyed Mia he saw when he entered Luvia's dream at the end of last year:
"Will Mia in the past life be the one who stays with Luvia until the end?"
If this is true, then the cat must have a secret that Shade has not yet discovered. If the dreams that Luvia mentioned are really related to the past life, then even Sister Defulin and Miss Pavo of the Truth Society were not able to witness the final scene of the end of the world in the past life.
You are here again.
"She" sighed softly in Xia De's ear. Xia De looked at the moon above his head and smiled.
"Once the small talk was over, I knew it wasn't going to go so smoothly."
The doctor suddenly said, Xia De nodded and looked around:
"We are stealing other people's things. It would be strange if there was no reaction on the island."
The two men quickly moved from the farmland towards the priest. At this time, the huge oak tree was still shrouded in thick gray fog, and it was unclear what was happening inside.
When Shade and the doctor returned to the crossroads, a distorted phantom appeared at the edge of the turbulent gray fog. This was not an illusion, but a manifestation of an abnormal state of space, which was what the two people who were chatting just now felt.
Suddenly, the gray fog expanded outwards, swallowing up both Shade and the doctor. The two stood back to back, looking around vigilantly. Shade had already used the "Space Stabilization Aura" to prevent anyone from coming over and to prevent himself from being transferred.
The priest's voice came from not far away:
"Don't worry. Although the other party discovered my movements, he can't track us. I'm still calling that thing over. Remember, no matter what you see in a while, it's a half-real illusion. Don't believe anything."
The priest's old voice gradually faded away, and at the same time, the gray fog in front of Shade gradually dissipated. He squinted slightly, and the dazzling light came from the crystal chandelier above his head. Looking around, he actually appeared in Edwards' old house on the island. Looking at the surrounding furnishings, this is clearly the small restaurant on the second floor of the old house.
Unlike the restaurant on the first floor of the old house, which has Edwards' family tree, the restaurant on the second floor is used to host banquets for guests. At this time, the restaurant is illuminated by bright lights, and antiques and gold and silver decorations make it look magnificent. The floor is covered with red carpets, and the painted walls are completely different from the dilapidated mansion.
Men and women were dancing to the melodious music coming from somewhere. And looking out the window, it was clearly night outside.
"A dance? Now it's a hallucination?"
There is no sign of spatial transfer or time travel, it is an illusion.
But the illusion was so real that it was as if Shad had really come to the party held in the Edwards family mansion.
However, he soon noticed that the people dancing all had a chilly feeling. After a closer look, he clearly felt that the people dancing were not living people, but corpses.
Just after Xia De realized this, the skin of the banquet guests who were dressed in bright and beautiful clothes and gorgeous costumes, which once looked like living people, began to fester as they danced, but they themselves were completely unaware of it.
The rotten flesh fell to the ground and was trampled by high heels and leather shoes. As the horrifically decayed corpses moved, the choking stench gradually filled the room.
But the crystal chandeliers were still bright, the music was still lively, and even Shade had the urge to walk over and dance with them:
"What a strange impulse! I don't like dancing."
Xia De thought to himself, and then he saw a familiar figure walking out from among those dancing horrible corpses:
"Want to dance together?"
The young and beautiful "Lecia" smiled and invited Shade. She was already beautiful, and now with the contrast of those horrible corpses around her, she looked even more beautiful.
Hallucination.
"I know."
Xia De ignored the invitation in front of him and looked at the corpse's dance more carefully. The surrounding walls were very unreasonable and almost covered with oil paintings, most of which were landscape paintings. The black spiral emblem of "Returner" that he had seen before appeared in the form of an oil painting on the side of the banquet hall door.
There are 21 portraits interspersed among the landscapes, the first six of which are portraits of six Edwards from the first three generations, including Laplace Klein Howard, and they look incredibly old.
The seven paintings in the middle are portraits of four people from the fourth generation, and three people from the fifth generation except Megan and Audrey. These seven paintings look very new, and it is because of this that Shade learned the true appearance of Maria Edwards, the youngest daughter of the fourth generation. The Green siblings do not have any photos or portraits of their grandmother.
As for the last eight paintings, they are paintings of Megan and Audrey, the Edwards brothers, the Foran brothers, and the Green siblings. But in these eight paintings, the characters all wear different animal masks, and Shade can only distinguish who they are by their clothes and body features.
The witch sisters are wearing cat-shaped masks, one with a red mask and the other with a green mask, which looks very weird;
The Edwards brothers both wore wild boar masks. The two masks were the same color, but one had only the left eye and the other had only the right eye. I wonder if this has something to do with the fact that each of the brothers was blind in one eye.
The Forlan brothers correspond to the Dove Masks, their masks are exactly the same, except that they both have tears of blood on them;
The Green siblings wore long-eared rabbit masks. Their eyes were scarlet, one of them had a thick beard, and the other had two blushes on its cheek.
"Cats, wild boars, pigeons, rabbits."
Xia De muttered to himself, and when he looked at "Lecia" who had just tried to invite him to dance, the person standing there was clearly a fortune teller wearing glasses.
He held the wine glass, smiled and shook his head:
"I'm sorry. I met Princess Leicia last time, so I used magic to transform myself into Princess Leicia. I wanted to play a joke on you, but you seemed to mind."
Xia De ignored this meaningless question:
"Those descendants of yours who are wearing masks are descendants you have never come into contact with. Why are they wearing animal masks? It makes them look like sacrifices."
"Yes, they are my sacrifices."
The diviner does not deny this:
"Including these dancing people you see, they are all sacrifices. These people are the townspeople of Green Lake Town who once lived on this island. Now I want them to come back, hoping that they will complete the ceremony with me. Do you know the rumors about the 'Returner' that are circulating outside?"
"Yes, there is such a rumor in the lakeside village: it is said that the world will eventually return to one point, and the One Returner will lead everyone to survive the end of the world. I have a few badges of the One Returner in my hand. If I am not mistaken, it was you who spread it."
The fortune teller nodded slightly:
"In addition to my descendants, the townspeople in the territory, and their descendants, anyone else who is willing to accept will also be eligible to complete the ritual with me and survive the inevitable disaster with me."
"Is your Edwards's divine power intended to create a new space to escape the disaster of reality?"
Xia De couldn't help asking, and the fortune teller nodded:
"That's true, but you haven't explained it fully enough."
Xia De wanted to speak again, but the fortune teller no longer wanted to continue the topic:
"Every action you take is beyond my expectations. I have studied that half of the skull for more than 200 years before I was able to use some of its power. However, the person you found can actually control the skull directly."
He drank the blood-red wine in the glass:
"Those are the remains of ancient death, objects that exist in the material world and are closer to the essence of death than anything else. I am not good at manipulating corpses, but with just a little research, I can create a powerful three-in-one corpse ghost lich. I know that you want to take this key item before the final battle to prevent yourself from facing my undead army in the end."