After shaking hands with the two men, Miss Bei Yasi seemed to be relieved and said with a sigh:
"Well, you have regained my trust, but this information bothers me even more. I don't understand. Why didn't the church tell me this?"
"Because there's no point in telling you. It will only make you wonder. Besides, even the True God Church doesn't know more about the Whispering Poems than I do."
Miss Anat said that she looked particularly beautiful when she smiled tonight, and Shade attributed it to the color of her beautiful red lipstick. Unfortunately, he could only say that it was red and could not distinguish it in detail, but that red was really beautiful.
"The church's attitude towards the chosen ones is still unclear, because they don't know what this represents. Iluna, cooperating with us will not harm the interests of the church. After all, we are all..."
Miss Anat looked at the young detective who was pouring tea, and the latter immediately added:
"Positive characters, we are all positive characters in the story."
"I know this, and I believe in my ability to judge people. You are all good people, and you are all helping me. I am willing to be friends with you. It's just that..."
The long-haired girl leaned on the sofa, looking up at the ceiling. This action would reveal her fair neck, and Shade looked away immediately to avoid being misunderstood.
"So this is what "Whispering Poems" and the chosen ones are about. This explains a lot of things. Oh, it sounds like I'm the chosen 'child of destiny' in those knight novels... ... the epic of the Sixth Age... Detective, Miss Anat, do you think I'm really qualified to be the kind of person who can be recorded in legends?"
After the excitement of learning the truth ended, the young girl became confused again.
"Of course, you are destined to be."
That was Miss Annette's opinion, and she seemed certain of it.
"No matter what, we will always be by your side."
Xia De said that he understood the other person's feelings very well. The feeling of knowing that he was special but worried that he could not play the role well was very similar to his feeling of knowing that he was a foreigner but worried that he could not adapt to the new life.
Because of this empathy, he said more:
"Since we have decided to help you, we will accompany you to the end, the very end."
The two sides were honest with each other, which solved the last hidden danger in the cooperation. Although the unexpected meeting and honesty almost caused Shade to be stabbed by Miss Anat and hit by a sun gun from Miss Beas, the whole process was smoother than Shade expected.
After all, he had already gained a high enough favor from Miss Bei Yasi before. From this point of view, Miss Anat's plan was successfully realized on Shade.
After confirming the mutual trust between the two parties, they discussed the reasons why the three of them appeared at the banquet.
Needless to say, why Shad came here, Miss Anat even joked about the term "Rejade's Hamilton", while Miss Beas whispered her congratulations.
Miss Annat and Miss Beas didn't have an invitation, but they managed to sneak in.
They came for a relic that could pay for Miss Anat's accurate divination, so that she could use the divination to obtain the ritual needs for Miss Beas to become the true chosen one.
"Actually, I've always been curious about what the price of your so-called divination is. Can the price be paid with a relic?"
The two ladies were just about to discuss this issue before Shade came in, and now the topic can continue.
"This can be considered my special talent. I can accurately predict the future by paying a price. Now I can tell you that there are three ways to pay the price. I pay part of my soul, pay a specific relic, or..."
She shook her head and did not continue:
"Look, this is the relic."
Miss Anat took out a white paper bag covered with spells. The general meanings of these words from different eras can be interpreted as "suppressing the curse", "purification" and "holiness".
The paper package contained a small object, which turned out to be a gold coin, three times the diameter of a penny. This gold coin should be considered an antique, and its rusty appearance is full of historical sense.
After the gold coin appeared, the voice in her head immediately reminded Xia De that this was the item with a strong whispering element that she had sensed. And that paper bag could actually block the perception of long-distance whispering elements. Before Xia De broke into the room just now, it was probably the moment when the paper bag was opened.
This is a cursed item, and gloves must be worn to touch it. That's why Miss Anat wore white gloves instead of the gloves that matched her dress. After getting permission, Shade checked the gold coin. The upward side had a pattern of a skull with a severed hand holding a purse, while the reverse side had a skull with a snake spitting out its tongue in its left eye.
There was a half circle of text on the back edge. After Shade asked Miss Anat to confirm that the characteristics of the gold coin were not triggered by the spell, he interpreted the text:
The greedy exchange their souls for gold.
"This is the Sage-level (Level 2) relic Pirate Blood Money, or to be exact, part of it. Records of Pirate Blood Money can be traced back to the beginning of the Sixth Epoch, when a group of pirates landed on an unnamed island after a storm and found a treasure chest. Among the treasure chest was a box of coins, and this was one of them. According to the church's subsequent investigation, the total number of coins was between 1,025 and 1,034. 27 pirates divided up the box of gold coins and spent them in the dock taverns, brothels, and casinos after landing. All the pirates who spent the blood money committed suicide by jumping into the sea at midnight on the third day after spending the blood money. Their souls were absorbed by the blood money and their bodies turned into undead spirits."
Miss Anat said, Miss Beas looked like Shade, she just found out what this was:
"Is that all?"
she asked, putting on her gloves and taking the rusted gold coin from Shad's hands.
"Of course, it's not just that. The undead who committed suicide by jumping into the sea will return to the shore after death and kill the person who traded blood money with them, but they will not take the blood money with them. When the blood money is traded again, they will come ashore again, and together with the second person who used the coin and committed suicide by jumping into the sea to become a undead, they will hunt down the second person who obtained the blood money through the transaction... ... and so on. This means that behind every blood coin, there is a group of undead waiting to be hunted. When an individual uses multiple blood coins at the same time, only the first one will be affected, and the other blood coins will take effect in the hands of the next user."
Miss Anat took the coin from Miss Beas and flipped it lightly with her fingers:
"Of course, the undead hunters in the sea cannot leave the ocean too far. Therefore, if the person who obtained blood money through trading lives inland, he will be guided to the seaside by the power of the relic. There is even a saying that the person holding blood money is led to the ocean by the power of fate."
"Is this the power of a Sage-level (Level 2) relic?"
Xia De couldn't help but sigh. More than 1,000 coins represented more than 1,000 undead teams. This was the first sage-level relic he had actually come into contact with.
"Sage level is the danger level of all blood money. If there is only one, it is probably only equivalent to the Secret Keeper level (level 3)."
Miss Anat said.
"What about sheltering? As long as the souls of the dead in the sea are sheltered by the church, won't it be meaningless?"
Miss Beas asked.
"It's not that easy, otherwise he wouldn't be rated as a sage."
Miss Anat shook her head:
"The pirate's blood money itself is deceptive. Although you can see that the front and back of this gold coin are different now, this is the activated form. I used it, so it became like this. Once I go to the seaside and die, the blood money will become an ordinary old coin, in this era, it will become an old gold pound. In the unactivated state, it has almost no whispering elements. Even if the ring warlock knows the characteristics of this relic, it is difficult to find its difference in his wallet. In the 15 centuries since it was first discovered, the church has taken in a total of..."
"You used it?"
Xia De interrupted Miss Anat's speech rudely:
"Ms. Anat, are you sure you know what you are going to do?"
Miss Bei Yasi also said worriedly:
"This is why we had a quarrel tonight. I know Miss Annat has her own secrets. I understand that accurate divination requires a price, but I have never heard that a relic can be used as a price."
"Don't worry. I activated this blood money two days ago. Before that, it had stayed with me for three months. I trade with myself, so my identity is the traded party, not the trader. In this way, I will not die in three days, but wait for me to go to the seaside and be killed by the army of undead. Only by activating it can I use it as a price to consume the relic for divination."
Xia De also believes that this approach is too dangerous:
"The price for your accurate divination is a relic called blood money?"
"Among the three ways, 'paying a relic' is just one form of payment. Any relic of the coin type will do. Coins themselves are the most complex symbol in mysticism. They can even represent civilization together with words. The whispers of relics and the enlightenment of coins. What I need is not coins, but the harmonious whispers and enlightenment elements existing in this special item. Only coins and more special types of relics have such power."
She was playing with the gold coins in her hand. Shade was thinking about this statement. Miss Bei Yasi, who came from the church, looked at Miss Anat seriously:
"Ms. Annat, do you know that this practice is very strange? I have heard of people who can absorb relics and make them a part of themselves, but those people are undoubtedly out of control. What you are doing is as dangerous as throwing a gunpowder bomb next to a fire."
“I don’t absorb them, I pay them.”
Miss Anat said, with a confident expression on her face:
"This isn't the first time I've done this. Three years ago, I got six blood coins, which I activated separately when I needed to do divination. The first five had to be consumed in a previous accident (note), and this one is the last one in my hand."