As for what happened next, Shade didn't need to get involved. His mission was to get Steve Evant, who was carrying the Huasheng Ring, away from here, away from the normal surveillance post, and away from the crowded mansion.
The maid who left would guide him to where he was supposed to go, and the maid, Miss Tifa Servet, would be waiting for him there.
Of course, Ivant cannot be killed now to prevent disturbing the cultists. The maid naturally has a way to replace the real ring with a fake one and make Ivant temporarily forget what he has experienced. As for the specific method used, that is Miss Carina's concern and has nothing to do with Shade.
The plan went smoothly. All Xia De had to do was wait for the signal, then meet the maid in the courtyard of the mansion, and then he could leave openly.
While I felt relieved, I also started to worry about another big adventure that would come soon.
He walked to the innermost part of the restaurant without stopping, and spent the large sum of gold pounds he got from the maid to get the two items he bought. It would take some time for the maid to deal with Steve Ivant, and during this period, Shade had better find a safe place and wait patiently.
The lesson of Lake View Manor made Xia De realize that wandering around would greatly increase the probability of encountering bad luck. Especially since there was another God-summoning ceremony tonight, he had to be more careful.
They couldn't stay in the auction hall in the restaurant. When Ivant came back, he might think of something when he saw Shad again.
"I definitely can't go to the third floor. There seem to be a lot of important people on the second floor. I can't go to the courtyard either. It will remind me of the things that happened in Lake View Manor, so I have to go to the first floor."
Thinking in his mind, he walked to the first floor with the two priceless auction items he bought. The banquet still followed the buffet service, and Xia De did not serve any food here to prevent accidentally eating strange things.
But he still stood beside the table full of food for a while, pretending to be curious about the fruit salad on the table:
“Is there something wrong with this food?”
I curiously asked the female voice in my heart.
I didn't feel any problem at this distance.
So he pretended to be casual and wiped with his finger the dark liquid trace that was left on the tablecloth at some point.
"And now?"
There was a very slight odd sensation, but I couldn't tell what had been done to the food.
“It is true.”
Standing alone in the corner would make me look weird, so I looked around on the first floor and ended up watching others play Rhodes with a group of people.
Unexpectedly, he did not meet any acquaintances that he could talk to casually this time, so Xia De just stood in the crowd without saying anything. As for what kind of special cards the two parties playing cards had, he did not care at all, he just wanted to leave here as soon as possible.
There were not many Rhodes fans at the banquet, and most of them came for the two extremely expensive special cards that were auctioned at the end. Xia De did not look out of place standing here, and those who came to watch and then left did not look out of place either.
Therefore, when a strange middle-aged man walked up to Xia De and watched the ongoing card game with Xia De, Xia De did not care too much.
But the voice in his ear really surprised him:
Don't move your eyes, just look straight ahead.
"What?"
Don't change your facial expressions too much.
Xia De squinted his eyes and looked at the card game, feeling a little surprised:
"What happened? Did the evil god arrive early? Burn your divinity quickly, I..."
It's not that serious, you have a high-level warlock by your side.
"Oh, it's just the Ringwitch."
He heaved a sigh of relief, and out of the corner of his eye he could see the middle-aged man next to him. He was wearing a black suit like Xia De, but he was a little taller than Xia De, and had a medium build, neither fat nor thin.
Because he couldn't observe directly, Xia De couldn't see more details. It was only when the voice in his heart reminded him that he suddenly realized that this stranger had a very unique temperament.
The so-called temperament is actually difficult to define, but when Xia De noticed him, a strange feeling came to his heart, as if a huge mountain stood beside him, but overall, he just felt that the other party was very powerful, but did not feel any weird aura.
This led him to the conclusion:
"Thirteen Ring Warlock?"
It should be.
There are not many thirteen-ring sorcerers in the entire material world. The one next to him should be Mr. Hog Rundle, the "Sun Greatsword" of the Church of the Sun.
Xia De had never met this gentleman, but the other party might know him. When Xia De was shot at noon last Wednesday, this gentleman was standing a few hundred steps behind him and it is very likely that he saw the photo on the news later.
"You can sense that the other person is a high-level sorcerer, so can the other person sense that I am a high-level sorcerer?"
Judging from Shade's basic lessons, this should be impossible, but he still asked.
Don't worry, as long as we don't use spells or magic around him, he will definitely not be able to sense us.
He didn't know whether the other person's appearance next to him was a coincidence or deliberate, but thinking that he hadn't done anything bad, Xia De didn't get too nervous.
So neither of them spoke, but stared at the ongoing card game seriously. During this time, Xia De was bored and thought that the magic copied from the carbon paper of the witch that he swallowed was the magic that made the other party famous.
Thinking of this, he looked at the other man again. The sharp and warm temperament of the middle-aged man made Xia De think deeply. He roughly understood what kind of magic he would get.
It was not until one of the players turned over the Moon 7 in frustration and lost to 18 with 22 points, temporarily ending the game, that Shad sighed, turned around and left, while Mr. Rendel continued to watch the game.
"It seems that he didn't come here to stare at me on purpose."
Xia De didn't want to have anything to do with anyone here. After successfully leaving the thirteen-ring warlock, he thought about finding a cooler place to stay.
Although the auction was only held on the second floor, the rooms on the first floor were also open to guests. The Earl's youngest son took out some of the family's collections and rented some from friends, and arranged it to look like an exhibition. He claimed that this was to show off the family's financial strength and to make the high ticket price more valuable.
Xia De wanted to find a room with few people to calm down, but when he was walking in the corridor and looking at the portraits hanging on the wall, a respectable middle-aged gentleman holding a wine glass walked out of the room in front of him. Both of them were stunned:
"Dr. Schneider?"
"Shad?"
The person who came out of the room on the side of the corridor was the middle-aged psychiatrist with blue eyes. He looked at Xia De in surprise, and Xia De was even more surprised.
“Follow me!”
After realizing what was happening, Xia De took the doctor's hand without hesitation and walked to the window at the end of the corridor. Outside the window was the courtyard of the mansion in the night.
After confirming that there was no one outside the window and no one in the corridor behind him was paying attention to this side, Xia De lowered his voice and asked hurriedly:
"Doctor, why are you here?"