"Detective, you did a great job. Your Silver Moon Slash just now was almost more powerful than my Sunshine Spear. The Sage-level relic is indeed extraordinary."
After confirming the opponent's death, Miss Bei Yasi praised while panting, and took out a small bottle of holy water from her pocket and took a sip. She had just used many magic skills in succession, which consumed a lot of energy.
Xia De looked down at the necklace around his neck, then at the body of the Five Ring Warlock. If the opponent had not chosen to transform into ghost mist, the three of them would not have won so thoroughly.
"Even among the sage-level relics, this necklace that the detective borrowed from some lady is a pretty powerful one, oh~"
Miss Anat covered her chest with a painful look, groaned, and sat down on the steps. Victory was not without a price, she was injured.
Neither Shad nor Miss Beatrice went to check on Miss Annat. The former quickly walked to the stairs to listen for footsteps outside, while the latter looked vigilantly at the basement where papers were flying, guarding against the appearance of a second ringmaster.
"no problem."
After a long silence, Xia De spoke softly.
"It's no problem here either. The battle will be over quickly."
Miss Beas said that they were all decisive and reliable people, and Shade admired such girls very much.
The young sorceress continued to observe her surroundings vigilantly, while Shade took out a small bottle of water from his pocket and came to Miss Annat:
"Drink some, not too much, otherwise you will burp. If the injury is serious, you can pour it on the injured area."
The blasphemous silver light flickered on the water. After Miss Annat took it, Shad turned around consciously and waited until the lady behind him whispered that it was ready before turning around and taking the empty bottle.
Shade actually has many means of treatment. The Food of Fullness treats physical damage, Cynthia's Gift of the Silver Moon treats mental trauma, and the Leaf of Eternal Youth, if used as a disposable consumable, can allow a person to fully recover from a serious injury.
In this operation, not to mention his combat capability, his auxiliary abilities alone are enough to play a role.
"Do you still need treatment?"
Xia De did not forget to ask another question. Miss Anat stood up and shook her head:
"It's all right now."
Xia De asked Miss Bei Yasi again:
"Do you need treatment?"
The latter also shook his head:
"Not for now, Detective, go search the body and leave immediately."
Relics are extremely valuable, and the total number of relics recorded in the book will not exceed five digits. Not all ring wizards have relics, at least for those who are not from the church or the academy. But this does not mean that the scarred man who was killed has no relics. For that ridiculous goal, Mercury Blood collected a lot of good things with the help of the puppeteer's script.
Although no suspicious items were found on the body after the initial search, Miss Annat simply flipped a coin and determined that the other party must have some relics on him.
"It's really convenient to have a fortune teller by my side."
Both Shad and Miss Beas had this idea.
He searched the body again but still found nothing. However, with the help of the woman's voice in his head, Shade took out a small glass bottle from the inside of the dissected body with gloves. The bottle was roughly round in shape, but only one-fourth the size of a palm. It had no stopper and was hidden directly in the liver of the body.
The ringmaster can pay a price for power, Miss Bei Yasi doesn't care about one eye, and this scarred man has the courage to stuff such a big thing into his stomach. There is very little mercury inside the bottle, just covering the bottom of the bottle. As Shade shakes, the remaining mercury inside the container also shakes, but no matter how it is poured, the mercury cannot be poured out of the bottle.
"Do you know what this is?"
Xia De asked his companions, and both ladies shook their heads:
"Unknown relics are hidden dangers in themselves. Hide them here first and take them away when you leave. The most important target today is the one with silver pupils."
Miss Annat said, and Shad temporarily pressed the bottle under the body again.
The basement was quite large, and the stacked cardboard boxes almost formed a maze. After searching the bodies, we looked for the entrance to the underground ruins, which was hidden.
Miss Anat prepared to do divination again, but this more specific search would take some time. Shade used the Blood Echo to observe the ground, but unfortunately, apart from the blood that Miss Anat vomited, there was no trace for Shade to observe.
So he used the echoes of the past to capture the sounds within 36 hours. There were rarely any human voices in the underground warehouse that was guarded alone, so Shade caught the sound immediately. It was the voice of the dead scarred man:
"Damn you, Diack, you hid down there and didn't come out, leaving me here to watch the door for you. One day, I'll take your place, and I'll put your ** into my **."
Judging from the tone, it sounds like a complaint.
After this sentence, there was only the sound of pacing, so Shad ended the magic effect and listened again.
There was no sound. Probably at that time, there was no noise coming from the nearby area.
So I listened to it for the third time.
There was still no sound, but Xia De waited patiently for dozens of seconds, and actually heard the sound of the underground warehouse door being opened.
He was startled, but when he saw that the two ladies beside him were not moving and that the door was also not moving, he knew that the sound was from the past.
The door must have been pushed open completely. Then footsteps were heard coming from the stairs, followed by the scarred man's voice:
"Good morning, Mr. Madison."
His tone was very respectful:
"When did you arrive in Tobesk? Sorry, we didn't go to greet you."
This doesn't seem to be the person with mercury blood.
"Just arrived, the weather here is really terrible."
Mr. Maddis spoke the Delarion language with a heavy accent, and Shad couldn't tell where the accent came from.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
The scarred man continued, and Shade could even imagine his respectful expression.
"We should do what we should do, and follow the plan agreed upon by the school and the Silver Eyed One..."
"Hmm? Blood Spirit School? But didn't Miss Carina say that they wouldn't arrive until the weekend?"
Shade frowned.
"... I will go into the ruins and confirm what you have discovered."
Mr. Maddice continued.
"No problem, please follow me. It's not easy to open the entrance to the ruins."
Xia De frowned and looked ahead, then raised his finger and said "hush" to tell his companions not to make any noise. Then, he followed the voices he heard and walked inside, stopping at the south side of the underground warehouse.
The fight just now did not affect this place. The cargo boxes stored in the printing factory were neatly stacked together.
There was the sound of boxes being moved, then a key unlocking the door, and the trapdoor opening with great effort. The two men said goodbye, and one of them apparently went under the trapdoor, and then the trapdoor fell again, the lock was buckled again, the boxes were moved again, and the footsteps of the scarred man were heard, heading towards the warehouse exit.
"Come on, here!"
Only then did he speak, and the two ladies followed him immediately.
Xia De said quickly:
"Someone who is not Mercury Blood entered the ruins this morning to meet Mercury Blood. He may be from the Blood Spirit School."
"That ancient organization? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what the enemy is. But he's out again?"
Miss Beas asked.
"I don't know. I can try to catch the sound again, but I'm not sure how long it will take before I can hear any valuable clues again."
"We don't have that much time to waste. Since the Silver Eyed One already knows that someone has attacked this place, he must be making preparations."
Miss Anat said as she quickly rinsed the cards in her hand.
"The detective has found the entrance."
Miss Beas said.
"No, not to find the entrance, I want to try to predict the next action..."
He drew the top card, but put it back into the pile without showing it to the other two:
"Divination shows that the Silver Eyed Ones probably haven't noticed anything wrong with the ground yet. There's no reason to retreat, so let's keep going."
As he spoke, his purple eyes looked at the other two people one by one. Shade would never look back for the gift box from God, and Miss Bei Yasi was also eager to understand and explore the source of her own power, and would not give up easily:
"Keep going, there's no reason to look back."
We worked together to move the cartons away, finally revealing the trap door on the ground. That was the entrance.
Xia De used his unfinished magic to conjure a sharp blade with his fingertips and roughly cut off the lock. After struggling to open the door, he found a passage with a very steep slope extending to a deeper underground.
The three of them stood around the cave entrance and looked down. There was no light inside the passage, and it looked like a huge mouth that was about to swallow the lives of the three people.
This is the passage dug out by Mercury Blood, and the real entrance to the ruins is deeper. Otherwise, traces of the ruins should have been discovered long ago when this house was built and underground pipes were laid in the city of Tobysk.
But the entrance to the underground ruins also couldn't be too deep. According to Miss Annat's speculation, when the ruins were built, the cult of the fallen old god had already declined to the point of disappearing. They did not have the financial resources and energy to dig deep into the large underground ruins, and it was impossible for the Blood of Mercury to dig such a deep underground passage in just one year.
Entering such a narrow passage, the person at the front may face an attack from underground. In order to avoid being discovered by the ring magicians in the ruins, the three of them set out immediately. Shade even took out a piece of the immortal youth leaf and asked Miss Bei Yasi, who was walking in front, to hold it in her mouth. Holding this leaf in the mouth can effectively keep the seriously injured person active.
The young girl didn't say much, she bent down and walked into the crypt with the leaf in her mouth. Shade followed behind her, putting his hand on her back, ready to use fake immortality at any time. Miss Anat walked at the end to prevent anyone from attacking from behind.
This artificially dug tunnel was very difficult to walk, but no one complained. For safety reasons, they did not create light and used a Silence Charm to silence the footsteps of the three people. The passage was not very long, and it took only ten minutes to move quickly before Miss Bei Yasi slowed down.
She vaguely sensed in the darkness that the passage had come to an end and the exit was ahead.