Although the professor's words were very cryptic, Shade still understood that Darkness had also attended the banquet. He handed the letter of complaint to the Natural Church. The church was looking for people all over the city, so it was naturally more convenient than Shade, and it was indeed possible to find out Darkness's location.
Just listening to what the professors said, the Natural Church did not even share the information provided by the "God Summoner" with other churches.
Professor Sanchez snorted:
"That's very likely the case, but this means that the second chosen one is not a ring sorcerer from the church camp."
"It definitely can't be someone from the church. After all, according to the information shared by the Zaras School of Spellcraft, it is recorded in the Whispering Poems that the second person has a demon in him."
Professor Mafar said.
When it comes to demons, the first person Shad thinks of is Dr. Schneider. But the doctor has been in Tobesk, so the mouth under the red gloves that Shad saw last time might also be a demon.
"Yes, it's a symbiotic form, an extremely rare demon. The three major academies have studied that kind of thing. This is a terrifying remnant of the Third Era."
Professor Mafar was shocked. Shade could almost imagine his expression as he frowned and looked distressed when he said this.
The present Sixth Era is the era of steam civilization and ring wizards, the Fifth Era belongs to witches, and the Fourth Era is the era of dark turmoil.
The Third Age was in the distant past, and Saint Byrons did not even open the information of that period to low-level sorcerers. And in the notebook that Miss Felina gave to Shade, once the Fourth Age and the events of the distant past were mentioned, the following contents would become blank. These blanks accounted for three quarters of all the blanks in the notebook.
Shad had only heard about the Third Age from Miss Carina, who described it as "the Third Age in which alien races coexisted with humans, but terrifying and bizarre humanoid creatures occupied most of the material world at the time. They were evil spirits born from whispers. Humans lived in a corner with other normal life forms, protecting each other."
Thinking in this way, the "demon" mentioned by the demonologist I met not long ago and the demon in Dr. Schneider's body might also be terrible evil spirits that have survived from the Third Age, rather than a simple demon race.
"Regarding the Third Era, the Academy and the Church have always been very cautious. Let's just wait outside until the blockade of the manor is opened. I want to see what kind of person the so-called Chosen One is... I hope the Church won't make the same mistake as Tobesk did this time. If they can't stop the Sea Return Ceremony, the entire Coldwater Port will become history."
Then the two professors stood up and left. Xia De sat there without moving, frowning as he looked at the drink in front of him:
"Aurora Mansion... Now the people from the church are there, the people from the Scarlet Cult are there, Darkness is there, the Great Witch is there, and Lecia is also there..."
Xia De thought about it, put a penny tip under the cup, and hurried into the night rain.
Aurora Manor is located at the end of the seaside street. Although there are fences and walls outside the manor, there are no walls blocking the beach behind the manor.
The Church of Nature was in charge of this area among the Five Gods. The church's ring sorcerers, like the two professors, were waiting for news outside the manor. The local police in Tobesk were responsible for preventing people from approaching the manor.
Instead of taking advantage of the blurred vision caused by the stormy night to break through from the front, Shade jumped into the sea first and then swam from the bottom of the sea to the coast behind Aurora Manor.
When a wave hits the shore and then the sea recedes, what remains on the beach are not only shells and seaweed, but also strangers lying on the beach.
It was still dark and visibility was low. He lay there motionless, quietly listening to the sound of rain and the rumble of the tide. After making sure that there was no one nearby, he crawled forward. But after crawling for a while, he found that there was still no one around, so he stood up again, bent over and jogged.
Later he realized that the rain was so heavy that no one could see him even if he jogged, so he just ran forward with big strides.
He carefully observed while running. Although the heavy rain washed the beach, it was not clean. Shade's eyes could catch large patches of black marks. After taking a look with the Blood Echo, a red halo lit up at the black marks, which represented fresh blood.
I don’t know what happened here in the first half of the night.
After crossing the beach and approaching the tiled garden behind the manor, we finally saw teams of police officers patrolling in black waterproof cloaks and holding kerosene lamps.
Their blockade was very tight, but in front of Shade, who had the ability to jump through space, this tightness was obviously not enough. He walked through the grass in the garden, and finally approached the manor house. When Shade crossed an invisible boundary, a strange feeling came to his heart.
He was startled and found that he should have appeared in front of his field of vision, but the reality was that his body did not move.
The rain fell normally in front and behind, and the strange feeling just now did not seem like space movement, but pure Xia De took a step forward and then stepped behind him.
"Is it a spatial dislocation phenomenon?"
Xia De, who knew more about space, frowned and thought that the current situation should be the power of the relic no-entry sign mentioned by Professor Sanchez.
And considering that this could also be considered a "lock", Shad whispered the spell in the rain, then stretched out his glowing fingers forward.
This time, the direction of the finger movement did not change. On the contrary, Xia De felt that his fingertips touched something cold and chilling. He squinted his eyes subconsciously, and then saw the shadow of a wooden board appear in front of his fingers. The wooden board was rectangular, and there were ancient handwritten characters on it:
No entry allowed.
The place where the signature should have been was scratched out as if by a sharp knife.
He tried to rotate his fingers against the phantom of the wooden board. As his spirit was depleted, his fingers rotated at a slight speed, the wooden board became more and more transparent, and the feeling of "unlocking" accumulated bit by bit.
But he could estimate that according to the current progress, even if he exhausted the spirit in his body, he would not be able to open it completely.
"In this case... Space Stabilization Aura!"
Spatial dislocation is also an abnormal spatial phenomenon. As the invisible ripples under Xia De's feet spread around, his fingers began to rotate again.
After reaching a certain limit, the unlocking state is infinitely close to "open", but the conceptual lock has not been completely opened.
Xia De was not panicked, he narrowed his eyes and focused on the front that he could not reach. Then his body disappeared in the distance, and then appeared twenty steps ahead.
He managed to enter an area that should have been inaccessible.
“It really works!”
A smile appeared in the rain at night. To use an inappropriate metaphor, Shade's action just now was just like Mia the cat at home. Although he couldn't completely push the door open, he could find a way to create a gap in the door. As long as the gap was large enough, he could force his way in.
The only difference is that Mia relies on her soft body, while Shade relies on the power of space.
He could come in and go out this way, but it would be impossible for him to leave with Leicia.
"Find her first."
Thinking in his heart, Xia De groped his way to the wall of the manor house in the night rain. He walked around the wall for a while, and when he estimated that he had reached the servants' resting room, he opened the window and climbed in carefully.
There was no one in the room. Xia De restored the suitcase doll in his pocket to its normal size, wiped off the water on his body, changed into clean clothes, then opened the door and walked out carefully.
The corridor was quiet. Although the yellowish gas lamps were on, it looked a bit scary. Using the Blood Echo, there were traces of fresh blood on the floor after being wiped. Although the amount was not large, it still made Xia De very worried.
He hoped to meet the servants of the manor, pretend to be a lost guest, and ask about the situation here. But he didn't see anyone until he walked out of the corridor and came to the huge entrance hall on the first floor of the manor. The floor was covered with red carpet, the crystal chandelier above made the place look magnificent, and the metal stair railings and picture frames on the wall seemed to be shining.
There was a huge oil painting hanging in the middle of the staircase facing the two magnificent golden doors of the manor. The painting was not of an ancestor of the Aurora family, but of a lady with naturally curly brown long hair.
In the Draerion language, brown and brown are not the same color. The former is darker, while the latter is closer to yellow. For example, Luvia and Iluna have brown hair.
The lady in the painting is sitting behind a desk, looking out of the picture with a serious face, and the background of the painting is a blurred bookshelf painted in dark tones. She wears an anchor-shaped sapphire hair accessory on her hair, her facial features are particularly three-dimensional, and her eyebrows are very thin and long, making her eyes look unusually bright.
She was not wearing a one-piece dress, but a white blouse and a black long skirt.
This is the Great Witch of the Witch Council, Sylvie Aurora. Although Miss Carina said that she is almost thirty years old, she looks only about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, about the same age as Miss Carina.
The unique temperament of the witch could not be seen from the oil painting, but Shade could already feel the strange beauty that surpassed ordinary people. If Miss Carina was a mature and stable upper-class aristocratic woman, then this Xiwei Aurora was a heroic and valiant lady who could even be looked at with fear.
Shade stopped and reached out to touch the badge inside his shirt on his chest. He felt the badge hanging there was getting slightly warm, and the witch was obviously upstairs.