"This means that my savings are close to £2,300. It's time to renovate the third floor. But I still need to find reliable decorators... Maybe the church can help."
Putting Princess Ajeelina behind him and having breakfast, Shad sorted out the documents left by Detective Sparrow and planned to officially start dealing with the two commissions of "finding a doctor who can cure eye diseases" and "finding Miss White's runaway sister" before Darkness came to Tobesk.
There was actually no urgency in these two commissions. Detective Sparrow had already found an ophthalmologist, and the lady who ran away from home was actually having a quarrel with Miss White and was hiding in her own apartment in North Tobesk. She was not in any danger at all.
After confirming the plan for next week, Shade left the lazy cat at home to look after the house, and then took the carriage to the Dawn Church. There were not many people in the church on Thursday morning, and Father Augustus, who suddenly had some free time after the Holy Prayer Festival, also had time to meet Shade.
When the priest heard that Shade wanted to find a team to renovate his house, he was happy to help. The church had a regular renovation team, so the priest gave Shade his business card and asked him to contact them himself.
After Shade took the business card and thanked him, he quietly asked the priest a question:
"Priest, does the church have any outstanding methods to deal with demons?"
"demon?"
The priest was stunned.
"It's not an alien creature or demon. It's a weird, evil spirit-like thing."
After Shade explained, Father Augustus immediately showed a look of horror on his face:
"Shad, what happened to you? Come on, follow me to the main hall to pray. If you get contaminated by that kind of stuff, you'll be in big trouble."
He pulled Xia De's sleeve and tried to pull him up, but Xia De hurriedly shook his head:
"No, no, I'm not so unlucky as to encounter such a rare evil creature. Priest, I just want to know, if it is confirmed that a person is possessed by an evil spirit or demon, how can we deal with it."
"Do you care about the life of the possessed person?"
Seeing that Shade was really fine, the priest asked.
"I don't care at all. It's better to be dead."
"Then ask the church to let the high-level warlocks deal with him."
The priest proposed a very practical plan.
"What if I wanted to deal with a similar enemy myself?"
Xia De asked again.
"What on earth happened to you?"
The priest was quite worried, but seeing that Shade was unwilling to speak, he still gave his own advice:
"People possessed by demons, whether they are devoured directly or form a symbiotic relationship, are not easy for low-level warlocks to deal with. But these weird things are extremely afraid of the power of the righteous gods. Note that I am not bragging, I am really extremely afraid. Therefore, if you can lead the other party to the church of the righteous gods, the other party will be greatly suppressed."
But in the temple of the evil god Lord of the Scarlet Spiral, the suppression Darkness suffered was almost the same as that of other people. This shows that the special damage effect on evil spirits and demons is not possessed by all gods, but is unique to the righteous gods.
"The church... I wrote it down. What else?"
Shade took out his notebook and began to record. Seeing his serious look, Father Augustus continued:
"Also, divine arts and divine rituals have excellent effects on demons. If similar evil demons appear in the material world, even if the academy discovers them first, the church will be asked to deal with them. This is because the church's methods are more effective."
"Divine magic..."
Shade nodded again. The reason why the Sunlight Spear could hurt Darkness was not only because this power belonged to the true chosen one, but also because it was a high-level divine art that was very effective in fighting against evil spirits.
"Are there any other options besides this, such as learning the demon's true name, or sprinkling them with refined salt?"
Shade asked again, and the priest immediately shook his head:
"That's all the imagination of the country folk. It's ridiculous superstition, even more ridiculous than using garlic to fight against blood-sucking species. Ring sorcerers learn real mysticism, and they can't believe in those things. Some relics are effective against such terrible things, but you can't find those things..."
Father Augustus frowned, as if he was thinking carefully, and Shade did not disturb him. After a full ten minutes of silence, the priest whispered:
"Since you don't want to tell me what happened to you, I won't force you. But I can make a very effective potion that can fight demons. I named it Weak Angel Potion... It's really effective. Shade, do me a favor and I can prepare a bottle for you."
"Of course."
Shade nodded immediately, but the name "Angel Potion" made him curious. The ring wizards were very strict in naming potions. The registration and patent application of each potion would be strictly reviewed to avoid exaggerated names.
Although the circle magic is in the field of mysticism, the academic atmosphere is still very rigorous. So Shade couldn't imagine what kind of potion could be called "Angel Potion".
"Priest, what do you need me to do? Investigating, killing, smuggling, stealing, playing cards, I can do all of these!"
"No, no, no need to be so exaggerated."
The old priest immediately stopped Shad from speaking and signaled him not to talk about such things in church:
"I will provide the ingredients for the potion. You need to meet me at this location at midnight tonight. I need your help. It's just a small matter."
The priest wrote down an address and handed it to Shad. Shad took a look and found that it was actually a rural cemetery in the north of the city. Although it was not the one guarded by Mr. Kopps, it was also an unnamed rural cemetery in a small village outside the city.
"OK."
Although he didn't understand what to do, Xia De nodded:
“Do I need to prepare anything in advance?”
"Are you afraid of dead bodies and ghosts?"
the priest asked.
"Of course I'm not afraid. What are ghosts compared to what I've dealt with?"
"That's good. If nothing goes wrong, we can finish the work in two hours. Meet under the dead tree on Hanged Man Road outside the city at twelve o'clock midnight. Oh, if it's convenient, please bring your cat with you. Of course, you don't have to bring it."
Xia De didn't care much about the request to bring a cat. What he cared more about was who would name a remote path "Hanged Man's Path".
If possible, Shad would never want to approach such a place at midnight.
In addition to the method provided by the priest, there is actually another way to fight against demons, that is to fight demons with demons. Although Shade does not know how powerful the demon in Dr. Schneider is, it is definitely much stronger than the demon in Darkness.
After all, even Xia De, who had a sensitive soul, didn't feel anything strange about the doctor when he saw him.
But the demon in Dr. Schneider was like a time bomb after all, and Shade didn't know when it would explode. If he really got the doctor involved in this matter, and it led to the next change in the demon in the doctor, Shade would definitely feel guilty.
Therefore, after leaving the Dawn Church, Shad thought about it and decided not to go to Dr. Schneider for advice. If possible, he would even try his best to prevent Darkness from meeting the doctor.
However, Tobesk is so old, and being a doctor is not a profession like a detective that requires running around everywhere, so Shad really hopes that his worries are unnecessary.
After returning home, except for Dorothy's visit in the afternoon to bring a message from Leithia to Shad, no visitors came to No. 6 St. Teresa's Square that day.
The blonde girl informed Shad of Her Royal Highness the Princess' train travel schedule, and Shad expressed that he had no business recently and was in a distressed mood.
"Although there is no business, haven't you made a lot of money recently? From Karina."
Shad felt that Dorothy said this on purpose, and began to doubt whether the soul sitting across the coffee table was Dorothy or Lesia.
"I made a lot of money, but my career as a detective wasn't going anywhere."
He was extremely distressed and decided to think of other ways to advertise himself. After all, newspaper ads have a limited reach, so the stranger planned to distribute flyers or post small advertisements.
"Oh, Dorothy, speaking of which, it's Queen Diana's birthday at the end of the month. Miss Carina suggested that I give this to the Queen, and I wanted to ask for your advice as well."
"Gift? What are you going to give?"
Dorothy was very curious.
So Xia De got up and went to the study, then took out the round pearl that was half the size of a fist.
After putting it on the table, the orange cat, which had been sniffing something in the kitchen, immediately ran over happily, and then lay on it happily as if hatching an egg. The soft cat immediately turned into an arc shape, but was immediately taken off by Xia De.
"Oh~"
Looking at the perfectly round pearl, Dorothy, like all women who have seen it, groaned. She reached out to touch the pearl, as if to confirm whether it was an illusion created by Shade.
He looked at Shade with wide green eyes:
"Is this the pearl you told me about the day you came back? I didn't expect... it would be this big."
"Yes, and I'm pretty sure it won't be associated with murlocs. Murloc pearls are golden and a circle larger than this."
Shade grabbed his hair:
"Originally I didn't know about the Queen's birthday, but Miss Carina said that there have been some political disturbances in Tobesk recently, and asked me to hurry up and send a gift. So I wanted to ask you, what happened recently? Isn't it just that a prince was captured?"
"Carina did a good job this time. This advice is very useful to you. Oh, my detective, although you are very politically sensitive, you still don't know enough about the royal family. Every prince and princess who takes over political affairs will form a deep-rooted faction in Tobesk. This time, it's not a prince, but an entire political group that is going to be in big trouble."
Dorothy said that she knew most of what Leicia knew:
"You saved the queen, which in itself has announced your political inclination. This is a good opportunity. If you can win the queen's favor again, not to mention the title of knight, next time no matter what you do, you may be directly knighted."