According to Luvia, if you directly divine "how to obtain the Demon Seal", you will probably only get an absolutely correct but very vague direction. If you directly divine "how to fight the demon in Darkness", the result you get may be to ask the church for help.
Shade thought for a moment:
"I want to divine how to obtain the Demon Hunting Seal in Tobesk and the surrounding areas of Coldwater Harbor within two weeks without too much danger."
Luvia looked at him, and Shade added:
"If we can't divine or the result is still unclear, we will give up the idea of using this relic to fight the devil and think of other ways. Luvia, if I use a large piece of canvas to turn the Dawn Church into a toy and carry it with me, and then release it to suppress the devil when the time is right, will the church hunt me down?"
Of course he was joking. The spirit of a second-ring warlock was not enough to accomplish such a thing. Moreover, the church was constantly nurtured with various prayers and confessions, which was equivalent to a powerful sacred alchemical item in itself. Shade's magic toy making was ineffective against alchemical items.
Luvia also laughed:
"Shade, it's hard to say whether the church will hunt you down, but Priest Augustus will definitely hunt you down."
The girl with short brown hair closed her eyes and threw a coin. As the coin rose to the highest point and fell, rust appeared on the surface. Before falling back onto the table, it turned into ashes and dissipated in the air.
This means that the divination is effective.
"What was the result?"
Shade asked expectantly.
Luvia opened her eyes, and the purple light gradually faded. This divination had little effect on her, and it went smoothly:
"It's a very strange result. If you keep walking along your path, you will most likely come across this seal."
"What does this mean?"
"Just act according to your own plan, and you will most likely be able to obtain this relic."
Shade pointed to himself:
"How can I be so lucky as to encounter a relic when I go out? You also said that I am the least likely person to be the chosen one."
"But didn't you say that when Father Augustus mentioned the Demon Hunting Seal, he said that those seals always appear around places related to demons? So the probability of you encountering it in Tobesk is much greater than encountering other relics."
Luvia said, and Shade thought about it and felt that this statement seemed to make some sense.
"But hasn't Darkness arrived in Tobesk yet?"
"There's a demon lair in Tobesk itself."
Luvia smiled:
"I'm not idle. In the dark realm of the out-of-control angel-level relics, there are some terrible creatures that will leave the forgotten area and spread the darkness further. I have already found out that they are the servants of the secrets, the evil demons left over from the Third Age. Although they are now derivatives of the relics, they are still demons."
“So, the possibility that Darkness’s Chosen Ceremony is related to the Dark Territory has increased?”
Only then did Xia De understand.
"Yes, so there is no need to worry about the relic. If it should belong to you, then it must belong to you. Oh, I almost forgot about this, Shade. Iluna came to see me yesterday. She has not been idle either. She is collecting materials recently and plans to make two more brooches that can use the Sunlight Gun, one for me and one for you. In addition, she has discovered more information from those scattered pieces of knowledge."
Luvia said, taking out her notebook and showing it to Shade:
"This time she knew the corresponding duties of the ancient gods. Unlike the old gods who mostly had a single duty, the ancient gods did not just have a single duty as their core. They were extremely powerful, and their core duties were not just one. The ancient gods of balance, the upside-down judge, were balance, power, and perfection."
"In this case, the Ancient God of Time, the Infinite Tree Father, is the protector of time, trees, and nature. I don't know whether the door should be regarded as the power of the Tree Father or the power of the Ancient God of Space."
Xia De also said that he had always been interested in topics related to the ancient gods, so he stretched out his fingers and counted:
"The ancient god of the moon, Silver Moon Sage, is the moon, the night, and the recorder. Yes, the recorder, so there is the Silver Moon Library. I don't know if the stars count... Then who is the ancient god corresponding to darkness, and what kind of power does this great man have?"
Luvia turned the pages of her notebook, and the contents on it were all sorted out by Iluna:
"The ancient god of darkness is the darkness of lurking, whose power manifests itself in darkness, error, history..."
"Wait, history?"
Xia De was a little surprised:
"That sounds like the power of the Infinite Tree Father."
"It's normal that the powers of the thirteen ancient gods overlap. You said that Silver Moon Sage has the power of the recorder, but don't forget that in the founding series of Rhodes cards, there is also the founding knowledge. Moreover, time and history are not the same power. Just because the Earthshaker Worm and the Midgard Serpent are gods related to the earth, do we think that their powers are exactly the same?"
Luvia gave an example based on Shad's recent experience.
“But right now, Darkness seems to be showing only darkness.”
Shad thought about it, about history and mistakes, and somehow he thought about the Dark Box again.
"No, the mistake has also been revealed. Do you think it's so easy to coexist with a demon?"
Luvia corrected:
"So, what Iluna has shown so far is just balance. She also has more power waiting to be discovered. The Chosen One is truly amazing."
A smile appeared on her face.
Xia De didn't stay in the Prophet Association for too long. He was worried that if he ran into Vice President Mark, the two of them would talk about next month's Big City Players Rhodes Card Tournament, and the whole morning would be wasted.
Walking out of the gate of the Prophet's Association, the city was still shrouded in mist, but the summer morning sky could still be seen. Under the gray sky, Shade's sight passed over the towering buildings and the smoking chimneys, looking far away in the direction of the Tobysk Railway Station.
"In a few hours, Leisia will get off there... I don't know how long it will take her to get out of the Yodel Palace and meet me at St. Teresa's Square."
Dorothy and Resias could not be too close to each other, so Dorothy could not go to pick up Resias. Even when Resias came to 6 St. Teresa’s Square, Dorothy could not stay in the same room with them.
Thinking of this, Xia De became quite worried. He was afraid that if their situation continued to develop, something terrible and irreversible would happen.
Today was finally free, so Xia De returned home to get the commission documents, intending to complete the last two commissions.
Between looking for an ophthalmologist and looking for the missing girl, Xia De chose the former this time. When he was ready to leave with the file, the orange cat came running down the stairs on the third floor. When it saw Xia De walking out of the second floor door, it meowed at him and then quickly ran into the room. No one knew what it had done on the third floor.
When Shade was not at home, the cat probably regarded the entire St. Teresa's Square 6 as its own adventure base. Judging from the fact that it was a bit greedy, but had not gained any weight in the two months since being adopted by Shade, the cat must have exercised a lot.
The client of the "search for a doctor who can cure eye diseases" is Mr. Thomas Mandis, a blind man living in the university district. He has many friends with the same eye diseases in the local area, and one of them miraculously cured his eyes a month before the stranger came into this world.
Mr. Mandis certainly wanted to treat his eyes, but his friend refused to reveal the doctor's information. So he commissioned a detective to investigate. At that time, Detective Sparrow was in poor health, and this commission was probably the last formal commission for Detective Sparrow.
Just like the tasks of investigating the mistress and finding the cat, Detective Sparrow Hamilton had almost completed this task. On the third day after accepting the commission, he found the "magical" Dr. Jacob Alfred through his own network.
Dr. Alfred, like Dr. Schneider, opened his own small clinic. However, the ophthalmologist's clinic, located in the northern part of the city, was small and he was the only doctor in the clinic, so he was not well-known and was indeed difficult to find.
The client, Mr. Mandis, had a four-month commission, so Detective Sparrow left this commission to Shad, hoping that it would be one of his tasks in the next two months.
For the commission to track the mistress, Shad could do one last tracking as a way to perfectly finish the commission. For the task of finding an ophthalmologist, Detective Sparrow also suggested in the documents he left behind that Shad could try to observe the current situation of Mr. Frank Bundy, a friend of Mr. Mandis, whose eye disease had been cured, and include his current situation in the commission report, which might make the client pay the balance more happily.
"Mr. Thomas Mendis, a blind man, is the client, Jacob Alfred, an ophthalmologist in the downtown area, is the target, and Mr. Frank Bundy, a blind musician of the Noshan Opera Company, is the one whose eyes were successfully treated."
Because this commission involved three key figures, Shade carefully analyzed their information. Among them, Dr. Alfred was an outsider who moved to Tobesk seven years ago and established a firm foothold in the local area with his ophthalmology clinic in the lower city.
The client, Mandis, and the musician Mr. Bondi are both locals. As for the client's occupation, he is responsible for proofreading some Braille materials in the public department of the city hall. Although he does not earn much, it is a very decent job and he has not lost his ability to work due to his physical disability.
Shad decided to follow Detective Sparrow's suggestion and visit the blind musician to collect information about his current condition and the extent of his eyes' recovery before submitting the investigation report to the client.
If nothing unexpected happens, this matter can be resolved today. (To be continued)