After a simple wash, he went downstairs to get milk and goat's milk. It took him a few minutes to prepare breakfast for Mia, who then woke up from her sleepy state.
Seeing Xia De getting dressed and ready to go out, he stood up from the bed curiously, but Xia De didn't plan to take it with him:
"Mia, take care of the house. Your breakfast is in the dining room. Wait for me to come back home."
"Meow!"
The cat shook its head, jumped down the stairs with its short legs, and followed Shade to the first floor. The cat stood on the stairs and watched Shade put on his shoes, and hurriedly rushed out of the warm and comfortable home into the morning light that had just appeared in the east.
Shad first went to the nearest Quill Street and found Dorothy who hadn't even gotten up yet.
The landlady who opened the door was wearing a coat over her pajamas and refused to let Shad go upstairs. Shad could only wait for her to bring Dorothy down with sleepy eyes. The blonde girl, who was very careful about her image, wore a cloak to resist the chill of the early autumn morning. Although her hair was not combed, it still could not hide her beauty.
Dorothy said jokingly to Shad, who was standing outside the door:
"When the landlady called me just now, I thought it was the editors of the Steambird Daily, urging me to submit my manuscript again. Is there anything you want so early in the morning? Or do you want to see my new pajamas?"
Although she was woken up, she was in a good mood to see Xia De so early:
"How are the big city players? I haven't had time to read the newspaper yet."
"I won, but it doesn't matter. Pack up as soon as possible and meet up with the doctor."
Shade said with a serious expression.
"What happened?"
Dorothy frowned, realizing that Shad was in big trouble.
"Papa Augustus is dead."
"What?"
She opened her eyes wide, finally waking up completely.
Afterwards, Shade took a carriage to the apartment that Luvia rented in the east of the city. It was six thirty-three, and the purple-eyed girl had just gotten up.
The apartment that Luvia rented did not have a landlady to look after the door, so she could let Shad directly into her room on the second floor.
After opening the door, Luvia went to the bathroom to wash up in her pajamas without buttons fastened. She asked Shade to wait in the living room. She thought Shade came to invite her to have breakfast together:
"Actually you could have come later. It's too early now. Lack of sleep is one of every girl's worst enemies."
The purple-eyed girl's voice came from the bathroom.
"Father Augustus is in trouble. You should pack up and go to the doctor. We will meet at the doctor's place."
Shade said through the bathroom door, not intending to stay here. This was his first time entering Luvia's home:
"I'll go wake up the doctor first, hurry up."
"What happened to Father Augustus?"
Luvia pushed open the bathroom door and no longer wanted to joke with Shade:
"Calculating the time, didn't the priest just arrive in Midhillburg?"
"Papa Augustus is dead."
Xia De frowned and said:
"But he's not dead yet. He can still be saved. I need your help."
"What?"
She also couldn't understand this sentence.
"What? Father Augustus is dead?"
Another person who couldn't understand this fact was Dr. Schneider.
It was seven o'clock in the morning when Shad arrived at Dr. Schneider's psychological clinic. The doctor, who was having breakfast in the clinic, saw Shad coming to visit so early and wanted to make a joke about the gossip tabloid in his hand, which slandered last night's "Big City Players" final as a duel between "the Archduke's lover and the Archduke's lover."
But after hearing what Shade said, the doctor was no longer in the mood to joke. He put down the newspaper at the dining table:
"Detective, it's so early in the morning. You are not here just to make fun of me, are you?"
From the look on his face, the doctor was desperately hoping that Shade would tell him that this was a joke.
"I didn't even have breakfast myself, do you think I'm kidding, Doc?"
Seeing that Xia De had buttoned his shirt incorrectly and looked in a hurry, the middle-aged man sitting at the dining table covered his mouth in disbelief:
"Priest Augustus really..."
"Wait a minute, until Dorothy and Luvia come, and then we can talk together."
He sat down at the table and took a look at the breakfast of the wealthy, middle-class psychiatrist, but had no appetite at all.
The doctor covered his mouth, still unable to believe this fact. The morning light from the window illuminated half of the dining table and the newspaper on the table.
In the photo of Shade shaking hands with Mr. Cameron on the hanging board beside the table, Shade's blurry face was smiling. But at this moment, he could not feel the joy of winning the big city player more than ten hours ago.
Soon, Dorothy and Luvia also arrived. In the doctor's visiting room, Shad told his dream last night in full and swore that it was absolutely true and not an illusion.
Because Xia De had shown to be reliable in the past, the other three members of the group did not doubt him.
"So, Priest Augustus, who just arrived at Midhill Castle, was imprisoned somewhere, in a state of being half dead and almost dead."
The doctor concluded, and Shade nodded:
"That's about it. Midhill Castle is too far from Tobesk, and the danger he encountered was too great. There was no possibility of helping him, so the priest said right away that he was dead."
"But no matter what, we can't ignore Father Augustus."
' said Dorothy, with a very anxious look in her eyes.
Apart from the doctor, she has been in the group the longest and has a deep affection for everyone here.
"Yes."
Luvia calmed down for a moment and thought about it:
"Doctor, please inform the academy immediately and tell them that our ring wizard Luvia Annat suddenly shattered her crystal ball while performing daily divination, and then saw some terrible visions about Priest Rat Augustus. I hope the academy can notify the local ring wizard group in Midhill Castle to ensure the priest's safety."
Although they could not cross half the continent to the distant border mountain city, the academy could. Moreover, the academy knew that Luvia's divination was sometimes very accurate, so the academy would also take this matter seriously.
"Okay, no problem."
The doctor nodded, stood up and walked to his desk.
"Besides that, the True God Church..."
Xia De narrowed his eyes:
"Let's not alert the church first. The priest is with the church, and the local church must have discovered his disappearance, so let the college contact the church. And we have no reason to tell the church that something happened to Priest Augustus... These things are not the main reason why I came to you. In fact, I came to you because I want to go to Midhill Castle in person."
"What?"
The doctor who was writing a letter looked at Shade in surprise, Luvia frowned slightly, and Dorothy asked uncertainly:
"Didn't you say that you could only go to Coldwater Harbor?"
Xia Dehe showed her the hidden space in the basement.
"Yes, but I can try to go to more places. I need your help, and I need luck to help me achieve my goal in one go."
"Wait, I still don't understand!"
Dr. Schneider said at the desk.
"Specifically, using the rare mineral white stone crystal, I can randomly build a space transfer channel from Saint Teresa Square to a certain place in the world, but it can only be used by the owner of the space spirit rune."
In fact, the Chosen One Iluna can also use it, but she needs to build her own landmarks.
"So, the batch of Coldwater Port wine you gave me some time ago, and the materials you got from Coldwater Port... Isn't space transfer very dangerous? What method have you found?"
The doctor suddenly realized what Xia De meant, but he did not delve into Xia De's method:
"So you need luck to turn the random transfer into a fixed-point transfer."
"Yes, is there any way?"
Xia De looked at the three people. If there was really no other way, he could only try to use the twenty-sided dice of fate again in violation of the rules and try his luck at the risk of being severely backlashed by fate.
The space left by the ancient gods is immune to most extraordinary effects. Therefore, even if you use the puppeteer's script, you can't affect the destination of the journey. Only the effects that affect yourself can work.
Luvia shook her head:
"My divination is not effective there."
Price divination is ineffective not only against gods, but also against the spaces left behind by ancient gods.
"I need to contact my friends at Zaras College of Literature. I don't have any help at the moment."
Dorothy shook her head.
"Don't bother yourself. If it's just luck, I might be able to find a way."
The doctor said casually as he sent the letter in his hand to the college through the pages of the manuscript paper.
"Doctor, I knew you met Shade because you used the relic that changed your luck!"
"No, absolutely not. My friend, you also know Mr. Alan Madison of Sukessex Higher Medical School. He has a relic that can affect luck. But a relic that affects luck must come at a price."
The doctor looked at Xia De seriously. Xia De just thought about it and nodded:
"If it's to save Father Augustus, I'm willing to take some risks."
"Okay then, I'll go find Madison and meet up at your house later."
The doctor said.
"Then I'll go find my friend in Zaras and see if she can provide any help. I'll meet you at your house at noon."
Dorothy also said.
"Then I'll go home and prepare for divination. At least I want to know what happened."
Luvia said very worriedly.
So the four of them left separately. Before returning home, Shade sent a letter to Miss Carina to see if she had time to meet. Although Miss Carina's territory was in Saradir County, which was the southwest of Draerion, the powerful Witch Council might also have influence in Midhill Castle.
It was nine o'clock in the morning when Xia De got home. He packed his things and planned to go to the Tobesk Mining Association to buy the white stone crystal.
But as soon as he opened the door, he saw a carriage stopped in front of his house, and Luvia, carrying a small suitcase, had arrived.
"I'm going to buy white stone crystal."
"Let's go together."
She placed the small box containing the divination props in the hallway of Shad's house, and then she and Shad got back into the carriage that had not left.
As the carriage slowly moved forward, Luvia extended her hand to Shad, and Shad looked at her.
"You know what I want to do."
The girl with purple eyes said.
Xia De smiled and took out a coin from his pocket:
"But this time it's not blood money, it's new coins that I got last night. Luvia, please help me divine where I can find the blood of Priest Augustus in Tobesk."