“This is really interesting.”
Shade made a dry comment and did not continue on this topic. But Father Augustus remembered something else and asked Shade while holding his pipe:
"Tomorrow, which is Tuesday night, there will be a large banquet in the city. The venue is the courtyard of the Mechanics College in Midhill Castle and part of the castle. The nobles, merchants, and even the church in the city have been invited. I have also received an invitation, detective, are you interested in going together? I can get another invitation."
"Who's hosting the party? What's the theme?"
Shad asked.
"It's hosted by the local Chamber of Commerce. This week is the local traditional Fire Festival, and the Midhill Castle Chamber of Commerce will hold an autumn charity dinner as usual. Some goods will be auctioned and donated equally to the charity organizations of the Five Gods Church. There may be relics among the auction items, which will be very interesting."
Father Augustus said with a smile.
"Charity dinner? In the summer, I attended a charity auction for Tobesk and I think I met Dr. Schneider..."
Xia De thought in his heart:
"Then... ... "
... ... Then you leave the banquet to fight the Silver Eyed One, and the banquet is actually a ceremony for the arrival of the Lord of the Blood Feast.
“She” added about the incident that happened a few months ago.
Xia De couldn't help showing a worried expression on his face:
"Priest, I'd better not go. It's not appropriate for me to appear in front of too many people in Midhill Castle."
"Okay."
The old priest nodded, and did not force it, and then talked about another matter:
"Also, I heard a rumor in the church that there seems to be a vampire problem in the city recently."
"Priest, are you too idle in the church? How do you know everything?"
Shade joked, and then confirmed the news from Father Augustus:
"I know this too. The nuns of the spiritual order mentioned that the local vampires already have three sage-level relics. They seem to be planning something big."
"At a time like this, those dirty blood-sucking things should stop causing trouble."
The priest muttered that in the eyes of the Orthodox Church, vampires are not a good race.
After lunch, the priest gave Shade a file bag, which contained new information about the Death Void that he had sorted out in the past half month. Although the priest did not enter the Void again, he learned more while following the Natural Church to arrange the ceremony, and then understood more things that the Church did not know.
And when the two shook hands and said goodbye, something unexpected happened.
Shade's hand touched the palm of the Augustus priest, and then the ancient voice of thaumaturgy activated itself, bringing Shade a message about the first era:
Angels are the first gods created by God in the First Age. They are the first angels and the first creations. They know the ancient secrets, but they are also forced to reduce their own power due to the departure of the ancient gods.
"What's going on? Could it be that the level 0 relic that Priest Augustus encountered when he was young is really related to the original angel, and that relic is actually in Priest Augustus' body... Speaking of which, more than a month ago, the priest and I met a member of the Truth Society who was trying to merge the relic in the cemetery outside Tobesk..."
Shade controlled his expression and didn't let the priest see what he was thinking. After that, Shade sent the information to the House of the Blind, which was still handed over to the church by the Spiritual Order. After that, he set off to return to Tobesk's home, bringing the cat and the coin in his hand, and met Luvia again in the Prophet's Association on Silver Cross Avenue under the pretext of "divination cat".
He first briefly explained the news he had heard about Iluna and the steam-powered airship, and then told about what he had seen and heard this morning from the boy, Sister Defulin, and Priest Augustus.
Finally, he took out the blood money and the upright coin and pushed them to the purple-eyed girl across the table:
"Just like I did with Darkness last time, please divine whether I have met the Chosen One today."
Luvia's "Price Divination" cannot directly predict the identity of the chosen one, or the price they need to pay is simply too high for them to pay. But it is still possible to do divination from the side, such as this time divining "Shad's experience" instead of directly tracing back to the chosen one.
"Don't spend the blood money easily. This is the only relic in our hands that can detect special coins of the same kind. Look at this. Before Iluna left, she left me the fortune teller's silver coin and the clerical-level relic Dragon Blood Treasure Coin, which is said to be able to find the dragon clan's treasure."
Luvia took out a silver coin with a smiling face and a crying face on the front and back, and a blood-red coin that was three times the diameter of a shilling coin.
He picked up the upright coin and threw it into the sky along with the silver coin and the bloody coin. However, they did not turn into ashes in the air, but fell back intact.
“The ‘currency’ properties of these three coins are not very strong.”
Xia De said without any surprise:
"Luvia, spend the blood money. Now is not the time to save."
Luvia thought about it, bit her lip unwillingly, but still threw all four coins into the sky. But the situation was still the same as last time, and the four coins could not be used for divination.
"It's really strange. I remember when we divined Darkness, we only used one Kolmo Empire gold coin and one Death God's atonement coin. Why didn't all four work this time? Could it be that the Chosen One of Death is stronger... Is it Sister Develyn of the Eleventh Ring?"
"No, it could be something else."
Luvia held the coins and narrowed her eyes slightly:
"For example, the chosen person is actually someone other than the three people you know, but you accidentally met him. Or, Shade, have you ever thought that there may be more than one candidate for those three positions?"
Before the ceremony is held, the chosen person can only be called a candidate for the chosen person, and there is a ranking of candidates, and there is more than one. Only when the candidates with the first rank have died before the ceremony is held, the candidates behind are qualified to hold the ceremony. If the candidates with the first rank still exist, or someone has successfully held the ceremony and then died, then the candidates with the second rank will never succeed no matter what.
If the candidates for a certain qualification knew each other's identities, then a high-intensity hunting operation would be difficult to avoid.
The characteristics of the chosen ones described in the "Whispering Poems" all point to the first candidate, but other candidates with higher rankings will also have similar characteristics to the first candidate.
However, when the chosen ones of balance and darkness appeared, Shad and Luvia immediately locked on the first candidates, that is, Iluna and Darkness, so there was no need to consider other candidates at that time. Now thinking about it, Shad even suspected that Dr. Schneider was one of the candidates for the "dark" chosen one, but it was a pity that Darkness died after the ceremony.
"Among the nun, the priest and the boy, more than one of them is qualified, right?"
"Yes, so divination becomes more difficult."
Luvia nodded and added:
"Of course, this is just a possibility. But at least I can be sure that among the ring sorcerers you have met so far today, there is definitely at least one candidate, and it is basically among Priest Augustus, Sister Defulin, and the boy."
"I really hope it's a priest, but... forget it. I'll find a way to tell Eluna the news when she arrives at Midhill Castle on Tuesday."
Shade sighed:
"That city is in a lot of trouble."
After saying goodbye to Luvia, Shad didn't even have time to send the cat home, and immediately took a carriage to Dr. Schneider's psychological clinic.
He really has a lot of things to do today. Tonight he has to go with the doctor to deal with the sealed Fire Demon. Shade is now ready to get the key to the traveler's travel gate, a clerical-level relic.