The fortune teller with short brown hair also saw the two people in the shadows. He was stunned at first, but did not walk into the bushes. Miss Louisa's skirt was relatively simple, but Miss Anat's dress could not be scratched by the bushes:
"The champagne you requested."
She smiled and said to Miss Louisa, then looked at Shade as if he were a rare animal:
"Detective Hamilton? Good evening. The doctor mentioned you in his letter. It turns out that the doctor really found a new gifted person. Did he use some rare relic to overdraw his luck?"
The evaluations of Dr. Schneider by several people were surprisingly consistent.
After greeting each other, Shade briefly recounted what happened tonight. The fortune teller, Miss Annat, was not as surprised as Miss Louisa:
"If that's the case, I actually have something to say."
She seemed a little too calm.
"Anything else?"
Miss Louisa asked hesitantly.
"Actually, I shouldn't have said this. This is the information of the Prophet Association. According to the rules, I can't tell anyone else. But since everyone is here, I can't put you in danger... Look, don't you want to know the reason why Mrs. Lazoya attended the banquet as the detective said? Is she really deeply affected by the relic ring and came here just to accompany her lover?"
Miss Annat's index finger tapped the glass goblet held between her thumb and slender middle finger.
"Why is that?"
Xia De already had a bad feeling. With this inexplicable luck, if nothing significant happened, it would be a shame for this wonderful night.
"To use the Sage-level (Level 2) Relic God's Gift Box to synthesize the Angel-level (Level 1) Relic Mercury Blood, a more powerful material is needed as support. Lasoya attended the banquet just for one of the items. Mercury Blood plans to summon the Lord of the Evil God Blood Feast in the mansion of Lakeview Manor. They need the power bestowed by the Evil God."
"Lord of the Blood Feast?"
Miss Louisa was surprised.
"Evil God? Coming?"
Xia De didn't even know what expression to make.
The night the professors arrived at his home, he had heard of the name of this evil god and knew about the cooperation between the cultists and Mercury Blood. But he had never expected that Mercury Blood would actually call upon Him, and tonight.
Miss Luvia remained calm, and she seemed to think the situation was still under control:
"I just found out about this. When I went to get the champagne, the association sent me information and asked me to leave here as soon as possible. But don't worry, the ritual to summon the evil god will only take effect at eleven o'clock. The Church of the True Gods has probably also received the news, and a warlock above the tenth ring should be here soon."
Xia De took out his pocket watch:
"It is now 10:20 tonight."
"Dorothy, I will go into the mansion with you and bring out Father Augustus and the doctor. Detective, you stay here. Leaving rashly may arouse suspicion, but don't go near the mansion. According to intelligence, the cultists are mainly going to entangle the ring wizard team of the Orthodox Church. The members of the Mercury Blood who came to carry out the plan, in addition to the 'Silver Light' Lathod you mentioned, there is also a high-level ring wizard called the 'Heart Collector'. Be careful."
The fortune teller with short brown hair raised her slender white neck, drank the champagne in her hand with her red lips, and then tore off the hem of her dress and petticoat with a sizzling sound, turning this expensive dress into an ordinary skirt that was convenient for movement. Miss Louisa also nodded, raised her hands to tie her carefully groomed long golden hair behind her head, and then stepped hard on the heels of her high heels.
Miss Louisa turned to look at Shade:
"Detective, remember, do not approach the mansion tonight under any circumstances. If we all die, you will be responsible for notifying the academy."
"Is there such a possibility?"
He looked a little worried.
"It is a common thing to consider all possibilities, and we cannot fail to save the doctor and the priest. Detective Hamilton..."
Luvia Anat, a fortune teller with short brown hair, stared at Shade, and Shade noticed that the lady's eyes were actually light purple. The purple was so beautiful that it made people feel as if they were deeply immersed in it. Although purple eye color can occur naturally, it is extremely rare (Note):
"I am a fortune teller. Fate is giving me revelations, and the other me is also giving me warnings. I see an abnormal trajectory of fate in you. Something big is bound to happen tonight. Please be careful."
Just like that, Xia De watched the two ladies leave in a hurry. It was really uncomfortable to feel like sending women to the battlefield and being powerless to do anything.
"I'm still too weak to do anything."
Looking at their beautiful backs, Xia De couldn't help but think in his heart. But before the woman's voice in his heart expressed her opinion, he remembered that he had forgotten to say that there were blasphemous elements related to the evil god near the grape trellis.
"Could it be that there is a node for the ceremony?"
According to history textbooks, the Ringwitch system was formed in the middle and late Fifth Age. Unlike the magic and spells of the Ringwitch system, which only exist in the present, "ritual" is a mystical content that has existed since ancient times and can play a role in both the past and modern power systems.
However, in the Sixth Epoch, due to the convenience of magic and spells, ritual studies gradually declined, and only a small number of people were still studying it. But this does not mean that rituals are useless. Although rituals need to be prepared in advance, usually consume huge amounts of materials and meet harsh conditions, the role of large-scale rituals is usually irreplaceable.
For example, calling upon the evil god to descend, no magic or spell can do it, it requires a ritual. And since it is a large-scale ritual, it will definitely not exist only on a table or in a room.
If the information from the Prophet's Association is correct and Mercury Blood is really that crazy, then the scale of the ritual to summon the evil god is entirely possible to cover from the Lake View Manor mansion to a small area of the garden.
"Perhaps I could try to sabotage the ritual set-up in the garden."
Xia De immediately found the key point and was happy that he might be able to play a role without taking any risks. He had already met a relatively friendly old god in the past time and space, and did not want to meet the evil god in the present time and space.
When I returned to the grape trellis, the young poet at the stone table had left. Now there was only a middle-aged man in a fashionable wine-red suit, sitting at the table, flipping through the small book in his hand with one hand.
Xia De walked over, trying to find some excuse to get the middle-aged man to leave so that he could find a way to disrupt the ceremony. Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man put down the book, smiled at him, and spoke first:
"I've been waiting for you for a long time."
It's not a Tobesk accent, this isn't a local.
"Wait for me? Excuse me, sir, do we know each other?"
Xia De said in surprise. He was still some distance away from the stone table under the grape trellis, but he had already stopped:
"Is it a ring wizard?"
I asked in my heart, and the woman's voice also gave an answer:
Yes, it is of a high level.
His heart seemed to stop beating for a moment, but there was no panic on Xia De's face:
"I think you must have the wrong person."
As he was about to turn around and leave, he was stopped by the man. His face was still smiling, but Xia De felt a tingling sense of danger, as if he was facing a shotgun that was about to be fired.
The other party's malicious intent is no longer concealed:
"No, I'm not looking for the wrong person. It's you. Although I don't know your name, your identity, your occupation, or your address, I am indeed looking for you..."
He pulled up his left sleeve, showing his black left arm that looked like it was burnt:
"Have you used up the good luck I gave you? Now you have to take your reward for the gift of fate!"