Shad looked out the window. The hazy fog was the norm in Tobysk at the turn of autumn and winter. After all, the steam plant and the gas company were entering their peak operation in this season.
"I will probably be busy making a batch of No. 4 holy water recently, but I don't know if it will attract the attention of the church if it is released in large quantities to the local black market."
The old man said worriedly.
"Are you short of money recently? I can lend it to you."
Including the 1,000 pounds from the foreign princess that he has not yet collected, Shad's savings now exceed five figures.
"You don't have to lend it to me. I need to pay it back. I still owe Schneider 3,000 pounds."
The priest said, and Shad then remembered this matter. This was the cost of materials for the opening ceremony of the spiritual group.
When this question was raised, Father Augustus asked with a smile:
"However, what kind of project did Schneider invest in to make so much money? You were very vague last time. I can ask him when I give him a gift later. Speaking of which, exam week seems to be coming soon. It's almost the end of the year, and the church also needs to check accounts and prepare reports, as well as year-end summaries and plans for the next year... Why do I feel like I'm busier than you young people?"
Xia De just hoped that even if Dr. Schneider revealed the origin of the money, he would never reveal that he was also involved in the gambling.
"If you are worried about the sale of holy water, I can sell it on the black market in Coldwater Harbor and Midhill Castle. There is no need to worry about finding buyers for such scarce goods. By dispersing the supply, there is no need to worry about being discovered."
"That's a good idea, but is it only Coldwater Harbor and Fort Midhill?"
The priest leaned against the sofa and asked, and Shade nodded:
"If I want to go to more places, I need a special mineral called white stone crystal, and I need to go to a random location."
The priest shared his secrets and Shad did not mind sharing this information with the priest.
The old man polished his pipe and made no comment on Shade's special "skills".
"Priest, do you think... this world could be destroyed?"
Xia De suddenly asked again, and the old man raised his eyes and looked at him, with a surprised expression on his old face:
"Everything has its own mortality. I thought you knew this already."
"No, no, I want to ask, do you know the exact time when the world will be destroyed?"
The priest blinked:
"This is also the purpose of my collection of angel remains. Since I came into contact with this power, I knew that the destruction of the world would definitely happen. It could be tomorrow, but it could also be ten thousand years later. If you want to know the answer from me, I'm sorry, I don't know yet. But I can at least be sure that the Sixth Era is a very special era, and the day when all things will perish is related to the era we are in."
(Little Mia is running...)
For the next two weeks, Xia De spent peaceful and tranquil days as he wished.
Without the trouble of the Time Key, news about the next chosen one would not appear so soon, and there would not even be any clues about the divinity he was thinking about. But at least he bought a new "White Stone Crystal" from Coldwater Port at a high price, and was ready to go to the city where he might get the divinity at any time.
But Shade did not do nothing. He collected enough materials and performed a ritual to link laziness to the magic-chain of sin. The knowledge about original sin provided by the Tree Father was very rich, but the knowledge in it was extremely terrible and blasphemous. Shade only exchanged some relevant content with the doctor, and the doctor warned Shade seriously not to tell this knowledge to any third person:
"You're going to be in big trouble. I don't even know how your soul can handle this knowledge."
In his presence, Shad drank a bottle full of holy water to prove that he was not corrupted by his sins.
Of course, apart from the materials provided by Miss Carina for free, most of the other materials needed for the ceremony were purchased by Shade. But at the moment, he had a lot of savings, so he didn't feel bad about the expense.
Newspapers began to frequently report that the second princess of Carsenrick, Margaret of Anjou, was about to visit Tobesk, and the city hall also launched the "Tobesk City Public Security Management Inspection in the Autumn of the Common Calendar 1853". Because of this operation, the city was in chaos for a while, but it was quickly suppressed by the Redwich Field.
During this period, Shad unexpectedly received a request for help from Baron Pazos, who was introduced by his old friend, Baron Lavender, the original owner of the ancient fairy tale Match Girl. He assisted the Baron in secretly retrieving the Baron's mortgaged heirloom - a gold medal with the family crest - in an underground Lode Casino that was about to be closed down in the slums of the north of the city.
Although it only took one night, the secret infiltration, the Rhodes card game, the gun battle in the corridor, the lock picking and searching, the destruction of the mortgage records... ... This was not a simple commission, and as a reward, Shad earned three-digit gold pounds in just one business.
This included hush money. The baron did not use the money to buy back the family heirloom because he did not want others to know that he had mortgaged it to an illegal casino. The loss of reputation is far more important than a few hundred pounds.
After the deal was concluded, Baron Lavender played cards with Shad in his spare time at the Prophet's Association. He was so excited when he saw the card of Founding Death that he almost fainted. This can only be regarded as the final episode of this big deal.
Xia De also did some serious work during these two weeks. He accepted the invitation of Professor Hesenger Garcia, the vice dean of the School of History, and after the elective course "Locked Space" in the fall, he also took the professor's course "Introduction to Space Exploration" and submitted a ten-foot-long paper as his final report.
The theoretical conjecture of multiple nested puzzles mentioned by Shade in the course was highly praised by Professor Garcia. Although Shade was still a correspondence student, he became famous in the History College of St. Byron because of this paper.
In addition to the courses in the academy, Shade used his free time to study the Pink Book of Desire in depth, and successfully mastered some practical spells, such as Grease, Rope Trick and Limb Expansion. Of course, Shade did not learn these spells for the pleasure of the girls, he was strong enough. He hoped to enrich his spell list through learning, after all, due to the rapid upgrade speed, he lacked these basic spells.
At the same time, he successfully developed the "Yellow Moon Version" of the magic that is common to the Yellow Moon Spirit Rune and the Silver Moon Spirit Rune.
Unfortunately, although he learned from the "Unknown Sacrifice Book" in the library of the Fifth Epoch that "those who believe in the noble sun can also borrow the power of the silver moon", Shade was unable to learn skills such as "moonlight rays" based on sunlight rays.
For this purpose, he specially consulted Yin Luna who had returned from Midhill Castle, but Yin Luna was not familiar with the power of the moon and could not give Shade good advice. On the contrary, because Shade had described the use of the solar ray too many times, Yin Luna miraculously learned the solar ray without holding a ceremony after finishing the course with Miss Carina on the first Sunday of the Frost Month.
It was difficult for Xia De to describe his feelings in the manor at that time.
“Balancing the outstanding talents of the chosen ones is truly admirable and enviable.”
Miss Jialina was in a good mood and said this. Before Yin Luna wanted to speak, the witch kissed Xia De in front of Yin Luna and kindly "advised" her student:
"Young girl, you still have a long way to go. Don't be too happy about a short-term promotion."
Yin Luna's expression at that time made Xia De think that she was going to throw a sunlight gun.