The yellow, red and silver moons hung high in the night sky. There were no clouds above Lake View Manor, and the brilliant Milky Way hung upside down above people's heads, making them feel as if they could touch the brilliance of the stars with their hands.
When the accident occurred, the aftermath of the séance had caused the dinner guests to fall asleep, so no one saw the unusual blood mist and fighting that followed.
This actually made it easier to explain what happened tonight—Little Clown, the organizer of the banquet, joined forces with the followers of the evil god Blood Feast Lord and placed sleeping pills in the food and drinks of the banquet. Fortunately, the Orthodox Church, which represented justice, arrived in time to stop their conspiracy.
As for the earthquake just now, it was purely a coincidence and has nothing to do with here.
At present, Lakeview Manor has been surrounded by the combined forces of the Tobysk garrison and police, and the awakened dinner guests have been politely invited by the Orthodox Church to rest and be inspected in the manor house.
On the one hand, this was to prevent too many people from seeing the moon mark in the courtyard of Lake View Manor, and on the other hand, it was to try to screen out suspicious people from the guests who should not be here.
The two teams of ring wizards from the Church of the Sun and the Church of Peace who participated in this war remained in the courtyard. The police who arrived later were responsible for entering the mansion to maintain order. The ring wizard support team who came from the city searched the manor thoroughly, recorded and destroyed the ritual of "The Sixth Era - 1853 Sun and Moon Goddess Descent Incident", and picked off the strange blood-red flowers on the walls of the manor.
This is precious material.
Miss Iluna Beas, a young girl with long brown hair, stood in the courtyard with her companions, in front of the terrible "scar" that was still emitting a silver glow.
The moon mark stretched almost from the straight entrance of the mansion to the fence gate of Lake View Manor, splitting the central axis of the entire manor, and the residual power lingered for a long time. Even after half an hour, people still did not dare to touch the marks on the ground directly.
Miss Lanina Green, who belongs to the Church of the Sun, is the first Ten-Ring Warlock of the Orthodox Church to arrive at the manor. She stood next to the glowing dent in the ground in a blue dress, playing with the relic ring dropped by "Madam Lazoya" after her death, and listened to the ring warlocks of the Church of the Sun telling what had just happened.
Miss Iluna Beias, who had long brown hair, had no right to speak. She could only listen to Captain Robinson's story. After the captain finished speaking, she added to the Ten Rings Sorceress of the church:
"I think I was the first person to notice him, but I didn't see his face or appearance. But I thought it must be a man. Before he jumped into the air, I noticed him coming out of the third floor banquet hall."
She is very confident about this.
Miss Green smiled and nodded at her, and after confirming that the team had no other clues, she lowered her head to look at the marks on the ground that were shining with silver light.
"Is the opponent very strong?"
Miss Beatrice asked uneasily, pinching the edge of her skirt.
"Judging from the remnants of his spirit, he is at least stronger than me."
Everyone present could not help but frown. In the current Sixth Epoch, although high-level warlocks above the tenth ring are not rare, they are still rare.
"Miss Green, who could it be?"
Robinson, the team leader, who was considered by Shad to be strong enough to kill him and Mia with one punch, asked with a frown.
"It cannot be confirmed, but it is not someone from the Orthodox Church, let alone someone from the Thaumaturgy Academy. Those professors will not easily set foot in the Old Continent. We need to send letters to the three academies to confirm. They may know who it is... How could it be such a coincidence that Mr. Sari Pirot, the Iron Right Hand of the Church of Creation, just left Tobesk last week, and this happened immediately..."
The sorceress turned her head and looked to the side. The team of ring sorcerers from the Peace Church, who had also witnessed the scene, had already reunited with the eleventh ring sorcerer who had rushed over from the Peace Church.
The eleventh ring warlock of the Peace Church is an old man who looks older than Priest Augustus. He has gray hair and wears the white robe of an ordinary clergyman. If you meet him in the church, it is hard to believe that he has such powerful power:
"Mr. Modro, what do you think?"
Miss Green asked, and Mr. Modro squatted down and touched the marks on the ground with his hand:
"Oh, this is really exciting!"
He immediately withdrew his hand, and watched the silver light on his cracked palm fade away little by little:
"It's similar to what you think... at least twelve rings, maybe thirteen. The opponent didn't show his life rings when attacking, which means it was just an ordinary attack."
Everyone present couldn't help but take a deep breath, and the eleventh-ring old warlock couldn't help but exclaimed:
"That's amazing! That gentleman probably knew from the beginning that Mercury Blood and the cultists were planning to summon the evil god here. He not only dealt with the 'heart collector' that the church hadn't discovered in advance, but also hid in the dark to observe the actions of our ring wizard team. After confirming that the church could not defeat the opponent and that the support from the city could not arrive in time, he destroyed the ceremony alone on the third floor with extremely delicate methods, then seriously injured the silver-eyed man with a casual blow, and then quietly left... Who from the New World has returned? Or, which twelve-ring wizard has been promoted?"
The old man's voice gradually became lower. He did not reach out his hand again. Instead, he remained squatting and looked at the glowing soil and said:
"Perhaps I can use divination to seek enlightenment later, but the evil god has descended tonight, and the breath of the god will disrupt the traces of fate."
"Evil God..."
Miss Green looked up at the third floor of the mansion, the location where the "Masked Man Under the Silver Moon" that everyone had just pointed out appeared:
"But at least he is not a bad guy. He prevented the Lord of the Blood Feast from coming, and even attacked the Silver Eyed Man and his companions... The headless corpse found in the garden of Lake View Manor a few minutes ago has been confirmed to be the 'heart collector' of Mercury Blood. He seems to be very familiar with the movements of Mercury Blood, the cultists, and our team. Tonight's actions seem to be specifically targeted at Mercury Blood, and the actions are very efficient. Could it be that he came here for..."
She didn't directly say the name of the sage-level relic, but Mr. Modro, the eleventh-ring sorcerer, also understood what she meant:
"Anyway, we should check the participants of this banquet and look for suspicious persons. I think there should be at least a list. I want to see if there are any correspondence ring sorcerers present this time. Given the current situation, even if there are suspicious guests who are proficient in divination and have accomplices in the church, they will not be able to escape. In addition, before we arrived and the Silver-eyed Man escaped, did anyone come down from the third floor of the mansion?"
He got the point.
"No."
Mr. Robinson, the leader of the Sun Church Ring Warlock Team, said as he took out a small notebook from his pocket and flipped through it:
"We checked the second and third floors not long ago. Only the guests trapped on the second floor left the mansion after the battle. Several of them had sensitive identities and used their honor to guarantee that they and their accompanying servants were fine. We checked carefully and confirmed that they were all ordinary people."
"Sensitive identity? Which member of the royal family is here tonight?"
Miss Green inquired.
"Duchess Carina Cavendish. She arrived in Tobesk from her fiefdom just a few weeks ago."
The ring wizard of the Church of Peace replied that the group seemed to trust the Duchess very much, so they did not suspect the people accompanying her.
"Since he is suspected to be a thirteen-ring sorcerer, it is certainly not so easy for us to find him."
Miss Green said, looking at the three moons and twinkling stars above her head:
"Issue a bounty for members of Mercury Blood and cultists who believe in the Lord of the Blood Feast all over the world. This matter cannot end like this. Although the 'Iron Right Hand' is not in this diocese for the time being, I think the Five Gods Church can always temporarily allocate another thirteenth-ring warlock to come and completely deal with the cultists and Mercury Blood. As for that man..."
Miss Green hesitated, and then Mr. Modrow of the Peace Church said:
"Use the codename 'The Masked Man Under the Silver Moon' to inform the Dawn Church, Nature Church, and Creation Church, which are not involved in this operation, of the man's identity. Since he has prevented the Evil God from coming, there is no need to regard him as an enemy for the time being. We can wait and see until he appears again. However, the Tobesk Diocese must strictly investigate unidentified ring sorcerers from outside in the next few months... Silver Moon, could it be that the twelve-ring 'Great Witch of Silver Moon' from the Witch Council is here?"
He said, but then stood up and shook his head:
"I've really lost my mind. Where are the men in the Witch Council?"
Ms. Green mentioned the latest news:
"We just received intelligence not long ago that the group of women are taking action in the Tobesk Diocese."
"They are not the only ones who have been making moves in Tobesk recently. Besides, don't you know what these people are doing?"
As Mr. Modro spoke, he glanced at Iluna Beas, who was standing nearby, not knowing what the two were talking about.
"In short, this world is going to be in chaos again. What happened tonight is very likely the beginning of a series of events in the future. How many years has it been since the evil god almost succeeded in descending?"
The old man said with some concern.
"Sir, why is there chaos? Isn't it still a peaceful time?"
The young priest from the Peace Church's ring wizard team who had handed Shade a leaflet on relief food asked carefully.
Miss Green sighed:
"The great prophecy left by the Witch Emperors..."
She looked at the ignorant Miss Iluna Beas from her church, who looked at her in surprise. Miss Green shook her head:
"No, it's just a prophecy. Anyway, people who believe in the prophecy will gather in Tobesk in the near future to complete the first section of the Whispering Poems. There will be some strange guys in the city recently. I think the 'Masked Man Under the Silver Moon' was also attracted by the prophecy of the revival of the old gods, and accidentally set his sights on the Mercury Blood. The twelfth ring or even the thirteenth ring... Who is it?"