Early on Saturday morning, the gloomy sky looked like it was going to snow again. The purple-eyed girl walked through the slightly cold mist of the winter morning, tightened her collar wrapped in a scarf, and appeared in St. Teresa's Square at 7:30 in the morning with brisk steps.
The brown ladies' boots stepped on the ground of the square. Luvia turned her head and looked towards the center of the square. It was winter now, and most of the pigeons in the square that were often spied on by little Mia had left the city and gone further south to spend the winter.
Now there were only a few newspaper boys waiting for passers-by in the square. The street vendors could accurately identify who the guests were, so they did not approach Luvia.
Luvia, holding her handbag, paused at the steps in front of Shade's house and looked up at the window of the bedroom on the second floor. Seeing that the curtains were already drawn, she knew that Shade must have woken up. She hummed a tune in a good mood, took out the key to Shade's house from her handbag, opened the door and walked in naturally.
She closed the door, tilted her head to look up the stairs, and then deliberately made some noise when going up the stairs. Even if Shad couldn't hear it, Luvia believed that the sensitive cat would definitely hear it.
But when she came to the second floor and entered Room 1, she was about to say hello to Xia De when she discovered that the person sitting in the restaurant was a beautiful lady she had never seen before.
At first glance, she seemed very mature, but when she looked closely at that beautiful, un-human face, Luvia realized that she must be younger than herself.
Miss Sylvia had a lazy look in the morning, sitting at the dining table with a teacup in her left hand and a newspaper in her right hand. The second page of the newspaper was about the Queen and Princess Margaret watching an opera at the opera house. The lady with short black hair turned around when she heard the sound of people coming up the stairs. She had never seen Luvia before, but since she had the key, she must be someone familiar to Shade:
"Good morning, ma'am, I'm Emma Sylvia, a scholar."
The great witch introduced herself.
Luvia finally understood the other party's identity. Although she was very curious about why the other party showed up here so early, she also introduced herself:
"Good morning, ma'am. I'm Luvia Anat, and I work for the Society of Prophet. I'm Shad's... friend."
She placed her handbag on the coffee table and walked into the restaurant.
Mia lazily licked the goat's milk, her furry pointed ears seemed translucent in the faint morning light. She turned her head and meowed to Luvia, then continued to eat breakfast.
Luvia still hadn't seen Shade, so she sat down at the table, and the two ladies didn't engage in any further conversation.
A few minutes later, Shad came out of the study with Miss Sylvia's notebook:
"Miss Sylvia, I have finished copying your notes, and then... Oh, Luvia, good morning, have you had breakfast?"
Miss Sylvia did not stay here for long. She took back her notebook and drank her tea, then left. Shade took her downstairs and waited until the carriage came to pick her up before going upstairs again.
At this time, Luvia had already sat on the sofa with the well-fed cat in her arms, but little Mia was unwilling to let Luvia hold her. She liked to "take a walk" at home after having a full breakfast. This cat is not lazy at home, otherwise it would not always maintain its cute shape.
"Did this witch stay at your place last night?"
Luvia asked after Shade came up the stairs.
"Yes, we were discussing the paper last night, and we discussed it all night. Oh, and the power of space. Miss Sylvia also knows Lagra's jump. She thinks that although the increase in the range of my magic is rare, it is not unprecedented."
"If someone else said this, I definitely wouldn't believe it, but if you say this, I believe it."
The purple-eyed girl couldn't hide her smile. She knew Shade very well:
"Have you finished your paper? Tomorrow is Sunday, aren't you leaving again?"
"We discussed until two in the morning last night and finally finished the final draft."
Xia De yawned and sat on the sofa with the teapot in hand:
"Because it was too late, I asked Miss Sylvia to stay overnight in the guest room on the first floor. I treated her to breakfast this morning as a thank you."
Miss Sylvia was not allowed to sleep on her side on the second floor because the witch was also an unmarried woman and it was not okay for her to spend the night in the same house with a strange man. But if she slept on the first floor, there would be no such problem.
"Luvia, you came to see me so early, is there any big news... Have you found the 'invisible man'?"
"How is that possible?"
Luvia shook her head and finally let Mia go. Mia hurriedly ran away from the sofa, not even looking for Shade, for fear of being caught again:
"I saw the Miss Pavlo you mentioned."
Xia De was startled and stopped pouring tea:
"A six-ring sorcerer from the Truth Society? Did you really find her? Luvia, although I know you are very good at divination, you acted a little too quickly this time."
"At the Lakeview Manor banquet, she claimed to be Mary Witte, the daughter of Viscount Witte. Viscount Witte really existed, and the sorceress must have mentioned this nobleman for a reason. So I used Viscount Witte as a clue to investigate, and found out that he fell off a horse and was injured this spring, but after treatment, he was not paralyzed..."
The purple-eyed girl asked Xia De, holding up her teacup and toasting to Xia De:
"Guess what?"
"The Truth Society?"
"Yes, the connection between the Witte family and the Truth Society appeared at least three generations ago. Although Viscount Witte is not well-known locally, he is still a nobleman of Tobesk, so he provided great help to the Truth Society's operations in the Tobesk area. I did not disturb them, but based on my own divination and some clues, I met the lady in the city yesterday evening."
"Is she the Chosen One?"
Luvia has a unique ability to determine the identity of the chosen one as soon as she sees them.
"no."
Luvia shook her head slightly, while Shade was a little disappointed. He had really thought that Miss Pavo, who believed that mathematics would never go wrong, was the chosen one:
"If it's not the chosen one, then it's the candidate behind in the ranking?"
Shade asked again, during the Midhill Castle incident, Luvia had met Priest Augustus at the Sikar Inn through the Traveler's Travel Gate, and thus determined that the priest was one of the candidates for the Chosen One of Death.
“Not sure yet.”
Luvia still shook her head:
"I have known Priest Augustus for many years, and I can only judge the identity of the Chosen One before the ceremony is about to begin. Now the Chosen One of Wisdom and Knowledge has not officially appeared, and there is no trace of the Chosen One's ceremony. At present, I can only judge the identity of the first candidate for the Chosen One of 'Wisdom and Knowledge', and I need to keep an eye on him."
Xia De nodded:
"In fact, it doesn't make much sense to pay too much attention to the Chosen Ones who are not the first in the order. Qiao Yin Barton lost his qualification due to countless coincidences that could not be replicated, and he himself did not attach much importance to the position of the Chosen One, so the qualification was transferred to the second Sister Defulin. But even so, Qiao Yin Barton did not die. His identity as the Chosen One was stripped away by death itself. Even after he failed, the three subsequent candidates were unwilling to take this qualification. From this situation, it is no easier to disqualify the first candidate of the Chosen One than to kill the Chosen One directly."
Listening to Shade's summary, Luvia nodded thoughtfully:
"The bad news is that it is difficult for us to change the epic of the Sixth Age predicted by the poem; the good news is that the epic of the Whispering Verses can be shifted."
"Just like your dream, the one you mentioned after the Battle of Fort Midhill, where I didn't exist."
Shade said, and then carefully observed Luvia's expression, but unfortunately Luvia didn't react:
"However, when I saw her at Mrs. Wanda's Clothing Store yesterday evening, my 'other self' told me that Miss Pavlo was extremely dangerous and asked me not to get close to her easily."
"But she can't even beat Tifa. If I didn't want to pass out in Lakeview Manor again and did my best to throw the second lightning spear, I would most likely have put her to rest on Lake Schluch on Tuesday night."
Xia De was not bragging, at that time he was in a state of "divinity overflow" after absorbing divinity, and could be called the strongest mortal in the material world.
"She may only have six rings, but there is something very wrong with the book in her hand. It is..."
Luvia hesitated:
"Angel-level relic (level 1) Smallwell Code. The book originated in the Second Era and was written by a crazy mathematician. Legend has it that the madman eventually exploded into a pile of mathematical symbols, literally turning himself into a number. Angel-level relics should never be underestimated. In the hands of the right person, the effect that the book can exert is even more terrifying than a level 0 relic."
"It's amazing that you can identify what the relic is and know the story of the Second Age."
Shade exclaimed.
He asked many people about the big silver book, but even the two witches and the old gentlemen of the Guiding Light Hermitage did not know the origin of the book.
Perhaps, it was her "other self" who recognized what it was.
He heard her voice, and it seemed that she was guiding Shade to explore Luvia's secrets. But since Luvia didn't want to tell him, he wouldn't ask, just like Luvia never asked about the many doubts about him.
"Since Miss Pavo of the Truth Society is not the first candidate for the Chosen One, we don't have to pay attention to her for the time being."
"Yes. Next we have to wait for the next 'Secret Keeper' to appear, and then compare the next list with the list of Lakeview Manor."
"I asked Princess Leicia for a guest list tonight, but the list is very long and the church hasn't checked everyone yet."
Shade suggested, and Luvia nodded:
"Since we're talking about that princess... See, I told you that being closer to that princess would be good for our cause. If Yin Luna is always asked to get intelligence like this, she'll sooner or later become suspicious."
Glancing at Shade, the purple-eyed girl snorted and looked out the window at the gloomy winter sky:
"Knight, I'm not complaining about you. I said I knew you would do this. But don't forget what we are doing. Every decision we make may really affect the course of history of this world for tens of millions of years to come. It's a huge responsibility. How will people in the future evaluate us?"