At 8:20 in the evening, Shad's joke about cats and rabbits made Princess Ajelina chuckle. The atmosphere in the salon was lively. Shad used the excuse of going to the bathroom to temporarily say goodbye to the people around him and walked from the room to the corridor.
The door shut out the noisy voices, and Shade pretended to be calm as he walked in front of the royal guards. Avoiding the sight of others, he waited for a while at the corner of the corridor, and Luvia quietly walked down from the third floor. The purple-eyed girl avoided the area illuminated by the gas lamp, stood in the shadow at the staircase and waved at Shade. Shade followed her from a distance, and after Luvia opened the door of the second divination room on the left side of the second floor, he flashed and followed in.
There was no light in the room, and the moonlight outside the window could only illuminate a small area near the window.
Coming suddenly from a noisy environment to a dark room, Xia De was even a little uncomfortable. But he still walked quickly to the window and looked in the direction of Yodel Palace. Everything outside was normal at this time:
"What's the situation now?"
"Nothing has gone wrong so far. Shade, things have changed a bit, and it's best if we don't get involved in anything tonight."
Luvia leaned against the wall next to the door, looking at Shade in the dark, who was looking out the window in the moonlight. Whenever Shade bathed in the moonlight, she always felt that it was Shade himself who was shining.
"What happened?"
Shade turned around and asked.
"The president is upstairs. Although the Five Gods Church did not send high-level sorcerers here, I received a letter from Yin Luna in the afternoon. She said that all eyes are on this place tonight. Too many people are paying attention to this place tonight, not just the high-level professors of the Truth Society. There will be many forces paying attention to this place tonight. The church wants to use Jack the Thief as bait to at least find out who dares to make a move."
Luvia whispered:
"And this time is different from the Midhill Castle incident. During the Midhill Castle incident, the Truth Society only sent a few members to test the situation. This time, in addition to Vice President Miss Pavo, there are at least five high-ranking professors and the cultists they hired. There is reason to believe that the Truth Society's actions in Mountain City in the fall were for testing, and now they are officially intervening in the affairs of the Chosen.
Yin Luna told me that the Thirteenth Ring Warlock of the Church of Creation, Lord Iron Right Hand, and Lord Sunshine Great Sword of the Church of the Sun, were ready to go. This is not Lakeview Manor, this is the center of Tobesk. As long as they receive the notice, they will show up in three minutes at most. "
"Although the Truth Society is crazy, they are definitely not pure lunatics. Sometimes they are so rational that it's scary. Even if the church is well prepared, I think they have corresponding methods."
Xia De continued to turn his head and look out the window:
"I thought Miss Pavo would still come to Lecia's reading salon as 'Miss Witt', but I didn't expect to see her at all."
"Do you think she'll show up tonight?"
Luvia asked.
"Of course she will appear. Miss Pavlo definitely has more fragments of poems than we thought. Since this ring magician who believes in numbers dares to take action personally, it means she has her own confidence."
Xia De frowned and looked down at the Silver Cross Avenue. Several people got off the carriage and entered the Yodel Palace. This did not look suspicious.
"Luvia, let's do some divination now. Just use the normal divination method. The content of the divination is what kind of relic will appear tonight."
"You can use divination, but as you know, divination of relics is usually not very accurate, especially since your description covers a large range. If a second sage-level relic other than Jack the Thief is involved tonight, then there is basically no chance of accuracy."
She took out the divination cards, rinsed them, and chanted softly to make the cards float in front of her eyes. When Shade turned and walked towards Luvia, she saw Luvia's hands manipulating the cards to quickly move and change positions in the air. When she looked up at Shade, her eyes showed an extremely beautiful, luminous, transparent purple, which made Shade's heart tremble suddenly.
"Pick one."
Luvia motioned, and Shad chose the middle row of cards on Luvia's side. He flicked his fingers slightly, and the fortune-telling cards flipped in the air to reveal the face of the cards.
"Ouija Cards·Game?"
Xia De looked at the card suspiciously. This card didn't appear often:
"What does that mean? I thought we were going to pick the cards that represented the numbers."
"This either means that there is something wrong with my divination, or it means that an extremely powerful relic related to the game will appear tonight."
Luvia collected the other divination cards, and Shade handed her the "game" in his hand:
"I hope it's not the worst case scenario, but since it involves the materials for the Chosen One's Ceremony, there is a possibility of accidents... Luvia, will you stay in the association tonight?"
"Yes, if Jack the Thief hasn't shown up after the salon, I'll go sit in your house first. I feel a little uneasy."
"Me too."
Xia De nodded and prepared to return to the reading salon. Leicia planned to have him as a special guest to tell a detective story in a later session, so he had to go back in time:
"Hope everything goes well tonight."
He whispered, and Luvia took the initiative to hug Shade and then kissed him.
The moonlight outside the window shone on Xia De's back. The girl with purple eyes stood in the shadow. She was really uneasy.
(Little Mia is running...)
Yin Luna Beyasi is preparing.
The 17-year-old girl wrapped in a black windbreaker stood at the corner of Silver Cross Avenue, leaning against the wall and looking at both sides of the street. Because tonight's event involved the Chosen, she was required to join the action even though she was originally on leave.
Yin Luna's team was not fully mobilized. In addition to her, who was in the fifth ring, only two people from the lower ring participated in the operation. Yin Luna was arranged to monitor the important intersections so that she could be the first to know about any situation. The other two people in the team temporarily joined the patrol team. Yin Luna could see them every thirty minutes.
"It's really getting colder these days."
Although she was carrying out a tense mission, the 17-year-old girl still complained about the weather in her heart. In her spare time, she secretly looked at her outfit and thought that she was almost like a "detective" in a novel. Thinking of the detective, she naturally thought of Shade. She looked towards St. Teresa's Square, and then remembered that Luvia said that Shade would be at the Prophet's Association tonight:
"What is Shade doing now? Is it possible that Shade will run into Jack the Thief again this time?"
She raised the question in her heart, and then whispered in her heart again:
"Really? Luvia always says that I am the real chosen one, but no matter how I look at it, Shade is more like..."
The passive magic-sun glow can maintain body temperature at night and enhance dark vision, so Yin Luna doesn't feel cold. But standing still is always boring, and in her spare time she will pace back and forth along the wall, but she will still pay attention to the surrounding situation.
When she looked up at a distance, she suddenly saw several terrifying green lights flashing on the street. Yin Luna was startled and prepared for battle. But when those "light sources" came under the street lights, she found that they were two wild cats walking close together. Both cats were black, meowing and walking away along Silver Cross Avenue. Yin Luna looked at them with squinted eyes:
"Even cats come in pairs, and I can only be like Little Mia in the Shade... Oh, it's so sad to compare myself to cats."
She scolded herself in her heart, but then she remembered what Xia De once said, that the moon and the sun are twins, and the moon and the sun always appear in pairs.
"Yes, the moon and the sun are fatefully connected!"
Thinking of this, a smile appeared unconsciously on the corner of his mouth. Fortunately, Yin Luna was standing in the shadow of the low wall at this time. If her colleagues noticed the strange smile on her face, they would definitely think that she was mentally ill.
She leaned back slightly against the wall. She had checked the wall in advance and it was very clean. This was Silver Cross Avenue after all. Her body was completely hidden in the darkness. After defeating Darkness, Yin Luna gained the talent of "Dark Vortex". But "Dark Vortex" was only a gain worth mentioning. Similar to dark vision and when she was standing still in the dark, almost no one could find her. It was a gain not worth mentioning.
She leaned against the wall on the street with her hands folded in front of her chest, imagining that she was helping Shade as a detective assistant. She watched the street with her eyes, and recalled the plot of the Hamilton Detective Stories that she had pressed under her pillow, and a smile appeared on her lips again.
Although the life of a ringmaster is more exciting than that of an ordinary detective, thanks to Dorothy's writing style, which was even praised by the academy, the thrilling detective novel still deeply attracted the seventeen-year-old girl.
After being transferred from the Holy See to the Tobesk Diocese, Yin Luna would sit on the bed, covered with a quilt, and read books such as "The Eye of the Storm Adventure Guide" and "Silver Knight" every night in the rented apartment before going to bed under the gas lamp at the bedside. This was the best way for her to end the day. And since she read the detective story in the "Steambird Daily", she spent more time reading every night.
Dorothy's serialization in newspapers was not very fast, so Yin Luna "revisited" almost every story several times. After the first book was published, she even got a new book signed by the author directly from Xia De.
She likes those stories not only because of the protagonists - that's only one reason, but also because she is really attracted by those stories.
"I hope the task can be completed soon, so I can have more time to read after returning home. The last chapter I read was..."
Yin Luna was thinking about the novel under her pillow at home. She stood in the dark, her eyes still fixed on everything on the street illuminated by the street lights.