Although what the professor said was very cryptic, Xia De still understood that Darkness actually attended the banquet. He handed over the report letter to the Church of Nature. The Church is naturally more convenient than Shade in finding someone in the whole city, and it is indeed possible to find the location of Darkness.
Just listening to the professors, the Church of Nature didn't even share the information provided by the "God Caller" with other churches.
Professor Sanchez snorted:
"It's very likely to be the case, but this shows that the second candidate is not a ring warlock from the church camp."
"Certainly not someone from the church. After all, judging from the news shared by Zarath School of Conjuration, it is recorded in the "Whispering Verses" that the second person has a demon on him."
Professor Marfar said.
Speaking of demons, Xia De was the first to think of Dr. Schneider. But the doctor had been in Tobesk, so that mouth under the red glove that Shad had seen last time might also be a kind of demon.
"It's a symbiotic form, an extremely rare demon. The three major academies have studied that kind of thing. This is a terrible thing that remains from the third era."
Professor Mafar said in shock, Xia De could almost imagine his frowning and distressed expression when he said this sentence.
The sixth era is now the era of steam civilization and ring warlocks, the fifth era belongs to witches, and the fourth era is the era of darkness and turmoil.
In the more distant past of the Third Era, St. Byrence did not even open the data of that period to low-level warlocks at all. And in the notebook Miss Fei Lianna gave Xia De, once the fourth era and the past were mentioned, the content behind it would all become blank. These blanks account for three-quarters of all the blank space on the notebook.
Xia De only heard about the third era from Miss Galina. At that time, the witch described it as "the alien races coexisted with humans in the third era, but at that time terrible and strange humanoid creatures occupied most of the material world. It is an evil spirit born in whispers. Human beings live in a corner with other normal life and protect each other."
Thinking about it this way, the "demon" mentioned by the demon scholar I met not long ago and the demon on Dr. Schneider's body may also be terrifying evil spirits that have survived from the third era to this day, rather than a simple race of demons.
"The academy and the church have always been very cautious about the third era. Let's just wait outside. When the blockade of the manor is opened, I want to see what kind of people the so-called chosen ones are... ...Hope the church doesn't make mistakes like Tobesk did this time. If they can't stop the Sea Return Ceremony, the whole Coldwater Harbor will be a thing of the past."
Then there was the sound of the two professors getting up and leaving, while Xia De sat there without moving, frowning as he looked at the drink in front of him:
"The Aurora mansion... Now the people from the church are there, the people from the Scarlet Esotericism are there, Darkness is there, the great witch is there, and Rezia is there too..."
Xia De thought for a while, put a tip of 1 penny under the cup, and rushed into the night rain.
Aurora Manor is located at the end of the coastal street. Although there are fences and walls outside the manor, there are no walls to block the beach behind the manor.
Among the Church of the Five Gods, the Natural Church is in charge of this area. The ring warlocks of the church, like the two professors, were waiting for news outside the manor. The local police in Tobesk are responsible for preventing people from approaching the manor.
Xia De did not take advantage of the blurred vision caused by the stormy rainy night to break through from the front, but jumped into the sea first, and then swam from the bottom of the sea to the coast behind Aurora Manor.
When a wave hit the shore, and then the sea receded, not only shells and seaweed remained on the beach, but also foreigners lying on the beach.
It is still dark and the visibility is not high. He lay there motionless, quietly listening to the sound of the rain and the rumble of the tide, and only crawled forward after making sure that there was no one nearby. But after crawling for a while, I found that there was still no one around, so I stood up again, bent over and trotted.
Later, he found that the rain was too heavy, and no one would see him even if he ran, so he ran forward with big strides.
Observe carefully while running. Although there is heavy rain, the beach is not clean. Xia De's eyes were able to capture large black marks, and after a glance with [Echo of Blood], a red halo lit up at the black marks, which represented fresh blood.
I don't know what happened here in the first half of the night.
After crossing the beach and approaching the brick-paved garden at the back of the manor, I finally saw a team of policemen wearing black waterproof cloaks and patrolling with kerosene lamps.
Their blockade is very tight, but in front of Xia De who has the ability to jump in space, this kind of tightness is obviously not enough. He walked through the grass in the garden, and when he finally approached the manor house, when Shade stepped over an invisible line, a strange feeling came to his heart.
He was startled suddenly, and found that he should have appeared in front of his field of vision, but the reality was that his body did not move.
"Space dislocation phenomenon?"
Xia De, who knew more space knowledge, frowned and thought that the current encounter should be due to the power of the relic [no entry signboard] mentioned by Professor Sanchez at work.
And considering that this could also be regarded as a kind of "lock", Xia De recited the mantra softly in the rain, and then stretched forward with his slightly glowing fingers.
This time, the movement direction of the fingers did not change. On the contrary, Xia De felt that his fingertips touched something cold and exuding a chill. Subconsciously squinted his eyes, and then saw a phantom of a wooden board appearing in front of his fingers. The wooden board was rectangular, and it was written in ancient handwritten characters:
[Entry is prohibited here. 】
Where there should have been a signature, it seemed to have been crossed out with a sharp knife.
He tried to rotate his fingers against the phantom of the wooden board. With the loss of spirit, his fingers rotated at a slight speed, the board became more and more transparent, and the feeling of "unlocking the lock" gradually accumulated.
It's just that he can predict that according to the current progress, even if he exhausts the spirit in his body, he still doesn't want to fully open it.
"In this case...the aura of space stability!"
Spatial dislocation can also be regarded as an abnormal spatial phenomenon, and as the invisible ripples under Xia De's feet spread to the surroundings, his fingers spun again.
After reaching a certain limit, the state of unlocking is infinitely close to "opening", but the concept of the lock has not been completely opened.
Xia De didn't panic either, he squinted his eyes and focused on looking ahead that he couldn't reach. Then the body disappeared into the distance, and then appeared twenty steps ahead.
He managed to enter an area that should have been inaccessible.
"Sure enough!"
Smiling in the rain of the night, to use an inappropriate metaphor, Xia De's behavior just now is like the cat Mia at home. Although it is impossible to completely push the door open, you can find a way to create a door gap, as long as the door gap is large enough, you can forcefully "squeeze" in.
It's just that Mia relied on her soft body, while Xia De relied on the power of space.
He can come in this way, and he can get out. Only in this way, it would be impossible to take Leiziya away.
"Find her first."
Thinking in his heart, Xia De touched the wall of the manor house in the night rain. After walking around the wall for half a circle, after reckoning that they had reached the room where the servants rested, they pushed open the window and climbed in cautiously.
There was no one in the room. Xia De restored the suitcase doll in his pocket to its normal size, wiped off the water on his body, changed into clean clothes, and then opened the door and walked out carefully.
The corridor was quiet, and although the yellowish gas lamp was on, it looked a little inexplicably frightening. Using [Blood Echo] to observe, there are traces of fresh blood left on the floor after being wiped. Although the amount is not large, it still makes Xia De very worried.
He hoped to meet the servants of the manor, pretend to be lost guests, and inquire about the situation here. But until you walk out of the corridor and come to the huge foyer on the first floor of the manor, the floor is covered with red carpet~www.mtlnovel.com~The crystal chandelier above the head makes it look resplendent, and the metal stair railing and the picture frames on the wall seem to be shining light, but still did not see anyone.
On the contrary, there is a huge oil painting hanging in the middle of the stairs facing the two magnificent golden gates of the manor. The oil painting is not an ancestor of the Aurora family, but a lady with long brown hair with natural curly feeling.
In Delarion, brown is not the same color as brown. The former is darker, while the latter is closer to yellow. For example, the hair color of Luvia and Iluna is brown.
The lady in the oil painting is sitting behind the desk, looking out of the picture with a serious face, and the background of the oil painting is a blurred bookshelf depicted in dark tones. She wears an anchor-shaped sapphire hair accessory on her hair, her facial features are particularly three-dimensional, and her eyebrows are very slender, making her eyes look unusually energetic.
What she was wearing was not a one-piece dress, but a white lady's shirt and a black dress.
This is Xi Wei Aurora, the great witch of the Witch Council. Although Miss Galina said that she is almost thirty years old, she looks only in her mid-twenties, about the same as Miss Galina.
Looking at the oil painting, I still can't see the unique temperament of a witch, but Xia De can already feel the strange beauty that surpasses ordinary people. If Miss Galina is a mature and stable upper-class aristocratic woman, then this Xi Wei Aurora is a heroic lady, and it can even be said that she is a lady who is afraid to look directly at her.
Xia De stopped and reached out to touch the badge inside the shirt on his chest. He felt that the badge hanging there was getting slightly warm, and the witch was obviously upstairs.