Unlike the Church of Dawn in Tobesk, which occupies the entire Dawn Square, the Church of Dawn in Fort Midhill is located on a street called "Santa Carla Avenue" in the southwest of the city. Although it is a building facing the street, the church still occupies a considerable area. It runs through the entire block, and in addition to the auditorium and office space, there are even separate gardens and courtyards.
The area of this church is much larger than Tobesk's Dawn Square... This is also related to Tobesk's expensive land price.
Xia De did not dare to enter the church to prevent being discovered. And there was no need for him to enter, because after approaching Santa Carla Avenue, he carefully took out the blood in the alley and dripped it into his eyes. When he looked at the door of the Church of Dawn, he could clearly see the movement track of the priest Augustus made of **** halo.
"At least at this time yesterday, Priest Augustus was safe!"
Shad came to this conclusion.
There were more than one figures of Priest Augustus walking out from the door of the Church of Dawn, indicating that the old priest had passed by the door many times within 24 hours. Xia De chose the figure with the darkest color, that is, the figure at the farthest point in time to track.
Probably because of the purpose of the city at the beginning of its construction, the streets of Fort Midhill are generally wider. On both sides of the road, street trees and gas lampposts alternate in turn.
After Priest Augustus left the Church of Dawn, he paced under the light pole at the entrance of the church for a while, as if he was observing the advertisement of "Cassandra Auction House" on the light pole, and then he walked eastward along the street. go.
The priest is probably going to do something not very formal, so he sticks to the wall, trying not to be noticed by others. Later, when he walked to the intersection of Santa Carla Avenue and Oak Street, he got into the carriage.
"Um......"
Looking at the figure of Priest Augustus floating in the air, if the priest didn't get into the carriage, then the priest must have learned the spell to fly into the air while maintaining a sitting posture.
"Where is the priest going?"
Priests who were 24 hours ago or earlier could ride in a carriage, but Shad couldn't, because he couldn't watch the priest's figure and what he was doing all the time in the carriage.
Therefore, he could only follow the figure of the priest floating in the air and keeping a sitting posture to chase forward on foot.
Go south from the intersection of Oak Avenue and Santa Carla Avenue, that is, head towards the direction of the city towards the mountains. After passing two intersections, the carriage turned into a small alley called Squirrel Lane.
This is a commercial street specializing in mountain goods, pine cones and leather products, and it is extremely lively today.
After passing through Squirrel Lane, the carriage continued eastward, and after reaching the street where the Fort Midhill Police Department was located, it turned southward and stopped.
It was already 2:40 in the afternoon, and Xia De was glad that he hadn't followed the carriage all day.
The place where the carriage stopped was an alley called "Ruff Lane". This place was similar to the Quill Street where Dorothy lived. It was a narrow but neat street full of rental apartments.
After getting out of the carriage, Priest Augustus looked around, as if to make sure he had gone in the wrong place. Then, he started walking into the alley.
"Was the priest lost here... Are there any traces of the elements?"
[Not yet. 】
"OK."
Xia De nodded, and walked forward while looking at the surrounding street scene. The City Hall of Fort Midhill seems to love planting trees, and from the time he left the old tower until now, there has never been a lack of trees in his sights.
The priest's destination was here, and he stopped in front of the house with the "No. 15" doorplate on Ruf Lane.
Shad saw the figure of the priest reaching out to knock on the door, and then he walked in. But then there was no figure of Priest Augustus leaving from the door, that is to say, Shad couldn't go around here.
[Shad's Echo of Blood] The continuous silhouettes I see appear about once every five seconds, but if you concentrate and pay extra spirit, you can see more coherent movements of the visual silhouettes. Therefore, Shad can be sure that Priest Augustus entered the house five seconds after he knocked on the door.
That said, this is a visit with an appointment. And along the way, Xia De didn't see the priest pretending to be himself, so Priest Augustus visited here with his real face.
"My thaumaturgy is really terrifying. It is indeed the only one that has evolved... Priest Augustus is in Fort Midhill, who do you want to visit secretly? I remember that the priest did not plan to pay homage to the local saint. Lance Correspondence Ring Warlock, so, is it an acquaintance he knew when he was young?"
But no matter what, I found this kind of place, and Xia De couldn't give up easily. He took out the wooden button that the doctor gave him, stroked the uneven lines on the surface, injected the spirit to activate it, then climbed up the steps, and gently knocked on the door.
After waiting quietly for a few seconds, footsteps came from inside the door. He opened his eyes slightly, but the door did not open immediately, and the sound of light footsteps stopped behind the door.
Xia De knows that there is someone behind the door, and the back of the door also knows that there is someone outside the door. No one inside or outside the door spoke, but kept silent tacitly.
And in this silence, the voice in the ear has already given a hint:
[Outlander, behind the door is the Ring Warlock. 】
Although the distance is very close, but because there is a door, it can only be judged to be a ring magician.
Xia De was not surprised by this result. He now suspects that the disappearance of Priest Augustus is related to the person behind the door.
"Excuse me, who are you looking for?"
The middle-aged woman obviously spoke with a local accent. In the silence inside and outside the door, she spoke first.
Xia De frowned, canceling the effect of the doctor's button. Since the opponent is a ring warlock, there is no need to use this method:
"Hello, ma'am, I am the writer John Watson."
"Well, you don't have to open the door either. Tell me, my friend Reverend Augustus, is he with you?"
"The old priest? He visited here at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, and then left by the back door."
"Where is the back door?"
"Go left, go straight after entering the narrow alley, then turn right."
said the voice.
"Okay, thank you very much."
Xia De thanked him softly, and wanted to leave here to make sure whether there was a figure of Priest Augustus at the back door of the house.
But the voice behind the door stopped him:
"Sir, may I ask you, like Priest Augustus, are you a 'us'?"
Shad thought about it:
"If you mean a mechanic working a steam metal rim, I think so."
Hastily exposing the identity of the Ring Warlock is only because Xia De needs to be in this city, at least to know the location of the black market. When he was in Coldwater Harbor, Rezia, who was disguised as "Miss Prince", brought him into the circle of ring magicians in the harbor city, but he really has no friends here... unless, more Rosie has other princesses whose souls are connected.
"What happened to Priest Augustus?"
The female voice inside the door asked.
"Yes, he's missing. Excuse me, how did you know?"
"Because yesterday, I performed a divination for him."
The door was opened from the inside, and Xia De saw the woman talking to him inside the door.
The woman appeared to be in her forties, with long, dull yellow hair. She was wearing a dark blue and black dress that looked like a nun's robe, with a shawl of the same color over her shoulders.
She didn't look at Shad's face, because a dirty-looking sackcloth was wrapped around her eyes.
"Yesterday's divination seemed to indicate death, but the old priest didn't care at all. Just now I was thinking about what that terrible prediction meant, but now I understand."
She took a step aside and let the door open:
"Please come in."
Although the eyes are covered with a cloth band, she behaves like a person with normal vision:
"If you need help, you are welcome at the House of the Blind."
【Central. 】
"So bother you."
Shad stepped over the threshold and entered.
The "House of the Blind" appears to be a small group of ring magicians, so named because most of the people in it are blind.
After Xia De entered, he realized that the woman who opened the door was not the only one in the house. Under her introduction, Xia De knew that it was a caring organization that provided assistance to the blind and disabled in Fort Midhill, and received financial support from the local city hall.
The interior of the house is very tidy. In order to facilitate the walking of blind people, there are almost no sundries in the corridors and stairs. The woman led Xia De all the way from the first floor to the third floor, and finally stopped in a reception room.
During this period, Xia De saw a lot of blind people walking in the corridors with the help of others~www.mtlnovel.com~ or chatting with other people. Moreover, he encountered at least three ring warlocks in the process of going upstairs, but they were all low-level ring warlocks. It seemed that this organization was not strong.
"It's really lively here, but is this House of the Blind a small urban ring magician organization?"
He secretly guessed.
The blind woman leading the way calls herself "Ms. Michelle". Although her eyes are wrapped with cloth belts, her walking is completely unaffected.
After the two were seated, she also called the servants of the normal people in the Blind House to bring hot tea for Xia De. But with a cautious attitude, Xia De did not drink any tea in the territory of the strange ring warlock.
"The connection between Priest Rat Augustus and us has been said for more than twenty years. A long time ago, when the old priest was in his thirties, he had visited this city, And met one of our nuns."
Ms. Michele said she was sitting across from Shad, with her hands folded on the lap of her dark silk dress. When mentioning "nun" and thinking of "blindness", Xia De suddenly remembered another organization, the organization he had encountered in [Dark Realm].
"Priest Augustus in his thirties, and your nuns...um..."
Seeing that Xia De didn't know what words to use to describe it, Ms. Michelle smiled:
"Yes, two souls were attracted to each other. I was only a teenager and witnessed this love. But Priest Rat Augustus had to return to Tobesk, and Sister Matilda had her own responsibility , she is a ring magician, and priests are just ordinary people, even priests of the Orthodox Church..."
Xia De understands what she means, this is a relationship that is destined to have no results. He just didn't expect that Priest Augustus had such a story when he was young.