Chapter 219: Notarization

Saint Rothes Cathedral is located near the Suchit Steam Train Station and is the cathedral of the "Eternal Blazing Sun" Church in the Honest Market District.

It has the common onion-shaped dome, painted gold on the surface, symbolizing the sun. Below it is a white building with gold trim and a huge "Sun Holy Emblem."

Right next to it is a bell tower, also using a golden sphere as a roof.

Seeing Jenna enter the cathedral with the crowd of morning prayers, Fors chose to wait nearby.

She wasn't sure if the "Eternal Blazing Sun" cathedral had any special arrangements that would make her "invisibility" lose its effect, so she had to be cautious.

Like other cathedrals of the "Eternal Blazing Sun" Church, Saint Rothes Cathedral also uses gold as the base, with gold leaf inlaid everywhere. This, combined with bright stained glass, huge murals filling every blank space, saint images shaped in blue, green, red, and other colors, and the deep, wide space, allows every believer to intuitively feel the sacredness and grandeur, causing them to involuntarily lower their heads and become devout.

Jenna walked to the front of the altar and chose the second row of seats.

She immediately closed her eyes, buried her body slightly forward, and crossed her arms, placing them on her chest.

As someone who had been baptized and had been in and out of "Eternal Blazing Sun" cathedrals since childhood, although she couldn't be called devout, she was extremely familiar with this process and soon cleared her mind, focusing on praying.

In the bishop's sermon, time seemed to freeze in such an atmosphere.

After nearly a quarter of an hour, Jenna opened her eyes, stood up quietly, and walked toward a long table located on the side of the main hall.

That long table was twenty or thirty meters long, and on it were white candles as tall as fingers. They were located in different golden lamp holders, quietly flickering with firelight.

Every believer who wants to thank or praise a saint or angel can buy a candle from the clergy next to the long table, light them, and place them in an empty lamp holder.

Jenna stared at the gently jumping candle flames for a few seconds and shifted her gaze to the clergy wearing white robes with gold trim.

She saw a man buying candles.

The man looked to be twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, with yellow hair combed very neatly, on which some grease and powder had been applied. His eyes were bluer than lake water but relatively small.

He wore a white shirt, a yellow vest, and a blue fine wool coat with two golden buttons. Like those men in Trier who had some status, there were obvious traces of makeup.

After the man took the candles and walked toward the empty lamp holders, Jenna approached the clergy wearing white robes with gold trim, spread her arms, and said:

"Praise the Sun!"

"Praise the Sun!" The clergy responded, with a gentle attitude and a warm smile.

Jenna hesitated for two seconds before saying:

"I want a blessed necklace."

Compared to buying candles, this is a more devout act.

Of course, it's also more expensive.

That clergyman smiled even more kindly:

"Sister, how about this one?"

He took out a necklace made of gold, hanging a sunbird, from among the white candles that hadn't been sold yet.

Two rose-red gemstones were inlaid in the position of the sunbird's eyes.

—Just as "Brother" is the term for male believers of the same faith, people of the "Eternal Blazing Sun" Church like to call female believers "Sisters." Some nuns even formed the "Nine Sisters Society," which is an alliance with the "Little Brothers Society."

Jenna intuitively believed that this must be very expensive, as if she heard her wallet crying.

After careful selection, she finally bought an amulet that was relatively simple, with only a small Sun Holy Emblem.

This cost her a full 30 Fer-gold, making her heart ache.

Although she was considered one of the higher earners in the underground singer circle in the Market District, it had only been a month since she started being sought after. The money she earned before only allowed her to pay rent, fill her stomach, and buy performance clothes and makeup tools without asking for money from home.

Even if she could earn nearly 300 Fer-gold a month now, and that was while working part-time, she didn't feel that her finances had become affluent, because she still had to save for next year's tuition, not let her mother worry, and wanted to help bear part of the family's debts.

After putting on the amulet, Jenna took a breath, left Saint Rothes Cathedral, and entered the Old Pigeon Cage theater before 9 o'clock.

The classroom for acting apprentices was on the second floor. She walked all the way and passed the manager's office.

The door there was tightly closed; Maip Meier didn't seem to have arrived at the theater yet.

Did he really run away? Jenna withdrew her gaze and walked forward.

Not long after, she passed the exclusive lounge of the popular female lead, Charlotte Calvino.

The door here was also locked.

Jenna exhaled silently, puffed out her chest, and turned into the classroom.

She arrived relatively late. The teacher for today's first acting class, Gaspar, had already arrived and was answering a private question from an apprentice.

He was a steady middle-aged man, but he could also handle a playboy role on stage.

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Deep in underground Trier, inside a hollow full of tree branches and vine remains.

The central position here was concave, the soil was messy, and friction marks leading to unknown places could be vaguely seen.

Angouleme de Francois followed the Cardinal to this place, stood at the edge, and stared at everything in front of him with a slightly embarrassed expression.

That group of dirty rats moved again!

Getting a signal from the Cardinal, he pulled out a golden long sword that seemed to be condensed from light and had substance from the top of the gray-white mechanical puppet standing beside him.

As soon as the long sword was inserted into the ground, those green or withered tree branches and vines all burned up, but no black smoke came out.

With the disappearance of these obstructions, the true appearance of the ground, rock walls, and cave ceiling was presented to Angouleme and the others:

Hundreds or thousands of slippery, cold snakes were entangled together, mating crazily; countless gray rats were biting each other, not retreating an inch, fighting until death; all kinds of insects were desperately eating residual leaves and soil until they burst themselves...

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After discovering that plainclothes police had quietly blocked the Old Pigeon Cage theater, Fors retreated from this brick-red three-story building, hid in a side alley, and observed the situation on the second floor.

The first acting class was nearing its end. Jenna discovered that Maip Meier, who usually liked to hang around the classroom door, hadn't appeared.

At this time, several police officers in black uniforms entered, holding lists in their hands.

The leader called a halt to the teaching and said to everyone present:

"Maip Meier has been confirmed as a sinful cultist. We need to confirm your faith."

Gasps and exclamations followed, and the scene was a bit chaotic for a while.

"Quiet!" the leading police officer shouted. "I will call out names, come over and sign a guarantee. This will be witnessed by God; no one can lie."

Confirming faith... Jenna's heart, which had been in her throat, fell back quite a bit.

The teachers and acting apprentices present went up one by one, took a guarantee from one of the police officers, filled in their faith, and signed their corresponding names.

Not long after, Jenna heard her name:

"Cheria Bello."

She walked over steadily and received a guarantee and a red absorbent fountain pen.

The content of the guarantee was:

"I promise that until today, I still believe in (), and have never changed.

"Promisor: ()

"Notary: ()"

Jenna filled in "Eternal Blazing Sun" and "Cheria Bello" in the first two brackets in order and returned the guarantee and the absorbent fountain pen to the police.

After all the actors and apprentices signed the guarantee, they were required to stay in classrooms, rehearsal rooms, and other places, not allowed to leave, and wait for further notice.

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Inside the manager's office that originally belonged to Maip Meier, guarantees were gathered here.

Several Beyonders belonging to the "Eternal Blazing Sun" Church took turns holding an absorbent fountain pen that looked like it was made of pure gold and wrote the name abbreviation "d. e." in the notary position.

They seemed to be using red ink, as bright as blood.

After each guarantee was filled out completely, it would emit a layer of golden light, and then return to normal.

During this process, occasionally a guarantee would burst out with terrifying blood light, which was often accompanied by shrill screams on the same floor.

—Even if some actors and apprentices used fake names, they were fake names they had used for a long time, were familiar to the people around them, and had corresponding occult connections.

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Jin Huang Rooster Hotel, Room 504.

Charlie tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, even though he was already very exhausted.

Suddenly, he heard a *dong dong dong* knocking sound.

"Who?" Charlie sat up with a *swish*, like a bird that had been overly frightened, and asked loudly.

"Angouleme de Francois." The voice of the person outside the door was low, but it had a sense of warmth that was convincing.

Charlie instantly remembered the gentleman who had questioned him in the case of Mrs. Alice's death. He hurriedly rolled out of bed and opened the door.

Standing outside the door were Angouleme, with his golden hair, golden eyebrows, and golden beard, and Imre, who had Southern Continent blood, a brown complexion, and thick lips.

"Mr. Francois, is there something wrong?" Charlie asked cautiously.

At the same time, a thought flashed through his mind:

Is this the official Beyonder that Charles and "Red Boots" mentioned?

Angouleme didn't answer immediately. He walked into Charlie's room and signaled Imre to close the wooden door.

He looked around and said:

"A piece of bad news: Susanna Mattise hasn't completely died yet. In the future, she may come to find you at any time."

Charlie didn't hide his disappointment, pain, confusion, and fear:

"What should I do?"

Angouleme nodded gently:

"There is also a piece of good news: we plan to provide you with a clerical job within our organization. This will allow us to protect you better.

"The monthly salary is 320 Fer-gold, including compensation for the confidentiality clause. For the first month or two, you need to take corresponding Intis language intensive courses. It belongs to the internship period, with only 200 Fer-gold. Once you pass the assessment, you can become a regular employee.

"Are you willing? We won't force you to accept this proposal."

320 Fer-gold per month? And can protect me better? Only these two sentences remained in Charlie's mind, and he believed that no normal person could refuse such a good thing.

He even felt that the waiter job of 80 Fer-gold per month was quite good!

He remembered the hints from Lu Mian and Fors and answered with surprise and joy:

"No problem!"

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At the window of Room 207, Lu Mian stood in front of the wooden table, watching Charlie follow two strangers toward Market Avenue.

He concentrated and observed Charlie's fortune, but didn't find any changes.

This shows that those two people aren't "Actors" who pull chestnuts from the fire!

Lu Mian's gaze then shifted to the blond man, wanting to see what kind of fortune an official Beyonder would have.

Suddenly, he had an intense intuition of danger and shrank his body, squatting down.

Angouleme turned his head with a *swish* and looked at the windows of the Jin Huang Rooster Hotel with slight suspicion.

He felt someone was observing him.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 220 =====