Chapter 172: The Location of the Relic

The doctor remained in the dream, while the two standing in the corridor listened to the rain outside and discussed the cleanup work to come.

The night grew deeper, and Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha still looked energetic:

"In a moment, I will use Mind Writing to record tonight's experiences here. When the Zhengshen Sect arrives, they will understand what happened. The characters produced by Mind Writing resemble printed text, so no handwriting traces will be left."

"Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha, do you often 'cooperate' with the Sect like this?"

The outsider asked curiously, wanting to learn some experience.

"Not often, but doing this effectively avoids trouble from the Sect. The Thaumaturgy Academy and the Zhengshen Sect are not enemies; the Sect simply dislikes us, believing we are always causing trouble..."

Given Xia De's short two-week experience, it was hard for him not to agree with the Sect's view.

"So, leaving appropriate clues is also showing an attitude to the Sect; the Sect will tacitly agree not to pursue us."

"The relationship between us and the Sect is truly..."

He flipped through the "Dalarion Common Tongue Dictionary" in his mind:

"Truly subtle."

"That word is quite good."

The blonde Miss praised.

Although the doctor had given him twenty minutes, by the time he woke up, thirty minutes had actually passed.

Entering the dream did not tire Doctor Shi Nai De; instead, it made him more energetic. The rain pattered in the summer night, and the doctor's tone carried a light meaning:

"A Fourth-Ring Wizard, just suppressed by me."

He smiled at his two companions, and seeing the bottle in Xia De's hand contained an eye, he explained:

"Basically, everything is clear. This eye is a Keeper-level Relic 【Count's Left Eye】. The eye's original owner was known as Count Gela, who lived in the late Fifth Era. After being assassinated, the corpse's eyes were obtained by a Witch, crafted into an alchemical item, and subsequently became a Relic. Its specific function is: when the Magic Eye makes eye contact with any intelligent being's eyes, the other party suffers a mental shock based on the gap in soul power and the gap in Spirit between the two sides. Simply put, for anyone more powerful than the holder, the Magic Eye has no effect at all, while for ordinary people, turning them into a vegetable with a single glance is not difficult."

"This kind of Relic... its effect isn't great."

Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha seemed disappointed:

"If they are weaker than me, isn't it more convenient for me to use Thaumaturgy directly? Where is the need to damage my own eyes and install something like this... Never mind, since it's free, Doctor, Detective, you keep it. I have no interest. The clues tonight were not provided by me, nor did I help, so do not share anything with me."

"I said, tonight I only want the 【Forged Philosopher's Stone】; everything else belongs to you."

The doctor shook his head, so this Magic Eye belonged to Xia De. Of course, by reason, he still needed to give Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha a sum of Gold Pounds as compensation for monopolizing the Relic, since she had also participated in the battle. But judging by the blonde Miss's attitude, she did not seem to intend to ask Xia De for money; after all, she cared about Xia De's other things.

Although the doctor's direct combat ability was not outstanding, his ability to obtain information by entering dreams needed no one's doubt.

"We can leave. The two Relics that 【Blood of Mercury】 let Panton keep in custody are ordinary items, used to make him believe he is still trusted. The Silver-Eyed Ones discovered long ago that Panton was embezzling the organization's property; this man came to silence him."

The doctor, just like Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha earlier, kicked the man lying unconscious on the ground. He shook his head at Xia De:

"I interrogated his past separately. This fellow specializes in doing dirty work for the Silver-Eyed Ones. If you ask me, he should be executed directly by a Steam Cannon."

"Have you found the clue to the 【Forged Philosopher's Stone】?"

Xia De asked again; this was the main purpose of tonight.

"No, but there are some clues. This fellow knows more ordinary people who help 【Blood of Mercury】 guard Relics. But regarding what comes next, Detective, you do not need to participate. This matter is too dangerous; you are not suitable to act together."

Xia De did not object but nodded directly. The doctor was very right; tonight he came along only to fulfill his promise to Miss Miss Beiyasi not to take any Relics other than the 【Forged Philosopher's Stone】.

"Then, have you found the Silver-Eyed Ones' hiding place?"

Xia De asked on behalf of Miss Miss Beiyasi. The doctor shook his head and, like Xia De earlier, picked up that short knife. Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha stepped back a pace; only then did Xia De understand and also step back a pace, then watched as the doctor stabbed the knife into the man's heart.

The doctor pulled out the short knife and casually tossed it aside. Metal and blood drops fell to the ground, making a sound amidst the rain:

"After you injured the Silver-Eyed Ones, their wounds cannot be healed by ordinary methods. They are now in the predicament of power decline and do not trust those around them. This fellow who does dirty work does not know the Silver-Eyed Ones' location either; they exchange information relying on secret communication."

Looking on the bright side, the Silver-Eyed Ones, a Ninth-Ring Wizard, suffering power decline gives Miss Miss Beiyasi a chance to take revenge with her own hands; but looking on the dark side, it will probably be even harder for Miss Miss Beiyasi to find this cautious fellow.

The three handled the cleanup affairs; Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha used the Thaumaturgy 【Mind Writing】 on the side to tell the story of tonight, while Doctor Shi Nai De and Xia De searched the corpse together.

After checking the corpse's pockets, the doctor looked at Xia De with some hesitation.

"Doctor, what's wrong?"

Xia De looked at him strangely, thinking he had touched something strange. Assassins do not carry wallets when going out to work; so far, Xia De had only found 3 Shillings in loose change.

"There is something I originally should not tell you because it is very dangerous. But since the initial information for this matter came from you, not telling you would also be inappropriate."

The doctor hesitated, wanting to speak but stopping.

"Then tell the Detective. The fact that the Magic Eye just now had no effect on him already explains a lot."

Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha encouraged, her fingers drawing in the air as large amounts of text continuously appeared on the paper.

The doctor thought for a moment, felt it made sense, and stopped his searching actions:

"Then alright."

Xia De looked at him; the doctor's words rang out after the thunder:

"I know where 【God's Gift Box】 is."

He looked at Xia De, and Xia De looked at him too. It took a while to understand the meaning of this sentence; he asked tentatively:

"Are you saying you discovered the location of that Philosopher-level (Level 2) Relic?"

Although this box seemed to have no direct connection to the events Xia De experienced, it could also be said that the beginning of everything seemed to be this box. If not for this Relic, 【Blood of Mercury】 would not have come to Tobeske, and the subsequent series of events would not have happened.

After nearly three weeks of life and adventure, after all the twists and turns, the news of 【God's Gift Box】 came to Xia De again.

"Yes, Detective. I can tell you the specific location, but you must understand the difference between greed and enterprise. Tobeske is not peaceful. After Lakeview Manor, do you know? Last Saturday night, an Evil God almost dragged a certain district of this city into..."

Xia De turned to look at Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha; the latter pretended to be interested in the "story" she had just written.

Seeing the two's strange actions, although the doctor continued speaking, he looked at them with slight hesitation:

"Although the Zhengshen Sect blocked the news, I heard some situation from Augustus. At that time, a High-Ring Wizard used an enlightening-type Mist Lock to directly confront the Evil God's gaze, paying a price to save a whole street of people... Although incredible, we have seen even more incredible things at Lakeview Manor..."

He paused:

"Could it be you two?"

Xia De and Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha simply refused to look at him.

"Detective? Writer?"

Doctor Shi Nai De called out in a low voice. Seeing that they still maintained that attitude, he stood beside the corpse, lowered his voice to just barely cover the sound of raindrops hitting the window, and suddenly widened his eyes, a look of astonishment surfacing on his face:

"Oh! My god, it's you!"

In short, although a few small accidents occurred, the joint operation of the three on this rainy Monday night went fairly smoothly. Not only was no one injured, the doctor even obtained the next lead regarding the relic 【Forged Philosopher's Stone】.

And even more valuable was the information about 【God's Gift Box】.

Just as the intelligence originally provided by Miss Jia Lin Na indicated, 【God's Gift Box】 could not be moved from its location due to certain special reasons, which was why 【Mercurious Blood】, even with the Silver-Eyed One severely wounded, still refused to leave the Tobesk region.

Roughly a year ago, in the winter of the Common Era 1852, taking advantage of the preparatory work for Tobesk city's third round of steam pipeline renovation construction, 【Mercurious Blood】, which had discovered relic clues from the ancient text 《Book of the Dead》, secretly conducted excavation work beneath Tobesk, and truly found a relic from the early Sixth Epoch buried deep underground in this city, a relic with a history of approximately 1000 years.

The man killed by the doctor did not know exactly what was inside the relic. He only knew that the "God's Gift Box" was discovered within the relic. This relic was firmly fixed at a certain position within the site, and even using the means of a Ring Artificer, it could not be separated from the pedestal securing it.

Therefore, the Silver-Eyed One, as the leader, took the risk of having most of the organization's personnel infiltrate the large city of Tobesk, attempting to complete the manufacture of the so-called angel-level relic 【Mercurious Blood】 within the relic.

Although the dead man did not know the specific situation inside the relic, by secretly tailing members of his own organization, he learned the exact location of the excavated relic's entrance. He did not intend to monopolize the relic, he was merely curious about this secret.

And Xia De was very familiar with the location of the entrance—it was separated by only one street from the alley where he had accidentally discovered the statue of the old god "Vampire Duke Lao Ai Er."