Chapter 178: One-Time Sun Gun

Although Miss Miss Beiyasi is young, her intuition is truly unusually sharp; this can probably be considered a kind of talent.

Before leaving No. 6 Saint Delan Square, Miss Miss Beiyasi thought that since she had cooled off at Xia De's place today, she should offer some reward. Xia De originally thought she was joking, but he didn't expect her to be serious:

"This is for you."

The female sorceress with a head of brown long hair took a small, pure gold sun-pattern brooch from her brown plaid ladies' handbag; on the brooch was the holy symbol of the True God 【Lantern Old Man】.

Xia De originally thought it was something like a decoration, but upon touching it, he immediately received a prompt:

【You have touched 'Miracle'.】

"Oh?"

"Detective, you actually realized this isn't an ordinary item? Truly remarkable.."

Because the work was finished, Miss Miss Beiyasi was sitting on the sofa talking with Xia De; she introduced it with a tone of some pride:

"This is an alchemical item I made myself. Holding the holy symbol and praising our Lord 【Lantern Old Man】, without consuming Spirit, one can use the 【Sun Gun】 once, just like I used last time. It is absolutely no problem to deal with any Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi below the Fourth Ring; take this for self-defense."

Miss Miss Beiyasi was very modest, trying hard to suppress the pride in her tone and the smile on her face.

"A one-time Sun Gun? For me?"

Xia De looked at the Miss sitting opposite him, surprised for a moment, then took the brooch and examined it up and down; without needing to think, he knew this was the most powerful alchemical item he had ever seen in this world.

Judging from the common knowledge he had learned, such an alchemical item absolutely could not be made by an ordinary Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi; this was probably also the power of the 'Chosen' of 'Balance'. If Xia De had such skill, he wouldn't be working so hard on detective commissions anymore.

Miss Miss Beiyasi said with a smile:

"Of course it's for you, but don't use it casually. If the Church discovers a non-believer is using the 【Sun Gun】, you might have big trouble."

Although 【Silver Moon Slash】 was powerful, it was limited by Xia De only having the First Ring, so its power still couldn't compare to the 【Sun Gun】; therefore, if this was really given to Xia De, without burning Divinity and with the enemy not randomly using 【Gun of Goodness】, this would be his strongest move currently.

"Is it really for me?"

He asked Miss Miss Beiyasi again; although he really wanted this thing, he didn't think the things he had done were worth Miss Miss Beiyasi rewarding him with such an item.

"Of course it's for you, Detective; you are still too weak."

She shook her head slightly:

"Tobesk Diocese is so dangerous again; even with the help of your friends, I am still worried about you. Detective, I really consider you my friend."

Xia De's lips moved, but he didn't know what to say.

"You have great talent, your character is good, and you passed the test of my four questions. Last night, you weren't greedy and didn't take relics that didn't belong to you; all this shows you are very good... Speaking of which, I have many secrets."

The young Miss leaned back against the sofa, tilting her head slightly upward to look at the ceiling:

"They say I am someone chosen by fate, a Chosen One, but they won't explain in detail what that means. But I understand that I will definitely have to go through many, many things in the future, so I need friends, I need the help of people like you whom I can trust. Detective, just take this; consider it an advance on the help you will give me in the future."

She pushed the brooch, which Xia De had placed on the coffee table, toward Xia De's direction:

"Although it consumes a lot to make and is very troublesome, I think you need it."

Xia De sat there, looking at the seventeen-year-old Miss opposite him smiling at him.

While happy in his heart, there was more fear. Right now, he only wanted to find Miss Annette immediately and have her reveal their identities to Miss Miss Beiyasi. Otherwise, once Miss Miss Beiyasi knew Xia De had been "having ulterior motives" during this time, he found it hard to imagine how he would be treated...

"But it shouldn't amount to getting hit by a Sun Gun."

He said quietly in his heart, then heard her giggle softly in his ear.

After Miss Miss Beiyasi left, nothing else happened that day. Xia De was thinking about whether the black-haired maid would knock on the downstairs door, bring the Bai Shi crystal and that relic, and tell him what needed to be done, but until he went to sleep that night, no one came to the door.

On Wednesday morning, when Xia De went downstairs to get the newspaper and sheep's milk, he received a letter mailed by Priest Augustus. The letter mentioned that the Priest had prepared the potion "Cost of Growth" and the preliminary materials for the potion he needed, and asked Xia De to go to the Church of Dawn to find him before ten o'clock this morning.

"Before ten... I still have to investigate that lawyer today, so I should go see the Priest earlier."

The Church of Dawn was also near the city center, not very far from Saint Delan Square. When Xia De arrived near Liming Square at half past seven in the morning, many people were already entering and exiting the church gate.

It was the tenth day of the Month of Thunder, getting closer and closer to the Holy Prayer Festival of the Liming Sect. On the square, decorations for the festival had already begun to be set up, and outside the church perimeter, people appeared who were washing walls and wiping glass on ladders.

The faith of 【God of Light and Shadow】, which is the True God 【Mr. Dawn】, occupied a huge advantage among the Five Gods Sects; according to the news Xia De learned from the old Priest, nearly 1.5 out of 10 of the total population of the Tobesk Diocese believed in this True God.

This is not a small number; after all, not everyone believes in the True God. Excluding cultists, the Old Gods who have already disappeared still have their own devout followers in this era.

There was some fog again this morning, but that grey fog wasn't particularly thick.

The Priest wrote asking Xia De to go directly into the church to find him, but as soon as Xia De arrived at the church gate, not even stepping onto those magnificent stone steps, he saw Priest Augustus wearing a white Priest robe, standing in front of the church and talking to an old man with grey hair who looked older than Priest Augustus.

The slightly unfamiliar old man wore a robe slightly different from Priest Augustus's, with a brass holy symbol hanging on his chest; the pattern of the holy symbol was a ring with a gap at the top. His build was slightly fatter than Priest Augustus's, and his height was about the same as Xia De's.

This was probably an important figure of the Church of Dawn, because every believer would bow respectfully when passing by him.

"This shouldn't be a Priest; what rank of clergy could he be?"

Xia De walked over while thinking; he originally didn't want to disturb the two people's conversation, but he didn't expect Priest Augustus to actively call him over and introduce him:

"Detective, this is Bishop Canas Owen of the Liming Sect's church in the Tobesk Diocese. Canas, this is the very good young man I mentioned to you."

Priest Augustus directly addressed the old man by name, representing that the relationship between the two was quite good.

Xia De didn't expect that he would meet such an important person so easily at the church gate on this morning, so he politely greeted him and wished him good morning.

The True God Sect rules that a Bishop can only be held by an ordinary person, so Bishop Owen is not a Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi, and Xia De didn't need to worry too much when dealing with him.