Chapter 2024: [Dragon Feast Sect] and [Light-Worshipper Seminar]

The slightly leisurely Saturday ended, and time came to the penultimate day of the Month of Sunshine. After having breakfast at home in the morning, Xia De considered that he still had to meet the witch in the afternoon and might not come back at noon, so he entrusted Dorothy to help him take care of the cat.

And this morning, Xia De gained something in the black market of Moon Bay City.

In a big city like Moon Bay City, there are of course more than one place for Ringed Shushi to trade. The black market introduced by the blood-sucking coroner Mr. Albert is also located in the lower city area by the Taton River. Walking south along Herring Street, enter the alley at the entrance of Herring Street and Millie Alley—the alley name is to commemorate a kind-hearted woman who lived here a hundred years ago and adopted dozens of orphans. Then pass through the alley, and at the five-way intersection with complex terrain in the lower city area, choose the uphill road to continue forward, and you will soon see the unremarkable "Duke of Honeycomb Store".

The Moon Bay area has many hills, so the honey produced by beekeepers artificially raising bees is also one of the local specialties. This "Duke of Honeycomb Store" is a business specializing in honey sales. In the era when high-end sugar is still an expensive and rare commodity, the honey business is a good business even in the lower city area. Of course, honey is not only a high-end seasoning, but also used as a fairly versatile medicinal material.

Xia De entered the store filled with sweet and greasy smell, first spent a high price equivalent to half a pound to buy a can of the most expensive honey here, intending to take it home to share with Little Mia. But after the can was sealed and tied with a rope, Xia De said that he would temporarily store the product on the counter, and then said the password given by coroner Mr. Albert:

"I was introduced by an old customer, I know there is better honey in the basement, so don't hide it."

The middle-aged man behind the counter raised his eyebrows:

"You are a guest from out of town, right? Then do you know the rules?"

"I know, I brought a mask. This is the deposit, please give me a coin."

He handed over a 1-Oer small silver coin, and then saw the middle-aged man take out an opaque enamel small can from the bottom of the shelf displaying many honey cans behind him. Then, he took out a golden identity verification coin from it and handed it to Xia De.

The front of the coin has a bee pattern, and the back is completely blank.

The middle-aged man led Xia De to the courtyard behind the store and opened the door to the cellar. Walking down the stairs, what he saw was a place that looked like a tavern layout, but was a bit deserted.

Due to the existence of a developed sewer system locally, this black market actually has three public entrances, and the Duke of Honeycomb Store is just one of them. This black market is considered one of the largest black markets in the lower city area. When Xia De found the fat man responsible for receiving guests behind the corner counter and explained the commission to acquire special relic coins, he immediately received a reply:

"There are guests selling such coins now, but I don't know if they meet your requirements."

He asked Xia De to sit down and wait for a while, and it took twenty minutes to find a man wearing a clown mask and not tall.

The latter talked about business with Xia De at the table. The coins he took out were two in total, both of which were the same kind of relic:

"Document-level relic 【Fragile Healing】, you have probably heard of this kind of relic. Treat your own injuries, and then give the treated person one of the following diseases randomly: cold, severe insomnia, scurvy, leprosy, aphasia, syphilis. In extremely small probability cases, diseases related to mysticism will appear, such as coughing blood, undead plague, but it's not a big problem... probably."

His last few sentences were obviously a bit vague, but he didn't want to bargain with Xia De:

"Although healing has a price and is a disposable item, it is a rare healing relic after all, and the containment method is simple, just keep the surrounding environment clean. One price, 2 Krans for 1, you know it can even treat soul-level injuries."

"Yes, but I also know that the healing effect of this relic is not infinite, and most soul-level injuries cannot be completely treated."

Xia De also knew this kind of relic. 【Fragile Healing】 was discovered in the mid-5th Era and was first discovered and contained by the 【Church of Nature and Evil】.

This kind of relic was originally inside a hospital of unknown name in the distant 3rd Era. In the era of plague, it was used as an identification mark to distinguish normal patients from plague patients, but later it became a currency circulated inside the hospital, which plague patients used to temporarily obtain a "healthy" identity to move arbitrarily.

As for why it possessed effects very different from the original after turning into a relic, this was not something Xia De could know.

As for the price of 2 Krans for 1, which is equivalent to 22 to 24 gold pounds each, it also meets the reasonable price of disposable document-level relics. So Xia De talked to the other party for a few words, and bought these two coins at the price of 4 Krans for both, on the condition that he was an outsider and wanted the other party to provide some information.

Adding the two 【Thor's Wrath】 found from Laplace Howard's private collection, Xia De now had four special coins.

Because 【Fragile Healing】 was used for hanging, each one had a hole, and its volume was slightly larger than a 1-Kran coin. One side of the coin is the emblem of the unknown hospital, and the shape is a combination of cherry blossoms and daisies; the other side is the ancient rune number "1", and there is a line of small print below:

【Healing requires a price, which has nothing to do with technology.】

"Then, Mr. Outsider, what do you want to know? Please allow me to praise first, your Karsenrik language is more standard than me, a local who has never been abroad."

Because Xia De's Karsenrik pronunciation was corrected by the blonde princess when Princess Margaret visited Tobesk under the pretext of "learning foreign languages".

"What do you want to know?"

The masked man asked while holding a wine glass. Xia De thought for a while:

"Are there any Ringed Shushi forces locally that cannot be provoked? You don't have to mention the church, I know the Orthodox Church cannot be provoked."

"You have a sense of humor, but there are really no Ringed Shushi organizations with names locally. Moon Bay area is not the countryside. In such a large diocese, the Five Gods Church will not allow Ringed Shushi groups with names and surnames to exist, unless the other party is completely neutral and has a reason for existence."

For example, the "Divination Association" cooperates closely with the Five Gods Church, and the "Rose Cross Society" in Willendale is a tacit product of the royal family and the church. As for Tobesk, there are really no local independent Ringed Shushi groups with fame.

"It seems that Moon Bay is really a peaceful and good place... Then walking locally recently, what do I need to pay attention to as an outsider? I have heard that serial headless murder cases are appearing locally."

"Moon Bay City has been quite peaceful in recent years, even if the so-called 'Chosen One Ritual' in the rumors is disrupting the order of the entire material world, at least it has not been disturbed here."

The masked man said, Xia De nodded, but the former added:

"However, there are still things worth noting. Blood-sucking clans gather locally. They don't like to deal with us human Ringed Shushi, but they themselves are not easy to provoke. And recently, I heard that some foreign organizations are infiltrating locally..."

He deliberately stopped here, and then pinched his fingers at Xia De. Xia De knowingly took out another 1-Oer silver coin and pushed it to him.

"This news is absolutely true, and very few people know it. I won't say the source of the news, but the specific content refers to the famous evil cult 'Dragon Feast Sect' appearing in the Moon Bay area. However, they didn't have their own forces locally, so this time they didn't come rashly, but cooperated with the illegal group 'Light-Worshipper Seminar' which is very famous in the central and western regions of Karsenrik. Do you know this?"

"Of course I know."

Although the name has "Light", the name certainly cannot represent justice. This organization calls itself a "Seminar", and its members are not gathered together because of common faith, but gathered together to transcend the human posture, sublimate themselves into "Light", and conduct research.

The reason why they are notorious is not only because they like human experiments, but also because they like to let the residents of a whole village and town become their "believers" in remote countryside, worship these Ringed Shushi as masters, pray, experiment, serve, and even voluntarily sacrifice for them.

If "Truth Society" is an organization composed of crazy but calm genius scientists, then "Light-Worshipper Seminar" is an evil religion composed of crazy and abandoned faith and humanity priests.

Of course, although the name sounds similar to "Light-Guiding Hidden Cult", the two have no relationship.

As for the "Light-Worshipper Seminar" being very famous, it is because they have a genuine thirteen-ring Shushi "Light Chaser", which is also one of the few thirteen-ring Shushi who are not church or academy factions, like the "Blood Weeper" of 【Blood Spirit School】, "Winter Singer" of 【Winter Anthem Group】, and "Mirror Hider" of 【Mirror Association】.

You know, even large illegal organizations like 【Truth Society】 do not have thirteen rings.

"Light Chaser" is the title inherited by the highest leader of each generation of the Seminar, and the book "Crazy Light Chaser" that Xia De studied for the "Light" spiritual rune when he was in the lower grades is actually part of the secret collection of this organization.

"Wait, you said 【Dragon Feast Sect】 is not familiar with the local area, so they cooperated with 【Light-Worshipper Seminar】. In this way, the Seminar is very familiar with the local area? Does the Moon Bay area already have their people?"

Thinking, Xia De raised a question, but the masked man couldn't give a definite answer this time:

"I am not a member of an illegal organization, I don't know about this. Since last summer, the whole world has become unusual. Look at the weather this summer... Whether it is an outsider like you or a local like me, we must be careful. Don't easily provoke trouble, then trouble won't easily come to provoke you—this is my life principle for many years." ===== CHAPTER 2025 =====