Chapter 3392: Mother's Message

The three strangers were all male: two middle-aged men and one elderly man. Although none of them wore the uniform of the Seer Society, the two middle-aged men both had Seer Society pins pinned to their chests.

The highest-ranked middle-aged man among the three was a 12th-Ring sorcerer, while the other middle-aged man was an 8th-Ring sorcerer. As for the elderly man in his fifties, his level was likely around the 4th Ring. However, when Xia De saw him, and the old man saw Xia De, Xia De felt a very strange sensation—the old man's eyes did not seem to be looking at the surface of the material world, but at something much more intrinsic.

Xia De felt he knew who these three people were:

"Is this combination familiar... When dealing with the Infinite Snake at the 'Shadow of Helm', the three Seer Society seers who ran into the sacrificial grounds—according to the elders' descriptions, it seems to be these three."

He thought to himself, and the three seers, who had arrived in the village before him and Xie Wei, were equally surprised to see more people appear. The three paused briefly before walking toward them.

Xia De gave Xie Wei a look, and the Great Witch of Light moved a few steps to stand behind and to the side of Xia De.

The seers stopped at a distance of thirty meters. Both sides observed each other carefully, but neither spoke first. The thirty-meter distance was very subtle, enough for some sorcerers with powerful perception to obtain further information—such as Xia De.

While the seers appeared to be silently watching the two strangers, in reality, they were all performing divination. The proof was that thirteen seconds after both sides stopped, a muffled 'Boom—' sound came from the pocket of the 8th-Ring sorcerer.

Calling it an explosion wasn't quite accurate; it was more like the sound of some glass object shattering. Perhaps a miniaturized crystal ball, or some other peculiar divination tool. This phenomenon was also normal. Xia De would only get absurd conclusions from long-distance divination; for close-range divination, except for seers like Luweiya and Beiya who were quite familiar with Xia De, others had to bear the backlash of fate.

The 8th-Ring sorcerer, who was the local Vice President of the Seer Society, flushed and took a step back.

Only then did the 12th-Ring seer speak:

"Greetings. We are seers from the Seer Society. May I ask who you are..."

"We are outsiders."

Xia De replied. The location where the three seers had been was not the former home of the defecting priest that Xia De and Xie Wei were looking for, and the direction was wrong as well. Xia De didn't know what they were doing here, but communicating first was definitely the right move:

"Has our appearance disturbed your work?"

Xia De asked, and the 12th-Ring middle-aged man immediately shook his head:

"Of course not. Our business is already finished. Please, feel free to do as you wish."

After saying this, he actually walked toward the gate of the village with his companions. Although the village gate was completely blocked, the three left along a gap in the damaged wall, stepping over the trunk of a fallen tree nearby; that gap was likely made by some animal.

The seers did not look back as they left. By the time they entered the pine forest outside the village and the village wall was almost invisible, the 8th-Ring sorcerer suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood. The old man tried to support him, but was waved off:

"No need for now, I..."

The 12th-Ring seer signaled for him not to speak, then cast a spell to set up anti-peeping and anti-divination powers where the three were standing. They were seers and knew better than anyone the risks of speaking carelessly.

"Liu Yisi, how is it?"

He asked the local Vice President after the spell ended. The latter shook his head:

"My Arcane Art—Crystal Peering Mirror—was taught to me by President 'Mr. Crystal' Adelaid Lenormand back when I was training at headquarters. I have never encountered such a situation. It's like... a puppet in a puppet show suddenly lifting its head and seeing a behemoth outside the stage staring at it."

He struggled to describe it:

"The other party's fate seems to not exist at all. When I tried to rely on the threads of fate to probe his existence through the echoes of fate, the echoes of fate knocked me down directly. Either he truly has no fate, or he himself is fate... The probability of him being a candidate is over eighty percent."

The 12th-Ring seer nodded and asked the old man beside him:

"Mr. Charatu, what did you see?"

The old man known as "Charatu" was slightly plump and taller than Priest Ao Gu Si. He shook his head gently, unable to fully understand what he had just seen:

"That young man just now was like a black hole in my eyes, constantly devouring and twisting fate. But looking closely, he also seemed not to have touched the threads of fate at all.

The lady beside him, even just by standing next to him, made it impossible to observe fate as well. Since my talent awakened thirty years ago, I have never seen such a peculiar person. This isn't relying on relics or divine items to block peeping from fate; this is his own talent.

I also agree with Vice President Liu Yisi's view; that person is highly likely a candidate like me."

The 12th-Ring seer frowned deeply:

"You, the Doom Sect, the Infinite Change, the Clown, and the one suspected to be beside the God-Caller—that makes five people. Plus this one, that makes the sixth. But what is his background? Where did this sorcerer come from? We couldn't have just run into the 'God-Caller', could we?"

The old man hesitated for a moment:

"The observation just now actually didn't see nothing; it's just that I'm not sure if what I saw was the truth or an illusion presented by twisted fate."

"It doesn't matter, what did you see... Did you really see moonlight?"

"No, no, not moonlight. I saw cards, and they were Luo De Pai. I saw him holding ten Luo De Pai, using them like a folding fan to cover his face. Perhaps this means his talent as a candidate lies in cards?"

In the village, Xia De and Xie Wei did not know what was happening outside. Although Xie Wei was also a 12th-tier witch, facing a 12th-Ring seer, she did not track them. On the contrary, Xie Wei was even worried that if she and Xia De continued to act here, their tracks would be discovered by the seers afterward, exposing their purpose.

"Those three seers are probably also worried that we will check the places they just visited."

Xia De said, looking in the direction they had left:

"But they ran away like they were fleeing just now. Could it be they discovered my identity?"

Xie Wei understood:

"Miss Amethyst (referring to Beiya) once told me that the vast majority of divinations targeting you will go wrong. When she tried to perform divination on you not long after meeting you, she also blew up her crystal ball... She didn't tell you about this? No, don't say I told you."

Standing in the center of the dilapidated small village, to the right was the direction of the pier they had arrived from, to the left was the direction of the village gate, forward was the position where the three seers had appeared, and backward was the direction where the defecting priest's family once lived.

Now, moving in any of the four directions made sense. Xie Wei left the decision to Xia De. Xia De originally wanted to say let's go to the priest's house first, but before the words left his mouth, he shook his head:

"Why don't we see how fate decides."

He took out the 【Founding · Knowledge】 of Flower 1, the 【Founding · Time】 of Moon 2, and the 【Founding · Silver Moon】 of Sun 3. Because there was no corresponding Vientiane Impermanence card for "4" at the moment, Xia De finally took out the 【Founding · Light】 of Star 5:

"Corresponding to left, right, forward, and backward respectively."

He said, handing the four cards to Xie Wei. Xie Wei turned and shuffled the order of the cards, then spread them out in a fan shape. Xia De took the 2nd card from the left and smiled after seeing 【Founding · Light】:

"Alright, it seems fate also supports my decision."

Although many houses nearby had collapsed, because the map given by the elder was very detailed, finding the defecting priest's home was not difficult. It was also a very common stone house in the Fatu village, oriented east-west. Although this house had not been hit by falling rocks, the northeast corner had completely collapsed due to time.

"No problem, the other party should have left directly."

At this time, Xie Wei said softly. Only then did Xia De reach out to push the door, and was surprised to find that the lock on the door was actually locked:

"Did the family lock it before leaving, or did that person return here too?"

However, a hundred years of time had brought the lock's lifespan to its limit. Xia De just used a little force, the door lock broke, and the door opened. Or rather, the door tilted and fell to the side.

Xie Wei covered her mouth and nose to block the dust, looking into the house from behind Xia De:

"Probably didn't want animals to break into their house. In such a dangerous place, there's no possibility of showing kindness to later arrivals, so locking the door is also a normal thing."

But this conjecture was soon proven wrong, because a water vat was placed directly facing the door. The position of this water vat was so strange, it was almost as if "Open me" was written on the outside.

The water vat was covered with straw mats, wooden boards, waterproof tarpaulin, and large stones. After moving these sundries away, the pitch-black water vat naturally had no water inside; inside was a stone box.

"Be careful."

Xie Wei reminded. Xia De didn't feel any traces of elements, so he cast a spell to make the stone box float out. This box was also carefully prepared. After opening it, inside was a wooden box wrapped in waterproof tarpaulin, and inside the wooden box was a roll of animal skin.

There was a message in ink on the animal skin, which was in the Fatu language. Xie Wei couldn't understand it at all, so it was translated by Xia De:

"Son:

We are moving away from our old home. The new address is the Hangerdun village in the north of the Holy Mountain. Your father and I are both old now, and your younger sister, who was born after you left, is taking care of us. If you return, come and see us. We are waiting for you." ===== CHAPTER 3393 =====