Chapter 513: People Who Once Saved the World

After Dorothy left, Xia De continued to wait. At eight o'clock in the evening, Luweiya finally sent someone to deliver a letter to Xia De. The letter said that the Peace Church had discovered the traces of Dac Nisi and the Blood-Weeping One in the south of the city, but due to the appearance of other Ring Ringed Shushi organizations, the tracking of the two was not going smoothly.

"There are other Ring Ringed Shushi organizations..."

Xia De, who remained at St. Theresa Square, felt that the situation seemed to be getting worse and worse. The Ring Ringed Shushi organizations pursuing the Chosen One were far more than the church, the academy, the council, and the Blood Spirit School. If they delayed for a few more days, perhaps new thirteen-ring Ringed Shushi would appear.

And besides that, Luweiya had already contacted Yi Lu Na. The interior of the uncontrolled relic 【Darkness Domain】 was incomparably dangerous. The church had made some amulets to protect those who needed to enter it. Yi Lu Na had obtained two extra ones, and Luweiya would bring the amulets when she came to St. Theresa Square next time.

She also seemed to think that Dac Nisi would likely succeed in entering the 【Darkness Domain】, so she told Xia De to be ready to set out at any time.

Just like this, they arrived at Saturday morning. This was the thirty-first day of the Flower Month, the end of the Flower Month in August.

When he woke up in the morning, Xia De thought that if he couldn't confirm Dac Nisi's whereabouts by noon today, he would go find Luweiya and not wait any longer.

But just after finishing breakfast, the door downstairs was knocked on. But when the expectant Xia De opened the door downstairs, he found that the visitor was neither Luweiya nor the servant holding the 【Darkness Box】, but Priest Ao Gu Si.

"Why are you so disappointed to see me? Xia De, do you hate me so much?"

The priest had not been involved in the Chosen One matter, so while Xia De was nervously and expectantly waiting for the final battle, the priest's life was still very leisurely.

"No, no, I am very happy that you could visit. But I am waiting for Luweiya; there are some very important things I need to ask her."

Xia De said, and then moved aside to let Priest Ao Gu Si enter the door.

"Luweiya? Who is this? Did you meet a new girl again?"

The priest asked with a smile, and only when he was about to enter the door did he see Xia De stunned there:

"Detective, you are very strange today; what is wrong?"

He frowned.

"Priest, Luweiya Anate, don't you know her?"

"Who is that?"

Priest Ao Gu Si touched his chin and asked very strangely, looking as if he were not joking.

At this moment, Xia De somewhat doubted whether he hadn't woken up yet, but immediately thought of the characteristics of the 【Darkness Domain】:

"Then priest, please think carefully, including you and me, how many people are in our group?"

Xia De asked again.

"There are also the doctor and the writer, four people... hmm? Why does it feel like there is a problem... wait, isn't our group of five complete?"

He raised his head to look at the detective at the door:

"Was I influenced by something to change my memory?"

"It's not influencing memory, it's changing cognition."

The area covered by the 【Darkness Domain】 would not only disappear completely, but would also be forgotten by people, and any relevant records would disappear in a relatively reasonable way. Therefore, the people who entered the area would also be forgotten by everyone. But even if all records disappeared, gradually people would discover some things that were not right, which was why the church could discover that the 【Darkness Domain】 had appeared around Tobesk in the beginning.

"Follow me, priest, there is a very important matter that needs to be confirmed."

Xia De walked up the stairs quickly, and the priest closed the door behind him, following while thinking:

"Oh, don't walk so fast. Do you think I am the same age as you? Xia De, tell me first, what level of relic is this time?"

Xia De was almost at the second floor, his speed was very fast, while the priest had just reached the stair landing:

"It is an angel-level (Level 1) relic 【Darkness Domain】!"

"It's good that it's not an unknowable-level (Level 0) relic. I don't want to encounter the bad luck from last time again."

"Priest, have you experienced an uncontrolled event of an unknowable-level relic?"

When the priest arrived at the second floor panting, Xia De's voice came from the study.

"Ye-yes, that time was truly terrible. It was me and Anate... oh, I remembered Anate!"

The old priest said happily, smoothing his breath and walking through the living room toward the study:

"The unknowable-level relic 【Time of Retracing】, its appearance was an hourglass, and inside was silver sand. This thing caused the Tobesk region to repeatedly cycle within a day, and as the number of cycles increased, the covered area became larger and larger. When she found me, the influence range of the relic had almost reached the southern border of the kingdom."

"Hmm?"

Xia De's head stretched out from the study door:

"Time loop? You two solved this kind of thing?"

"It was mainly Anate. She was completely immune to this time reset and could remember the content of every cycle. She tried it 8 times herself and couldn't find and contain the relic within 24 hours, which was why she found me to help."

The priest was slightly proud:

"Although I was only a second-ring, after knocking out Bishop Ouwenzhu and stuffing him into the broom closet, I was able to mobilize the Ring Ringed Shushi of the entire Dawn Church in the name of searching for the missing bishop."

He walked into the study and saw Xia De holding a huge rolled-up map walking toward the door:

"Priest, no need to come to the study. Please help me open the door leading to Room 2 on the living room wall; this map can only be fully unfolded in the next room... then how did you handle that unknowable-level relic? Such a thorny thing, did you sell it to the academy after containing it?"

"No, no, Anate thought, since we finally got an unknowable-level relic, how could we easily let it go? That hourglass was placed in the church. I dug up the floor under the statue and buried the hourglass under the statue's feet to prevent it from going out of control again. Speaking of which, that time could also be considered Anate saving the world."

The priest said, opening the door and walking into Room 2 first.

"Priest, you... truly have ideas. But isn't this blasphemy?"

"Of course not. I actively used my Lord's power to suppress an unknowable-level relic. If this matter could be told, the church would canonize me after I die."

The priest said proudly while helping Xia De unfold the map that Miss Miss Jia Lin Na had evaluated as "military-grade" on the floor.

"But Xia De, you must not tell anyone about what I just told you. I originally promised Anate that I wouldn't tell anyone."

The priest reminded him somewhat worriedly:

"I only told you because I encountered this matter, and you and Anate have a very good relationship."

"No problem, priest."

Xia De squatted down, looking at the map of the southern region of Tobesk while explaining to Priest Ao Gu Si what the 【Darkness Domain】 was. Although the priest was not a Ring Ringed Shushi of the church, he had heard of this dangerous angel-level relic that appeared in the Tobesk diocese, so Xia De didn't need to waste too many words.

"However, why are you not affected by the 【Darkness Domain】?"

The priest asked suspiciously from behind Xia De.

"I am not completely unaffected, but the influence I receive is weaker. When I woke up this morning, I was thinking I seemed to be waiting for someone, but I just couldn't remember. When you knocked on the door downstairs, I don't know how I blurted out 'Luweiya is here,' and only then realized I was waiting for her... ha, I thought I was muddled from sleep."

Xia De explained it this way, and the priest nodded, accepting this explanation:

"However, I really can't think of the reason why Anate is not affected by 【Time of Retracing】. In my impression, she doesn't have any time-type powers either."

The priest muttered in a low voice, and Xia De knew the answer to this question.

When he kissed Luweiya under the moon, "she" had unromantically reminded Xia De that Luweiya Fiochi Anate was cursed by time. Any great power of time had nothing to do with her, and the damage of time would be even more obvious on her.

Perhaps a time loop could also be considered a great power of time.

Although Xia De slandered "she" for being unromantic, the voice in his ear still assisted Xia De in comparing with Priest Ao Gu Si how large an area had disappeared on this map compared to the one Xia De saw last time.

The situation was somewhat better than Xia De had thought. The city area was not affected. At the opera house a month ago, when he heard the news of this relic with Dorothy, the 【Darkness Domain】 had only swallowed a small town in the southeast of Tobesk. This time, checking the map, the disappeared part had expanded north and west to the southern suburbs of Tobesk.

Even Miss Miss Jia Lin Na's manor was included.

This showed that the relic, which had originally been basically controlled, had appeared with new changes, but the changes were not particularly large. This was highly likely related to the approach of the Chosen One of 【Darkness】.

This situation should have appeared only a few hours ago, because when Xia De went to sleep before dawn, he had still been studying the terrain of the southeast of the city on a simple map, and everything was normal at that time.

"The 【Darkness Domain】 went out of control, and then was controlled again."

Priest Ao Gu Si made the same judgment as Xia De.

"Yes, the criminal pursued by the church must have done something."

Xia De stood up and looked at the map under his feet:

"Priest, I am going to do some things that I should do. Please inform the chu... well, they definitely know, I somewhat look down on the Orthodox Church too much."

Xia De shook his head.

Priest Ao Gu Si frowned and looked at Xia De:

"What are you going to do?"

"Sorry, I cannot tell you about this matter."

"Related to the demon you once asked about? Related to the 【Darkness Domain】?"

"Yes."

Xia De nodded:

"And Luweiya is probably also in that area, I am going to save her. Priest, you don't have to stop me, and you don't have to follow me. I have already made preparations. Don't forget what I did at the Lake View Manor; I can still use that kind of power one more time."

The two returned to the living room of Room 1. The priest watched Xia De pack up the things on the coffee table to prepare to set out. The old man wanted to say something but stopped:

"Okay, at my age, even if I follow you, I probably won't be able to help much... Xia De."

"What's wrong?"

The outsider looked at the old priest who had suddenly raised his voice in surprise.

"Darkness has never been invincible. I have always believed that the human heart is initially dark and needs to be purified through faith, but I also believe that even the deepest darkness will definitely encounter someone who can devour it."

Priest Ao Gu Si had a serious expression:

"Next, please close your eyes and don't look directly at me. Before you set out, I can give you some blessings and power. Detective, if your trip is a righteous act, you will surely be protected by the gods."

Xia De was originally holding the cat, intending to throw it onto the sofa and then close the lid of the 【God's Gift Box】. Hearing the priest say this, he put the cat down:

"What do you want to do... well, I believe you."

He stood by the coffee table and closed his eyes. Then the air around him began to flow, and he seemed to hear the sound of wings flapping in his ears.

Xia De understood that the priest had unfolded his wings.

Cold fingers suddenly pointed at Xia De's brow. A chill that almost froze his soul entered Xia De's forehead from Priest Ao Gu Si's fingertips, making him almost unable to help but tremble because of this creepy chill.

【Outsider, you felt a "whisper."】

【This is the power of death. Such brilliant, such beautiful, such dazzling death.】

She whispered softly, as if singing.

"Okay."

The fingers were withdrawn, and Priest Ao Gu Si said in a weak tone.

Xia De opened his eyes and saw the priest sitting on the sofa with a pale face, supporting himself.

"Priest, you are..."

"I'm fine."

The old man waved his hand with difficulty, the wrinkles on his face more obvious than ever before, looking no matter how you looked at it like he was not fine:

"I am too old, Xia De, there is no way to go with you. The blessing just now doesn't have much effect, it can only let you be free from the influence of those darknesses after entering the relic's influence range."

Xia De hadn't received the special amulet from the church yet. He had originally wanted to rely on divinity to resist the relic's influence like he did when he went deep into the 【Fish Bone Pirate Ship】. He didn't expect the priest to give him convenience.

"Are you really okay?"

"Really okay, I just need to rest for a while. My age is truly too old, I can't compare to you young people."

His tone remained weak. Seeing Xia De wanted to treat him, he waved his hand again:

"I am just exhausted, not injured. Go quickly, Xia De, must be careful, don't think that just because you have the blessing I gave you, there will definitely be no danger.

You must remember, defeating darkness relies on courage and power, not some light. Light and darkness are one, and darkness is also power; darkness is never equivalent to evil."

The priest instructed. This kind of rhetoric was very consistent with the identity of an old priest of the 【Church of Light and Shadow】.

"I remember."

Xia De nodded, turned around and closed the lid of the 【God's Gift Box】 on the coffee table, and then put it into the cloth backpack he had sewn himself.

Priest Ao Gu Si obviously didn't know what this was.

After packing up, he put on the backpack. At this time, he realized that Mia, who was still on the coffee table just now, was gone. This cat probably followed the door that wasn't closed and ran to Room 2 to sharpen its claws again.

Xia De tried calling a few times, but the orange cat didn't appear running over. Because the time was tight, he didn't go to look for Little Mia again. Anyway, it wouldn't be in any danger staying at home.

"Oh, by the way, priest, what did you come to me for?"

Xia De only then remembered this matter.

"Oh, almost forgot."

Priest Ao Gu Si patted his face, which had recovered some color, with his hand:

"Schneider asked me to notify you that today's study meeting is canceled. He has important things to do out of the city and will probably come back very late."

"That's great, I definitely won't be able to return to the city this afternoon."

Even if Xia De moved very fast in the Darkness Domain, it would take a lot of time from the city center to the south of the city.

"That's good, when you see Anate in a moment, also tell her that today's study meeting is canceled. I will rest here at your place, and then go notify Lu Yisha."

"Priest, you just rest here with peace of mind."

Xia De adjusted the strap to a suitable position and threw the key to his house to the priest:

"Help me lock the door when you leave. Then, I am going to set out."

"No matter what you are going to do, you must be careful."

The priest sighed:

"Light shines in shadow, shadow follows dawn. May Mr. Dawn protect you, Xia De." ===== CHAPTER 514 =====