Chapter 667: Candidates

"This is truly interesting."

Xia De gave a dry evaluation and didn't continue on this topic. Instead, Priest Ao Gu Si remembered another thing, holding his pipe and asking Xia De:

"Tomorrow, which is Tuesday night, there is a large-scale banquet in the city. The location is the courtyard and part of the castle of the Midhillburg Mechanical Academy. The nobles and merchants in the city, and even the church, have received invitations. I also got an invitation. Detective, are you interested in going together? I can get another invitation."

"Banquet, who is hosting it? What is the theme?"

Xia De asked.

"Hosted by the local Chamber of Commerce. This week is the local traditional festival, the Fire Worship Festival, so the Midhillburg Chamber of Commerce is holding an autumn charity banquet according to custom. At that time, some goods will be auctioned, and then donated to the charity organizations of the Five Gods Church on average. Among the auction items, there might even be relics, which will be very interesting."

Priest Ao Gu Si said with a smile.

"Charity banquet? In the summer, I attended a charity auction in Tobesk and seemed to have met Dr. Schneider."

Xia De thought in his heart:

"Then..."

【"... Then you left the banquet to fight the Silver-Eyed One, and the banquet was actually a ritual for the descent of the Lord of Blood Feast."】

"She" added the event that happened a few months ago.

Xia De couldn't help but show a worried expression on his face:

"Priest, I'd better not go. In Midhillburg, it is not appropriate for me to appear in front of too many people."

"Alright."

The old priest nodded and didn't force it, then talked about another thing:

"Also, I heard rumors in the church that there seem to be blood-sucking species making trouble in the city recently."

"Priest, are you too idle in the church? How do you know everything?"

Xia De teased, and then confirmed Priest Ao Gu Si's news:

"I also know this. The nuns of the Spiritual Cultivation Sect mentioned that the local blood-sucking species already have three Sage-level relics in their hands, and they seem to be planning something big."

"At such a time, those dirty blood-sucking things should not add to the chaos."

The priest muttered. In the eyes of the Orthodox Church, blood-sucking species were not good races.

After lunch, the priest gave Xia De a file bag, which contained new materials about the Narrow Gap of Death that he had organized over the past half month. Although the priest hadn't entered the Narrow Gap again, during the period of following the Nature Church to arrange the ritual, he understood more things, and thus understood more things that even the church didn't know.

And when the two shook hands and said goodbye, another unexpected thing happened.

Xia De's hand touched Priest Ao Gu Si's palm, and then the sorcery 【Ancient Sound】 was activated on its own, bringing Xia De another piece of information about that initial era:

【Angels were the initial gods created by God in the First Era. The initial angels were also the initial creations. It knows those ancient secrets, but was also forced to reduce its own power due to the departure of the Old Gods.】

"What's the situation? Could it be that the 0-level relic that Priest Ao Gu Si encountered when he was young is really related to the initial angel, and that relic is actually in Priest Ao Gu Si's body... Speaking of which, more than a month ago, when I and the priest were in the cemetery outside the city of Tobesk, we encountered a member of the 【Truth Society】 who attempted to fuse with the relic..."

Xia De controlled his expression, not letting the priest see what he was thinking. After this, Xia De sent the materials to the Blind Home, still handed over to the church by the Spiritual Cultivation Sect. Afterward, he set off to return to his home in Tobesk, and with the cat and the coins in his hand, met Luweiya again at the Fortune-Telling Association on Silver Cross Avenue with the excuse of "divination cat."

First, he simply explained the news about Iluna and the steam floating airship he heard, and then recounted the sightings at the boy, Sister Devlin, and Priest Ao Gu Si this morning.

Finally, he took out the blood money and the upright coin, and pushed them together to the purple-eyed girl at the table:

"Just like the divination of Darkness last time, please divine whether I encountered a Chosen One today."

Luweiya's "price divination" could not directly divine the identity of the Chosen One, or rather, the price that needed to be paid was something they couldn't afford at all. But she could perform divination from the side, for example, this time it was divining "Xia De's sightings," rather than tracing back to the Chosen One himself.

"It's better not to consume blood money easily; this is the only relic in our hands that can detect special coins of the same kind. Look at this, before Iluna left, she left me that 【Diviner's Silver Coin】 and the document-level relic 【Dragon Blood Coin】 that is said to be able to find dragon treasure."

Luweiya took out a silver coin with a smiling face and a crying face on the front and back, as well as a blood-red coin. That coin was three times the diameter of a one-shilling coin.

She picked up the 【Upright Coin】, threw it into the sky together with the silver coin and the blood-colored coin. But they didn't turn into ashes in the air, but fell back completely intact.

"The 'currency' attribute of these three coins is not very strong."

Xia De said without surprise:

"Luweiya, consume the blood money. Now is not the time to save."

Luweiya thought about it, bit her lip with some unwillingness, but still threw all four coins into the sky. But the situation was still the same as last time, and the four coins could not perform divination either.

"Truly strange. I remember when divining Darkness, we only used one 【Kohlm Empire Gold Coin】 and one 【Death's Redemption Coin】. How come four don't work this time? Could it be because the Chosen One of Death is relatively strong... is it the Eleventh Tier Sister Devlin?"

"No, there could also be other situations."

Luweiya pinched those coins and narrowed her eyes slightly:

"For example, the Chosen One is actually someone other than the three you know, but you touched them inadvertently. Or, Xia De, have you ever thought that among those three, there might be more than one candidate."

Before holding the ritual, the Chosen One can only be called a candidate for the Chosen One, and candidates have an order, and there is more than one. Only if the candidates in the front order die before holding the ritual, do the candidates in the back order have the qualification to hold the ritual. If the front order still exists, or if someone has successfully held the ritual and then died, then the candidates in the back order cannot succeed no matter what.

If the candidates for a certain qualification of the Chosen One know each other's identity, then a high-intensity hunting operation is probably hard to avoid.

And the characteristics of the Chosen One described in the "Whispering Poem" all point to the first candidate, which is Iluna and Darkness, but similar traits to the first order candidate will also appear on other candidates with higher order.

It's just that when the Chosen Ones of Balance and Darkness appeared, Xia De and Luweiya locked onto the first candidate, which was Iluna and Darkness, for the first time, so they didn't need to consider other candidates at that time. And now that he thought about it, Xia De even suspected that Dr. Schneider was one of the candidates for the "Darkness" Chosen One, it's just a pity that Darkness held the ritual and then died.

"Among the nun, the priest, and that boy, more than one is qualified, right?"

"Yes, so the difficulty of divination has increased."

Luweiya nodded and added:

"Of course, this is just a possibility. But at least I can be sure that among the Ring Mages you encountered today so far, there is definitely at least one candidate, and basically it is among Priest Ao Gu Si, Sister Devlin, and that boy."

"I really hope it is the priest, but... forget it, wait until Iluna arrives in Midhillburg on Tuesday, I will find a way to tell her this news."

Xia De sighed:

"The trouble in that city is really not small."

Bidding farewell to Luweiya, Xia De didn't even have time to send the cat home, and immediately took a carriage to Dr. Schneider's psychological clinic.

He really had many things today. Tonight he had to deal with that sealed Fire Demon with the doctor. Xia De was now preparing to get the key to the document-level relic 【Traveler's Travel Door】. ===== CHAPTER 668 =====