Chapter 75: The Reward Collected

The diviner with brown short hair also saw the two in the shadows. She was stunned for a moment but didn't walk into the grass. Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha's skirt was relatively simple, but Miss An Na Te's evening gown couldn't be scratched by the grass:

"The champagne you wanted."

She said to Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha with a smile, and then looked at Xia De as if looking at some rare animal:

"Detective Hamilton? Good evening. The doctor's letter mentioned you. So the doctor really found a new gifted person. Did he use some strange 【Relic】 to overdraw his luck?"

The evaluation of Doctor Shi Nai De by several people was really surprisingly consistent.

After greeting each other, Xia De briefly told the story of tonight again. Miss An Na Te didn't show the same surprise as Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha:

"If so, I actually have something to say."

She seemed a bit too calm.

"What else is there?"

Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha asked hesitantly.

"Actually, I shouldn't have said this. This is information from the Diviner Association, and according to the regulations, it cannot be told to others. But everyone is here, and I can't let you be in danger... It's like this, don't you want to know why Mrs. Lasoya, mentioned by the detective, attended the banquet? Is it really deeply influenced by that relic ring, just to accompany her mistress here?"

Miss An Na Te's index finger tapped lightly on the glass champagne flute held between her thumb and slender middle finger.

"What is it for?"

Xia De already had a bad premonition. In this inexplicable luck, if there was no big event of considerable weight, it would be too sorry for this wonderful night.

"Wanting to use the Sage-level (Level 2) relic 【God's Gift Box】 to synthesize the Angel-level (Level 1) relic 【Mercury Blood】 requires stronger materials as support. Lasoya attended the banquet just for one of them. 【Mercury Blood】 plans to call the evil god 【Lord of Blood Banquet】 in the Lake View Manor mansion tonight. They need the power bestowed by the evil god."

"Lord of Blood Banquet?"

Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha said in surprise.

"Evil god? Advent?"

Xia De didn't even know what expression to make.

On the night the professors came to his home, he heard the name of this evil god and knew the cooperation between the heretics and 【Mercury Blood】. It was just that he didn't expect that 【Mercury Blood】 would really call Him, and it was tonight.

Miss Luweiya remained calm. She seemed to think that the status quo was still under control:

"I just found out. When I went to get champagne, the association sent me information to leave here as soon as possible. But don't worry, the ritual to call the evil god can only take effect at 11 o'clock sharp. The True God Church probably got the news too, and Shushi above the Tenth Ring should arrive soon."

Xia De took out his pocket watch:

"It is 10:20 tonight."

"Dorothy, I will enter the mansion with you to bring Priest Ao Gu Si and the doctor out. Detective, you stay here. Leaving rashly may arouse suspicion, but don't approach the mansion. According to the information, the heretics mainly go to entangle the church's Ringed Shushi squad, and the 【Mercury Blood】 members who came to execute the plan, besides the 'Silver Light' Lasoya you mentioned, there is also a high-level Ringed Shushi known as the 'Heart Collector'. Be careful with everything."

The diviner Luweiya An Na Te with brown short hair raised her slender, white neck, and drank the champagne in her hand in one gulp. Subsequently, with a 'rip' sound, she tore the skirt and petticoat of her evening gown, turning this expensive dress into a normal skirt convenient for action. Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha also nodded, raised her two hands to bundle her golden long hair behind her head, and then stepped on the heels of the high heels on her feet with force.

Miss Lu Lu Lu Yisha turned to look at Xia De:

"Detective, remember, do not approach the mansion under any circumstances tonight. If we all die, you are responsible for notifying the academy of the situation."

"Is there such a possibility?"

He looked slightly worried.

"Always consider all possibilities. This is a very ordinary thing, and we cannot not go to save the doctor and the priest. Detective Hamilton..."

The diviner Luweiya An Na Te with brown short hair stared at Xia De. Only then did Xia De notice that this lady's eyes were actually light purple. The purple pupil color was stunningly beautiful, giving a feeling of falling into it. Although purple pupil color could be produced naturally, it was extremely rare (Note):

"I am a diviner. Fate is giving me enlightenment, and my 'Another Face' is also issuing a warning to me. I see an abnormal fate trajectory on you. Something big must happen tonight. Please be careful."

Just like that, Xia De watched the two ladies hurry away. This feeling of sending women to the battlefield while he was powerless was really uncomfortable.

"I am still too weak, and I can't do anything."

Looking at their beautiful backs, Xia De couldn't help thinking in his heart. But before the woman's voice in his heart expressed her opinion, he remembered that he forgot to say that 【Profanity】 elements related to evil gods existed near the grape trellis.

"Could it be that that place is the node of the ritual?"

According to the records of history textbooks, the Ringed Shushi system was formed in the middle and late Fifth Era. And unlike the strange arts and spells of the Ringed Shushi system that only existed in the contemporary era, "rituals" were mystical contents that had existed since ancient times and could exert power in both past and modern power systems.

It was just that in the Sixth Era, because strange arts and spells were too convenient, rituals gradually declined, and only a small number of people were still studying them. But this didn't mean that rituals were useless. Although rituals needed to be prepared in advance, they were usually resource-intensive and required harsh conditions, but the role of large rituals was usually irreplaceable.

For example, calling the evil god to descend, no strange arts and spells could do it. This required rituals. And since it was a large ritual, it would absolutely not exist only on one table or in one room.

If the information from the Diviner Association was correct and 【Mercury Blood】 was really so crazy, then the scale of the ritual to call the evil god could completely cover from the Lake View Manor mansion to a small part of the garden.

"Maybe I can try to destroy the layout of the ritual in the garden."

Xia De found the point immediately and was happy that he might be able to play some role without taking risks. He had already seen a relatively friendly Old God in the past time and space, and didn't want to see an evil god in the current time and space.

When returning to the grape trellis, the young poet by the stone table had already left. Now there was only a middle-aged man in a wine-red fashionable formal suit sitting at the table, flipping through a small book in his hand with one hand.

Xia De walked over, wanting to find some excuse to let the middle-aged man leave, so that he could find a way to destroy the ritual. Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man put down the book, looked at him with a smile, and spoke first:

"Waited for you for a long time."

Not a Tuo Bei Si Ke accent, this was not a local.

"Waiting for me? Sorry, Sir, do we know each other?"

Xia De said in surprise. He was still some distance away from the stone table under the grape trellis, but he had already stopped his footsteps:

"Is he a Ringed Shushi?"

He asked in his heart, and the woman's voice also gave an answer:

【Yes, quite high level.】

His heart seemed to stop for a moment, but Xia De didn't show panic on his face:

"I think you must have recognized the wrong person."

He wanted to turn around and leave, but was called by the man. He still had that smiling expression on his face, but Xia De felt the hair-raising danger, as if facing a hunting gun about to fire.

The other party's malice was no longer hidden:

"No, I didn't find the wrong person, it's you. Although I don't know your name, don't know your identity, don't know your profession, don't know your address, I am indeed looking for you..."

He pulled up his left sleeve, showing his black left arm that looked like it had been burned:

"Has the good luck I gave you run out? Fate's gifts, now it's time to collect the reward!" ===== CHAPTER 76 =====