Part 4 The Undead Chapter 114 Searching for Targets
St. Samuel’s Church, behind the Charnis Gate.
St. Anthony, the Archbishop of Birkeland, stood at the entrance of the staircase connecting the first and second floors, watching several deacons of the “Night’s Watch” busily going back and forth, and among them, there were many who wore red gloves.
As the spokesman of the Black Night Church in the kingdom’s capital, Saint Anthony’s clean, unshaven face did not show any obvious emotions at this time, and his deep, dark eyes also did not hide any waves, but everyone who passed by him could feel their souls trembling, and an indescribable and uncontrollable fear welled up in the bottom of their hearts.
”His Eminence the Archbishop, after counting, all the occult materials have not been lost, including all kinds of magic medicine main materials and extraordinary characteristics ……”
”His Eminence the Archbishop, all the recipes for magic potions are in their original locations, and it has been initially determined that no one has turned them over in the past eight hours ……”
”Your Eminence, all the prisoners on the first floor are here, no one has escaped, no one has died ……”
”Your Eminence, the materials and books have not been destroyed or moved in the slightest ……”
”Your Eminence, all the ‘3’ and ‘2’ level seals are here, none of them have been taken away …… ”
”His Eminence the Archbishop, the three ‘1’ level seals are still in their sealed state, with no trace of leaving their respective areas ……”
”His Eminence the Archbishop, the seal cores are still intact and have not been damaged in the slightest ……”
”His Eminence the Archbishop, it has been confirmed that there is not one more thing here, no dangerous arrangements remain ……”
”His Eminence the Archbishop, the enemy who infiltrated disguised as an internal caretaker was not found, he seems to have, seems to have simply evaporated ……”
In the successive returns of one deacon after another, things gradually became somewhat bizarre.
They couldn’t imagine that a cunning and powerful Extraordinary Person who had risked extremely high risks, gone through meticulous planning, and used all sorts of methods to finally enter the Channis Gate only to take nothing, skulk around, and leave!
It made the other party look like they were simply trying to prove their abilities, or were specifically helping the church to find out the loopholes in the Charnis Gate’s guarding process.
Deacon Solstice, who was leading a small Red Glove team, looked around the circle and spoke out a guess of his own with deliberation:
”Your Excellency the Archbishop, could it be a requirement for any of the Sequence Promotion Ceremonies?”
He was used to guessing in this direction, having done the “Demon” capturing mission, and from Sequence 5 onwards, the promotion ceremonies for different paths and different sequences were all different, and there were a few that the Church of Darkness hadn’t been aware of.
If that’s the case, Sost seemed to have seen the infiltrator’s smile full of mockery, saying, “Even if the Church of Darkness’s Channis Gate, I can come and go freely, no different from going to a department store, those ‘night watchmen’ can only rage for incompetence when it’s over! “.
Gotta get him! Thorst quietly shook the palm of his red-gloved hand.
St. Anthony was about to open his mouth when Daley Simone, another ‘Night Watch’ deacon, suggested a second possibility:
”Perhaps the infiltrator, while attempting to take the seal, was affected by the negative effects and died instantly, consumed clean?”
St. Anthony nodded thoughtfully and said:
”I’ll go to the third level to take a look first.”
After saying that, he went deeper into the second layer of the underground with a steady pace, opening the path to the third layer at a certain hidden location.
The other deacons could only wait where they were because they weren’t at a sufficient level and didn’t have the authority.
St. Anthony quickly arrived at the small third layer, and with a sweep of his eyes, he initially confirmed that there were no abnormal changes in the seals “1-29” and “1-80”.
He followed the strict procedure, through “1-29” to observe the internal situation of “1-80”, and found “0-17” lying there, half-open eyes, as usual.
During this process, St. Anthony approached three times and pulled away three times, sometimes changing his position, sometimes shrouding himself in a layer of night color, not daring to be the slightest bit negligent.
–Even as a saint, he didn’t dare to underestimate each and every item here, not to mention the “0-17” whose power would occasionally break through the “container” and cause the seal to fail for a short period of time, and even the “1-29” and “1-29” and “1-29”. Not to mention the “0-17”, even the “1-29” and “1-80”, they were all quite dangerous things, Anthony didn’t want to degenerate into an “amnesiac” who had to re-learn how to eat and how to drink, and even more so, he didn’t want to become a part of the dream world between the real and the unreal. He was a part of the dream world between the real and the unreal.
There’s no problem …… Anthony let out a silent sigh of relief and began to let the two outer seals return to their previous state.
After a few minutes, the “night watchmen” deacons saw His Eminence the Archbishop return to the upper level.
”The infiltrator may indeed have died from contact with the seals.” St. Anthony was a bit vague when he said the word “death.”
Without any explanation, he turned to command:
”In any case, this matter must be investigated clearly, and the infiltrator probably had an accomplice!
”To be able to infiltrate within St. Samuel’s Church without causing much commotion means that the target is familiar with the place, is familiar with the recent shift patterns of the internal watchmen, is familiar with the handover process of the ‘night watchmen’ and possesses an ability or item in the area of changing appearance, in addition to being helped by an extraordinary person who holds a Darkness Pathway help from an extraordinary person who holds a holy relic, or, that belongs to him itself.
”Combine these conditions, line up servants and priests who have suffered from unobvious psionics or seduction, line up bishops who have turned their backs on the goddess, line up believers who have frequented the church lately …… Also line up the neighborhoods where those believers are located, perhaps they didn’t mean to divulge it, but it has been stolen by someone, and as for you, the It is up to me to line up.
”Also, find the missing servant and see what clues there are.”
”Yes, His Eminence the Archbishop.” Soest and the other “Night Watchers” deacons responded at the same time.
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Inside the office where the atmosphere was quite tense, Leonard Mitchell did not rest his feet on the desk as usual, and sat with a very serious expression.
This was the second time that he had met something against the items behind the door of Charnis, and was aroused by the memories that lurked in his heart.
And more importantly, he and the fake interior caretaker had met before, but had failed to realize the problem!
If, if I were a little stronger and had better observation, maybe I wouldn t …… Leonard Mitchell lips pursed as he gazed at the file in front of him, but couldn t read a word until a teammate came in.
”That internal caretaker has awakened, he didn’t see the infiltrator, only that he encountered the possession of a disgruntled spirit.” The Red Glove who came in said to everyone in the room.
”How is it possible for a spirit to move inside a church?” Many of the Red Gloves asked questions, but no one could answer them.
Perhaps the spirit believes in the goddess …… Leonard mumbled in his heart, and when no one noticed himself in the corner, he lowered his voice and mumbled as if he were speaking to himself:
”Old man, didn’t you notice anything unusual at that time?”
The slightly aged voice within his mind echoed:
”It’s not like I’m going to be observing the outside world at all times, especially since that was still near the Charnis Gate.”
Leonard didn’t dare to ask more questions and joined his teammates in the discussion.
Before long, the Red Glove’s captain, Thorst, entered the room and threw a stack of papers onto the table:
”This is the target we need to check, the bishops have provided a list of believers who have been frequenting the church recently.”
Leonard scanned it with a glance and saw a familiar name on the front page against the center back:
Dawn Dantes!
Could it be too much of a coincidence that this …… old guy who had survived the Quaternary had just been in the neighborhood for less than two months when Channis Gate had suffered an infiltration? And he had been frequenting St. Samuel’s Church, most likely observing the situation and figuring out the pattern …… The old man’s excuse just now wasn’t too convincing, but if the infiltrator was Dawn Dantes, then everything could be rationally explained, and he was afraid of exposing himself, so he pretended not to notice the anomaly… …A number of thoughts instantly flashed within Leonard Mitchell’s mind, and he spoke with deliberation:
”Captain Souster, what did the infiltrator take? What clues were left behind?”
Solstice looked around the room and said:
”Took nothing, left nothing, it’s as if he never went in, His Eminence the Archbishop’s initial suspicion is that he has met his demise and evaporated due to contact with certain seals, we’re mainly looking for his accomplices.”
No, Dawn Dantes couldn’t have died that easily! He is a monster who has survived from the Fourth Age to the present …… However, what exactly is he infiltrating for? Leonard frowned slightly, hesitated for a while, and then took the initiative to include Dawn Dantes in the scope of his and his two teammates’ investigation.
When the “Red Gloves” and the local “night watchmen” began to move, Leonard found an excuse to go to the washroom first, and lowered his voice and said:
”What do you have to say about Dawn Dantes?”
He didn’t bother poking at the lie the internal parasite had just told.
The somewhat older voice chuckled:
”Didn’t I already tell you that? I don’t know much about him, I only know that there is something special about him, and his breath has an ancient flavor.
”However, a case you investigated earlier gave me some inspiration, and I suspect that there may be some involvement between Dawn Dantes and that incident, as a surrogate for a certain being.”
”What matter? Which being?” Leonard whispered in dismay.
The pale voice within his mind replied in a rather odd tone:
”A fool who does not belong to this age.”
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160 Birklund Street.
Klein finished his breakfast, returned to his semi-open room with a large balcony, sat down to his easy chair, and raised his hand to rub the corner of his forehead.
As the tightness gradually receded, Klein realized that his mind had become a little trance-like, with the corpses hanging in mid-air in that old church always appearing before his eyes, the vague mass of transparent worms in the depths of his memories, and what seemed to be a disembodied voice constantly echoing in his ears:
”Hornachis …… Fregla ……”
Although I quickly cut off the connection with the secret puppet at that time, I was still affected to a certain extent, and my spirit was contaminated to a small extent …… It is worthy of being a true mythological creature …… After the initial investigation, we will have to start to solve the residual problems in this regard …… Klein exhaled slowly and calmed himself with the help of meditation.