Part 5 The Red Priests Chapter 11 Getting to Know Each Other
Glancing at the “Judgment” card in his hand, Hugh said in a daze:
”This meets my expectations.”
The Fool, shrouded in gray mist, nodded gently and confided flatly:
”Every Monday, at three o’clock in the afternoon, on Birkeland time, meet here, so be prepared in advance.
”At the meeting, information, materials, recipes and knowledge can be exchanged, and tasks can be delegated to other members for a price.”
Hugh thought back and said as if something had dawned on him:
”Yes, Mr. ‘Fool’.”
She had thought that was the end of the day, but once again she heard a voice coming from the top of the long bronze table:
”What did you do before you were corrupted by that power?”
It is true that the erosion of …… Hugh fixed her mind, and described the whole story of how she and Voorhees explored the old castle, focusing on the bronze door called “the black door”, as well as the guards of the old castle who once suffered from the erosion and turned into a spirit of resentment.
Then she noticed Mr. Fool nodding slightly and speaking in a calm voice:
”Do not enter that old castle again until Sequence 4.
”Go back.”
Hugh immediately got up, following the descriptions in the various religious ceremonies, and respectfully saluted:
”Your will is my will.”
As soon as she spoke, a deep red rose before her eyes, and by the time everything dissipated, she had returned to the real world and was holding onto a thick tree.
After subconsciously looking at the back of her hand and realizing that the black spots on it were fading at an extremely high speed, Hugh raised his head and looked towards Voorhees, who was staring at himself worriedly.
Between the meeting of the lines of sight, Foerth was first delighted, then revealed a sardonic smile and opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
Hugh slowly exhaled and pointed ahead:
”Return to the town first.”
”Good!” Foerth replied without hesitation.
At this moment, above the gray fog, “Fool” Klein was tapping on the edge of the long mottled table, pondering on what happened to “Magician” and “Judgement” today.
The things or power sealed by the “Black Gate”, even if they didn’t escape, could erode the guards and explorers outside, and the horror was terrifying just to think about it!
And this pollution is rooted in the spirit, want to solve, Klein only two ways, one is to let the eroded person to hold a complete secret contract ceremony, he mobilized the power of the mysterious space above the gray fog, with the help of the “sun brooch”, to complete the purification, and the second is to directly pull the spirit here, the use of the gray fog, “kill the poison! “Given the situation at the time there was no time, he chose the latter.
”What could it be?
”The most aggressive power belongs to the ‘demonic’ pathway …… where it connects to the abyss? This is not impossible, according to the description of the small ‘sun’, in the middle and early part of the Second Era, demons left the abyss from time to time and were active on the earth, until the ancient Sun God came out of nowhere and continuously made the ancient gods fall, they retreated back to the abyss and closed it off, according to this, it is quite normal for the North Continent to have an entrance to the underground ancient pathway that leads to the abyss …… needing to build a castle and send people to guard it is also conceivable ……
”But the question is, it’s been thousands of years, how is it that the sound of clapping still exists there? The demons are trying to return to the earth?” Klein made a preliminary guess.
For the time being, he had no intention of exploring the abandoned castle to verify his thoughts, because it didn’t look like there would be any major changes there in a short period of time – in his mind, since the information about the castle came from within the Blood Clan, it was perfectly fine to let “Moon” Emlin first do In his mind, since the information about the castle came from within the Blood Clan, he could let “Moon” Emlin do some further data collection and figure out the history of the castle.
Collecting his thoughts, Klein took off the citrine pendant and divined whether the abandonment of the castle was urgent, and received a negative answer.
He immediately returned to the real world and waited for the people of the local ruler, General Mesangyes, to come with the deposit.
……
At two o’clock in the afternoon of Feneport time, Haggis, who wore a big back hair and was dressed as a Northern Continent gentleman, knocked on the door of Dawn Dantes’s room under the protection of a team of guards, carrying a black leather case.
”Please come in, please come in.” A gentle, refined voice came out, first in Rune with a Becklander accent, then changing to the native Duttan language.
Haggis twisted the knob and pushed the door open, only to see Dawn Dantes, with graying sideburns and haunted blue eyes, pressing the underside of her black vest and rising from her easy chair.
”Good afternoon, my friend.” The Ruin gentleman of great appearance and demeanor took two steps forward and extended his right palm.
This time, he switched back to Rune.
Haggis responded in aristocratic-accented Rune:
”It is an honor to be your friend.”
After shaking lightly with Dawn Dantes, he looked around the room and grinned:
”These are your servants?”
He pointed to the young man of mixed blood who stood at the back of the arms dealer’s side opposite him, implying “trustworthy”, after all, Dawn Dantes hadn’t brought any servants with her when she visited the General’s residence yesterday.
”Yes, his greatest strength is that he is good at keeping secrets.” Dawn Dantes responded with a smile while gesturing to the leather sofa opposite the anorak.
Haggis, flanked by two guards, casually closed the door to the room and sat down, smiling:
”I’ve heard an Intis proverb rumored to have been spoken by that Rossel the Great.
”He said that only the dead can keep a secret.”
Dawn Dantes said dumbfounded:
”Rosel the Great said something else:
”A corpse can talk.”
”Is that so? First I’ve heard of it.” Haggis enjoyed the exchange with the gentleman from the Northern Continent and chatted for a while before lifting the leather case that was placed next to him and opening it.
This instant, golden streams of color seemed to overflow from inside the leather case, making the entire room seem a little brighter under the sunlight from the window.
Haggis then looked at Dawn Dantes and said:
”5,000 Loonkin pounds, and 5,000 pounds worth of gold coins and bars.
”This is the deposit.
”The remaining 30,000 pounds of bills and gold I will carry with me at all times and give you until the delivery of the arms is complete.”
Dawn Dantes glanced at the stacks of banknotes, a gold coin and a gold bar inside the case, withdrew her gaze and said with a smile:
”When do we leave?”
Haggis closed the suitcase and handed it to Dawn Dantes’ servant, saying simply:
”Tomorrow morning.”
He paused for two seconds and turned to speak:
”Mr. Dantes, the General has a distinguished guest who wishes to pay you a visit.”
Dawn Dantes’ expression did not change, and after a few seconds of silence, he said:
”When?”
”Now.” Haggis said with a gesture that dared not be perfunctory, “He’s downstairs.”
Dawn Dantes nodded slightly:
”Ask him to come up.”
With a sudden sigh of relief, Haggis led the guard out of the room and stomped down the stairs.
It wasn’t long before Luca, wearing a plain white robe with brass filigree, came up, his silver hair neatly combed.
Coming to Dawn Dantes’ door, he was about to raise his hand when he heard a voice coming from inside:
”Come in.”
This time, it was in Guversac.
Without a change of expression, Luca naturally pushed open the door to the room.
He then saw that the middle-aged and elderly gentleman from yesterday, whose looks and demeanor were quite good, standing beside the easy chair, facing him sideways.
And on that easy chair sat a young man with black hair and brown pupils, a slim, angular face, and a morose temperament.
Luca was stunned, then stepped forward and entered the room, closing the wooden door behind him.
After he calmly found a couch and sat down, his gray-green eyes clearly reflected the figure of the young man across from him.
”Germaine Sparrow?” Luca spoke as if inquiring, as if addressing.
Germaine Sparrow tickled the corners of his mouth and said:
”It is not a polite thing to address someone directly by their full name.”
Lucca nodded and said:
”I’m sorry, it’s me who was rude, I remembered that your promotion to Sequence 5 didn’t last more than half a year, or even only 3 months, well, it should have been completed at the Divine War Relic, I didn’t expect …… you to have become a demigod now, which made me a bit out of my element.”
Germaine Sparrow smiled faintly without any explanation.
After a short moment of silence, he asked without speaking too fast or too slow:
”Why did you pay me a visit?”
Luca calmly made answer:
”I don’t know.”
The atmosphere in the room turned a little strange, and Germaine Sparrow seemed to have forgotten that there was an old gentleman sitting opposite him, who needed to speak again.
Luca moved his jaw imperceptibly and said to himself:
”It’s like this, I happened to make a prophecy a while back, a prophecy in which I was going to get into quite a troubling situation in the future, and a certain person I’ve met here in the last few days can help me cope with it.
”I wasn’t sure if it was you, but with the idea that I’d rather admit my mistake than leave it out, I finally decided to come and meet you and get to know each other.
”My name is Luca Brewster, a cleric serving the ‘God of Knowledge and Wisdom’ and currently in charge of the Church’s affairs in West Byron.”
Germaine Sparrow nodded and said:
”Not bad, I already know you, I don’t think I need to introduce myself again, right?”
”Of course.” Luca thought for a moment and said, “You should be a ‘Trickster Mage’, I have recently received information that there is a disturbance in the Secret Cultivation Society of Intis.”
He did not see Gelman Sparrow show a shocked expression as the powerful adventurer known on the Five Seas said after a moment of silence:
”Charatu has returned.”
Luca’s pupils changed for a moment, then returned to normal.
Then, he stood up and nodded in greeting:
”Since we have already met, it is time for me to take my leave.”
After saying these words, he walked towards the door, twisted the handle, and left the room.
Gelman Sparrow, who was sitting in the comfort chair, watched his back being hidden inch by inch by the wooden door until it completely disappeared, and suddenly let out a light laugh:
”What a diva.”
”Yes.” Dawn Dantes, who stood beside the comfort chair, found a seat, lifted the tea cup on the table, and took a sip.
He with his graying sideburns and deep blue eyes and Germaine Sparrow with his thin and angular face then looked at each other and smiled at the same time.
……
On Monday afternoon, Dawn Dantes pulled out her gold-cased pocket watch, pressed it open and looked at it, and said to Haggis, who was sitting across from her:
”We’re almost at our destination, and I think you guys need to do an early rest.”
”Excellent suggestion.” Haggis fairly agreed.
Dawn Dantes pointed to the street ahead:
”There’s an inn there, we’ll rest for half a day and set out again in the morning.”
Without objecting, Haggis turned ahead and instructed the coachman to say a few words.
After checking in, Dawn Dantes declined Haggis’s invitation for afternoon tea on the pretext of taking a nap.
After an hour and a half, Klein took his seat atop the infinite gray mist, where the Fool belonged.