Aetris—or "Kyle"—was envious of Ebner's fame, but he was a man of some heart. He adjusted quickly and sighed. "Aye, as long as they're all right, that's good…"
"Since you've returned to Backlund, don't you plan on visiting them?" Ebner asked.
"I came back this time to finish a task," Kyle responded, shaking his head. "There will undoubtedly be some twists and turns once my father sees it. And I don't want my mother's emotions to be too unstable during her pregnancy..."
"Mission… Is this the mission Anderson assigned to you?" Ebner asked, frowning.
Kyle paused for a time before softly responding, "It's to finish a 'hunt'!" Fearing that Ebner would misinterpret, he continued, "Don't be concerned. The potential target is a real jerk. He's been convicted of a slew of maritime offences. He arrived in Backlund only after clearing his name and assuming a new identity... In Bayam, he has a bounty of up to 1,000 pounds."
A bounty of 1,000 pounds. Although it can't be compared to the officers on the pirate admirals' ships, their strength shouldn't be weak either… I'm afraid that the wound on Beatrice was left behind after fighting them.
Even though he thought so, Ebner did not intend to ask further. He only nodded and said, "Be careful."
After that, they talked about their respective experiences since leaving Enmat Harbor. Then Ebner looked at the time and realized it was almost noon. He said goodbye and left the cafe.
"Kyle" seemed to be waiting for someone and didn't leave immediately.
Ebner didn't care. He bought Desi pies again in a nearby store, then ate them as he mounted the steam metro and hurried to the south side of the Bridge.
He needed to submit his budget to Bishop Utravsky.
In addition, ever since he learned that the bishop had some collections of Roselle's diary dungeons, Ebner had made plans.
Since he already had one, there was no need for him to come up with another one.
Even though it was the weekend, the Harvest Church was as deserted as usual.
Ebner pushed open the door of the cathedral and was surprised to see Madam Daly, who had blue eyeshadow and blush on her cheeks, walking out. Beside her was a beautiful lady in her twenties, dressed in a lusterless black funeral uniform.
And this lady, Ebner, also recognized her. She was Chelly, whom he and Xio had saved in the dream of the Dream Labyrinth Tower. She had even stopped Xio at the steam locomotive station in Enmat Harbor.
Chelly became a Nighthawk? Ebner was surprised, but he made way for her on the surface. He smiled and greeted her. "It's good to see you here, Madam Daly."
He wasn't surprised that Daly had appeared in the Harvest Church. After all, at Member of Parliament Macht's family's banquet, she had likely negotiated with Bishop Utravsky on the condition of channeling Hazel.
Daly took a few steps forward, looked up at Ebner, and smiled. "We meet again, Detective Bryan."
As she spoke, she pointed at the girl in black mourning clothes beside her and introduced, "This is Chelly, my assistant. Hehe, she really admires you, Detective Bryan."
"It would be my pleasure, Madam Chelly," Ebner greeted as if seeing Chelly for the first time.
Daly looked back at the half-giant bishop, who sat at the front, praying piously. Then she turned back to Ebner. "We've got things to do. We've got to go."
"If you please, ma'am." Ebner nodded and watched as Daly pulled the hood of her psychic black robe over her head and stepped out of the church.
"I'm looking forward to meeting you again, Detective Bryan." After Chelly bowed with her dress behind her, she wore a conflicted expression. It was obvious that she wanted to ask something more, but she forcefully held back. She caught up to Madam Daly and left the Harvest Church.
At this moment, Bishop Utravsky, who was dressed in a brown priest robe and a clergyman's bonnet, looked like a mountain. When he saw Ebner coming over, he stopped praying and smiled at him. "Child, you're here."
"I brought the budget to repair the house." Ebner walked forward and handed the receipt that Skade and his wife had given him to the half-giant bishop. Then, he casually glanced at the podium and indeed saw the paper with Roselle's text written in graceful handwriting.
This naturally came from Miss Hazel. Ever since she was imprisoned in the Harvest Church, she had nothing better to do. She liked to copy the Roselle manuscripts in Bishop Utravsky's collection.
Ebner pretended to be curious as he picked it up to take a look. Then, he realized that it was three diary entries written by Roselle at different times.
"On the first day of June, Florent once again extended an olive branch to me. His meaning was very obvious. He wanted me to become his subordinate. However, I still pretended to be stupid and fooled him. Heh heh, even if I want to feign civility with him, I can't agree so readily. Otherwise, how can I raise my price?
However, the Grade 0 Sealed Artifact of the Sauron family that Floren mentioned today is very interesting. Not only is it alive, it suddenly came to life without any signs. This reminds me of the Hidden Sage. Is' He 'in a similar situation?
Floren had appeared in the original diary. I remember that he was a member of the Sauron family who was very compatible with a high-level Beyonder characteristic. After fusing with the characteristic, even his personality changed, making the emperor suspect if he had changed into another person…
Such a future upper echelon shouldn't be spouting nonsense. This Grade 0 Sealed Artifact of the Sauron family might really be problematic… However, from the contents of the diary, the Emperor and Floren should still be middle to low-level Beyonders. How could they have the opportunity to come into contact with information regarding a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact?
Unless someone deliberately revealed it… Or perhaps, it was the living Sealed Artifact's doing!"
Ebner looked at the journal, habitually analyzing and deducing.
However, even if there is a problem, it should be something that the emperor should be worried about a hundred years ago. It has nothing to do with me…
When Ebner came back to his senses, he mocked himself for worrying for nothing. He looked at the diary on the next page.
"15th January. A Witch of Calamity sent herself to the door. I wonder if I should give it a try? Sigh, Huang Tao, oh Huang Tao, why would you have such thoughts? Are you really not afraid of meat and vegetables anymore?"
Upon seeing this, Ebner instinctively glanced in the direction of the underground prison. If Miss Hazel knew what he was copying, he would like to ask her how she felt…
Furthermore, if he did not remember wrongly, the original line "The taste of a Demoness is not bad" came from the "16th January" diary… He did not know if it was from the same year.
Retracting his slightly strange gaze, Ebner turned another page.
"6th August. I met a vampire today. He called himself Cullen and said that he was willing to help me overthrow the rule of the Sauron family in his name…"
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"The Blood Clan wants to invest in me too? Just like how they invested in the Night Emperor in the Fourth Epoch? But this amount of investment is too small. Why should they support the Night Emperor and support a beautiful queen, while I only have a rough man!"
When Ebner saw this, his lips curved again as he thought, Viscount Cullen, do you know that the Emperor despises you?
Bishop Utravsky had already put down the receipt and said with a smile, "You can tell Skade that the expenditure within this budget can be directly recorded in the Harvest Church's account."
Ebner returned to his senses and placed the diary pages back on the platform before replying, "I'll pass it on."
With that said, he looked at the manuscripts and asked the bishop, "Miss Hazel should've confirmed that there's no corruption from the Primordial Moon, right? Why is she still imprisoned?"
After the banquet ended that day, Macht secretly gave him 100 pounds as a thank-you gift for successfully introducing him to the bishop. Out of respect for the money, he helped Hazel ask.
"This isn't a good time… If we directly release Miss Hazel, the Church of Storms probably won't agree…" Bishop Utravsky shook his head and gently explained.
That's right… The Church of the Lord of Storms had suffered a huge loss previously, and it was the time for them to be unhappy. If they saw Hazel being released so easily, they would probably cause trouble.
Ebner immediately came to a realization. It was no wonder Member of Parliament Macht didn't request the bishop to let Hazel go home. As a politician, he must have seen this…
Since that was the case, Ebner did not say anything else. He left after conversing with the half-giant bishop for a while.
However, when he left the Harvest Church, he only walked out of an intersection when he saw Madam Chelly standing by the roadside in a black funeral dress.
The other party's eyes lit up when he saw him and walked straight over.
"What's the matter, Madam Chelly?" Ebner asked in puzzlement. He didn't seem to have any relationship with this lady, did he? Was she here for Xio?
"Detective Bryan, it was Madam Daly who asked me to pass this letter to you." Chelly took out a folded letter and handed it to Ebner.
Ebner took it and asked Chelly with his eyes. After getting an affirmative answer, he started reading.
There wasn't much content in the letter. The general idea was to invite him to have dinner at Shewell Restaurant on Kent Street in North Borough tomorrow night. It also meant that His Excellency Sword of the Goddess would be present…
The handwriting on the letter was not dry. Clearly, it had just been written not long ago… Was this an impromptu idea? However, could Daly make the decision for Cesimir?
With this thought in mind, Ebner asked casually, "Why isn't Madam Daly here?"
"My lady really has something urgent to attend to. That's why she asked me to wait for you here," Chelly replied.
…
In the basement of Saint Samuel Cathedral in Backlund's North Borough.
"The Mandated Punishers are sending a deacon to Tingen? They wish for me to assist them temporarily?" Daly's cold and alluring face revealed a hint of surprise.
"Yes, the Church of Storms lost a Wind-blessed in the previous incident. This incurred the wrath of the Thunder Cathedral, and they specially sent an elite who's good at tracking down traces. As they suspect that it was done by a Marionettist, the focus of the investigation is the Secret Order," Crestet Cesimir said in a deep voice.
"The last time there were clear traces of activity from the Secret Order was in Tingen, and it was discovered by Tingen's Nighthawks team. Is that why the Church of Storms is investigating there?" As she had been paying close attention to Dunn, Daly knew every case of Tingen's Nighthawks team, so she was naturally no stranger to the Secret Order's activity in Tingen.
"That's right, but it's impossible for us to get the deacons of the Church of Storms to directly go to Tingen's Nighthawks team to read the information and even interrogate the captured members of the Secret Order… Therefore, we need to use the excuse of a joint investigation," Cesimir said after some deliberation.
"And because I'm familiar with the Tingen Nighthawks, as a member of the Joint Investigation Unit, I can provide sufficient lubrication to the communication between the two parties?" Daly joked with a smile.
"If not for helping you, I really don't want you to go…" Cesimir sighed.
"Thank you," Daly said sincerely before asking, "What time is it exactly?"
"Next Wednesday or Thursday. It depends on when the deacon of the Church of Storms will arrive," Cesimir replied.
"Is that so… Thankfully, it didn't delay my date tomorrow night," Daly said with a chuckle.
…
Monday morning, as he had to attend the Tarot Club in the afternoon, Ebner was in his room organizing the information he had promised to give Mr. Fool last week.
Actually, I don't know much about the Secret Order either… However, I won't give Klein any information regarding Zaratul. I'll only reveal some information that can be obtained through connections like the headquarters in Intis… In addition, I can give Klein information about the Secret Order's Marionettist beside Ambassador Intis, so that he can be mentally prepared in the future.
Yes… The Marionettist is also mentioned. He's only said to be a Mid-Sequence Beyonder of the Seer pathway.
As for the Antigonus family, I can reveal more… I can only tell him that this family is an illustrious noble from the Fourth Epoch and possesses the complete Seer Sequence potion formula… That's more or less enough. Any more would involve a deeper level of historical knowledge. Even if I tell him, I'm afraid Klein won't understand.
He recited the information he had compiled a few times and memorized it in his mind. Then, he lit the fire and burnt it.
Although it was fine to give this information to Mr. Fool through "Sacrifice," The Fool still needed a "fee" to open the door to the kingdom. It wasn't worth it to expend nearly ten pounds of materials for such a tiny amount of things. It was better to note it down and materialize it on the gray fog.
…
3 p.m.
After his vision recovered from the crimson and hazy state, Ebner once again arrived above the boundless gray fog that didn't belong to reality. Following that, he saw Audrey half get up, lift her skirt, and cheerily greet him.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool ~
"Good afternoon, Mr. Hanged Man ~
"Good afternoon, Mr. Tower ~"
After exchanging pleasantries, Klein, who had already activated his Spirit Vision, noticed that Miss Justice seemed to be very excited. He couldn't help but wonder, Did something happy happen?
Audrey puffed up her chest and said proudly,
"Mr. Fool, I've memorized two more pages of Roselle's diary."
Ebner smiled when he heard that. He wasn't surprised that Audrey could take out the diary because he had handed it over through Xio. Because of this, Xio had made a small profit.
However, he also said, "I've also obtained another diary page, Mr. Fool."
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