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The Spider Fang Priest spread his jet-black wings and flew forward at high speed under the night sky. He stared ahead, as if he could see an invisible thread extending from his body to the distance.
Following the guidance of the spiritual thread, the Spider Fang Priest flew quickly towards the source of the extended thread. In a few minutes, he would be able to see the operator who once controlled this spiritual thread.
Suddenly, the Spider Fang Priest seemed to see something while flying. He stared into the distance with his excellent night vision, and found a bird not far in front and below him, flying hard in the same direction as him.
Seeing this scene, the Spider Fang Priest lowered his altitude without hesitation and dived down at high speed towards the bird in front and below. In a very short time, he rushed above the bird.
Dorothy realized that the Spider Fang Priest was approaching from behind, so she immediately controlled the bird-shaped corpse doll to fall rapidly downwards, trying to avoid the rapidly approaching Spider Fang Priest, and threw away the holy emblem in her mouth when she was close to the ground. However, even so, the bird corpse doll still could not escape. The Spider Fang Priest followed at high speed with the flying creatures behind it, and then stretched out his hand and grabbed the bird that was flapping its wings hard in his hand.
Without saying anything more, the Spider Fang Priest squeezed his hands hard and crushed the bird corpse in his hand directly, then scattered the wreckage to the ground. Then he shook his wings violently, quickly raised his own height, and continued to fly towards Dorothy at a constant high speed.
His action just now directly announced that it was impossible for Dorothy to get the holy emblem.
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“This is terrible…”
On the carriage, Dorothy felt the link with the bird corpse was broken, and her face turned pale again. She was about to be promoted on the spot, but she found that she was missing a holy emblem. The conditions for promotion were not complete, and the ceremony could not be held.
"It took too much time to remove the iron fence... Why did Barrett install such a solid fence on the vent? Is it to prevent super rats?"
Seeing that it was impossible for the holy emblem to arrive, Dorothy couldn't help but think angrily, but she quickly calmed down her excitement and forced herself to calm down again.
"Huh... calm down. Now is not the time to complain or think about other things. The key is to solve the problem... think about what other ways you can solve the problem now... what other ways can you get promoted without that badge..."
Dorothy took a long breath, closed her eyes and rubbed her temples, using all her thoughts to think about the solution to her current dilemma. She used her ability as a scholar to frantically look through her memories, trying to find some key information.
And when Dorothy recalled the scene when she first saw the holy emblem of "Shadow", she suddenly opened her eyes.
When Dorothy first saw the holy emblem of "Shadow", she found it unusually familiar. Now, after thinking about it carefully, she finally knew why the holy emblem looked familiar, because she was wearing a very similar one on her body.
Dorothy stretched out her left hand in front of her eyes and stared at her index finger, where she wore the only token left by her mother, the Ring of Concealment.
The structure of the Chanyin Ring is very simple. It is just a ring with a ring base on the ring band, and on the ring base there is a moon with simple patterns printed on it.
Dorothy hadn't paid much attention to it before, but now when she looked carefully, she discovered that the moon on the Ring of Concealment and the moon on the Holy Emblem of Shadow were exactly the same.
Here, exactly the same does not refer to the general appearance at first glance, but the similarity in craftsmanship. Dorothy possesses the memory and information processing capabilities of a scholar, and can compare the moon on the barrier ring in front of her with the moon on the holy emblem in her memory in detail in her mind.
As a result, Dorothy discovered that the two moons were absolutely identical in terms of pattern, curvature, and structural proportions, with the error being calculated in millimeters.
The moon-shaped patterns are not uncommon in occult items related to "shadow", but there are slight differences between them. The two moons and stars on the holy emblem and the ring seem to be mass-produced on the same production line, and even the details and the internal parts are exactly the same!
In order to find the holy emblem, Dorothy did a lot of research on holy emblems. She read a secular book that specifically studied the holy emblems of the Radiant Church, which mentioned that the "holy emblem" is an item with more meaning than form. A single emblem is only the basic form of the holy emblem. Since not everyone likes to wear an emblem on their chest, for aesthetic reasons, these church holy emblems are often fixed on various other items, such as crowns, necklaces, gloves, canes... and other personal items can be fixed with holy emblems, which naturally includes rings.
Dorothy's ring of hidden treasures, left by her mother, may have been decorated with the holy emblem of Shadow.
The holy emblem of "Shadow" that Dorothy had spent so much time and effort to find might have been worn by her from the very beginning, and the holy emblem of "Shadow" that she finally obtained might have been her first holy emblem.
When the farm girl named Dorothea Meschos was still a carefree child, before the soul from another world and the "Enlightenment" system traveled to her body and merged with her dying remaining soul, this holy emblem left by the mysterious mother was already on her body.
"Heh... what a mysterious mother... after wasting so many efforts, this last key thing has already been in my body... this is really... a wonderful feeling..."
Looking at the ring of concealment on her hand, Dorothy couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook her head, saying that if she had known about this earlier, she wouldn't have to spend so much effort and take such a big risk.
"You saved my life, mom... It seems that our family has some connection with the fairy in the lake, so what is your true identity? But no matter what... Gregor embarked on the path of 'shadow', in a sense, he took the right path..."
Dorothy continued to smile and thank her mother, whom she had never remembered. Then she raised her hand to control the coachman's corpse to stop the carriage, opened the door and jumped out.
When she came out of the carriage, Dorothy took off her Ring of Concealment and placed it in her palm together with the other five holy emblems. At this moment, Dorothy's six holy emblems were truly "collected", and the last piece of the puzzle for her promotion was finally "put together".
Next, it is time for the ceremony.
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