Kramer's death on April 16 and 17, 1360 seemed like this blank body, not existing in Atchelli's mind, nor in this book... Even Atchelli, who had experienced countless extraordinary major cases, had never seen such a situation before.
"call……"
After taking a deep breath, Atchley walked quickly to her desk with the blank form in her hand, then sat back down at her desk. After thinking for a while, she picked up the pen and wrote down all the situations she had just encountered on the contact page of the "Sea Navigation Chronicle".
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Plitvice East Coast, Tivian.
At dusk, in a library in East Tivian, silver-haired Dorothy was sitting behind her desk by the window, admiring the sunset gradually sinking in the distant sky while waiting for a reply from her distant "pen pal".
Finally, after a few minutes, Dorothy once again sensed the spiritual reaction on the "Ocean Voyage". When she focused her eyes on the pages of the "Ocean Voyage", she saw that after the words "wait a moment", more words belonging to Atcherie quickly appeared.
Atchley's reply was very long, and she wrote down one word at a time. Dorothy couldn't help but frown as she read Atchley's words and understood her experience just now.
"How can there be such a situation?"
After reading Atcherie's response, Dorothy couldn't help but murmur in confusion. Although she had foreseen that there might be problems with Kramer's life on a certain day in April, she didn't expect the problem to be so big.
"Have you checked those items?"
After reading Atchley's reply, Dorothy picked up the pen and wrote a response on the page. Soon after, Atchley's response appeared on the paper.
"I have already used all the inspection methods available on the scene. I can't find anything abnormal with those incidents. If I want further inspection, I can only send it to Si Jingting for more professional equipment... But I don't think it will be very effective. I don't think anything will be found. The root of the problem is definitely not the incident. After all, my own thinking has been affected..."
Atcherie responded to Dorothy and wrote, and after a short pause, she wrote the next words immediately.
"It seems that Kramer's problem is much bigger than I expected before. I know why you chose April to ask me in detail. I also conducted a careful study of her whereabouts in that month before...but I didn't find any problems. I didn't expect that there was such an extraordinary power that covered up the whole problem..."
Atcherie's handwriting continued to appear in front of Dorothy's eyes. What she said in it was that she had carefully studied what happened in Kramer last April and it was not hindsight. She and Dorothy knew the special nature of that month and would focus on investigating and studying it.
In April of 1360... it was the time when the Pope of the Church of Radiance ascended to heaven again... the most important figure in the entire church left the mortal world at that time and has not returned since...
During the interrogation of Vanya by the Council of Cardinals, Dorothy also linked Vanya's senses through the information channel. She not only watched the entire trial process in full, but also watched the conversation between Vanya and Amanda afterwards.
In this conversation, Vanya asked Amanda about Kramer, and Amanda also clearly stated that the current Kramer seemed to have some changes from what she knew before. After listening to Amanda's speech, Dorothy directly instructed Vanya to ask Amanda when the change of Kramer began. However, Amanda showed a little strangeness and didn't remember the relevant situation at all.
After seeing Amanda's performance, Dorothy began to wonder if Kramar had been influenced by some kind of cult corruption, which was why he looked like this today. But for a cult that could influence the Golden Cardinal, what was the right time to do this? After the Pope left...
According to the descriptions of the cardinals, the Pope, as the sole representative of the Three Saints and the Savior on earth, is an immeasurably powerful being. He is even praised as someone whose power alone is enough to suppress the evil gods. He is the foundation of the entire Cult of the Radiant Light.
It is absolutely impossible to tamper with something under the nose of such a being that is almost equivalent to God. It is said that the Pope can see through anyone's thoughts with just one glance. What anyone thinks in his heart cannot escape his eyes, and no conspiracy can be carried out around him.
Once Kramer is affected, he will most likely not escape the Pope's detection. His plans and conspiracies can only be realized after the Pope ascends to heaven. Therefore, Dorothy also focused on the time period before and after the Pope's ascension. Atcherie also understood the significance of Dorothy's choice of this time.
Now, the abnormality in Kramar was indeed discovered during this period of time, but the way it happened was beyond Dorothy's expectations.
'Not only am I unable to detect it, but even the record on the document is blank...' Dorothy thought to herself, stroking her chin. Regarding the abnormality found by Atchery, she also had many thoughts constantly surging in her mind. After sitting in her seat and thinking for a moment, Dorothy quickly picked up her pen again.
"Wait a moment, I'll check some things."
After Dorothy finished writing this in the "Sea Voyage Log", she silently stood up from her seat, and then walked quickly towards the rows of large bookshelves in the library. After walking between the bookshelves for a while, she finally found the corresponding area, and then began to search above the bookshelves in this area. After a while, she found the book she wanted.
Geography of Friesland
Dorothy glanced at the cover of the book in her hand, then opened it and flipped to the index section, which listed important place names, and then read down one place at a time. But just in the first half of the list, she saw a blank.
Above and below this blank space are important cities in Friesland. This blank space should also have a corresponding place written on it, but in Dorothy's eyes, there is nothing...
After staring at the blank space in front of her for a while, Dorothy opened the geography book in her hand and turned to the blank part in the index that should be in the correct position in the whole book. But when she turned to that place, what Dorothy saw was blank again.
It wasn't just one page, but dozens of pages in a row, with large areas of blank space one after another... Among these dozens of pages, only the lace on the margins and page numbers were still decorating the pages, and all the words were completely gone.
Looking at the long series of blank pages in the "Geography of Frisia" in her hand, Dorothy couldn't help but take a deep breath for a moment, and then she continued to turn to other parts of the book. After seeing that the place names in other parts of the index had their corresponding correct answers and were filled with words, her expression became even more serious.
Afterwards, Dorothy began to look for other documents about Friesland in the library, including travel diaries, historical figures, train introductions, etc. Dorothy flipped through these books one by one at a high speed and found that many places were missing something more or less. These places should all mention a place name, but this place name and all related introductions were blank in these books.
In Friesland ... there is a place which has disappeared, at least from the memory and from all knowledge, and no one has noticed it ...
This was the conclusion Dorothy had come to. After coming to this conclusion, she sat back down in her seat and could not help rubbing her temples.
"In books and words... the place that disappeared?"
After whispering, Dorothy put her hand down, and then began to think carefully about the problem at hand with a serious expression. She originally wanted to find clues about Kramer's disappearance by looking up the geography of Friesland, but she did not expect to find a bigger anomaly.
"The place Kramar went to last April has not only disappeared from the church's documents, but probably disappeared from all historical records... As a cardinal, Kramar would not go to small places. The place he went to on April 16 should be quite famous... and quite large. But such a place has disappeared directly..."
Dorothy was thinking to herself that it didn't matter if this place simply disappeared from the universe. The key point was that no one seemed to remember the existence of this place, and no one even noticed the blank abnormality that appeared on the universe. If Dorothy hadn't reminded them, no one, including Atchery, seemed to be able to detect the problem.
'Atcherie simply ignored those blanks when she was checking the documents. Amanda also realized after I asked Vanya to remind her that she didn't remember when she felt that there was something wrong with Kramar. Such a large number of books with obvious blanks were left in the library for such a long time without anyone paying attention to them...
"All of this proves that there is some hidden power... no, or rather, someone has erased some traces of Freelands... This erasure makes it so that no one, including the saints of the church, can see anything strange... except me..."
As she analyzed it in her mind, Dorothy looked at her hands. It seemed that she was a special case in this case. The date that Atchery had overlooked was reminded by her... He also discovered the many blank spaces on the document after she reminded him. Dorothy saw the blank spaces in the Freelands document in the library at a glance, and no one else had reminded her of them.
"interesting……"
Dorothy whispered so, and then after taking another look at the pile of books on the table in front of her, she rubbed her shoulders and began to work, picking up the books one by one and starting to flip through them quickly.
What Dorothy is doing now is to confirm the location of the seemingly forgotten area. Although it seems that everyone has forgotten that place and there is no exact record on any book, this does not mean that there is no way to figure out where it is.
In many books about Friesland, the missing place is mentioned in the introduction of other places. Although the place name has disappeared, the related content is still there. For example, when introducing the location of a place, when it says "located east of the place", it can be determined that the missing place is east of the place introduced. In addition, the order of introduction of places in many books is arranged according to geographical location, and places close to each other are arranged together. Dorothy can infer where the missing place is based on other places.
What's more important is that in this library, there is a railway map of the entire main continent with a detailed station list. According to the current judgment, the place that disappeared is probably a large city with a high probability of having railways. In this case, we only need to find the vacant position in the directory of the station list of the Frisian region, see which two train stations are in front of the vacant position, find those two stations on the railway map, and the middle part is likely to be the approximate location of the disappeared city.
Finally, after various checks and operations, Dorothy combined the information from many sources and finally roughly locked the approximate location of the disappeared city. Frisia is located on the northern coast of the main continent, and the mysterious disappearance is somewhere along the northern coastal area of Frisia. This is the information Dorothy was able to obtain.
"The northern coast of Frisia..."
Looking at the location she had just guessed on the world map on her desk, Dorothy couldn't help but fall into deep thought. There was no place name at the location where her eyes were focused.
"What kind of secret is hidden here?"
Dorothy thought so in her heart, and then she continued to flip through the books on the table, trying to locate the coordinates of that area more accurately. But when Dorothy checked the last few pages, she couldn't help but be stunned.
“This is…”
What Dorothy was looking at now was a map, a map drawn on coarse cloth, with tattered edges, blurred content, and serious overall discoloration. It looked very old.
This map was taken from the precious ancient book section by Dorothy some time ago. It is one of the treasured ancient books in this library. It seems to have been drawn by the North Sea pirates of the main continent in the past. It has a history of several hundred years. It depicts the North Sea coast of the main continent and many islands including Prit, including the Frisian region, so Dorothy brought it. It is said that this map was left by the North Sea pirates when they invaded Prit in ancient times.
On this very old map, on the northern coastline of the main continent, which was drawn extremely unstandardly, at the approximate location where Dorothy had previously estimated that the lost city might exist, there was a place name clearly marked there, a place name that Dorothy could not find no matter how hard she tried on modern maps.
Dorothy squinted her eyes, identified the place name clearly on the blurry map, and then spelled it out.
"Steinem..."
Looking at the place names on the old map in front of her, Dorothy couldn't help but frown slightly. Dorothy could find the corresponding points for other place names in the Frisian region on this old map on the modern map she had seen before, but there was no corresponding point for this place. In addition, the location of Steenham was almost the same as the location Dorothy had previously estimated, which made Dorothy think... Could this place be the disappeared city? Could this disappeared city be called Steenham?
But... why is this place not shown on other maps, but only on this ancient map? Could it be that this ancient map has some special extraordinary ability, and is not affected by that powerful invisible force like me?
After realizing this possibility, Dorothy immediately began to take out various things from her magic box and began to conduct an extraordinary inspection of the ancient map in front of her. However, after checking it twice, she did not find any extraordinary traces in it.
This seems to be just a plain old map!
"It doesn't look strange at all... Is it because my tools are not professional enough... Should I send it to Atcherie later so she can take a look?"
While examining the old map in front of her, Dorothy was thinking about this in her mind. While thinking about it, another possibility emerged in her mind.
'Or in other words... the reason why this map can show Steenham is not because it has any extraordinary special features, but because of other characteristics...
'Like... it's old?'
Looking at this antique map that was who knows how many hundreds of years old, Dorothy couldn't help but fall into deep thought for a moment...
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"All the reference materials cannot be displayed... This place is ignored and forgotten by everyone... Is there any other place like this in this world?"
In the Holy Mountain Prison Court, Atcherie was still sitting in her office, looking at the "Sea Navigation Notes" on the desk that Dorothy had just written and sent to her. The results of her investigation made her expression more solemn than before.
Before, Atcherie thought that the strange power might be targeting the people and things in the church, but now it seems that it is far more than that. If ordinary people and ordinary books on Tivian's side also have similar problems... then the whole world may be affected...
If there is a problem with the world's cognition... then the severity of this incident will probably be raised a lot...
"And... the name Steenham..."
As she was thinking, a trace of confusion emerged on Atchley's face. In the message Dorothy had just written, she mentioned the ancient map and the name of Steenham. When Atchley heard the name, she suddenly felt a sense of familiarity.
"Strange... I seem to have heard the name Steinem before... and I heard it recently. When was it?"
Stroking her forehead, Atcherie tried hard to search in her memories. After a while of meditation, she seemed to have finally found some clues about this name in her mind.
Following the clues, Artchery stood up and slowly walked to the side of her office. She opened a locked bookshelf and searched for a while before taking out a ring inlaid with a yellow gem. After Artchery untied it and injected spiritual energy into it, the yellow gem on the ring immediately projected an image, which was reflected on the smooth wall of the office like a projector.
The whole picture is divided into countless small pictures, and each small picture seems to show something. If you look closely, they are items of different styles and characteristics, ranging from evil statues of evil gods to ordinary clothes. There are also some notes under these items to explain the source.
These are all kinds of valuable physical evidence involved in the cases that Atchley, as the supervisor, has personally experienced. This ring is an extraordinary item that Atchley uses specifically to store this physical evidence information.
After scanning the many pieces of information in front of her, Atcheri focused her attention on one of the physical evidence portraits and enlarged it. She saw that it was a blurry crystal that looked like it had many cracks, and there was a note below the picture.
"The crystal of the high-level protection observation instrument was taken out from the damaged observation instrument after the Divian Divine Disaster. For some reason, there is a word '' written on it."
Looking at the cracked crystal and the blank space on the annotation on the screen, Atchery could not help but fall silent for a while. Then she quietly walked to the side, opened a cabinet, took out an iron box from it, placed it on the table, and gently opened the lid of the iron box.
In the box, a crystal lens that looked exactly like the one on the wall appeared in front of Atcherie's eyes. On the cracked crystal lens, Atcherie could clearly see several crooked and twisted characters. After spelling it out, it was:
"Go to Steenham!!"
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To the west of the main continent, on the other side of the vast Starfall Sea, there is an ancient continent called the Starfall Continent.
During the day, in front of the shaman's tent located on the high ground in the center of the tribal camp, at the prosperous Tupa tribe settlement in the vast wilderness, the Tupa shaman Uta, wearing flowery clothes and an eagle feather crown, was sitting here, overlooking the increasingly prosperous tribe below.
While smoking his pipe, Wuta looked at his disciples who were teaching the knowledge of the other continent to the tribesmen, and a trace of satisfaction appeared from time to time. At this time, an eagle cry came from the sky. Wuta looked up at the sky with a serious expression, and saw an eagle circling and landing towards him.
Looking at the eagle, Uta's eyes suddenly became extremely solemn. After the eagle descended to a certain height, it spoke directly to Uta.
"I have sensed that the most noble sleeping spirit has responded. The Great Wilderness Festival needs to be held urgently... I am issuing a summons again..."
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