"And those people around Mr. Joad...are they wearing heresy investigators?! Are they from the Castilian Inquisition? Where are they sending Mr. Joad? This fleet is clearly about to set sail..."
Looking at the scene on the shore, Vanya couldn't help but murmured in confusion, but what she didn't know was that at this moment on the shore, there was more than one pair of eyes observing this scene.
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Navaha, there is a high-rise hotel not too far from the port. In the guest room on the top floor of the hotel, there are two figures standing in it. They are two men of different ages.
One of the younger men was standing by the window. He opened the curtains a little and then peeked into the distance through the gap. The direction he saw was the port where the fleet was preparing to set sail.
The other man was a middle-aged man with a beard. At this moment, he was sitting behind a table in the room. There was a pile of documents in front of him. The man was sorting these documents with a focused look.
"Those charlatans are really going to die. We are preparing to set sail now, but suddenly a new group of charlatans appeared at the port. Judging from their clothes, they look like people from the court!"
The young man standing by the window spoke while looking into the distance with superhuman vision. After hearing his words, the middle-aged man who was sorting documents in the room paused, then turned his head to look at the young man and spoke.
"Could it be those crazy people in the Inquisition? This is really troublesome... These guys are much more difficult to deal with than the Knights. It will be very difficult to find out anything from them...
"But from another perspective... Costa and the others are basically certain that they have been captured by these charlatans. Otherwise, the people from the court would not be here. They are here to take over the case..."
The middle-aged man put down the love letter in his hand and frowned and said, it is obvious that both of them are believers of the Sea Abyss Church. The reason they came to Navaha was to confirm the information about Costa and the Deep Blue Heart who had lost contact.
"It seems that Costa and the others are in great danger. They have either been captured by some shaman or are dead. It would be better for us to let White Tears Island prepare to summon their souls."
The man by the window spoke in a stern tone, while the middle-aged man on the other side responded in a cold voice.
"Call back the soul? That's too far. If Costa and the others died here, we can't call them back even if we set up a ceremony on White Tears Island. If Costa and the others are really dead, we don't know how long they have been dead. If it's been a long time, we won't be able to call them back even if we are close."
The middle-aged man said this aloud. In the secret world, summoning souls is also a very important ability. Large-scale extraordinary organizations will hire some "silent" extraordinary people to specialize in summoning souls, but the ranks of these "silent" extraordinary people are usually not very high, usually only at the level of apprentices or black soil.
For associations that do not specialize in "Silence", the ability to summon spirits is very limited and is subject to many restrictions, one of which is distance. After all, the essence of the spirit summoning ritual is to use a medium to call the dead soul, allowing it to float to the ritual and appear, and the distance between the soul and the ritual must be considered. Summoning spirits cannot be like spiritualism, which can directly summon the spirit into the ritual regardless of distance.
This is why the Sea Abyss Cult cannot use the ability to summon souls to confirm the life and death of Costa and others, because the main base of the Sea Abyss Cult is located on an island in the vast ocean, and the base with the ability to summon souls is too far away from Navaha, so they sent people near Navaha to come here to investigate, but the results of the investigation were not good.
"So what should we do now? The crazy charlatan from the court has arrived. If we continue to investigate, the risk will be very high. How about we stop the investigation here and report to the higher-ups first?"
The young man spoke with a stern expression, and it seemed from his face that he did not want to deal with people from the court. The middle-aged man on the other side snorted coldly in response.
"Report? What can we report? We haven't figured out the status of Costa and the others. We haven't found out the whereabouts of Deep Blue's core. What can we report with this result?"
"What can we do? Now that the court has arrived, we can't just... huh?"
When the young man was about to say something to the middle-aged man, he suddenly looked into the distance as if he saw something. He frowned and rubbed his eyes, then looked carefully again. This phenomenon aroused the curiosity of the middle-aged man.
"What's wrong? Did you see anything?"
"Hmm... weird. The fleet of these Shining Gods is clearly about to set sail, but the captain has come down, along with some other officers... what are they doing?"
The young man said this, and his words aroused the curiosity of the middle-aged man, so the middle-aged man also stood up, walked to another window, opened the curtains and looked towards the port. After a while, he also saw the phenomenon that the young man had just described.
"That's Jod Schneider. Isn't he the commander of this escort fleet? The fleet is about to set sail, why is he rebelling? And the other captains and Jod's adjutant, they look like they are being held hostage by a madman from the Inquisition..."
Looking at the scene in the distance, the middle-aged man frowned and said, as a spy of the Abyss Church, he knew many captains who often appeared in this sea area, among whom Joad was one of them, and his fleet often passed through this sea area.
"Joed? So he is the commander. But why didn't the commander follow the fleet when it set sail? He looks like he was escorted ashore by a madman from the Inquisition."
Listening to the middle-aged man's words, the young man said in confusion, and the middle-aged man spoke slowly after pondering for a while.
"Well... I think this may have something to do with the unusual movement that happened last night. It should be something that Qiao De and his men did last night that caused them to be targeted by the people from the Inquisition. These neurotic lunatics are often more cruel to their own people..."
"Something unusual happened last night? Tsk... I slept so well last night that I couldn't get up at all. I have no idea what happened?" The young man said while rubbing his temple, and the middle-aged man answered calmly.
"I don't know either, but something big must have happened, otherwise there wouldn't be such a large-scale anomaly this morning. The city of Navaha may be hiding some secrets that we don't know about...
"In short, the situation seems to be more complicated now. It looks like Joad and even the top leaders of his fleet are no longer trusted by the Inquisition for some reason. The Inquisition has used its power to detain them. Now this pilgrimage fleet may have to set sail again without Joad and his team."
The middle-aged man murmured, and as he spoke, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.
"It seems that our report can be slightly more substantial."
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