Chapter 240 Behind the Stage
The handsome man in the air was wearing a neat double-breasted suit and shiny leather shoes, as if he had just walked out of a banquet and stepped on an invisible floor in the air.
His golden eyes instantly locked onto the villa's ruined restaurant and the mysterious woman who disappeared after a flash of fire as she approached the ground.
With a cold snort, the man raised his left hand lightly, and mysterious, complex patterns and symbols emerged around him, about to form a new gate in front of him, but then these symbols and patterns drifted away in the wind and disappeared.
"Can't lock... Anti-divination beyond the demigod level?"
He muttered after a while, keeping his left hand raised, unsure whether to put it down.
At this moment, a gust of wind blew past him, and the figure that was vaguely visible in the distance had flown to the side of the man in the suit.
The man was lifted up by the strong wind. He was wearing a black robe embroidered with storm symbols and a soft hat of the same color. His face was serious. He was the Cardinal of the Church of Storms, the Archbishop of the Backlund Diocese, and the "Singer of God" Ace Snake.
"Celter? Why are you here?"
The Cherwood District belongs to our Storm Church and is managed by the "Mandate of Punishment" of the Holy Wind Cathedral - his serious face expressed the unspoken words.
"I live nearby and heard the noise and came to take a look."
The handsome man called Celt answered, his eyes sweeping over the still burning villa and the citizens on the road who were watching the explosion scene and the girls huddled together, his expression not looking good.
"Who was that just now?"
Ace, who arrived a step late, only saw a figure jumping down from the attic in the distance, while Celt, who had arrived earlier, stood in the air and couldn't help but ask.
"Not sure, but she has powerful anti-divination measures."
After a brief exchange between the two people floating in the air, they arrived above the villa and slowly descended onto the lawn.
Ace Snake looked at the restaurant wall with a big hole opening outwards. A strong hurricane blew up and rolled around the hole several times. The negative pressure formed attracted the flames and smoke into the hurricane. Then, as if directed by someone, they rushed into the fountain pool in the middle of the lawn. The high temperature and water collided with each other, and a burst of steam rose.
Seeing the flames extinguished and the smoke cleared, Celt walked quickly into the restaurant and looked at the servant's body trapped by the rubble, Parker with a bullet hole in his forehead, Katie who was covered in blood and breathless, and Capin who was lying on his back on the ground with tarot cards covered on his body.
There is a main card covering each of his eyes, namely "Judgment" with an angel blowing a trumpet and "Emperor" with armor and a crown.
For no reason, he thought of the woman in similar armor who had just disappeared before his eyes.
"There were some servants in other rooms and some guards outside, but no one dared to approach."
Ace's voice came from behind him. The archbishop walked slowly closer and looked around at the miserable situation in the restaurant. His face was even uglier than Bielt's.
"Tarot cards?"
Looking at Capin, the only one in the field whose death was strange, the archbishop asked in confusion.
"This is the second similar case recently," Celt said to himself. He was from the military and therefore knew some information that had not yet been made public. "In early October, the 'True Creator' attempted to descend into Backlund through a fraudster. After the incident was resolved by the military and the Nighthawks, the fraudster was tortured and murdered in the sewers, and his body was also covered with tarot cards."
"This seems to have some kind of meaning. 'Judgment' is the motivation and purpose, 'Emperor' may represent the woman who just disappeared, and the tarot cards covering the body..."
Es was stuck in the middle of his analysis. He looked at Celt, who continued:
"I think so too. She must belong to some new secret organization. After committing a crime, she covers the dead target's body with tarot cards as a sign to announce to other members that the target has been eliminated and to show her existence to the outside world."
But last time, all the cards sprinkled on the dead were the same big card, but this time, it seemed like all the big and small cards in the same deck were sprinkled on them. Perhaps it was a difference in style between different members, the "Queen", and the "Emperor". Ha, is this a provocation to the Augustus family...
Celt recalled internal military information, trying to find other similar cases.
"Perhaps if you had caught up with that mysterious woman just now, you would have known all this."
The Singer of God looked at Celt, as if he had just remembered that the military's Beyonders were also responsible for the extraordinary events that occurred in Backlund.
He was a little late and only saw the woman's figure fall to the ground and then disappear. She must have used some method of rapid movement. There were too many Beyonder sequences with this ability. Even the high-sequence military figure in front of him could do this through magical items.
With this ability alone, it is impossible to determine the opponent's identity, but as long as Sester uses the teleportation ability to block the opponent, then...
"She's only a mid-sequence, at most Sequence 6, but she possesses angel-level anti-divination abilities." Celt glanced at the archbishop, who was often late for important events. "I think we should show some respect to the powerful figure behind her. Perhaps you could try to negotiate with her?"
Ace Snake didn't answer.
An angel, even one of those who is not good at fighting, can die silently with just a flick of his finger, even if there is a mid-sequence Beyonder standing in every room of this villa, without making such a big noise.
Unless, this ritual-like scene has some special meaning, or the angel himself is unable to take action and has sent a subordinate to handle it.
Go track down, go provoke this angel, or his men?
The two were silent for a moment, and tacitly decided to report it later instead of discussing whether they should chase after him.
They continued to search every corner of the restaurant separately, trying to piece together the clues to find out what had happened.
Outside the villa, a team of Mandated Punishers arrived in a carriage and began to cordon off the scene and drive away the people with the assistance of the police.
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"Let's go here. It should be not far from Minsk Street."
Angel said.
After she met up with Sherlock, she ran along the sewer for more than a kilometer, away from Capin's house, and to the other side of Cherwood.
By this time, the effects of her "magic pocket watch" had long since worn off, and the next 12 hours would be difficult. Fortunately, the sewer conditions in the Cherwood District were slightly better than those in the East District and Backlund Bridge District, otherwise their one-kilometer journey would have been extremely difficult.
Although it was already daybreak, there were still people in Backlund who were so extravagant as to keep gas lamps lit during the day. After seeing off the enthusiastic detective, Angel would continue through the sewers back to the safe house in the East District, waiting for the negative effects of the pocket watch to wear off.
A ray of sunlight shone through the underground manhole cover above their heads, illuminating the small area around them. The two stood still in the light.
Angel took out a copper penny and tossed it to Moriarty - this was the pre-agreed "reward" for the commission. Moriarty took it and it bounced with a "ding" sound. The coin landed in his palm and the head of "George III" gleamed in the sun.
"The head says yes. I suppose you are divination for the safety of those girls?"
Angel asked with a smile as he looked at the familiar coin divination.
After the discussions and arrangements before the battle, as well as the opponent's performance during the battle, including the familiar "Flame Leap" and "Paper Doll Substitute", she already knew that this detective was a Sequence 7 "Magician" of the "Fortune Teller" path, which made her claim of "fortune teller master" yesterday seem so ridiculous.
But compared to this embarrassment, she felt more confused.
At the first "Eye of Wisdom" gathering, Moriarty seemed like an ordinary person with only a vague understanding of the field of occultism. After he had offended an Extraordinary Person, he frantically searched for ways to survive, and then took the potion and became an Extraordinary Person.
But if this were the case, it would be equivalent to him advancing from Sequence 9 to Sequence 7 in just one month. Even Angel, who knew the "acting method" and could "act in advance", would feel ashamed of himself.
The more likely possibility is that he lied to others and hid his Beyonder identity. He had already been a Beyonder, even reaching Sequence 7 at the time. This also made his experience of dealing with a mid-sequence Beyonder with a magical item worth 400 pounds credible.
Furthermore, his incredible "spiritualization" ability clearly didn't belong to the "magician" sequence. Besides possessing a magic pocket watch, Angel had also battled a magician from the Esoteric Order, who hadn't displayed a similar ability. Spiritualization might belong to a subsequent sequence of magicians, but if Moriarty were Sequence 6, he wouldn't have anxiously sought help from a group of lower-sequence Beyonders at a Beyonder gathering.
So he must have some magical item that allows him to transform into an armored crown ghost, able to plant explosives through buildings, able to exert negative effects through physical contact, and even able to harm an entire restaurant of Beyonders with his screams.
Of course, everyone has secrets. She didn't ask in detail. The two of them had only worked together briefly and could not be considered acquaintances. Didn't she also not reveal the existence of the "Ring of Madness" and the "Secret Holy Symbol"?
However, the magician, the fortune teller, Sequence 7...
If he were still alive, he would have become a "magician" by now, right?
Looking at the penny with heads facing up, Angel felt a little disappointed.
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