St. Samuel's Church, behind Chanis Gate.

Archbishop Saint Anthony of Backlund stood at the staircase connecting the first and second floors, watching several "Night Watchers" deacons busying about, some of them wearing red gloves.

As the spokesperson of the Church of Night in the capital of the kingdom, Saint Anthony's clean, beardless face showed no obvious emotions at this moment, and his deep, dark eyes also did not hide any ripples. However, everyone who passed by him could feel their soul trembling, and an indescribable and uncontrollable fear welling up in their hearts.

"Your Excellency the Archbishop, after counting, all the mystical materials are not lost, including the main materials of various magic potions and extraordinary properties..."

"Your Excellency the Archbishop, all the potion formulas are in their original locations. It has been preliminarily confirmed that no one has opened them in the past eight hours..."

"Your Excellency the Archbishop, all the prisoners held on the first floor are here. No one has escaped, and no one has died..."

"Your Excellency the Archbishop, all the materials and books have not been damaged, nor have they been moved at all..."

"Your Excellency the Archbishop, all the Level 3 and Level 2 Sealed Artifacts here are here, and none of them have been taken away..."

"Your Excellency the Archbishop, the three Level 1 Sealed Artifacts are still sealed and have not left their respective areas..."

"Your Excellency the Archbishop, the seal core is still intact and has not been damaged at all..."

"Your Excellency the Archbishop, I have confirmed that there is nothing extra here, and no dangerous arrangements remain..."

"Your Excellency the Archbishop, we failed to find the enemy who sneaked in disguised as an internal watcher. He seemed to have evaporated directly..."

As the deacons reported back one after another, things started to become a little weird.

They couldn't imagine that a cunning and powerful Beyonder took extremely high risks, made careful plans, and tried every possible means to finally enter the Chanis Gate, but took nothing and just walked around and left!

This makes it seem like the other party is simply trying to prove their ability, or is specifically helping the church find loopholes in the Chanis Gate guarding process.

Deacon Soster, who led a team of red gloves, looked around and expressed his guess after careful consideration:

"Your Excellency the Archbishop, could this be a requirement for some sequence promotion ceremony?"

Having done missions to capture "demons", he was used to guessing in this direction. Starting from Sequence 5, the promotion ceremonies for different paths and sequences were different, and there were many things that the Church of Evernight did not understand.

If this is true, Soest seems to have seen the intruder's mocking smile and said, "Even at the Chanis Gate of the Church of Evernight, I can come and go freely, just like going to a department store. Those 'Night Watchers' can only be furious because of their incompetence after the incident is over."

We must catch him! Soest quietly clenched his red-gloved hand.

Just as Saint Anthony was about to speak, another Night Watcher deacon, Daly Simone, proposed a second possibility:

"Perhaps the intruder was affected by the negative effects when he tried to take away a certain sealed object, and died on the spot and was devoured?"

Saint Anthony nodded thoughtfully and said:

"I'll go to the third floor and take a look first."

After saying this, he walked steadily deeper into the second underground layer and opened a path to the third layer at a secret location.

The other deacons, because they were not at the right level and had no authority, could only wait where they were.

Saint Anthony quickly arrived at the small third floor, and with a quick glance, he preliminarily confirmed that there were no abnormal changes in the sealed objects "1-29" and "1-80".

He followed the strict procedure and observed the situation inside "1-80" through "1-29" and found that "0-17" was lying there with his eyes half open, just like usual.

During this process, Saint Anthony approached three times and distanced himself three times, changing his position from time to time, and sometimes covering himself with a layer of night, not daring to be negligent in the slightest.

——Even though he was a saint, he did not dare to underestimate any item here. Not to mention the "0-17" whose power would occasionally break through the "container" and cause the seal to temporarily fail, even the "1-29" and "1-80" were quite dangerous. Anthony did not want to degenerate into an "amnesiac" who had to learn how to eat and drink again, and he did not want to become a part of the dream between reality and illusion.

No problem... Anthony breathed a sigh of relief silently and began to restore the two outer seals to their previous state.

After a few minutes, the Night Watchers saw the Archbishop return to the upper level.

"The intruder may indeed have died from contact with the seal." Saint Anthony was a little vague when he said the word "death".

Without any explanation, he ordered:

"No matter what, this matter must be investigated thoroughly. The intruder may have accomplices!

"Being able to sneak into Saint Samuel's Church without causing any noise means that the target is very familiar with this place, the recent rotation rules of the internal guards, the handover process of the 'Night Watchers', and has the ability or items to change his appearance. In addition, he also received help from the Beyonder who holds the Holy Relic of the Night Path, or it belongs to him.

"Combining these conditions, check whether the servants and priests have encountered any subtle spiritualism or induction, check whether the bishops have betrayed the goddess, check the believers who have been coming to the church recently... and check the neighborhoods where those believers are located. Maybe they didn't leak it intentionally, but it was stolen by someone. As for you, I will check it out.

"Also, find the missing servant and see if there are any clues."

"Yes, Your Excellency the Archbishop." Sost and other Night Watchers deacons responded at the same time.

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In the office with a tense atmosphere, Leonard Mitchell did not put his feet on the table as usual. He sat very seriously with a serious expression.

This was the second time he encountered something targeting the items behind Chanis's door, and it brought back the memories hidden in his heart.

What’s more important is that he had met the fake internal guard before, but failed to find any problems!

If, if I were a little stronger and had better observation skills, maybe I wouldn't... Leonard Mitchell pursed his lips and stared at the document in front of him, but he couldn't read a single word until a teammate came in.

"The internal guard has woken up. He didn't see the intruder, but he was possessed by a vengeful spirit." The "Red Gloves" who came in said to everyone in the room.

"How is it possible for a resentful spirit to move inside a church?" Many "Red Gloves" raised this question, but no one could answer it.

Perhaps that resentful spirit believes in the goddess... Leonard muttered to himself, and when no one noticed him in the corner, he lowered his voice and said to himself:

"Old man, didn't you notice anything unusual at the time?"

The slightly old voice in his mind echoed back:

"It's not like I'm always observing the outside world, especially near Chanis Gate."

Leonard didn't dare ask more questions and joined his teammates' discussion.

Not long after, the captain of the "Red Gloves" Soest entered the room and threw a stack of documents on the table:

"This is a target we need to investigate. The bishops have provided a list of believers who have been frequenting the church recently."

Leonard glanced over and saw a familiar name in the middle back of the homepage:

Dwayne Dantes!

This... This old guy who survived the Fourth Epoch had only been in the neighborhood for two months, and Chanis Gate had already been infiltrated. Isn't it too coincidental? Moreover, he has been coming to Saint Samuel Church frequently, and he is probably observing the situation and finding out the rules... The old man's excuse just now was not very convincing, but if the intruder was Dwayne Dantes, then everything could be explained reasonably. He was afraid of exposing himself, so he pretended not to notice anything unusual... Leonard Mitchell's mind flashed many thoughts in an instant, and he spoke after careful consideration:

"Captain Soest, what did the intruder take? What clues did he leave behind?"

Soest looked around and said:

"Nothing was taken away, nothing was left behind, it's like they had never been inside. Your Excellency the Archbishop initially suspected that he had died and evaporated due to contact with certain sealed objects. We are mainly looking for his accomplices."

No, Dwayne Dantes couldn't die so easily! He was a monster who had lived from the Fourth Epoch to the present... But, what was his purpose in sneaking in? Leonard frowned slightly, hesitated for a while, and then took the initiative to include Dwayne Dantes in the scope of his and his two teammates' investigation.

When the Red Gloves and the local Nighthawks began to act, Leonard found an excuse to go to the bathroom and lowered his voice:

"What do you want to say about Dwayne Dantès?"

He didn't try to expose the lie told by the parasite in his body.

The somewhat old voice laughed and said:

"Haven't I already told you? I don't know much about him. I just know that he has something special about him and his aura has an ancient flavor.

"However, a case you investigated earlier gave me some ideas. I suspect that Dwayne Dantès might be involved in that incident and is an agent of some entity."

"What's going on? Who is that person?" Leonard whispered in astonishment.

The old voice in his mind replied in a rather strange tone:

"A fool who does not belong to this era."

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160 Böklund Street.

After finishing breakfast, Klein returned to the semi-open room with a large balcony. He sat in the easy chair and rubbed his forehead with his hand.

As the tense state gradually subsided, Klein found that his mind had become somewhat hazy. The corpses hanging in the air in the ancient church kept appearing before his eyes, as well as the vague transparent worm deep in his memory. There seemed to be an illusory voice echoing in his ears:

"Honakis...Fregera..."

Although I quickly cut off the connection with the secret doll, I was still affected to a certain extent, and my mind was slightly polluted... It is indeed a true mythical creature... After the initial investigation, I will have to start solving the remaining problems in this regard... Klein exhaled slowly and calmed himself down with the help of meditation.