The outline of the distant Nantina Lord City gradually became clear in the deepening twilight, as if in tacit agreement before the night's impending arrival.

Lanci Hiberian and Talia were still sitting on the bench in Heart Meridian Square, gazing at the city-state with its distinct layers of elevation.

They were chatting leisurely, and it was almost dinnertime without them even realizing it.

"We'll leave when we hear the six o'clock bell. We should be able to eat as soon as we get home."

Lanci looked back at the clock tower in the square and said to Hiberian and Talia.

"I feel like being with you will turn me into a good-for-nothing."

Hiberian leaned back in her chair, not wanting to move, and looked up at the golden-orange sky tinged with some purple-red, muttering to herself.

She could accomplish so much in an afternoon at the Yikelite Academy, but being led to slack off by Lanci, the afternoon just slipped away.

Talia remained sitting quietly.

Although her face still didn't reveal her mood, she seemed calm.

Hiberian tilted her head and looked at Talia's face, wanting to tell her that she already knew about their relationship.

Then Hiberian shook her head slightly, thinking she would wait until they returned to the Wilford house tonight and had some alone time with Tata to tell her slowly.

As Hiberian thought, she turned her head to look at Lanci on the other side.

She found that Lanci had been motionless for some time.

She had been staring at his cheeks for a while, but he hadn't reacted.

Lanci was squinting his eyes, as if he was staring at a figure on a street in the distant lowlands, observing the person very carefully.

Hiberian sat up straighter and looked in the direction Lanci's gaze was following.

After a while.

Hiberian finally determined that the person Lanci was watching was a young woman, wearing a delicate woven tight top, soft in color, with a skirt that swayed gently with her steps, and long, smooth hair. She had a very good figure.

Talia's eyes instantly turned cold.

"What are you looking at?"

She turned her head and asked Lanci.

"That person..."

Lanci frowned slightly, lowered his voice, and a look of confusion came across his face as he used his fingertips to write the words "Resurrection" on his knee.

Lanci didn't understand the principle, but he could now feel strongly that the woman was carrying the [Certificate of Resurrection].

Talia was relieved, but her aura became half a point sharper.

She knew that many Resurrection cultists wanted to harm Hiberian. Last time, she caught a Destruction Priest who came to her at the Cat Boss Restaurant.

"I'll be right back."

Just as Talia was about to stand up to capture the Resurrection Priest, Lanci grabbed Talia's sleeve, his eyes saying wait.

"She seems to have just arrived in Nantina, and hasn't discovered the three of us at all."

Lanci said softly to Talia.

Looking at the direction she was walking, it seemed that she wanted to go to the northwest side of Nantina, which was where the Wilford house was located, rather than tracking them or walking towards them. She hadn't even discovered their existence.

"?"

Talia's puzzled gaze seemed to be asking: You didn't counter-surveil the other party, but discovered her without any cause?

Lanci nodded.

"I don't know why, but I have a strong intuition that she must be a Resurrection Priest..."

Lanci could only attribute this inexplicable feeling without any evidence to intuition.

Before leaving the Northern Continent, he had a similar feeling with the Grand Priests of the Batiam branch.

But he already knew the identities of the Batiam Grand Priests, so he didn't find it strange.

But how could he still sense it when he returned to the Southern Continent, even though the other party was clearly not a Grand Priest of the Batiam branch?

Hiberian, who was on the side, suddenly felt her heart rate increase, but she felt a little relieved after hearing Lanci's explanation.

Hiberian was also thinking.

If the other party discovered that Lanci and Hiberian were accompanied by an unfathomable Tata, she wouldn't dare to "monitor" so blatantly.

"Then what do we do?"

Talia sat back, but the aura on her body seemed to have returned to that ruthless state where she could strike at any time.

If she didn't quickly catch the other party, she might run away, and it would be difficult to find her again.

She knew that Lanci's instructions did make sense. Leaving them two like this might put them in danger, but approaching together might alert the enemy, or alarm people related to the other party.

"Tata, your way of thinking of wanting to attack people as soon as you see them is wrong."

Lanci winked at them, signaling them to follow him,

"Our Nantina has always had simple and honest customs, and we can't do uncivilized and unfriendly things. Look at how I do things."

……

Half an hour later.

In a forest road on the northwest side of Nantina.

In a car parked on the side of the road, a slender girl frowned slightly, feeling a chill all over her body in the back seat. She slowly opened her eyes.

Her memory was a little blurry.

Like when a dream has just ended, she couldn't quite remember which were things in the dream and which were unfinished tasks in reality.

Her name was Elaine, and she was a Grand Priest of the Destruction branch. After receiving an order from the stronghold in the Nox Mountains in the morning, she came to the Nantina Lord City. Her mission was to stay in a mansion not far from the Wilford house, responsible for real-time monitoring while remaining on standby.

Just now, a driver who claimed to be Richie McCarthy stopped the car on the side of the road and asked her if she wanted to go somewhere. He said he was familiar with this area, used to drive for the Wilford family, but was later fired by that bastard young master, so he came out on his own.

There were also two women sharing the ride in the back of the car, so it seemed pretty safe.

She thought that it was rare to have an opportunity to obtain information related to the Wilford family, so she got in the car without hesitation.

It seemed that her memory ended there.

Elaine felt a stabbing pain in her brain, and then painfully recalled carefully.

She was very sure that she definitely didn't fall asleep naturally, but was covered on the mouth and nose by a slender hand. She struggled for a moment and then fainted.

Obviously, she had encountered a "black car" (unlicensed taxi).

Didn't they say that the security in Nantina was very good?

Why did she, a dignified Resurrection Grand Priest, feel like she was about to be trafficked as soon as she arrived?!

Elaine woke up suddenly like a startled bird, instinctively wanting to save herself, but the next second she felt that her body couldn't move again.

Just like a "ghost pressing down on her body", her consciousness belonged to her, but her body couldn't move.

She only felt that there was a terrifying mysterious being controlling her beside her. The enclosed space in the car seemed to turn pitch black, and only those pair of demon-like golden eyes were particularly clear, making her seem extremely small.

Just as Elaine was terrified to the extreme.

She saw.

The driver in the front row, looking at her sideways, then looked at the statue of a god placed in front of the car.

He put his hands together, raised them to the top of his head, and bowed to the statue of the Goddess of Fate.

Then.

"Welcome to Nantina."

Lanci took off his sunglasses and turned his head to say to Elaine.

Hiberian, who was sitting on the side, felt like she had a fishbone stuck in her throat. She always felt that praying to the Goddess of Fate shouldn't be done like this. Why could he pray with the intimidation effect of a trafficker?

"......"

Elaine's pupils trembled. She didn't know what was going on with the security in the Hutton Kingdom.

The gentle-looking man in front of her seemed to be begging the Goddess of Fate to forgive her, and seemed to be redeeming himself in advance for the greed in his heart in order to have peace of mind.

Are you worshiping a god, or worshiping the greed in your heart?

(End of chapter)