Chapter 114: Investigation Targets

Chapter 114: Investigation Targets

Saint Samuel Cathedral, behind Chanis Gate.

Archbishop Saint Anthony of Backlund stood at the stairway connecting the first and second levels, watching several Nighthawk deacons hurry back and forth. Among them were no lack of Red Gloves.

As the spokesperson of the Evernight Church in the kingdom’s capital, Saint Anthony’s clean, beardless face currently showed no obvious emotion. His deep, dark eyes likewise concealed no ripples. Yet everyone who passed him felt their souls tremble, as an indescribable, irrepressible fear surged from the depths of their hearts.

“Your Grace, after taking inventory, none of the mysticism materials are missing, including all the main potion ingredients and Beyonder characteristics…”

“Your Grace, all potion formulas remain in their original positions. It has been preliminarily confirmed that no one has touched them in the past eight hours…”

“Your Grace, all the prisoners held on the first level are present. None have escaped, and none have died…”

“Your Grace, none of the information or ancient texts have been damaged. Nothing has been moved at all…”

“Your Grace, all Grade 3 and Grade 2 Sealed Artifacts here are present. Not a single one has been taken…”

“Your Grace, the three Grade 1 Sealed Artifacts remain sealed. There are no signs of them leaving their respective areas…”

“Your Grace, the sealing core is still intact and has not suffered the slightest damage…”

“Your Grace, after confirmation, there are no additional objects here, nor any dangerous arrangements left behind…”

“Your Grace, we did not find the enemy who disguised himself as an internal caretaker and infiltrated this place. He seems—he seems to have directly evaporated…”

As deacons reported one after another, the matter gradually became rather strange.

They could not imagine that a cunning and powerful Beyonder had taken enormous risk, planned meticulously, exhausted all methods, and finally entered behind Chanis Gate—only to take nothing and stroll around before leaving!

This made the other party look as though he had acted purely to prove his ability, or as though he had specifically come to help the Church find the flaws in the guard procedures behind Chanis Gate.

Deacon Soest, who led a Red Gloves team, looked around and carefully voiced one guess:

“Your Grace, could it be the requirement for some Sequence advancement ritual?”

Having once taken part in a mission to capture a Devil, he habitually guessed in that direction. From Sequence 5 onward, different pathways and different Sequences all had varied advancement rituals. The Evernight Church had not learned about all of them.

If that were truly the case, Soest seemed already to see the infiltrator’s mocking smile as he said, “Even the Evernight Church’s Chanis Gate is somewhere I can enter and leave freely, no different from a department store. Those Nighthawks can only rage in helpless incompetence after the matter is over.”

We must catch him!

Soest quietly clenched the hand wearing a red glove.

Saint Anthony was just about to speak when another Nighthawk deacon, Daly Simone, proposed a second possibility.

“Perhaps when the infiltrator tried to take some sealed artifact away, he was affected by its negative effects, died on the spot, and was devoured clean?”

Saint Anthony thoughtfully nodded.

“I will go to the third level first.”

With that, he walked steadily into the depths of the second underground level and opened the route to the third level at a hidden location.

Because the other deacons were not of high enough rank and did not have authority, they could only wait where they were.

Saint Anthony quickly arrived at the third level, whose area was not large. Sweeping his gaze around, he preliminarily confirmed that sealed artifacts 1-29 and 1-80 showed no abnormal changes.

Following strict procedures, he observed the interior of 1-80 through 1-29 and discovered that 0-17 lay there, half-opening its eyes as…