Although Shade succeeded in making "Miss Werther" no longer keen on talking to him, the lady had no intention of leaving. She talked to Shade about the Rhodes cards, and now Shade is about to get [Creation·Knowledge]
】The rumor has spread throughout the city. In this era, he is a true "legendary player".
When it comes to the topic of Rhodes cards, Shade is not bored. Not only is [Origin·Knowledge], the new card he got from the Prophet Association is [Old Card] which can be adjusted between 12 and 13.
Continental Minerals Cavill Gem Mine] is also interesting.
They were not the only ones who liked to play cards, and most of the people behind the crowd were bored with the visit. So unknowingly, more people joined in the conversation, including even Sir Kings Prisha.
He is a poet. Although he is rich in knowledge, he is not really interested in mechanics, physics and chemistry. It is impossible for a middle-aged nobleman of his age not to have been exposed to Rhodes cards, so he also joined the conversation.
This gentleman may have been busy with the [Apna Library] recently, and he didn't even know about the rumors in the city that Shade was about to get the fifth Rhodes card in the founding series. Hearing that people were talking about this, he
He also asked Shade with great interest what he had paid in exchange for that card, but Shade just tapped his mouth with his finger, indicating that he wanted to keep it a secret.
Then everyone around them understood it.
In short, without knowing it, Miss Pavo had left. Shade noticed that she stood behind Princess Margaret for a while, then left the team to end the college tour. And the seven or eight people who talked to Shade at the end of the team
The middle-aged gentleman even made an appointment to play Rhodes in a tavern outside during lunch.
Seeing that Sir Priscilla wanted to go with him, Shade agreed. The poet from the South was very interested in this elegant activity, and Shade was also creating opportunities to have an in-depth conversation with him.
As a result, the atmosphere at the end of the visiting team was more lively than that of Princess Margaret and her group at the front. If the princess hadn't still been visiting, these gentlemen might have found a place on the spot to start playing cards.
At 11 o'clock in the morning, Princess Margaret's morning schedule came to the last stop, which was to listen to a half-hour academic report. The topic of the report was "Research Progress of Delrayon's New Steam Engine." This is of course impossible.
It is the latest steam engine developed by the kingdom, and it is only a new model that is about to be commercialized, but even so it is quite valuable to Kasenrik, so the princess and the accompanying envoys attach great importance to it.
The report was held in the auditorium of the Third National Mechanical College of Delrayon. The main auditorium was too large, so this time Lecture Hall No. 3 was used. The most important thing for a college with a history of hundreds of years is the lecture hall.
Princess Margaret sat in the second row, and the guards who had investigated this place earlier arranged the seats of the others. The gentlemen who walked at the end while chatting about Rhodes naturally sat at the back.
It's a pity that we can't chat or play cards while listening to the report, so the gentlemen are much quieter. Sir Prisha, who is sitting two rows in front of Shade, even took out a book of poetry to read. It is now confirmed that he is the first
Of the four chosen ones, Shade felt that he could roughly judge what kind of person he was through his daily actions. Of course, more in-depth investigation was still necessary.
Shade sat in the lecture hall for ten minutes when he heard a whisper in his ear:
[Perhaps I should remind you that in the second window to the left of the podium, a man appeared three times in five minutes.]
Shade's face remained unchanged as he watched the middle-aged mechanic on the podium explain the data on the blackboard. He was talking about fuel savings and the difference between solid fuel and liquid fuel.
"Passing by with your face completely exposed? Or appearing very covertly?"
Outside the window is the path in the college, and it is normal for people to walk by it.
[He was in the building opposite and looked in this direction from the window opposite.]
"Who could it be? It can't be the Royal Guards. Royal Guards don't act like this. Could it be colleagues from MI6 performing a mission? Or colleagues from Gray Gloves performing a mission?"
Shade thought silently, then bent down and stood up, temporarily leaving through the back door of the lecture hall. No one paid attention to him because he was at the very back, and it was normal to leave temporarily to solve physical problems.
Instead of taking the main entrance, Shade climbed out from the corridor window. Lowering his hat to cover his face, he followed the path around to the side of the auditorium, and then looked at the window of the opposite building.
Blinking his eyes, [Echo of Blood] clearly showed the blood-colored halo inside the window. The blood-colored halo was very clear, extending from the far side of the corridor to the position blocked by the wall below the window. Because it was only part of the foot, Xia
De judged that the opponent stepped on the blood.
"No matter which party they are from, they stepped on blood here and laid an ambush. They are obviously not good people."
Shade came to a conclusion and took a look at the building. He circled around again, and at a location where no one was paying attention, he directly used [Large Jump] to enter the window.
There is heating inside the building, which is much warmer than outside. Wrapped in his coat, Shade went over the portraits hanging on both sides of the corridor, looking for the source of the blood stains. Finally, he found a body hidden in the corner in the east room.
The corpse with its neck cut off was not a student, but looked like a janitor.
Shade frowned, returned the same way, came to the corner of the corridor, and pressed his body against the wall.
The fingers carefully stretched out a fingernail's distance, and then quickly retracted:
"see it?"
[That’s the man just now, huddled under the window. Ordinary person.]
"Then it's easy to do the Red Butterfly Illusion Technique."
The corner of the corridor was distorted for a moment, and then returned to normal. Shade walked out of the corner and walked towards the end of the corridor. The shrunken man seemed to have not seen him, and looked out nervously from time to time.
"Red Butterfly Illusion" and "Moon Shadow's Illusion" that Shade was sealed have different focuses. The former prefers to create illusions, so Shade created the illusion of an uninhabited corridor. This method of hiding is very difficult for ring warlocks.
It is easy to be discovered, especially as Shade is getting closer and closer, but if ordinary people want to see through it, they need strong inspiration. Unfortunately, Shade has no opponent this time.
He just walked up to the shrunken man, took out the "Psychic Crystal Ring" from his pocket and put it on his finger. He stopped ten meters away from him, holding the Silence Charm in his left hand, and pointed with the index finger of his right hand.
Man's forehead,:
"Mind blast!"
There was a muffled sound all over Peng~'s body, and red and white stuff flowed out of the man's mouth, nose, ears and eyes at the same time. He stared at the void in front of him with wide eyes, and then slid limply to the ground.
Shade shook his head, approached the corpse, and sprinkled the bone powder as the casting material:
"Soul echoes."
The dark wind swept through the corridor, and the channeled soul appeared above the corpse. Shade sighed softly, stood in a position that could not be seen from the outside and asked:
"who are you?"
"I am Neil Hawkman from the Principality of Lamea."
The soul unconsciously answered that although it was facing the murderer who killed it, it did not try to attack Shade as an evil spirit because of the blessings from thousands of souls in Shade.
"what are you doing here?"
"Confirmed bomb explosion."
Shade was stunned:
"What bomb?"
"The steam bomb was installed under the fifth seat in the seventh row of the auditorium opposite. It used a leaking steam valve as a delay device and exploded after about five to seven minutes."
"ha?"
Hearing this, Shade had no time to ask any more questions. He stretched out his hand to touch the soul, and the thaumaturgy [Guide to Death] allowed him to directly "see" the soul's most profound memories.
Although Shade's [Guide to Death] ability to obtain soul memories through touch is far inferior to Sister Devlin's ability to obtain all emotions of the soul with just one look, he is at least certain that the bomb really exists, and
This organized murder was for Princess Margaret.
They are an independent organization of the Principality of Lameia. This small principality is affiliated with Delarian. The organization wants to sow discord between Delarian and Kasenric in order to seek an independent status in the war that has begun.
This Monday, Director Anlos, who came to St. Teresa Square, clearly mentioned this matter, but Shade did not expect that he would actually encounter it.
The janitor who died just now was killed by Neil Hawkman because he accidentally saw him. But apart from the bomb, they could not find any other way to murder the princess.
Even being able to place a bomb was only possible after being checked by the police and bribing the auditorium guards, so that they could barely access the seats in the back row, but could not be placed directly behind the seats in the front row.
"This is really bad."
He casually opened the door of death and pushed the soul in. He frowned and thought for a moment, took a deep breath to restore the surrounding environment to its original state, and then used the witch's light to completely melt the corpse, eliminating any traces that might remain, and then inserted it with both hands.
He put it in his pocket and turned around to leave the building.
It wasn't long before the bomb exploded. Although he couldn't explain the source of the intelligence, it was okay to tell MI6 directly, but Shade couldn't find anyone from MI6 now.
As for breaking into the auditorium and shouting that there is a bomb, of course it is also possible, but this will bring him to the attention of more people, which is what Shade has been avoiding.
Fortunately, he still had the identity of "Ace Agent Gray Eagle" to use. After the princess arrived in Tobesk, he received the order and learned how to contact the princess urgently. At this time, he showed up to protect the princess.
It seems to be a way to repay Detective Sparrow Hamilton who is buried in the cemetery. Rather than using the identity of a gray eagle to benefit oneself, protecting others is a better way to keep this identity honorable.