"Sword of the Goddess? What is he doing here?" Ebner asked after putting his luggage away.
Detective Isengard took a puff and replied playfully, "This actually has something to do with you."
"What does it have to do with me?" Ebner's heart tightened. He had been watched by too many high-level existences recently, and he did not want another one.
"Do you still remember that you sold the Seer Sequence potion formula at my Beyonder gathering?" Detective Isengard asked with a smile.
"That was the first time I went to your gathering… Remember when I sold the Sequence 9 Seer formula and Sequence 8 Clown formula." Ebner nodded. It had only been two months since the incident, and his memory wasn't that bad.
"The person who bought the formula from you is the lady known as Poison Rose. She sold me a Clown Beyonder characteristic at the last gathering!" Detective Isengard said meaningfully.
This… It can't be that the lady nurtured Clown to sell it, right? That's not right either. The Clown's Beyonder characteristic is worth at most six to seven hundred pounds. Doing this would definitely be a loss…
Ebner was taken aback at first, then thought rather comically.
Detective Isengard glanced at him and roughly guessed that his student was letting his thoughts run wild again. He ignored him and continued, "I'm guessing that the Clown nurtured by Ma'am Poison Rose betrayed her. At that gathering, her body was clearly somewhat unwell, and she was suspected to have suffered serious injuries."
"But what does this have to do with His Excellency's visit?" Ebner asked in puzzlement.
"As the Church of Evernight has always been secretly collecting items related to the Seer Sequence, Beyonder characteristics are naturally no exception," Detective Isengard explained with a smile.
"In other words, you sold that characteristic to the Nighthawks?" Ebner asked thoughtfully. However, he quickly discovered something amiss. This was because how could such a transaction alarm a Holy Artifact Contractor who had a demigod-level combat ability?
He looked at his teacher suspiciously, feeling that there was definitely something else going on.
How could Detective Isengard not tell what his student was thinking? He shook his head and said, "I don't know why His Excellency, the Sword of the Goddess, would come here personally… But I'm guessing that it has something to do with a Beyonder matter he's dealing with."
"You mean… Divination?" Ebner said in enlightenment. Although he had gained some experience from this trip, compared to old scoundrels like his teacher… No, an experienced Beyonder, he still lacked experience.
"That's right. The Nighthawks have the Sequence potions of the Seer and Mystery Pryer Sequence, and they have no lack of divination abilities. They must've seen something related to me or you in the divination interpretation of a particular case. That's why His Excellency, the Sword of the Goddess, came personally." Detective Isengard nodded in gratification. He was very satisfied with his student's reaction and sighed.
"With your current deduction ability, it won't be long before you finish digesting the 'deduction student' potion!"
Ebner was dumbfounded when he heard that. He puffed up his chest and bragged to Detective Isengard, "Teacher, I'm already a Knowledge Keeper."
Detective Isengard was stunned when he heard that. He sized up his student in disbelief and asked hesitantly, "Is what you said true?"
"Of course!" As Ebner replied, he used his aura extraction ability in front of his teacher and took away most of the remaining aura in the room.
Although this skill didn't have any external manifestations, how could Detective Isengard, who could also sense and extract auras, not notice that a large portion of the aura in the room was missing? He immediately understood what Ebner had just done.
"I didn't expect you to complete my journey of more than ten years in just a month…"
Detective Isengard didn't know what to say. There was envy, relief, remorse, indignation. All in all, it was complicated.
After a long while, he composed himself and took a deep puff of the cigarette before asking, "What exactly did you experience in this mission?"
Ebner thought for a moment. After eliminating the content that involved the Dream Maze Tower, the Tarot Club, Queen Mystic, the Sanguine Duke, and the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, he recounted the rest of his experiences.
But even so, it left Detective Isengard somewhat alarmed. He believed that he might not be able to handle matters better than his student in certain situations. For example, at the cave sinking ship, he felt that he wouldn't be able to find a way to restrict Sealed Artifacts so quickly. He didn't know that his student actually had a cheat.
"I never expected your trip to be so exciting… It's no wonder you advanced to Sequence 7." After hearing the ins and outs of the matter, Detective Isengard had accepted the fact that Ebner was rapidly advancing.
"Teacher, how are the two Demonesses?" Ebner couldn't help but ask when he recalled the "report" teaching before he left Backlund.
"That Ma'am Ray came once after that, and I gave her the information about the single male aristocrat… However, she seems to be somewhat disappointed that she didn't see you." Detective Isengard reined in his emotions and teased with a faint smile.
"Teacher, stop joking…" Ebner was a little helpless. He did not want the Demoness to think about him at all.
"About two weeks after Ms. Ray took away the information, I designed the Mandated Punishers to discover the 'Witch' Lena who wasn't careful enough. Heh, the Mandated Punishers mainly rely on the Knowledge Keeper they nurtured. It's quite easy to guide them," Detective Isengard said smugly.
He never hid his displeasure and schadenfreude towards the Church of Storms.
A Mandated Punisher? His teacher had made the Church of Storms take the blame again… At the same time, he had also removed himself from the blame. After all, as the secret agent of the Church of Knowledge in Backlund, how could he have the guts to report it to the Church of Storms…
Ebner was secretly impressed by his teacher's cunningness… No, Moe was wise. Then, he asked in anticipation, "So, the two witches have been captured by the Mandated Punishers?"
Upon hearing that, Detective Isengard shook his head and said, "The Mandated Punishers are still as unreliable as ever… Even after using a Grade 2 Sealed Artifact, they still allowed the two Demonesses to escape. However, don't worry. The Church of Storms has already reported their looks to the Church of Evernight and the Church of Steam. Even if they come out again, they won't dare to be as unbridled as before. They won't have the time to find trouble with you and Miss Xio."
How could they escape? Could it be that the military or the royal family had protected them?
Although he had obtained his teacher's guarantee, and now Ebner was confident that he could survive in the hands of a Mid-Sequence Demoness, he still felt uneasy. For the first time, he had the thought of taking the initiative to eliminate them.
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Backlund, Empress Borough.
Audrey Hall sat on a hanging chair in a corner in the shade. She looked at the flowers blooming under the sunlight and thought about Fors Wall's request for help.
According to Viscount Glaint's verification, there really was a girl named Xio Derecha who was investigated by MI9's intelligence department.
The reason for investigating her was to threaten a decent gentleman through illegal means and make him admit many groundless crimes such as trafficking.
With regards to this, Fors's explanation was that the gentleman wasn't a good person. He was a gang leader in Backlund's East Borough. He lived on loan sharks and even sold bankrupt civilian family members as payment.
The cause of the matter was that a particular borrower had discovered that the interest was several times higher than he had expected. Even if he failed to repay the loan after going bankrupt, he had sought out the nearby famous Arbiter, Xio Derecha, despite having failed to negotiate with the gentleman. He hoped that she could convince him to waive the unreasonable portion.
The gentleman had sent someone to threaten Xio Derecha when he first found out about the investigation. He had even gotten into a conflict with Xio Derecha, and there was evidence from the police station. However, in the end, he admitted his crime and disbanded the gang under Xio's "ruling."
As for MI9, they used this as an excuse to investigate Xio.
Viscount Glaint investigated the matter and confirmed that Fors Wall's description was true. He also confirmed that the gang leader had indeed committed many crimes.
Furthermore, he also found out who was behind this investigation against Xio Derecha.