At this time, Shafiya and Oswald had also left Moriarty Manor.
They are discussing their next action plan.
Although Aiwass planned to assassinate Prince John, Shafiya still planned to try to steal the body. After all, Aiwass's operation might fail.
Before, she was facing one against two and was not ready for a fight, so she wisely chose to escape.
But this time with Oswald here, they may not lose in a head-on conflict——
So Shafiya felt confident.
This time she took Oswald back home first, sent her husband and children to a safe place, and got back her staff.
"The first sequence of tasks to be carried out is to retrieve the Queen's body."
At Shafia's home, she assigned a task to Oswald: "If the first sequence of tasks is confirmed to have failed or cannot be completed, the second sequence of tasks will be started immediately - to extract a tube of the queen's blood.
"This is a syringe with anticoagulant added in advance. Each of us takes one tube. We need to extract at least ten milliliters...as a candidate material for the Shadow of Avalon ritual.
"If the second sequence of missions also fails, we will directly abandon the queen's body and start searching for and rescuing Sherlock Hermes. At the same time, we will try to distract the two people from Star Antimony as far away as possible to delay Aiwass' plan.
time.
"If possible, help Aiwass kill Minister Drost... He is a priest after all and is not good at fighting. Although the fat man has probably forgotten how to fight now, he is still a fourth-level transcendent...
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"——First of all, Ms. Grand Inquisitor," Oswald interrupted Shafiya seriously, "I must emphasize that our plans and missions must be based on the premise that Master Aiwass is safe enough.
If he encounters mortal danger, I will immediately abandon these plans and rush to rescue him."
"Of course, I will go with you," Shafiya nodded and agreed, "At least we can't let anything happen to that child."
That is the person Princess Isabel loves, and he is her only support now.
Shafiya must at least save Awas' life.
If a person is alive, he will have a chance no matter what; if a person dies, there will be nothing.
To take a step back, as long as Aiwass and Isabel are sent to the Theocracy and she stays in Avalon alone... she will also have a chance to perform the Shadow of Avalon ritual again.
Professor Moriarty's words just now have actually gradually convinced her.
That bewitching voice kept ringing in her head, making it impossible for her to forget.
...If Prince John is going to die no matter what, then it would be better to delay his death.
If Aiwass can't do it, let her find someone to do it - John is only two years old this year. It is difficult to save John, but it is easy to kill John. Take it from the body of Prince John
Blood is definitely easier than taking blood from the Queen's corpse.
Until then, let yourself bear the guilt.
Shafiya thought silently in her heart.
On the other side, in Moriarty Manor.
Everyone else has left, only Isabel is left.
She was invited into the living room by Professor Moriarty to entertain her. They ate snacks and drank tea with her, chatting about various things. She did not look like the queen had just been assassinated, which made Isabel a little wary.
Therefore, he continued to maintain his disguise, fearing that this was some kind of temptation.
Professor Moriarty expressed that he was curious about how Isabel and Aiwass met.
...Actually, Isabel is also very curious about Professor Moriarty.
Because Aiwass rarely mentioned his adoptive father on weekdays, but at the New Year's Eve dinner, Edward admired the professor very much.
Yulia's attitude was the strangest - on the one hand she was very close to and trusting her adoptive father, but on the other hand she was vaguely afraid of him.
That feeling...
Isabel felt like two men who both had families and were quite familiar with each other happened to bump into each other when they went out to have fun - there was such a scene in the drama she watched.
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The two parties have a common secret, and they can use it to destroy each other; but once this secret is used to destroy the other party, it means that they will also be destroyed. Isabel believes that this is the attitude of Yulia towards her adoptive father.
...trustful and alert.
Aiwass, on the other hand, seems to be very afraid of his adoptive father.
Just like the attitude of the ministers Isabel came into contact with when she was a child, she would not mention her grandmother subconsciously. Even when she mentioned it, she would not call the other person directly by their name, or use the word she often called the other person, but
Will be replaced by some pronoun.
It's as if if you pronounce the word to address the other person, someone will suddenly respond.
Isabel also knew Professor Moriarty before.
When Professor Moriarty was in college, he was responsible for the subjects of astrology, astronomy and advanced mathematics. Isabel did not need to take these three courses, so she did not have a formal teacher-student relationship with Professor Moriarty... But at least she
Professor Moriarty looks quite familiar.
However, curiosity is curiosity...
But during the conversation with Professor Moriarty, Isabel always tensed her nerves, thinking quickly, weaving or modifying lies.
On the one hand, it is to hide his identity as a promoted person, and on the other hand, it is to help Aiwas conceal information.
——Based on her understanding of Aiwass and her keen inspiration, Isabel still vaguely sensed Aiwass's vague hostility towards her adoptive father.
Although I don't know the origin of this hostility.
But since Aiwass is against Professor Moriarty, Isabel will inevitably side with Aiwass.
It's a good thing Shafiya is gone, Isabel thought.
If Shafiya was here, it would be inconvenient for her to lie. Otherwise, she could hide it from the professor, but it might make Shafiya, who knows her better, suspicious. The professor almost doesn’t know her at all, so she will have much more room to play.
…
But at this moment.
Suddenly she heard a clear bell.
According to Yanis' teachings, this is a death prompt that will only appear during a full moon ceremony where there is a "playing requirement" and cooperation is required to fight against powerful enemies. The occurrence of this prompt means that there is a cooperative battle in this promotion ceremony.
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This is so that those promoted who are looking for teammates do not have to wait for those who have been dead for a long time. Among the three promotion ceremonies that Isabel has experienced, there is only one time when Isabel did not hear this kind of bell... and that happened to be the Wei Dynasty.
Zhe's ritual.
The moment Isabel heard the bell, her pupils contracted due to nervousness, and then expanded due to fear.
——Someone died?
Is Aiwass okay?
Because Sherlock didn't line up, her only teammate was Aiwass. But she thought about it for a moment and realized that Aiwass might not be able to reach the Palace of Silver and Tin at this time according to her footwork... So she relaxed.
tone.
But then, she heard roars of laughter.
It was like a comedian telling a joke on stage, and there were at least a dozen different laughters from the audience. Some were sharp, some were deep, some were loud... some were hysterical, laughing until they couldn't breathe.
The identity of a promoted person has been revealed!
This was the first time Isabel heard this sound.
When she was promoted for the first time, her teammates died so quickly that their identities were not even revealed. In the second ceremony, the only person who could reveal their identities was the "front desk" who died in every level of nightmare.
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And this time, she was finally able to know... what Sherlock meant by "roaring laughter" and what Yannis meant by "sarcastic laughter"...
——Two people were eliminated! And they were eliminated one after another!
If Aiwass was not the first one to be killed, would it be the second one whose identity was exposed?
Isabel pursed her lips and forced herself to calm down.
No, not likely.
Immediately after the first death knell, he should have been exposed due to the sudden ringing of the death knell when he was doing something or having an important conversation. With Aiwass's psychological quality, it is unlikely that he would be exposed due to such a thing.
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"Are you...worried about Aiwass?"
At this moment, Professor Moriarty suddenly asked.
Isabel glanced at the other party hesitantly, still playing the role of the timid princess, nodded slowly, and whispered: "Yes...
"...After all, he is just a priest, is there really no problem?"
She had just had a moment of emotional overflow. If she insisted that she was not worried at this time, it would easily arouse suspicion. So Isabel smoothly attributed the reason why she was worried about Aiwass to Aiwass' career.
"Don't worry, Your Highness Isabel."
Professor Moriarty said warmly: "Aiwass is particularly good at prayer. Not only can he pray for the power of the Pillar God, but he is also very familiar with the apostles and Tiansi...
"By the way, Your Highness. Have you heard of...'Huan Tiansi'? That is the power that Aiwass is very good at borrowing."
"...Huan Tiansi?"
Isabel repeated with some confusion.
"That's right."
Professor Moriarty nodded and looked at Isabel with a smile.
"...Do you mean [Ouroboros]? Ouroboros Tiansi, Infinite Tiansi..."
Isabel finally remembered that Ligeia seemed to be related to Huantiansi: "The contract owner of the transformed warlock...is that right?"
Professor Moriarty was quiet for a while.
The corners of his mouth raised slightly.
"Yes."
He nodded and said, "That's Him. You should know which path He belongs to, right?"
“Beyond the path?”
Isabel was not sure: "I actually know very little about theology...but He is the son of the serpent father."
"……really."
Professor Moriarty was silent for a while and nodded slowly.
He put a finger in front of his lips and lowered his voice: "Let me show you more secret knowledge... Your Highness, you can tell Aiwass about this later, he will be surprised. Of course, you don't want to talk to him
It's okay...you can choose freely."
When Isabel heard this, she immediately became alert.
Are you trying to pass me some false information to Aiwass?
But it’s okay not to listen... What if this is something useful to Aiwass?
...When Isabel thought of this, she realized that she had fallen into a chain of suspicion.
It doesn’t matter if you listen, and it doesn’t matter if you don’t listen.
After much struggle, Isabel decided to listen. At least she got the initiative.
But perhaps because she lacked much knowledge about theology, she was a little confused when she heard it, so she could only write down the content for the time being...
"...Before [Cicada Slough] occurred, Ouroboros did not actually belong to the path of transcendence. He was once a god of self-destruction and a god of resurrection...a god who belonged to the path of balance. Until he obtained
One of the results of the cicada's transformation, [Endless Knot], became the Tiansi who transcended the path.
"In the ancient times when elves were not yet born, [Ouroboros] had completely different authority than it does now."
Professor Moriarty said softly: "At that time, He was able to restart the world line and reset the world to a certain moment in the past. Until [Cicada Slough] occurred, history fell into pieces and could never go back to before [Cicada Slough]. So He
