"This is where the oracle indicated the birth of evil."
After Anvis and Yanile finished their discussions, Yanile and his party, who were on their way quickly, had also arrived outside Long Cinema.
This time, in addition to the ninth-level leader Yanile, the other clergy subordinates assigned to him by the pope are all senior elites of the Inquisition of level seven or above, and each of them has a lot of practical experience.
In order to avoid alerting the enemy in advance, all the priests hid their auras and wore long gray-white traveler's cloaks. Their appearance was no different from other travelers traveling long distances.
"Our goal is right here."
Looking up at the towering and mottled ancient rock walls, Yanile spoke calmly.
After receiving confirmation, everyone behind him nodded, and three of the priests who were specifically responsible for the investigation stood up and formed a special triangle of holy power.
As the holy power filled the air, hidden detection ripples emerged from the magic circle jointly released by the three of them, quickly sweeping across the entire Dragon Shadow City.
Being swept by this detection ripple, no one in the city noticed it. Only Anvis, who was in the city lord's palace, turned his head and glanced in the direction of the detection array.
At the same time, when the ripples swept through the basement of the castle, under the action of the special protective array arranged by Anvis, they were separated like water waves and slid to both sides without any feedback at all.
"There is no one in this city who can threaten us, Lord Yanile. But what is special is that there are quite a few evil people hiding here."
After the simple detection was over, the leader of the three priests stood up and reported the detection results to Yanile with a serious face.
"This is a good thing. It shows that the evil in the oracle has not grown to an uncontrollable level."
Eyes exuding light white holy power stared at the three of them. Yanile nodded slightly, spoke in a soft tone, and expressed his judgment to the temporary subordinates.
"The oracle is not wrong. There are only two possibilities for why we failed to discover the target.
Or, the other party has noticed our arrival and believes that it is outmatched, so it hides in advance.
Either someone deliberately hid the target, or the target is simply the creation of some evil cult.
No matter what the possibility is, we need to go into the city to investigate, and the Lord will be watching us."
"Your will, Your Majesty the Archbishop."
Several priests had no objection to Yanile's decision, and they also had similar conjectures.
However, after actually entering the city, everyone immediately felt the city’s ‘warm welcome’.
At this moment, it was already dusk, and the silver-purple moons rose from the horizon, dotting the dark blue night sky.
At such times, thieves are often more aggressive than during the day.
"...It is such a disgusting city. How can the Federation allow such a lawless place to exist?"
After getting rid of several pickpockets and a villain who tried to rob them, and looking at more sinful behaviors everywhere, a female cleric wearing a nun's robe under her cloak couldn't help but speak in disgust.
They were still on the street, and they could already see a robbery in the distance, and there were faint screams coming from the dark alleys on both sides of the street.
"The key to whether they exist here or not is whether the Federation is worth paying some price to eliminate them."
Yanile spoke calmly. As a bishop of the Holy See, he was very aware of the twists and turns here.
"As a border city, the royal family of Longlin Kingdom has very weak influence here. As long as the taxes are paid in full, no one will come here specifically to cause trouble.
Moreover, many fugitives are not weak, and the city lord is usually unwilling to take risks to clean them up unless they have inappropriate thoughts.
Now, the five of you, Balgan, Ramance, Heilan, Catulal, and Dulac, spread out and find the 'rats' living in this city. They should know what special things happened during this time.
Change, but don’t make the movement too big.
The remaining people followed me to the City Lord's Mansion and asked the City Lord directly about the situation.
No matter where the evil being in the oracle is hiding now, there must be traces of its appearance."
After casually naming a few clergymen, Yanile made arrangements directly.
After receiving the order, the few people who had endured the evil atmosphere of Long Movie City for a long time immediately dispersed and each went to the city of their choice to investigate.
The remaining few people followed Yanile and quickly sneaked into the city lord's mansion. With Yanile's cover, everyone quickly found the 'city lord' of Longying City without alerting any guards.
At this moment, as the target of everyone, Anvis, disguised as the Lord of Dragon Cinema, was standing in the study room on the upper floor of the castle, staring at the sweeping scenery of Dragon Cinema outside the window, seeming to be admiring his own territory.
Without much communication, the moment Yanile appeared, the huge force field quickly suppressed the 'Lord of Dragon Shadow City'.
Facing a ninth-level attack, the Lord of Longying City, whose strength was only seventh-level, was naturally powerless to resist.
"Who are you? Do you want to challenge the authority of Longlin Kingdom?!"
After being subdued in an instant, Anwes "struggled desperately" while bringing out the reputation of the Dragon's Landing Kingdom, as if he wanted to threaten all the priests.
Faced with the threat of Anvis, many priests who concealed their identities laughed.
Longlin Kingdom is only a ninth-level protector, let’s not say whether the opponent will come here specifically for such a trivial matter. Even if the opponent does come, he cannot be the opponent of Archbishop Yanile.
"Answer my question, in the near future, something evil has appeared in this city. Do you know any news that may be related to this?"
Unaffected by the people around him, Yanile began to ask Anvis expressionlessly if there were any problems in the city during this period.
At the same time, a priest behind him made a gesture, and a dark beam of light connected to Anvis.
It was a magical technique developed by the Church Tribunal specifically to detect whether a target was lying.
If the city lord lies when faced with their problems, then it proves that there is something wrong with the city lord himself.
"This...your Majesty...I..."
It seemed that Anvis was stammering in his words due to excessive fright.
"boom--"
Suddenly, a huge explosion sounded from the west side of the city, mixed with the explosion of holy power, and two powerful auras instantly entered the perception of everyone present.
One of the auras they were very familiar with was that of Balgan, the strongest priest on their trip except Yanile who led the team. His strength had reached the middle of the eighth level and he was about to become a high-ranking member of the Trial Hall.
The other aura that was fighting against him was far stronger than his, that kind of evil power that soared to the sky, causing the complexions of all the priests who sensed it to change drastically.
At this moment, with this huge explosion, Balgan's breath quickly weakened.
"Not good! Balgan and the others!"
Thinking of the few people who had just dispersed to look for clues, the hearts of many priests in the trial suddenly sank.
"You, stay here and keep an eye on him. If anything happens, deal with it immediately. The rest of you will follow me!"
He casually pointed at a dark priest and asked her to stay here and watch over the 'Lord of the Dragon Shadow City'. Yanile had no time to continue to pester, and quickly rushed out of the Lord's Mansion with everyone.