Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1082 Riot
Shaking her head, Elaine found herself lying on the bedroom floor with a chair under her, her whole body aching from the wrong sleeping position.

She slowly got up and looked at the table covered with thick books and the street where many people were walking around. She couldn't remember when she fell asleep.

Of course, that strange nightmare was still echoing in her mind, and combined with the content of the book she read before bed, Elaine was basically certain that those scenes were the underground part of the church cemetery mausoleum, and the part close to the seal core.

The black-robed law enforcer, blindfolded and holding a lantern, the fog that made it impossible to see the environment clearly, and the mountain of corpses at the end... She picked up the chair and sat back at the table, flipping through the "Examples of Underground Tombs Construction" again, and soon found a partial map of the winding passage she had walked through in her dream.

But the hall piled with corpses was blank on the map.

"There is no doubt that this is where the 'Salinger Blood Flag' is sealed. That's why the map was deliberately erased... Anyway, let William combine the rest of the map and find the way to that location..."

She muttered, closed the book, and moved her aching joints and muscles. The dark holy emblem tied to her left wrist with a silver chain shone dimly in the morning light.

Didn't Miss Angelica say that this holy emblem, in addition to its anti-divination and anti-prophecy effects, can also prevent people from being disturbed by nightmares... Doesn't that dream fall under the jurisdiction of the goddess of night? But I do feel more awake in dreams, at least I can remember the entire dream, but the object on the mountain at the end...

Looking at the holy emblem that was exactly the same as the one she saw in the book last night and had a somewhat cold surface, Elaine fell into deep thought.

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In the next few days, Elaine and the other two did not change their plan of action because of Gu Xin's plan and Lisa's possible spying.

William quickly pieced together the images in "Examples of Underground Mausoleum Construction" and drew a map of the underground mausoleum with a huge area and complex terrain. According to the complete map, it can be seen that this mausoleum is almost a quarter of the size of Morola, divided into several layers and hidden about 50 meters below the city.

Tia arranged many hidden mirrors in the corresponding areas on the ground according to the map. They were marked with the "Ice Mirror" spell, which was equivalent to a kind of positioning method. Even if you get lost in the underground mausoleum, you can use them to determine your position, or enter the mirror world and escape back to the ground.

Most importantly, she and William sent several teams of "volunteers" to sneak into the underground mausoleum. Each of them carried a marked mirror. Even if they died or disappeared due to various accidents, there was a chance that the mirror would remain in the underground area and expand these coordinates into the mausoleum.

As for Elaine herself, apart from occasionally going to the Church of Knowledge as usual to inspect the properties, shops and bars under her jurisdiction, she spent most of her time in her bedroom, relying on her "hunter's" sensitivity to the environment to memorize the complex map of the underground mausoleum.

She still had similar nightmares every night, appearing in different locations in the underground mausoleum. With her gradual familiarity with the map, she was able to determine her location, and by corroborating the map, she became more and more familiar with the mausoleum that she had never actually entered.

But as this "familiarity" deepened, Elaine could feel that her thinking in the dream was becoming increasingly dull, and she was becoming more and more similar to those "experimenters". Even every time she stepped into the hall where the mountain of corpses was located, she seemed much more pious.

She suspected that if she continued to read related books and memorize the map of the mausoleum, she would one day be completely controlled by this power and become one of the puppets without her own thoughts and ideas.

"In the Principles of Sealing, this situation is considered contamination of the seal. The more I understand that powerful seal, the more I am contaminated by it..."

Sitting at the desk, Elaine muttered to herself, and finally she understood why Miss Angelica gave her this seemingly useless holy emblem along with the "Rose Necklace".

If she didn't have the ability to stay awake in her dreams, she would have been more deeply contaminated. Perhaps in these two days, she would have become a puppet of the seal, joined the "experimental personnel" patrolling the underground, or become a new corpse in the mountain of corpses.

Just then, there was a knock on the door. Elaine walked out of the bedroom and found that it was William who came back.

He was still dressed in the same breeches, short boots, and loose coat, except that he no longer wore a cocked hat, which made him look almost the same as when he was at sea.

But two months of life in Morola inevitably made him a little lax and lazy, and he only stood up straight when reporting:
"Captain, Earl Guxin's people just contacted me. They will act as planned at noon today, and hope our people will participate simultaneously."

"So fast?"

Elaine asked subconsciously.

The "action" that Gu Xin mentioned was naturally the riot he had mentioned a few days ago to test the power of the Church of Knowledge. After two years of operation, this "Count" already had hundreds of subordinates in Morola, including many mid- and low-sequence Extraordinaries. Once he incited the already extremely vicious and vicious criminals who were dissatisfied with being exiled here and having to abide by the law, he could easily gather tens of thousands of people to attack the Church of Knowledge in the city center.

But this matter requires careful planning and long-term preparation, but Gu Xin only informed Elaine a few hours in advance?

"Heh, they want to use my manpower, but they don't want me to gain too much benefit from this riot... You can try to enter the underground mausoleum and find out some information, but you must not allow me to find the sealed object first..."

After figuring this out, Elaine continued to analyze on her own:

"Unfortunately, our advantage is that we have already obtained the map of the mausoleum and the relevant information of the seal with the help of the books in the Church of Knowledge, while they can only collect information slowly... "William, you should go and promise them now that we will use all the forces we can control to besiege the Church of Knowledge with Gu Xin's people at noon. Don't be too active and agree to their conditions slowly, otherwise you will appear reluctant."

"Yes, Captain."

William nodded in agreement, and then asked doubtfully:

"Do we need to inform the archbishop?"

He knew that Elaine had been studying and taking exams under the guidance of Heraberg in the past month. She might have stepped one foot into the Church of Knowledge and become half a "cultured person".

"If the Church of Knowledge didn't even know these things, then they would never have been able to control this city for thousands of years," Elaine replied with a chuckle, "But I'll still go and tell him. At least it will show our attitude, which may be helpful for future actions."

After seeing William leave again to look for Gu Xin's contact, Elaine returned to the bedroom and put on the shadow cloak she bought from "Flame" Danitz. She turned into a shadow that was almost invisible to the naked eye, slipped out of the window by the wall, came to the street, and moved quickly towards the direction of the Church of Knowledge.

The reason why she didn't use the "Ice Mirror" spell to enter the mirror world was that she was worried that the "Pain" Witch Lisa, who might have recovered from her injuries in the past two days, would find out.

Since she could sense the changes in the mirror when someone was using it, there was no reason why the Sequence 5 witch couldn’t do the same.

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Passing through another batch of serious criminals sent to the "City of Exile", Elaine soon saw Archbishop Herraberg, who was holding the registration list with a calm expression and a little smile. He was still wearing the white robe inlaid with brass threads, which almost blended with his gray hair and beard. Only his amber eyes were majestic and not cloudy.

"How's your review of the book going? Are you still having nightmares lately?"

Heraberg asked with a smile as soon as he saw Elaine.

He really is like a teacher... Elaine muttered, nodded and replied:

"As I progress in my studies, my nightmares have become more frequent and realistic. I even felt like I was wandering in the winding passages of the underground mausoleum, and saw mountains of corpses and seas of blood... Does this represent a kind of 'pollution'?
"Well, this is what I learned in The Principle of Sealing."

Hearing her question, Heraberg nodded slightly, as if he was very satisfied.

"You can think of this, which means you have truly put the knowledge in the books to good use," he said with emotion, narrowing his eyes. "Some high-ranking beings will be 'contaminated' just by knowing something about them. But in Morola, every exile will continue to be contaminated in this way until they completely become a part of this city... What you have to do is to get closer to that item than them, but you can't completely obey it."

Complete obedience means becoming a puppet, becoming one of those experimental personnel whose life is worse than death, with only a shell in the body... Elaine added in her mind, and then asked:

"Is this the reason why you, I mean the clergy of the church, use puppets instead of real bodies to operate in Morola?"

Compared with the exiles whose life and death no one cares about, and the law enforcers and experimenters who have become puppets, the Church of Knowledge certainly values ​​its precious clergy more and will not allow them to be easily contaminated by the "Blood Flag of Salinger" and voluntarily stay in this city to become a part of it.

"You can understand it that way. Of course, there are other reasons, but they are not important to you..." Heraberg explained patiently, "Since you have begun to dream about the underground mausoleum and the hall, it means that the time is almost right. All it takes is an opportunity..."

"Opportunity?"

Elaine asked back, and suddenly remembered that the purpose of her coming to the church was to tell the other party that Gu Xin was going to start a riot at noon. Just as she was about to speak, there was a commotion at the main entrance of the church.

A middle-aged man in a white robe walked quickly towards them. His expression was a little flustered and his steps were not very coordinated, but in Elaine's view, these vivid performances were just part of the "puppet's" performance.

"Riots! Riots are breaking out all over the city! A large group of exiles is heading this way!"

The puppet priest pointed at the gate and shouted before he could even stand in front of Heraberg.

The latter did not show any emotion, but just looked at Elaine calmly and said in a calm tone:
"This is the opportunity you want."

(End of this chapter)