The magic cards I made are absolutely flawless!

Cornelia had already abandoned her knight's armor and put on a nun's outfit.

In order to better assist the Dekan campaign in the town, the City-State Knight outfit is obviously not as useful as the Holy Church outfit.

Correspondingly, the weapon was changed from the [Dread Hammer] (double pain) to the more refined [Blood Detective Book] (murder book) (physical).

“Your sister is much braver than you, Morion. You’re a disgrace.”

"Are you very familiar with Flora?"

Morion raised an eyebrow, his reaction clearly showing he cared a lot about Flora.

"Of course, she's our companion."

"Flora, my good friend."

Cornelia added earnestly from the side.

Although her face remained expressionless, Cornelia's tone became much more cheerful when Flora was mentioned.

She and Flora were very close; whenever Flora came to school, she would seek out Cornelia to play together.

"Ugh."

Morion seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, or perhaps he was actually sighing.

He stood up and walked over to Dekan and Cornelia with a rather helpless and resigned attitude, and sat down next to Dekan.

"How is Flora?"

"She's happy every day, doing what she loves, except for the final exams which were a bit tough for her recently. It was exhausting trying to get this queen of skipping classes to pass all her exams."

Flora originally wanted to skip all final exams and start her happy vacation early.

But after Dekan told her, "You can't let your idol fail a course."

Flora reluctantly joined Dekan and Cornelia's study group.

"Heh heh, I didn't expect you, you heartless guy, to actually care about your sister."

Dekan smiled slyly.

“Since leaving the Kingdom of Norton, she has been my biggest worry.”

Morion gave a wry smile, as if admitting his weakness.

"Then you can rest assured, I assure you that she is the safest person in the entire Kingdom of Norton right now."

Flora lived with the two girls, which made her safer than the king.

"What do you mean?"

Morion was a little worried that Dekan was being sarcastic.

Dekan: "Hmph, beg me, and I'll tell you."

Morion: "Tsk, I'll trust you outright."

Both of them shook their heads with cold smiles.

They were both using psychological tactics to win back each other without backing down.

"Now that you've finally opened up to us a little, let's get down to business."

This confirms that a basic level of trust has been established within the temporary team.

Dekan's expression became more serious:

“Yesterday I investigated the town and confirmed that a battle did indeed take place on the night the town’s previous high priest went missing.”

After completing the "Big Wooden Man" yesterday, Dekan resumed his diligent investigation work.

First, he instructed Captain Derkan to conduct a search in the town, but they did not find anyone who clearly harbored hatred towards him.

Therefore, it is very likely that there are no Resurrected believers in the town.

Even if there were any, they wouldn't be very hostile towards Dekan.

In addition, Dekan went door-to-door searching for clues related to the disappearance of the high priest and the destruction of the bridge.

It was eventually confirmed that some townspeople believed they heard the noise that night.

In addition, Dekan also learned some folk tales.

For example, in ancient times, a great war took place near the town between the Church of the Holy Rite and the vampires.

And the name of the church where the three of them are now—the Church of Roderick.

Do you think any of them are withholding information?

"I can't tell unless we investigate."

Dekan shook his head and said.

"Meow meow meow! Dekan, please don't even think about arresting and interrogating all the townspeople, meow! Chloeux isn't here, they'll be killed by you!"

Teacher Cat immediately responded to the call.

Dekan ruffled the cat teacher's rather small head again and smiled helplessly:

"Don't worry, I can assure you that we cannot harm the townspeople, and we need to protect them."

"What do you mean?"

Morion's first reaction was that he thought Dekan was trying to torture him to extract a confession, but he never expected him to say such inhuman things.

Dekan stood up and walked toward the pulpit at the end of the church on his own.

Morion looked at Dekan's cryptic behavior, wondering what he had discovered.

"Although there are basically no clues, I have already guessed the general situation of this Shadow World, so there is no need to go through the trouble of collecting information and making deductions according to the normal route."

As he spoke, Dekan bent down, grabbed the carpet covering the pulpit, and yanked it off, throwing it aside.

"Wait, this carpet could be lifted up at first...?"

Morion remembered that when he first came to this church, there used to be a huge cross pressing down on this stall.

Now, it seems that it has been moved aside by someone with unparalleled strength and power.

Seeing Dekan's actions, Morion realized that there must be something wrong with the place under the cross.

He also stepped onto the pulpit, his brow furrowed as he stared at the spot that Dekan was displaying.

On the bulletin board was an extremely complex magic circle, and a faint red light shone from one corner of the circle.

"How much can you deduce from this magic circle?"

Morion knew that this magic circle was definitely a key piece of intelligence for the mission.

But I don't understand why Dekan thought he could guess the general situation of the Shadow World just by relying on a magic circle.

"Cornelia and I also saw a magic circle in the last Shadow World, but it was nowhere near as complicated as this one."

"If the previous shadow world and this shadow world are actually the same world."

"Then this magic circle must have been used by the Holy Ritual Church to seal away vampires, and beneath this church should be sealed an extremely powerful vampire, who is the hidden ultimate enemy of this Shadow World!"

159 Dekan truly doesn't want to take any detours.

Dekan stated his groundbreaking conclusion directly.

Morion was stunned by what he heard.

In fact, ever since Dekan received the information from his master, he had suspected that the final boss of this Shadow World was a powerful vampire.

Upon arriving in the world of shadows, the two things that felt most jarring to Dekan were—

Why does this small town have such an exquisite church?

And why does a church need to have a high priest on duty?

According to Dekan's imagination, the most likely explanation is that a terrible monster is hiding under this church.

Drawing on his previous experience in the Shadow World [Shadowy Mountain Snowstorm], Dekan searched very diligently for a magic circle in the church.

Even if he couldn't find it right away, Dekan was certain he would find it, even if he had to tear down the church and dig three feet into the ground.

It didn't take much effort; Cornelia simply made a slight adjustment to the church's layout, and he quickly found the magic circle.

The red light on the magic circle likely signifies that High Priest Kevin has died and become one of the sacrifices that allowed the vampires to revive.

However, the magic circle was too complex, and Dekan couldn't figure out how many people would need to be sacrificed to revive the vampire.

……

"How long do you think it will take Dekan to unravel the mystery of this shadow world?"

Students at Hervenlitt College have already started placing bets.

Generally, the normal strategy involves gathering information, exchanging information, reasoning and verifying, confirming the mechanism, finding out the enemy's true identity, and then figuring out how to fight against and defeat them.

However, based on Dekan's previous performance, he always skipped steps and sometimes inexplicably reached the finish line quickly.

"About three or four more days?"

"That's too optimistic. This is a sixth-order shadow world, which is extremely complex. Even if the three of them are very powerful, it will be difficult for them to solve the mystery of the shadow world before half the time is up."

"And look at them, they haven't actually gathered any intelligence at all. They spent the last couple of days collecting resources."

"But you really can't use common sense to predict Dekan's strategy. I'm not surprised that he can find the final enemy in another day."

Listening to the students' discussion, Claire, Chloe's childhood friend, nudged him with her elbow.

"What do you think?"

Claire asked Chloe coldly.

She was clearly still upset about the incident a couple of days ago where "Chloix was fascinated by the performance of the former Paladin Commander Judith".

"5."

"Kroix replied."

"Five days?"

Claire was slightly surprised; she hadn't expected Chloex to be so conservative in her assessment of Dekan this time.