Guild Boss's Ambition

However, objectively speaking, we do not have the real power to monitor Bai Ye. If Bai Ye deliberately gets rid of Raftan, we cannot blame anyone. However, once someone criticizes Bishop Barsalom's deployment based on this point, the persuasiveness of Raftan's move will be greatly weakened, putting Barsalom, who is already the target of public criticism, into an even worse situation.

Even the temple of praise for light eventually finds itself in the struggle for power.

"Good night, Mr. Greenwillow." "Good night, Knight."

Miss Raftan, who discovered me, greeted me first. Since I was not sure of her last name, I only referred to her by her rank for the time being out of politeness. She did not seem to care about the title, but just reported to me in a serious tone with a normal face: "I have something to ask the Pope, can you help me contact him?"

"Pope? Why are you looking for His Holiness?"

She kept a straight face and replied, "It's about the content of this incident."

I asked, "What happened?"

She shook her head and said, "I'm sorry, I can't tell you more about the details."

"Is it about the White Night?"

Considering this, I nodded and agreed to her request: "I understand. I will petition Bishop Barsalom for you later. However, please remember to remain alert when entering the Temple of Life and Death. Although the Bishop did not send out an attack signal, it cannot be ruled out that he was in a state where he could not send out a signal."

"Although I think it is no longer necessary, I will continue to cooperate." The Paladin Sister agreed.

Although I didn't quite understand what Raftan meant by "not necessary", I still followed the route map in my memory and entered the Temple of Life and Death through an obvious route. At this point in time, my sneaky behavior would easily be mistaken for an intruder by the guardians, which would not only make things awkward, but might also alert the enemy because of the fight.

Halfway through the journey, I found the planned ambush at the location of the first line of defense.

They were all safe and sound, and there were no signs of fighting at the scene. I did not alarm them, but quickened my pace and strode towards Bishop Bartholomew's post. Sure enough, the bald cardinal was huddled in a corner with a sad face, biting his nails silently. This was his habitual action when he was upset, and he could not change it even if he wanted to.

I stepped forward and said jokingly, "You're still alive, Mr. Bishop Hamster."

He rolled his eyes and cursed, "I'm not grinding my teeth! Forget it, how is it going?"

"Nothing happened." I looked at Raftan and said, "However, this young lady Paladin seems to have some new developments that we are not aware of. She wants to meet with His Holiness the Pope."

Without Bishop Barsalom asking, Raftan took a half step forward and said solemnly, "Hello, Bishop. I am Raftan Fritz, the supervisor of the Necromancer White Night. During the mission, we met Saint Agatha by chance. Regarding the details of this matter, I must meet with the Pope in person to report what I saw and heard along the way."

I couldn't help but be surprised and asked, "Saint Agatha? What about Demon King Leia?"

Raftan kept her straight face and answered clearly, "The details of the matter can only be reported to His Holiness the Pope himself, but given the current situation, my suggestion is that you can continue to maintain your defense against the magic weapon, but do not need to continue to actively search for the Demon King Leia. Of course, you can also ignore my one-sided words."

Compared to the Demon King Leia, Bishop Barsalom seemed to be more concerned about the whereabouts of the Saint: "Is Agatha okay?"

Raph blinked in doubt, and after a long while he replied, "Please ask the Pope separately."

Facing Raftan's tight-lipped attitude, Bishop Barsalom was at a loss for a moment. The fastest way to get information from her was to let her meet with the Pope. Therefore, Bishop Barsalom had no choice but to take her to the headquarters of the Church in person. Before leaving, he handed over the command of the Temple of Life and Death to me.

In fact, this command was of no use. Half an hour later, before dawn, the two of them had finished their meeting with the Pope and returned to the Temple of Life and Death. Then I received a notice of leave from Bishop Barsalom, and the news that the Demon King Leia had been subdued.

The incident ended very suddenly, which made me feel like I had only done half of the job. However, when I asked about how the Demon Lord Leia was subdued, Bishop Barsalom was just like the female paladin, with his upper and lower lips looking like they were sewn together. No matter how much I pestered him, he refused to reveal a single word.

However, since I could go home after get off work, I was happy to have some free time, so I quickly put aside my worries and started on my journey home.

Having said that, from a geographical point of view, the Temple of Life and Death and my home are like next-door neighbors, only separated by four blocks. After turning a corner and walking uphill for about five minutes, I can clearly see the lights of my home. My wife has a bad habit of not liking to sleep and always waits until I get home before she closes her eyes.

Sure enough, as soon as I unlocked the door, I saw the haggard face of the woman.

She is a human with a nice name pronounced Karen. She is a few years older than me, neither tall nor short, but a little fat due to middle-aged happiness. But even though she is not very good-looking, I still love her. In this world, the wife of an exorcist is probably one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, but despite being held hostage by monsters many times, she still stays with me.

"Karen, I told you not to wait for me—"

With a happy and helpless smile, I walked into the door while speaking the familiar dialogue, but I soon noticed the unusual look on my wife's face. She was not happy about my return, but more anxious and blaming. An uneasy chill immediately rose from the soles of my feet, stimulating the hair on my back to stand up.

"Why are you back so late!" Karen, his wife, scolded with red eyes.

"What happened, Karen?" I asked, a little stunned.

"Zifeng is missing! He hasn't come home for almost two days!" Karen threw herself into my arms and cried.

I looked at the red moon outside the window and my heart was beating wildly.

Zifeng is my child. Since I have the blood of a monster, he naturally has the possibility of awakening as a monster...

if……

If that child really awakens and becomes a monster, then according to my duty, I must eliminate him.

A monster like my father who must eat fresh hearts and livers is a natural enemy of humans...

"Don't cry, I will find our son."

I made a promise to Karen, but I had no idea at the time.

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51. Painted Skin (Green Willow)

(Green Willow-Garcia)

I never thought that there would come a day when I would use the same methods I use to track monsters on my children.

According to Karen, Helen's disappearance started the night before, which was the fourth night since I officially accepted the mission to find Saint Agatha. Since I got involved in the saint's disappearance case, I have neither slept nor returned home. In order to prevent the monsters from associating the exorcist and detective Green Willow together, I have completely prevented my family and the church from having any in-depth contact.

Therefore, in the past week, Karen, who was unable to contact the church’s top leaders, was also unable to contact me.

This is not the first time that I have neglected and affected my family because of work.

I hate this feeling.

I really want to give up my identity as an exorcist and live an ordinary life like an ordinary person.

However, half-blood demons are destined not to be ordinary people.

Things have come to this, and I can only try my best to make up for my mistake.

After his disappearance, his son Zifeng's room was still tidy. He was a good child with good living habits, but he was weak by nature, and his speech and appearance were like a girl. But these were the results of his living environment. His wife worked in a jewelry store every day, so the child naturally hung out where his mother worked all day long, and the people he met were all girls.

Since those difficult events were over, my life has become a little more stable.

But by this time, his son's personality had basically been formed and was difficult to change.

In order to find the missing Zifeng, I collected some hair from his room. His hair was long and thin, light yellow, very different from his mother's shoulder-length blonde hair. The two were very easy to identify. In addition to hair, I also collected some of his skin tissue and clothing fibers, just in case.

I thought I could find out Zifeng's whereabouts quickly.

But the result was far beyond my expectation. My tracking magic was cleverly cracked, and tens of thousands of hair, skin tissue, and clothing fiber fragments were scattered all over Mopolis! I am very familiar with this anti-tracking method. Many smart monsters often use these tricks to escape my pursuit. I often adapt these experiences and tell Zifeng as bedtime stories.

Zifeng likes these thrilling and suspenseful stories very much, and even dreams of becoming a detective like me.

He is a very smart child, smarter than I expected.

He made good use of the techniques in the story and used anti-tracking technology.

However, his anti-tracking did not seem to target me as a father.

On Zifeng's birthday, I gave her a necklace. The necklace has the function of purifying the dead. My main purpose is to reduce her awakening rate. I also have a necklace like this hanging around my neck. The white gems on the two necklaces are from the same piece of raw stone. Using my own white gem, I successfully found the whereabouts of the other white gem.

Right inside the city of Mopolis, not far from the Qingyun Road, the location is - the stone house.

"A stone house..."

I had a bad feeling about this. This Adventurer's Guild seemed to be emitting a strange atmosphere. The fact that this place was the territory of the Necromancer was quite disturbing. Moreover, this guild, which was dead a year ago, had revived too quickly. It felt like a berserker who had taken banned drugs and used forbidden techniques.

When something is out of the ordinary, there must be something wrong. There is also a one in ten thousand chance that smoke is coming out of your ancestral graves, which means you are lucky and have help from a noble person.

But I have seen the legendary noble lady Miss Lan Nong with my own eyes. She seemed like a very coquettish little girl. She was obviously just a lolita, almost thirteen years old, but she was much sexier in real life than in the photos. Even though I am not a lolita complex and I have a family, I almost couldn't control myself. Sometimes I was still led by her nose. It was really weird.

Moreover, why did Zifeng go to the stone house alone for no reason?

However, if you think about it from another perspective, it might not be a bad thing for Zifeng and the others to stay in the stone house.

This most likely means that he has not completely transformed into a demon, and is still just maintaining the status of a half-demon.

Learning that Zi Feng was most likely in the stone house, my mood immediately cheered up a little. After comforting my wife for a few words, I set off, walking in the dawn light, tracking the coordinates of the necklace gem while quickly heading towards the stone house.

As it was still early, the stone house had not yet opened for business, and only an old cat man was guarding the door.

To avoid being stopped, I did not enter through the front door as I was concerned about my son. I went around to the back door of the guild and prepared to illegally cross the guild's wall and sneak in secretly. But when I reached the back door, I was annoyed to find that the entire outer wall of the guild was equipped with a high-precision alarm system. If I rushed in rashly, the whole guild would probably be in chaos.

So, I went back to the main entrance obediently.

Seeing me coming back, the old cat raised his eyes from the newspaper, with the corners of his mouth raised to both sides.

"Looking for someone?"

"Good morning, sir. I want to see your Miss Lannon."

The old cat clan member glanced at the clock in the hall and said calmly, "It's only half past five now. You came to see a little girl so early. Do you have something urgent to do?"

I nodded with a serious expression: "It's an important and urgent matter. If it's convenient, please help me call her."

Hearing this, the old cat looked me up and down again, tore off a piece of paper and wrote two lines of small words on it, then picked up a black cat from under the cabinet and instructed it, "Augustus, come and find Miss Lannon."

The black cat took the note and quickly ran upstairs to the stone house.

About fifteen minutes later, Miss Lannong, wearing home clothes, came into the hall yawning.

She was in a bad mood after getting up early: "Mingmu...Mr. Yuanliu? What can I do for you so early?"

I grabbed her arm and said firmly, "I'm going to find someone here who won't cause any trouble for you. You just need to stay with me and let me come and go freely in your guild."

My rude behavior immediately attracted the attention of the old cat man. He stretched out his claws to push away my hand that was holding the girl's arm, and stared at me coldly: "Miss Lan Nong, do you need me to help you get rid of this rude man?"

Miss Lan Nong finally came to her senses. She opened her bright eyes and said, "No, no, he's my friend at work. He probably means no harm. Just let me show him around the guild."

As a result, the old cat returned to his security chair with a sullen face.

“Ahhhh, you’ve been totally treated as a bad person──”

After persuading the old security guard to leave, Miss Lannong smiled slyly: "Please explain it to me in detail. Who are you looking for in our guild? You look so fussy, which is really unlike the detective I know recently. By the way, what happened to Saint Agatha? Could our Stone House also be related to Demon King Leia?"

"The case of Saint Agatha is over."

In order to speed up the investigation, I told him the truth: "This time I came to look for my beloved son Zifeng. I suspect that his demon bloodline has awakened because of the red moon in the sky. I followed the clues and found that he is most likely in your stone house."

Hearing this, Miss Lan Nong was greatly surprised and exclaimed repeatedly: "Your son? Zi Feng? Zi as in purple, Feng as in phoenix? Wait, are you sure you are really here to find your son? Not your daughter? Oh! God, did you know that he was the one who asked us to find Saint Agatha in the beginning?"

Zi Feng is the client looking for Saint Agatha?

Does Agatha often come to Qingyun Road to play with Zifeng and the others?

However, now is not the time to talk about this.

I took the tracking compass and led Miss Lannong to the second floor, saying anxiously, "The disappearance of Saint Agatha has nothing to do with my son, but we must find him as soon as possible. If he really awakens, he will be a huge threat to our intelligent human society."

"Huge harm? Is it that exaggerated?" Miss Lannong asked with a smile as if she was on a picnic.

I imagined the worst possible outcome and said seriously, "It's no exaggeration to say that the bloodline that resides in our bodies is called Painted Skin. Painted Skin can disguise itself as any person and has extremely strong aggressiveness and hunting instincts. They are good at deception, cunning and sensitive. They generally like to eat hearts and occasionally livers. They can be said to be the nightmare of all humanoid creatures."

"That sounds horrible," said Miss Lannon sadly.

"Can you please help me open this room──"

I followed the direction indicated by the compass and stopped in front of a room door. Then, before asking to enter the room, I also looked at the room plate clearly. The plate read "Ulu-Lannon's Room". This made me cast a suspicious look at the little signboard girl next to me, and my right hand secretly reached for the dagger behind my waist, just in case.

I asked sternly, "Is my son in your room?"

Miss Lannong was frightened by my sudden change. Her shoulders trembled slightly. She shook her head blankly and replied, "There was only one of my... good friends in the room. Before I came to find you, there were only the two of us in the room. Even if your son was really in my room, I certainly didn't notice it."

"Open the door." I took out my dagger, stood behind the poster girl, and instructed, "You go in first."

"This is the first time I've been used as a shield."

Miss Lan Nong smiled bitterly and shook her head, then she took out a goblin firearm-like item from her space ring and opened the door.

The room was half dark and half bright, with the dawn sunlight mostly blocked by the curtains. There was a petite baby sleeping on the bed, a gray-haired girl I didn't recognize at all, not my son Zifeng. In a corner beside the bed lay the stitched dog I met in the cemetery earlier, and a black cat named Augustus who was responsible for waking up Miss Lannon.

Startled by the appearance of me, an outsider, both animals woke up and stared at me quietly from the dark corner.

"Is the compass broken?" I murmured dejectedly.

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52. My Son (Green Willow)

(Green Willow-Garcia)

"Is the compass broken?"

I looked at the compass in my hand and murmured to myself.

Although the murmur was soft, Miss Lan Nong on the other side could hear it clearly. Without saying a word, she snatched the compass and examined it. Then a trace of embarrassment appeared on her face: "This tracking tool is not broken. The object it is tracking is indeed in this room. When entrusting the task of finding someone, your Zifeng gave me the necklace as a reward and temporarily left it with me."