People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

All she knew was that she, who had been designated as the next generation gravekeeper, needed to receive training from the current gravekeeper, Belsac, and instruction from Pastor Fernando.

Train, teach, train, teach.

A mechanical life that seems extremely monotonous and boring to outsiders.

The only entertainment she had was the books that came with the caravans that visited her regularly. She could always find her favorite mystery novels, well, she was probably a classic orthodox type.

"Morning, Miss Irmia."

It was another peaceful day. Gray walked to the church door on time and greeted Sister Irmia politely.

"Yo." This nun was not a person who followed the rules, nor did she look at him with admiration like the villagers did. She seemed a little nonchalant, and this was her response to Gray.

But Gray felt that this kind of interaction was more comfortable and natural. Although it was not very serious, at least it was not like the way the villagers looked at her.

——That kind of gaze was as if worshipping another ancient hero through his own face.

When Gray walked into the church, Pastor Fernando had not arrived yet, so there was no one else there.

This church is not gorgeous, but the ceiling is very high. The neatly arranged benches and metal candlesticks are spotless. It is obvious that people often visit this place or worship here.

Despite this, Gray still took out the tools from the small compartment next to her and swept the floor skillfully. She was not the type to sit around doing nothing all the time. Although she was already living an ascetic lifestyle, Gray herself was unaware of it.

Deep inside the church, there is a dark statue of the Virgin Mary, which exudes a strange aura and is completely different from the image of a loving mother in the minds of ordinary people. This is undoubtedly very different from the teachings of the Christian Church.

It is probably the result of Buddhism's "harmony" or "descent" with local beliefs.

"Hehehe! Slow-tempered Grey is doing inefficient and useless work again. Are you expecting that fat priest to exempt you from a little bit of homework?" A playful and outspoken voice sounded beside Grey.

The source of the voice is a portable "bird cage" that looks like a magician's ceremonial costume, but it clearly has a personality and the ability to communicate.

"... Yade, keep your voice down. The pastor might be just outside the door."

Gray paused for a moment before responding. She didn't have a blaming tone. Yade "awakened" six years ago, the year Gray's appearance changed. Since then, he has become the person she communicates with on a daily basis, and the only person she can communicate with "like a friend" when the people around her and even her family make her feel at a loss.

Although Gray has adapted to this unchanging life, she can't help but imagine how people in the outside world live. Although books have taught her a lot of knowledge about the outside world, knowledge and experience are different after all.

Will she...have a new life at some point?

More than once, Gray couldn't help but think this way.

--------

"Okay, let's not go any further."

Qin Xuan's voice spoke from a distance away from the cemetery.

Iluli, Yeye, and Xiaozi stopped immediately. Then, a slender runes snake emerged from Yeye's left sleeve, stretched to the ground, deformed, and enlarged - turning into a raven.

In order to avoid being accidentally spotted by someone and being discovered by the Clock Tower, Qin Xuan decided not to use his own image on the road. He happened to have a useful doll in his hometown to impersonate him.

"The cemetery ahead has a warning barrier. It seems there is a 'guardian'. If we go in rashly, the other party will find out." Qin Xuan's spiritual sense covered the entire Blackmoya cemetery and found that the density of "spirits" here was very high. Is it because it is a tomb?

"But something is wrong," Qin Xuan looked down again, "There is a huge hollow structure, which is very strange. It is not a common mausoleum architectural style, and the density of spirits is higher."

"Anyway, let's see if there is any information on the ground first." Qin Xuan could only see roughly from the outside, so he had to invade the inner part of the barrier. He just saw a small house near the swamp, which seemed to be a particularly weak place in the barrier, so he decided to go there first.

"Xiao Zi, illusion shielding technique."

"Ok!"

Kozuki looks like a little girl with brown hair and twin tails. She appears younger than both Ye Ye and Iruri. She is a puppet specializing in illusion, and therefore an important character in this operation.

As the camouflage illusion unfolded, Qin Xuan also made new moves - a huge shadow emerged under the raven's claws, and a long figure could be vaguely seen wriggling in the dark shadow. Then it emerged from the black mud, revealing squid-like tentacles and a slender worm-like torso.

——The burrowing demon insect.

In front of this creature, the hard ground can be drilled away as easily as butter. The burrowing demon worm turned over and probed into the ground. In just a few minutes, it dug a tunnel with a diameter of more than five people, leading to the hut inside the barrier.

Chapter 39 "Yaexia"

When Yiluli, Ye Ye, Xiao Zi and Qin Xuan came out of the tunnel dug by the burrowing insects, they saw a dilapidated hut as expected.

Because of the proximity to the swamp, a damp and cold air filled the surroundings of the hut. The door of the house was half open, and the lock had completely decayed and fallen to the ground. In short, no one had lived there for a long time.

One can imagine what a dilapidated scene the house is in, with mites everywhere, old things, and a rotten smell...

Fortunately, they were not here to live, and at this stage they had no plans to actively move into other places - that is, areas with more intensive barrier detection.

After Qin Xuan arrived at the weak point of the barrier here, he was able to stay where he was and carefully explore everything in the cemetery with his spiritual sense alone.

All the barriers were connected to people. All he needed to do was to check the targets and find out who was most likely to be connected to this series of barriers.

However, after investigation, it turned out that the number of possible targets was surprisingly small.

At the entrance of the small church in the center, the most conspicuous building in this small village, stood a nun with a lazy look. But Qin Xuan could tell that this was not an ordinary nun. Under her nun's uniform were armor and a piece of equipment called "Gray Ingots". This looked familiar to him because he had seen it on the members of the Burial Agency Crusade Team.

Therefore, she is not an ordinary nun at all, but an agent of the Holy Church.

This is a coincidence. This church clearly houses the Black Madonna, an image that is almost blasphemous to orthodox believers. However, she serves here as if nothing has happened. It is probably impossible to say that the Cathedral Church has no plan here.

But to say that she is the manager of the barrier here, this possibility is actually low, because the other target is a magician.

This was a sixty-year-old man, but he was strong and sturdy. Qin Xuan thought of Kotomine Risei, but the difference was that this man was unkempt and his hair was messy like a bird's nest. The old man was holding a vivid crow in his hand. He was communicating something at this time, and then the crow flew away. It was obviously a familiar.

"Crow... Brakmoa... Lord Blackwing..." Qin Xuan thought about it and chose his target.

--------

Belsak, as the gravekeeper of the Brakmoya Cemetery, or in other words, he is a member of the Brakmoya clan - a magician who has been responsible for transporting souls and guarding the cemetery since BC to the present generation.

But later on, there was another camp in the village, that is, people who prayed for King Arthur's resurrection. They were the main party worshipping the Black Madonna. Later, the Holy Church also joined in. There was no conflict between the parties at present, at least on the surface.

"Who?" Belsak turned around and saw a girl with long purple braids.

"I am the gravekeeper of Brakmoya, Shion Eltnam Atlassia, and I have been ordered to come to assist you," the girl stated in a rational tone, "in the name of the 'contract'."

"For the 'contract'." Belsak immediately knew the other party's purpose. This was a troublesome matter. These alchemists from the Atlas Academy were mysterious all day long and didn't know how to take the right path. They actually appeared in the village without triggering the barrier alarm.

In order to revive King Arthur, the village of Blackmoa borrowed one of the seven weapons of the Atlas Institute, the "Logos React", with a contract. As we all know, the Atlas Institute is now sending people everywhere to collect the contract. However, the contract issued cannot be violated, so the solution is to send people to help the contract object to achieve the goal.

Belsak thought that "Atlasia" meant the candidate for dean, and sending such a person to urge the return of weapons was already very obvious.

"Please sit for a moment," Belsac led the way to a small house - much better than the one next to the swamp. "I will go and tell someone to come and entertain you."

After Shion opened the door, what appeared before her was a worn-out quilt and simple furniture with a slight musty smell. It didn't seem much better.

"Please."

Seeing Ziyuan enter the house, Belsak turned and walked away, as if to call someone. However, after he walked away, the "Ziyuan" in the house disappeared like a bubble, and turned into Xiao Zi and a raven on her shoulder, and then Iluli and Ye Ye also appeared out of thin air beside them.

Of course, it is impossible for Ziyuan to appear here out of thin air. Everything is Xiao Zi's illusion.

Kozuki is equipped with an illusion-type magic circuit called "Yae Kasumi". Her illusion ability is to deceive or even control the five senses of living beings to create illusions.

Although Belsak, as a gravekeeper, has a certain ability to perceive spirits, it is of no use. The three present are all intelligent puppets driven by the "Heart of Eve", and only Qin Xuan has a soul.

"Um! Creator, did I do well?" Xiao Zi's body is not only young, but her mental age is also young. She is a lively little girl.

"Well, well done. This time, illusion ability is very important to us." Qin Xuan's voice said.

"Great!" Xiao Zi jumped happily and rubbed the raven that Qin Xuan had transformed into in her arms.

"What about me, me, me!?" Ye Ye loudly expressed her presence.

Qin Xuan didn't look at Ye Ye, "Yiluri, when people come later, seal her mouth if necessary."

"Bang." The Ye Ye was sunk.

------

Gray's classes today were cancelled because she was called to help by Belsac who suddenly appeared.

But she didn't find it surprising. In the past, Belsac would assign her various tasks, just like a professor always assigns work to his graduate students. After all, Grey was to inherit the legacy of the gravekeeper, and the two of them really had a master-disciple relationship.

It's always like this, maybe this is also the reason why she can't sit still.

However, when she opened the door and saw the purple-haired girl, Gray still felt "unexpected".

"...Hello, Miss Shion." Gray covered her face with her hood and greeted in a low voice.

Although it was very strange and impolite to do so, she still didn't want outsiders to see her face.

——This “other person’s” face.

"Hello." Shion's voice was very calm and composed.

"I'm very sorry, but it's not time yet. There are no new supplies coming into the village," Gray said while cleaning the table, lowering her head, not daring to look into Shion's eyes. She felt that the hood was completely unable to block Miss Shion's gaze.

"It's okay. Coarse bread and water are enough to keep me thinking... Also, can you let me see the 'bird cage' you have?"

Chapter 40 Idol Theory

When Gray heard Shion mention the "birdcage", she was really shocked.

But before she could react, Yade shouted, "Ahhh! The alchemist found me, hahahaha, it's over, it's over——"

Yade's strange accent somewhat ruined the atmosphere in the room.

"Don't worry. I won't tear your partner apart."

What Shion said did not reassure Gray, but it somewhat eased her tension.

"To be exact, I am more interested in what is sealed inside than this talking little fellow."

——I’ve been seen through. Gray couldn’t help but think so.

"I hope you can put it to good use, Miss Grey."

I thought Shion would ask for something else, but she ended her offensive, which seemed a bit aggressive to Gray, with these words.

--------

Gray thought that she had nothing to do with this anymore. This seemed to be just a guest passing by occasionally. Although it was a bit regretful, she should return to her daily boring life.

However, she soon found out that she was wrong. At the request of the gravekeeper Belsak, she had to go to Miss Shion's cabin every day for "reception", and all the originally scheduled classes were cancelled during this period.

I always feel that Miss Shion's status is very special.

Although it was called a reception, Gray actually felt that there was nothing to do, just chatting with Shion. Sometimes she would see Shion calculating something or drawing various drawings, but Gray's basic knowledge was too poor and she really couldn't understand it at all.

"You mean this?"

Seeing that Gray was curious about the diagram in her hand, Shion explained it briefly: "It's a temporary path map of the earth veins, right?"

"path?"

"Yes, by driving 'wedges' into several specific locations in the ley lines, we can build temporary channels between the wedges to transmit psychic signals."

Gray blinked her eyes. What is a channel? What is a wedge? What is a spirit particle? She couldn't understand.

"Ah, just understand it as the communication principle of mobile phones in the outside world."

"A cell phone? I think I've seen it before. Sometimes foreign merchants would bring out that kind of thing. I heard that it can receive messages from thousands of miles away in an instant. We (gravekeepers) are still using familiars to send messages. I don't think it can compare at all."

"It is indeed a function like this, but it also requires infrastructure. There are no communication base stations near Gray's hometown. In such a place, ordinary mobile phones cannot receive signals."

"If you can't get a signal, you can't use it... I understand. Thank you, Mr. Shion."

"teacher?"

"Yeah... Every time I chat with Miss Shion, I can learn a lot of knowledge from the outside world... I always feel like I'm facing a teacher."

"Is that so? Then I'll allow you to call me that," Shion said with an inexplicable smile on her face. "There's always a little error in my calculations lately, and I was a little depressed. I felt much better when I was chatting with Gray."

"Eh, error? Why?"

"There seems to be some kind of space under Gray's hometown, which blocks the flow of some earth veins. The workload has increased a lot out of thin air... Speaking of which, does Gray know where there is a similar underground secret room here?"

"...Secret room? It sounds like a place from a mystery novel."

"Eeheeheehee——! Little Grey is super obsessed with detective novels. She always reads those puzzle-solving processes over and over again. Unfortunately, Little Grey's own brain——"