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The next morning, Leyton was having breakfast in the downstairs restaurant.
An invisible Natural Spirit handed him the Tussock Post, which had just arrived today. Leyton took the newspaper and unfolded it.
As expected, he saw the report about Capim's death in the most prominent position in the newspaper.
The basement in Capim's luxurious villa, used to imprison kidnapped girls, was also discovered.
The girls who escaped exposed to the Church the fact that Capim was a human trafficker, accusing him of various degrees of abuse after being kidnapped.
And the hero who killed Capim and everyone in that villa, and rescued the kidnapped girls, the newspaper gave him a codename: the Vigilante, "Hero Bandit Black Emperor"!
Heh! It seems Klein's acting this time was very successful.
Knock, knock, knock! The knocking sound interrupted Leyton's thoughts.
A Natural Spirit approached and skillfully attached itself to the doorknob.
With a creak! the door opened automatically.
Destiny, with a head full of white beard and hair, walked in with a smile.
Not until the other party found a chair opposite him and sat down, did Leyton, with a hint of confusion, open his mouth and say:
"What happened? You look like you're in a very good mood."
"I received a reply from Him. It's the whereabouts of a Soothsayer characteristic. Once I complete my advancement in Backlund, I can go search for this characteristic."
Destiny explained with a smile.
"Soothsayer…" Leyton recalled in his mind and found that besides knowing it was a Sequence 2 of the Fate pathway, he knew nothing else.
He raised an eyebrow slightly, asking curiously:
"Soothsayer? What kind of characteristics does it have?"
Destiny smiled and said:
"He is the spokesperson of God, able to see visions and understand what will happen in the future."
"God has bestowed upon Him the ability to perform miracles and wonders."
The spokesperson of God… I remember Will said that He can only be considered a part of fate. Only by becoming the Wheel of Fortune can one, to a certain extent, be considered the embodiment of fate.
If the Wheel of Fortune appears, the Sequence 2 Soothsayer will naturally be His angel… The spokesperson of God also refers to the spokesperson of fate!
After a moment of contemplation, Leyton looked at Destiny again, his tone very sincere: "Congratulations!"
City of Silver, Derrick hid the translucent small worm he had coughed out, planning to ask the other members of the Tarot Club about it during the next Tarot Club meeting, and then decide whether to hand it over to the Chief.
Originally, he wanted to directly ask The Fool what it was, but considering that he had already troubled The Fool more than once recently, the thin-skinned Derrick still gave up the idea of directly asking The Fool.
After sitting in the room for a moment, Derrick picked up the hurricane axe, fastened it to his waist, and prepared to go out to the trading area to see if he could directly buy the materials that other members of the Tarot Club were seeking.
Whether it's to improve my strength or to inquire about news outside the Forsaken Land of the Gods, I need to offer things and make deals with others.
While pondering the questions he needed to ask everyone at the next Tarot Club meeting, Derrick unknowingly walked to the training ground located on the edge of City of Silver.
This is where the exploration teams stop and quarantine after returning. Only after being quarantined for a certain period and confirmed safe are they allowed to return home.
This is the experience City of Silver has explored and summarized over more than two thousand years; it's not complicated, but it's practical enough.
Looking at the training ground illuminated by dim yellow torches, Derrick originally wanted to turn around and leave, but he hesitated in his heart whether to go in and take a look.
If the Chief and the others hadn't canceled the exploration of that half-destroyed temple, the members of the exploration team who went there should have returned by now.
While contemplating, Derrick had already stepped into the training ground.
As soon as he entered the training ground, Derrick saw a strong man with a shaved head, dark green symbols tattooed on the top, and a height of nearly two and a half meters.
This is Waiter Hillmon, one of the elders of the Council of Six in City of Silver, a powerful Demon Hunter!
At the same time, Derrick also saw two acquaintances of the same age group, one of whom was his teammate in the patrol team, Darc Regence.
"The Council of Six replaced Elder Lovia, the Shepherd who originally led the team, with Elder Waiter?"
Derrick whispered silently to himself from the side.
Although it wasn't Elder Lovia, the Shepherd, leading the team, but the more experienced Elder Waiter, Derrick didn't think this would avoid the corresponding dangers.
Perhaps Derrick's gaze was too direct. On the other side of a translucent but hard-as-Steel wall, the young man named Darc noticed and turned his head to look over.
"Darc, you're back from exploring that half-destroyed temple? How was it? You didn't encounter any danger, did you?"
Seeing Darc look at him, Derrick shouted from his side of the wall.
Derrick's anticipated bright smile and words did not appear. He only saw Darc walk a few steps closer and then reply with a smile:
"Yes, no danger, it was all very smooth!"
The smile on Darc's face was impeccable, and his reply was very concise.
Derrick, however, suddenly felt a chill all over his body, as if he were in a desolate and terrifying night, surrounded by darkness, with undercurrents accumulating.
No, it shouldn't be like this. This isn't Darc's tone or demeanor!
Backlund, Minsk Street.
Leyton sat in front of the fireplace in the dining room, flipping through a book without a cover. This was a book of knowledge in the spiritual domain, previously obtained from Green Light Serapis through a ritual.
"Hmm?" Leyton's spiritual perception was triggered. He looked up and forward, a faint purple glow covering his eyes.
Leyton's gaze pierced through reality, seeing the corresponding spiritual world area.
A small creature, covered in black fur with a pale yellow and relatively long snout, was struggling to push a safe far larger than its body.
"That was quite fast. It only took a day to find the safe for me."
Leyton murmured to himself.
Then, a pale blue glow lit up in his eyes. Placing the open book aside, Leyton took two steps forward and raised his hand to draw a mysterious symbol representing a "door" in mid-air.
As his spirituality diffused, layers of symbols, like double-opening doors, appeared where Leyton had just gestured. As spirituality rippled like water, the barrier between reality and the spiritual world in the dining room was temporarily breached.
Clang! The sound of heavy metal hitting the ground rang out, and a silver-gray safe with a paper figurine stuck to its surface fell directly from mid-air onto the floor.
Immediately, a black figure swiftly rushed out of the spiritual world and pounced on it. A Nephrit, the size of a small cat, stood atop the safe, hands on its hips, staring intently at Leyton.
"Wahhh, Wahhh"
Even without using language comprehension or spiritual communication spells, Leyton could understand what it wanted to express:
"Hurry up and pay!"
Raising an eyebrow at the greedy little fellow, Leyton went upstairs, put the already prepared gold coins into a bag, brought them down, and handed them to it.
The Nephrit, clutching a bag nearly as big as its own body, leaped off the safe in a dive-like posture.
The moment it touched the floor, its body directly melted into it, and the bag of gold coins it was holding also merged into the floor.
Leyton watched as it, like a swimming fish, plunged into the spiritual world and quickly moved away.
Leyton's gaze returned to the safe. With the paper figurine still attached, Leyton could confirm that the safe had not been opened.
That greedy Nephrit didn't know that the safe it found was the most valuable.
Leyton slightly curled his lips, tore off the paper figurine attached to the safe, then simulated the ability to open a door, easily opening the safe to reveal the gold bars, land deeds, jewels, antiques, and other items inside.
A head with a flattened, pale yellow snout poked out from the side, its eyes fixed on the treasures inside the safe.
The next instant, it transformed into a black shadow and pounced.
In mid-air, an invisible Natural Spirit firmly restrained it. The Nephrit's small arms and legs flailed wildly in the air.
Glancing at the returning Nephrit, Leyton closed the safe again and reattached the paper figurine.
A faint layer of starlight appeared, then vanished in an instant.
Having secured the safe, Leyton then turned his attention back to the Nephrit suspended in mid-air, with no intention of putting it down. He directly spoke in ancient hermes:
"Didn't you leave? Why did you come back?"
"Wahhh Wahhh I smelled treasure! You liar! You have so many treasures, but you only gave me a few gold coins!"
"These are all found by me, they're all mine! Wahhh!"
Leyton roughly understood what the Nephrit was saying, then directly picked it up and tossed it back into the spiritual world.
The little fellow, persistent, drilled its way back, crashing headfirst into the safe, shaking its head and whimpering, then changed direction and crashed into the safe again.
A bit smart, but not much!
Tiny specks of starlight swirled in Leyton's palm, rapidly forming a slowly rotating cluster of stardust.
He raised his hand and pushed forward. The slowly swirling stardust transformed into brilliant rays of starlight, directly striking the Nephrit's small body, carrying it back into the spiritual world.
In the spiritual world, brilliant starlight flashed continuously, carrying it to a very distant place.
"Pay attention, don't let this little fellow steal things from the house. If it can't take the things from the safe, it might change its target."
Leyton turned to Crow Anu, who was preening its feathers on the windowsill, and instructed,
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