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Chapter 761: Efatia's Recap Four Hours Later
Chapter 761: Efatia's Recap Four Hours Later
Chips crunched loudly as they fell to the floor, but Efatia paid no heed to the scattered snacks.
She had been startled, and for a good reason.
After a century, General Apo had suddenly shown up at her door.
"Apo? And sister, brother-in-law, what are you guys doing here as well?"
Efatia's eyes widened as she spotted Talia and Lanchi standing in the opposite arc of the spatial chamber, in the room of the mansion.
And alongside them was Abigail, the Imperial Royal Magecraft Engineer?
On the other side.
"She calls you brother-in-law?"
Toliado drew in a sharp breath, nudging Lanchi with his elbow as he asked.
"I've asked her not to, but she won't listen," Lanchi replied, helpless against Efatia's stubbornness.
In this regard, she took after her sister.
"After Barton introduced us to Director Abigail at the Bliarda Opera House, we ran into Cardinal Toliado, and then Tata realized he was General Apo."
Lanchi filled Efatia in on their encounter.
Efatia's brain froze for a moment.
"Apo, you're a Cardinal of the Resurrection Church now?"
She directed her question to Toliado, her eyes wide with surprise.
"Yeah, it's right up my alley, and there happened to be a vacant Cardinal position at the time. One of the requirements for joining the Resurrection Church and directly filling the position of Cardinal is to possess an Original Slab, which I happened to have. Plus, my attribute is quite unique, so I approached the Pope, and the appointment went smoothly."
Toliado toyed with a semi-transparent slab that emitted the same silver-white fiery arc as the spatial gate—a radiant and pure light like a white-hot meteor from the divine age.
On occasions when Cardinals of the Resurrection Church perished, and no new Cardinals were born, nor did any Cardinal obtain the Double Bishop's Certificate, the power to appoint Cardinals would revert to the Pope.
Talia was not surprised by the slab.
【Space】and 【Divination】, these two attributes at the bottom of the attribute periodic table, were impossible to grasp without the right aptitude. Abigail was probably the only one who could fathom the mysteries of spatial magic engineering.
The only way to acquire spatial abilities was through obtaining spatial magic cards, but they were incredibly rare and possibly harder to find than most Sacred Cards.
Space slabs were generally not sought after because this attribute was almost impossible for most creatures to learn, and equipping it would be a waste of five fees. So, it was no surprise that Apo had obtained it.
However, the Fire slab he now held was a highly coveted general-purpose slab throughout history, desired by many powerful beings.
"Don't look down on rare slabs, okay? The Seal slabs are also considered a niche series."
Lanchi, intrigued, examined the new slab and shared his thoughts with Talia.
【Original Slab-Space】
【Category: Equipment Card】
【Grade: Orange Epic】
【Attribute: Space】
【Class: 5】
【Passive Effect: Original Slabs cannot be destroyed. Only creatures of the present world can soul-bind to them, up to one slab. All space-attributed magic, martial arts, equipment, and summons are comprehensively enhanced. The soul-binding is released upon the death of the binder.】
【Note: A world that has stopped breathing, forever sealing its ethereal beauty.】
He stared at the slab, trying to decipher its mysteries.
But it was beyond his comprehension.
Lanchi shook his head in disappointment.
"It's really you, Apo! What's going on today? First, my sister, now Apo. Could it be that our loving magical family is about to reunite?"
Efatia exclaimed joyfully, having clearly sensed Apo's familiar magical power.
"That's still a long way off," Apo replied with a slight shrug, a helpless smile tugging at his lips.
Even if they went along with what Lanchi said, with Antanas and the others protecting Efatia's daughter in Icerite, it would be a long time before they could all gather in Bliarda and reunite with their old friends in the Kingdom of Hutton.
"There's hope now! My adorable daughter is waiting for me!"
Efatia took a cheerful step forward, leaped through the spatial gate, and pounced on Talia, hugging her tightly and rubbing her face against hers.
"Sister! I've missed you so much!"
Efatia eagerly arrived at the spatial barrier side of the second-floor mansion in Bliarda.
In this independent space, she felt especially safe, and it was a rare opportunity for her to leave the Silver Palace temporarily.
"Didn't we just see each other a few hours ago?"
Talia, looking confused, allowed Efatia to cling to her and occasionally patted Efatia's back, much like she did with Hyperian.
"A few hours is a long time," Efatia said, seeing nothing unusual about it.
"I can't understand you..."
Talia realized that her sister might have truly become like a human, while she herself was still an outsider, not yet fully integrated into humanity.
"Let's sit over there and talk."
Abigail pointed to the sofa area in the room.
She noticed that her home was becoming quite the popular gathering spot.
While her place was indeed ideal for secret meetings, it rarely got this lively, usually serving as her private library where she spent time alone.
"In fact, in addition to the second floor of Abigail's Opera House and the underground Silver Palace of the Bliarda Mafia, I have another even more secretive spatial barrier. But the safest method is to come to Abigail's place first, and then I'll open the passageway."
Toliado explained.
He had long considered the dangers in the heart of the Kres Empire, and if an unforeseen change occurred one day, he wanted to ensure that he and Abigail had an escape route.
"I never thought you'd be so cautious."
Talia, with Efatia on her back, walked towards the sofa and gave Toliado a strange look.
"Actually, it's to demonstrate fault tolerance."
Toliado replied.
"..."
Talia sat down on the sofa.
She had no more questions.
Toliado might do the same thing as Planay, but their motives were certainly different.
The towering ceiling and pillars of the Bliarda Opera House created a spacious interior, intertwined with dark wooden furniture and textured bookshelf walls.
The group sat down in the discussion area at the center of the hall, and the lamps beside the sofa and low coffee table added a warm glow to the late hour of eleven o'clock.
"Are you Number 1 of the Silver Moon Reformist Society?"
Lanchi asked Toliado, who was sitting opposite him.
This was the most important matter at hand.
Regarding the alliance with the Silver Moon Reformist Society.
They needed more help if they were going to assault Blood Moon City.
Even if Efatia could remove the burning of the Blood King's fire from her body, relying solely on Toliado and Efatia as the main combatants was far from enough.
At most, Toliado could hold off a Blood Marquis.
And for Toliado, an 87th-level existence, facing any of the 88th-level Blood Ancestors would put him at a significant disadvantage, with little hope of victory.
According to the mechanics of Blood Moon City, all three teams had to get past the maps guarded by the Marquises before the immunity barrier around the Blood King's Palace would temporarily fail.
It would be even more difficult for Efatia to take on a Blood Marquis.
Aside from ensuring that Lanchi quickly advanced to the seventh rank to withstand Lachar Duke's ordinary magic attacks and finding a way to cure Efatia, every additional seventh-rank or higher companion they could find within the Empire would be a significant advantage.
"Of course, when you asked about finding a fiancee in the private chat the other day, it was me."
Toliado took out his Holy Magic Card and proudly displayed it to Lanchi and Talia.
[Ultra Long-Range Communication Program-1]
[Type: Spell Card]
[Grade: Pink Holy]
[Attribute: Link]
[Class: 6]
[Effect: Compared to ordinary ultra-long-range communication magic, this has stronger communication distance and anti-interference capabilities.]
[Note: The friendship of the Empire, attracting the followers of the Imperial Power.]
"This series of communication magic was created by Abigail. She utilized a small part of the principle of the ancient divine artifact, the Proof of Resurrection, as a blueprint to develop a new type of communication magic, thereby eliminating the need for the Proof of Resurrection and achieving a safer connection. As for the few initial prototypes currently available, she named them after the ancient imperial poem, the 'Ode to Cyrus'."
He explained, and his tone couldn't help but express a mentor's pride.
"If it weren't for you attracting the attention of the Bishop of Destruction and then running away, would I have been so scared that I threw away the Saint's Proof and developed a new communication device?!”
The veins on the back of Abigail's hand popped out, and if it weren't for the number of people present, she might have taken action.
"Is Mr. Barton Hall Number 3?"
Lanchi recalled the conversation in the Silver Moon Reformist Society group that night.
Number 3, known as Mercy, asked everyone if they could help him obtain information about the Magic Power Fission Principle from St. Cryxis Monastery, as his boss was interested, and in exchange, he could help out later.
Thinking of this, Number 3 was acquainted with Number 2, Abigail, and it wasn't convenient to publicly display their special means of communication. Plus, he mentioned having a boss, which could only be the Black Hand Party leader, Barton.
"Actually, in principle, I shouldn't reveal the identities of other members of the Silver Moon Reformist Society even if I know them. You can guess or ask him to tell you himself."
Toliado said, although he knew that Lanchi already had the answer.
As an anonymous organization, protecting the information security of its members was Toliado's promise when they formed the alliance, and it was also a guarantee of their safety.
"It's a small matter."
Hearing this, Efatia stood up and ran back to the other side of the space gate connecting the mansion and the Silver Palace.
"Efatia! You're not a little girl anymore! It consumes a lot of magic power to do that, so don't keep going back and forth!"
Toliado suddenly felt a significant drop in his magic power and said.
This space gate, based on a special spatial barrier architecture, consumes the caster's magic power according to the hierarchical level of any living being that passes through it.
Even though its energy consumption is much lower than that of normal teleportation magic, it's still too much to use as a doorway to one's room when one is an eighth-tier existence.
Although Toliado had high spirit and moderately low magic power as his basic attributes, Efatia had become much stronger in the many years since they last met.
"Oh, sorry, I'll be more careful next time!"
Efatia put her hand to her forehead and apologized to Toliado.
She quickly ran to the other side of the palace.
"Barton, Barton, come downstairs!"
Efatia activated the communication device on the wall of the Silver Palace and called out.
Since they would definitely need Barton's help with Blood Moon City, among the seventh-tier cultivators, Barton was considered a strong combat force, and he could also command a large number of armed subordinates.
Soon, Barton arrived downstairs in the Hasel Port building from the Bliarda Black Hand Party headquarters via the elevator.
The doors of the Silver Palace opened.
Black Hand Party leader Barton looked puzzled at the space gate.
On the other side was Abigail's opera house on the second floor.
A space magic had temporarily connected the two spaces.
The only one capable of such a feat was undoubtedly the Dimensional Bishop, Toliado.
"Toliado, Abigail?"
"How did you find the boss?"
Barton had originally intended to give Toliado and Abigail a piece of his mind for breaking their promise and overstepping their boundaries.
But seeing that his boss didn't seem to mind, he decided not to say anything further.
"I've been friends with her for a long time. If I'd known that the boss you were hiding was Efatia, I would have had the Dimensional Branch ally with you directly."
Toliado explained.
"It's fine, Barton. We're all on the same side now," Efatia said, leading Barton to the other side of the mansion, to the second floor of the opera house.
"Look how useful this teleportation gate is."
She couldn't help but show it off to Barton.
Efatia hadn't realized that the Dimensional Bishop was their old Demon World General Apo either.
She had always been wary of the Cardinals of the Resurrection Church.
If it weren't for today's opportunity, she and Apo, the two hidden Demon Tribe members in human society within the Kres Empire, would never have had the chance to see each other's true identities, which they had discarded centuries ago.
"Can you guys do me a favor and take the bus home? Take the 737 and transfer to the 901. Get off at Jones River Port and walk a few kilometers, and you'll be home."
Toliado's magical power had been steadily decreasing.
The worst thing in the Demon World was that everyone had discovered how convenient his magic was and didn't seem to mind the magical power consumption, treating him like a ceremonial doorman in a mall.
"Oh, my apologies. Given the special circumstances, it's not easy to leave the spatial barrier casually, right? You wouldn't charge me by the trip, would you? You wouldn't take money from an old friend, would you?"
Efatia clasped her hands together and bowed her head apologetically, "How about this, I'll get a monthly pass, and I can just swipe it each time I pass through?"
She opened one eye and sized up Toliado.
"You're quite the dreamer. Why don't you just get a student monthly pass while you're at it?" Toliado replied.
"Tsk tsk."
Efatia ran back to her sister's side.
Meanwhile, Barton sat down at the end of the long sofa next to Toliado.
"What's going on here?" Barton asked, looking at the group assembled before him.
He knew Abigail and Toliado, and he was also familiar with Professor Landre's group, but he hadn't expected Toliado to be so close with them.
"Let me explain..."
Toliado gave Barton a concise account of what had happened that evening.
"So, I am indeed Number 3 of the Silver Moon Reformist Society," Barton acknowledged, understanding the situation.
"Ah? Ah? Was that opera just now performed by my sister and Lanchi?"
Efatia latched onto another key point in Toliado's story, exclaiming in surprise, "Sister, I have to tell you, you did a fantastic job! I couldn't tell it was you at all. How did you manage to portray a greedy and somewhat foolish girl so vividly? Especially when she had that crush on the governor, I could feel her brain and her heart through the screen, every cell in her body was screaming—"
She gushed to Talia, reliving the performance.
"..."
Lanchi and Talia remained unusually silent, the air around them heavy and somber.
They never imagined that today's performance would be the public version!
Apparently, Efatia had been laughing her head off at their portrayal of those characters on stage!
If their acquaintances saw this, they might as well be dead...
"But since we're at this point, feel free to ask whatever you want."
Toliado spoke bluntly.
He was an open book when it came to matters concerning the Silver Moon Reformist Society.
"Then what are the identities of the others?"
Talia asked bluntly, shifting the topic.
She had been curious about the truth behind this matter for a long time.
Aside from the confirmed Number 1237, Numbers 4, 6, 8, and 9 were still a mystery.
"Er, I don't know the real identities of half of the members of the Silver Moon Reformist Society either. 5 was the one who found them," Toliado admitted somewhat embarrassedly.
"Initially, the Holy Communication Magic Cards for 4 and 5 were made together and given to her. She used 5 for herself and gave 4 to her confidant," Abigail explained to the trio.
Later, 5 also took away 6's Holy Communication Card and gave it to a suitable person she had chosen.
After that, Abigail sent 7 to her junior, Landre, via the Dimensional Branch.
8 and 9 were the last ones made, and 5 took those as well.
"Then who's Number 5?"
Efatia, half-asleep, had only caught snippets of the conversation about the Silver Moon Reformist Society.
While the identities of Numbers 4, 6, 8, and 9 remained a mystery, 5, as the key clue, should at least be known to Toliado and Abigail.
It was odd that no one person in this organization knew the identities of all the others.
"Her situation is rather special. Even in her daily life, she may not be able to use Holy Communication Magic freely. We don't have a way to contact her proactively. She's like a caged bird, only reaching out to us or others when she deems it safe," Abigail said softly, thinking of a familiar figure whose safety she worried about, "The holder of the fifth Holy Communication Magic Card, 【Struggle】, is Her Royal Highness Alexia, the Third Princess of Kres."
(End of Chapter)
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