Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 253 The Astrologer and the -meter-tall

After breakfast, Sophie quickly arrived at the divination room she had visited with Vinata before.

Just as Vinata had guessed, Sonya Moran was indeed hiding from the Esco family. A few weeks later, the fortune-telling house seemed to feel that the storm had passed and resumed business.

This house, like the poor houses in Feysac, attached great importance to the sense of space inside. Although it did not look very spacious from the outside, the skylight and dome installed by the owner made the space inside the house look much wider.

It is noon now. The room is full of sunlight. There are tables and chairs, and newspapers, magazines, playing cards and other things are placed on it. The scent of herbs and essential oils fills the air.

"Be careful not to walk into the middle of the bookshelves over there."

Cecilia's voice rang out in Sophie's mind. "The furnishings over there all have a certain mystical meaning, forming a certain triggering magic circle. Although its purpose is most likely just to make the owner notice someone entering the store, I don't recommend you try it yourself."

Sophie looked in the direction Cecilia had pointed out, but saw only crystal balls, ivory statuettes, and chess pieces carved from black and white stones cluttering the bookshelf.

"Can't you see? This is normal."

Seeing that Sophie was confused, Cecilia continued to explain, "Outside of the Sequence, there are countless ways to use extraordinary powers in our era. Not only demons, but also 'fortune tellers', 'witches', 'astrologers', 'decryption scholars', 'secret peepers'... There are too many extraordinary people in the twenty-two sequences who can use ritual magic and various spells to assist themselves in fighting."

"As far as I know, the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom should have recorded a lot of similar ritual magic, and the rituals of these magics are much more complicated than you think. This kind of ritual using objects is very low-level. The truly complex ritual magic even requires different people's different states as the ritual."

Sophie walked carefully between the shadows of the tall bookshelves under Cecilia's guidance and asked curiously, "So you mean that Miss Sonya is from the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom?"

"Not entirely. The Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom does have a lot of ritual magic, but this magic seems to be relatively simple in terms of its composition. It is not something unique to the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom."

Cecilia denied it, but then she thought about it and added, "But your guess makes sense. We can't be sure of her attitude towards the Witch Cult, so don't mention your relationship with Adele for now."

"Someone is coming out. Let me talk to her."

As if sensing something, Cecilia took control of her body and pulled the scarf up to cover half of her face. "A child's body is not very suitable for doing something like this. For now, just disguise yourself as a shorter adult woman. Fortunately, you're not particularly short, so you can just make do."

"When I was in the East End, Adele's mother would ask me to take back the leftover milk at home, so I was relatively tall among my peers."

Sophie said with some pride.

"You're still a child after all, because you're so proud of this kind of thing..."

Cecilia sighed, and as she saw the wooden door at the end of the room about to open, she asked the last question casually.

"By the way, you'll be fifteen in a few months, right? How tall are you now?"

"About 1.54 meters."

……

In a tavern in Trier, Hugh Dilcha suddenly felt a chill and couldn't help sneezing.

Why do I feel like someone is saying something bad about me just now... Is Fors really okay? May Mr. Fool bless her.

Rubbing his nose, Quinn moved his body towards the center of the high stool and knocked hard on the wooden counter.

Xio actually doesn't like drinking, but if he wants to gather intelligence, there is no better place than a bar.

The bartender in a white shirt and black vest quickly turned around and asked in a gentle and polite voice with the slightly upturned accent that is unique to the people of Intis:

"Ma'am, what would you like to drink?"

Alas, even though I have been here for a long time to investigate, this gentleman from Intis who speaks like a song is still hard to refuse...

While thinking about it, Xio subconsciously said to the other party: "A glass of 'half and half'."

Since she started working for MI9 and attending various meetings, her alcohol tolerance has improved a lot. At least she no longer gets drunk and acts crazy after just a few glasses of low-alcohol liquor like before, and uses her fists to persuade others present to quit drinking.

"Sorry, we don't sell low-alcohol drinks here."

However, the bartender politely refused Hugh and pointed to a sign on the side that read "Strong Liquor Only".

"Oh...then just give me a drink with a slightly lower alcohol content."

Xio was a little embarrassed, but she still responded. From what she had discovered, most of the Beyonders in the bar were mid-sequence, which was rare even in a big city like Trier.

"I'm sorry, I didn't express myself clearly just now. To be precise, it should be 'I don't sell low-alcohol liquor to Loen spies like you.'"

However, the bartender's smile suddenly turned cold, and in Hugh's mind, his image quickly magnified, making people's hair stand on end!

As a demigod of the Judge path, she was particularly sensitive to Beyonder powers. But just now, the bartender in front of her gave her the impression of being just a low-sequence Beyonder, but now, he gave her the impression of being an out-and-out demigod!
The bartender's body was instantly covered in a layer of silver-white metallic light, and before Xio could react, a stream of red fire suddenly exploded behind him, causing the demigod's metal body to rush towards Xio like a cannonball.

If Xio was still at the level when she was promoted to demigod, she would have been killed by this sudden attack. However, during this period of time, she had conducted in-depth investigations in Intis, which had greatly improved her combat experience.

Just as the metal figure pushed by the flames was about to hit Xio's body, two lightning-like lights flashed in Xio's eyes, and then she swung her arms violently and shouted in ancient Hermes:
"exile!"

Mental Piercing + Exile, although not a very advanced ability, but considering the rank of Judge Demigod, its power is still amazing. The burning metal paused for a moment before hitting Xio, and was blown away by Exile.

The bartender slammed into the wall of the tavern, and horrible marks like knife and axe cuts immediately appeared on the front of the collision, and then the whole building collapsed.

(End of this chapter)