Secrets: Priestess

Chapter 147 Late Night Visitor
Backlund, Hillston District.

In the deep night, petite Xio lay on the bed in the bedroom, counting the 1-sol banknotes she had just exchanged that day.

Fors, leaning against the headboard with a book in her hands, looked at Xio who was carefully sorting the banknotes and sighed with a smile:
"Xiu, I always feel like we're losing money. You've been giving away money at the rate of 5 soli apiece, and you've paid nearly 5 pounds in advance to those information dealers and gang members."

Holding a 5-sol banknote in his hand, he lay on the bed, shaking his raised legs, and retorted to Fors:

"Fors, let's take a long-term view! As long as we can find Lanevus, we can not only get a 100-pound reward from Miss Audrey, but also a 100-pound bounty from the police! A mere few pounds, at most a dozen pounds, for information fees is a necessary expense."

Ever since accepting Miss Audrey's commission to "find Lanevus" at the party, Xio had been holding Lanevus's portrait and gradually approaching familiar intelligence dealers and low-level idlers in the East District. She paid them 5 soli in advance and promised them 10 gold pounds, asking them to help her search extensively for clues about Lanevus.

Fors, who was holding a suspense novel, showed a look of disbelief. Thinking about the people that Xio had outsourced, she complained:
"Those people you found can't even afford a newspaper. They don't even know Lanevus is a wanted criminal worth 100 pounds... Can they really help us find Lanevus?"

"Besides, what do you mean by just a few pounds? Before we met Miss Audrey, we worked hard for several days and only earned a few pounds. You're getting too arrogant, Hugh... Don't forget, you haven't even collected enough materials for the sheriff."

Upon hearing this, Xio rolled over. His movements were swift, and he rolled to Fors's side in an instant. He used a tickling attack on Fors, who was leaning against the headboard, while saying:
"Don't forget, Fors. The person before you now is the Night Watchman of the Church of the Evernight Goddess, the organizer of Backlund's extraordinary gathering, the bounty hunter who mingles among the nobles, the revivalist of the Earl's family, 'Judge' Hugh Dilcha!"

Whether it was because of Xio's tickling or Xio's words that amused her, Fors giggled so hard that she fell off the bed. "I can't hold it anymore. I'm dying of laughter."

Fors laughed until tears came out of her eyes. She grabbed the edge of the bed, stood up, and panted slightly, "Who was counting the dinner bill on his fingers?"

Xio occupied the entire large bed, looked up at Fors beside the bed and said, "I'm being frugal. Frugality is a virtue."

Just as the two girls were playing, a shadow squeezed in through the crack in the door of their residence. The shadow merged into the various shadows and dark corners in the room, slowly approaching the girls' bedroom.

Near the bedroom door, a tall figure rushed out from the shadows. He knocked the door open and rushed in front of Fors in the blink of an eye.

The attack came so suddenly that before Fors could react, a tall and handsome man grabbed her by the throat and lifted her up high.

"stop!"

Watching Fors being lifted up by the throat by the attacker who suddenly broke in, Xio used her only extraordinary ability to shout at the attacker.

Her majestic rebuke as an "arbitrator" can calm violent gang members down, and even make those with weaker willpower squat down with their heads in their hands because of her majesty.

But the handsome attacker calmly held Fors in one hand and looked at Xiou with a smile on his face, "'Arbitrator'? It seems you are Xiou Dilcha."

"Put her down!" Xio got out of bed, pulled out a hidden triangular spike from under the bed, pointed at the attacker and shouted.

"Don't waste your pitiful spiritual energy. You are too weak. Your little tricks have no effect on me."

The handsome man tried his best to smile gently, but the smile on his face became even more perverted. He unconsciously stretched the corners of his mouth wider:

"Relax, girl. I just wanted to ask you a question. Why are you looking for Lanevus?"

"Let her go first!" Xio saw Fors, who was being held up and restrained, trying to touch her wrist secretly. She had a tacit understanding and wanted to give Fors some free movement first.

The attacker gave a playful smile, "Well, I'm willing to fulfill the beautiful girl's wish. Go ahead, girl."

The attacker swung his arm and threw Fors towards Xiou. A moment of relief washed over Fors. As she was thrown towards Xiou, she quickly reached out to grasp the dark blue stone on her bracelet to activate the "teleportation" ability and escape with Xiou.

But Fors found an opportunity.

The attacker laughed, "Are you looking for this bracelet?"

Xio and Fors, who were smashed together, looked up at the attacker at the same time and saw that Fors's teleportation bracelet had fallen into the hands of this handsome man.

Dangling the bracelet in front of him, the handsome man smiled wickedly, "Beautiful ladies, your actions and desires are too obvious. I have no choice but to take this bracelet for safekeeping."

"Is this a magical item that can help you reverse your situation? Is it the type that can instantly unleash massive damage? Or is it the type that can help you escape?"

Observing the expressions of Xio and Fors, the handsome man smiled maliciously and said, "It seems to be the latter. But it belongs to me now."

The man laughed viciously, especially when he saw the terrified expressions on the two girls in front of him, he laughed even more wantonly with pleasure and twisted expression.

Then--

His smile became even more distorted.

It was a painful distortion.

Black flames continued to overflow from his mouth!

The handsome man couldn't help but bend over and began to vomit. He vomited bile, his bright red heart, and his lungs and stomach that were burning with black flames.

"There's someone behind me?!"

He wanted to turn around and see who his powerful enemy was. He wanted to use his power to re-enter the shadows of the past and escape. He even wanted to use his spiritual power to cover the magical item he had just seized and pray for a miracle...

But his thoughts eventually became blurred, and his life came to an end in vomiting! The man, bent like a shrimp, fell completely to the dirty ground, without a sound!
"I'm sorry, I seem to have made a mess in your room."

The voice was soft and apologetic.

A black-haired woman who could make one feel hot inside at a glance smiled at Xio and Fors. Her dark eyes were deep and captivating.

The woman took the dark green bracelet from the fallen male corpse. Chilled air continued to emanate from her body, condensing into ice crystals that froze all the filth on the ground.

Stepping over the thick ice crystals, the woman's eyes fell on Xio:

"Xiu Dilcha, Nightwatchman of the Church of the Evernight Goddess, member of the Red Gloves of Team Galadria. His teammates include Daly Simone and Viper Flora..."

"I want to ask you, does your team have a fifth person?"

(End of this chapter)