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Ferran took the note, scanned it, and memorized the information on it. With a slight rub of his fingers, the note turned to dust.
Inott King looked at Ferran with satisfaction. If it weren't for the fact that this kid had made too many enemies, he would have been tempted to recruit him into his own team. It was just a pity that such a useful blade might break at any time.
Ferran didn't care about others' thoughts. He turned to leave, only to find that the scholarly gentleman who gave him a sense of familiarity had already left and disappeared without a trace.
Tightening the axe on his back, Ferran slowly walked towards the district on the east side of the port, recalling the information recorded on the note just now, and thought to himself:
"This is another excellent opportunity for acting. If this continues, my Folk of Rage potion will be digested very quickly. I still need to keep taking missions to earn money."
On a rooftop not far away, Checker squatted, watching Ferran leave...
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Backlund North Borough, Church of the Evernight Goddess Backlund Diocese headquarters, "Saint Samuel Cathedral."
The weather at the end of August should have been scorching hot, but at this moment, the atmosphere in the conference room was as if it had dropped to freezing point.
Saint Anthony Stevenson, with a clean-shaven face, deep eyes, and wearing a black and red archbishop's robe, angrily slammed the telegram in his hand onto the table.
In the dull and oppressive atmosphere, several Red Gloves team members sitting opposite held their breath, facing the demigod's pressure, and were all somewhat breathless.
A moment later, Saint Anthony slowly sat down and closed his eyes.
Seeing that the atmosphere was no longer oppressive, urged by the glances of the other Red Gloves team members, Soul Assurer Soest braced himself and stepped forward. After a respectful bow, he picked up the telegram on the table.
Soest only glanced at it, but couldn't help his pupils contract, exclaiming in surprise:
"Archbishop Ince Zangwill has defected from the Church with a Sealed Artifact of Sequence 0!"
All the Red Gloves below looked at each other, their faces filled with disbelief. Anthony opened his eyes, black flames seemingly burning within them, and coldly uttered two words: "Traitor."
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Backlund Empress Borough, inside the luxurious villa of the East Tucker Family.
As a Blessed of the Evernight Goddess, Aaron naturally had the right to know about this matter. He casually glanced at it and then threw the telegram in his hand into the distant fireplace.
Watching the paper turn to ashes, Aaron couldn't help but shake his head. What a grand show.
He then ignored the matter and picked up a newspaper on the table that Darren had just given him this morning.
The newspaper had specially highlighted the headline in red—"Roselle the Great Commemorative Exhibition to be Held at the Kingdom Museum on September 15th."
Hosted by the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery, the exhibition would feature Roselle's original invention manuscripts and various relics, open for only one day.
Mr. Horamick Haydn, honorary professor of the Physics Department at Backlund University, emphasized the preciousness of this exhibition in the newspaper's exclusive interview column and hoped that more people would feel the charm of machinery.
Aaron couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth when he saw this name. Horamick Haydn was none other than that member of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery's God's Council and the Archbishop of the Backlund Diocese.
To seize this annual publicity opportunity, this Archbishop had personally stepped forward.
After all, in terms of fame and appeal among the common people, as an Glory professor of the Physics Department at Backlund University, he far surpassed other bishops and priests.
He folded the newspaper and placed it, along with a written letter next to it, into a delicate silk pouch. The front of the pouch was also hand-embroidered with a miniature white cat.
A white shadow flashed, and Evelyn jumped onto the desk, looking at the small pouch in front of her, muttering somewhat reluctantly:
"Aaron, you're not going to make me deliver letters again, are you?"
"Delivering letters is something you humans do. I'm just a cat."
Aaron poked her head and said with a smile:
"Why have you become a repeater now?"
"You've been delivering letters for so many days, why are you still asking this kind of question?"
"After you deliver the letter to Miss Audrey, you can go play with Susie. Don't you like playing with her the most?"
Evelyn, as if resigned to her fate, put on the small pouch herself, then indignantly slapped the table with her paw, complaining:
"But that doesn't mean I have to deliver letters every day, and playing with Susie every day gets boring."
She then looked at her small body and said even more discontentedly in a loud voice:
"Susie has grown so big lately, I don't know what she's been eating. Unless I lie on her head, I have to keep looking up at her."
"And Susie especially likes to lick people, no, to lick cats. Every time I go to play with her, she licks me all wet, making me too embarrassed to go to East Borough to see my subordinates."
Looking at Evelyn standing upright, with her paws on her hips, Aaron chuckled and leaned back on the sofa, saying in a teasing tone:
"Let me think who wanted the Sequence 8 Telepathist potion a few weeks ago."
Evelyn seemed to be hit by a blow to the head. Her previous momentum instantly dissipated. She jumped onto the sofa with her small pouch on her back and rubbed Aaron's hand with her head.
"It's me, it's me! I'll definitely deliver the letter to Miss Audrey. When can I get that potion?"
Aaron took out another letter, wrote a letter, and put it into Evelyn's small pouch, replying with a smile:
"Your performance has been good recently, and the potion has also been digested. I'll give it to you tomorrow then."
"I've written another letter to Audrey. Susie shouldn't lick you all over with slobber anymore, and Audrey will arrange for a maid to bathe you."
"And..."
Before Aaron could finish, a white shadow darted out, leaving only its echo in place:
"I know, I know, it's just that I can't talk. You always have to say it every time..."
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Backlund Empress Borough, the luxurious villa of Earl Hall.
The window of the second-floor bedroom was gently tapped. Audrey, who was engrossed in a book on mysticism at her desk, heard the familiar tapping sound and rose with a smile.
The golden retriever lying at her feet lifted its head from its food, immediately stood up, panting with its tongue out, looking expectant.
Audrey opened the window, and a cute white cat with a small backpack sat neatly on the windowsill, meowing as if to greet her, then jumped onto the desk.
With a gentle and elegant smile on her face, Audrey picked up Evelyn, took off the small backpack, and placed her next to Susie, saying with a smile: "Susie, look who's here?"
Susie barked, happily circled once, then, remembering something, bit off a piece of her favorite dog biscuit and placed it in front of Evelyn, excitedly barking again.
Evelyn looked at her much-grown playmate, then at her own small body, and hesitantly took a bite of the dog biscuit. Hmm... it tasted pretty good.
Audrey opened the envelope, took out the two letters and a newspaper inside, and unfolded the letters to read them.
A moment later, a blush appeared on her delicate face. Audrey then guiltily looked around, and only after not seeing her personal maid Annie did she relax and continue reading.
After about two quarters of an hour, Audrey finished reading all the letters and the newspaper with a red face. She tucked one of the letters into an old book she rarely read and placed it in a corner of the bookshelf.
Leaving the newspaper on the desk, Audrey washed her face. After her complexion returned to normal, she hummed a song and walked out of the bedroom with the other letter.
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