"Nia, how are you feeling?"

"It seems to have suddenly become a little lighter."

"Let's find a place to sit first, and we'll stay a little longer!"

With that, Shado led Nia to a stone bench at the edge of the square.

Next to the bench was a statue of a figure, Xia Duo had never been here before, so he couldn't help but take a second look, and Nia immediately introduced:

"This is a statue of Archbishop Anthony, who died in a wave of orcs, and is said to have ascended into the Land of Radiance in the form of light."

She had visited here a few times, and she was quite familiar with the statues and buildings here, but her perception of the Holy Power was not as strong as that of Xia Duo.

"It turned out to be a character from three hundred years ago!"

Chado saw an introduction to the life of Archbishop Anthony on the base of the statue, but he did not ascend into the Radiant Land as the light as Nia claimed.

It seems that this should be the difference between canonical history and legend.

Of course, it is not impossible for Archbishop Anthony to go to the Shining Nation after his death, after all, the Shining Nation is real.

He'd seen the Chroma Farmers pioneer in the Endless Wilderness, he'd heard of the Chroma Mages studying magic in the Radiant Realm, and even heard that the Dead Lord's underworld was a kind of home.

Of course, there is also the new kingdom of God opened up by Her Royal Highness the [God of Exploration and Protection] in the outer plane, and there are also some color-resistant reincarnators.

It's just that Xia Duo still hasn't figured out where a person will go to the outer plane after death, and what the mechanism is.

It may have something to do with faith, but it's not exactly, and there must be secrets related to the nature of the world.

……

After taking a seat on the bench, Shado told Nia to be on guard, and he began to retrace his memories, the same memories he had had in the morning at the Colosseum.

Then, he was pleasantly surprised to find that when he traced his memory, the mysterious patterns left by the demon after his death in his memory were different from before.

Whether it was a line drawing that resembled a demonic image or a mysterious rune of unknown meaning, all of them had lost the anomalous characteristics they had perceived before—they no longer emitted, as if they had become ordinary patterns in ordinary memories.

Perhaps, as Iolum said, he was contaminated with demonic aura when he passed by the scene of the demon's death before, and now when he came to the square outside the Grand Temple, he was blessed by the holy power, and the demonic aura was immediately cleared.

Subsequently, Xia Duo concentrated and soon entered a state of extreme concentration, and the situation in the small space around his soul that was reflected by the glow was also quickly incorporated into his perception.

At this time, in the small space around the soul, there were still images of the endless wilderness and color-resistant villages that were intermittently like unstable signals, as well as images of what seemed to be a swamp somewhere in the abyss.

This made Xia Duo a little disappointed.

He had thought that the blessing of the Holy Power would also clear the abyss image in the small space around the soul!

However, although the image of the abyss still exists, the mysterious pattern left behind by the death of those demons is gone.

At the same time, from the premonition in the bloodline, if the soul goes to the outer plane, it will no longer be pulled by the abyss, but can freely decide where to go, whether to go to the infinite wilderness or the abyss.

Perhaps those mysterious patterns are the so-called "demonic breath", which is used to attract demon summoners and drain the abyss!

And those abyssal images were just coordinates for his soul to descend to the outer plane!

If this is understood, Xia Duo will feel a lot better, contaminated with the so-called "demonic aura", and he will not get any harm, but will get a new coordinate of the outer plane that can be used to descend.

But when it comes to demons and abysses, he won't take it lightly, if there are really three long and two short, it will really be "the middle way collapsed before the start of the business"!

In the future, we will need to check from time to time to see if those mysterious patterns will come back, which is probably the only bad point of this experience!

……

Back at the Austro-French Federation, Chateau heard someone talking about the snowmelt competition, and after calling a grassroots deacon to inquire, he learned that the Severynton Assembly had officially announced that the snowmelt competition would continue to be postponed.

Previously announced by El Carmon on behalf of the Severynton Assembly that it had been postponed to two days later, it was now postponed to five days later.

"Is it because of the demons?"

Chardonia glanced at each other, and the two of them instantly made the same guess.

Then, the next morning, the Severynton Assembly reported that at noon, a prayer ceremony would be held in the Radiant Square outside the Grand Temple for the elves and humans who died unexpectedly in the arena yesterday.

Generally speaking, the Great Temple of Severington rarely holds large celebrations, especially in the current situation where there are more than half of the people, and the holy power obtained from the holy tide is often not enough to cover the expenses.

But now, at the behest of the Severington Parliament, the Grand Temple has done so.

Xia Duo immediately understood the above idea, "exorcism" for all potential people who were contaminated with demonic aura, and generally such a large-scale event has many benefits.

Not to mention anything else, even if you come to see the excitement, at least you can mix a blessing, cure the disease, and strengthen the body without the disease.

However, Xia Duo and Nia did not participate in this kind of activity, and those who had a relationship with them had already been informed in advance of the existence of demonic aura, and those who should have been blessed had already gone.

In the morning, the two of them walked around the Old Town for a while, and Nia went to the Gilles Tower to apply for advanced materials for the study of the background fluctuations of the magic net, while Xado went to a tavern near the Kieran Tower to go to the Lord of Collins for an appointment.

"Lord Xiaduo, I didn't expect this year's snowmelt competition to be even more exciting than last year, and there was a demonic event!"

"Yes, who would have thought of such a situation!" Xia Duo sighed and drank the wine in his glass.

According to the original agreement between him and Lord Collins, the two would not discuss the opening of the Comantso trade route until after the snowmelt competition, but when this happened, five days were suddenly free.

Not to mention a senior arcanist, even an ordinary mage, he wouldn't waste it so casually.

Collins was very efficient, and soon made a detailed summary and plan of the current and future output of spices in the territory.

The main purpose of this meeting between the two was to exchange views on this matter, so Xia Duo also specially asked Orepus about some information about Comanso's domestic spice market last night, and he was prepared.

……

At the wine table.

Xia Duo quickly went through the information brought by Lord Collins, and Lord Collins was very sincere, and the information he provided was very comprehensive.

Among them, there are very many kinds of spices, including many ancient spices that he mentioned before, which have long been extinct in the elven world.

It seems that you can not only find ancient magic items and materials in the ancient ruins, but also ancient plant seeds.

Xia Duo didn't ask where to find the long-preserved spice seeds, but asked a question based on the information brought by the other party-