Late at night.

At the house of Congressman Makht, while everyone was falling asleep.

Hazel quietly got out of bed and changed into clothes that made it easy to move around with the help of her night vision. She climbed down from her bedroom balcony, carefully avoiding the houseguards, and sneaked out of the garden to the middle of Berlund Street, where not all sewer entrances were free for humans to pass through and had straight metal stairs.

Coming to the entrance of the sewer, Hazel watched vigilantly left and right for a few seconds before moving the manhole cover and climbing down, the whole process in one go, without any sluggishness.

It can be seen that this is not the first time she has done this, and her skillful movements are a little distressing.

Stepping on the slightly slippery ground, she made her swift progress along rusty iron pipes and gently flowing rivers of sewage.

The sewers are well connected, and it's easy for unfamiliar people to get lost in them. But Hazel navigated the way around several corners to the end of a fork in the road, where there was a mossy patch of creeping and corroded walls.

Hazel didn't hesitate, and groped with her hands on the wall for a while, opening the secret door hidden in the wall with a loud noise. With her excellent night vision, Hézel was able to see everything around her, even in dark sewers.

Passing through the secret door, the space in front of Hazel suddenly opened up, it was a semi-natural, semi-artificial cave, it was less than 1.8 meters high, 3 meters wide, the ground was placed with shovels and other utensils wrapped in oilcloth, piled with a large amount of earth and gravel, and in front of it there were two hidden passages that extended diagonally downward.

The one on the left is only five or six meters deep, and the one on the right is nearly ten meters, but nothing exists because they are still being excavated.

Hazel expertly picked up the shovel on the ground, lifted the wrapped tarpaulin layer by layer, and walked straight to the hidden passage on the right. This arrogant lady of high society turned into a civil engineer at this time, digging shovel after shovel in the dirty and smelly sewers without complaint.

A voice suddenly sounded in the girl's ear:

"Need help?"

Startled by the sudden sound, Hazel turned around to find a man standing behind her.

And most importantly, this person she knew - she had met each other at a dinner party at her house.

The horror in Hazel's eyes subsided, replaced by gritted annoyance:

"You're stalking me?"

She was angry that the other party would follow her, and she was annoyed that she didn't find out as an extraordinary person.

But after the anger, Hazel suddenly realized a more serious problem, why did he, as an extraordinary person, fail to discover the other party?

Hazel is confident that it is impossible for ordinary people to escape her detection, so there is only one possibility - this person is an extraordinary person who is even more powerful than her!

Hazel took two steps back with some surprise:

"You're an official extraordinary?"

At the dinner, Ember and Bishop Elektra had a good conversation, which she had thought was just because of the other party's noble status. But now it seems that there is obviously a deeper factor!

"Think so."

Ember bowed her head slightly, looked past the girl to the passage that had not been fully excavated, and asked:

"How did you find this place?"

Hazel looked at the passage behind him with some hesitation, and did not give an answer immediately.

She was measuring the difference in strength between herself and Ember, and she was also weighing the gains and losses.

The other party is certainly the official extraordinary person of the Night Church, but his teacher is a legendary demigod!

Ember looked at the girl who seemed to be a little hesitant, and said slowly:

"Your parents are both believers in the Church of the Night."

Hazel raised her head suddenly, her eyes were a little incredulous, as if she couldn't believe that the other party would threaten her with such a despicable means!

Ember looked at the girl's clear and stupid eyes, and said in a calm tone:

"Don't get me wrong, I mean, if your family weren't members of the Night Church, I wouldn't have told you so much."

"I ......"

The girl pursed her lips, her heart full of entanglement, not knowing what to do.

After being silent for a long time, Hazel still hesitated and said:

"I—I dreamed about it. Teacher...... She told me in my dreams how to be extraordinary, and asked me to find a way to come here and dig something. I didn't believe it at first, but I dreamed about the same thing for days on end, and the potion recipe I was told in my dream did make me a 'thief', so I ......"

Hazel stopped talking, but Ember could guess what was going on.

Hazel's situation is similar to that of Audrey at the beginning, and she is also a young lady who dreams of a mysterious world.

The difference is that Audrey will become extraordinary through the tarot, so she will have a strong sense of belonging to the tarot, and even have a strong sense of ownership. So every time the tarot meeting starts, 'Justice' is the first to greet everyone, and it is often her who introduces the other members to the newcomers.

And Hazel didn't have such good luck, she was dreamed of by a demigod with other plans, and helped her become extraordinary.

But Hazel didn't know this, so just like Audrey's strong belonging to the Tarot Society, Hazel also had great trust in the demigod, so the haughty young lady would not hesitate to go into the filthy and smelly sewers, do the work that even the poor people in the East Side were not willing to do, and do civil works in the sewers in the middle of the night.

Seeing that Ember was silent for a long time, Hazel couldn't help but ask:

"What are you going to do with me?"

The girl glanced at the gap to the right of the embers with her peripheral eyes, and grasped the necklace around her neck with a twinkle in her eyes.

Hearing this, Ember opened his position sideways and spoke:

"You can leave."

"Huh?"

Instead, Hazel was stunned for a moment and hesitated:

"That's it?"

Ember looked at her calmly and said slowly:

"Tomorrow morning, you'll go to Mass with your parents at the Church of the Night. At that point, I want you to take the initiative to confess to Bishop Elektra what is happening here. For your parents' sake, Bishop Elektra will not lock you up in Chanismans, but your personal freedom will certainly be somewhat restricted, and he will accept you as a night watchman and tell you what the cosplay is. ”

"It's the best thing for you, and it's for your parents."

Hazel looked suspicious, and took two steps back with some vigilance.

What does it mean not to put her in Chanis Gate? I don't know what Chanisgate is, but it sounds like a scary thing! The Night Watchman should be the official Extraordinary of the Night Church, which she can understand, but what is the way to act?

Ember saw that instead of letting down his guard, Hezel became more and more vigilant, and couldn't help but shake his head and said:

"Looks like you don't understand it at all."

"Anyway, the opportunity is already in front of you, it's up to you whether you can go or not."

"I ......"

Hazel hesitated for a long time, glanced at the passage behind her, and then pursed her lips to look at the path that had been cleared by the embers. In the end, he lowered his head and silently crossed the embers, and walked briskly towards the exit of the passage.

When Hazel disappeared from view, Ember withdrew her gaze to look at the passage ahead.

The passage is clearly far from complete, and the embers are unlikely to be dug slowly one shovel at a time.

It is impossible to do so, not in this life.

What's more, why do you need to dig to open a mine? Isn't it significantly more efficient to use explosives?

With this in mind, Ember took out the old man's crystal from the space and aimed the blue crystal covered by the tip of the staff like a stone at the passage in front of him. Without the chant of a spell, the icy blue magic surged through the end of the wand, and eventually converged into a terrifying torrent!

【Soul Torrent】

[When Loslick and the Great Library were founded,

Magic imparted by the original sage.

Can shoot a large amount of soul torrents.

The Initial Sage is not just a skeptical of the transmission of fire,

And it is rumored that he was also the prince's teacher in private. 】

Bang!

The ice-blue beam of energy emerged from the tip of the crystallized staff, instantly dyeing the passage in front of it blue. Inside the dark sewers, the ice-blue torrent washed everything in front of it, completely annihilating everything that stood in its path.

When the light dissipated, only a smooth wall was left in front of him, like a passage made of poured cement. But before Ember could enter the passage that had been carved out, a black shadow suddenly burst out of the deep darkness and rushed straight towards Ember!

This is the hidden demigod, Flora Jacob from the House of Jacob!

Flora originally planned to fool Hazel into digging the passage, and when the other party broke the seal, she could instantly parasitize it and turn it into nutrients to restore her own strength. It's a pity that all this was destroyed by the man in front of him, but this is not a bad thing - the excavation work that Flora originally expected to be completed in another month or two, with the help of this man, it only took a few seconds to completely destroy the seal!

And at the moment when the seal was broken, Flora did not hesitate to suddenly attack, she wanted to parasitize this extraordinary person of the Night Church!

This is also the reason why she did not act rashly when she found out that Hazel was being stalked by the other party - Flora was confident that the other party did not know about her existence, because although he had been guiding Hazel through dreams, he had never told Hazel what he was digging for.

Hazel had always been naïve enough to think that she was digging for some kind of treasure, but it never occurred to her that what she was digging was her 'teacher's seal'.

And Flora had already confirmed that the extraordinary person in front of her had come alone.

It is very likely that the other party is also a Hazel digging for some treasure, so he did not report it to the Dark Night Church, but followed an innocent girl in the middle of the night, wanting to swallow the treasure that the other party was excavating!

Although his act of letting Hazel go was a bit of a surprise to Flora, it didn't have much of an impact. Because when she successfully parasitizes this night watchman, she will go and kill the Hazel family and completely eliminate the trace of her existence!

Of course, all this is premised on her ability to successfully parasitize the embers.

Although Flora's sneak attack was quite successful, she never thought about why Ember dared to come here alone!

When the black shadow swept towards the embers, the embers who had just released the soul torrent didn't seem to react, standing in place and staring straight at the black shadow, watching the other party burrow into his body.

However, the moment the dark shadow first touched Ember's body, she suddenly burst into flames.

Literally ignited!

The dark shadow, which almost blended into her surroundings, suddenly shone brightly, at first as sporadic sparks, which quickly crept all over her spirit and connected little by little, eventually turning into a raging fire that made it surging and burning!

"Ahh

Flora, who was already a spirit left, should have been immune to similar 'physical damage', and the flames could not hurt it at all, but the flames seemed to contain some kind of higher level of power, and even Flora's soul was burning, and the severe pain was unbearable for the demigod, and he let out a scream of pain.

The parasitic process was interrupted, and the former demigod could only curl up on the ground in pain, struggling desperately.

But no matter how much she tried to save herself, she couldn't let the flames that engulf her body weaken in the slightest.

Of course.

She's lucky.

The last demigod who tried to invade the embers went a little deeper, so he had been burned to ashes.

And Flora, if it continues like this, will inevitably be burned to the ground.

But that wasn't what Ember was expecting, and he wasn't meant to use the demigod as nourishment.

After all, burning a demigod can only be said to be better than nothing, at least it has to be an angel to make sense.

If he really burned this demigod to the point that there was not even scum left, then he would have to find a new demigod of the 'thief' route-

This gratuitous waste of time obviously did not meet his expectations.

So he took the initiative to 'extinguish' the flame that covered Flora Jacob, so that the pain of her 'burning' was relieved a little.

And almost at the moment when the flame was 'extinguished', the black shadow attacked again!

She did not attempt to continue parasitic the embers, as this had already proven infeasible.

She just wants to get away from Ember as quickly as possible now!

As long as she left the sewer, she could find a random passer-by to send it. And a parasite who parasitizes on others is definitely not so easy to find!

Ember still stood still, not only unaware of the shadow's escape, but also unconcerned.

And when the shadow finally escaped from the passage and came to the secret door that had been opened, ready to pass through.

An invisible force suddenly erupted from her body!

"Ahh

At the woman's terrible screams, the shadow fell to the ground again, and the flames once again covered her spirit, devouring everything she had.

"Why bother?"

Ember shook his head slightly, walked unhurriedly to the black shadow, pulled out a small urn out of nowhere, and threw the demigod into it, who had completely lost his struggle.

Until he gathers the three sacrifices, this small box is the demigod's eternal home.

——

Hazel pushed open the manhole cover above her head, looked at the deep passage below with some fear, and pursed her lips to close the manhole cover.

She escaped the sight of the bodyguards and returned to her room without alerting anyone, her heart full of apprehension.

She couldn't disobey Ember's orders, but she feared being punished by her teacher, the legendary demigod.

Ember told her to go to the Night Church tomorrow morning to 'turn herself in', but maybe she would dream of the teacher tonight!

"What should I do?"

Hazel curled up on the bed with her legs crossed, a little confused.

(End of chapter)