Chapter 32: Examination and Tasks
On Wednesday evening, Angel arrived in the West End in a hired carriage.
She originally thought that an evil and hidden organization like the Witch Sect would hide in places like the South Side and Joe Wood, but she didn't expect that, like Mr. A of the "Aurora Society", she liked to choose areas like Queens and the West Side, where rich people gather and police are abundant.
As the carriage drove to Palm Avenue, Angel paid the fare and got out of the car, and found that it was a vast and sparsely populated area of wealth, with large houses with gardens lining the streets, and luxurious four-wheeled carriages with various insignia galloping along the road, and few passers-by were seen on foot.
Far more flamboyant than I thought......
Angel withdrew her inquiring gaze and walked down the street to the spot marked on the note, a three-story villa in the midst of exquisite landscaping.
It was already night, but there were still dutiful guards standing guard at the door, and he seemed to have learned that Angel would be coming today, so he asked her to wait a while and go in to report it himself.
A few minutes later, a young woman dressed in a black and white maid's dress came to the door with the guards and led Angel inside.
"Madame is waiting for you in the reception room."
The well-trained maid had only spoken this sentence to Angel from beginning to end, and walked through the busy hall where many servants were busy, through the richly decorated corridor with thick carpets, and led her to a reception room on the east side of the first floor.
Entering the reception room alone, Angel found the maid behind her and pulled the door open.
"Welcome, lost 'witch', I am glad that you were on time."
A not-so-young, but contagious voice came from behind the screen in the reception room, and footsteps rang out, and a woman in a black silk robe with long black hair tied behind her head stepped out of the screen and sat down at the coffee table in the center of the reception room.
Her face was round, but not fat, and under her thin eyebrows were a pair of gray eyes, which at this time exuded girlish curiosity, looking at Angel, but there seemed to be no malice.
The latter does not wear a hood to hide his appearance today, but he wears the "Ring of Madness", and in the eyes of others, he still has a dark hair and round face, which is not easy to remember.
As soon as she saw the lady's appearance, Angel guessed that she was also a Witch of Pleasure, well, at least the Witch of Pleasure.
Because she gives people a similar feeling to Ms. Lola, her face is not beautiful, but with the subtle movements of her body, every smile and smile affect the hearts of others.
"Hello, ma'am."
I don't know what to call the other party, Angel had to say hello briefly.
"Come, sit across from me," the dark-haired lady gestured to the other chair across from the coffee table, "don't be nervous, just call me Severia." ”
"Okay, Ms. Severia, I'm Erin Watson, the 'witch' from Sequence 7."
The other party called out his own sequence, and Angel didn't need to hide it, as for the pseudonym, many people already knew it in Beckland.
After Angel sat down, the lady who called herself Severia shook a small bell, and the side door of the reception room walked into the two maids, put a pot of fragrant black tea, one by one on the coffee table, poured tea for the two, and left silently, the movement was skillful and fast, so that Angel was dumbfounded.
I didn't expect the life of a rich person to be so ...... It's so luxurious, I thought there was a chef who specializes in cooking, a special personal maid is enough, but I didn't expect someone to come up and set up refreshments as soon as I shook the bell......
As if pleased with Angel's surprise, Ms. Severia smiled at the corner of her mouth, took a sip of her teacup, and then said softly:
"Originally, someone with a suspicious identity like you should have been directly examined by the 'Desperate Lady', but she has more important things to do recently, she is not in Beckland for the time being, and I am in charge of the West End and Queens, so we have this meeting."
Lady of Despair?
The first time Angel heard the name, it sounded like the superior of this Severia, who undoubtedly possessed a higher sequence, perhaps a sequence 5, and perhaps even reached a high sequence.
Could it be that sequence 5 of the witch's path is called "Witch of Despair"? This corresponds to the "Witch of Pleasure", and it is very likely.
"First of all, tell me about your experience before coming to Beckland, which is the first step in the examination."
With a hint of tactfulness and seduction, Severia pulled Angel back from her thoughts.
Sure enough, the first thing is a background check......
Angel had been prepared for this, and had even prepared a draft before coming to Bakeland, in consultation with Lady Arianna.
"I originally lived in Tingen, so I should work and live like an ordinary person, and grow old like an ordinary person......"
She describes the past of an "assassin" seven times truthfully and three times falsely.
"After meeting Lady Sharron, I embarked on the path of the extraordinary under her teaching, punishing evil and promoting good, killing those who are the leaders of criminal organizations and those who cannot be punished by the law, and then continued to rise through the ranks until I became a 'witch', to be honest, I didn't expect at that time that I would become a female ...... in Promotion Sequence 7."
When it came to "punishing evil and promoting good", she saw a hint of sarcasm in the eyes of Severia, who was sitting opposite, and it was instantly replaced by curiosity to listen to the story.
"This kind of cover-up and self-exaltation will make people believe in your past ...... more"
She thought of Arianna's advice.
"Although Lady Sharon and I have mentioned the Witch Sect' to me, she has always said that I am not ready to join, and with her death, I have lost the way to continue to advance, so I came to Beckland in the hope of getting more opportunities."
Lady Severia nodded slightly, her face became serious, and she asked:
"I heard about the death of Madame Sharon in the city of Tingen, do you know the circumstances?"
"She attacked the Night Watchman residence of the Night Church in order to deal with a defector, and I haven't seen her since."
"As we know, Sharon Hoy's death almost cost us an important piece of chess, but Mitis was able to pick her up, but Mitis had died in Tingen a month earlier...... Strange to say, we lost two members in a row there, hehe, maybe when you get promoted, you'll be sent there too. ”
Severia said jokingly.
Forget it, I don't want to go back and face my old teammates......
The thought of the night watchmen in Tingen made Angel's heart ache.
She forcibly shifted her attention and analyzed Severia's words.
Mitis is likely to be the long-haired "Witch of Pleasure", and what is the important pawn she "picked up"? Sounds like a woman too......
"Last question, do you know Tris?"
Tris? The "instigator", no, the new "witch"?
Angel was momentarily stunned by the interruption of her train of thought, but she quickly realized that Triss was most likely another of Lady Sharon's henchmen, and Severia asked this question to determine if she was lying.
"Yes, he is also Mrs. Sharon's downline, an 'instigator', but I haven't seen him since he went to sea and created the 'Alfalfa Incident'."
"Very well, it seems that you are not hiding or lying," Severia looked satisfied and bowed slightly, "According to the rules, you still need to accept a task, depending on the completion of the assessment of whether you can join the Witch Sect, this will be a long-term process, until then, you can only contact me alone, you can't, and you won't contact other people." ”
Angel secretly breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and replied:
"That's exactly what it should be, it's the same as when I was in Tingen."
"I'm glad you understand, I'll be looking for an opportunity to take you to a viscount's salon this week, originally planned to get you close to the viscount, but after meeting you, I don't think you're up to the task......"
Severia looked at Angel's face with some regret, reminding her of the strange look on Lady Lola from before.
"But I'll help you choose another target, and you can get close to one of his friends through Viscount Gleilint's salon, the daughter of an earl, who seems to have an extraordinary interest in the occult and in supernatural powers, and you might as well become her friend through this."
"You don't need to think anything extra about it, just approach her with a normal heart, so that it is not easy to be noticed. Becoming friends with her and socializing normally, that's your only task. ”
With a smile on her face, Severia added.
"If you can complete the quest, I will provide you with the recipe for the potion of 'Pleasure', as well as the corresponding potion materials."
Are recipes and ingredients paid? Wouldn't that be the case if you complete this task and have a chance to advance to Sequence 6?
Angel was a little surprised, she originally thought that this time she came to Severia just to accept the test of joining the "Witch Sect" and complete some simple or complex tasks to prove her ability.
I didn't expect the other party to offer such a generous reward.
"Who is that Baron Glerinte?"
Why is it worth the witch sect to pay such a big price to approach-she didn't ask the second half of the sentence.
"He? It's just a guy who inherited the title at a young age, and he's not the point. ”
Savelia picked up a delicate piece of refreshment, took a small bite and set it aside before continuing.
"Your target is Earl Hall's daughter, Audrey Hall."
"She is only 17 years old, but her beauty has spread throughout the upper echelons of Beckland, and she is known as 'Beckland's most dazzling jewel', with assets such as property, fields and stocks and bonds worth hundreds of thousands of pounds to her name."
Hundreds of thousands of pounds...... The largest amount of gold pounds I've ever seen before was on the wanted warrant for that fellow at Laneus, and the 10,000 pounds was only the total amount he had defrauded......
Angel hadn't expressed her surprise before Severia's words made her mouth open wide.
"And her father, the Earl of Hall, is a top banker in Rune, and an influential cabinet member, and his assets are more than 10 million pounds on the surface, and as a banker and an investor in many industries, the stocks and bonds he secretly controls may not be less than 30 million pounds if they are exchanged for gold pounds."
This kind of figure sounds as worthless as the pound......
Angel has lost the ability to be surprised by the amount of "ten million".
(End of chapter)