OBS Chapter 3979 Miss Sabel on a Rainy Day
Chapter 3979 Miss Sabel on a Rainy Day
Chapter 3979 Miss Sabel on a Rainy Day
Even on rainy days, there were still guards at the entrance to the fortress command post, but they did not stop the carriage bearing the Astley family crest.
Miss Cruz, who was driving the carriage, was clearly not a first-timer here. She didn't have Shad get out of the carriage immediately, but went to check the situation herself, returning in less than half a minute:
“Mr. Watson, the people at command say that the master and his party have already returned.”
Although there is certainly more than one road from Fragrant Residence to Greyrock Pass, Miss Cruz, who was driving, was very familiar with the route Viggo usually took. She had been worried about missing it, so she had made a point of observing the route along the way. In addition, the weather was bad today, and there weren't many carriages on the road, so the probability of the two carriages missing each other was extremely low.
Shad thought for a moment:
"Besides Grey Rock Pass, are there any other places Vige wants to visit?"
Miss Cruz gently shook her head:
"Master, this is the only thing you need to deal with today."
When did Vige's carriage leave?
"About half an hour ago, we should have just entered the lower city. If nothing unexpected happened, we should have met our master's carriage in the northern part of the outer city."
Vige was always wearing a "limiter," so Shad's "witch detection badge" could only sense her at close range; the badge didn't react at all on the way there.
"Now let's head back, and speed up. If we still don't see them when we get back to Fragrance Mansion, I'll ask my fortune teller friend for help."
"Ok."
The girl driving the carriage jumped back onto it and quickly drove away from the Gray Rock Pass Fortress Command Post. Xia De, inside the carriage, was very worried, but the carriage had only gone a short distance from the gate when it stopped again.
But it wasn't Miss Cruz who spotted Vigo; rather, someone was waving at the carriage from the roadside, and Shad heard a familiar voice outside amidst the pattering rain:
"Is Mr. John Watson here?"
Miss Cruz hesitated for a moment, guessing that the other person was a friend of Shad. Shad opened the car door in surprise, and there stood Miss Delia A. Sabel, whose hair had turned from yellowish-brown to blonde, holding a black umbrella and wearing a black and red dress, smiling by the roadside.
Behind her was a local inn, as if she had just stepped out of it. Since their parting at the elven camp banquet after the War of Destiny, this sudden encounter with Shad made him even suspect she was following him.
But the woman's words quickly stopped Shad from thinking about such meaningless things.
"When we parted last time, you said you hoped we could meet again when spring was in full bloom. It is indeed spring now, but unfortunately the weather isn't very good. Mr. Watson, you seem to be in a hurry. Is something urgent?"
Miss Sabel asked with a smile, and Shad immediately nodded:
“My friend seems to be missing. She left here half an hour ago and we haven’t met her on the road.”
Amused and annoyed by Viggo's "bragging," Adele Isabella decided to deliberately create another "chance encounter" with Shad locally. However, unsure of Shad's whereabouts, she had no choice but to follow Viggo. She then happened to witness Viggo's accident and, noticing Shad's approach, said the following:
“If you are looking for a sickly woman, I think I know where she is.”
She glanced at the girl driving, who immediately seemed frozen in time:
“As I told you before, I’m acquainted with the chairwoman of the witches, and I’ve heard her mention this lady. It seems she’s run into some trouble. Mr. Watson, would you like me to show you the way?”
“Of course, Miss Sabel, I’ve found that you always manage to solve my problems whenever you show up.”
Shad reached out his hand to her, and Adele blinked. Miss Cruz immediately returned to normal, completely unaware of what had happened. She only saw the strange woman reach for the carriage door before Shad pulled her into the carriage. Shad wouldn't normally do this, but now that he was certain Viggo was in trouble, he couldn't help but be anxious.
"sorry to bother you."
"It's ok."
Adele clenched her hand, which Shad had just held, inside her sleeve and smiled in response, then quietly told the girl driving where she was going.
“I know her, but she doesn’t recognize me, which is why she didn’t greet me when we bumped into each other. The sickly lady seems to have seen someone connected to her at Gray Rock Pass and followed them there with her people. Although I don’t know what happened next, I sensed a faint elemental fluctuation nearby not long ago; my senses are very sharp.”
She explained how she knew Viggo's whereabouts, but didn't mention that she had left a time clone to follow them. Seeing the unease on Shad's face, Adele was both pleased and displeased:
"Well then, Mr. Watson, I won't keep in touch with you for now. Although I'm very curious how you ended up here, finding your friend is more important. So, do you need my help later?"
Although the specifics are still unknown, Shad certainly doesn't mind having such a powerful ally as Miss Saber:
"Yes, she is a very important friend to me."
Adele clenched her fist tighter inside her sleeve, but her expression remained unchanged.
"I noticed when we parted last time that you have quite a few beautiful friends~"
The carriage first drove out of the Grey Rock Pass fortress, and then instead of heading along the main road towards the outer city of Arcadia, it turned south at the intersection of a country road and soon came to a stop.
"They are now on the banks of the Thernnir River, and we will walk there."
Miss Sabel nimbly left the carriage, and Shad quickly followed, calling out to Miss Cruz:
"You can park the carriage here. Come along with me."
The three quickly left the road where the carriage could travel. The rain was still heavy, but Miss Sabel simply waved her hand and everyone could no longer feel the raindrops.
They quickly descended the steps carved out by hand on the side of the hill, passed through a grove of trees, crossed a suspension bridge, and five minutes later saw Wei Ge and her group from a high vantage point.
Due to the terrain, the Serenil River flows swiftly year-round in the Gray Rock Pass section. At this moment, Vigo and her group were not standing directly in the riverbed, but rather on the riverbank on one side.
There is clearly a man-made road on the riverbank, which extends from the Gray Rock Pass fortress and should have run all the way from the lower side of the Gray Rock Pass fortress to here.
Wei Ge's group consisted of four people: the witch herself, a maid, a guard, and a girl dressed as a coachman. Of the latter three, apart from the nine-ringed maid, the other two had already fallen to the ground.
The group that fought against Vigo and the others was not the same group of people dressed in uniform black robes that Xia De had imagined on Friday night.
The three were all high-ring sorcerers, a combination of one ten-ring and two nine-ring sorcerers, making them a formidable team in most areas of the material world.
Vige had clearly drunk the blood brew and removed her limiter. She was now using the "Chaos Echo" technique to enhance the effects of her other magical and arcane arts, while the maid behind her was doing her best to defend against the opponent's attacks.
The two sides did not engage in close combat, merely standing in place and exchanging magical spells. However, even with all her spells, Vige was only barely holding on.
This was not only because Vige was unable to fight at full strength due to her physical condition, but also because among the three people opposite them, the nine-ringed female sorceress, whose face was obscured by a hood, stood behind her two companions who were casting spells, her hands lovingly embracing something.
The thing simply existed here, yet its power directly affected the surrounding environment. Even though Xia De and his companions were not on the battlefield and were only at the edge of the battlefield at a high altitude, they could still feel an indescribable terrifying pressure and inexplicable mental pollution emanating from the sorceress, making it almost impossible to breathe.
Under this unspoken pressure, not only was the surge of the spirit within the soul affected, but even the body and soul themselves felt a desire to escape quickly.
Of course, Shad didn't feel this deeply, but Miss Cruz, who was driving, was already trembling slightly. She was only from Central, and her soul strength couldn't compare to anyone here.
"what is that?"
Miss Sabel once again demonstrated her extensive knowledge, having already dispersed the time clone that had been left there:
"It's normal that you don't know them. Even I had only heard of their legends before. The Holy Son Alliance is an extremely blasphemous and sinful terrifying ring warlock organization. They have survived several sieges by the Church of the Five Gods but still stand strong. In the eyes of the Church, they are even more dangerous than some evil spirits and demons."
The title of 'Holy Son' is generally bestowed by the Church upon high-ranking sorcerers who have made outstanding contributions; such an honor might only appear once every few centuries, and it is mostly awarded to those who have sacrificed their lives. However, the 'Holy Son' of the [Holy Son Alliance] is not a title, but a true 'Holy Son' in the real sense. Yes, that is, the child of a 'Saint'.
Ignoring Miss Cruz's astonishment, Shad had already bitten his right hand and used his blood to draw a red crescent moon on his left palm. As his left hand trembled slightly, tiny red specks of light scattered from the crescent moon in his palm, quickly coalescing into a longbow resembling a red crystal with a silver bowstring and adorned with the changing phases of the moon.
A saint descended from the heavens? The saint's child?
"That may sound exaggerated, but have you ever considered that although mortals who are used as vessels for divine beings will die immediately after the divine descent, if they had descendants before they descended into the material world as vessels for great beings, would their descendants possess special characteristics? If they had blood relatives, would their siblings' descendants possess special characteristics?"