Three days later, at night. Darkness quietly descended upon Norland.
In a small chapel located at the corner of Norland. Compared to the chapels located in the Nation of the Holy Church, describing this chapel as being ‘poverty-stricken’ and ‘completely unpresentable’ would not be excessive. There were only twenty-some clergies inside too.
This chapel was only there to serve as a place of worship for the students from the Nation of the Holy Church studying in Norland.
But today, at a shadowy area by the eaves of the chapel, an uninvited guest appeared.
Pest was yawning. She had taken the form of a bat and was hiding in the shadows.
As a vampire, night time should be the time when she was the most lively. But, in the recent days, Pest has been spending her days in the Hearthstone Tavern all day long.
Of course, her purpose in going to the Hearthstone Tavern was to persuade the Third Prince Joshua to return to the Demon Realm with her.
Unfortunately, Joshua’s attitude was extremely firm. To be exact, there was no reason for Pest to drag him back to the Demon Realm at all.
Joshua’s living situation in Norland was so comfortable that Pest couldn’t even believe what she saw. Not to mention staying in the Hearthstone Tavern, no one would dare to attempt to chase away the demon prince even when he walked the streets of Norland.
Whenever Pest saw the female templar Messai chatting cheerfully with Joshua, she always had the urge to tell her that the person standing before her was a Chaos Demon, an extremely dangerous enemy according to the canons of your Holy Church! You should be pulling out your sword to face him, instead of shouting things like ‘I’m quitting if a legendary card still doesn’t come out!!’
Even though she belonged to the side of the Demon Realm, Pest felt... despaired for her enemy, that female templar, by the harmonious relationship she had with the demon prince.
Yes, she was in despair. She wanted to bring Joshua back to the Demon Realm. But, in order to do so, she needed to make him realize how dangerous the human world was.
But, Joshua was living very comfortably in Norland. The Holy Church did not seek to cause trouble for this Chaos Demon at all. It was as if he was a harmless creature.
The experience she had over the past three days caused Pest to become both physically and emotionally exhausted.
Right now, the only hope to her being able to accomplish her mission would be the Holy Church remembering that there was a Chaos Demon living in the human city and then preparing to send their army to annihilate him.
Only with that would she possess enough certainty in being able to persuade Joshua to leave this city.
That was the reason why Pest has been hiding in Norland’s little chapel and observing them. But, apart from the dozen or so templars that would frequently visit the Hearthstone Tavern, the remainder of the people in the chapel were nuns and missionaries that did not possess any fighting strength at all.
For those dozen or so templars, Pest herself would be able to kill them with some time. They would not be a match for a Chaos Demon at all. None of them could threaten Joshua to escape from Norland.
Wait...
Suddenly, Pest’s eyes opened wide. Her scarlet pupils shined dully in the dark. Still a bat, she leaped down from the eaves, flapped her wings and began to fly to the window located at the top of the church.
Pest detected the magic fluctuation caused by spatial magic. It was very similar to the magic used by the Sin Demons. Because of that, Pest was absolutely certain.
Those bastards from the Holy Church had established a teleportation formation beneath the chapel!
Pest was unable to find the path to the chapel’s basement. She could only wait for the opening of the teleportation formation at the top of the chapel..
Establishing any sort of teleportation formation in Norland without permission would bring upon an enormous amount of trouble. Because of that, the teleportation formation beneath the chapel was very small. Judging from the magic power flowing out from it, Pest determined that the teleportation formation would only be able to bring three to four people at the very most.
Furthermore, it would take three to four days for it to recharge enough magic to make another teleportation. As such, it would be impossible for the teleportation formation to teleport an enormous legion of templars.
Gradually, the magic power that had spilled out from the teleportation formation began to dissipate. After five short minutes, Pest could hear footsteps coming from within the chapel.
Four people... Pest ‘smelled’ the scene of the air and instantly determined that four people had walked out from the chapel’s basement.
Among them were three people with a scene that Pest detests... They were inquisitors.
As for the other person... there was no abnormality to the magic he was emitting... an ordinary missionary?
Still a bat, Pest climbed back up the eaves and used the special bat ears to listen to the three inquisitors’ discussions.
Pest had dealt with these executioners of the church during the time when she established the Black Dove. She had once sucked the blood of one inquisitor. From that inquisitor’s blood, she gained some crazy information.
Even though she forced herself to forget those memories, she ended up learning the ‘language’ of the inquisitors.
Inquisitors possessed a special ‘communication method.’ Pest was able to join, or perhaps better stated as eavesdrop, their communication.
‘The archbishop shouldn’t have ordered us to come to Norland at a time like this. We can behead a Chaos Demon any time. But, in order to weaken the Blackwood Forest’s Brass Dragon, we’ve spent a hundred years...”
‘Watch your words, Inquisition Leader Rolaf... The endless knowledge that we pursue is provided to us with the assistance of the church. Our mission this time will not last for very long. Only seven days. If we failed to complete the mission in seven days, we will return to the Blackwood Forest.’
‘Two inquisition leaders and twelve inquisitors, this is half of all the people from the Heresy Tribunal that has received enlightenment. Even during our assassination of the White Creek Duchy’s ruler, we’ve only dispatched fifteen inquisitors. Exactly what did that Chaos Demon end up doing?’
‘...’
After eavesdropping on the three inquisitioners’ conversation, Pest heaved a sigh of relief.
Even though she was on the side of the Demon Realm, she was actually feeling slightly happy after finding out that the Holy Church had dispatched inquisitors to assassinate their Third Prince.
After all, this would mean that she would possess enough justification to bring Joshua back to the Demon Realm...
Fourteen inquisitors... and two inquisition leaders among them... Pest found it very difficult to imagine how anyone could avoid the assassination without an abundant amount of preparations and powerful servants.
Joshua was the only person in the Hearthstone Tavern who could protect himself. That succubus simply possessed no fighting strength at all.
Thus, in order to avoid the inquisitors’ assassination raid, Joshua would have to return to the Demon Realm. Only by doing that would he be absolutely safe from them.
Still hiding on the eaves of the chapel, Pest could sense the magic aura coming from beneath the chapel was already gradually disappearing.
The teleportation formation under the chapel cannot be used consecutively. Using two days as the amount of time needed to recharge, Pest determined that it would take at least six days for all the inquisitors to arrive in Norland...
In other words, the assassination would happen after six days...
The inquisitors were incapable of operating outside of the Holy City for an extended period of time. A week to half a month would be their limit. The only exception would be if the church’s choir had accompanied them.
Having gained this information, Pest immediately left the chapel. She flew into Norland’s dark sky. She was flying toward the Hearthstone Tavern.