Yarra’s Adventure Notes -
Chapter 978 - 95: A Speculation
Chapter 978: Chapter 95: A Speculation
"We can imagine a scenario where one day someone comes to you with a clue about the Triclops relics, essentially offering the relics to you. After a detailed and thorough investigation, you find the authenticity surprisingly high," Pannis lowered his voice and spoke mysteriously. "Moreover, they present a very reliable method. It was tested by everyone when they were about to enter the Forbidden Land of Living Souls, and indeed, it worked without any issues. What would you do if you encountered this situation?""I would kick them out without hesitation," Catherine said without hesitation. "Such a great task, such rewarding compensation, and even the process is so steady with virtually no risks, there are no such good things in the world. If such a good thing fell into my lap, I would be 100 percent sure that there must be a big problem, and I would definitely not take on the task for safety’s sake. I think, my grandfather and the former chairman must be more experienced than me; if I can see the problems, they would not miss them."
"What if it was Nellie who introduced you to this client?" Pannis pressed on. "If it was a person of high status and trustworthiness, would you still kick them out the door?"
"I probably wouldn’t, but I would definitely be suspicious, and then... go and investigate. Hmm, I see, the more I investigate, the more real it feels, and with credible people vouching, I would finally be tempted," Catherine nodded very slowly, thoughtfully saying. "However, someone whom my grandfather and the former chairman both trust very much, his identity would probably... uh, I think I know who you are talking about. If he were vouching, it’s unlikely anyone would suspect."
"Sorry to interrupt," Odin interjected, disrupting the unspoken hints shared between them, and asked with a wry smile, "Who exactly are you talking about? It’s hard for me to mobilize resources to verify this without you directly naming them."
"Why verify something that has neither proof nor significance?" Pannis shook his head, "Whether it’s the victims or the suspected accomplices, they are all gone, so why bother stating it so clearly."
"Well, you do have a point," Odin did not pursue further, only nodding noncommittally. "So, your guess is that those two clients themselves were necromancers, and the method they helped the former chairman’s team to enter the Forbidden Land was their own way of entering? But Mr. Field wouldn’t fail to recognize their identity as necromancers, right? How could he collaborate with them so openly?"
"First, it’s not that easy to identify a necromancer. Mages from other schools can also delve deeply into necromancy without specializing in it. Hence, unless it’s a fight to the death, it’s hard to determine whether someone’s specialty is indeed necromancy, especially since hiding one’s specialty in non-combative states is too simple, and the former chairman wouldn’t just assault a client," Vivian tapped the deck with her magic staff, which was nearly as tall as she was, attracting everyone’s attention before explaining, "Second, necromancers are also a group within mages, and their decline is due to the decline of necromancy, not because of suppression by other mages. True, the layman might have some prejudice against necromancers, but that’s mainly due to some ethical flaws, not because necromancers actually did something bad, of course, I’m talking about the past. Big sister told me her grandfather was a mage, so as long as her grandfather was a qualified mage, he wouldn’t prejudice against necromancers; there’s nothing unusual about cooperation."
"There are two kinds of moral viewpoints in the world, one is most people’s, and the other is mages’," Pannis said teasingly. "Even if those two mages declared themselves as necromancers, other mages, like Catherine’s grandfather, would probably be pleased rather than have any other emotions. Besides, it’s very likely they didn’t outright say it."
"Well, maybe you’re right," Odin sighed. "But I still don’t understand; if that’s true, the Divine Servants must have had a purpose, right? It can’t just be to cause some trouble for the Guild, could it? If it’s now, maybe, but that was forty years ago. There was no point in causing trouble for the Guild back then."
"How can there be no point?" Pannis shrugged, "Their purpose has been clear from the very beginning, haven’t you always known? That’s the meaning of their actions."
"What do you mean by that?" Odin frowned, somewhat displeased. "The former chairman said when he fled the Forest of Death that there were no relics there."
"That statement can be understood in two ways," Pannis said. "One way is to say there are no relics, nothing at all, those people had other motives. Or, it can also mean that there really was something there, but it wasn’t the Triclops relics, rather something else."
"The Temple of Danacus?" Catherine, face full of disbelief, took a deep breath of cold air, exclaiming in surprise, "Are you saying their goal was to find the Soul Hall of Danacus? Could it be that at that time they hadn’t yet found the temple of their deity?"
"It’s just a guess," Pannis said. "Maybe, just maybe, although they knew roughly where the original temple was, because of Danacus’s lack of response, they had lost their sense of the temple’s location. They didn’t even know if the temple was still buried in the original position due to the Continental Reorganization at the start of the Fourth Epoch, so after decades of unsuccessful searches, they had no choice but to turn to the Guild."
"And then they described the temple as a relic. Since the temple indeed had existed, there would always be some records, like those of the goblins, making it appear especially real; no, not appear, other than the nature of the relic, everything was real," Catherine continued for Pannis. "The grandfather and the former chairman couldn’t have anticipated in advance what the nature of the relic was, nor could they have imagined someone harboring such a purpose. So they accepted the task, reaching deep into two locations to explore, and then... did they release the potentially deeply buried Temple of Danacus?"
"The truth is known to no one," Pannis sighed, patting the girl’s shoulder. "This is just a conjecture, no need to overthink it." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it at qidian.com, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
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