"Pain Witch" Monica listened to Helen's report, then asked, "Does Hobart know about this?"
"He already knows," Helen said. "Before I left, he even told me, 'There really are quite a lot of Gnostic Society believers.'"
If Hobart had not been smiling at the time, Helen would have thought he was questioning her.
Monica asked again, "Did he say anything else?"
Helen shook her head. "Nothing else."
"It's not a major problem." Monica said solemnly, "I think Hobart will draw a line for us tonight, or tomorrow at the latest. Report to me immediately when that happens."
"Understood."
Watching Helen leave, Monica smiled. "What an interesting young man. If I were still young, I would have loved to spend an entire night speaking openly with you."
Fors arrived near the abandoned church and saw Helen riding back toward the Lord's Manor.
But the scenery before her soon caught her attention. "I didn't expect Full Moon Lake to be so beautiful! What a pity!"
What a pity it was located in such a remote backwater, an overlooked mountain region that supposedly did not even have water transport.
Fors thought, If transportation were more convenient, this place would definitely become a popular tourist destination.
After admiring the scenery, she arrived before the church.
The maid began telling Fors about how the Lord had killed the two "lords" before, but Fors, who was learning Feneport language, could only understand the gist of it.
Fortunately, she could only understand the gist. If she had heard the story after it had gone through several rounds of "creative embellishment," she would surely have laughed until her stomach hurt.
From near the church, one could clearly see the entirety of Hobart's territory. Half of Full Moon Lake supposedly belonged to Hobart, along with so much fertile