"People from the Divine Kingdom... how could this be? Could it be that the Mask deliberately sought out the High Priest?"
Just as Yu Jing was dragging him inside, a streak of light flashed past, and the plants used to restrain him shattered into pieces.
"It actually saw through me?"
The fake human skin used to conceal his disguise split open.
A bespectacled priest with short golden hair and a refined, scholarly air appeared before Yu Jing. With such a handsome, bookish appearance, he would certainly have been a priest everyone liked if he were placed in a church.
Yet in reality, he radiated the murderous hostility unique to a killer.
He held a slender silver sword in each hand. The priest stared at Yu Jing, ready to enter battle at any moment.
"There's no hostility... I merely caught the scent of a demon from the woman outside. It's strange—why are you, a priest, together with her?"
Yu Jing immediately used his verbal skills to control the situation.
There were several reasons. First, neither side had shown any hostility upon meeting. Second, the woman disguised as Madam Warren had revealed an expression of astonished delight upon seeing Yu Jing. Clearly, she had not known in advance that Yu Jing was here.
Third, this priest from the Divine Kingdom belonged to the Great Pope, not the Mask.
Taken together, Yu Jing could roughly infer that the other party's purpose was not to stop their group, but solely to deal with Ning Yanzhi. Therefore, he might be able to obtain some important information.
"It's required for my mission. Where is Ning Yanzhi?"
Yu Jing's eyes changed. His deduction had indeed been correct.
"He isn't here at the moment."
"Since he isn't here, there's no reason for me to linger."
When Father Rheinhessen