After looking away from the oil painting, he reached the stairway on the 1st Floor and finally heard voices from upstairs. It was not one person, but a whole group. It seemed that all the guests attending the banquet were upstairs.
Shade walked up a few steps and peeked around the bend in the stairs. He found five or six guards stationed at the stairway, two of whom were even Ring Arcanists.
He turned the mask on his face into a toy and put it in his pocket, then used Moon Shadow Illusion, sending strange silver mist flowing upward. The illusionary silver mist was invisible before it took effect. Shade controlled it to form a wall of mist at the stairway. Then he stomped hard on the floor, making a noise. The instant the guards voluntarily passed through the mist wall, his body vanished and reappeared behind them.
Lowering his head as he played with his Rhodes Cards, he walked into the crowd. No one noticed Shade's arrival.
The 2nd Floor was quite lively. The fragrance of food mingled with the scent of perfume, putting people in a pleasant mood. A band in the corner was still playing gentle dance music, while Gas Lamps shaped like Mermaids on the surrounding walls made the entire banquet hall brightly lit.
Though the people looked somewhat frightened, whether dignified gentlemen or ladies wearing fashionable dresses, they could still socialize normally.
Shade straightened his clothes and entered the crowd. It was easy for him to learn what had happened here and infer the events of the first half of the night.
Around ten o'clock a few hours ago, Aurora Manor, like Sophia Manor, had been attacked by armed Fishmen. But unlike the unity within Sophia Manor, Scarlet Secret Society spies disguised as guests had