Because of the Order of Spiritual Cultivation's unique Ring Arcanist inheritance, the Nuns qualified to wear silver crown-like blindfolds had eyes capable of perceiving spirituality invisible to the naked eye. Therefore, even The Church and the Academy could not locate the one-way Interstice passage entrances that had appeared in Middhir Fort City, but the Order of Spiritual Cultivation could.
That was why they had once rescued people who had wandered into them by mistake, while The Church had been unable to immediately save Priest Augustus.
The Cult needed some time to search the city for a usable entrance, stabilize it, and allow a single person to enter.
What Shade needed to do was provide 3,000 pounds for ritual materials, allowing the Order of Spiritual Cultivation to set up a ritual and use a method similar to "Spirit Communication" to send Shade into that ambiguous region between life and death as well.
Holding an item personally belonging to the Priest, Shade would be able to find Priest Augustus within that bizarre region. The Cult could then pull both of them out.
In this plan, 3,000 pounds was not a problem at all. The other four members of the group could pool their money, and once they had rescued the Priest, they could have him reimburse them. Besides, the Nun had said Shade could deliver the money within a week, so there was no rush. Finding an item personally belonging to the Priest would not be difficult either; the holy emblem pendant Shade had picked up would do. The only risk was that Shade needed to enter that dangerous area, and he had to go alone. A stranger could not use the ritual to find Priest Augustus.
Although Shade had promised the other three members of the group only a few hours