Yellow, red, and silver moons hung high in the night sky. There were no clouds above Lake View Manor, and a dazzling river of stars stretched overhead, making people feel as though they could touch the radiance of the stars simply by reaching out.
When the incident occurred, the aftereffects of the Divine Advent Ritual had put the dinner guests to sleep, so no one saw the unusual Blood Mist or the battle that followed.
This actually made tonight's events easier to explain—the host of the banquet, Little Clown, had joined forces with believers of the evil god Lord of the Blood Feast and placed sleeping drugs in the food and wine. But fortunately, the Orthodox Church, representing justice, had arrived in time to stop their scheme.
As for the earthquake just now, it had been entirely coincidental and had nothing to do with this place.
Lake View Manor was now surrounded by a joint force of Tobesk's garrison and police. The awakened dinner guests had been politely invited by the Orthodox Church to rest and undergo inspection inside the manor house.
This was partly to prevent too many people from seeing the Moon Scar in Lake View Manor's courtyard, and partly to identify suspicious individuals among the guests who should not have been there.
The two Ring Arcanist Squads from the Sun Church and Peace Church that had participated in the great battle remained in the courtyard. The police who arrived afterward were responsible for maintaining order inside the manor, while Ring Arcanist support squads from the city thoroughly searched the estate, recorded and destroyed the ritual of the "Sixth Epoch—Year 1853 Sunlight Month Divine Descent Incident," and collected the strange blood-red flowers growing from the manor walls.
Those were precious materials.
Iluna Bayes, a young girl with brown