The old man behind the counter briefly examined the anchor before returning it to Shade:
"Clearly a Divine Art Item, and one belonging to some Good God. But I cannot determine anything more. The power attributes of the Old Gods who departed in the Fifth Epoch are not something those of us living in the Sixth Epoch can know. But since the deity has already departed, for this item to retain such powerful strength means that Great One must still have extraordinarily devout Believers in this age."
Thus, Shade formed a new guess about Illustrious Miss. At first, because of the anchor, he had assumed she was connected to an Old God related to the ocean. But after learning from Miss Lisa and her daughter that the task had merely been to fulfill the little girl's wish, Shade understood that she was likely connected to some deity associated with "wishes" and "children."
Combined with the fact that the Old God appearing in this Time Key task was the Dream Giver, Shade could now almost certainly conclude that Illustrious Miss was a believer of that Old God.
Of course, the Time Key was not what needed handling right now. Helping Emilia escape the curse was more important. After Shade deciphered those tadpole-like words, they pointed to 19 Dinier Street in southern Tobesk. The south side of the city was where the nobles within the city lived. Shade had never visited this address before, and only after getting out of the carriage with Emilia did he see that it was a rather expansive estate. White walls blocked passersby from seeing into the deep residence, and it was clearly not somewhere one could casually enter.
Emilia could also tell that the place would not be easy to enter. She looked at Shade hesitantly,