Fire Worship Festival Charity Dinner

Since there was nothing much to do in Middlesburg, after bidding the Nun farewell, Shade returned to Tobesk, left the longsword he could not carry with him at home, and had lunch with Mia.

He first went to the Seer Association in the afternoon and told Luvia where the Blood Money was. Then he went to Coldwater Port to meet old Tower Keeper Mr. Edmund, paying him to help gather information on the librarian's guardian, the Old God Gray-Robed Sage.

Although this key did not seem to require Shade to search for any important quest items in the current spacetime, he still had to prepare for the worst. He did not think the task Tree Father had given him would be so easy to complete.

Buying daily necessities for the Witches was far too lacking in challenge.

The Steam Airship Iluna was riding would probably arrive in Middhir Fort City at around four in the afternoon. Therefore, after leaving Coldwater Port, Shade turned the clothes he planned to wear to tonight's banquet into toys and put them away, arranged Mia's cat food for dinner, and headed once more to Mountain City.

Middlesburg had its own Steam Airship landing site, but Shade did not know its exact location. Even if he did, he could not go with the local Church to welcome the group from Tobesk.

Thus, he chose to wait outside the local Sun Church. He waited until half past four in the afternoon before seeing a convoy slowly approach from the other end of the street.

Shade, who had been reading the evening paper beneath a low wall, immediately put it down and removed his hat, examining the carriage at the center of the convoy. But when that carriage passed before him, its window did not open.

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