The Stolen Sword

After dealing with the trivial matters, they finally began discussing the Chosen Ones—the primary reason Miss Aurora had come here:

"Currently, we haven't identified any targets. Aside from the Poem Chapter Fragment Galina obtained from Tobesk, the Council only knows that the ritual of the Chosen One of Death is closely connected to the Interstice and those three passages. Finding—or even taking control of—one of those passages would be very useful in locating the Chosen One."

"I heard Miss Galina say that the Truth Society has already entered Middlesburg? Will this attract a large number of out-of-town Ring Arcanists again, like it did in Coldwater Port?"

Shade asked Miss Aurora, who shook her head.

"The Church has done an excellent job sealing off information this time. Coupled with the Death Gap serving as a cover, very few organizations currently know that the third Chosen One will appear in this city. But don't let that lower your guard. Those lunatics from the Truth Society are capable of anything."

The Truth Society specialized in illegal research and Forbidden Knowledge, pursuing "truth" in order to obtain greater knowledge. Every era had madmen like them, which was why the Truth Society was truly an organization with an Inheritance spanning at least two epochs. Two months ago, the man Shade and Priest Augustus encountered in the Tobesk cemetery—the one attempting to merge his body with a relic—had been a member of the Truth Society. Members of the Truth Society had also appeared in the Darkness Domain, though they had failed to enter Millwood Forest at the heart of the region before being defeated for mistakenly provoking the Seer Association.

"So the only enemies this time are the Truth Society? Do they have a Thirteenth Ring Warlock? How many people are there?"

"That isn't important."

Grandma