Evil Spirit at Home

Although it was no longer the first time she had danced with Shade, Iluna was still a little nervous when they touched. Her Church colleagues were also attending the Fire Worship Festival banquet, so she could only find a spot at the outskirts of the bonfire to dance with Shade.

Like Shade, who was not particularly skilled at dancing, Iluna was not very good either. But they had danced many times before, so beneath the moonlight and before the forest at the edge of the bonfire, they were happier than the people standing in the firelight.

"Luvia asked me to send you her regards."

Shade spoke softly, telling her as they danced that he had confirmed the thing sealing the summit channel was an insane Phoenix.

In fact, the Church had already investigated this as well. Even before Iluna arrived in Middlesburg, they had dispatched three batches of Ring Arcanist Squads into the Interstice and located the approximate position of the Gap Summit Channel.

"At the summit of Sikar Mountain in the Material World, there is a beautiful summit lake. But the summit in the Interstice is a horrifying, split-open fissure. The Church has not yet determined where that terrifying rift at the summit of Interstice Mountain leads, but the farther down one goes, the stronger the power of death becomes. There is reason to believe that the Phoenix and the channel are at the bottom of that fissure."

Iluna also shared the information she had, then accidentally stepped on Shade's foot.

"It's fine. Then what about the Chosen Ones? At present, I can only confirm that candidates for the Chosen One of Death include Priest Augustus, Sister Devlin, and that strange boy from the Raven Club. Luvia obtained information confirming that the Order of Spiritual Cultivation is a branch