Father Nobel's records showed that the Seventh Ring Arcanist of the Pantanal Voodoo Society who had used the Knowledge Arrow of Akenola over a decade ago was named Halder Ondiba. He had been a villager from "Lower Wood Village" in the Pantanal Great Swamp region. At around sixteen years old, an Apothecary who had settled near the village discovered his awakened talent, and he joined the Voodoo Society from then on.
That Seventh Ring Arcanist had ultimately been surrounded and eliminated by the Church in Rust Alley, west of Huntington. After his death, both Rust Alley and his birthplace village had been searched thoroughly by the Church, yet they still failed to find the Knowledge Arrow of Akenola.
The arrow had last been used three days before Ondiba was surrounded by the Church, and during the final battle in which Ondiba was hunted down, the arrow had never been brought out.
Although Shade knew full well that the Church would not overlook any details, considering that the Church had also believed 6 Saint Derain Square was safe now, he still went to Rust Alley that afternoon, hoping to find clues left behind years ago.
Rust Alley was a street in the slums of western Huntington, slanting generally toward the northwest. Both ends of the alley lay within the slums, while the surrounding lanes crisscrossed in every direction. The decrepit buildings of the Old Era, beneath a low sky shrouded in thick fog, looked even more like old men than the impoverished residents living among them. It was like an inconspicuous black rotten spot on Huntington's glistening purple grape.
When Shade arrived at Rust Alley that afternoon and stepped into the narrow, seemingly endless lane, he faintly felt as though he could hear the city groaning. It was naturally just his