Monday afternoon.
Daly Simone was conducting spirit channeling. Their Red Gloves squad had just completed an operation and captured several more members of the Numinous Episcopate, but the most important target, Palenque Tassi, who bore the title of Pale Hand, had not been at the secret hideout.
To deal with this Sequence 4 demigod, the Red Gloves squad had not only deployed a grade 1 Sealed Artifact but also requested the assistance of Ilya, the Eye of the Goddess. In the end, they had come up empty-handed.
Now, Daly Simone could only resort to spirit channeling, hoping to find valuable leads from the captives.
"Where did Palenque Tashib go?"
The eerily beautiful lady asked in an ethereal, drifting voice.
The captive on the ground, a member of the Numinous Episcopate, answered slowly, "He said he was going to meet someone."
"Who?" Daly pressed. Leonard Mitchell and the other Red Gloves members also turned their gazes toward him.
The Numinous Episcopate member under spirit channeling spoke in a flat voice. "Ince Zangwill."
That name silenced every Red Gloves member present. For a moment, no one spoke.
Ince Zangwill had once been an Archbishop. Ever since his defection, the Church of Evernight had pursued him relentlessly. Archbishops and senior deacons took turns leading the pursuit and assisting one another, frequently traveling with the appropriate Sealed Artifacts in search of clues, but they had never managed to pin down his whereabouts.
With a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact in his possession, Ince Zangwill could always create all manner of coincidences, leaving his pursuers unable to catch so much as a glimpse of him. He had even orchestrated several major incidents and killed multiple Nightwatchers.
For the Church of Evernight and every member of the Nightwatchers, this was a source of both hatred and humiliation.