The three major thaumaturgy academies are the management of their own academy cities and related industries.

As for the [Spiritual Cultivation Order], Shade has never seen where these ascetic-like nuns and monks make money.

"It's very simple. We have our own hospital in the eastern part of the Old World, which is mainly responsible for women's delivery, treatment of gynecological diseases and eye diseases."

The nun did not shy away from the issue:

"These hospitals all have different names, and on the surface they don't seem to be related to us. But if you see a private hospital in other places that is not well-known but has a good reputation, there is a high probability that it is related to us."

Now Shade understood.

Then it was time to talk about business. Sister Devlin planned to buy the "Broken Fire Demon Heart" that Shade had obtained with cash, and she was very generous. After first proposing a price of 2,000 pounds, Shade hesitated.

She wanted to increase the price, so the nun gave a price of 3,000 pounds.

This kind of speed of price increase was beyond Shade's imagination. And the three thousand pounds was in line with his psychological expectations, so he readily agreed. In this way, including the gray-headed eagle passing the news while being a player in the big city, he got it.

He spent the rest of the 2,000 pounds, the 200 crowns that Shade got from trading the "Difference Engine" information to the exotic princess, and the 1,000 pounds that he had not yet collected at the Tobesk meeting point. All the assets he could mobilize were already there.

A staggering over 7,000 pounds.

This was probably the richest moment he had ever had.

Of course, Shade was also curious about what Sister Devlin wanted to do with the Balrog heart. He kindly reminded the nun, who was very talkative, and told her again that there was nothing left in the stone with residual warmth.

How much strength there was, and the nun shook her head, she didn't mind that:

"I don't want to use it as an alchemy material, I just want the fire of the Balrog."

She brought the heart she had received from the Witch Council with her. In front of Shade, the nun used her white hands to open the heart that had been stabbed with a hole by the sword, and with the black ash

The slag fell, and the nun caused little sparks in the heart.

Even if Doctor Schneider absorbed most of the power, it was still the flame of the Balrog. But looking at Sister Devlin, she didn't feel any pain at all.

Let the little sparks adhere to the palms of her hands. Then, the nun sitting on the sofa made her hands hold water. With a soft pop~, slender flames appeared from the nun's hands. The image of a flame heart

It is a standard round shape, with a slender flame tail extending upward.

【Outlander, you have come into contact with "Whispers".】

This is the relic-level flame that Sister Devlin showed when she helped Shade open the door to the narrow room. And with the appearance of this flame, the little sparks left by the Balrog were completely integrated into it.

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There was no change in the flames in the nun's palms, at least that's what Shade thought. She closed her palms slightly, and the flames burned her skin, leaving cracks with sparks on the back of her hands. But the nun didn't care, she

Finally, he closed his palms completely and let the strange flame disappear again.

"Is this the flame of the phoenix?"

Because during God’s wine party, it was determined that the blood of the volcanic magma community given by the nun contained the blood of the Phoenix, combined with the [Phoenix Lamp] Shade saw in the dark realm and the local fire worship tradition

, Shade guessed that it was the Phoenix that sealed the passage to the top of the mountain, and the [Spiritual Cult] was related to this ancient one.

Sister Devlin first shook her head, then nodded:

"This flame can absorb any other flame. Its essence is not the fire of the phoenix, but most of what it absorbs now is the flame of the phoenix, so there is no problem in treating it as the fire of the phoenix for the time being."

"So, there really is a phoenix here. Do you know that ancient one?"

"Yes."

The nun did not deny:

"It is the ancient one who sealed the passage to the top of the mountain, but it has gone crazy."

"crazy?"

Shade never thought that a legendary creature like the Phoenix could go crazy.

"The long years will not bring a burden to the immortal species, but the oppression of the land close to death makes it impossible for the ancients to maintain normality all the time. The flame of the phoenix was what I saw five years ago at the lake on the top of Mount Sikal.

, I absorbed it from the spiritual body of the ancient one when I encountered it. I can feel the mania and chaos of this flame. Its condition is not good, and it refuses anyone's help.

When you met me at night in the mountains a few days ago, I was leading the order of nuns to go to the top of the mountain to use rituals to calm its restless emotions. We have been doing this since five years ago, but I think with the emergence of the narrow room

The big problem is coming to an end."

"That's it."

Shade did not expect to hear such news. He originally thought that the Phoenix was behind the [Spiritual Cult]:

"But now that Hazama is no longer stable, have you tried to communicate with the other party?"

The nun shook her head slightly:

"Although there are still moments of clarity, the ancient one has almost gone crazy. Although it is inappropriate to say this, it is also consistent with the current situation to regard it as an evil spirit sealed in the narrow realm of life and death. I am passing it on to the church

It was mentioned in the intelligence, and I hope the church can find a way to solve it."

But the problem shouldn't be big. Now that the Five Gods Church has gathered three thirteen-ring warlocks in the Midhill Fort Diocese, plus the ceremony prepared a year in advance, it should be enough to suppress the restlessness in the narrow room. At least that's what Shade hopes.

of.

"Speaking of which, aren't you curious about my flames?"

The nun suddenly said again. Shade looked at her and found that under the silver crown-style eye mask, Sister Devlin's mouth actually showed a smile.

"It is very impolite to inquire into other people's privacy at will."

he said.

"It doesn't matter, I can tell you the secret of this flame. This is an angel-level relic."

Shade has been in this world for so long, and this is the first time he has encountered an angel-level relic twice in one day.

".[Primal Fire]."
Chapter completed!