"Attention, they're coming out."
After seeing Naifnis come out from the side door of the bank, Mosans's expression hardened, and he spoke to remind his subordinates beside him. Then everyone looked in the direction Mosans was watching.
"Yo, looking at that figure, she's still a beauty."
"Big Brother, besides the goods, it seems we can get some other extra gains this time."
After seeing Naifnis, Mosans's subordinates' eyes also lit up, as if they had discovered some treasure. At this moment, they saw Naifnis stop a carriage by the roadside and get in.
"She's about to leave, we need to quickly follow."
As he spoke, Mosans and his subordinates immediately got into their own carriages, and then the coachman drove the carriage to trail the vehicle Naifnis was in.
"We've caught up, Boss. What do you think we can rob this time?" Inside the carriage, one of Mosans's subordinates said, looking at the carriage driving not far ahead, while Mosans said slowly.
"Hopefully there will be some stored items. It would be even better if there are secret transmissions. Of course, it's best if she knows some other Spirituality accumulation methods."
"Boss, I think that girl has a pretty good figure. After we finish robbing, should we... hehe..."
Another subordinate recalled Naifnis's figure and couldn't help but say, drooling, while Mosans, after hearing this, slapped his head hard and sternly rebuked him.
"How many times have I told you, we only rob items related to secrets, don't do anything extra! If they lose property or are violated, they can call the police. If they lose secret items, they can only suffer in silence! Do you understand!"
"Uh... Sorry, Boss, I know I was wrong."
The subordinate who was hit said, shrinking back, while Mosans snorted coldly and didn't bother with him anymore, instead continuing to stare at the carriage trailing ahead.
These people, led by Mosans, are a robbery gang specializing in targeting beginner secret practitioners. They are entrenched around secret gatherings or institutions like the Golden Contract Bank that provide secret-related services, looking for newcomers who are just starting in secrets, robbing them, and plundering their extraordinary resources. They are a group of habitual offenders.
Among this group, the most important thing is the selection of their targets. They need to select who are the novices just starting out in the secret world, and this task is always completed by their boss, Mosans.
Mosans will frequent the vicinity of secret gatherings or secret institutions, carefully observing the participants, approaching potential targets to inquire, and determining in the conversation what level the other party is at and whether they are suitable for him to target.
Therefore, when Mosans saw Naifnis being led in by a waiter inside the Golden Contract Bank, he realized that Naifnis was coming to the Golden Contract Bank for the first time and wasn't familiar with the way, so the possibility of her being a novice was very high.
Afterwards, Mosans went up and actively started talking, mixing in some common sense errors about the secret world, but the other party didn't notice, which confirmed to Mosans that Naifnis was a novice.
These novices who are just starting in secrets are only able to glimpse secrets due to some opportunities, so they will more or less have some secret resources on hand. In addition, they are weak, have no backing, are easy to bully, and it's difficult to find the police if their secret resources are stolen, so they can only suffer in silence. Therefore, in this large Tivian, there are many groups specifically targeting and robbing these novices. Mosans is one of the skilled ones.
...
On the bustling road, in front of Mosans's carriage.
Naifnis was riding in the rented carriage. After glancing around, she took out an oil paper package from her satchel. This was the secret transmission she had bought earlier at the Craftsmen's Guild stronghold.
Naifnis directly tore open the oil paper package, and then what appeared before her was a thin booklet with no words on the cover, seemingly only a few pages long.
Remembering Vanya's previous instructions, Naifnis did not open the booklet to read it, but instead followed Dorothy's instructions, closed her eyes, placed her hand on the booklet, and then silently prayed to akasha.
'Great Aka, I offer knowledge to Captain here.'
After the prayer was completed, the booklet in Naifnis's hand weathered and disintegrated in an instant, turning into ash, while the information within was transmitted to the distance through the information channel.
Directly sacrificing the secret transmission itself, at the cost of directly destroying the secret transmission carrier, instantly uploading the secret transmission content. This is one of the functions of the information channel. Vanya used this method to offer the "Light Quick Strike Sword" when she was in Deekt's tomb. Since Dorothy didn't want to wait any longer in the secret room, she asked Naifnis to sacrifice the secret transmission in this way.
'This... turned into ash? It's really amazing, it just became like this all of a sudden...'
Looking at the ash on the oil paper in front of her, Naifnis couldn't help but start thinking again.
'In that case, everything Miss Dorothy arranged should be completed, I wonder what help this is to her.'
...
Underground King's Campus, deep within the ruins.
Inside the Ascension Secret Room, several gas lamps placed on the ground illuminated the surroundings. In the dim space, there were several figures lying on the ground. Upon closer inspection, these were corpses that had died in various ways.
In the center of these corpses, two figures were sitting facing each other. They were Brandon and Edrick. Between them, a chessboard was placed. The side where Brandon sat was White, and the side where Edrick sat was Black.
At this moment, Brandon and Edrick were both staring at the endgame on the chessboard in front of them. Both of them had serious expressions and focused attitudes, carefully thinking about the game in front of them. Not far from them, Dorothy was sitting on a mat, eating cake while watching the game ahead, acting as the referee for the two players.
A piece of paper was placed beside Dorothy, on which a bracket for an eight-player knockout tournament was roughly drawn. Six of the eight players listed on it had already been eliminated, and the two players currently on the field were playing the final.
After thinking for a while, finally, Black's Edrick moved. He moved his queen diagonally forward a few steps, and finally in the upper left corner of the board, coordinating with his knight, checkmated White's king, winning this game. Dorothy, who was watching from the side, quickly applauded.
"Oh oh! They won, they won! Congratulations Mr. Edrick on winning the championship of the first Dorothy Cup Chess Competition~~"
Dorothy clapped her hands, and as she clapped, she gradually slowed down, finally stopping and letting out a long sigh.
"Phew... so boring..."
Dorothy said with a sigh. She had already been in this secret room for over a dozen hours. She was so bored that she could only start looking for various kinds of fun, such as this Corpse Puppet chess competition.
Releasing the Corpse Puppet control, Dorothy made the champion and runner-up fall down, then propped her chin with her hand and looked around boredly.
"I wonder how things are going with Neff and Vanya? According to the time, it should be about now."
Dorothy muttered like this.
And at this moment, her expression froze, and she felt that new information had been transmitted into her consciousness, which made her almost clap her hands again happily.
"It's finally here!"
Feeling the input of the secret transmission from afar, Dorothy immediately sat up straight and began to check the content of this secret transmission.
The name of this secret transmission is "Fulen's Elegy," a secret transmission with a poetry theme. The author, Fulen, was a staff member at a nursing home. His daily job was to witness the gradual decline and death of the elderly, and he was fascinated by it.
At some point, Fulen's fascination turned into obsession. He began to use methods such as poisoning and causing falls during the process of caring for the elderly to accelerate their deaths, and after each elderly person he personally cared for died, he would compose an elegy for them. Finally, Fulen's actions were exposed, and he hanged himself at home, leaving behind these poems.
Not paying much attention to the content of this secret transmission, Dorothy directly extracted it as Spirituality, gaining 3 points of "Silence" and 1 point of """enlightenment""".
Finally, Dorothy's Spirituality situation is now.
11 cups, 12 Stone, 8 Shadow, 6 Light, 6 Silence, 20 """enlightenment""". After studying "Fulen's Elegy," she has also fully met the conditions for advancing to "Scholar."
With an excited mood, Dorothy stood up and quickly ran to the magic circle in the center of the secret room, knelt down right in the middle of the magic circle, quieted her mind and concentrated, and began to advance.
"I have not abandoned this path... I still follow this oath... May I sail deep into the sea of knowledge... seeking all principles..."
"I humbly request all the great divinities of the reverse side to disperse the clouds and mist for me and point out the way..."