Steampunk: Sixth Era Epic

Chapter 304 Guiding Light Hermitage

"Prophet's Society."

In the crackling of the firewood, Shard's answer almost blurted out.

The Prophet's Society had never undergone significantly robust development and even dwindled to a regional organization during certain historical periods. However, the Prophet's Society never vanished; they had almost always existed alongside human civilization because the desire to know the future had always been an undying expectation among intelligent beings since ancient times.

By the Sixth Era, the association that unexpectedly prospered due to the Roder Card was probably the most powerful in history.

"Those people who always speak in halves, they indeed have ways to make themselves live longer," the Moon Witch whispered, noting that the Diviners' habits were the same across all eras.

"No, the Prophet's Society probably wouldn't have access to deity-contacting information; cautious diviners wouldn't store dangerous knowledge, and even if they had it, they wouldn't easily tell you, an outsider... Name another."

Miss Feliana spoke again, and this time Shard thought for a moment:

"Blood Spirit School."

He pursed his lips and added:

"I have a feud with them."

"That's normal; the reputation of the Blood Spirit School isn't good in our era either. I hadn't expected that those people could also exist for so long. It seems that the Evil God you mentioned last time is probably related to them. But I don't think they would have information on God Summoning, the Blazar Gate, as the Blood Spirit School's knowledge leans more towards blood."

Miss Feliana whispered, but didn't let Shard continue naming. She thought for a while:

"I've thought of an organization that might know about the ritual, and if it exists at your point in time, you might be able to interact with them and obtain the ritual information from them... Do you know this one?"

She didn't pronounce the name but extended a hand from within her robe and lightly traced a symbol on the ground.

The main body of the symbol was an equilateral triangle, with each of the triangle's vertices connecting to a small circle, and within the triangle was a winged human figure.

Shard was taken aback; Miss Feliana's lips curved into a smile:

"Do you recognize it?"

"It's somewhat difficult, but not impossible. Seek out academic groups of ordinary people who advocate the doomsday theory. If you find that their views and logic are exceptionally perfect, it's highly likely related to the Guiding Light Hermitage. The Guiding Light Hermitage consistently funds similar organizations, as one of their core principles."

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But this method is like finding a needle in a haystack. In the prosperous Steam Age, where people filled their bellies and then believed the apocalypse would come, doomsday theories were not particularly rare.

"Is there any other way? This is my last chance to come here, and I cannot afford to spend decades searching for this organization and then wait a long time before coming back to see you all."

Shard asked again.

"You seem very anxious?"

Miss Feliana said with a smile, then shook her head:

"Your arrival was always an unexpected event for us. Even if you hadn't shown up, we'd have other methods, costly ones, to forcefully escape from here, but nobody wants to see that happen. So, you just need to try your best to find them, and it's okay if you can't."

She then pointed to the documents being transcribed:

"Having you search for these documents and materials is also to better understand that deity through more knowledge, to speculate the final conditions of the contact with the deity. The stories about the deity and its own power could point to the content of the Divine Descent Ritual."

Just like the Lord of the Blood Feast's descent ritual, it is related to hosting a feast.

Miss Feliana said this, which made Shard somewhat embarrassed. His original intent was not to linger too long with his Time Key, but he also wanted to help Miss Feliana and her group. Miss Feliana being the founder of the Academy was one thing, but more crucially, she had previously provided Shard significant help, and Shard was not the type to be ungrateful:

"I will try my best, even if I ultimately can't find the Guiding Light Hermitage, I might still try other methods."

Just like spending the last Blood Coin to have Luviya perform a divination of the ritual. Shard found it hard to assess which was more difficult—the ritual to become The Chosen or the ritual to summon the deity—but as long as conditions allowed, Luviya would surely be able to perform the divination.

But this led to another issue; one Blood Coin might not be enough.

Therefore, upon his return, Shard needed to do two things simultaneously: search for the Guiding Light Hermitage and seek more Blood Coins or similar "Relics."

The upcoming week became increasingly busy.