I'm not a loser in love from Dimensional Adventurer

"You are the one who wants to be the savior!"

Alice was still a little distrustful of the prophecy revealed to her by Caschia, and I was afraid that it would only be proven true after a long time.

Now besides this, Alice was worried about another thing.She had invited Vician and Caschia before leaving Pergaard, and she hoped to see their faces in the church.

"It seems that the king wants to see us for something. I'm afraid we will be late."

"It may also be because of Count Albert's trial. In this case, we should be able to arrive at the scene before the ceremony starts."

This is the promise they made to Alice, although Alice doesn't have much hope in repaying it. After all, the three of them are the kind of people who are often troubled.

"I can only hope they don't come near the end."

Alice thought as she looked at the flock of pigeons flying over the church.

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The ceremony began, but the two men refused to show up.

"Sure enough, I couldn't catch up."

Alice lowered her head following the actions of the people in front of her. The sunlight shone through the stained glass, and in her sight she could see the patterns projected on the ground.The bells echoed in her ears, once and twice. When the No. 12 bell rang, Alice was able to raise her head.

The pope, wearing a white priest's robe and a crown, walked out of the inner chamber. He carefully held the holy objects and walked in front of everyone with solemn steps.

"Jade of the Sky"

Alice knew the holy relic in the hands of the Pope. She had made a lot of efforts to recover it. She had an indelible contribution to the holding of this prayer ceremony as scheduled.

The ceremony went very smoothly without any mistakes. The God of Light seemed to really protect this church.Alice mingled with the crowd singing hymns, and no one cared that her tone was strange.

Everyone was attentive, and those in Yucheng offered prayers for the statue.

"May our Lord hear our prayers, and may the souls of all people, whether born or dead, noble or humble, find peace."

As the last word of the prayer fell, the "Jade of the Sky" emitted a bright and dazzling light. Alice bathed in this light and suddenly felt that her shoulders relaxed a lot.

The prayer ceremony was over, and Vician and Caschia missed the entire ceremony.

Alice walked out of the church and stood outside for a long time. The crowd around her had not dispersed and the chatter had not stopped.Suddenly, someone pushed through the crowd and ran in front of her. The man was holding his knees and panting, his hair was messy due to the crowd.

"Are you... Arika? Do you have anything to do with me?"

The person who came to see Alice was one of Pergaard's liaison officers, and Alice was fairly familiar with him.

"Hui, president! Our president wants you to go to the palace. It's urgent!"

His eager tone gave Alice a bad feeling. It seemed that the word "smoothly" had really been deleted from her dictionary.

Arica helped Alice separate a path to the palace in the crowd so that Alice could pass smoothly.

Alice trotted all the way to the palace. The guard at the door let her in after confirming her identity. She was out of breath like Arica. When she opened the door, she was really out of breath. Can't breathe anymore.

In the hall where the ball had been held, the king led the court wizards to one side, while Vician and Caschia stood on the other side. Everyone looked at Alice who burst into the door.

"Um, sorry?"

Alice swallowed and moved behind Caschia.

"what happened?"

"Look over there."

Caschia motioned Alice to look forward, and the sight almost made Alice scream.

A body that appeared to have been dead for a long time was placed on the table. The face Alice had seen in the church not long ago.

The corpse was once alive as Grell Alex. He was supposed to attend today's prayer ceremony as the Pope, but was discovered by his apprentice to have been dead for a long time before the ceremony began...

——TBC——

Chapter 23 Murder in the Church

"As you can see, His Excellency Alex, who serves as the Pope, has been confirmed dead."

No one answered, and the cold voice of the court mage reached Alice's ears. She moved back, away from the dead body.

She didn't want to look directly at the poor Pope, not to mention that she had only accepted his guidance in the church 10 minutes ago.This was truly horrifying. If the Pope had died long ago, then who was she seeing?

She soon got the answer, although the answer involved more mysteries.

"I sent several mages to continue the ritual pretending to be the Pope and apprentices. That's what you see, Black."

Old King Aldric spoke, and the scepter in his hand hit the ground heavily, and several mages stepped forward in response.They chanted a few spells, and after a while their bodies began to distort and gradually transformed into what Alice had seen in the church.

"To avoid panic among the public."

The king explained it this way. The mages had already trained to perfection in the [Transformation Spell], which was enough to replace the dead pope for a short period of time.

As for the Pope's apprentices who were not dead, they were also brought to the scene.

The apprentices lowered their heads and trembled as the guards walked in from the other side. They lined up and stood aside.

"All three of Sir Alex's apprentices are here, and there are no casualties."

"Understood, you step back."

The king dismissed the guards with a wave of his hand, and asked the eldest of the apprentices to come forward and tell them what he had seen before the prayer ceremony began.

"As usual, I took out the holy water for Lord Alex this morning to prepare for the purification ceremony."

"After I prepared the holy water, I went to find the Lord, and then...then I saw the Lord lying in a pool of blood."

At this point, the apprentice's mood suddenly became extremely unstable, his voice increased, and there was fear in his tone.

"There will be no one else in Lord Alex's room at all. It must be the devil who did it! Yes, it was the devil who killed Lord Alex!!!"

His almost screaming voice sounded in the hall, and Alice rubbed her ears. The scream almost made her ears ring.Others felt the same, and the king asked a mage to take the apprentice away first, comfort him, and then bring him back.

Alice swore she saw a look of despair on the assigned mage's face.

After sending away the mentally unstable apprentice, the discussion continued, and the king asked other apprentices to supplement, hoping to get more information from different people's speeches.

"I found blood stains under the statue."

The youngest apprentice whispered that after seeing the Pope's body, his legs weakened and he fell to the ground, and thus he was able to discover the blood dripping on the bottom of the statue.

"We have begun investigating the matter and hope that the blood will lead us to the prisoner."

Finding people through blood is not an easy task. This ancient witchcraft requires a lot of magic and time, and is very likely to fail.

Now, everyone can only rely on the abilities of the court mages.

"No more information?"

"Nothing."

There was so little information they could get that they didn't even know how the murderer entered the church.

"We lack the manpower to assist in the investigation, and we cannot carry out the search in a big way."

"So we invited Vician, Lord Caschia, and Miss Black."

The arrival of the other three was not welcomed, but because of the guarantee (or pressure) of the old king Aldric, the three of them were able to participate.

Alice was originally not among the candidates, but Caschia recommended her.He called Alice a hairdresser with "excellent abilities and careful thinking", which even Alice herself didn't believe.

"I'll go as well?"

That's why Alice talked to Caschia in front of her in such a confused tone.

"Yes, you may find clues that we can't find, such as magic."

Vician interrupted the conversation, whispering to Alice while responding to the court mage's inquiry.

"I have received permission to enter and leave the entire imperial capital freely."

If it weren't for Visian's serious expression, Alice would have thought that he had other intentions. Free access to all places was like a divine aid to a thief.

The discussion before the investigation ended extremely quickly. The king asked the attendant to hand over three brooch-style passes. Alice took the brooch inlaid with the Alder emblem and she suddenly felt a sense of mission.

After the king led the palace mage and guards away, Visian did not leave the palace immediately. He was not only allowed to come and go freely, but also included the inspection of corpses.

The king did not take the body away with him, but left it in the hall with several healers, who examined the body of the pope in order to find out something.

Now, no matter how much Alice didn't want to see it, she had to come into close contact with the corpse.Fortunately, no one wanted to embarrass her. Alice was still a certain distance away from the body, just enough to see the whole body.

As the Pope, His Excellency Alex lay flat on the table, his face was frozen in a horrified expression, and a long diagonal wound was drawn on his neck.The blood on the wound had long since solidified, and his chest looked like it had been soaked in blood. The air was filled with the lingering smell of blood. It was conceivable that Alex had probably drained most of his blood before his death.

Alice and the others were able to get only a few pieces of information from the corpse. They knew that the murder weapon should be bladed, and the Pope was extremely shocked by the appearance of the murderer.

Unable to find any other clues from the Pope, they planned to exercise the privilege granted by the king and conduct a thorough search of the church at the scene of the incident.

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Alice stood in the sealed church, and the sunlight outside still shone through the glass into the house as before. But after learning everything, the peaceful scene at the ceremony was simply a lie.

A murder occurred in the church, and the blood stains extended from the inner chamber to the hall, and the smell of death was also filled here.Alice took a few steps forward, and a voice in her head encouraged her to touch the statue.

"There seems to be something there..."

Alice walked up to the statue involuntarily. As soon as her hand touched the statue, a dazzling light enveloped the entire church.

Vician and Caschia covered their eyes. When the light dissipated and everything returned to calm, they saw Alice standing with her back to them.

"What did you just do?"

Alice did not reply. She raised her hand tremblingly and pointed forward. Vician and Caschia looked over Alice's shoulder.

Who else is pushing through the door? Isn't it Pope Grell Alex who is confirmed to be dead?

"what happened!?"

Not only did Vician want to ask this question, but Alice also wanted to ask it.

"Doesn't this statue also have the effect of bringing the dead back to life?"

——TBC——

Entering the main plot (spreading flowers), it’s not a reasoning, please don’t worry w

Chapter 24 Connecting to the past

"What's going on! He, hasn't he already..."