"Are we heading to the Gate of Chenix at the Adria Cathedral?"

Su Li's eyes lit up. He had never been to the Seal Gate located at the headquarters of the Dark Church.

Carrying his nightmare pipe, he walked out of the treatment room, and there were already many Night Watchers with sealed items gathered in the square.

They all kept a certain distance from each other. Some formed groups of three, some wore heavy black gloves, and others carried huge wooden boxes, glass vessels, and baskets woven with hair, carefully guarding against the negative effects of the sealed items.

In charge of the containment of the sealed items was Timothy Dalton, the bishop of the Dark Church.

Looking at the person in charge of the Gate of Chenix, who had a long, narrow face with very little hair, many Night Watchers showed signs of nervousness.

Timothy Dalton's cold and deep voice echoed in the small square:

"Attention, everyone. Next, we are going to enter the Gate of Chenix deep inside the Adria Cathedral."

"This is our Dark Church's forbidden area, containing tens of thousands of sealed items. There must be no mistakes, as it will bring great disaster to Adria and even the entire Delan Becca."

"Next, the bearers of the sealed items whose names I call out, step forward."

"Level one sealed items: Time Quill, Dark Tentacles, Thunderstone..."

As the names of a dozen sealed items were called out, dozens of Night Watchers stepped forward, maintaining a certain distance from each other.

Su Li stood still, quietly waiting for the bishop to call out the name of the sealed item he held.

At that moment, a Night Watcher hurried over from the medical area and whispered a few words to Timothy Dalton.

Surprised, he asked, "Who is Su Li?"

Su Li raised his hand in surprise.

The bishop, Timothy Dalton, softened his gaze and inquired, "Did you kill the Plague Captain Rhecia Von?"

"Yes, Your Excellency. His sealed item, the Plague Casket, is still stored in my small spirit realm ring."

Amidst the awe, envy, and respect of all the Night Watchers, Timothy Dalton nodded and said with a smile, "Well done. The Plague Casket is a level one sealed item. Carefully take it out and be careful not to spill it. It will be sealed first."

Su Li cautiously took out the sealed item and, under everyone's gaze, held up the green and intricately patterned box.

Timothy Dalton said slowly, "Bring it up here and let me see."

Handing the box to Timothy Dalton, his pupils gradually turned from hazel to pure black.

Through his eyes, Su Li could clearly feel that the bishop's eyes could see secrets and penetrate the darkness.

As Timothy Dalton looked at the box, he saw the grotesque green head with snake-like hair inside the casket.

It was the head of the 'Plague Witch' Greyspa, carrying the characteristics of a massive plague, contamination, and death.

Timothy Dalton only took one look, and tears flowed from his pure black eyes, his eye sockets beginning to fill with red blood vessels. If he stared for a while longer, he would be infected with a stubborn disease and might even die.

His eyes returned to hazel, and he said calmly, "Well, this is indeed Rhecia Von's sealed item, the Plague Casket. Follow me, I will first contain this sealed item with you, and then we will carry out a comprehensive disinfection."

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"Disinfection?!"

As an extraordinary being with a dragon's physique, Su Li was quite robust and found it difficult to be contaminated by diseases.

Timothy Dalton explained, "Even if the lid is not opened, there is still a certain probability of contamination from mere skin contact with the Plague Casket. The virus lurking in the body could erupt at any time, which is quite dangerous. The reason Rhecia Von dared to touch the box is because, as a scholar, he had the means to remove the dangers of the plague."

"Furthermore, there are multiple high-ranking extraordinary beings with medical pathways on the Plague Ship."

Facing this hero of the Dark Church, the bishop, who was usually reticent, patiently explained.

Su Li nodded and followed the bishop with the box to the Gate of Chenix deep beneath the Adria Cathedral.

Passing through the sanctuary, the two arrived at the cable ladder leading to the depths of the cathedral.

As the headquarters of the Dark Church, the cable ladder here was obviously much better maintained than the one at the Serede branch.

The interior space of the cable ladder was quite large. Su Li roughly estimated that the space inside was enough to accommodate more than fifty people, and it seemed to have been specially designed and built by the Steam and Machinery Church for the containment of massive sealed items.

Without a creaking sound, the cable ladder slowly and quietly descended to the depths of the cathedral.As the gate of the cable ladder slowly opened, a whole team of armed night watchmen aimed at the gate of the cable ladder.

The head of the team did not slack off because Su Li was under the leadership of Bishop Timothy Dalton.

He said coldly with an emotionless voice:

"Stop, state your identity, and speak the password."

Timothy Dalton did not do as told. Instead, he took three steps forward, then took four steps back without saying a word, and only then did he speak an irrelevant question:

"Even if the sun won't set."

The team leader did not answer, but instead disappeared in front of Su Li.

Because Su Li was holding a box, he couldn't rub his eyes. He blinked hard and found that all the members of the night watchmen in front of him had disappeared!

An illusion?

Absolutely impossible.

The night watchmen just now were definitely real!

So there is only one possibility, that is, the Chenix Gate exists in another space.

Once a wrong action is taken, the enemy will face the ruthless attack of the night watchmen, and will never be able to find the true location of the Chenix Gate under the headquarters of Adria!

Just in a daze, Su Li found that he had forgotten the spell that Bishop Timothy Dalton had just recited.

And at this moment, what appeared in front of Su Li was a pair of heavy black iron doors.

It was heavy and cold, engraved with black holy emblems of different sizes and quantities.

Su Li subconsciously stared at the holy emblem representing the goddess of the night on the huge door, and suddenly he felt feelings of sleep, secrecy, death, decay, and heaviness.

Continuing to stare, Su Li found that his eyes turned black, and his gaze lost focus, as if the door was shrouded in heavy shadows.

"Don't stare at the door."

Bishop Timothy Dalton reminded.

At Timothy Dalton's reminder, Su Li quickly shifted his gaze, and the latter knocked on the door of the guard room and, in the presence of the night watchmen on duty, opened the Chenix Gate.

And although Su Li witnessed the opening of the door with his own eyes, he couldn't remember the specifics no matter what.

As the door slowly opened.

The deep darkness inside surged, and this darkness seemed to be 'alive', staring at Su Li and Timothy Dalton with a gloomy gaze.

Bishop Timothy Dalton took a deep breath and said slowly:

"Let's go, we're going in."