"This is getting more and more troublesome." Watching the two church members leave, Penis stretched: "It seems that there is no time for breakfast. I'll get a few cookies for breakfast. What drinks do you want, milk? Or white wine?"

"A small cup is enough for white wine bar." Catherine thought seriously: "That one is the best with cherry biscuits."

"As you wish, my Lord Knight." Panis suddenly stood up and walked towards the kitchen: "It will be fine soon."

When Penis returned to the living room with a tray, she saw Catherine sitting in a soft and comfortable seat, looking at the rising sun outside the window, her slightly frowned eyebrows showed that she was not at peace.

"What are you thinking?" Panis put the tray on the coffee table, and put a plate of more than a dozen cherry biscuits, two empty cups, a bottle of white wine that has been opened for a while, and a glass of warm milk. It is the catering for the casting profession Lina. For the casting profession, it is very important to keep the spirit focused, and alcohol often affects the stability and accuracy of the spell, and also affects the ability to judge the situation. Therefore, most casting professions do not drink alcohol, at least not drink alcohol during work.

Katherine was awakened by Panis's voice, smiled gratefully, poured herself a glass of white wine that was still emitting cold air, picked up a biscuit, and shook the wine glass in a daze to warm up the excessively frozen wine, saying, "I am thinking about what happened in Deer Saren, and guessing the murderer's purpose and intention."

"Do you have any ideas?" Panis sat back on his original position, poured himself a cup, and asked casually: "Or do you have any suggestions?"

"In fact, Vivian should have been there too." Catherine said: "The murderer is a mage and he also uses a magic circle. It would be very helpful to have Vivian here. Although Lina is also a spell casting profession, the difference between the priest and the mage class is too big, and there is no commonality at all."

"No need." Panis shook his head and said, "I don't think there will be any substantial progress this time. The murderer was knocked out. It has attracted the attention of the official and it is unlikely that he will stay there and continue to commit the crime."

"The key is here." Catherine said: "I was thinking just now, what is the purpose of the murderer? What did he use as the basis for screening the crime location? If it was to crack down on the reputation of the local officials, maybe he might really stay there and continue to commit the crime. Do you remember that the several incidents discovered now are all within the federal territory of Neville."

"That was just discovered by us. I think it's probably more than these few times, maybe there are more around the world." Panis said: "Of course, there is no evidence yet, so we can only wait until the guild's investigation results come out around the world to judge."

"Forget it, it's meaningless to say these things now. I'm just guessing randomly. Let's wait until you investigate." Catherine smiled and shook her head: "Speak happily, I'm going to break through, the Golden Higher Level, and the time should be after this weak period."

"Congratulations." Panis was stunned and exclaimed: "I didn't expect that after you accumulated so long, you were actually hit by a bull and broke through, hahahaha."

"Hey." Catherine glared at Panis: "Although I'm still in the weak stage, I'm still fine to slash people with my sword."

"I'm wrong, please forgive me." Panis immediately admitted his mistake without hesitation.

"I'm too lazy to scold you." Catherine gave Panis a blank look and said hesitantly: "After breaking through, you have to face the biggest difficulty of the legendary level. Only by breaking through the legendary level can you be considered a real world-class strongman. I don't know if I have the possibility of being promoted to a legend. After all, there are only sixteen years left before the promotion deadline of 40 years old. By the way, no one has explained to me. Why is there no hope for life if you don't advance to a legend at the age of 40? I have asked many people, but they can't answer the reason."

"In fact, this rule is only valid for humans. Or it is the rule itself summarized by humans." Panis explained: "It is related to the physical condition of humans. Promoting to the legendary level often means breaking through the limit of the human body in some aspects. If you want to break through the limit, you must first reach that limit. This limit that represents the extreme limit of the normal human body is actually very difficult to reach, and it is difficult to break through it after reaching it. The level of forty at the age of forty represents the best state of the human body. People reach the peak of their physical condition at the age of twenty, and last for more than ten years, and then start to decline by around the age of forty. Therefore, if you want to break through the limit of the body, you must have a peak state of the body. If you cannot even break through the peak state, you will have no chance after you start to decline."

"Uh, actually, I didn't understand." Katherine stuck out her tongue like a little girl: "What limit, what peak?"

"This is hard to explain. You will know it naturally when you reach the Golden Higher Level. Or if you ask Vivian, she must have touched that line." Panis said: "In layman's terms, after you reach the Golden Higher Level, you will find that there is no road ahead. There is only one wall. If you break that wall, you can go on. If you can't break it, you can only stay in place for the rest of your life. If you want to break it, you need to be in the best state, and after you are forty, you will slowly decline and never have the best state. This should be easier to understand."

"I almost understand." Catherine suddenly smiled and stared at Pannis and said, "But you really..."

"Hey." Panis glared.

"Okay, I don't say anything, I don't know anything." Catherine shrank in the chair, squinted her eyes and smiled like a little fox.

"Lina is back." Panis suddenly put down his wine glass and tidied up his sitting position: "I also brought a guest in. Today is indeed very busy."

"Please come in." The living room door was pushed open, and Lina heard her in a lukewarm tone: "Catherine is inside."

The person entering the door was a man who looked very status, with a slightly fat figure but a well-proportioned figure. He had brown hair combed behind his back, and his thick beard was neatly trimmed. He was wearing a well-tailored black dress and a certain black top hat. He looked calm in his blue pupils. Seeing this person, Panis felt familiar, and after a while, he finally remembered that he had seen him.

"Mr. Murlaire." Catherine was familiar with this person and recognized him at a glance: "Why have time to come to us today? I won't be here to recruit us to join your auction house to take charge of security."

Pannis remembered that a few months ago, when Catherine's elder Marquis Snape visited her in the City of Knowledge, he had met John Murray at a dinner hosted by the Marquis. He was one of the three major auction houses in the City of Saints, the operator of the City of Saints, the contemporary head of the City of Melale and Jones, and one of the Standing Committee members of the City of Knowledge. He had great power in the City of Saints' business circle.

"Of course not." John forced a smile: "Something I want to entrust to you, and I need to keep confidential content."

"Huh? Let me think about it." Catherine's eyes rolled: "I understand that the Heart of Time is the goods handled by your auction house, and there are clues, right?"

"Why do you all understand when you see it?" John sighed with a wry smile: "It's about the heart of time."

"You guys talk, I'll get up with Vivian." Lina obviously had no interest in this, so she turned around and walked upstairs.

"By the way to the basement and say to Anne." Catherine instructed: "Let's play below for a while, don't come up."

"Okay, let's talk." Katherine saw Lina waved her hand and said that she heard it, so she focused on John Murray: "What do you want to entrust us? Regain the heart of time?"

"I'd better say it in detail." John pondered for a while: "At the beginning of last year, an old customer who had been working with for many years came to me, hoping to give us the heart of time to auction. He took a fancy to several mines in the Neville Federation and the Faral Empire. He wanted to buy it slowly in recent years, but the working capital was insufficient. He hoped to auction this legendary gem for working capital. After many discussions, we decided to auction it at the Faith Auction at the end of the year, so that the price could reach the highest, and the customer was very satisfied with our proposal."

"It was normal, but there was a problem on the day of the auction." John subconsciously loosened his tie. Panis took a new cup and handed a glass of white wine in time. John was drunk in one sip, and then wiped the sweat from his forehead and continued: "The night before the auction, at 11 o'clock in the morning, I finally checked all the precious auction items, especially the gem. After confirming that there was no problem, I put it in the safe and guarded it all night by three legendary masters hired from the Adventurers Guild. The original tradition was that there was only one legendary master, but because of the gem that there was this gem, two more masters were specially invited."

"Two hours before the auction started, I opened the safe as usual. The sealing measures of the safe were still intact, the box was still there, and the spell seal on the box was not damaged." John said in a daze: "But when I opened the box, the gem was gone."

"Ah?" Katherine said in surprise: "Everything is intact? It's amazing. How did they do it? Could it be that they used spells to transfer the gems?"

"Impossible." Vivian slowly walked down the stairs with a stick: "Unless the box is engraved with a teleportation array, it is impossible to do it. Moreover, the auction house's safe should be accompanied by space interference, and teleportation magic is difficult to take effect accurately."

"Yes, we also consider this." John agreed: "It is unlikely that it is a magic effect, but there are three legendary masters guarding me. I don't think anyone can steal gems directly through the safe. So while we searched the whole city secretly, we changed the auction directory and replaced the gems."
Chapter completed!