Whispering Verse

The knife that Shade found in Miss Norma's house was used to draw blood to make potted plants and give them to the men who favored her, so that after her death, she could continue to use her soul to draw strength from the land. And letting the three men who loved her bury her was the last call of that land to her. This is a very ancient ritual about 'love', voluntary sacrifice, crazy and pure love, and The deceived ritual performer.

These combined gave birth to the terrifying undead that Shade had just seen. Although the undead was not strong to him, he was not an ordinary five-ring warlock. Not to mention, most of his abilities were extremely aimed at this kind of person. Monster-like.

As Shade released his left hand that touched the soul, the thaumaturgy of "guiding death" stopped working, and the resentment entangled in Miss Norma's soul also became less intense. But she still looked so crazy. Even though she was nailed to the ground by the moonlight sword, she still struggled to bite Shade.

"Answer me, madam, what is in this land?"

Shade asked in a deep voice. He really didn't feel anything wrong with the ground under his feet. But Miss Norma’s strange appearance after her death is definitely not explained by her mental illness and auditory hallucinations.

"You can't hear the pulse of the earth, you can't hear the last cry of the earth. I am already with this land, and I will look for more blood food for it until the end."

She kept struggling, but the more frequent contact with the moonlight sword made those dark things in her soul continue to diminish.

"Don't pretend to be crazy with me. You knocked the three of them into a coma and erased the memory of meeting me. Isn't it just because you wanted to protect them? Moreover, those men who received the potted plants did not have any One died because of you.”

Shade said calmly, and released the spell, causing the three swords summoned by the "Blade of Disarrayed Time" to disappear, leaving only the last sword:

"Tell me what happened here, and then I'll send you away to find a way to solve the problems here."

Sure enough, the struggling soul stopped moving. The terrifying head covered by long hair lifted up, revealing the face belonging to Miss Norma. In the photos that Shade had seen, this lady had good looks. Even after death, the former glory can still be seen in the terrifying face:

"I just don't want this land to go crazy like this."

"Crazy Land? What do you mean?"

Shade asked in confusion. In order to show his sincerity, he let go of the hand holding the sword and let the moonlight sword disappear. Of course, he was not unprepared for the other party's escape. The [Sin Chain] in his sleeve could not miss at such a close distance.

"I don't understand either. But the earth is indeed becoming crazy. Someone must stop this. I volunteered to sacrifice for this and collect blood food, just to appease this land. I know what I did is wrong, but this land Shouldn’t be crazy. May the earth be with me.”

She spoke very vaguely, not trying to hide anything. It seemed like she didn't understand what was going on. And Shade also knew why he didn't feel the abnormality in the ground under his feet, because the abnormality was stopped by this "self-sacrifice".

"I understand, then please leave. I will do my best to find a way to solve the problem here. Even if it cannot be solved, I will at least warn people not to come near here."

He said, Miss Norma's soul looked at him, she did not open her mouth, but her voice appeared directly in Shade's ears:

"You promise?"

"Yes, I promise to fix the problem here as soon as possible or stop people from coming near here."

His idea was to come once a week, wait for another problem in this land, and then sense the problem and determine whether it was some kind of relic or other weird things that caused all this. And even if you can't prevent the danger here, you can still tell Iluna and ask her to notify the Sun Church.

Although the Righteous God [Old Man with the Lamp] is the sun god, his full name is "God of the Sun and the Earth." The church specializes in land issues. And even if the believers of the earth god have no solution to the situation here, the believers of nature will definitely not be stingy in giving help.

Of course, these things can't be solved until another problem occurs here. Now there is no problem, even if the church is called, there is nothing we can do.

Seeing Shade's sincere attitude, Miss Norma bowed slightly to him. Shade waved his hand and drew a dark crack beside him, revealing the shoal illuminated by the dark moon.

The soul that gradually turned pure white finally looked at the three young men unconscious in the snow. Tears flowed down from the soul and turned into ice crystals and fell into the snow. The soul pulled out the white light and shadow, crossed the crack, and entered the real afterlife. As the cracks closed, Miss Norma truly entered death.

"Soul Teardrop?"

The crystals in the snow flew towards Shade. This was an extremely rare special material that could only be produced by the stranded undead after their wishes were fulfilled. Not only does the wish need to be fulfilled, but the undead itself needs to be very powerful. This is a widely used alchemical material and is expensive. Shade obtained this material before the battle of Sikal Mountain by making a starving undead feel full, but later he used the soul tears from that time Gave it to Luvia.

But this thing is useless to Shade. After the Battle of Sikal, the "Rain of Light" blessing he received on the top of the mountain was the purest soul teardrop of thousands of souls. However, if it is only regarded as an alchemical material, this drop of crystal is far more than the sum of all other rewards that Shade received from this commission.

"With your reward, I will solve the problem here."

Shade exhaled and watched the white smoke drift away from his mouth in the wind. Then he looked at the three people lying on the snow:

"Although Miss Norma lied to you that she could be resurrected and asked you to bury her alive, you still killed someone this time. Why did I send the client's relatives to the Redwich field again?"

"Her" soft laughter could only be heard by Shade in the empty courtyard. Shade raised his hand to cover his eyebrows and looked up at the sun, which was half covered by the edge of the clouds:

“May the earth be with us all.”

(Little Mia is running.)

"That's pretty much what happened."

At 2:30 pm on Saturday at Dr. Schneider's clinic, Shade was holding little Mia in his arms and sharing his story with the other four people in the group.

Dr. Schneider was amazed:

"So, that Miss Norma"

"Buried alive by three of them."

Shade stroked the cat's head and said something he knew was cruel:

"The cause of death was suffocation, so."

Priest Augustus has begun to pray softly. Miss Writer listened very carefully just now. She was very interested in another question:

"Did the three young men you mentioned finally know the truth? That is, um, they buried their lovers alive?"

Shade recalled what happened in the morning:

"Before coming here, I went to Ridwich Field to confirm the details of the confession. As you know, the church is very sensitive to this kind of thing, so the person who contacted me at that time was the environment arranged by the church at Ridwich Field. The warlock digressed. I was the one who told the three young people this morning that there would be no resurrection, and death is death. Those three people cried so hard that they collapsed. Gee, I have never seen anyone cry so much. awful."

"You told them on purpose, right?"

The purple-eyed fortune teller joked that she knew Shade very well:

"Deliberately letting them know this cruel truth."

"Although they blindly respected Miss Norma's orders because of love, they did kill someone with their own hands. Shouldn't they be punished for killing someone? Someone will tell them about this sooner or later."

No one will comment on Shade's words. However, although the three were arrested at Ridwich Field, since there are two ways to look at this matter, suicide and homicide, the specific crime will depend on the three young men. How the family behind the person can function.

Lawyers will presumably play a big role in this, but that has nothing to do with Shad. Although Professor Martin knew that it was Shad who sent his son to Ridwich Field, he still paid the commission fee. This professor of literature department was a very upright person. As for old Mr. Franco, he paid three times the fee as promised and praised Shade with a smile as the most famous detective in Tobesk.

“But I still don’t understand, what is in that land?”

Priest Augustus asked again:

"Is there something buried underground? A relic? Or a sealed demon?"

"It can't be a devil, right?"

The doctor also said casually.

But this time Shade did not give an answer, but shook his head slightly:

"I will check the land from time to time. If there are any problems, I will deal with them as soon as possible. I can't make a conclusion yet. According to the memory I got from the soul of Miss Norma, that place can be peaceful for at least two or three months. .”

"The sacrifice of a soul to the ancient ritual of love can only suppress the land for two or three months. It seems that it is indeed not a small trouble."

Dr. Schneider sighed slightly, but everyone liked hearing all kinds of detective stories from Shade.

The exam week has been over for half a month, and the five people in the group have become relatively lazy, but everyone has not forgotten to obtain their own new magic skills from the library. Except for Priest August who has not been upgraded, the textbooks for the new grades of several others have been delivered last week, and this week they are considering taking some elective courses.

In addition to the fifth-grade courses in the School of History and the School of Library Management, Schade is currently taking the "Introduction to the Basics of Mystery Locks" course taught by Professor Garcia in the School of History.

This was an advanced course on "Closed Space" that he took in the fall. Because in the fall, Shade had mentioned the problem of "multiple nested mysteries" in class, and this hypothesis itself had been confirmed by the God Caller. Therefore, Professor Garcia hopes that Shade can continue to participate in the course and submit a paper on the nesting of multiple mystery locks at the end of the course.

This couldn't be easier for Shade.