Whispering Verse

"Don't worry about the evil spirits in the manor. I will come here every once in a while to 'clean up'. The last time I came here was half a month ago. There shouldn't be too many evil spirits born in such a short period of time."

Brown ladies' short boots stepped on the snow-covered ground. While introducing the situation to Shade, Miss Grand used the key to open the lock that tied the hinge. After pushing open the gate, she walked in first, followed by Shade, but she frowned slightly as she just stepped into the door.

He felt a familiar sense of coldness and malice. This feeling came from the ground beneath his feet, and it was very weak. Even he could only detect it because he knew there was a problem here in advance.

The familiar cold feeling was very similar to the strange evil spirit that Miss Norma transformed into when he handled the "Miss Norma Buried Alive Case" last week. And that malice was undoubtedly the disgusting black mud he encountered in his dream last night.

Of course, the problems in this manor seem to be more serious than Tobesk's "buried alive case", but the evil intentions are far less terrifying than the black mud in the dream.

At this moment, Shade was almost certain that the "crazy land" mentioned by the man in the robe in his dream last night should be referring to the situation here.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Shade stop, Miss Grande, who was walking in front, also stopped and looked at Shade.

"I probably know what's going on."

He said, retreating to the outside of the manor again, bending down to push aside the snow on the side of the fence gate, using the sharp silver light marks of his fingertips to pry out a piece of frozen hard soil:

"Miss Grande, I can solve the problems here. But I still have some doubts, so I want to meet the undead here and ask some questions."

The young sorceress raised her eyebrows:

"If you want to ask why the manor attracts souls to turn into evil spirits, I think you probably can't. The evil spirits here are different from ordinary souls. Not only are they more powerful, but almost every one of them can perform skills such as petrification. .”

Miss Grand reminded that she appeared to have made attempts at channeling and communicating with spirits:

"They are crazier and have a greater impact on ordinary people. I first discovered that there was a problem here because a few stupid thieves broke in. Even, in addition to destroying those evil spirits, the usual power of purifying evil spirits, All are completely ineffective against them.”

"I understand, but you have to give it a try after all."

He temporarily put away the piece of soil, clapped his hands and looked at the bleak winter courtyard:

"Where can I encounter them?"

Shade looked up at the window on the second floor of the mansion. Several ferocious-looking guys were staring at them from behind the black window.

Although the characteristics of gathering evil spirits make this land dangerous, these special crazy evil spirits are not a threat to seven-ring warlocks like Miss Grande.

She led Shade along the snow-covered courtyard trail to the front of the manor house. And looking at the way she took out the keys, Shade guessed that she might be from the Golden Dawn Opera Company. Of course, he had no intention of prying into other people's secrets, so he didn't say much about it.

The appearance of evil spirits will spontaneously affect the surrounding environment. You can't feel anything in the sunny courtyard, but once you enter the building, the damp and cold atmosphere immediately turns this seemingly good-looking manor into a ghost house. of horror.

As soon as the two of them stepped inside, the door closed behind them with a bang. Without giving them a chance to react, the ferocious-looking soul with gray-green light all over its body rushed towards the two of them from left to right.

"careful!"

Miss Grand reminded, and then discovered that the target of the two evil spirits was actually herself. The one on the right even deliberately bypassed Shade before rushing towards her. The sorceress, who was already unhappy because the manor was "dirty" again, was even more unhappy now.

The thumb of his right hand rubbed the emerald ring on his index finger. Gray smoke floated out of the ring and "swallowed" the two evil spirits. In the harsh screams, the two souls were completely shattered.

"Come with me, there should be a lot of real things upstairs. Why are there so many dirty things?"

Miss Grand looked at the stairs going up in the darkness and said rather unhappily. Shade knew that this was not an unhappiness directed at him. She quickly led Shade up the stairs covered with a layer of glowing green moss, heading to the second floor in the darkness where the gas lamp could not light for some reason.

They had just stepped onto the last step when a tide of souls composed of dozens of evil spirits rushed towards the two of them, or towards Miss Grande. The corner of her mouth trembled, she crossed her index fingers with her hands, pushed forward slightly, and the golden cross flew out to cut the spirit body. ,

It was obviously a sunny day outside, but in the corridor with no curtains drawn, it was as dark as if the sun had gone down. The dark spirit body swayed and screamed. Even though the spirit body was divided, it still rushed towards the two people. Countless terrifying illusions impacted the spirits of the two ring warlocks. The woman's scream almost pierced the eardrums, and Shade couldn't help it. frown:

"sun."

He whispered softly, and the slender "rays of sunlight" bursting out from his fingertips swept away the "disabled" souls rushing in front of him. This magical technique was perfect for fighting evil spirits that were about to collapse.

"The evil spirits born this time are stranger and more powerful than before, and the problems in this land are becoming more and more serious."

Miss Grande explained to Shade, then pointed forward with her fingernail paint. Gray traces of light flew out from her fingertips, like two gray ribbons, binding the evil spirits at the back who were trying to escape.

This thaumaturgy seems to be particularly effective on the soul, and the evil spirit actually stagnates in place.

[Those gray traces of light are memories, and the power of memory has a great influence on the spirit body. 】

"She" explained softly to Shade.

"You can't trap it for too long. If you want to do something, do it as soon as possible."

Miss Grand urged, pulling the gray thread, and the evil spirit floated over automatically. So Shade stepped forward and was about to reach out to the stiff black undead, but unexpectedly the sorceress stopped her again:

"Don't touch it. Direct contact with it will cause the limbs to become petrified."

But Shade's "Guide to Death" must directly contact the spirit body to read the memory. He does not have the ability to communicate with the soul just by "seeing" like Sister Devlin.

[Don’t worry, in last night’s dream, you were not petrified even if you were in direct contact with the black mud. After devouring part of the Weeping Angel, your resistance to petrification also increased. 】

"She" continued to whisper in Shade's ear, and the "other me" was really useful for the Ring Warlock.

"Miss Grande, I am not touching it, I am getting close to it. I will place my hand on top of the spirit body."

As he spoke, he turned his back to the lady behind him and stretched out his hand:

"Guide to death."

The picture in front of him began to blur, and then a scene appeared in front of him, as if countless oil paintings had been cut into pieces and then forcibly pieced together. The chaotic scene allowed Shade to barely distinguish the contents of his soul memory. When everything in front of him returned to the dark corridor of the manor house, he felt extremely dizzy as if he had spun around in place for 100 times.

"How about it?"

Miss Grand asked when Shade took back his hand.

"She is 54 years old, her name is unknown, and the cause of death was heart disease. This happened during her lifetime. The memory after death cannot be discerned at all. I only know that after she was buried, because she did not have too many regrets, her soul was supposed to leave normally, but it was This land attracted capture and became what it is now.”

The thaumaturgy [Guide to Death] itself also has the power to alleviate the resentment of evil spirits, but this time the soul touched by Shade showed almost no change.

"Are you still going to try? If it's not necessary, I'll break it up."

Miss Grand asked, Shade shook his head and hesitated:

"I want to determine how seriously this land pollutes the soul."

Taking a deep breath, the index finger of his right hand slowly passed through the air from top to bottom:

"Death's Door!"

As the dark crack opened, Miss Grand subconsciously took a small step back. Of course she didn't understand what the gap meant, but her instincts reminded her frantically that she should retreat immediately.

The evil spirit was still bound by the threads of her memory, so Shade endured the stinging sensation in his palms and tried hard to "push" the undead into death.

However, when the spirit body is very close to the gap, it seems to have hit an invisible wall and cannot move forward at all, which means that it cannot enter death.

"I don't know what you're doing, but it looks like you failed."

Miss Grande said again, but there was already more fear in her words. The five-ring warlock hired in front of him is definitely not as simple as he seems.

"I just tried a little experiment."

Shade let go and said, thinking of Miss Norma not long ago. It seemed that the problems in the two places were not the same, and Miss Norma left directly without any problems.

"Experiment? Don't say that you are from the Truth Society."

The sorceress made a joke, and Shade shook his head:

"I do know them, but I am not one of those lunatics. The temporary attempt is over, let's purify this place first. Wait a moment, please continue to bind this soul. I want to see what will happen after purification."

"No problem if you can really cleanse this place."

Although the casting material of "Power of the Earth·Healing Aura" only requires normal soil, it is best to stand on the ground when casting the spell, rather than on a building floor. So Miss Grand dragged the soul and returned to the snow-covered courtyard with Shade.

She originally thought that Shade was going to arrange a ritual to assist. After all, what he wanted to do was to purify the entire manor, so the sorceress stepped back a little, but she didn't expect that Shade just took out the soil he had just obtained, and used both hands to Crush the soil almost like rocks.