Whispering Verse

When Shade and Miss Bernanise returned to the Wilde Opera House, Luvia had also arrived and was talking to Miss Lassers about tonight's events. And Luvia also brought them new news:

"Professors from the Zalath School of Literature will also participate in the operation on the shores of Lake Eldron tonight. Among the three major colleges, only the professors from the Zalath School of Literature have arrived early."

"It doesn't matter. We are waiting on the outside tonight, and we are not necessarily really needed."

Shade said that he did not carry the [Night Watcher] this time, and he would try to avoid carrying this relic until the devil's whereabouts and identity were determined.

"In addition, I got the statue of Edward Marcus, one of the three auction items that may point to the Heart of the Earth, yesterday afternoon."

The statue was transformed by Shade and placed on the coffee table in the study. The three women examined it in turn, but found nothing strange.

"Isn't it this?"

Miss Benenice said suspiciously:

"These stones come from the Randall Valley, in the southwest, so this is not a petrified body."

At this time, Miss Lassers was using her own magic to conduct investigations. When Miss Lassers also completed the examination, Shade said:

"I checked at home last night and found nothing suspicious, so now there is only the last method left."

A bright arc of silver light was pulled out from his hand, and in an instant the complete antique statue was cut into a pile of rubble.

Everyone picked up the little rocks and examined them, making sure again that they were really just ordinary antiques. Of course, the process of obtaining this antique was not a waste of time, at least it gave Shade a reason to contact Stone Oxenfurt.

"The Breath of Time."

Shade took a deep breath, and as the gray smoke flew from the stones to his nose, the stone statue went back in time and returned to its original appearance. Because casting a spell consumes one-fifth of the time, this casting probably consumed less than 20 seconds of Shade's lifespan.

"Really, I've said it many times, don't use this thaumaturgy casually. Is your lifespan infinite?"

When Luvia saw this, she immediately blamed him.

"Maybe we just don't see the value of this statue, so we keep it intact first, maybe it will be useful."

Shade said, and Miss Benanis and Miss Lassus realized that Shade's thaumaturgy that directly affects time and is almost miraculous comes at the cost of lifespan. They also think that Shade had better not use it casually.

After all, as Shade once said, the only sure bet for mortals is that they are mortal.

One of the three items, the statue, was obtained, and the remaining two items, namely the ceramic vase and the antique key, were in the hands of the local stone art exhibition hall and Earl Granger respectively. The curator of the former is a folklorist mentioned by Hella Oxenfurt who can seek help, while the latter involves whether he is a descendant of Mr. Lyman.

Of course, although it is urgent to find these two items, it will definitely not be done this Thursday at least. It's almost dusk, and what will happen in Lake Eldron upstream of the Elrond River will soon be revealed.

Because we don’t know exactly what will happen, so besides Shade, Luvia, and Miss Lassus, there are only three followers of the Nine Rings witch who are accompanying the witch this time. They are also the chief accountants of the Golden Dawn Opera Troupe. and styling and costume designers.

The church did not seal off the area around Lake Eldron, but set up a large camp by the lake, relying on the camp to prepare rituals to dispel the mad land.

The church's rituals are much more complicated than Shad's "Power of the Earth: Healing Spiritual Energy", and ordinary rituals take a long time to completely purify the earth that is heading towards madness. In the past, when the "Crazy Land" appeared, we were not afraid of a long time. After all, as long as the black mud and the Crazy Land were restrained from spreading outwards, it would not matter if it took a month or two to solve it. But this time relying on water bodies, the madness of the earth spread very quickly. Therefore, in order to speed up the originally long purification ceremony, the Church of the Sun, which presided over the ceremony, joined forces with the Natural Church in the diocese to act together.

The plan is probably that in the evening, the church ring magicians will jointly cast spells to completely freeze the polluted area below the water surface, ensuring that the spread of pollution is temporarily controlled. Subsequently, complex magical rituals will be carried out in conjunction with the sage-level relic [The Oak Staff of the Great Elf Sage] transported from the suburbs of York, Carsonrick, Decorum County, in an effort to complete the purification before dawn.

Because there has been no experience in such a hasty purification in the past, the church has no conclusion as to whether this is feasible, so it can only dispatch more teams of ring warlocks to prepare for possible situations.

But in Shade's opinion, the more people, the better this time. After all, the pollution flowing out from the madness of the earth determines that as long as the effect of the mad earth cannot be exempted, it will be useless even if all the ring warlocks in Kasenric are found.

In short, that evening, a group of six people wearing robes and riding horses arrived at the top of the hill on the east side of Lake Eldron. Riding on their horses, they saw the western sunset filling the frozen lake. The brilliant sunset was covered by ice. The surface reflects, as if the lake is glowing in the setting sun.

The large, nearly circular lake is surrounded by the surrounding white winter forest, and further away, you can see a few wisps of green smoke coming out of the rural villages. There are several large boats frozen in the lake. Towards the west side of the lake, small fishing boats are parked next to the pier. Around the pier, the church's camp is also bathed in the sunset.

The priests in white robes were praying towards the last ray of sunset, praying that the power of the sun could still protect them at night. This is the basic magical ritual of the Church of the Sun [Sun Blessing]. If used by a large number of priests, the effect is quite powerful.

Viewed from the top of the hill area, the camp surrounding the dock is quite large. A rough estimate is that there are at least three digits of people in the camp. Of course, it is impossible for all of them to be ring warlocks, but the scale is enough to be called a major operation.

Shade pulled the reins and asked Miss Benanis, who was riding a maroon horse beside him:

"I remember that in the Randall Valley, there were no thirteen-ring warlocks stationed all year round."

After all, the Church of the Five Gods has a limited number of thirteen-ring warlocks, and they have to take into account the development of the open sea and the exploration of the new continent.

"Yes, but in order to round up the cultists last week, the Church of the Sun dispatched the famous 'Earth Shaker' Mr. Pierre Granger. This thirteen-ring warlock is as good at the power of the earth as I am. He is especially good at creating earthquakes, but unfortunately, this kind of technique cannot be used casually in urban areas."

"Granger?"

Luvia asked curiously, while Miss Lassus on the side took off her hood to reveal her beautiful long hair:

"Yes, this gentleman was originally from the Randall Valley. It is said that he is distantly related to the Earl of Granger family, but you also know that Granger itself is not a very rare surname, so is he a relative of the Earl family? , no one can explain."

"Will he show up tonight?"

Shade looked at the lakeside camp expectantly, but Miss Benanis shook her head slightly:

"Even if the message passed through the black market is believed by the church, the only Thirteenth Ring cannot be transferred outside the city. After all, the cultists are still lurking in the city, so leaving one Thirteenth Ring in the city is the right thing to do. But I heard that the Five Gods Church plans to send one of the Thirteenth Ring each to arrive in this city next week or later, in order to deal with the matter of the chosen ones of the earth."

"The Chosen One's epic is really becoming more and more influential. Let's set up camp. Let's take a rest first."

Shade suggested, and the group turned their horses. And Shade was at the end, turning around to look at the almost fiery red ice:

"What will happen tonight?"

In order to avoid being noticed by the church, Shade and others chose to camp in the forest far away from the lake. After simply setting up a campfire and erecting a fence, Shade even used his newly acquired thaumaturgy [Thorn of the Moon] at the entrance of the camp.

When he pointed his finger at the entrance of the fence, bright silver thorn bushes immediately emerged from the soil, intertwining tightly and blocking the entrance to the camp. And not only did it block the entrance, but the thorns then climbed up the fence until they completely merged with the fence, as if the camp was surrounded by silver thorn bushes.

Miss Benenice tried it. Although these thorns can be destroyed from the inside, it also requires some means. Even an eleventh-level witch would find it difficult to destroy the thorns from the outside. Of course, this is also related to the fact that she is not good at fighting, and it is impossible to use the mystery lock here with all her strength.

If you want to fly from the thorns to the camp, the thorns will grow upward to block you. Unfortunately, as long as you fly high enough, Shade's bright silver thorn bushes will not have any reaction. Therefore, the most suitable scene for this thaumaturgy to be used is in a relatively closed indoor environment.

"This is a bit like the thaumaturgy [Light of Thorns] mastered by Iluna (Chapter 975)."

Luvia said to Shade:

"But her moves require casting materials, and they are thaumaturgy unique to the Church of the Sun."

After the evil things in the Pantanal were burned, Sister Devlin used the First Fire to give Shad many interesting powers. One of them was that the bonfire he lit with his own hands was warmer, and he was warmer when he was around it. Able to quickly restore physical strength and spirit.

At this time, the bonfire was warming everyone, and the smoke had been eliminated. Because they had eaten before coming, there was no need to cook.

The six people sat around the campfire and chatted. After the sun completely set, Shade went to the lake with Luvia and Miss Bernanis. Because the three of them had the "power of the earth", Miss Lassers led Two high-level sorceresses were here to support them, ensuring that there was at least a way out.

It could be seen that Miss Lassers was not very willing to watch the three of them take risks, but because of Miss Benanis' persistence, she had no choice but to agree.