Whispering Verse

Three skeletons sat around two black stones placed on the snow, and the stones were engraved with the language of the devil - death.

The three skeletons are undead creatures, unafraid of the cold and snowy weather. They must have been sitting here for a long time, and their shoulders and bare skulls were covered with a layer of snow.

Normally when encountering such a thing, Shade would choose to go around it, but today he came here just to look for clues, so he walked over, but the skeletons ignored him and stared at the half-covered corpse on the snow. Covered by two black stones.

[Undead, but corrupted by demons, and the soul is imprisoned in the bones. 】

"She" reminded softly, and Shade stopped with the suitcase in hand:

"Gentlemen, what are you doing?"

After asking the question, I got the answer. Among the three skeletons, the one wearing dark red clothes has its jaw moving up and down;

"We are allocating death quotas."

"What's the meaning?"

The skeleton in black clothes said:

"We are hunters from a nearby village. When we entered this forest for hunting a year ago, we came here after chasing a pheasant. The three of us shot at the pheasant hiding in the bushes. When we were looking for it, we found that the pheasant fell on the ground of a man. Underfoot. We threatened each other to hand over our prey, and so we became like this."

When he spoke, he actually had the charm of an operatic monologue.

"Aren't you already dead?"

Shade asked again, and finally the skeleton in dark blue clothes said:

"The man left us dead but unable to leave completely. He said that since we like to suspect others of taking our things, let us decide for ourselves who it belongs to. He turned the pheasant into two A stone, which would allow two of us to die completely, leaving one to continue to be tortured.”

When the three skeletons were talking, they never looked at Shade, but stared at the two stones, as if they were afraid that their companions would take them away first:

"So, we're trying to allocate deaths."

"Um"

This rather evil curse indeed looks like the handiwork of Goethe, the stone mirror demon:

"So, you've been at a stalemate with each other for a year?"

"Yes."

The skeleton in black clothes was still the first to speak and said:

"We balance each other and restrict each other. No one dares to reach out to the stone first, otherwise they will be attacked by the other two. Now we are competing to see who is more patient, but the good news is that we all have infinite lives to go to. wait."

This sentence makes the feeling of black humor even stronger:

"Have you ever thought that your stalemate and waiting is itself part of permanent torture?"

The skeleton in dark red clothes said:

"Of course we know, but so what? Who can selflessly dedicate themselves to let the other two leave?"

The three skeletons nodded together, and none of them took their eyes away from the two stones in the snow.

"Do you want me to help you?"

Shade suggested in the snow, but the three skeletons probably misunderstood what he meant. The skeleton in black first said:

"I have ancestral treasures at home. Help me entangle one of them, and they will all be yours."

The red skeleton said:

"Don't believe his treasure, it's just a crude clay pot. I have beautiful daughters. Help me tangle one of them, and she will be yours."

The skeleton in blue finally said:

"Oh, sir, his daughter is stronger than a wild boar and more savage than a brown bear. I have the talent of a marksman. Help me entangle one of them, and I will give you part of my soul."

"This is a lie. If his talent was outstanding, he would not hunt here with us. Don't believe his lies, sir, what I gave you is the most valuable gift."

The skeleton in black said again, and then the three skeletons asked together:

"So sir, who are you helping?"

"Wealth, beauty and power, choose one?"

Shade asked, still holding the suitcase in his left hand, and the silver thunder exploded in his right hand:

"How about this, I don't want all three of them!"

In an instant, lightning flashed across, and the thunder gun directly hit the center of the three skeletons at close range. As stones, snowflakes and soil exploded, all three skeletons were ejected. At the same time, a big crater was blown out of the ground, and the silver arc was still beating on the snow.

In the large pit on the ground, there are dozens of skeletons like them lying:

"It is common sense for ring magicians not to make deals with demons; it is another common sense not to make deals with things corrupted by demons."

The skeletons picked up their severed limbs and spliced ​​them together, struggling to stand up from the snow. Some black shadows quickly slid under the snow, split into three streams and entered the bodies of the three skeletons. As a result, strange black stones clung to the bones, and six black flames appeared in their eye sockets.

A stone sickle appeared in the right hand of the skeleton in black. The skeleton in red raised his right hand, and mud projectiles appeared in his palm. The skeleton in blue became larger and felt full of pressure.

While they were feeling the power, Shade opened the suitcase and took out one of the small bottles. He opened the cork of the bottle and reached out to control the flow of water. The holy water in the bottle flew into Shade's face like a flying snake. And as he opened his mouth and blew forward slightly, the holy water passing in front of him slowly froze in the snow, forming a complete spear made of ice:

"I haven't taken action yet, how dare you resist?"

The skeleton in black was the fastest, as if gliding against the snow, and hit Shade with a sickle in his hand. But Shade simply turned sideways and easily dodged it, and then, as if dancing with a sword, he used the ice spear with his backhand to slice off its skull. Break one third of the ice spear, stab it into its left eye socket, and then continue moving forward.

His movements in the snow were smooth and smooth, and the exchange between the two sides lasted no longer than two seconds.

Then came the huge skeleton in blue, coming to Shade like a wild bear charging. But Shade didn't think about dodging. He bent down slightly to lower his center of gravity. With a slightly serious expression on his face, he activated the "Red Dragon Power" spell and directly collided with the skeleton in blue:

"Haha!"

After the confrontation with Feng's strength, Shade kicked the skeleton over:

"How dare you resist?"

Shade raised his ice spear high and pierced it through its left eye socket, then broke it inside the skull of the blue-clad skeleton, and kicked the immobile skeleton aside.

He turned his head slightly to avoid the black mud bomb flying from the front, weighed the last piece of the ice spear in his hand, moved his right foot back, raised his left foot, leaned back, raised his right hand high and twisted his waist. Throw forward.

As the ice cut through the snowy forest, with the sound of breaking through the air, the holy water ice spear pierced the right eye socket of the red-clothed skeleton, and then flew backward with it. The nail was nailed to the pine tree with a thud, and the fallen branches were covered with snow. With a crash, the skeleton was directly buried in the snowdrift.

The wind carried the snow through the gloomy forest. Shade, who was standing in the open space beside the path, hummed, clapped his hands, turned around and picked up his suitcase again. Just as he was thinking about continuing to walk towards the manor not far away, the sound of applause came from behind him.

Shade frowned and turned around to see, only to see "Stone Oxenfurt" wearing a brown robe and black boots, walking out of the forest while applauding:

"It's really good, it's really good."

But this is definitely not Stone Oxenfurt. Although the two of them look exactly the same, the careless smile on his face and the smooth tone at this time are not like Stone Oxenfurt's more... Like a robber can behave. The eyes, which appeared pure black even in the daytime, and the slightly dull skin directly pointed out what was in front of him.

[Devil’s body. 】

In this way, at this somewhat unexpected time and place, Shad met the devil of Randall Valley for the first time.

"No, unless I burn the divinity, I have no confidence to defeat it now."

Shade knew this very well. The doctor had said that the opponent was the kind of enemy in knight novels that only appeared at the last level before defeating the devil.

"Oxenfurt? No, you're not him."

Shade said, still holding his box with his left hand, and reaching into his pocket with his right hand. Shade took out a silver cross pendant with a silver chain. One end of the cross is extremely tapered and sharp, and the cross itself is coiled with a long silver snake. The head of the long snake is dotted with a ruby ​​that seems to glow in the snow.

The Keeper-level relic [Profane Cross] pierces the chest of a supernatural humanoid creature and absorbs the soul of the imprisoned opponent. It can even absorb the soul into one's own body to form a special blasphemy rune.

Shade raised the relic in his hand towards the devil. As expected, the latter slowly stopped, but the smile on his face did not change at all:

"Silver cross? It seems that you have found out my identity."

"Since I dare to accept Stone Oxenfurt's commission, I naturally won't investigate anything. I'm not interested in you, and I'm even less interested in the relationship between you and Stone Oxenfurt. I just want to Complete the commission and get Oxenfurt’s reward.”

The demon clasped his hands on his chest and looked up at Shade slightly in the snow. This posture was very similar to the real Oxenfurt:

"An alien ring wizard, but you are not as loyal as you say. Since you agreed to help Stone Oxenfurt obtain those three items, why did you hide it from him and take over Haila Oxenfurt? Commission?"

As expected, the devil knew what happened in that manor. Fortunately, Dr. Schneider had already told Shade what might have happened. Shade was not particularly surprised by this:

"When a beautiful woman asks me for help, even takes my hand to touch her chest, and I feel that I can do it, then I have no reason not to agree to her."