Whispering Verse

"Luvia and I are basically certain that the guardians are most likely the chosen ones of the earth. But we are not sure. If the guardians have been here according to the content of the newly discovered fragment of the poem, why did they not clear the cave? The crazy land inside. What I’m even more unsure about is the current existence form of the guardians.”

After Shade finished speaking, he looked at Miss Lassers under the light of the bonfire:

"If the guardians are really the chosen ones, you will still need to communicate with your father."

Miss Lassers nodded:

"no problem."

Shade touched the satiated cat that was sleeping on his lap. He was about to suggest performing the ritual of extracting the memories of the earth, but suddenly he looked at Miss Lassers again:

"Also, can you promise me something?"

Miss Lassus blushed inexplicably. Of course, that could also be an illusion under the bonfire:

"Okay, you have helped me so much, I owe you. What is it?"

"No matter what anyone says to you until this is over in Randall Valley, you can't give up on your life."

"What?"

Instead, it was Miss Bernice who asked Shade in surprise:

"What do you mean?"

"When I came into contact with the earth this afternoon, I saw some strange hallucinations. I'm not sure whether it was me predicting the future and reading the memory of the earth, or whether it was really an hallucination. In short, Miss Lassers, please cherish you. s life."

The young blonde girl nodded bewilderedly:

"I see."

She actually didn't understand what Shade wanted to do, and Luvia looked at Shade with incomprehensible eyes. She is almost the girl who is most familiar with Shade, so she naturally knows that Shade was definitely not telling the truth just now.

"Are you ready for the ceremony? Let's get started now, oh, I really should go take a shower as soon as possible."

Shade said, standing up first, and then looked at the brilliant stars in the cloudless night sky on the side of the cliff. One night in the last Sixth Age, the scenery Luvia and Miss Lassus saw was as charming as tonight.

[If the appearance of the Chosen One of the Earth requires the death of Siris Rathos, what will you do? 】

"She" asked suddenly.

Shade did not hesitate, but directly asked softly in his heart:

"Isn't it that I came here to change everything?"

"She" just chuckled and stopped talking, but Shade understood that "she" knew what she was thinking.

Miss Lassus's magical ritual needs to rely on the patterns of the sun, moon and stars on the ground to be carried out. Because this is the Night Temple, rituals related to the "earth" are held, and some additional symbols related to the moon need to be added, so Shade provided some "moon water".

Shade and Luvia stood leaning against the cliff, Shade still holding Mia to prevent her from running around. Miss Russel stood on the sun pattern on the ground, and Miss Benanith stood on the moon pattern on the ground. As the young girl began to cast spells, the ritual array on the ground shone with light again.

Under the night, the rays of light from the stars gathered from the bottom of the mountain to the heights, and finally passed through the ceremonial matrix at the feet of the two ladies, allowing the light to converge in front of Miss Lassus, who had her eyes closed and her arms slightly spread out in front of her. .

Even Shade couldn't tell what those pure white light spots were. But he clearly felt the thick and ancient power, which became more and more obvious due to Miss Lassers' spell casting.

The originally expected duration of the ceremony was about ten to fifteen minutes, but the light only lasted until the seventh minute and then disappeared little by little.

Miss Lassus opened her eyes and watched as the light from the ritual matrix beneath her feet gradually disappeared. The witch shaking the silver bell in her hand asked doubtfully:

"How do I remember that the ceremony will last for several minutes before it ends? Failed?"

"It was successful, but not entirely successful."

Miss Lassus opened the palm she had clenched at some point, and there was a smooth white pebble lying in her palm:

"This is the memory crystal extracted from the memory of the earth."

"What's wrong?"

Shade and Luvia also came over, and Miss Lassus shook her head at him regretfully:

"I feel that someone in the earth has retained a memory that does not belong to this earth. That should be the memory you are looking for. But I'm sorry, I can't extract it now. The weight of that memory is really disturbing. Surprised, with my current strength and the number of ring warlocks in the Order, the divine ritual is not enough to extract such a memory."

Shade thought for a while:

"Is it just because you don't have enough strength?"

"Yes, and the earth also refused me to touch that memory. Someone made a contract with the earth to store that extraordinary memory here."

Shade even knew that the sacrifice to reach the contract was the girl in front of him:

"In other words, if you get closer to the earth, it is possible to extract that memory even if you don't level up?"

"Yes. Such as the power of the earth."

Miss Lassers said with certainty.

From the looks of it, the Miss Lassers whom the long-haired Luvia knew was definitely not the current Seven Rings. The time of their conversation was 1857 in the Sixth Era of the Past, but it is only 1854 now. Not to mention, the long-haired Luvia must have done something to allow Miss Lassus to obtain the power of the earth, otherwise, as the third candidate, she would not be qualified to perform the ceremony.

"Xia De, the memory you are looking for was left to you by the witch from the previous era?"

Luvia asked from the side, and Shade nodded immediately:

"Yes, a long-haired witch from the previous era."

This time he wasn't lying at all.

But Miss Lassers' ceremony was not without gain. Although she failed to extract the memory that Shade wanted, at least she obtained the memory of the land itself. The smooth white pebble in the hand is the "memory crystal" a by-product of the ceremony, which can be interpreted in a special way.

The way to interpret the memory is very simple. Miss Lassers put the stone in boiling water. After the stone completely melted like sugar crystals, she dipped her face into the basin and read the content of the memory.

"I saw a witch from the fifth era."

The young girl who raised her face from the basin said the first words.

"Is it the Witch Emperor?"

Miss Benenice cheered up and handed her a towel to wipe her face with.

"No, she is a member of the Forgotten Order in the Fifth Era. Although she is not the Witch Emperor, her power is quite terrifying. I just glanced at her in my memory and felt that my soul froze. I didn't expect the last time Ji, there is such a powerful lady in the sect.”

Miss Lassus pressed her temples with a headache. Reading the memory of the earth would have a heavy mental burden.

Luvia helped her sit up, while Shade used his thaumaturgy [Cyndia's Silver Moon Gift] to help her regain her energy.

"But it's not a stranger. It's the witch Shade once mentioned, Maggie Bratchett."

She looked at Shade:

"The lady left a memory here, and only ring magicians who belong to the same order can extract it. That memory only contains one thaumaturgy."

"What thaumaturgy?"

"Power of the Earth·Memory of the Earth."

This is the thaumaturgy that Ms. Bretchet obtained at the end of the Butterfly God’s banquet.

She had promised to pass on this thaumaturgy through the Order of the Forgotten, but Shade could not find any trace of this thaumaturgy in the Sixth Age. Unexpectedly, she actually kept her promise, just like Sister Perry promised to leave the "Butterfly Calling Flute" to Shade. Even though the era has passed, they all did what they promised.

"Have you learned this thaumaturgy now?"

Miss Benanis asked in surprise, but Miss Lassus shook her head:

"No, I just know how to learn. This thaumaturgy is quite complicated, and it requires me to contact the power of the earth. This is a necessary condition for the 'Power of the Earth'. I need to prepare for the traces left by my father that we recently found. , should lead me to contact the power of the earth.”

In this way, it only takes some time for Miss Lassers to master this strange thaumaturgy. Therefore, the third candidate of the Earth Chosen One is fully qualified to perform the ceremony after the death of the first two.

Leaving the city and heading deeper into the mountains this Thursday, I wasted no time. Even if he still couldn't get the time key, at least Shade knew more things.

Everyone packed up the camp and prepared to return to the city. They didn't receive any news from the city for a day, and they didn't know what was happening with the petrified disease.

Miss Lassus and Miss Bernanise, because they had to erase the traces of the ritual on the ground, were a little slower than Shade and Luvia. So Shade and Luvia stood side by side on the edge of the cliff waiting for them, and the two of them looked at the stars in the sky together:

"It's strange to say, I always feel like it's not the first time I've been here."

The girl with purple eyes said, Shade looked at the stars and asked softly:

"You feel this way a lot, don't you? Not just here."

"Yes, you really understand me. This should be caused by the soothsayer's too strong sense of fate."

Luvia said with a smile, turning her head slightly and looking at Shade who was holding Mia and looking at the sea of ​​stars:

"Lately, I always feel like you are worried. Well, you always look worried. I know there are some things you can't tell me or others, but at least please remember that I will always be with you. Together."

She took Shade's hand, and Shade nodded and looked at her. Under the starry sky, those purple eyes were so charming that they were almost maddening. He suddenly kissed her on the side of her face. The purple-eyed girl immediately blushed and looked at Shade with her shining eyes:

"Did you forget something?"

"whats the matter?"

[Twilight dust. 】

Therefore, Shade almost forgot the most important thing.