Whispering Verse

"I knew there was something wrong with his heart."

Shade nodded:

"You have hinted at many things, and your pale face and almost emotionless lifestyle"

Helena Oxenfurt said that he loved her and she loved him, and they were willing to give their hearts to each other. When Shade came to visit for the second time, when the two were painting an oil painting in the back garden, the mistress of the manor grabbed Shade's hand and placed it on her chest, promising that the reward for the commission would be her soul.

These are actually tips:

"You died of a broken heart. Your husband also said that his heart died at that moment. If you were to be resurrected directly, you would probably die of a broken heart again."

He paused deliberately to observe the expression behind the veil, but unfortunately what he saw was still a calm gaze:

"Everyone needs a heart to live. Since he did not erase your memory, in order to prevent you from feeling the pain, trouble and sadness, Stone Oxenfurt took away the broken heart, I gave you a heart of stone that cannot feel pain."

Shade looked at her, and Haila nodded slightly:

"I'm glad you guessed that."

Because there are just too many tips.

"And to punish himself, he gave up his own dead heart and put my heart into his chest to feel my pain and heartbreak at all times."

Haila said, she finally looked at the back by the window at this moment, showing some weak expression:

"I can't feel pain, and therefore I can't feel love. He loves me so much, and I still love him. But I just remember that I love him, but I don't know how to love him. I, really want to To die."

She covered her chest:

"I may still be alive, but I'm just living in nothingness. This is more torture than any torture. It's time to end it and free me."

The two looked at each other, and the corners of Shade's mouth twitched. Things were more complicated than he thought. After looking at the affairs of the Oxenfurt family, he could only say that love and marriage are really terrible:

"what should I do?"

"Stone's immortality is rooted in the stone heart given by the devil, which is my heart. As long as this stone heart is not broken, even if your weapon kills him, his soul will return to the world at that moment. In my heart.”

This is similar to the soul box of an undead lich.

"So, I will be here watching you, and when your sword pierces his chest, piercing the heart that was mine in his chest, I will take out my own heart of stone and destroy it. Freeing him frees him. I."

If Shade hadn't awakened the woman in front of him just now, things would have been terrible later.

"That is to say, I will pierce the sword into the heart that originally belonged to you, and then give you a signal to take out and destroy the heart of stone."

"Yes."

Haila nodded slightly, hesitated for a moment and then said:

"I have one more request. When you kill Stone, please take him away directly. I don't want to see him again. I don't know how to face him. He is sorry for me and I am sorry for him. There is nothing to miss. This life should have ended long ago."

Shade really didn’t know how to evaluate it:

"no problem."

The pale woman nodded:

"I wish you good luck in your actions, and please be careful of the devil. After the matter is over, please come back to me here and I will pay the commission."

She said softly, it was almost time, and Shade was ready to leave.

However, he finally asked:

"So many things have happened, and he has done so many wrong things that break your heart. Do you still love him at this moment?"

"I remember this fact deeply."

The voice behind the veil said, and Shade walked towards the door without asking any more questions.

After crossing the door frame, he appeared directly in the courtyard that was completely covered with gray snowflakes.

At this time, a raging fire broke out in the cedar forest surrounding Oxenfurt Manor. The fire rising into the sky in the snow illuminated the courtyard, and also illuminated the enemies waiting for Shade in the courtyard.

Stone Oxenfurt rolled up his sleeves and held a heavy stone sword in his right hand. He looked at Shade, who was holding a long sword, walking from the door of the mansion. The two looked at each other wordlessly in the snow.

The strong wind swept away the gray snow, which soon fell on Shade's shoulders. For Shade, there is no suspense in this battle, he will not lose.

Not wanting to waste any more time, without any warning, Xia De moved with his sword. Swinging his sword and rushing forward, his boots stepped on the snow and even caused snowflakes to fly in all directions.

Oxenfurt held the heavy sword in both hands, and the firelight illuminated his solemn face. The stone sword swung forward in the dark night, but the next moment Shade's figure disappeared from his eyes, appeared behind him, and then slashed towards his shoulder neatly.

"ah!"

A painful scream came from Oxenfurt's mouth, and the long sword that destroyed his immortality slashed into the right side of his neck, just missing his head.

Oxenfurt grabbed the sword and turned around. In severe pain, he hit Shade with the stone sword in his hand. But Shade also grabbed the opponent's sword with one hand, and did not let go even when he heard the subtle sounds from his own hand bones.

Oxenfurt's head drooped to the left. The two held on for a few seconds, then let go and retreated at the same time.

Oxenfurt used his left hand to straighten his head. The wound healed very slowly because it was pierced by that special sword, so his head was only temporarily fixed. Shade raised the sword with his right hand, put the index finger and middle finger of his left hand together, and slowly slid it from the hilt to the sword body.

The movement of the fingers caused the flowing flames to adhere to the sword body, until the entire sword was wrapped in flames.

The spell [Fire Attachment], after the Battle of Pantanal, Sister Devlin gave Shade a new ability after burning the evil objects as firewood, allowing him to attach the original fire to the weapon.

After a short period of repair, the two sides charged towards each other again amidst the surrounding fire and gray snow. This time, Shade did not use space power, but faced Oxenfurt head-on. The latter exploded with all the power of the demon. His body was wrapped in black flames, and cracks even appeared on his right hand, and a bright black liquid flowed out. lava.

Because Shade's sword is lighter, it can be swung more flexibly. Slashing, slashing, stabbing, and picking, the long sword with flames almost formed a ball of light in front of Sha De. Oxenfurt also waved his long sword to block. Amidst the clanging sound, the speed of both parties became faster and faster. Shade pressed forward step by step, while Oxenfurt retreated step by step in the snow.

The collision between metal and stone sparked, and the sound of the collision was almost continuous, echoing in the snowy night. With physical strength and swordsmanship skills alone, Shade gained an absolute advantage in this duel.

Oxenfurt, on the other hand, held his breath and blocked every attack. The first-level warlock is no match for Shade. His real confidence is the power given by the devil.

"I know your entire past, your pain and unwillingness. But today is the end, Stone Oxenfurt. I have met many crazy people. Today I also want to ask you, do you feel that you make a mistake?"

It's been a long time since Shade felt able to fight with a sword so freely. He didn't need to worry about other means. He only had to swing the sword forward according to his own intention, and then approach the enemy step by step.

He thought that after this matter was over, he might be able to find himself a swordsman for sparring, and he could not waste the swordsmanship he had inherited from the [Night Watch].

"I'm never wrong. Everything I do is in line with my own ideas."

Compared with Shade's calm words between battles, Oxenfurt held his breath when he spoke:

"Even if I may die by your sword tonight, I have not made a mistake. Step by step I have come to this day, and I am still me."

He suddenly put away the sword in Shade's hand, then jumped into the sky and came to the position above Shade's head. Shade thought he wanted to sneak attack from above, and immediately raised his sword to block. Unexpectedly, Oxenfurt actually stepped on the air again. As the black mist appeared under his feet, he jumped again in the air and landed on the ground. By the time, he had already appeared at the gate of the manor.

"Double jump?"

Shade envied this ability.

After Oxenfurt landed, he turned his back to the burning jungle behind him. The Oxenfurts, with their naked upper bodies wrapped in bandages and their bodies twisted like twists, walked out of his shadow one by one, trembling. This is the ability of the Stone Mirror Demon, which reveals the secrets in Oxenfurt's heart.

As for Oxenfurt's true body, he was like the monsters coming out of his shadow. His body twisted crookedly, and his hands and feet became extremely uncoordinated as if they were controlled by silk threads:

"My cruelty, my ferocity, my cunning, and my love for Haila, these are all me, this is my way of life. I don't allow anyone to change these."

Thirteen Stone Oxenfurts held swords together and faced Shade against the background of the sky-high fire.

Shade nodded:

"In this case, let your cruelty, your ferocity, your cunning, and your love all die together."

The anger in his heart because of Oxenfurt's love story, and the anxiety to return to the Wilde Opera House, completely exploded at this moment in the face of the fire outside the manor. The long sword in Shade's hand fell from above, creating an arc of moonlight against the backdrop of the surrounding firelight, and then he rushed towards the Oxenfurts.

Thirteen Oxenfurt raised their swords together, and the dark power drove the thirteen stone swords to smash the moonlight slash. Then the thirteen people raised their stone swords together to face Shade.

The rotating moonlight ring flew forward as Shade ran, and then waved the dark sin chain with his left hand, stabbing these sinners like poisonous snakes.

Thirteen people surrounded Sha De, but it looked like Sha De surrounded thirteen people. Oxenfurt, who possessed part of the power of space teleportation, flashed dark figures one after another and launched attacks on Shade one after another. Shade almost suppressed them with only the long sword in his hand and the chain in his left hand.

The sword light reflects the firelight of the jungle, and the sin chain with five runes has a more powerful binding effect on the sinners. The moonlight bloomed in the snowy courtyard. Shade moved his steps and waved his sword in all directions, almost forming a gyration similar to a "sword dance".

The twelve figures were defeated one by one by the long sword, and after wailing on the spot, they exploded into black soot.

At the end of the battle, the long sword in Shade's hand fell diagonally from above. Against the backdrop of the surrounding firelight, he forcibly cut off the stone sword in Oxenfurt's hand. The moment the stone sword broke, the wide-eyed Oxenfurt let go of his hands, and then pushed hard into the air in front of Shade in the snow.

The huge force came, but it failed to push Shade down, and the reaction force of this unknown thaumaturgy caused Oxenfurt to fly backwards.

"It's over - Moonlight Slash·Fourth Form!"

Shade, holding the sword in both hands, finally turned into a sharp silver arc of light on the moonless night. Almost in the next second, he caught up with Stone Oxenfurt who flew backwards, and in the air, with the long sword Penetrating his body together.

PS: Help everyone recall.

The first form is to chop out the moonlight with your hands, the second form is to clap your hands together to pull out the moonlight, the third form is to draw a cross with your hands in front of the body and then hit it forward, and the fourth form is to turn the whole person into moonlight.

In addition, this move could only be used with hands, but at the end of "Dead Valley", Shade learned to use the moonlight sword and other sword weapons from Miss Olanode, and used "Moonlight Slash".

PS2: Thank you to the reader @Xingyu Wuhen for becoming the 28th alliance leader in this book! Add one more chapter.