Whispering Verse

"how's it going?"

As the vortex of gold and black appeared on the stage, Shade and Miss Sylvia walked out holding hands.

Luvia, who was waiting for news at the Wilde Opera House, rushed over immediately, followed by Tifa.

"The result is very good, I opened the key immediately. Oh, is there any new news?"

Shade also asked, Tifa nodded slightly and looked at Shade worriedly:

"Miss Bayas witnessed the first Randall flower bloom. That was over an hour ago."

"So according to estimates, the crazy guardian will finally appear?"

Miss Sylvia asked, Luvia's voice was calm:

"Let's wait until Shade comes back. Anyway, it will only last three seconds."

Shade took out the time key and looked at the cat on his shoulder. In the end, he did not hand it over. Instead, he stroked it and turned it into a toy and put it away.

"Mia still follows me, I already know what to do next. Also, where is Sirius?"

He was still worried about the less-than-perfect ending.

"Don't worry, we didn't let her leave the opera house all night. Now she's in the basement helping to prepare the potion."

Luvia said, and Shade was relieved:

"Don't worry about having to sacrifice her. I got something good this time."

He took out the Heart of the Earth (fragment) from his pocket. Compared with the golden stone, it was not only larger in size. The ancient and heavy power almost immediately suffocated the girls who noticed this stone. A life ring even appeared directly behind Luvia, and then the five-ring miraculous spirit rune - Heart of the Earth was engraved on it.

Shade would not comment on this.

"May the World Tree protect me in infinite time."

After a simple hug, Shade said goodbye to the girls who were worried about him, and then inserted the almost completely broken key in his hand into the door frame in front of him.

Click~

[Outlander, you have stepped into the "corridor of time". 】

[Message from the ancient god "Father of the Infinite Tree": ]

[Autumn of 3028 in the Fifth Age, Northern Continent, Yongye City. 】

[Event: Whispering of the Evernight Curtain. 】

[Duration 3 minutes (5/4). 】

[You have obtained additional information. 】

[The figure of the father of the infinite tree looks at you. 】

Compared with the normal time task, the content obtained this time is relatively brief. There are no additional tasks, no additional task rewards, and the number of times has become a weird "5/4". Shade knew that just one extra chance would be his limit, and he did not expect a second chance.

"So, we must solve the problem once and for all!"

After entering the white mist, he did not step forward immediately, but stopped with a big breath.

Once he continues to move forward, he may immediately return to the palace of the old god of night. He needs to be prepared to take Fiona away while facing the old gods.

"Although burning divinity is not feasible, the afterglow of divinity is still useful."

He touched his body, and although he didn't have any hope, he still brought some relics with him before setting off, and even held the [Night Watchman] in his hand. But at this time, he didn't bring a single item.

"So, we can only rely on this."

He took out the parchment with the handwriting of Miss Writer and Her Royal Highness the Princess, and read the story written on it for the last time.

After telling the story to the old gods just now, although the spiritual runes did not appear for the time being, the familiar throbbing feeling in my heart had already appeared. For Schade, storytelling has never been the most important part of obtaining and composing these "fairy tale locks". The most important part is that he understands these fairy tales himself and understands the similar qualities he possesses.

This is not a power that can be understood through deliberate study. What is needed is to use your own stories to reflect those fairy tales.

From the very beginning when Shade got the "little match girl" out of "pity", he knew that fairy tale secrets cannot be learned by deliberately arranging them. But now, he knew that another opportunity had come.

"Fiona, I will take you away safely."

The pressure of the gods that could be felt with one step and the sense of crisis that made his scalp numb urged Shade to stay away from such a dangerous place, but when he thought of the promise, Shade strengthened his confidence.

The thick steam mist mixes with the white mist around it. In the depths of the lingering white mist, as the whistle and bells sound in the silent space, a life ring exuding brilliant four-color brilliance emerges. behind Sha De.

He clutched the parchment Dorothy and Lesia had prepared for him, and finally took another step forward.

"Shadow!"

It was clear that the last moment when he was facing the god sitting behind the curtain, he was still being hugged by the man in front of him, but the next moment, white mist emerged from the corner of an unknown source and directly took away Sha De who was hugging him.

The witch Fiona Drago can never use any words to describe her mood at this moment. Shade's departure also represents the disappearance of the brilliance of the sun and moon. The endless night invaded, which represented the opposite of day, the power of darkness, shadow and emptiness. It almost immediately caused her consciousness to drift towards the deepest dreams.

At this moment, it seemed as if time had stopped in the eyes of the Dragon Witch. She has many questions and many reluctances. When life and consciousness came to the last moment, the picture of a not-so-long life flashed before her eyes, and she found that she was so lucky.

Although he was born into the Red Dragon royal family, his childhood life was not satisfactory because of his mixed-race status and his mother's embarrassing background. After leaving the family, he went out to make a living alone. On that summer afternoon in the scorching sun, in a town whose name he had almost forgotten, he hid his tail in a torn cloak to escape the heat. While selling sunscreen potions in the ruins of a Quaternary castle, he met Miss Myrna Feliana and Miss Bryony Olanold arrived holding a parasol.

"What did I do at that time?"

That was a long time ago. I only remember that I was very short at that time, with big eyes, and the sunshine that day was so hot.

"It seems that I mustered up the courage to sell them the potion I made, and then accidentally bit my tongue."

So, wearing tattered clothes, I was brought to the hotel where they lived by the teacher in a daze, and then, there was the current Red Dragon Witch Fiona Drago.

The life and experiences I have had since meeting my teacher are simply more bizarre than the fairy tales I heard when I was a child playing with my tail in my mother's arms. Four years ago, when I saw the young man coming in the snow at the Gaddis Library in the Silent Valley, I even felt that maybe I was just dazed by the blazing sunshine on that long-past afternoon and fell into a long hallucination. . Maybe after waking up, I still have to worry about the source of dinner and whether the potion in my hand, which has a short shelf life, can be sold.

But none of this mattered anymore. For a long second, Fiona, whose blood had been sublimated because of Shade's messy ritual, finally clearly felt the traces of time, the horror of life and death, and the oppression of gods. , she surpassed any mortal in this era and truly touched the power of time.

The secret technique of [Stop Time] that she saw on an ancient scroll many years ago was directly mastered by her because of her desire to live. But this couldn't save her, it just gave Fiona a chance. At the last second, she thought about her life, the people she missed, her own story, the lullaby her mother sang when she was a child, and Tell the story.

But what came to mind at the last moment was actually the story that Shade told and she described a few minutes ago. The same ordinary background, the same oppression by other members of the family.

However, the lucky Cinderella prayed to the night and got the glass slipper and pumpkin carriage she longed for. And I chose to leave my family and live alone, so I met the teachers and him.

Shade's face seemed to be the last thing he thought about in his life. Although she felt guilty towards the teacher, Fiona was still willing to forgive herself for being selfish at the moment.

"If I also pray to the moon and the night, will I get a response from you?"

She asked softly in her heart, even if she knew that Shade's departure was an accident, even if he came back, it could not change the fact that it was about to happen. But her unwillingness to die, her nostalgia for life, and the emotions in her heart that she was embarrassed to express still prompted her to have such an idea.

So, at the last moment before her body was swallowed up by the night and she was about to lose consciousness, she said in her heart:

"Praise Silver Moon, praise you."

Nothing seemed to happen, but with a final sigh, she got the response she wished for.

In the sudden white mist, she heard Shade's voice again:

"This is my promise."

In an instant, the light of the silver moon once again dispelled all the darkness around him. The four-color aura flickered on the life ring behind him. Shade, who came to this time again in the white mist, reached out and hugged the trembling Fiona, then turned around and looked directly behind the curtain above, and finally he saw clearly. That figure.

"I promised, then I will definitely do it."

Large swaths of night were peeled off from the space with Shade's return, and then something moved. The power from the Great One was vented directly and unreservedly on Shade's body this time. The figure sitting behind the curtain did not move visually, but Shade knew that "He" had already reached out to him. .

"You shouldn't have come back!"

After the words came out of her mouth, the red dragon girl realized that she shouldn't say this kind of sentence at this moment, which was like a sentence in a witch romance novel, but Shade didn't care:

"I promised."

The throbbing in his heart finally reached its peak in the words that came out of his mouth. The approach of the god's power caused the afterglow of divinity on the body to bloom, until the golden light on the body was dragged backwards by the wind pressure like a flame.

The parchment held tightly in Shade's hand burned fiercely, and the beautiful Delarian Common Language letters flew one by one towards the brass wheel ring that was rotating rapidly at the moment. The story was engraved on the life ring, and it was also engraved in Shade's heart.

Time gives stories power, and civilization gives fairy tales foundation. Originally, in the fifth era, the fairy tales that have not yet been widely circulated are not enough to support the power of the ring magician, but fortunately, Shade does not belong to the fifth era, and the girls writing the parchment in their hands do not belong to this era either. .