Whispering Verse

Because the wedding banquet on Tuesday night was so fun, Shade actually did almost nothing on Wednesday. But on Thursday, it was time to get on with the business at hand.

After getting up early in the morning, I first used the manuscript pages in my hands to make an appointment to meet with the librarian, Miss Danister, in the evening. Then, he caught little Mia who was walking energetically at home after breakfast. While the cat was struggling desperately and was reluctant to go out, he took her to Huntington City with her.

Yesterday, Shade had already left a letter to Sister Devlin of Fort Midhill and agreed on a specific time to use the [Magician's Escape Box].

He showed up at the White Valley Vineyard half an hour earlier than the agreed nine o'clock. In order to prevent the "escape ritual" from being affected by the statue of the ancient god, he also left the wine cellar and arranged the ceremony in the vineyard house.

Servants who stayed in the vineyard during the winter were not entitled to use the house, so there was plenty of space. Although the old vampire who was responsible for guarding the warehouse in winter didn't know what Shade was going to do, he still cooperated and helped him.

The first snow has arrived in Tobesk, but the city of Huntington is still waiting for the beginning of winter.

Little Mia, who came to Huntingdon for the first time, was obviously not interested in this strange place. However, the cats raised in the White River Valley Vineyard to catch mice soon annoyed it. After discovering that they were "plotting evil" against Shade, the small orange cat roared with fur for a long time and was frightened. The three Kasenlik cats, which were at least three times larger than it, fled away.

Shade still doesn't understand why little Mia has such a powerful deterrent to her kind.

When the time reached nine o'clock, as the ritual array on the ground that was completely different from contemporary mystical rituals and should have no function shone with light, Sister Devlin, with her head lowered and her hands clasped together, appeared in the light.

Using the relic [Magician's Escape Box] should have caused a slight feeling of being pierced by a sharp blade, but the nun's expression did not change. After "seeing" Shade holding the cat, he just greeted him softly, as if he was just visiting his neighbor's house next door instead of traveling thousands of miles away.

After erasing the ritual matrix on the ground, Shade took the nuns into the underground wine cellar of the White River Valley Vineyard, entered the space behind the hidden wall, and touched the statue of the ancient god to establish a signpost. Because some time ago, the nun had touched the statue in the ruined tower in the Sikal Mountain, so the nun officially established the transmission channel from Fort Midhill to Huntingdon.

After taking the horses from the stable, Shade and Sister Devlin set off on one horse each. Although it sounds dangerous for a blind person to ride a horse, Sister Devlin, with a blindfold on her face, is indeed riding a horse.

They did not enter the city, but went straight to the west of the city from the White River Valley Vineyards on the plains east of the city.

Shade was originally worried that Sister Devlin was not good at riding horses. As a result, the blind nun's amazing equestrian skills even made Shade wonder whether people in this world learn "horsemanship" as a basic course like literacy. .

It was a bit cloudy in Huntington today, but it did not prevent them from enjoying the scenery in the outer suburbs of this red wine capital along the way. When they approached Kalek Lake west of Huntingdon marked on the map, Shade signaled Sister Devlin to stop:

"Sister, the 'Lady of the Lake' gave me a hint to bring an animal that is smart enough and it can give us instructions. So I chose this place. Let's walk around now and try to forget our original purpose. Little Mia will probably show us the way soon.”

The main reason is that there are no villages or small towns nearby, so Sister Devlin doesn't have to worry about being seen by others in her unique dress.

"Meow?"

Hearing his name being mentioned, the cat lying on the horse's head glanced at Shade. It's funny to say that after Shade dismounted, he originally put little Mia on the saddle, but the cat probably felt that the scenery on the saddle was not good, or simply thought it was not high enough, so he climbed on the horse's head.

But the black horse was not angry at all. It held Mia Cat on its head very docilely, making the cat look like a cat-shaped "horse controller".

Sister Devlin led the horse and walked beside Shade, and the two of them walked along the country road along the lake. The temperature in the morning in early winter is not particularly low, but you can still feel the cold wind near the lake. In recent weeks, the temperature has dropped every day. At this time, the lake has not yet frozen, but there are no fishermen nearby.

One side of the country road is a large lake, and the other side is a wasteland with no apparent purpose. In the distance, a dead forest can be seen, which looks like an orchard that was purchased nearby.

The two chatted while walking, and Shade talked about the things about the fourth chosen one discovered in Tobesk, and told the nun the clues about the "Secret Keeper" and the "Wise Man's Pyroxene". He also asked the nuns what they planned to do with "the evil in the Pantanal." This is a rare existence that can be burned as firewood by the First Fire, and the nun cannot let it go.

"Although I am a high-level sorcerer and a chosen one, compared with the mysterious Pantanal region, I still have some shortcomings. The cult is in the process of acquiring a private hospital in Huntington City and developing it into a church property. The nuns of the order will stay in the local area to conduct investigations. After one to two months of intelligence collection, I will seek help from the Witch Council and go deep into the swamp with the chief witch of the council to find the location where the evil thing is sealed."

Although this method is time-consuming, it is indeed very careful and appropriate. After Shade expressed her appreciation, the nun turned her head and "looked" to the west, which is the real location of the Pantanal:

"The Spiritual Order believes that all things have animism. The blind nuns of the Order can perceive the world keenly. The Pantanal is not as simple as we think. Even though I have not yet penetrated into that area at the moment, I can still Feel the presence of those terrors.”

Although Sister Devlin used Delarian, it was in ancient grammar. Even if Shade understood it, he had to think for a while before he could understand it:

"Are you saying that the Pantanal is as dangerous as the Sikal Mountains some time ago?"

"No."

The nun shook her head slightly, and Shade's eyes lingered on her silver-gray hair for a moment.

"Much more dangerous than Mount Sikal."

"Ha~"

Shade sighed, but was not surprised at all. Not only was he not surprised, he was not even worried at all. No matter how dangerous the Pantanal was, it had nothing to do with him. Although the city of Huntington was on the edge of the swamp, it was not in the swamp area after all.

The two of them walked and chatted, and time flew by quickly. Shade and the nun were holding the horse, and the winter wind in the countryside blew their clothes; the horse was carrying little Mia, who squatted on the horse's head and looked around, her cat's eyes looking at the unfamiliar scenery, the cat's fur was blown low by the wind, it looked Enjoy the feeling of blowing air when you go up there.

At 10:43 in the morning, when Shade asked Sister Devlin what she knew about the Society of Truth, the cat suddenly turned its head and looked at the silent lake in the distance, and then barked softly as if it had discovered something. After a while:

"Meow~"

Its sound was not obvious outdoors, and Shade didn't hear it at first. It was only after "her" reminded him that he noticed the cat's abnormality.

"What's wrong?"

Shade immediately looked at the cat expectantly and stretched out his hands to take it off the horse's head. Unexpectedly, little Mia actually jumped onto the horse's back and then jumped to the ground.

Shade was shocked at the time. Ever since he asked little Mia to guard Grace and Helen during the Battle of Fort Midhill, he had never seen the cat's four little paws touching the ground outside.

The orange and white kitten raised its head, twitching its pink nose and sniffing the air. Then it looked back at Shade, and then walked towards the river.

Shade and Sister Devlin then led the horse and followed it down the slope of the river, and found that the cat was almost heading straight to the shore of Lake Kalek. The natural lake in this wetland area is surrounded by wet mud. The cat, who always likes to be clean, stepped on it without leaving any paw prints on the mud.

Just when Shade once again began to doubt whether the cat was normal, he found that he, Sister Devlin, and even the two horses had not left any footprints in the mud.

The cat kept going deeper into the lake shore and finally entered the lake. But it did not enter the water. Instead, as if it had learned to "walk on water," it stood on the lake and looked back, gesturing for Shade to follow.

There was no ripple on the lake surface under the cat's paws. The orange cat looked very energetic and kept looking back, as if scolding Shade for walking too slowly.

"Yes, the miracle factor!"

[There is a hidden road ahead. 】

"She" said in Shade's ear with a smile.

Shade tried to stretch out his feet toward the water, and sure enough, he discovered that there was indeed an invisible solid road above the rippling water waves.

However, he didn't know how wide the road on the water was and whether he could walk side by side with the nun.

As a well-informed high-level warlock, Sister Devlin naturally knows how to deal with the current situation.

The slender fingers waved forward, and several stones emitting different lights fell irregularly onto the water. Most of them fell into the water, and a small number of them "suspended" on the water marked the location of the hidden road.

"Spell - Glowing Stone. Creates non-entity luminous stones. The stones can maintain their existence for a long time by spending extra energy when casting the spell. The caster can determine whether the target luminous stone is created by himself. In night exploration and ancient tomb excavations , often used to mark roads and determine heights, and sometimes also serve as low-light lighting.”

Sister Devlin noticed Shade's surprise and explained softly.

This should also be a basic spell, but it's a pity that there is no such spell in Shade's "Pink Book". Although the list of basic spells in the "Pink Book" given by "Desire" is quite long, it is more... practical.

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