Whispering Verse

At some point, a gurgling sound came from beneath the frozen lake. Along with this sound, the whispering elements quickly spread along the ice surface towards the entire lake.

The two witches ignored the "little joke" and stood directly in front of Shade. Dark clouds came from nowhere and blocked the three moons. While everything was pitch dark, the ice surface was broken, but the lake below was black. And in the lake that seemed to have turned into ink, a short figure that was integrated with the black shadow and whose specific appearance was completely unclear appeared on the lake:

"very interesting."

Although the voice was hoarse, one could still tell that it was the voice of an eleven or twelve year old boy. However, even though it is a child, its whole body exudes full malice, and even its voice can make people feel instinctive discomfort:

"I didn't expect to see two great witches at the same time in the modern era when the Fifth Age is far away."

It hummed:

"I know what you want from me. You women are always like this. You get what you want and never care about what others think."

It seems to have a deep grudge against the witches:

"However, I am very interested in the malicious jokes of the witches. Since you have found and pleased me, I will naturally give you a test: Now, there is a malicious thing lurking in this city. Yes, the Third Age Evil spirits and demons, don’t tell me you don’t even know this.”

None of the three spoke.

"Find it, defeat it. Defeat in any way is allowed, even playing cards. After completing the test, any one of you, tell a joke to a glass of water, and I will appear."

After saying that, he went straight into the lake, seemingly really not wanting to talk to the witches.

Then the dark clouds covering the moon in the sky dispersed, and the whispering elements and ink gradually shrank toward the center of the lake until they disappeared. There was broken ice floating on the surface of the lake, which meant that the boy just now was not a hallucination.

"Devil."

Miss Carina looked at Shade, who immediately nodded:

"No problem, leave this matter to me. There will be a result before the end of this week...I promise."

Perhaps because there were two witches following him, this matter went extremely smoothly. The three of them then left Regent's Park and returned to the carriage. Miss Carina wanted to return to the manor outside the city, and Miss Sylvia wanted to go back to take care of Princess Margaret, so the carriage first sent Shade back to St. Teresa. square.

After the carriage stopped in front of the door of No. 6, Miss Carina, who was sitting on the side of Shade, kissed the side of Shade's face and said goodbye to him softly. Then she glanced at Miss Sylvia. I haven’t forgotten the little “joke” in Regent’s Park just now.

So, a slightly leisurely Tuesday passed like this. Early the next morning, Shade came to the Prophet's Association with little Mia in his arms, and once again made an appointment with Luvia alone on the grounds of divination of "cats".

He is already a regular visitor to the Prophet's Association, and everyone here knows him. Even when they see Shade coming with a cat in his arms, the receptionists at the front desk will take out the divination registration form in advance and fill in other parts for him except for his signature.

More than half a week has passed since Shade signed the [Origin Knowledge] contract. During this period, the Prophet Association has used various means and unofficial channels to "leak" which card Shade will get. news. As for the reason, of course it was not that Shade exchanged the gems given by the Duchess for a Rhodes card, but to thank Shade for his contribution to the Prophet Association.

No one knows the specific "contribution" content, but there are many theories about it. In short, Shade had already received congratulations from people at the Prophet's Association this morning.

Most of the guests who would appear at the Prophet's Association so early were veteran Rhodes players who could play cards in the association for a day, and they were naturally very well-informed. Shade even met Mr. Louvac Belson, whom he met while playing cards at the Lakeview Manor banquet. He was a middle-aged gentleman in his thirties who married the forty-five-year-old Baron Liana Pompeii.

The two chatted for a while, and Mr. Belson did not hide his envy of Shade. He eagerly invited Shade to go to the Prophet's Association or the Rhodes Club to play two rounds of cards with people after he obtained [Original Knowledge]. None of the local card players would refuse such an opportunity.

The weather was not bad today. The fog in the morning was surprisingly thin, and the sun was able to shine on the floor of the fortune-telling room.

When Shade and Luvia pushed the door open and entered the room, Shade, who was holding the cat, yawned. Luvia closed the door holding her crystal ball and asked with a smile:

"Didn't you get a good rest last night?"

"Yes, I don't go to bed until three o'clock."

The girl with purple eyes counted the time;

"You didn't read until three o'clock, did you? Even if you have to take the skipping exam, with your progress, it shouldn't be so hard."

"No, no, the only time I touched a pen last night was around nine o'clock. It took me half an hour to finish writing the commission report I received on Monday."

"What did you do after that?"

Luvia continued to ask, Shade opened his mouth, and the soft bed in the dim bedroom flashed before his eyes, the long golden hair and the gentle girl.

"Dorothy was at your place last night?"

Luvia immediately understood Shade's expression and asked teasingly.

"Yes, she has been at my place for the past half to a week because of the devil."

Luvia raised her eyebrows:

"Devils? Those evil spirits from the Third Age?"

"That was what happened after I separated from you at the Three Cats Hotel on Monday. It was originally a very simple commission, but now there are some problems, so I came to you specially. Sit down and talk slowly. This is even related to 'keeping secrets' Man's trials are relevant."

The whole thing is not long, but because it involves demons and witches, Shade goes into detail.

During Shade's narration, Luvia kept frowning, and then nodded gently after he finished speaking:

"Although I don't know why you are so confident in 'fighting the devil', since you have made a promise, I won't ask any more questions."

She grabbed Shade's hand which was caressing little Mia:

"If you need help from me or Iluna, you must tell us. The evil spirits of the Third Age, even if they are injured and weak, are definitely not a joke."

"Don't worry, this is the only thing I'm very confident about."

This confidence comes from the past when the doctor easily defeated the Balrog in the Sikar Mountains in the autumn.

Luvia was still a little worried, but she didn’t say anything more:

"If you can really complete this test within this week, then you and Iluna will have a total of 3 pyroxenes. Professors from the three major colleges have entered the city, and I think the peaceful days are coming to an end. Chapter 1 The story of the four chosen ones has entered the second half of the chapter, and chaos is about to arise here again.”

"Now we still have to see what attitude Sir Prisha has."

Shade nodded:

"Today is Wednesday, the fourth day of the Sleeping Moon. Within ten days, I will try to find out what Sir Prisya said. Next weekend or next week, we will launch the final action on the Chosen One Ceremony. In the past Experience tells me that at the end of the Chosen Ceremony, something big will happen. I don’t want any ancient evil objects or level 0 relics to appear in Tobesk.”

"Balance has attracted evil gods, darkness has caused the Coldwater Harbor tsunami and the darkness of Tobesk, and death has reversed life and death and given birth to the undead. I don't know what this knowledge and wisdom will lead to."

Luvia seemed a little lazy. After sighing slightly, she mentioned another thing:

"You and Dorothy both stay safe, and... I had a strange dream recently."

"What dream?"

"The dream was very confusing. I only remember some details. The sky was dim yellow and black, like an overturned oil painting palette. There were fires burning around, and half of Miss Pavo's body was petrified. Yes, that was that person. Vice president of [Truth Society].”

Purple eyes stared at the crystal ball, showing a worried look:

"She was sitting and lying in the center of the fire, leaning against a big stone. Her left arm was gone, and half of her face was covered in blood. She gave me the angelic relic [Smallville Code]. It wasn't just a handover. into my hands, but completely transferred the ownership. She seemed to want to tell me more things, but she died before she finished speaking. The last word was to bless me, but the memory in the dream was blurred, and I couldn’t remember her. What did you tell me..."

She looked up at Shade:

"That picture is very real. It's really a strange dream. I originally thought it was a precognitive dream of the chosen one of [Knowledge and Wisdom], but the scene in the dream seemed to happen in a very distant future. I don't know, this Does it foreshadow anything?"

Shade did not express his opinion, but had more speculations in his mind. Luvia's eyes looked at the air in front of her, and the scene in that dream still hadn't left her mind.

After bidding farewell to Luvia, Shade delivered the completed commission report to Sir Cameron. It's Wednesday and Sir David Cameron is auditing the accounts at his cigarette factory - as everyone does at the end of the year. He was quite surprised that Shade found the murderer in such a short time. In Shade's report, he only mentioned the spice merchant and the real owner of the box who once lived in the Three Cats Hotel, but now he has left and cannot be traced. Find.

This can be regarded as completing the commission. Although the degree of completion is not high, after Dorothy helped polish it last night, the more than ten pages of the report looked very presentable. At least Sir Cameron liked it after reading it. Don't stop talking.

Especially when he heard that the female writer Dorothy Louisa had been following Shade to investigate and would most likely write a story about the box, Sir Cameron was even happier.

He even wanted to invite Shade to lunch and talk more about the box.

But Shade had already promised Dorothy to go home and have dinner together, so he claimed that he had other things to do and shied away from Sir Cameron's kindness.

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ps: The third part of the title refers to the tests related to Shade and others, such as "finding the invisible person" and "completing the dice story collection", which are related to them.

God's tests are three, completed.

There are four "Lady of the Lake" tests, and the last one is left to explore the reason why the angels stayed.

Five wise man pyroxenes are needed, which means five are required for the secret keeper test.

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