Whispering Verse

While Iluna was facing Lykins Prisha in the Stonehenge ruins, Shad chose the right path at the fork in the road, passed the library maze, and entered the darkness, snow, and dense fog alone.

He braved the wind and walked along the upward slope. In the dark dead woods, countless black shadows were patrolling. At this time, the Pantanal Voodoo Society and its allies had dispersed their manpower everywhere. No one appeared under the tower to stop Shade, but the monsters on the island, who were becoming more and more crazy because of the power of the evil, did not. Retreat.

They peered at Shade in the darkness. When Shade was walking halfway up the slope, a corpse with green mushrooms growing on his back and a mummy pierced by vines pierced the Tianling Cap appeared simultaneously.

"Silver Moon!"

The moonlight at the fingertips illuminated the path of the dry forest in the wind and snow. The monsters surrounding Shade were no longer intimidated by Iluna's skeletal horse. Even though they were frightened by the moonlight, they still refused to leave.

He reached for his waist with his left hand and took out the "ebony pistol" with only the last demon bullet left. Closing her eyes and standing still, "she" quickly found the most powerful individual among the pairs of yellow-brown eyes in the dead forest:

[To the left, yes, that’s it. 】

There was no sound when the trigger was pulled. The doctor's pistol finally shattered due to the power of the devil, and the devil's bullet flew out and penetrated the leader of the mutated ghouls at the moment darkness fell.

The monsters retreated quickly, and Shade also ran quickly in the snow towards the old lighthouse at the end of the road.

Under the lighthouse is a wooden door, and it is unlocked. But as soon as Shade opened the door and let the island's wind and snow penetrate into the tower, he saw the man carrying the black suitcase, looking at him in the darkness:

“How do mortals maintain eternal beauty?”

The question was asked directly. Shade subconsciously took a step back, but when he heard the voices of the corpses behind him, he gritted his teeth and entered the lighthouse and closed the door:

"Secret Keeper?"

He didn't know what the humanoid relic in front of him was, but having recently become familiar with various types of humanoid relics of the secret keeper, he could still tell that it was the secret keeper.

Suddenly he was startled:

"Wait a minute, before I left home, Luvia said that there is something useful to me at the bottom of this tower. Doesn't that mean..."

Thinking of this, he frowned again. Faintly in the lighthouse basement beneath his feet, he felt a very familiar and wonderful power. That is a weak miraculous element fluctuation that can only be detected if you have experienced similar power and used it many times:

"There is actually a hidden space with a statue of an ancient god hidden in the basement of this lighthouse?! Is this what Luvia said? (Note)"

Although I was shocked, it was not the time to go home after all. So facing the secret keeper carrying a black suitcase, Shade took out the "Secret of Agelessness" borrowed from Miss Carina and displayed it:

"Eternal beauty? This book contains relevant knowledge."

The secret keeper shook his head slightly:

"There is indeed a secret about 'eternal beauty' in this book, but you need to show it. The book in your hand is just a shell."

This shows that Shade is right. This book is definitely not as simple as imagined, but he still doesn't know what the witches of the Fifth Age have hidden in this book:

"Gods can maintain eternal beauty."

So Shade answered again, but the secret keeper still shook his head:

“Speak of the means by which mortal men can achieve it.”

Shade shook his head and said that he didn't know the answer and gave up the test. Fortunately, he didn't need more wise man's pyroxene.

He still remembered what he wanted to do, found the stairs, and walked along the old metal stairs in the tower towards the upper floor of the tower. But the secret keeper followed him. Shade looked back at him, said nothing, and continued walking upward.

The light of the "primordial fire" can only be seen by those with the power of the original fire, such as Shade and Sister Devlin. In fact, the top of the lighthouse only has a huge extinguished kerosene lamp (note), and a device to move the direction of the light and amplify the light. lens group. A rusty and broken iron fence surrounded the top of the lighthouse. Although there was the spire of the lighthouse further up, the wind still sent heavy snow to the top.

This is almost the highest point of the entire island in the middle of the lake. Looking around from the top of the lighthouse, thick fog spreads all over the island, and under the thick fog are the figures of the Church Ring Warlocks fighting.

At this time, at least four thirteen-ring warlocks have arrived on the island, but they are all in other directions of the island, fighting those weird things. Shade has seen the power of the Thirteenth Ring Warlock more than once, but the Thirteenth Ring Warlock is still only a human being. Even if he can suppress those ancient evil things, he cannot easily defeat them.

In particular, this is not the home of the church.

Lighthouses in the old days used kerosene lamps as the light source, and the person in charge of the lighthouse manually operated a clockwork device to turn a lens system that concentrated the light. The Voodoo Society of the Pantanal presumably used this place frequently, so although the lighthouse was out at this time, the kerosene lamps and metal fixtures were still in use.

Shade used a flame to ignite the huge kerosene lamp, and some dazzling light immediately illuminated the top of the lighthouse. This light should not spread far in the fog tonight, but at least Iluna in Stonehenge could probably see it.

The "primordial fire" was sealed at the top of the tower, but he didn't know how to summon the flame, let alone take it away now that the evil thing was about to be unsealed. So, following Sister Devlin's instructions, Shade stretched out a hand towards the central light source and closed his eyes.

Feeling the warm power of the first fire in my heart, a cluster of very familiar bright flames gradually appeared in the dark field of vision after closing my eyes. The center of the flame is a standard black circle, and a slender orange-red flame tail is drawn upward.

Following Shade's induction, the flame absorbed Shade's own power and worked hard to maintain itself. Shade opened his eyes and looked at the dazzling light source, and could vaguely see the shadow of the original fire in the deepest part of the fire.

But he still maintained the posture of extending his hand towards the light source. Only in this way could he stabilize the power of the initial fire and maintain the seal that was now extremely fragile.

In this state, he couldn't even use long-range throwing magic like "Thunder Gun" to help Iluna, not only because he had to concentrate on stabilizing the source of the fire, but also because the distance was too far.

Looking down from a height into the open space between the dead woods and the hillside of the lighthouse, the flames of Stonehenge formed a continuous circle, like a standard fire ring. Lykins Prisha floating in the snow and Iluna on the ground were as tiny as ants.

"This time, I really became the audience."

Xia De sighed softly in his heart:

"I wonder where Sister Devlin is now."

He continued to think in his mind and counted down to the ceremony of the chosen one for Lykins Plisha. Out of the corner of my eye, I suddenly saw a ray of light flashing through the Stonehenge. With a muffled thud, the [Arrow of Knowledge of Iken'Aura] flew over and was nailed to a pillar on the side. The arrow was completely broken. After entering the pillar, the arrow tail was still buzzing and vibrating:

"Iluna's shooting is really accurate. I remember that she also learned the aiming assist spell for the [Sunshine Gun]... Sure enough, she still can't defeat him with this arrow alone."

He took off the arrow nailed to the pillar with his left hand and carefully put it into the quiver. Then he saw the secret keeper standing aside. His presence was very low and he didn't speak.

"Sorry, why are you following me?"

Shade asked, and the man carrying the black suitcase answered in awkward ancient Chinese:

"I am a tower guard. In human cognition, I will give people who enter the ancient old tower a test, and then give them knowledge. However, I am also willing to help those noble people who voluntarily sacrificed and fell from the tower. You have Falling from the tower, so I can give you some knowledge you want, even if you can’t answer my questions.”

"I once fell from a high tower? And also sacrificed myself?"

Shade pointed at himself hesitantly, and then inexplicably remembered that in the autumn, when Joey Barton, the chosen one of death, used [Impermanence and Death] to divine him, he thought that he was in the spring of 1853 ten months ago. , and died under the tower.

At that time, I thought there was an error in the divination, but I didn’t expect to hear a similar statement now:

"What tower did I fall from?"

He was very confused about this. There was no such experience in the body's past investigated by the academy. Grace and Helen, who had been waiting for Shade since the Fifth Era, had also investigated the body's past, but they also did not mention any "tower".

"I can only give you knowledge, I cannot trace back your history."

The tower guard continued, and the language he used was the language of the Fifth Age. This was not a problem at all for Shade, who was proficient in ancient languages:

"You have to give me knowledge...Sorry, let me think..."

He kept pointing his right hand at the light source and tried to ask:

“Why do Cherubim reside in the physical world?”

Shade has not forgotten the "fourth ring of the Lady of the Lake Trial", which represents a drop of divinity. But he actually didn't have much hope. After all, even the gods of the Fifth Age refused to answer this question.

The tower guard nodded slightly:

"I can give you the answer."

"What?"

Shade looked up suddenly, almost unable to believe his ears. This was probably the most shocking thing to him since tonight, and he had to confirm again:

"Do you know why cherubim reside in the material world?"

"All the secret-keeping human relics know it, because it is our past."

The man carrying the black suitcase looked at Shade with a calm expression:

"If you ask, we'll tell you it's not a problem."

But the problem is that for the sake of pyroxene, Shade has never asked this question to any secret keeper in recent times. If the secret keeper in front of him hadn't thought that he had fallen from the tower and was willing to answer a question directly, Shade would not have chosen to ask questions instead of pyroxene after completing the secret keeper's trial.

This also means that the answer has always been right in front of him, but it is impossible for him to touch it.

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ps1: Data shows that the light source of the lighthouse of that era was indeed a kerosene lamp. Further forward is firewood.

ps2: I am aware of the hidden space under my feet. On the one hand, as the level increases, my perception ability is already stronger than when I was in the first level. Secondly, I have been exposed to [Space Maze] too many times, and my perception of this type of space has been greatly enhanced. .

ps3: Chapter 1115 has been modified to let Iluna take away some details of the arrow to make the plot seem smoother. Doesn't affect the plot.

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