Whispering Verse

"Three in the Randall Valley, one in Tobesk, and one in the Pantanal. In just half a month, I saw five."

Shade sighed as he took out the normal soil prepared in advance from his pocket and prepared to cast the spell. But after the soil was crushed and sprinkled, the spell failed to work:

"This time is different from the previous situation. I need to see the core of the contaminated area in order to purify this land."

Shade wiped the dirt off his hands, and Iluna nodded. The two of them still had to enter the building in front of them first:

"Then what are the characteristics of this crazy land? It's not the petrification or gathering of evil spirits you mentioned."

The spirits in the mansion don't look like evil spirits, at least not to their eyes.

"Let's talk about it after we go in. The residual power of the evil object has seriously affected our perception. I can't tell what will happen."

He pulled out the [Night Watch], and the silver blade shone in the moonlit night. The long sword sensed the power of the evil object, the runes on the sword lit up, and Shade was ready to fight.

Of course, there were no lights in the abandoned mansion. After entering the corridor under the moonlight, the two found the stairs to the second floor, intending to meet the soul trapped here first.

The interior of the house was far more deserted than expected, and even the stairs were broken. Fortunately, this is not a big problem for the two mid-ring warlocks.

Only when they reached the second floor did they realize that all the souls who had been standing at the window staring at them were gone. The deserted corridor was illuminated by the bright moonlight, and this scene was quite scary.

"Let me take a look."

Iluna said, went to the window to take a look, and put her hand on the window sill, golden light shimmering under her palm. After waiting for a moment, she looked up and noticed the message:

"There are so many souls here. When we get to the third floor, they are all waiting for us on the third floor."

"they?"

"All the souls here, hundreds at least."

Although we don’t know how many people there are in the Farmer family, distant relatives of the Granger family and the legal owners of this land, it is obviously impossible to have so many people.

The stairs leading from the second floor to the third floor were also broken, and there were many blackened blood-stained graffiti written on the walls of the stairwell. Those crazy words either cursed the people who came here, complained about the injustice of fate, or were just meaningless curses. A lot of things probably happened here before.

It is now impossible to verify who built this manor, but it was obvious that the largest room on the third floor was used as a banquet hall at the beginning of construction. When Shade and Iluna arrived on the third floor, music like ball music suddenly appeared in the empty building, and the door of the banquet hall on the left side of the stairs was open, and a warm yellow light came from it. The sound of people drinking wine and talking to men and women gradually became clearer, as if a grand banquet was still being held here.

Shade and Iluna looked at each other. When they came to the door of the banquet hall, they saw a banquet being held under the bright crystal chandelier and the kerosene lamp on the wall. Ladies in formal dresses and gentlemen in tuxedos danced. Waiters in white shirts and red vests walked back and forth among the crowd carrying trays and wine glasses. An elderly man wearing a monocle was sitting on the sofa in the corner seating area, chatting about interesting things with acquaintances. Middle-aged people and young people in military uniforms were looking at the distant scenery by the window.

Such a lively banquet in an abandoned mansion made the scene even more bizarre. Xia Deming knew that this was a lie, but could not discern the truth for the time being. From the perspective of Iluna on the side, the scenes in her left eye and right eye were completely different. The eyes with divine structure were enough for her to see through the truth here.

"Really, let me use it for this kind of trick."

She took the [Night Watcher] from Shade's hand angrily, and stabbed the sword in both hands into the red carpet illuminated by the light in the banquet hall:

"Law-Destroy the Demon!"

The golden light traces spread along the ground with the sword tip as the center, causing no ripples in the corridor with peeling walls behind the two people. However, in the banquet hall in front, as the golden ripples spread, the magnificent banquet hall seemed to have faded. It has returned to its old and dilapidated appearance, and the well-dressed people have disappeared like soap bubbles.

The warmth felt on the skin turned into the coldness of a winter night again, and the cold wind poured in from the glassless window, and then blew into the corridor from the door. The empty banquet hall was illuminated by the three-color moonlight coming from the window on one side. There was no grand banquet at all, only hundreds of shadowy souls indoors looking at the two people at the door.

In the center of the banquet hall was an old long table without a tablecloth. The suspicious marks on the table looked like large swaths of blood. At the end of the long table, there was a male soul dressed in "flowery" clothes. He was dressed in the attire worn by nobles attending banquets in the old days, and he looked middle-aged. On the side of the long table near the door, there were two chairs, obviously prepared for Shade and Iluna.

"Are you Baron Farmer?"

Shade asked.

"Yes."

The sitting man replied. As he spoke, the unknown souls around him began to stir, but soon calmed down.

"I am the owner of this manor. Isn't it a little rude of you to break into my house?"

The man asked while turning the ring on his right hand with his left hand. Shade and Iluna just walked in, pulled out the chairs and sat down respectively. There were just hundreds of souls, so this was not a threat:

"Then I'm sorry for breaking into your house."

Shade looked at him:

"No offense, I just want to ask you about someone. Mr. Thomas Granger, if my investigation is correct, the Farmer family has had a lot of correspondence with him. If possible, I would like to know your correspondence. What’s the content?”

The middle-aged nobleman put his hands together on the table:

"Thomas Granger."

The soul's face was expressionless when he said this. He is more powerful than most souls Shade has ever seen - except for Thomas Granger in the Emerald Dream and the mutated evil spirit in the Narrows. Of the hundreds of souls that inhabit the house, this is undoubtedly the strongest individual:

"Yes, I do know him."

The thumbs of the soul pressed their knuckles against each other:

"About seventy years ago, he wrote to me to inquire about this manor and asked for records about this manor. For this reason, I remembered that my family owned this property, and it happened that the kingdom sent soldiers here. We were stationed there, so I came with my family. I was still thinking that maybe I could find letters or relics from my ancestors here, which might be useful to Thomas. A week after he landed on the island, an infectious disease broke out and we all died."

He said this expressionlessly, and Iluna quietly touched Shade with her leg, indicating that he was ready to fight at any time.

"You resent him?"

Shade asked again.

"How could I not be resentful? If my good friend didn't talk about this manor with me, how could our whole family die here?"

The baron's soul stared at Shade, with green flames faintly visible in his eyes. The moonlight was now obscured by the drifting clouds, but the room was not dark at all, and all the souls were emitting a miserable green light:

"Did you know? This land is alive. Anyone who dies here will have their souls permanently bound here and slowly swallowed by the earth. The land will draw strength from all souls, so the souls trapped here will become more and more alive." The more, the longer we can exist.”

Shade's fingers tapped on the table unconsciously:

"Why, you don't mean to say that one of us must leave behind before you are willing to tell me the location of those letters, right?"

"of course not."

The man shook his head slightly:

"I hope you both stay!"

There was a loud bang, and the door behind him automatically closed in the strong wind, and the thick curtains that should not exist covered the window with a loud sound. The souls wandering around seemed to have entities for a moment, and they pounced on Shade and Iluna with the horror of death.

The miserable green fire illuminated the banquet hall, and the sound of howls and cries was enough to make any determined person give up the will to survive.

"Silver Moon."/"Sun!"

The burst of gold and silver light radiates from the tide of souls, and the holy and warm power directly melts the first batch of souls that rush towards it the fastest. As Shade and Iluna stood up, two brass rings rotated behind the two people standing side by side. The life rings were so close that when they rotated clockwise and counterclockwise, they collided with each other with a harsh sound and produced dazzling sparks.

The golden sun's rays and the holy silver moonlight illuminated the enclosed space together, and the wailing souls took the initiative to escape quickly through the wall without the two of them doing it themselves.

The baron's soul on the other side of the long table looked at the scene in front of him in astonishment, as if the sun and moon had really descended here. He also wanted to escape downstairs through the wall, but just as his legs entered the floor, the flying silver halo wrapped around his neck.

The movement of the soul suddenly stopped, and then several halos of light flew over and enveloped his hands and legs.

Shade stretched out his arms, and the chains of sin pierced out like a long snake. They passed over the long table and tied up the baron who was completely unable to move. He dragged him along the dusty long table like a dead dog. Arriving in front of Shade and Iluna.

Although the soul does not have the instinctive reaction of the body, the Baron still feels like his whole body is shaking in front of the "sun" and "moon" at this moment. He looked at the two of them with wide eyes. The spiked tail of the dark chain was already pointing at his face. The cold metal feeling was not fatal, but the filth of the sin was enough to make this soul collapse.

"I believe you are not the only one in this manor who can answer our questions."