Whispering Verse

Shade's suggestion moved Miss Louisa. She wrapped herself in her robe and thought for a moment:

"I think I can find the general location where he came ashore...Okay, detective, I'll spare you half an hour. I'm a little cold too. If we can't find him in half an hour, we'll leave. But he's injured more than I am much more serious, if I can find him, I think it will save a lot of things."

The two of them looked at the dark river bank together. Somehow, this night was really peaceful.

The Terrarel River is a relatively large-flowing river in the complex water system that passes through Tobesk. During the flood season, this is an important inland shipping channel from the west to the northeast of the kingdom.

Even in the urban river sections, the underwater flow speed is quite alarming. Unless one has special abilities, is particularly good at water quality, or is holding a floating object, no one can swim in the river for a long time.

Fortunately, the coachman who was injured by the two men did not stay in the water for long, although he had injured Miss Louisa in the river just now. They only walked downstream along the river embankment for ten minutes, and Shade's eyes caught a red halo in the dark night.

"After at least dozens of steps, you actually saw this kind of blood stain?"

When the detective holding the box pointed out the traces on the ground, Miss Louisa asked in surprise.

In fact, this mainly depends on the fact that it is night, and the fog on both sides of the river is not very thick, and the red halos representing blood stains are very conspicuous.

The injured man obviously didn't expect that the woman he injured at the bottom of the river would dare to follow her, so he just covered up the traces of him coming ashore. After entering the alley next to the river, even the watery footprints were not covered up.

Miss Louisa was in front, and Shade was behind. They also chased into the alley. Away from the windy river area, thick fog surged up again. As the two of them went deeper into the alley, there was a fishy smell in the air, as if someone had left the lid of a herring can open to dry in a vent.

"My God~"

Because Miss Louisa was walking in front, she first stopped unable to hold her breath. She pulled Shade's robe to cover her mouth and nose, and Shade also smelled the smell that was blown by the cold and damp wind. , almost spit out:

"What's this?"

"Detective, something is wrong..."

The darkness in front of the alley was a little too thick, like thick ink that couldn't be melted on an oil painting. Even on a foggy night, this situation is unusual.

Shade looked around, and the red halo was already very bright:

"He is nearby. He just passed by here. The traces of blood are very obvious..."

Only then did I realize that at the edge of my field of vision, the amount of bleeding represented by large red halos had exceeded the normal level:

"Miss Louisa, something is wrong."

"Something's really wrong."

The blond girl stared at the darkness in front of her, and then asked Shade:

"Can you use your 'Light Technique' now? Be careful to control the power of your thaumaturgy and don't light up half the city."

"no problem."

Shade held the box in one hand and pointed forward with the other. With the soft murmur of "Silver Moon", the silver moonlight bloomed at the fingertips.

Miss Louisa stood beside Shade, letting the light shine forward.

Then, almost at the same time, they saw a huge figure standing in front of them. It was a fish-man, literally a fish-man. The lower body is two human legs, while the upper body is a complete life-size fish.

The scales of the fish have rotted away, and white maggots are constantly squirming in them. The wind passed by it, blowing the stench to the two people downwind.

At the same time that the silver moonlight touched the fish-man, the detective and the writer simultaneously received another reminder from me:

[You have come into contact with "Whispers". 】

The silver moonlight shone on the fishman's back, and a black smoke with a foul smell immediately floated out. The fishman turned his back to the two of them, and his rotten and ravaged face emerged bit by bit from the shadow created by the silver moon's light.

Shade felt his stomach cramping, but his fingers still pointed forward very steadily. The moment he saw that face, he seemed to see a huge monster wandering in the deepest part of the abyss glancing at him.

Miss Louisa on the side also felt uncomfortable, but she already understood the current situation:

"Look at the clothes it's wearing, they're the coachman's clothes. Damn it! That guy was so seriously injured that the relics on him are out of control!"

Hearing this, Shade felt a little more relaxed. He almost thought it was a humanoid relic. You must know that any humanoid relic can be directly classified as [Sage Level] (Level 2).

"Detective, hold your hands steady and don't look ahead!"

Miss Louisa moved her hands forward, and blazing flames immediately spurted forward from her palms. The fish-man was originally injured due to being illuminated by the holy silver light, but now he was burned by the fire. Instead of retreating, he rushed towards the two of them.

The burning smell made the two people in the downwind resist the desire to vomit. Miss Louisa called out her life ring, the enlightenment rune [Hunter's Trap] flashed, and then a length of rope glowed with brass. It fell from the sky and tied the fishman's "neck", which is where the gills are.

Ang~

It made a piercing and strange cry, and the strange rhythm contained in the sound made Miss Louisa somewhat unsteady, but the hand stretched out from behind her supported her.

"Really, it will be troublesome if you can't wash off this smell!"

The blonde girl said in annoyance, groping with one hand from her robe, taking out the rolled page, and threw the page into the air.

"Um?"

The page was supposed to be burning, and then the figure of the match girl appeared. Unexpectedly, in the cold wind, the paper pages that were thrown out could not be burned, and the surrounding area was already filled with mist.

The ugly and ferocious fish-man broke free from the rope, broke through Miss Louisa's sea of ​​fire, and was completely exposed to the silver moonlight. Its mouth opened wide, with yellowed sharp teeth and squirming granules in its mouth, and it came closer. Miss Louisa's neck.

But the blonde girl didn't panic, she clenched her fist covered in flames and punched him. With a bang, the ferocious mermaid was knocked to the ground, and then kicked into the darkness of the alley.

The light from Shade's finger immediately shined farther away, and he unexpectedly discovered that there was a young girl lying in the alley. When the two discovered the fish-man just now, it had probably just lost control and was about to attack her.

"Its power isn't outstanding... oh!"

Miss Louisa didn't notice the distance, but looked at her fist. A layer of green and foul-smelling fish scales covered it, and spread towards the entire arm at a speed visible to the naked eye. But before Miss Louisa could think of a solution, Shade's hand reached out again.

"Cyndia's Silver Moon Gift."

The silvery hand covered Miss Louisa's fist, and the holy moonlight slowly dispersed the disease-like fish scales. Shade whispered in the blonde girl's ear:

"Miss Louisa, there is an ordinary person over there."

Miss Louisa looked into the darkness and frowned:

"I probably know what is out of control, the poet-level relic [the scales of the drowned murloc]! This is a relic that spreads ichthyosis, and it can also turn the user into a race similar to murlocs. I know this!"

She looked up at the monster slowly getting up in the alley. The moonlight on Shade's fingertips clearly reflected its figure:

"Detective, go and save that little girl. I know how to deal with it."