Whispering Verse

The basement where he is currently located is also a very small "crazy land". The twisting characteristic here is the opposite of gravity. That is to say, after entering the basement, you must stand on the ceiling of the basement and fight the earth elemental giant spirits who are not affected by the crazy earth.

"So, why are these building materials not affected by the crazy earth?"

[Because they themselves are part of the distortion. 】

The voice whispered in her ear, and Iluna muttered another Tobesk slang to complain about her misfortune. She tried moving a few times in the dark to make sure that she had no fractures. Fortunately, she lay in the gap between the construction waste:

"It looks like I have to dig it out myself. If I had known better, I should have asked Luvia for divination in advance. Maybe I could avoid this bad luck."

Although the house collapsed directly onto the basement, the inversion of gravity remained. Therefore, instead of saying that Iluna is lying on the ground, it is better to say that she is floating upside down in the gap.

"Thaumatology-Echo Tracking."

Iluna closed her eyes and lightly knocked on the brick at hand. After a few seconds of the exciting echo, she constructed a simple three-dimensional diagram of the nearby area in her mind:

"I'm lucky. As long as I push this big stone slab away, I can get out."

She tried moving her body, first trying to push up, and then found that her original normal posture was still pushing down in her subconscious, which made it very inconvenient to exert force.

So, Iluna put her hands on the real ground, then raised her feet up, and kicked the huge stone slab above with her feet in an inverted posture.

Various thaumaturgic techniques have the effect of increasing strength, and Iluna straightens her legs in an inverted posture. In the process of exerting strength, she actually felt that she was lifting the earth and doing a simple squatting movement. Then, as the sound of broken bricks rolling down came from above, the stone slab stepped on by the legs began to move upward slowly.

This is a quite novel feeling for Iluna. She maintains an inverted posture. Because the gravity is opposite, it is like she is holding the earth, using the power of the earth to move the heavy objects under her feet:

"Is this the power of the earth?"

At this moment, she was not directly in contact with any extraordinary power belonging to the earth. Just relying on the movement of handstand to borrow strength, she felt quite extraordinary in her heart.

Holding the earth with both hands, just like the Titans in ancient legends who assisted the ancient gods in creating the world, they seemed to be holding the entire world.

Iluna felt herself in a trance for a moment, and then heard the sound of digging from above the soles of her feet. Apparently her teammates outside were also trying to dig her out:

"Fortunately, Shade is not here for him to see me in such a mess. I don't know if he has returned from Oxenfurt Manor. I will go check later to see if Luvia has given me new instructions."

Press your hands on the flat ground, and continue to lift the huge stone slab upwards with your legs:

"Thaumatology-Photosynthesis."

First, a ball of light representing the power of the sun emerged from her chest, illuminating the small space. Then a light green light appeared in the hands that were "holding up" the earth, and quickly spread to the surroundings.

This is a thaumaturgy that Iluna learned from Miss Maria, the thirteen-ring warlock of the Church of Nature, the "Nightmare Witch" after the Battle of the Pantanal. Its essence is that like a plant, it absorbs the power of the sun and restores the physical and spiritual strength of the ring magician. It is one of the core thaumaturgy of the Church of Nature.

And in the hands of Iluna, who is good at the power of the sun, this thaumaturgy evolved into something like a plant through the influence of "balancing" power, absorbing the power of the sun and the earth at the same time, and even promoting the growth of surrounding plants.

Sure enough, with the use of thaumaturgy, the body's sense of power becomes stronger. So grasping the subtle feeling of lifting the earth, Iluna almost completely straightened her body and stood upside down in the collapsed basement.

The image of "hanging upside down" itself is of great significance in occultism, not to mention that whether it is the card surface of [Impermanence and Balance] or the ritual of balancing the chosen ones, they are all closely related to "hanging upside down" .

For a moment, Iluna felt that she understood something. The elements of miracles and enlightenment slowly enriched the life ring in her soul. She tried to connect this with the new thaumaturgy she had recently tried to develop, but unfortunately she had not accumulated enough, and she was not completely satisfied with the key points that constituted the new thaumaturgy.

At the same time, she also heard voices coming from "underfoot". Apparently her teammates had also dug nearby.

"It's still very simple."

The young girl entertained herself and said to "her". Amidst "her" light laughter, she suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from nearby.

Turning his head slightly in the dim light, he saw that the gravel on the ground beside him was shaking abnormally. Of course, in Iluna's inverted position at this time, this is what appears on the "top of the head":

"Another earthquake? I pushed it away with great difficulty. The ground didn't shake."

Then, in Iluna's shocked expression, the green buds bent by the stone "pushed" away the stone, and then the flower buds bloomed. In the reflection of the brown Rapunzel's eyes, the small blue-white flowers looked like this. The slow speed visible to the naked eye bloomed in her ears.

"Randall Flower?"

At the moment when the buds were blooming, Iluna Emilia Bayas seemed to hear the sound of new power sprouting in her heart.

(Little Mia is running.)

"Professor Danist, there is news from the Sun Church in the city. The first Randall flower has bloomed."

On the northern outskirts of the city, in Eldron Tahiti, the light of the bonfire illuminated a simple camp built with thaumaturgy. The camp is next to a stream flowing in the creek. Although it is snowing heavily, the stream is not frozen due to the influence of geothermal heat.

After another battle, the team of 12 people was taking a rest.

The 12-member team is led by Miss Denister, a thirteenth-ring warlock from St. Byrons Comprehensive Academy, "Red Moon Witch". Other members include two high-ring professors from St. Byrons and two twelve-ring warlocks from the Peace Church. , and the other seven mid-ring warlocks.

The group was at one of the seven places where the Chosen One ceremony might be held, one of the two places that Shade had not been to. Although Shade has never been to this area, it is actually very close to St. Perry Cemetery and the place where he met the elf girl Emilia several times.

It just seems a bit far away because of the sparse woods and the complex terrain of Tahiti in the river valley.

Except for Miss Danister, the other four high-level warlocks in the team are all 12th-level. The remaining seven middle-level warlocks are not fighting, but are responsible for logistical work such as liaising with the city and exploring the terrain.

In addition to them, there are several Ring Warlock teams led by High Ring Warlocks around this area, responsible for cleaning up those earth elemental creatures and fossil monsters that have been resurrected due to the madness of the earth.

At this time, the previous round of fighting had just ended. Around the camp, broken black rocks were covered with gray snow. Fires were rising into the sky on the east side. The skeleton of a fossilized dragon lay in the thawing stream in the southeast, and Miss Danister was playing with a piece of snow. Interesting stones found inside monsters:

"The Randall flowers are blooming? When is it?"

She asked the seven-ring warlock who belonged to the Sun Church with long curly black hair and very fair skin. The lady who looked to be in her thirties immediately answered:

"About half an hour ago, the chosen ones of Balance witnessed the blooming. The flower has now been sent to the Seer Association. The diviners believe that although the flower blooming process is intensified by extraordinary power, it is It originally belongs to the power of the earth, so it can be considered a natural opening. Because during special periods, as an important witness, the blooming and declining of that flower can represent the overall health of the land in the Randall Valley tonight, and in the eyes of fortune-tellers After the divination is completed, it will be sent to the Sun Church for continuous observation.”

"Professor, based on the enlightenment obtained by the Balance Chosen One and the information shared by the witches in the Witch Council, the Guardian will appear one and a half hours after the first Randall Flower blooms."

The speaker was not Professor Lemar or Professor Mason, whom Shade was familiar with. The twelve-ringed old woman wore a brooch that looked like the emblem of St. Byrons and held a relic that looked like a compass in her hand.

"There's still one hour left."

The sorceress casually threw away the stone she was playing with, and looked up at the monster with four wings flying overhead. So, the twelve-ring sorceress of the Peace Church took off and chased after her, while Miss Danister continued:

"There is definitely a great witch in the local area. During the Earth's Chosen One incident, the witch council knew too many things, sometimes even more than the church combined. They even hinted that they would solve the local ancient evil spirits. . If I didn’t know that these women don’t like to be in contact with men, I would even doubt it.”

She glanced around. Most of the people in the camp were busy with what they were doing. Only Professor Anna Bell from the School of Astronomy was listening to her for the time being.

"I even doubt that the Witch Council found the 'God Summoner' for help. It's hard for me to imagine what kind of reward they would pay to the God Summoner. Themselves?"

Although Professor Bell has an old face, her blue eyes are very bright. She smiled kindly and responded to the joke of the college librarian:

"Professor Danist, no one can determine the gender of the God Caller now. Yes, most of the time he or she is seen in profile as a male, but this doesn't mean anything. . Even the most skilled fortune tellers in the Seer Association cannot know his gender, and this is already the most basic information about the 'God Caller'."