Whispering Verse

The sorceress raised her hand to block the splashing water with a transparent force field. After confirming that the whispering element was still so thin, she returned to her previous position.

Even with such a powerful explosion underwater, the bottle remained motionless under the water, as if it was just an phantom.

"interesting."

The two brothers then formed a frame with their hands and pointed it at the bottle. After waiting for a while, they came to the conclusion:

"It can be locked. This is an entity, not a phantom."

As they spoke, they raised their hands and tried to use spells to pull the bottle up from the bottom of the water. With the power of an eighth-level warlock, the effect of the basic spell "object movement" is not to mention this small bottle, even a stack of small mia can be moved. But the strange thing is that Shade and Megan clearly felt that their spell casting was successful. , but the bottle did not move at all.

"I'll try."

As Megan spoke, water pillars burst out of the water under her feet, and then condensed into slender icicles in her hands. The icicle grew longer and longer until it could touch the glass bottle at the bottom of the water, and then Megan stretched it into the water.

The three people and the cat all saw the other end of the icicle touching the bottle, causing the bottle to roll under the water. But Megan tried to make the icicle continue to lengthen, and when it was frozen with the bottle, the icicle in her hand completely shattered.

"I'm pretty sure that it's impossible for me to fail in this simple ice condensation technique."

The brown-haired sorceress said solemnly:

"It seems that this is one of the characteristics of the relic. Unless the correct method is used, there is no way to get it out of the water."

Because the bottle still sank at the bottom of the water, even the Great Witch of Knowledge and Wisdom had not been able to recognize what it was.

"What's the right way to do it? Go into the water and touch it with your hands?"

One of the two brothers asked, and Shade Cat reminded:

"Of course it's impossible. The method is actually very simple. Aren't the methods already recorded in the notebooks we found and the memoirs you got? Every time Count Gaiman sets off from the dock alone by boat, he doesn't do it empty-handed."

"fishing rod?"

One of the brothers asked, and Megan understood;

"That's it, but in this way, this relic... is caught by a fishing rod, and the wish..."

Even if you are not a magician, as long as you have a little exposure to fairy tales, you will know what this means.

"Don't think so much, get that thing up first."

Shade Cat said, and then plucked out a piece of cat hair - after the transformation, personal items, except relics, will become part of the appearance, so many toys turned into cat hair. The cat hair rubbed against Megan's clothes and then returned to the shape of a fishing rod.

Megan threw the fishing rod to the two brothers. Although they had objections to it, the man with a disabled left eye still threw the fishing line into the water. It can be seen that his rod swinging action is very standard, and the fishhook without bait landed just next to the bottle.

Then, as if the glass bottle was a magnet, the fishhook was "sucked" by it. As the roller rotated and the fishing line was retracted, the glass bottle that could not be picked up just now simply came out of the water.

After casting a spell to freeze a small area of ​​water, the bottle was placed smoothly on the ice. The weather around Green Lake was quite good, and it was already close to noon. Some of the dazzling spring sunlight shone on the glass bottle, reflecting a dazzling and strange seven-color light. If you look carefully, it is clearly the colorful smoke inside the glass bottle that is glowing.

The silver hoop secures the stopper to the mouth of the bottle, and the silver hoop faces the light, allowing everyone to see the inscription on it——

【I will make all your wishes come true. 】

The three of them took a step back together, their expressions very solemn. Obviously when we were at the bottom of the water, the whispering element was so low that we couldn't even detect it without looking at the bottle with our eyes. However, as the bottle left the water, the concentration of the whispering element increased rapidly, and in a very short period of time exceeded that of the average "secret keeper". The limit of "level" relics.

"Sage-level relic?"

"Yes, a sage-level relic."

The question was uttered by Megan, and the affirmative statement was uttered by Shade. He finally confirmed that the thing in front of him was the one he had seen before:

"Sage-level relic - [Repayment of Greed]. Demon!"

As soon as he finished speaking, without anyone touching the bottle, the cork popped open with an automatic sound. The colorful smoke that was originally just slowly rotating in the bottle suddenly poured out from the mouth of the bottle.

As the colorful dreamy smoke gushed out, the blue transparent giant laughed and appeared in the sun, appearing above the waters of Green Lake.

It wore an unbuttoned sleeveless jacket on its upper body, but it only had its upper body, and its lower body was connected to the glass bottle in the shape of a cloud. From the perspective of a "seeing demon", the blue cloud is clearly a black mist composed of countless screaming tiny souls, and an unknown number of souls are gathered in the seemingly empty glass bottle. .

This is the bottle that was caught by the bard on the River of Death in the second adventure of the "Seven Days' Journey". There are more souls in the bottle now than when the last time I encountered this relic. Shade really didn't expect that he would see it again after five or six thousand years.

"Finally someone rescued me from the water!"

The blue "Djinn", or the sealed "Wish Demon-Zatanna", laughed and said to the three people around him:

"Okay, okay, since you saved me, then I will fulfill your three wishes. Tell me, mortals, what do you want?"

The two brothers and Megan, who was holding the cat, continued to retreat, but found that invisible barriers prevented them from moving too far away from the bottle. In this situation, no one dared to speak, and after realizing that everyone was cautious, the blue "djinn" folded his arms in front of his chest and glanced around, marveling at these people:

"So this is it, wonderful souls, similar souls, and this!"

The two brothers, who were each blind in one eye, were stared at by its eyes, and the huge pressure made them completely confirm that this was a sage-level relic. The crazy wails and pleas of various souls that flooded into their minds in an instant almost made it impossible for them to remain standing on the water.

But the demon just glanced at them, and then looked at Megan:

"Look, what did I find? Such a wonderful soul!"

Shade Cat, who was held by Megan, clearly felt that the sorceress's arms began to tremble slightly, and her arms began to exert force unconsciously.

The blue giant spirit made a tut-tsk sound while leaning down its huge upper body to look at Megan. As it got closer and closer to the cold-faced sorceress, the corners of its mouth curved more and more towards the sides. big:

"What a wonderful soul. This is a unique soul that can only be constructed by the power of fate, right? Both..."

At that moment, Megan seemed to see a huge mouth opening, and her soul was being sucked in. Her soul, which had been basically stable, had once again undergone unforeseen changes. Megan's face immediately turned pale, followed by spiritual confusion. More than anyone else, she fears this kind of pollution that can directly interfere with the soul.

Shade noticed Megan's change and quickly climbed along her arm to her shoulder. In that devil's puzzled expression, he did what little Mia had done. Of course, compared to the cat calling out "meow", Shade certainly wouldn't say such shameful onomatopoeia:

"Stay away."

The cat said to the approaching giant spirit that he was not afraid of any demons, especially this kind of demon that had become a relic. The doctor told the other party that this is something even doctors are unwilling to eat.

Because he wanted to intimidate the other party, Xia De's tone was inevitably a little harsh. The two blind brothers watched in horror as the cat provoked this sage-level relic. Megan also hurriedly wanted to grab Shade's cat from her shoulders, but Shade slapped her hand away:

"seal."

He reminded, Megan was startled, and then she took out Shade's [Demon Hunting Seal] from her bag. Because he knew there were demons here in Green Lake, Shade specially traveled with this relic. When he was in the Randall River Valley, he was afraid that the stone mirror demon Goethe would know his identity in advance, but now he is eager for the demon to show up and let him know who the other party is.

After the blue giant spirit appeared [Demon Hunting Seal], he instinctively stood up straight and moved away from Megan:

"Witcher?"

It murmured to itself before looking at the "little thing" on the woman's shoulder. After hesitating for a moment, he resumed his posture with his hands clasped in front of his chest and said suddenly:

"Oh, who did I say it was? It turned out to be you."

The way the devil observes humans is more to look at the soul. In addition, the last time on the ship, Shade was also in the form of a cat after drinking the potion, so it completely remembers this unique soul.

Megan and her brothers were startled, but Shade Cat was not surprised:

"You still know me?"

"Of course, I'm very impressed with you and the cat that keeps rubbing against you."

The giant spirit nodded and said with great interest:

"Speaking of which, how did you finally escape from the river that leads to real death?"

Shade is actually reluctant to recall that incident:

"The old horse followed the soul voluntarily."

"Self-sacrifice? I see, but it's such a pity that such a noble soul who has suffered so much has been let go."

The blue giant spirit shook his head and glanced at the three people who were listening to the conversation in shock:

"These three are your traveling companions this time? The same as thousands of years ago? I have to admit that you are good at picking souls."

Shade Cat stepped on Megan's shoulder and ignored the Edwards's increasingly suspicious eyes:

"Devil, what I want to do has nothing to do with you. Do you want to fight with us, or do you want to be like last time, answer a question and everyone goes their separate ways?"

"Djinn" looked at him with a smile:

"After I saw you last time, it took me a long time to realize that we didn't meet at all. It was some great power that created you and your group. This time, what confidence do you have? Only relying on that ring?"