Whispering Verse

"Huh? How can there be a woman more beautiful than the Great Witch?"

There was a sudden alertness in my heart, and then the feeling of being charmed disappeared instantly. Shade stood up immediately. He couldn't believe that when his mental resistance was so high and he had so many anti-charm blessings, he was actually charmed by an oil painting that had no elemental response.

I knew I could never look at that painting again, but I still subconsciously glanced at it again. Then I felt that although the face shape, hair color and eye color were very different, the underwater woman in the painting had the ultimate beauty. , and the unique charm that becomes more and more fascinating the more you look at it, and you even want to kill the current owner and take it as your own, all of which suddenly reminded Shade of something familiar to him.

"This can't be..."

He subconsciously took two steps back. While his eyes widened, he felt that the painting had not changed at all, but it became more and more attractive that he could not resist. Shade swallowed subconsciously, and then, the woman with slightly squinted eyes on the screen moved as he expected, turned her head to look at him outside the screen, and then winked at him and smiled.

At that moment, Shade felt as if his heart had stopped beating. Part of this was because he was shocked by the charm, and part of it was because he had confirmed what the oil painting actually depicted:

"desire!"

To be more precise, this is what ordinary painters think of as desire.

Cold sweat broke out on Shade's back, but Mr. Upton seemed not to have seen the woman in the painting move at all, and was still talking endlessly about the inspiration he got from the painting.

It wasn't until this moment that Shade realized that he had been focusing all his attention on the painting from just now until now, and had not heard what Mr. Upton was saying at all.

The woman in the painting also returned to her static appearance at this time. However, her expression stayed as she turned to look at Shade, but Mr. Upton still didn't notice this.

He almost finished excitedly talking about the inspiration he got from this painting, and said to Shade with emotion:

"I was really lucky to get this painting. I think the painter back then must have seen the mermaid, right? I really hope that I can see it too..."

"Mr. Upton!"

Shade interrupted him immediately, and after twitching the corner of his mouth, he made up his mind and asked:

"Are you selling this painting?"

But the slovenly man immediately shook his head:

"I will never sell it, not for any money. This is the love of my life, and I will keep it with me until I take it to my grave."

After saying that, he looked at Shade warily:

"I won't tell you where I will be buried in the future."

Shade pursed his lips and glanced at the painting warily. In fact, when he heard words like "Pink Book" and "Charm", "Flesh" and "Happiness" just now, he should have understood what he had encountered. What.

The portraits of level zero relics, even if they are just portraits drawn by ordinary people, have extraordinary power. He can now feel the suffocating whispering element, but he absolutely cannot say the name and information of "Desire".

"Okay, okay, this visit is over, you should leave quickly."

Mr. Upton seemed to realize that Shade, who was frowning and thinking at the moment, was "plotting evil", and forcibly drove Shade to the hotel corridor, and closed the door in front of Shade. Shade raised his hand to knock again, but finally put his hand down:

"This is going to be really troublesome."

Although "Desire" has always had a good attitude towards him, he will not forget that it is a top-level zero-level relic. Theoretically speaking, apart from the arrival of the evil god, it would be difficult for anything more dangerous than her to appear in the material world.

If "Desire" really appeared in the Green Lake area because of that painting, Shade couldn't imagine what would happen next. This is definitely not his worry for nothing. The painting has just shown signs of activation, and waters like Green Lake are exactly the place where "desire" likes to land:

"This is really..."

He is now nominally a friend of the Fulun brothers. For the sake of the reputation of the two Fulun brothers, he cannot steal or rob. In the end, Shade decided that it would be better to report to the church anonymously. There are already three thirteen-ring warlocks from the church in Green Lake Diocese, so this is the safest method at present.

But he did not do so in the end, because when he went to Ms. Hope's room to hand over the gold pound for obtaining the thaumaturgy, and then went to Mr. Richard upstairs to ask for the copy, he got a lot of money. Unexpected news.

Shade did not take the initiative to reveal what he knew in front of Ms. Hope or Mr. Richard, but when Ms. Hope and Shade came to the fourth floor together and the three of them sat down on the sofa, Mr. Richard The gentleman asked curiously:

"Mr. Watson, you don't look well."

"Mr. Upton's room gives me a very bad feeling."

Mr. Richard frowned and looked at Ms. Hope cautiously. The latter asked cautiously;

"He...won't let you see that painting, right?"

Shade was shocked, and immediately realized that the painting had been in Mr. Upton's hands for a long time. Since he could show it to Shade, a person he had just met, there was no way he hadn't shown it to others. The two Eros believers in front of them obviously knew something.

"Yes."

Shade nodded and said tentatively:

"That painting is strange..."

While the other two were observing his expression, he was also observing their expressions:

"There's a beautiful woman up there...like a mermaid."

Mr. Richard's hand grabbed the armrest of the sofa suddenly and hard, and Ms. Hope's brows tightened even more:

"Did you...see anything else?"

The two of them looked like they were worried that Shade would get violent and take action.

Shade shook his head:

"No."

The believers of the God of Love breathed a sigh of relief, and then heard Shade's next words:

"I looked away in time. Because that thing reminded me of the information about a relic I saw before. I couldn't believe that my judgment was correct. After all, the danger level of that relic was very high."

The three pairs of eyes looked at each other, everyone was nervous and alert.

"What kind of relic is it?"

Mr. Richard asked, taking a deep breath and not even daring to let it out.

"Don't say the name!"

Seeing that Shade was about to open her mouth, Ms. Hope suddenly reminded her. Her voice became quite high-pitched, but she didn't care about her gaffe at all.

Shade nodded, raised his hand, and gestured with the number "0".

Mr. Richard raised his hands to cover his eyes, and then exhaled the breath he was holding. Ms. Hope shivered, closed her eyes and prayed to God.

"So, you guys know about it too?"

Shade asked, then realized his palms were sweating. After a long time, the other two people gave their answer:

"Yes, of course I know. That thing was our biggest enemy before the sect disappeared."

"What?"

"My lord once told me before he left that he must take good care of its seal... Yes, my lord, the old god - [God of Love], also known as [Load of Hearts], once The Fifth Era sealed it. But in the late Fifth Era, after the cult gradually collapsed, it still escaped. How could we not know who was painted in that painting?"

Shade leaned back on the sofa, his eyes widened and his heart beat rapidly.

But it's definitely not out of nervousness or fear, but out of excitement. Information about [Desire] has always been difficult to find, and even the ancient [Spiritual Cult] only recorded a few words.

And now, the opportunity to learn more about the level 0 relic that always appeared next to him finally appeared.

It was also the first time that Mr. Richard and Ms. Hope met someone who also knew the information about the relic, so when they saw that it was noon, they invited Shade to have lunch with them.

However, they did not dare to eat in the hotel, but went to a restaurant two blocks away. Because I was afraid of the painting, after dinner, I took a carriage and walked for a long time away from the city center and away from the water. Finally, I arrived at the tavern in Little Liton Village, which is located in the northern suburbs of Michaela Blast Furnace City and is attached to the city.

Spring is the busiest season for farmers, and it is the afternoon after lunch, so there are few people in the small village tavern. The three of them sat down in the corner, and the believers of the God of Love sat opposite Shade. They didn't start talking until the bartender brought the drinks and put them on the table.

"If you knew about it, there's no reason why Mr. Upton didn't know about it. Why did he keep the painting instead of destroying it immediately?"

This is the issue that Shade is most concerned about. Mr. Richard shook his head:

"Of course Upton knew about that stuff, but he was obsessed. You know what I mean, he was into it. It wasn't that he wasn't strong-willed, it was that stuff... We couldn't get him Separated from the painting, unable to even tell anyone else about it. The message itself was a source of contamination, and all we could do was keep trying to get Upton to wake up. Fortunately, the painting was seen by an unknown artist Desire..."

He almost said the word, immediately closed his mouth and looked around nervously.

Ms. Hope helped him finish the sentence:

"That painting is something that reflects someone else's heart, and Upton has always been very religious, so there is still hope. You can see that he is basically normal now, but his personality is a little weirder, but in fact a year ago, he He spent the whole day looking at the painting in his room, and he was on the verge of losing control. He even took the initiative to throw the painting into the lake. His situation is much better now, and we believe that in another half year, we can try to show him Lend me that painting."

Shade nodded to express his understanding:

"But it's still dangerous. The longer it's delayed, the more likely it is that something will go wrong. That painting might attract it, that's almost certain."