Whispering Verse

"Heart of the Living Dead!"

There was a letter enveloped in the ice cube. With Shade's permission, Miss Benanis opened it:

“The Peace Church obtained this object during the Cold Water Harbor incident last summer.

The young man living in the harbor lost his lover, so after being exposed to the curse of the 'Song of the Mermaid' and seeing the indescribable things in the deep sea in his dreams, he took the initiative to find the [Scarlet Order]. At the cost of becoming a voluntary sacrifice and dying after being tortured, the Evil God Cult used divine magic to resurrect his dead lover. "

She read the content of the letter. After reading this, she quickly scanned the content behind it, and then handed the letter to Sirius behind her with regret:

"Tell you what, I don't like this story."

The young blonde girl continued to read the story on the letter:

"The blasphemy and filthy ritual resurrected the dead girl as a 'living dead', but the price was the mutilation of the soul and the transformation into an ugly fish-man. She became a member of the [Scarlet Order], and He participated in the Battle of Cold Water Harbor and was wounded and escaped into the deep sea after that battle. But he came ashore again late at night last winter in an attempt to retrieve the mutilated body of a man who had been sacrificed, so he was discovered by the church's patrol team on the beach and Defeated. Her heart is the heart of the living dead."

Sirius also understood why Miss Benanis was unwilling to finish the story by herself:

"What the church did was definitely right, but this story is so sad."

"The heart of the living dead does not only require the heart of a simple resurrected person, but also requires the hottest emotions and the saddest stories. Every heart of the living dead represents a tragedy. Heart of Stone is, and so is this. "

Shade shook his head and closed the box again with emotion. There is a constant temperature ritual in the box, and the heart can be preserved for a long time.

"However, during the Coldwater Port incident, this kind of thing actually happened?"

Miss Aurora asked from the side. As the second great witch to know Shad, she and Shad experienced the major events in the coastal port city on the west coast of the Old World last summer:

"It seems that there are many stories that we don't know about in the corners that we don't know about, even the big events that we have personally experienced."

“That’s the wonder of life and adventure.”

Shade said, taking the letter from Sirius, which also contained the specific preservation methods and precautions for the heart. But it won't stay in Shade's hands for long, it will be used soon.

Open the second box. Because there are weight-reducing runes inside, the weight of the three boxes is the same, and you can't guess what is in the second box.

"Oh, the design is really exquisite."

A slender silver chain connects the inside of the box lid and the inside of the box. The chain cooperates with layers of silver metal partitions. When Shade lays the box down and opens it in the correct way, a parallel five-layer structure of the box composed of four layers of metal partitions is revealed.

At the left and right ends and in the middle of each layer, brown leather buckles that pass through the metal plate or the inner compartment at the bottom of the box are used to bind metal bars of different colors. Three leather buckles firmly fastened five pieces of metal with different sizes and thicknesses, but Shade still recognized what they were at a glance:

"The bottom layer is orichalcum, which is the largest and has a lot of weight; the upper layer is mithril, oh, the church is really willing to give it up, almost as good as the piece I got in the Randall Valley; the third layer is fine metal. Gold, the weight is still full.”

He also deliberately took out the piece of fine gold. During the team mission more than a month ago, Shade obtained a piece of fine gold ore from the ring warlock who used the invisible relic sword, but the ore extracted There is not so much pure gold.

"Xia De, if you are not in a hurry to use it, how about selling me one-third of this piece of fine gold?"

Miss Aurora asked on the side.

"Of course it's no problem. I'll go get the Night Watchman later and use the sword to separate it. Forget about selling it, you can just take it. There's no need to say this about our relationship. I'll ask you for help in the future."

The great witch of "light" smiled and nodded. Shade put the metal back and looked at the fourth floor:

"This is."

The metal on the fourth layer has a cyan luster, but it is not bronze. It was an extremely thick color, and there were obvious traces of scales on the metal surface.

"Dragon scale metal."

Siris recognized what it was:

"There is a piece in the inventory of the Order. I saw my father use a small part of it when I was a child. However, the metals kept by the Order are not so large. Dragon scale metal, devil gold and angel holy silver are well-known ones related to race. A special alloy. Dragon scale metal is said to be derived from dragon scales and is considered to have powerful magical and physical protective powers. It is usually used to make strong armor, but that was a matter of ancient times. In today's era, this Seed metal is particularly rare.”

Metals such as mithril and fine gold were never abundant, and "dragon scale metal" became rare as dragons became scarce.

"The church is really generous, but the value of these four pieces of metal far exceeds the five-digit gold pound, right?"

“And that’s something money can’t buy.”

Miss Benenice commented.

As for the top metal, it is a piece of silver carved with leaves, vines and roots. Although the silver nugget itself has a faint miraculous element, it is just ordinary silver that has been blessed. The key lies in the small red "little stone" embedded in the center of the metal strip.

The stone is only half the size of a fingernail and has a bright red color. Shade just glanced at it, and his breathing became heavier. He carefully took off the "little stone", put it in his hand and looked at the sunshine outside the window:

"Philosopher's Stone!"

The Philosopher's Stone has no purity, either it is or it is not, so the quantity can be estimated using volume alone.

"But why is it not as big as my original piece? It's only about two-thirds of the original piece."

"Shadow, do you think the Philosopher's Stone is easy to get?"

Miss Aurora smiled and reminded:

"Based on my experience, the piece in your hand is already quite big."

"There's a letter here too, oh, it's handwritten."

Miss Benanis said that as for the letter here, it was handwritten by the Thirteenth Ring Warlock of the Church of Nature, Sister Devlin’s friend the “Nightmare Witch” Miss Maria. She said in the letter that the metals in this box, except for the Philosopher's Stone, were all gifts from the Five Gods Church. But that Philosopher's Stone was a gift given solely to the "God Caller" by the Church of Nature.

This is an act by the Natural Church to show goodwill to the "God Summoner". As for why the Natural Church is allowed to prepare a separate gift among the gifts sent by the Five Gods Church, that is the Five Gods Church's own problem. The five orthodox churches are in the same camp, but there are not without any conflicts and interest entanglements between heretics and heretics.

Since the first two boxes contained the items that Shad requested, the last box should contain the items that the church originally planned to give to Shad, except for the metals.

He opened it with full curiosity and found that the box was stuffed with straw, and between the straw were items wrapped in soft red satin. After Shade took it out, he found that inside the satin was a piece of It is quite thick and silver in the shape of a crescent moon.

"Jade? Or metal?"

After touching it, I realized that the crescent moon was made of metal, larger than the palm of my hand, and felt quite cold to the touch. Originally dull, after Shade made contact, the crescent moon began to emit a faint silver light. This is a relic with a strong whispering element. No matter what its function is, its appearance is the best among the relics that Shade has ever seen.

There was also a letter in the box, and this time it was Sirius who opened the letter:

"Shade, try to guide your spirit to flow into it. Do it slowly and try a few more times. Oh, don't forget to hold it and hold it flat in front of you. Let's all get out of the way."

Shade then gave it a try. Since his perception was very strong, his control over the spirit was quite powerful. He succeeded in guiding the spirit to flow into the "Crescent Moon" in his hand in one go.

The relic absorbed a small amount of Shade's soul, and then the luster on the crescent moon became clearer, but it was not very dazzling. The two ends of the crescent moon stretched outward in the light, and after the stretching was completed, a silver thread emerged from the two ends of the bend to connect. What finally appeared in Shade's hand was a large silver bow. .

This large bow is exceptionally gorgeous, all silver-white, with fine star pattern patterns carved on the bow body and decorated with crystal cluster-like things. The handshake part is an ancient rune that symbolizes "starry sky" and "moonlight", and the recognizable sentence in it is——

[Star marks, sky marks. 】

The bow string is like a phantom, exuding a faint silver light like the bow body. Even in the dark night, the light on this long bow is enough to illuminate. In Shade's opinion, this is a weapon that should only exist in fairy tales.

"Is this the sage-level relic [Star Trace]?"

Miss Benanis recognized what it was, and seeing Sirius nodding while holding the letter, she took the initiative to introduce it to Shade:

"This is a very famous relic, quite famous. This bow comes from the second era, or even the first era. According to legend, it is a weapon used by the ancient god [Silver Moon Sage] in the form of a saint."

It should be from the Second Age, because Shade's thaumaturgy [Ancient Voice] was not triggered by him touching this item. As for whether it was used by that ancient god, this is not what Shade can know.

"This bow can be used without arrows. After being drawn, it can use its own spirit to gather into arrows. It has extremely strong exorcism, demon-breaking, and penetrating power. It can even easily penetrate the strong spell resistance forged from mithril and dragon scale metal. Sexy armor. Used under moonlight, the effect of arrows will be even more outstanding."

PS: This chapter shows the sage-level relic "Star Trace".