Whispering Verse

At this point, the affairs of the third, fourth, fifth and sixth generations of the Edwards family are temporarily over. Although there were later matters such as moving the graves of four generations of brothers and sisters and asking Jarvis Edwards to surrender, these were handled by Megan and had little to do with Shade.

Siris quickly processed those memories, but by the time he actually sent away these six living people, it was already close to noon that day.

In the house where a few hours ago there had been many people, now only Sloth Edwards and Durut Giles remained. When the second-generation lord of the Edwards family saw Shad and Megan coming back again, he took the initiative to lead them to the empty basement. After teaching the spell to Shad, he asked Shad to try to use the spell to call out the words hidden in the basement. Trap door on the ground.

The door was made of alloy and had no lock. The surface was patterned like a big tree, and there was a slit in the center for inserting playing cards. No one can open this place without the card with the key in Shade's hand.

"Father's secret collection and laboratory are all down there. The space down there is huge, and I haven't been down there a few times."

He introduced, but did not let Shade explore now:

"My father this time had the idea of ​​either succeeding or leaving everything to the right person, so all the dangerous items were disposed of. A small number of dangerous relics that could not be disposed of could only be contained. You can choose to keep them under your care, or Give to other organizations like churches.”

If the Witch Council is interested, Shade plans to give the dangerous relic to the Witch Council, otherwise he will ask Miss Danister. Anyway, Shade was not interested in taking care of a bunch of dangerous goods, even if some of them might have some use value.

"You can check the collection below yourself when you have time. Father only left a rough list of items, which should be in the drawer on the left side of the door."

He looked up and looked upstairs:

"Now, let's go deal with Sister Rust's matter."

He calls the little girl "sister", which is quite funny.

Shade frowned slightly:

"I seem to have guessed what you meant, but how did you know?"

"The balance of life and death cannot be easily broken. It is not difficult to guess."

Megan didn’t understand what the two of them meant, while Shade looked at the man in front of him in surprise:

"Have you thought about it? Aren't you willing to be transformed into an evil creature with tentacles in order to live forever? Now that you have become a living person again and can continue to live for many years, are you really willing to give up?"

Sloth Edwards nodded:

"Just treat it as my father's place to express my apology to my sister. This is what she deserves. After this incident, I also want to understand a lot. Besides, after living for more than two hundred years, in fact, most of the time, I have not Not very happy."

"What are you going to do?"

The witch asked curiously, and Shade looked at her seriously:

"Bringing the dead back to this world."

Shade did not go to find Durut Giles, but threw the glass slipper home. Then he went to Sikal Mountain through the [Space Maze], and then went to Fort Midhill at the foot of the mountain, and borrowed [ The Magician's Escape Box].

The relic was laboriously transported to the mountain and brought back to Green Lake Island. After coming out of the lighthouse on the south side of the island, Megan had already found Sister Devlin, and was waiting for Shad with the nun and Sloth Edwards.

Let the nuns come together to prevent other unexpected situations. In fact, you can go to see Priest Augustus, but the priest has not come back since he entered the wilderness alone.

So Sister Devlin first used the [Space Maze] to reach Saint Teresa Square, and then Sloth Edwards passed the [Magician's Escape Box] and also moved to Tobesk.

Megan was curious about what Shad was going to do and wanted to tag along.

"But [Magician's Escape Box] cannot be used continuously by the same individual. It is a one-way 'ticket'."

"But wouldn't it be enough if I touch the statue of the ancient god in your basement and then transfer back here?"

She pointed to the lighthouse nearby, and Shade had no reason to object.

In short, after the three of them arrived at Shade's house, Shade laboriously moved the box and temporarily stored it downstairs in his house. Then he took out one of the three suitcases given by the church from the basement and carried it. He followed it to the first floor and found three people.

Little Mia was quite unhappy about the sudden appearance of so many strangers in her home. When Shade took the guests upstairs, he couldn't stop shouting "Meow Meow Meow~" on the upper stairs.

This was not the first time that Sister Devlyn came to Shade's house, and Sloth Edwards didn't care about it. Only Megan, after following Shade out of the basement, sighed "This is your home" and looked around.

When going up the stairs, she evaluated the height of the floor. When turning from the second floor to the third floor, she curiously looked at the open door of Room 1 on the second floor, which was the room where Shade lived.

The four of them came to the third floor together. The corner of Shade's life ring appeared, and under the aura that whispered [True Death], the double-open black iron gate appeared in the middle of the originally empty corridor.

Complex ironwork outlines the holy emblem of the ancient god [Ancient Death] on the left and right fence gates. Patterns of elder flowers and mandala flowers appear alternately on both sides of the fence gates. The hinges lock the two doors together, but the lock is not visible.

In the gap between the fence doors, the white mist is slowly escaping outward.

"This is."

Megan opened her mouth slightly. Others may not recognize what it is, but the great witch of wisdom and knowledge has seen the description of this door in the book:

"Isn't this the door leading to the [Soul Cemetery]? You actually put this kind of door in your own home?"

"This is not what I want to put here. Megan, are you sure you want to go in with us? Death is not a friendly place for the living."

"Now that you're here, of course you have to go in."

"Okay then - may the end of eternity bless me before the end."

There was a crash, and Megan watched in awe as the chain locking the fence door was loosened like a living creature, and then climbed up and wrapped around the fence iron rod on the right.

Shade pushed the door open, and the cat was about to get in immediately, but Shade bent down to pick it up and put it on his shoulders. Then he turned around and held Sloth Edwards' hand, carrying the box and walking into the white mist first. Sister Devlin took Meghan’s hand and followed behind.

[Outlander, you have entered the "Soul Cemetery". 】

White mist fills the surroundings, and various stone monuments can be seen everywhere in the mist. Shade did not open the box immediately, but squatted down in front of a square marble tombstone. With one hand, he pressed the bloody branch picked up from the island on the tombstone, and with the other hand, he pressed the name "Laplace Klein Howard" Engraved on it.

Writing the complete name, cause of death, and biography can summon the spirit, while if only a part of the body and the name are written, death information can be obtained. Of course, the person must be dead.

Shade was originally worried that nothing would be displayed, but fortunately the information appeared smoothly:

[Laplace Klein Howard (Sixth Age 1598-1854)]

【"Edwards"】

[The family must unite as one and escape from the cage of the world. 】

[Died from fatigue and soul collapse. 】

Shade thought for a moment, then placed his hand on the final cause of death, and a line of small words appeared below:

[Place of death: Old Continent, Kingdom of Delarian, Green Lake City, Green Island (special space), small dock in the north. 】

"It is certain that your ancestors are really dead."

Shade said to Megan and Sloth Edwards. He stood up and clapped his hands while breathing a sigh of relief. Megan was still looking at everything around him in awe:

"So, can the soul return permanently here?"

"If you pay the price, you can temporarily call the soul back here, but that's not what I want to do."

He opened the box at his feet, took out the bottle containing the green scaly heart from the ice, and lifted it upwards.

The white mist swallowed the heart, and the huge stone gate slowly emerged from the dense fog in the cemetery.

Shade walked over, bent down and lowered his center of gravity, pressed his hands on the two doors, lowered his head and exerted all his strength. With a not harsh sound, the stone door was pushed open a gap.

He turned to Sister Devlin and Megan and said:

"Sister, you come in with me. Megan, you wait for us here. It is enough for you to get here. Behind this door is not the place you should go."

Even if she has a double soul and is an eleventh-level witch, she is not qualified to repeatedly go in and out of "real death". This time Meghan did not object, but looked at the faint moonlight seeping through the crack in the door with increasing awe:

"It's so cold, it's so peaceful."

She realized what was behind the door.

Shade walked through the crack in the door with Sister Devlyn and Sloth Edwards.

The cold breath seemed to freeze his soul for a moment, and even Shade shook violently before he could adapt. Sloth Edwards fell directly onto the beach composed of gravel and white sand, and it took him a long time to get up with difficulty.

In the distance is the black water, and even further away is the silver moon half submerged under the water. Quiet, silent, but beautiful, the dark moon shines on the souls on the water with their backs to the tidal flat, and also illuminates Shade's face.

He looked at the moon quietly, and waited until Sloth Edwards recovered a little, that is, quickly changed to the state of death, and then said:

"When I open this door, it means that I can take away a departing soul from here without any conditions. Yes, without any conditions."

Sister Devlin stood in front of the pushed stone door and looked at Shade. Outside the door, Megan held her breath and watched this scene with a chill all over, looking at Shade, half of his body illuminated by the dark moon.

"But I can't do this. Even if this is the power given by the ancient gods, I can't break the balance of life and death like this. There once was a man named Joey Barton who wanted to do this, but he failed. Now, although it is different from his situation It’s different, but the balance between life and death still cannot be easily broken like this.”

So at first, Shade told Durut Giles that he could let him and Rust Edwards meet again, but Shade would not promise to bring the girl's soul back. Even though he had this power after using the "Heart of the Living Dead" to push the door open, he still didn't do it.

"That's why father lost to you."

Sloth Edwards said, his brown hair now half white:

"There must be a balance between life and death, so when one leaves, only one can come back."

"Yes, do you really want to do this?"

"This is atonement for my sister. It's time for me to leave."

He said this, staggering past Shade towards the slightly surging black tide at the end of the beach.

Shade looked at the dilapidated wooden boat stranded on the beach. The boat automatically and silently rowed into the water and stopped in front of Sloth Edwards.

He turned around and bowed to Shade:

"Thank you for everything you have done for the family and for my descendants. Godcaller, I cannot repay your kindness. I only hope that everything goes well in your life. May the world and death bless you."

Sloth Edwards stepped on the black water and climbed onto the small wooden boat. After he sat firmly on the boat, the boat took him, following thousands of souls moving forward, towards the dark moon.

PS: The picture in this chapter "Edwards Family Lineage"