Whispering Verse

He had obviously told Miss Carina a few days ago that he would not meet the witch so soon, but on Friday night, these words turned into a boomerang and hit Shade himself.

Although he was a little embarrassed, early on Saturday morning, Shade went to the manor outside the city to find Miss Carina and explained that he had met Miss Belindel.

The duchess, who was eating breakfast and listening to Shade's words, squinted her eyes and smiled after Shade finished speaking:

"I told you a long time ago that the encounter with the witches is your unavoidable fate. You can't escape the witches of today and the witches of ancient times."

In fact, there are witches from the "past life", and Shade has already met all three witches.

"Please stop making fun of me."

Shade sat across from the long table holding little Mia. They had already had breakfast at home before coming, but it seemed that the cat still wanted to eat more:

"This time I learned the lesson from Randall Valley. As long as I don't let her find out that I am a man, what will happen if I meet the great witch of fate? She asked me to see her on Sunday. I'm afraid she wants to give me What a difficult task. This is good, I can also reasonably use the power of the Belindel family."

"Remember what you said now, I hope you won't regret it."

The red-haired duchess said, and then looked at the cat in Shade's arms with pity:

"Look at it, it's so pitiful. Can't you let it eat something?"

"Don't let little Mia fool you, this cat had more than enough for breakfast."

Shade shook his head and continued the topic:

"Please tell Miss Bernanice so that she can be prepared to respond to Miss Belindel's inquiry and not to expose my identity. Also, are there any precautions when getting along with this witch?"

Miss Carina gestured to Tifa and said:

"Tell Shade."

So the black-haired maid answered responsibly:

"As the lady once said, Miss Belindel trusts divination very much. So if she suddenly tosses a coin or draws a divination card when communicating with you, please don't worry about it. In addition, Miss Belindel is a very good person. As long as the ladies you get along with don’t accuse her of having problems with her divination, Miss Belindell will generally not lose her temper.”

"Then her divination must be correct?"

Shade asked again, and the duchess shook her head:

"Didn't Luvia tell you? Sometimes the accuracy of divination is not the most important. What is important is how to interpret the divination results. I admit that Belindel is a very capable diviner, but compared to her , I trust Luvia more, she is more in line with our identity as a genius fortune teller."

She paused and added:

"There are thirteen seats in the parliament. Before Sylvia was promoted, she was at the tenth level like Granny Cassandra, so they were at the twelfth or thirteenth level. Belindel was at the eleventh level and the tenth seat. She herself Her combat effectiveness is not strong, she can be considered the last among all the eleventh-level great witches, and she only plays a supporting role in many actions of the council."

"Is she the weakest eleventh-level witch?"

"It can be considered the second to last. The weakest one has some physical problems, so there is no need to consider her combat effectiveness. In short, if Luvia has other wonderful methods besides divination, Belindel is really He specializes in divination. Although he is not completely incapable of fighting, he is still very weak."

She commented unceremoniously, and then gave Shade an idea:

"In a fair fight, you are at the seventh level and she is at the eleventh level. You may not be able to defeat her in normal state. But her divination will most likely be ineffective against you. If you carry out a sneak attack, you should have no problem subduing her. Bei. I can’t tell what Lindel’s attitude is towards men. She is always mysterious and is not the kind of witch who is willing to reveal her life.

So if you find out your identity by her, you can directly attack her and kidnap her to the secret ancient dragon lair you mentioned. I think you have the means to make her surrender. "

"In your eyes, am I this kind of person?"

Shade knew that she was teasing. No matter how close her relationship with Shade was, she would not allow Shade to use this method to deal with his colleagues in the parliament. The maids all chuckled, and of course the duchess also smiled:

"I know you have a lot of means to deal with witches. I even believe that even if your whole body is tied up and only your mouth can move, you can coax a witch. It is Saturday now, and it has only been three days since you arrived at Moon Bay. God, but you have already met the witch of fate. Let us wait and see when you will tell me that Belindel can no longer escape your grasp."

Even Tifa smiled now, and Shade didn't know what to say while stroking the restless cat.

"But you came just in time. I also have something to ask you."

After breakfast, Miss Carina took Shade to the study and handed him a document bag:

"I have found the information about the 'Brilliant Messenger' cruise ship. You are very lucky. Although most of the ships of the Fifth Era have disappeared over the years, the Radiant Messenger lying on the seabed is still in our era. It still exists.”

"That's really...what?"

Shade looked up at her quite unexpectedly:

"Wait a minute, you said the wreckage of that ship still exists?"

He frowned slightly:

"But how is it possible? The ship sank in the mysterious sea called the 'Sunless Sea'. How could it be possible for it to return to reality? What did I do after that? But it's not right, even if that ship The ship was made of the best alloy steel of the era, and the keel was even processed by a witch hired at a high price. But after so many years in the water, how could there still be wreckage? Miss Teresa and the others said that the ship was not made of alchemy. The ships manufactured are just ordinary industrial products.”

The marine environment is different from the terrestrial environment. If there is a possibility that some kind of wreckage buried deep underground may still exist after being closed for thousands of years, but there should be very few shipwrecks left in the sea within a few hundred years.

So Shade made a guess:

"The Radiant Messenger has become a relic?"

"Of course not, otherwise I should have thought of it when you mentioned this matter to me last time. This kind of relic turned into a relic from an item at the end of the fifth era, because its origin is relatively easy to find, so I should remember it."

She motioned to Shade to open the document bag:

"Around 1380 in the Sixth Age, that is, more than four hundred years ago, people accidentally discovered the wreckage of an ancient ship in the waters off the west coast. However, due to the technology at the time, it was difficult to detect the wreckage in the trench. What's going on? More than a hundred years later, the wreckage of the sunken ship is still in that position, and it doesn't seem to have changed much. This caused the church to have similar doubts as you, thinking that this was not a normal phenomenon, so Around 1500, five groups of ring warlocks were sent to investigate, and it was finally confirmed that the ship came from the Fifth Age."

Shade opened the document bag while listening. There was not much information inside.

"As you know, the Parliament is very interested in the relics of the Witch Emperors of the Fifth Era, so the Great Witch of Destiny also went to investigate this matter and left the name of the 'Brilliant Messenger' in the Parliament's information. Name. Parliamentary information shows that because the wreckage of the sunken ship had no other abnormalities except that it would not rot in the sea, the church did not perform other treatments on the wreckage. Around 1530, they used semi-permanent illusion rituals The location of the wreckage was obscured and several pieces of wooden decking were taken back for study.”

Shade had already seen the black and white photos of those wooden boards.

"It was later determined that the wooden planks separated from the hull would gradually lose the property of being extremely resistant to decay, and this property was not replicable. So more than two hundred years after the planks were brought back, around 1800, two of them The wooden board was verified to be completely safe and separated from the surveillance and containment sequence. Later, the ownership of those antiquities changed several times and was donated to the City Ship Museum for display as an 'ancient shipwreck'."

“Those two wooden boards are still in the museum?”

Shade asked, and the witch nodded slightly, so he asked again:

"The museum, isn't it the Ship Museum in Yuewan City?"

The witch smiled and nodded again:

"Yeah, you see, what happened to you in the past is once again related to the 'present'."

"Then the wreckage of the Radiant Messenger is located very close to Moon Bay?"

Compared with two pieces of deck wood, it is obvious that the whole wreckage is the most valuable.

"It takes about four or five days to get there by boat, depending on the weather. In addition to the time you spend exploring the underwater shipwreck, it will take less than half a month to go back and forth. Moreover, the specific location of the wreckage is not recorded in the parliament. Even if you are really willing to spend time going to sea, I'm afraid you have to determine where the ship is. By the way, or you can bet on whether you can find the entrance and exit of the [Space Maze] near the ship."

The last suggestion was that Shade was not going to try it. Although he didn't know the distribution pattern of those hidden spaces, he instinctively felt that even if he used the luck-increasing relic again, he would not be able to find the target entrance.

As for spending less than half a month to go to sea, it is not only necessary to determine the target location first, but also to prepare a reliable ship and a group of reliable sailors. Although it is not impossible to inquire about the location, and Miss Aurora would be willing to help with preparing the ship and sailors, the problem is that these will take time.

Seeing Shade thinking, the red-haired witch smiled and said:

"You'd better explore the Yuewan area. Check the wooden planks in the museum yourself. The location of the sunken ship and the way to get out to sea. I and the other ladies will help you find a way. If you are afraid of wasting time, let Xiwei finish his work. I’ll go to Moon Bay to find you later and fly you there, or Vanessa should have time too.”