Whispering Verse

After a slightly leisurely Saturday, the time came to the penultimate day of the Sunshine Moon. After having breakfast at home in the early morning, Shade considered that he would have to meet the witch in the afternoon and might not be back at noon, so he asked Dorothy to take care of the cat for him.

And this morning, Xia De gained something in the black market in Yuewan City.

In a big city like Yuewan City, there is certainly more than one trading place for ring warlocks. The black market introduced by Mr. Albert, the vampire coroner, is also located in the Lower City on the banks of the Taton River. Walk south along Herring Street and enter the alley at the entrance of Herring Street and Milly Alley - the name of the alley commemorates a kind-hearted woman who lived here a hundred years ago and adopted dozens of orphans. Then walk through the alley, and at the five-way intersection with complex terrain in Xiacheng District, choose the uphill road to continue moving forward. After a while, you will see the unremarkable "Beehive Duke Store".

The Yuewan area is hilly, so the honey produced by bees artificially bred by beekeepers is also considered one of the local specialties. This "Beehive Duke Store" specializes in selling honey. Nowadays, when high-end sugar is still an expensive and rare commodity, the honey business is a good business even in the lower city. Of course, honey is not only a high-end condiment, but also a widely used medicinal material.

Shade entered the store that was filled with a sweet smell. He first spent a high price equivalent to half a pound and bought a jar of the most expensive honey here, intending to take it home and share it with little Mia. But after the jar was sealed and tied with a rope, Shade stated that he would temporarily store the product on the counter, and then said the password given by the coroner Mr. Albert:

"I was introduced by an old customer. I know there is better honey in the basement, so don't hide it."

The middle-aged man behind the counter raised his eyebrows:

"You are a guest from out of town, so do you know the rules?"

"I know, I brought the mask. This is the deposit, please give me a coin."

He handed over a small silver coin of 1 ohm, and then saw the middle-aged man take out a small opaque enamel jar from the bottom of the shelf where many honey jars were displayed. Then, he took out a golden identification coin and handed it to Shade.

The obverse of the coin features a bee design, while the reverse is completely blank.

The middle-aged man behind the counter led Shade around to the yard behind the store and opened the door to the cellar. He followed the stairs to the bottom and saw a place that was laid out like a tavern, but a little deserted.

Due to the well-developed local sewer system, there are actually three public entrances to this black market, and the Hive Duke's store is just one of them. This black market is one of the largest black markets in Xiacheng District. When Shade found the fat man behind the corner counter who was responsible for receiving customers and explained his request to purchase special relic coins, he immediately received a reply:

"There are customers selling coins like this now, but I don't know if they meet your requirements."

He asked Shade to sit down and wait for a moment, and twenty minutes later he found a short man wearing a clown mask.

The latter and Shade were discussing business at the table. He took out a total of two coins, both of which were the same relic:

"Clerical-level relic [Weak Cure], you may have heard of this relic. It heals one's own injuries, and then gives the treated person a random one of the following diseases: cold, severe insomnia, scurvy, leprosy, aphasia, syphilis .With a very small probability, diseases related to occultism will appear, such as coughing up blood and the plague of the undead, but the problem is not big. Probably."

His last few words were obviously a bit vague, but he had no intention of bargaining with Shade:

"Although treatment has a price and is a disposable item, it is a rare healing relic after all, and the storage method is simple, just keep the surrounding environment clean. The price is two crowns per piece. You must know that it can even cause soul-type injuries. treat."

"Yes, but I also know that the healing effect of this relic is not unlimited, and most soul-type injuries cannot be completely cured."

Shade also knew about this relic. [The Cure of Weakness] was discovered in the middle of the Fifth Era. It was first discovered and contained by the [Church of Nature and Evil Thoughts].

This kind of relic was originally an identifier used to distinguish normal patients from plague patients in an unknown hospital in the distant third era. In the era of rampant plague, it later became circulated within the hospital and was used by plague patients. A currency used to temporarily gain "health" status for any activity.

As for why after being transformed into a relic, it has a very different function from the original, this is not what Shade can know.

As for the price of one piece of two crowns, it is equivalent to 22 to 24 gold pounds each, which is also in line with the reasonable price of a one-time document-level relic. So Shade had a little chat with the other party, and at the expense of being a foreigner and wanting the other party to provide some information, he bought the two coins for a total of four crowns.

Together with the two [Thor's Wrath] found in Laplace Howard's private collection, Shade now has four more special coins.

[The Cure of Weakness] Because it was used for hanging, each one has holes punched in it, and its volume is slightly larger than a 1 kronor coin. One side of the coin is the badge of the unknown hospital, which is shaped like a combination of cherry blossoms and daisies; the other side is the ancient rune number "1", with a line of small words below:

[Healing requires a price, and it has nothing to do with technology. 】

"So what do you want to know, Mr. Mr. who calls himself a foreigner? Please allow me to praise you first. Your Kasenlik is better than me, a local who has never been to a foreign country."

Because Shad's pronunciation of Kasenlik was corrected by the blonde princess on the pretext of "learning a foreign language" during Margaret's visit to Tobesk.

"What do you want to know?"

Shade bought a drink, and the masked man asked while holding the wine glass. Then he thought about it:

"Are there any local magician forces that we cannot offend? You don't need to mention the church. I know that the Zhengshen Church cannot be offended."

"You have a great sense of humor, but there is really no local ring warlock organization with a name. The Yuewan area is not a countryside. In such a large diocese, the Five Gods Church will not allow a named ring warlock group to exist unless the other party is completely Neutral and with a reason to exist.”

For example, the "Prophet Association" cooperates closely with the Five Gods Church, and Willendale's "Rosicrucian Order" is the product of the tacit understanding between the royal family and the church. As for Tobesk, there really is no well-known local independent group of ring wizards.

"It seems that Yuewan is really a peaceful place. So when walking in the local area recently, do foreigners like me need to pay attention to anything? I have heard that there are serial headless murders in the local area recently."

"Yuewan City has been relatively peaceful in the past few years. Even if the rumored 'Chosen One Ceremony' is disrupting the order of the entire material world, at least it has not been disturbed here."

The masked man said, Shade nodded, but the former added:

"But there are still some things worth noting. There are vampire clans living in the local area. They don't like to deal with human ring warlocks like us, but they themselves are not easy to provoke. Also, I heard recently that some foreign organizations are infiltrating local."

He deliberately stopped here, and then twirled his fingers at Shade. Shade knowingly took out another 1 ohr silver coin and pushed it to him.

"This news is absolutely true, and few people know about it. I won't say the source of the news. The specific content refers to the fact that people from the famous cult group 'Dragon Feast Order' appeared in the Yuewan area. However, they did not have their own local presence. force, so this time he did not arrive rashly, but cooperated with the 'Light Worshiper Training Society', a well-known illegal group in the central and western areas of Kasenlik. You know this, right?"

"of course I know."

Although there is "light" in the name, the name certainly does not represent justice. This organization calls itself a "study group", and its members do not gather together because of common beliefs, but gather and conduct research in order to transcend human gestures and sublime themselves into "light".

The reason why they are notorious is not only because they like human experiments, but also because they like to make entire villages and towns in remote countryside their "believers", taking them as their masters, the ring magicians, praying, experimenting, and... Serve and even make voluntary sacrifices.

If the "Truth Society" is an organization composed of crazy but calm genius scientists, then the "Light Worshipers Training Society" is an evil religion composed of crazy priests who have abandoned faith and humanity.

Of course, although the name sounds similar to the "Hermitage of Light Guidance", the two have nothing to do with each other.

As for the "Light Worshiping Training Society", it is very famous because they have a genuine thirteen-ring warlock "Light Chaser", which is also the same as the "Bloodweeper" of the "Blood Spirit School" and the "Winter Choir" Like the "Winter Singer" of the "Mirror Association" and the "Mirror Hidden Man" of the [Mirror Association], he is a rare thirteen-ring warlock who is not a church or academic faction.

You know, even large illegal organizations like the [Truth Society] don’t have thirteen rings.

"Light Chaser" is a title passed down by the supreme leader of each generation of training, and the book "Crazy Light Chaser" that Shade studied for the "Light" spirit runes when he was in junior grade is actually the secret collection of this organization. a part of.

"Wait a minute, you said that the [Dragon Feast Order] is not familiar with the local area, so it cooperates with the [Light Worshiper Training Society]. So, that training group is familiar with the local area? There are already their people in the Yuewan area. ?”

While thinking, Shade raised a question, but the masked man failed to give a definite answer this time:

"I'm not a member of an illegal organization, so I don't know. Since last summer, the whole world has become unusual. Look at the weather this summer, whether it's a foreigner like you or a local like me. , you have to be careful. Don’t cause trouble easily, and trouble will not easily come to you—this has been my life rule for many years.”