Whispering Verse

After hearing Shade's words, Miss Isabella, who was kneeling on one knee in front of him, showed a softer smile:

"You still don't understand what what you did means to us, no, to them. Please allow me to thank you on behalf of the girls in the council, although I still feel that all this is because of Luvia Anat But, at least she chose you, which should be one of the few things she did right. After spending a long time with someone like you, even she will probably find some of her own conscience. "

It’s really hard to imagine what Luvia had done in the past to leave such a psychological shadow on her.

There were some sounds behind her, and the blond lady immediately stood up, turned around and glanced at the giant worm with a human head in the square that had basically recovered:

"Compared with time, you seem to be better at using the power of moonlight. This idea is not bad. Even I have never seen the giant light wheel thaumaturgy just now. Although I don't often use energy output attacks , but want to hear my advice on your moonlight magic?"

"certainly."

Shade immediately nodded. His "Moonlight Slash" developed three forms, and finally derived the "Moonlight Wheel". Now Moonlight Wheel has only developed its second form, and he himself believes that this unique thaumaturgy still has room for expansion.

Miss Isabella then stretched out her hand to pull Shaa up. When she saw him getting up, he frowned in pain due to the wounds on his body, and showed an expression of pity:

"Gigantizing the basic form of the light wheel is indeed a good way to deal with giants, dragons and other huge enemies, but it will also lead to increased consumption and is inconvenient to use in cities and other scenes. And the one you just threw Although the basic form of the light wheel consumes very little, it has almost no effect on the shell of the worm. Therefore, the next step is to increase its destructive power while keeping the size of the light wheel unchanged."

Shade nodded:

"This is also my idea for developing the thaumaturgy 'Moonlight Slash'. By slightly changing the method of casting the spell, at the expense of consumption and casting speed, the power of the thaumaturgy will be changed. But what needs to be done?"

"Your Nimbus is currently charged with one hand. Have you considered charging it with both hands at the same time?"

Miss Isabella asked. Seeing Shade frowning and thinking, she smiled and shook her head:

"Think about it slowly after you go back, Shade. The help I can give you is only if you come here to see me every month. Although we have spanned time and the end of the world, I will always wait for you to come again until you My help is no longer needed."

Before Shade could say anything, she took a step forward and got closer to Shade. Seeing Shade's embarrassed look, her golden eyes curved into a smile:

"Experience my next thaumaturgy - Adele's principle of regression. If you can master it, you will be able to avoid most troubles in the future."

So, she put her forehead against Shade's. At that moment, warm and trembling feelings surged into their hearts at the same time. Miss Isabella's "other self" and Shade's "her" allowed the two souls to touch each other at the same time.

The power of time resonates between the two, and the "Witch's Reverberation" thus completes the part about "Adele's return principle", and all the ritual information pours into Shade's mind. And Miss Isabella, in this resonance again, finally got a glimpse of a corner of Shade's soul.

The almost transparent hairs stood up on the fair skin under the skirt, and the golden light deep in her soul made her lose consciousness against Shade's forehead. It wasn't until the roar of the worm sounded behind her that she realized the current situation.

Pretending to be nothing, he moved his forehead away, but he didn't know that his face was as red as Shade's in front of him:

"Watch it."

As he spoke, he turned around and jumped into the air. The giant worm has fully recovered at this moment. Half of its body is still hidden under the square that turned into a huge sand pile, and half of its body is entrenched on the sand pile. Only the front end, which occupies a very small part of the body, is standing up.

The worm with thousands of human teeth opened its huge mouth, and the sandstorm once again enveloped the square with its roar. It seems like endless fine sand has condensed in its mouth, but its essence is a huge amount of spirit and extremely chaotic elements, compressed into a sphere in its mouth.

The height of Miss Isabella, who was lifted into the air, was almost the same as the mouth of the giant worm. She did not try to dodge, but raised her hands high. As her two palms twisted slightly, the rotating deep sea of ​​stars appeared above her, as if she was holding up the starry sky.

Shade on the edge of the square stared at this scene with wide eyes, watching the head in the center of the sandstorm supported by a huge insect body covered with fluff and tentacles, spitting out the huge earth-yellow energy sphere towards Miss Isabella. .

"Adele's Regressive Principle!"

As the sea of ​​stars rotated above the witch's raised hands, the earth-yellow ball carrying violent energy hit the sea of ​​stars, and then smoothly returned to its "master" on its original path under the influence of the power of time, penetrating the sandstorm. , piercing the insect's human head straight through.

The damage this time was far greater than Shade's blow just now. The huge insect body immediately collapsed into yellow sand all over the sky, leaving only the rickety body of Professor Drake falling from the sky;

"Shadow, now!"

"Thunder gun!"

Holding the [Yectrasil Staff], charging up and throwing it out, the silver-white thunder attached to the long staff accurately penetrated the humanoid evil object in the air, and the huge kinetic energy drove it to fly to the other end of the square. After the impact caused a concave spherical crater to appear on the wall of the building's remains, the professor's body was completely nailed to the wall.

After landing, Miss Isabella flew over with Shade, and the silvery white lightning was constantly jumping on the body scattered with sand and dust. The body was rapidly turning into sand, and the professor's cloudy eyes opened, as if he had regained his senses at the last moment.

He raised his right hand, which was pulsing with silvery white electric light and constantly falling sand and dust downwards, as if to grasp something invisible in the air:

"It turns out that this is the truth."

The eyes were closed, and the arms were scattered with dust and quickly blown away by the wind. Shade and Miss Isabella watched it completely disappear. In the end, only the long stick nailed to the crooked wall was left, and the wind floated towards Shade. playing cards.

He put away the cards, but did not immediately check the card in order to prevent him from leaving directly. He stretched out his hand to pull out the long staff nailed there, but when he tightened his grip and exerted force, he felt pain in the wounds all over his body.

"I'm here, don't move."

The witch on the side hurriedly stopped him from using any more force. She took hold of the long staff and pulled it out. When he handed it back to Shade, he thought that this was the first time he had directly touched this weapon in so long. When it was in Luvia Anat's hands, no other person would ever be able to touch it.

After the battle, they did not stay in the wind and sand for long. When they returned to No. 6 at the other end of the square, which seemed not to be affected by the battle at all, Miss Isabella helped Shade, who was walking up the stairs with a long stick, she asked again :

"Did you understand the thaumaturgy just now? Adele's regressive principle can theoretically return attacks of any energy type. There are two disadvantages. First, it takes several seconds to charge up the spell. Of course there is no problem if you are prepared, but if you face the attack in a hurry, you may not have time to activate the thaumaturgy; secondly, you can only return energy attacks that are free of charge. If it is a continuous output light cannon, although it can also be returned, the consumption will be high. It’s very big, so why not try to dodge it.”

She helped Shade turn the corner of the stairs. Shade tried hard to remember these contents. This thaumaturgy was just like what Miss Isabella said. Once learned, most of the troubles in battle can be avoided in the future:

"Why not call it Star Shift? I mean, jumping into the air is a necessary condition for casting a spell?"

"Yes."

Miss Isabella glanced at him quite unexpectedly:

"I didn't expect that you could actually see it. On the one hand, the idea of ​​​​this thaumaturgy comes from the rotation of the stars, so it needs to be in contact with the sky; on the other hand, this is a thaumaturgy that reverses the principle of time, because it requires extremely precise control of energy. Flow returns, so the fewer entities you come into contact with, the better. Clothes don’t matter, but the ground will affect the accuracy of spell casting. Therefore, casting spells in the air after jumping up is the best choice.”

Now the ritual content of "Adele's Regression Principle" is already in Shade's mind. It is such a high-end thaumaturgy, but the learning method is surprisingly not complicated. The ceremony needs to be held at night, and the base array needs to contain the holy symbols of both "Chaos Witch" and "Father of the Infinite Tree". Although the ritual materials are diverse, Shade has heard of them all. Even the most difficult-to-find items, such as "the core of a thousand-year-old pine tree" and the "stone heart of an astral meteorite", can be purchased at high prices in St. Byrons.

"This thaumaturgy is really powerful, Miss Isabella, you are really a genius."

He praised sincerely, and the witch shook her head:

"Don't say that. In fact, Luvia Anat is the real genius."

Because he was seriously injured after being swallowed by an insect, Shade's condition did not allow him to stay here for too long, but Miss Bella Belindel's matter still had to be resolved. Of course, Miss Isabella did not forget this matter. After helping Shade to sit on the sofa, she took the initiative to turn to this topic:

"Although darkness and light are the nemesis of each other, the light you mentioned should be some kind of extremely special light. Once infected, ordinary darkness will never be able to completely dispel it unless the chosen one of darkness takes action."

The Dark Chosen One, Ivan Darkness, died last year.

"But in addition to darkness, we must also consider light. After all, light does not affect the light itself. The strange light can assimilate all things, but only the light will not melt into the light."