Whispering Verse

"The stars in the photos are very blurry. It is impossible to determine the position by relying on the stars. As for divination."

The countess took out three dice, tried throwing them a few times, and then shook her head at Shade regretfully:

"This photo has been turned back in time by you, and it can be regarded as an abnormal existence in itself, so it no longer has the possibility of divination. However, which page of the notebook was it just clipped on? Maybe it can be determined from the contents of that page to determine the approximate shooting date.”

Shade went to look at the notebook full of secret words again. Although he had not yet confirmed it, Shade believed that the encryption method of this notebook was different from the encryption method of the ciphertext when Gray Gloves contacted Gray Eagle.

The densely packed letters obviously contained a lot of information, but Shade couldn't get anything. He quickly flipped through the notebook from beginning to end, and finally confirmed that there was no content other than cipher text, not even hand-drawn pictures.

Miss Belindel reminded again:

"I remember there is a kind of thaumaturgy, which is specially used to decipher cipher text, it seems to be thaumaturgy - cipher text translation. This is a high-level thaumaturgy, and it can only be learned by ring magicians who have the enlightenment-[rune] spiritual rune, and It is only effective for ordinary text. If you need it, I can help you contact me. Sisters Megan and Audrey, the great wisdom witches in the parliament, are proficient in this kind of thaumaturgy.

Speaking of which, although they are still dealing with the matter of Paradise Island Pharmaceutical, they also said they would come to Yuewan during the last meeting, but they don't know exactly when they will arrive. "

The smiling faces of the Twin Witches flashed through Shade's mind, and he missed them a little. He nodded and handed the notebook to Miss Belindel:

"Then please ask those two ladies to help translate the cipher text."

The latter asked again:

"There should be more than one safe house for gray eagles in the local area. Should we go to other places to look? Maybe we can still gain something."

"No need, Grey-headed Eagle has not returned to Moon Bay for more than ten years. According to my investigation, his other safe houses have been assigned to other agents. Only this one is the most confidential, so it has always been idle."

He looked at the photo in his hand again, never expecting that just looking around after dinner would yield such a harvest.

Seeing that Shade was worried, Miss Belindel did not ask any more questions. The two of them dealt with the traces of their visit to the house and returned to Belindel Manor. Shade didn't stay here for long after that. After saying goodbye to Emilia and the little unicorn, he took little Mia back home.

At nine o'clock in the evening, when Luvia and Iluna arrived at No. 6 Saint Teresa Square, Shade was sitting on the sofa in the living room, and the coffee table in front of him was filled with various landscape photos.

"Shad, what are you doing?"

Luvia asked curiously, and she and Iluna took off their coats and put them on the clothes rack at the door.

"Is this a photo of Yuewan?"

Iluna also asked curiously, and Shade shook his head:

"These are the landscape photos left by Uncle Sparrow. Although I checked them, I didn't check them carefully. Now I want to confirm the location where each photo was taken."

Luvia and Iluna looked at each other in surprise. Shade rarely took the initiative to talk about the former detective. Although they all knew from Shade that the previous detective was a mysterious foreign agent, in their opinion, Shade was very unwilling to let people explore this point. He just wanted to let the detective rest in peace.

"Let me help you locate these photos."

Luvia took the initiative and said without asking Shade the purpose of doing this:

"Searching for bones and corpses, locating photos, and blindly guessing cards are the basic skills of qualified diviners. Although there are a lot of photos, it only takes two or three days to determine their locations."

"Then I'll trouble you."

Shade did not refuse, and Iluna looked at him worriedly, feeling that something was wrong with Shade today. But Luvia shook her head slightly to signal her not to ask, so Iluna had no choice but to talk about business:

"Xia De, something happened in the city, don't you know yet?"

"Something happened? What happened?"

He stood up with the sleepy cat in his arms and asked the two girls to sit down, while he went to the kitchen to get the teapot:

"I just went home for an hour and have been looking at photos here since then. I don't know much about things outside."

"On Puglia Street in the University District, at about seven o'clock tonight, a passing man turned into light and disappeared under the gas street lamp. It was getting dark late in the summer, and at least five people on the road saw this scene. According to their descriptions, the man was emitting dazzling light like a torch, and the only thing left was the hat he dropped during his struggle. Three of the five people still insist that they saw the man become an angel. "

Iluna described it, and Shade asked in surprise while pouring tea:

"In Tobesk? Is this the first case outside Moon Bay?"

Iluna took the tea cup and thanked her softly:

"No, our diocese received news in the afternoon that a similar accident occurred in the south of Kasenlik early this morning. Just now, I and other ring magicians from the church went to Puglia Street to confirm the situation, and then went Looking for Luvia, I came to you."

As he said this, he looked at Luvia, and the purple-eyed fortune teller also nodded:

"Iluna took me there and took a look from a distance. The entire area is still glowing now. It is indeed the product of the distortion of order and rules."

Shade sat down with little Mia in his arms, and then said that this afternoon, he encountered the same situation in Yuewan City, but he tried to expel those abnormal lights. Iluna was relieved, as long as those areas would not exist permanently, but Luvia was worried about other things:

"The appearance of abnormal light outside Moon Bay means that the abnormal light will soon spread throughout the material world. This time is different from the crazy land in Randall Valley. That time at least the church controlled although it was complicated, There is also a method that can expel the Crazy Earth, but this time the church is unable to do anything for the time being."

"Two directions, either use darkness to suppress the light, or absorb the light like me and transform it into other powers."

Shade said, but this is just a theory.

"One more thing, I will probably arrive at Moon Bay soon. This time the church plans to use a steam airship. The weather on the currently arranged route is very good, and there is no need to cross mountains and rivers. It can be reached in a day or two. .”

Iluna added, feeling a little excited about this. She has never been afraid of challenges:

"Louvia, I won't say goodbye to you two specifically. When I arrive at Moon Bay, I will take the initiative to contact Shade."

"I'll give you an address and you can send your letter here."

Shade gave Eluna the address of "Princess Trading Partner", hesitated, and mentioned another important piece of information he got this afternoon:

"I cannot disclose the source of the information for the time being, but the first requirement of the ritual of drawing the 'Sword of Light' seems to be to draw the sword towards the strong."

This was the news revealed by Miss Adele Isabella, and Luvia suddenly became excited:

"Since it is the first request, there must be more than one request. You are all here, so I will do some divination based on this clue. Maybe there will be something to gain."

Now there is one [Weak Cure] and [Thunder God's Wrath] each. After Shade took them out, Luvia hesitated and chose the former. As a result, the coin was bounced away, and when it reached its highest point, mottled rust appeared. After the coins turned into ashes and disappeared into the air, Luvia also opened her eyes:

"It's very interesting. Divination is indeed possible now. The information provided by Shade is correct. The Sword of Light can only be drawn when facing a strong enemy. This is the basic requirement, but in fact, the 'drawing the sword' of the Sword of Light can be divided into Two situations.”

In her eyes, the purple glow lingered for a long time:

"The first situation: draw the sword once. After the sword is drawn and used, the sword will disappear;

The second situation: Permanently obtain the right to use the 'Sword of Light', which requires complex rituals and qualifications. The first case does not require dragon blood, and the second case requires the power of dragons just like the fragment of the poem that Shade saw in Moon Bay. "

"So this ceremony of the chosen ones is the second case?"

Iluna asked, Luvia shook her head:

"This is the interesting part. My divination will not be wrong: no matter which way you draw the sword, as long as you have more than two dragon powers, be the first to draw the sword of light in the Moon Bay area to complete the ritual, and satisfy 'Understanding the light' and 'carrying artifacts related to the ancient gods', then that person is the chosen one of the light."

"But the first case is obviously better than the second case."

Shade shook his head mid-sentence:

"It's not necessarily easier than permanently obtaining the right to use that sword."

"It is indeed not simple. I already know all the requirements for the first method of drawing the sword."

The girl with purple eyes said with a smile, and then saw with satisfaction that both Shade and Iluna looked at her in surprise. Shade was even overly surprised and petted the cat too hard, causing the cat to scream in dissatisfaction.

But Shade couldn't care less about appeasing little Mia at this time:

"Luvia, how can you predict so much with just one coin?"

"This information is not secret. It is expressed in a way that you can understand, just like the ancient dragon god deliberately placed this information in the long river of destiny, waiting for the soothsayer to interpret."

She told how she briefly possessed the "Sword of Light":

"[When civilization faces the threat of the evil dragon, a righteous man holding a holy sword will surely draw his sword when facing a powerful enemy.]

In other words, the method of using the Sword of Light briefly is actually a shortcut left by the ancient gods:

1. For some kind of enemy that may threaten the current civilization, if it is related to the dragon, the requirements will be looser; if it is not related to the dragon, the requirements will be very strict;

2. He possesses a holy sword capable of carrying the Sword of Light;

3. Heart of justice;

4. Face the strong. "