Whispering Verse

It was already eight o'clock when I returned to Saint Teresa Square with the cat. Mia was walking around happily because she was back home. She liked this place as much as Shad.

Shade didn't rest either. Instead, he took out the learning materials for the thaumaturgy [Ragrai's Jump] that he had obtained last week, and put them on the study table together with the bundle of weathervane bluegrass he got from Coldwater Port City. There are twelve in a bundle.

Although weathervane bluegrass is also a herbaceous plant, it looks more like a fern. The part of the plant that can be used for Shade's thaumaturgy is only about one-fifth of the plant.

Use scissors to simply handle two of the roots, cut off the useful parts, and carve a long list of ancient incantations meaning directions on the surface of the plant with a fine needle.

This process is very hard on the eyes, and the light quality of gas lamps is far inferior to the lights in my hometown.

After finally finishing the plant itself like embroidery, I walked out the window and looked at the rainy night sky. After confirming that there were no special horoscopes tonight, he closed the curtains, shut the cat out, then extinguished the gas lamp on the side wall of the study, and only turned on the gas lamp on the table.

According to the method of learning thaumaturgy given by Professor Garcia, first grind the obsidian into stone chips and mix them with the bone powder of the leg bone of the Haas Hound. After grinding it carefully, soak the powder with a mixture of your own blood and water.

Wait for the color of the powder to change from black to white, place the powder in a metal vessel and heat it with a match from below until the water has completely evaporated.

After completing these troublesome steps, grind the warm powder mixture again, and after it cools to room temperature, carefully cover it on the treated blue surface of the weather vane.

The key point is to cover the letters punched out by the needle.

Shade took a deep breath and closed his eyes to steady his mind. Put the tray with these things on the corner of the table, first recite the incantation you just stabbed softly, and then blow it hard. As the powder dispersed in the closed study, the remains of the corroded blue grass were revealed.

He bit the bullet and ate the powdery grass. Before the dust in the air had completely settled, Shade took out another piece of bluegrass. The thaumaturgy required casting materials, which was the diluent of the weathervane bluegrass extract.

He didn't have the tools at hand to make the extract, so he could only use a simple pinch method to get some juice, and then put it on the tip of his tongue.

To be honest, it was difficult for Shade to compare which one had a weirder taste, the powder just now or the plant juice now, but it was definitely better than the frog material.

Looking at the slightly empty study room, he took a step forward with excitement, then disappeared beside the desk, and then appeared in front of the closed door.

The distance of the thaumaturgy is 10 feet (about 3.14 meters), but Shade can feel that his limit is definitely more than that. The impact of the "divine afterglow" state on this thaumaturgy is to increase the limit distance of space movement. The increase is about double, which means that Shade's limit movement range should be about 10 meters.

But for a more accurate experiment, you need to wait an hour. Professor Garcia warned that this thaumaturgy can only be used once an hour at most, otherwise it will easily attract strange things.

Of course, this is just a warning from the professor. If Shade doesn't care about safety issues and has enough energy, he can use [Raglai's Jump] as walking. But the interval of one hour is indeed too long. If you can find a way to ensure the safety of space movement, you don't have to worry. But if that kind of thing really exists, Shade will never be able to afford it.

"But this thaumaturgy is simpler than I thought."

Turning around and looking behind him, the whole process just now was no different from ordinary steps.

Just at the moment when the body suddenly appeared, there was a wonderful feeling of imbalance. But this feeling will not affect the combat. Once you get used to it a few times, it will be no problem.

[What difficulties do you think you will encounter? 】

she asked softly in her ear.

"For example...because of lack of skill, only part of the body jumped through space, thus causing the separation of the body?"

Shade guessed jokingly.

[If this thaumaturgy was so dangerous, the professor at St. Byrons would not recommend you to choose it. 】

The casting material of the thaumaturgy [Raglai's Leap] is a diluent of the extract of weathervane blue grass, but it does not require materials when using it. Instead, you can put some diluent of standard concentration on the tip of your tongue and you can use it at any time within twenty minutes. Use thaumaturgy.

This kind of diluent cannot be made by just mixing water. It requires a magician who specializes in preparing potions, otherwise a lot of materials will be wasted.

So Shade just tried a few times tonight and planned to ask Priest Augustus to help deal with the grass tomorrow.

By the way, you can also ask the priest to help identify other messy things brought back from Coldwater Port. As for the origin of these things, it can be directly speculated that he met a ring warlock on the black market who wanted to leave Tobesk in the near future, so he bought a bunch of unknown things at low prices.

"Cengshui Port City is worthy of being the most important trade transfer station between the New World and the Old World. Even this precious material can be found."

When he opened the door and calmed down the cat who kept scratching at the door, Shade still sighed sincerely in his heart. However, he will not go to Coldwater Port again in the near future. Although he did not leave many traces at the death scene of Jason Dral, he still wanted to avoid the limelight.

"The most important thing is to break into the ruins in three days."

He looked out the window at the night scene:

"In order to prevent the worst case scenario from happening, we must be prepared with multiple hands. God can save money. The gold pound in my hand can probably buy some good things."

Time is very tight, so after waking up on Tuesday morning, the first thing I do is eat, and the second thing I do is wash yesterday's clothes to ensure that I have clean clothes to wear when I go out.

Then he went out and took a carriage to the Tobesk post office. He sent an urgent letter to Miss Carina and asked if he could visit in the afternoon. Then he went to visit Priest August and handed him the weather vane bluegrass. deal with.

"Where did you get these plants? The price of weather vane bluegrass on the local black market is that one plant is worth 10 pounds, at least 10 pounds. And after the shipment order is placed, it is normal for there to be no news for several months."

Because making plant extracts was not troublesome, the priest took Shade directly to the underground studio he rented. The plant itself is expensive, but when the extract is diluted, you'll get at least 100 drops of liquid from each plant.

These liquids are enough to support Shade's consumption for a whole year. This is not because Shade is expected to use thaumaturgy frequently, but because the diluent and the plant itself will slowly deteriorate, which is helpless.