Whispering Verse

Chapter 2657 Mermaid Shadow

"Judging from today's performance, it is only reasonable that this [Damaged Antarctic Constellation Clock] should be classified as a sage-level. If you weren't here, few people in the entire Tobesk Diocese could deal with this thing."

Iluna continued, while Shade was confused about the scene he just saw:

"That man was not affected by the effects of the relic just now because he had branches wrapped around his body. What's the reason for this?"

"I don't know this either. This requires investigating his identity and background."

Although Iluna was answering the question, her eyes were actually staring at the weapon in Shade's hand:

"This staff of yours is really powerful."

"Of course, these are the branches of the World Tree."

"you know?!"

Iluna was startled and immediately asked:

"Then can it still grow into the original World Tree?"

"If" among the five conditions "fire, cards, resurrection, power, and love" provided to her to help Shade, "resurrection" should refer to resurrecting the World Tree (2016). It's just that "if" also said that Sha De couldn't be told about this matter, so she could only ask after Sha De knew about it.

"It's a dead time key, and of course it can't grow again. It's a strange problem."

Shade shook his head, put away the staff, bent down and covered the red velvet cloth on the dial of the fallen clock:

"It is estimated that the people lost in the narrow space of time will come back. I will leave here first. You can handle the rest. Remember to think clearly about how to explain. I will not leave the opera house before ten o'clock in the evening. If it happens again If anything happens, remember to come to me."

Iluna also returned the jar of umbilical cord in her hand to Shade. In fact, she still wanted to stay with Shade for a while:

"If those lost people can't come back within half an hour, they probably won't be able to come back. I'll go find you tonight. It seems that I have to find a way to improve my time resistance."

Vanessa and Sirius were not surprised at all that Shade solved the problem so quickly. After seeing Shade come back, they organized everyone to have dinner together.

Although something like this happened, the opera house has not yet been notified that it will be closed tonight, so the girls from the opera troupe will still perform on stage tonight.

Vanessa seems to often have dinner with her followers backstage like this, and everyone is talking and laughing around the dining table where multiple tables are put together.

The rain gradually stopped in the evening, so when the well-dressed men and women climbed up the grand steps in front of the opera troupe as usual, there were no umbrellas in their hands.

Tonight's audience was as expected, and every seat that could be sold was filled. Shade sat in a remote corner with Vanessa and Sirius to enjoy the opera in the audience.

When the opera ended at nine o'clock in the evening, and the audience left the stage one after another talking about tonight's wonderful performance, the tired Iluna found Shade backstage who was about to take little Mia home:

"The investigation has concluded."

The girl who had been busy all night sat on the chair in front of the dressing table. Sirius, who felt sorry for her, poured her a glass of water, while Iluna drank the whole glass of water in an unladylike manner. Then he continued to say to Shade:

"The dead man was a handyman at the theater, and he bought the clock from a local thrift store. The thrift store also sent people to investigate. The clock was purchased from an out-of-town businessman more than ten years ago. , it has never been sold, and the books can prove it.”

In other words, the origin of the relic cannot be traced, but it does not appear that anyone deliberately wanted to destroy it.

"The handyman bought the clock and wanted to put it in his home. According to the church's tracking of his home in the afternoon, he seemed to have found a containment instruction for the clock inside the clock, but it was not the church's containment report. Probably It was left behind by other organizations that had previously housed it.

We found the instructions written under his mattress, probably written around the year 400 of the Sixth Era. In addition to explaining 'time suspension', it also said that by binding specific branches, people could be temporarily immune to this disease. The time-stopping effect of relics. "

As he spoke, he took the teacup handed over by Sirius again, but this time he just held it in his hand.

The witch of the thirteenth level earth confirmed:

"So the truth of this matter is: driven by desire and greed, men who were greedy for beauty, and of course, under the influence of the whispering elements of the relic, made the relic out of control, leading to today's consequences? This is not a good story, but it is true It serves as a warning.”

Shade originally thought so too, but unexpectedly Iluna shook her head:

"It's not that simple. The other protagonist of the story, that is, the girl in costume did not come back and was one of the victims this time. But we also carefully inspected her apartment. To put it simply, she also had problems."

Seeing everyone looking at her in surprise, Iluna continued to explain:

"Is it normal for the handyman to be so obsessed with her? Shade, you and I have both seen the past. I admit that men will do many unreasonable things when they are obsessed with girls, but is there something wrong with that handyman's obsession? Too much?"

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Shade nodded hesitantly and suddenly had some bad guesses:

"You go on."

"The church has investigated that she is not a well-known actor herself. Although she belongs to the Tobesk Art Performance Troupe, she only plays an unimportant supporting role at best.

In order to make herself famous and be liked by more people, the girl arranged a ceremony in her home. "

The witch, Sirius, Shade and the two high-level girls who were listening all shook their heads. Of course Iluna understood what they meant:

"Yes, it is the kind of event where ordinary people are involved in the mysterious world. It's just that I don't know which book she found the ritual from, but it is not a formal ceremony. Judging from the traces left at the scene, she paid some kind of The price is a bottle of magical perfume that can make you very attractive.”

"What a stupid girl, so she died because of herself?"

The witch sighed softly, and Shade asked:

"Is the church sure that the perfume catalyzed this incident? Then what did she make a deal with? The devil? It can't be the evil god, right? I don't think gods can easily make such a deal with mortals."

Gods are not wish-granting machines, and being able to communicate with gods is not something that ordinary people can easily do.

"It shouldn't be a demon. The church's detection ritual found no traces of demons. It shouldn't be an evil god either. We didn't find any blasphemous elements. The ritual arranged by the actress shouldn't have any effect. What worked was a stone wrapped with seaweed."

She paused slightly:

“I didn’t go with the actress when she was investigating her apartment, but I just heard that the stone looked like a mermaid.

Also, the remaining half of the bottle of perfume was found in the girl's cosmetic bag, and the ingredients are still uncertain. But it is certain that it was her use of too much perfume that made the handyman who bought the clock have inappropriate thoughts. To put it simply, both people are responsible.

As for the perfume bottle, before I came here, I heard from my colleagues that there was an abstract mermaid symbol at the bottom of the bottle. "

She stopped talking because both the witch and Sirius looked at Shade. So the thirteenth-level witch waved the girls who were listening to the story to move away temporarily. She personally cast a spell to block the sounds nearby. Iluna looked at Shade this time and said:

“Last fall, the church discovered traces of an extremely dangerous unknown-class relic in Coldwater Port, and continued to track it throughout the following year.

In fact, within this year, things similar to this incident occurred in every corner of the Old Continent, and this incident is also suspected to be related to the unknown relic. The Holy See paid direct attention to this incident of runaway relics. Although the impact this time was small, with only more than ten people dead and no property damage caused,

If nothing else happens, Miss Benenice, Miss Lassers, and the Golden Dawn Opera Troupe may have to change places to perform in the future. The Vatican will send a special team to thoroughly inspect the Queen Mary Opera House. "

Vanessa and Sirius didn't say anything, but continued to look at Shade.

Although Shade never took the initiative to talk about "desire", he did mention that his perfume bottle was related to mermaids. Moreover, in many incidents since last year, many girls have had direct contact with the "mermaid" around him.

For example, during the Moon Bay, Miss Belindel was on the rocks below Earl Darmanin's manor, held by Shade, and saw the beautiful woman's head appearing in the water; and during the Green Lake incident, Megan turned her back to the lake and Shade. , and also heard the other party’s voice.

As for Iluna, she is still resentful of the comment "Desire" made to her on the shore of the Pantanal Lake island that "she is too innocent" now that she is eighteen years old (Chapter 1112 ).

"I think it's probably that thing."

Shade nodded slightly, but comforted them:

"Don't worry, she's not in Tobesk. It should be just an accident that the lost actress prayed to her. Since she broke away from the seal of the fish people during the Coldwater Port incident last fall, I haven't found anyone in the material world who can Seal her again."

After hesitating for a moment, he said:

"Actually, I'm pretty sure she's in Moon Bay now, but she promised me that she won't provoke Miss Belindle or anyone around her. I know it may be wrong to say this, but for the time being we can only treat her as a mobile "Act of God."

Unless he burns his divinity, Shade feels that even if he reaches the thirteenth ring, he will probably be unable to do anything to her. And she had helped him so many times, even if he knew she was evil, Shade couldn't really do it without hesitation.

Even now, he still owes a "debt collection" job that has not been completed. The timeline of the Vista Grove is quite confusing, and he is still not sure which generation of Bennet the "Bennet" he is looking for is.