Whispering Verse

"The key to the door...but what does this spell have to do with the story of God?"

The voice in his ear did not answer Shade. On the contrary, thick white mist appeared behind him.

The singing of the three witches did not stop there. They stood by the bonfire and watched the strangers gradually being swallowed up by the white mist. Everyone's eyes seemed to be shining, and they gave their sincere blessings to Shade:

"Traveler in a foreign land, I hope that the wind blowing around the world will always have your presence."

"Man in the future, I hope you can always see the rising sun every time it rises."

"Unexpected guest, may time be with you, and may the silver moon always take care of you."

Amidst the music and singing, white mist engulfed Sha De. He left, but the voices of the witches seemed to have traveled through the forest and the long river of time. Even though Shade was already standing in Saint Teresa Square, those songs seemed to still be echoing in his ears.

"Meow?"

The cat lying on the sofa saw Shade coming out of the door with a wistful expression, so he turned over and exposed his white belly, calling out to attract him to come over.

Shade sighed and walked towards the coquettish cat on the sofa:

"Their singing..."

【How about it? 】

"It's really better than opera."

[Are you worried that you won’t be able to hear it in the future? 】

She was chuckling.

"Of course I don't think so. Your voice is better than theirs. I was just thinking that it is known that Miss Feliana will not die in the Forest of Thousand Trees, but the other two witches, I don't know if they can Get out of there alive.”

The establishment of St. Byrons happened in the last era. Due to the loss of history, even if Shade checked the information, he could not confirm who the students beside Miss Feliana were when the college was first established.

The time had just passed midnight, and Shade sat on the sofa and hugged the coquettish cat:

"Obviously we are no longer facing gods in this time travel, but I still feel that the pressure is no less than the first time."

【Are you confident to complete the task? 】

she asked softly in her ear.

"Of course I'm confident. It's a waste of time to delay it for a month at worst, but Miss Feliana helped me, and I will help her too."

Lowering his head, he realized that the [Metamorphosis Ring] was somehow attached to Mia's tail.

Shade smiled and took off the ring. Amid Mia's dissatisfied cry, he put the cat on the sofa. He took the ring into the hidden wall of the basement and put the ring next to the wall.

Instead of leaving, he looked at the sage-level relic [God's Gift Box] that was also placed here. It's Monday and the children get a gift from the box each week.

Shade likes this kind of "lottery"-like activity very much. Although he has to complete some tasks to get the gifts, he is still very confident in himself.

For the so-called sense of ritual, I specially carried the box to the coffee table on the second floor. After washing my hands, I gently pushed open the lid of the box and stretched my arms in.

"What could it be? Do you have the luck to get the relic?"

Under Mia Cat's curious eyes, Shade slowly pulled out his hand. Everyone and the cat looked at the hand, which held a plump red apple.

This is not a special item disguised as an apple, this is really just an apple. Shade looked at it and took a bite. It tasted quite good. When Mia saw Shad eating, she immediately stretched out her paws to pick at him, and Shad took a small piece of her.

"But why give me an apple?"

Shade fell into deep thought, and the task of obtaining the apple was to brush his teeth carefully before going to bed for three consecutive days.

(Little Mia is sleeping Zz...)

The key to completing the Time Key in 3002 is for Shade to complete the ritual in the Sixth Age - contacting the old god [Year Transformation Door]. Of the two current ideas, looking for new blood money is probably to go to Coldwater Port. After all, Luvia has already searched Tobesk and the surrounding areas, and has also placed a reward on the black market. To find the ancient organization [Guiding Light Monastery], you need to find friends related to academics for help. Academic groups that study doomsday theory cannot be found by publishing in newspapers.

So on Monday morning, Shade visited Professor Manning who lived at No. 17 Mao Tail Lane alone. He and Professor Manning originally only met because of "Happy Dream Pen", but later they met again when participating in an academic report, and they got along quite well, so it is okay to call them friends now.

Because it was Monday and I was worried that the professor would have to go out for something, Shade came very early. Not long after knocking on the door, the familiar fat maid opened the door. The professor had also just finished breakfast. He was wearing home clothes and slippers and sitting in the restaurant reading a newspaper. It seemed that he did not intend to go out in the morning.

When Shade came to him, the professor pointed at the obituary of Anthony Wargrave, the Police Commissioner at Rydwich Field, in the newspaper and complained about the security problems in Tobesk:

"Detective, I have lived in this city for fifty years. This is the first time I have encountered a cultist killing hundreds of people in one night, including even the police chief. I even suspect that I have returned to my youth again. At that time, he ran to a remote town where ruins were being excavated, and was involved in the death of the town’s sheriff, and the stupid local townspeople..."

He mumbled without making the second half of the sentence clear, but Shade seemed to have heard the words "shootout" and "corpse." It seemed that the young age of an archaeologist was not as peaceful as that of an ordinary scholar.

Professor Manning was very talkative, so Shade did not directly tell the purpose of his visit, but talked with the professor about the terrible things last week. Professor Manning fully accepted the rhetoric in the newspaper. While he railed against the cultists, he was also dissatisfied with the insensitivity of Ledwich Field, MI6 and the church.

In his view, since citizens pay taxes, they should be protected. What happened a week and a half ago fully demonstrated that the city hall definitely did not use all the tax money in appropriate places.

Then Shade realized that what the professor really wanted to complain about was the kingdom's tax policy. He believed that professors should enjoy special tax exemptions for their salaries instead of paying full taxes like ordinary people.

Asking Professor Manning for help, Shade's excuse was that he was dealing with a troublesome commission and therefore needed to obtain some information from scholars who studied doomsday theory.

Professor Manning is a very optimistic person and is a little disgusted with the so-called "doomsday theory", but since Shade is just for the commission, he is of course willing to help. When Professor Manning was young, he made many friends through archeology around the world, and he was able to help Shade get information.

"Of course, it's best not to make this matter too public, and I don't want to expose my client's information."

Shade said embarrassedly. Seeing that the professor agreed, he took out the prepared envelope again, which contained 10 pounds:

"The matter is a bit urgent, I hope you can give me news within a week. Please accept this, no, don't refuse in a hurry, the client will reimburse the expense, so you are actually taking money from my client, no I gave it to you."

Xia De would not let the professor help him for nothing. Although he was a friend, if he asked someone to help him for nothing, the relationship between friends would become weaker and weaker.