Whispering Verse

Turning to look outside from the window, at the end of the crowd, the two of them saw Iluna, whom they hadn't seen for more than a week.

Everyone in her Ring Warlock team came to pick her up at the station. The men helped carry the luggage, while the girl with long brown hair smiled and joked with the woman with purple lips next to her.

"She has come back."

I haven't seen her for more than a week. Apart from the fatigue caused by the journey, Iluna doesn't seem to have changed much.

Shade and Luvia sat in the restaurant without moving. They waited for twenty minutes before they saw Iluna walking hurriedly along the street.

The two of them also walked out of the restaurant and greeted him:

"Oh, I'm back!"

After all, he is only seventeen years old. Although he has experienced many things, he still looks immature.

Just on the street, Iluna first gave Luvia a warm hug, and then looked at Shade with a bright smile:

"Good morning, Shade, how are you doing?"

The smile on her face was even brighter than this misty morning.

Shade really wanted to say that he had been living a leisurely life recently, with a lot of income and not much to do. But whether it was the exam week a week ago or the recent cold water port mermaid, Shade couldn't say this.

"Did anything happen to you again while I was away?"

The young girl said with a smile, her expression quite understanding:

"Things will always be waiting for us, but we can solve them together. Shade, Luvia, now that I'm back, leave everything to me!"

Not knowing what happened in the Holy See, Iluna was quite confident:

"I got more information and secrets from the identity of the chosen one. Some things I didn't even tell the Holy See. But there is no time today. I have to go to the church to cancel my leave and deal with some delayed work. How about we meet tomorrow? "

"no problem."

Shade and Luvia both said this, so Iluna took out two more items from her pocket and handed them to them:

"Travel souvenir."

What the purple-eyed fortune teller got was a bunch of bookmarks made from leaf specimens. There were nine bookmarks in total, each of which was a different leaf.

As for Shade, he got a book. The cover of the book had some cats surrounded by balls of wool printed in ink. The title of the book was "Rimte's Guide to Raising Cats". Opening the table of contents, I found the content about bathing cats in the third chapter.

Shade smiled:

"A very nice gift, this is what I need!"

The three of them did not stand on the street for too long, because Iluna was still in a hurry to return to the church to cancel her vacation, so they parted soon. They agreed to meet at Shade's house tomorrow morning to exchange information.

Luvia still had a job at the Prophet's Association, so she didn't stay long. After Shade separated from the two girls, he returned directly to Saint Teresa Square.

He made an agreement with the priest August to meet at ten o'clock this morning, but it was not even nine o'clock when Shade came home, and the priest was already standing at the door of No. 6 St. Teresa Square.

On Wednesday morning, the misty square was dotted with vendors selling spices and trinkets. On the side far away from Shade's house, there was a group of citizens watching two middle-aged gentlemen in formal suits demonstrating their skills. Major invention "Colored bubble making machine based on the principle of the third generation civilian steam engine".

The square is relatively clean and there is not much garbage to be seen. During his breaks, the boy selling newspapers would stand by the fountain in the center of the square and watch the pigeons lazily walking around.

It was a very ordinary Wednesday. The priest standing in front of Shade's house. After the carriage carrying Shade stopped, he almost grabbed the young detective who bowed his head and walked out of the carriage:

"Wait a minute, priest, I haven't paid the driver yet!"

The old priest pulled Shade to talk about something, but still waited for him to pay the fare first. The priest was holding a paper bag and was sweating profusely. He looked very hot, but because it rained yesterday, the temperature was obviously not very high.

"Priest, let's go in and talk. What's wrong with you?"

The old man seemed to have encountered some serious accident, and he was breathing heavily without saying a word. After Shade entered the house, who opened the door with the key, he closed the door with a bang, then grabbed his wrist and widened his eyes:

"That potion! Where did you get the potion you asked me to identify for you on Tuesday?"

"Meow~"

The sound of Mia running downstairs could already be heard. Shade didn't react at first. Only when he saw the priest taking out the bottle of purple-glossy liquid from the paper bag containing the Feast of Holy Prayer souvenirs did he realize that it was He got it from the fishbone pirate ship.

"I won it from playing Rhodes in a pub not long ago..."

This is the most reasonable answer that will not arouse suspicion. Of course, Shade did not forget to add:

"...It's not that I want to gamble, but that the other party must bet on my special card. His bet is this bottle of potion, but the other party only knows that it is related to the elixir..."

Putting the keys in his pocket into the biscuit box on the shoe cabinet, Shade bent down and picked up the cat that had run downstairs, and then motioned to the priest to take him upstairs:

"Priest, is there something wrong with that potion?"

Because the spiritual rune [Greed] and the ten coins were too important, Shade didn't pay much attention to the bottle of magic potion. Now that I saw the priest's attitude, I realized that the magic potion the captain took out of his stomach during the second gambling game was not an ordinary thing.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, if it were an ordinary thing, it would be impossible to preserve it with your own body.

"This is the magic potion - the mermaid's elixir!"

On the stairs, the priest lowered his voice and looked at Shade with wide eyes. But there was no other person in the house, so there was no need to lower the voice.

"I know it's the elixir."

Shade nodded:

"Isn't that the name I told you?"

"Oh, Shade, your first-year course "Basic Potions" did not cover this kind of thing, but this is the real elixir. No one in the Sixth Age can make this thing, even in the Fifth Age. Only the most powerful witches can obtain such a magic potion as an offering from the alien mermaid. In other words, this is a precious magic potion that can only be used by people at the level of the Witch Emperor."

Shade turned slightly to look at the old priest. The professor shook the potion in his hand, and the purple liquid swayed slightly in it:

"This is a true master-level potion. Even a thirteen-ring warlock cannot make it. And do you know what is the most precious thing about this potion?"

Priest August asked. Shade hesitated for a moment, then hugged the cat and replied:

"It...hasn't expired?"

"Yes! This bottle of potion has not expired! Oh, Mr. Dawn, this is simply a miracle! Does it mean that there is still someone in the Sixth Age who can configure this thing? Or is this bottle of potion preserved in a special way?"

The priest became more and more excited as he talked, and the two of them had already reached the second floor. After opening the door, Shade put down the cat and prepared to hang up his coat:

"Priest, is it possible to use this bottle of potion to rediscover the lost potion preparation technology?"