Whispering Verse

After sighing, Shade officially began to tap on all his gains after the second key disappeared.

Except for the unexpected [Tree Kiss] spiritual rune and the puzzling truth about the time key. Miss Feliana also said that if she could remember Shade, she would leave him a gift.

It's a pity that Xia De has been in school for a month and a half and hasn't found anything yet. Maybe Miss Feliana forgot about him, maybe the gift was in the castle of St. Byrons, and he needed to actually arrive at the college to get the gift from that charming lady.

However, Miss Felianna's notebook was successfully brought to the present time by Shade. Although the pages of the paper were a little yellowed after coming from the past to the present, it did not stop Xia De from standing by the window and flipping through the notebook. Then he unexpectedly discovered that there was a small blank space on it. The notebook that was originally filled with careful writing by the witch now had a small amount of blank space, probably only one-tenth of the total.

"Speaking of which, this is the first time I have gained a large amount of knowledge from the past."

Although the father of the Infinite Tree is far away, Shade can feel his presence all the time.

He lowered his head and looked at the remaining leaf, because the one just now contained the thaumaturgy of [space stabilizing halo], so it must be [the truth of a period of history (the Witch War at the end of the fifth era)].

Shade thought for a moment, closed his left eye, and placed the leaf in front of his right eye.

The cat raised its head and looked at him curiously.

Shade saw some floating lights and shadows, and then saw a long and narrow masonry corridor.

The ground was covered with white ash, and two women in gorgeous long dresses walked along the corridor one after another. The place is extremely dilapidated, like ancient ruins that have gone through time.

At the end of the corridor, there was a very familiar white fog door, and the women walked in together.

Behind the door was shrouded in white mist, and two women stood together. One showed a ring on her right hand, and the other held a golden button.

As the two pieces of jewelry emitted soft white light, the white mist was gradually dissipated.

This is like a sacrificial hall and a conference hall. A large gray-white stone round table is placed in the open space, surrounded by thirteen stone-backed seats.

Around the circular open space, dilapidated stone steps ascended step by step until the white mist blocked the view at the highest point.

The two women sat down, and Shade's field of vision was always behind them, so he couldn't see their faces clearly.

"The Fifth Era must be over."

One of the voices said, and the language used was naturally not the common language of Delarion.

"Yes, the witches are the product of failure, and it's time to start the next era."

Another voice said.

"But the other eleven wouldn't agree."

"They betrayed their promises, abandoned the parliament, and forgot what mission they shouldered. Now only the two of us have the right to vote. That's enough."

"Do you really want to do this?"

The tone was very anxious.

"Yes, if it continues, the problems faced by people in the Sixth Age will be even greater. For the future of this world, it is time to end it."

After a moment of silence, the two said together:

"In the name of the Witch Council, the voting for the thirteen seats has begun. There should be thirteen people, but there are actually two, and two people have the right to vote, meeting the minimum requirements. Open the vote for the 3419th meeting of the Witch Council. The content of the vote is whether you agree to participate in the meeting. Those who use the power of the Parliament to force the end of the Fifth Age in the form of a witch war."

"The Sixth Seat agrees."

"The Thirteenth Seat agrees."

"There were two valid votes and zero invalid votes. Among them, there were two votes in favor and zero votes against. The resolution was passed."

Some firelight burst out from under the round table, igniting the two women sitting on the ancient stone armchairs. But not only were they not injured, but they seemed to become stronger with their violent breathing movements.

Shade put down the leaf, and all the scenes ended. I tried to look at it again, but I couldn't see the repeated picture just now.

His brows furrowed even more:

"So, there really is a space left by the ancient gods, called the [Witch Council] Witch War, which was started by two witches to end the fifth era. Since the [Witch Council] has been passed down, the current witches are very May still control that space.”

He held two pieces of [Eternal Youth Leaf] in his left hand, and patted the cat standing on the windowsill with his right hand. Shade was in a daze, looking at the halo of the gas street lamp outside the window. The halo was ambiguous and blurry, illuminating his profile but not the confusion in his heart:

"There are more unknown things."

He was not in a good mood, of course, not only because of the eternal farewell to the two witches who had been very kind to him.

It seems that every time I go to the past to witness history, I find more unknowns when I come back.

The clock in the corner clicked:

"So, is it the sixth era now? Speaking of which, it's Monday again. What will the gift box give me this week?"

(Little Mia is running)

"So, is it the sixth era now?"

These were the first words Shade said when he saw Dorothy at the door of his house on Monday morning.

He had dark circles under his eyes, a pale face, chapped lips, messy hair, and even dull eyes.

The female writer excitedly holding the "Steam Bird Daily" stood at the door of Shade's house and nodded hesitantly:

"Of course it's Shade. Didn't you say that you only went in the past three seconds? Did you experience more time this time? You can't tell the current time."

Looking worriedly at Shade's poor image at this time, a red-haired girl wearing black leather shoes walked in. Her long red hair swept over Shade's shoulders. She pursed her lips and asked:

"Then let's test it, Shade, what did you do before we separated yesterday?"

Shade rubbed his face and finally returned to normal. He closed the door and recalled:

"We had dinner together. I mixed some expensive cod liver oil into Xiao Mia's cat food to make the cat forget about taking a bath at noon."

"Meow~"

The orange cat, who was standing on the stairs waiting for Shade to go upstairs, immediately raised his head and barked when he heard his name. The movement of raising his head made the hair on his furry chest face the early morning sunlight that had not yet completely closed the door. .

It was busy outside. On a Monday morning, there was mist on Place Saint-Teres, and gentlemen in boots were rushing to work.

"That's right. Now of course it's 1853 in the Sixth Age's Universal Calendar. Shade, what's wrong with you? Losing the correct sense of time is also a sign that a ring warlock is out of control, especially since you still control the power of time. "

At this point, Dorothy became even more worried.

"No, not out of control, just curious."

Shade shook his head. He did not intend to tell Dorothy the information he had learned from God, because it would be meaningless and would easily involve Dorothy in strange things.

"Then why do you seem to be in bad spirits?"

she asked again.

"I stayed up very late reading last night. I didn't go to bed until two o'clock. I was woken up by Mia at seven o'clock and I planned to make an interesting alchemy item soon."

Shade yawned and remembered the notebook that was now placed on the dining table. Although one-tenth of the content is missing, the remaining content is still valuable.

Miss Feliana patiently and carefully wrote down her adventure experiences, ways to gain power, knowledge of extraordinary beings, strange and interesting rumors, and some formulas for magic potions and alchemy items in dense small characters.

There is currently only one alchemical item that Shade has heard of, which means he can make it. Miss Feliana did not write the name of the item, but its only function was clearly to detect witches.

After the alchemy item is made, just hang it around your neck like a pendant. The pendant will automatically heat up within half a mile (about 804m) of the witch. And the more and stronger the witches are, the more obvious the heat will be.

This detection distance is much farther than the witch's detection of Shade, and it is very helpful for Shade to stay away from those troublesome women.

Of course, in addition to the knowledge itself, notebooks are also valuable antiques.

Although it is just an ordinary paper page, there is Miss Feliana's handwriting on the page. This is a very remarkable item for St. Byrons Comprehensive College. If Shad is willing to sell it, he guesses that the college can even Ask for five or even six figures in gold pounds.

But Shade will not sell it, he will treasure it forever as a memory of the two witches who helped him.

Today, as agreed, Shade was going to Coldwater Port to meet Princess Lesia again, and Dorothy came to help Shade take care of the cat and look through the remaining detective records.

This morning's Daily Steambird features the first short story in Dorothy's serialized detective novels, "The Hamilton Detective Stories," "Murder Overdue." Because it was the first issue, it took up a lot of space, allowing her to send out more content.

Among them, the appearance of "Detective Hamilton" is a relatively important part, which will be related to connecting future stories together.

The main distribution area of ​​"Steambird Daily" is the central Delrayon region centered on Tobesk, but it can also be found in large cities such as Coldwater Port.

If Dorothy's story succeeds, it means that her career has reached a higher level, which is much more meaningful than the Kingdom Literary Award, which has been won by 35 people.

Leading Dorothy upstairs, Shade also shared his experience early this morning. The blonde girl didn't want to hear the whole story, so Shade only told the story of "The Kiss of the Tree" and the connection between it and the ritual of summoning the gods.

"Miss Feliana."

When Shade showed the notebook and described the story of the founder of the college, Dorothy had a look of envy on her face.

But when she talked about the matter between the ancient god - the father of the Infinite Tree and the old god - the Yaobian Gate, she couldn't hold it any longer, and shook her head so that Shade didn't have to go on.

Shade then summoned the life ring, and now the second spiritual rune of the second ring - [Kiss of the Tree], was shining with golden spiritual light. After [Greed], Shade once again obtained a rune associated with the name of the fairy tale, but this time the story was not the story he told.