Whispering Verse

"I didn't expect that the fairy tale "Tree Kiss" actually has this meaning, but this is bad news."

Dorothy covered her forehead in frustration, then raised her head to look at the glowing rune:

"When I asked you to choose "Tree Kiss" to study, I hoped that you could obtain the spiritual runes related to [Nature], not the story itself. "Tree Kiss" only understands its own meaning, and it is indeed not specific and complicated. , but the problem is that this spiritual rune points to a specific story. Shade, it is difficult for you to find the thaumaturgy corresponding to [Tree Kiss]."

This is indeed a problem. Even without looking for it, Shade can still think of how rare this kind of spiritual rune is. He even doubted that no one except him could obtain this kind of spiritual rune.

"I want to go to the Black Raven Library to try my luck first, and then ask Lesia to find out through Zarath Literary Academy. After all, they are good at spells and thaumaturgy. I talked to the librarian Miss Danister. The relationship is also good, you can also look for it from St. Byrons.”

"No, you don't want to ask in the college library, it will arouse suspicion. I will ask, after all, I am a ring warlock who mainly focuses on enlightenment elements."

Dorothy said, helping Shade with advice:

"There is probably no thaumaturgy that directly corresponds to [Tree Kiss], but there may be other spiritual runes related to this story that you can learn... However, our courses will change the subject again in the future. . This time, aim for the [Sleeping] Spirit Rune. After all, you already have two of the second-level ones, and the [Reverberation of Time and Space Shocks the Power of Sleep] required spiritual runes must also be arranged on the schedule."

Princess Lesia's low-level words of sublimation are related to the sleeping princess, so they should be very good at this.

"Why don't I have such luck as you? I am fatefully involved with fairy tales. Every link can correspond to a story."

The blonde girl murmured in a low voice, then tilted her head and smiled at Shade, not knowing what she was thinking of.

Compared with other things I encountered yesterday, [Tree Kiss] was actually not a big deal. After all, even if the spiritual runes are not associated with thaumaturgy, it doesn't matter at all. This does not affect Shade's power.

Although Dorothy could not fully listen to Shade's story about gods and gods, she provided the parchment she bought at the opera house last time, coupled with ink mixed with the blood of deep-sea whales, so that Shade could use [Happiness] The dream pen] was used as a stationery to write down the story.

In this way, Dorothy can slowly interpret the stories written by Shade just like those obscure and twisted stories. And when Shade finished writing the last letter, he suddenly thought that maybe those stories that carry power were originally written like this.

After handing Dorothy a piece of [Eternal Youth Leaf] and then leaving her the [Metamorphosis Ring] to tease the cat, Shade entered the basement and set off again.

It was still raining in Coldwater Port on Monday, and the seaport city gets more summer rain than Tobesk.

I crawled out of the sea still wet, but this time I didn’t go to the Golden Rose Hotel. Lesia had arranged a carriage and was waiting for Shade in the alley near the dock. The carriage took him directly to Sophia's mansion.

"Lecia, is this the sixth era?"

This was the first thing Shade asked when he saw Lesia in the study after washing up.

"Of course, otherwise what time is it...oh, Shade, are you out of control?"

The princess sat behind the desk, her reaction was exactly the same as Dorothy's. It was pouring rain outside, and it was a little cold in the slightly empty study.

"Of course I didn't lose control. I'm very good."

Shade shook his head.

The maid brought a chair from behind, and Shade sat at the desk.

"Oh, Lesia, I recently thought of an interesting question. St. Byrons is in the far north, and Serkses Medical School is under the sea. So where is the Zarath School of Liberal Arts?"

he asked as he sat down. The reason he didn't ask Dorothy directly was because it was the princess's secret.

"I can't tell you the specific location. I signed a confidentiality agreement. But the general location can be said to be here."

She pointed to the sky.

"Cloud?"

"Of course not possible."

"Floating City?"

"This is what you guessed, not what I said."

The red-haired girl smiled.

Shade knew the answer, so he didn't ask more carefully. I sighed in my heart at the unusual locations of the three colleges. After thinking about it, I took out the water-soaked pocket watch from my pocket. There were now two leaves in the pocket watch. Shade handed one of the pieces to the princess. Of course the latter knew what it was. She put down the teacup she had just picked up and looked at Shade in surprise:

"I heard from Dorothy that you traveled through time again. But are you sure you want to lend this to me and not to Dorothy?"

She picked up the leaf and twisted the stem to make it spin before her eyes.

"I got two pieces this time, and the other piece was given to her in the morning."

Shade said, and then saw a copy of "Steambird Daily" lying next to the princess. It seemed that even in Coldwater Port, Lesia still cared about Dorothy's serial novels.

"Already given it to her..."

The red-haired girl murmured quietly and put the leaf aside.

"Oh, there is another gift for you. This is a gift to thank you for helping me search for the survivors of the pirate ship."

Shade took out another thing from his pocket and placed it on the table. It was a ruby ​​earring. Not fake gems from souvenir shops, real gems. The earrings use pure gold to enclose the beautiful rhombus diamond, which looks beautiful.

Shade took this out of the gift box in the early morning. When he discovered it was a ruby, he was really shocked. After all, it was just an apple last week. At that time, my first reaction was to sell it for money, but later I thought it would be a pity to sell such a beautiful gem.

"This...oh, this is a real gem? Shade, where did you get it? Are you sure you want to give this to me? If it were sold at an auction, this could be sold for several thousand pounds."

Lesia frowned slightly, she knew Shade's financial situation.

"It doesn't cost anything. I can just wash a few pieces of clothes for others for free this week."

Shade shook his head. Of course he understood that it was valuable, but it was nothing compared to what Lesia spent on finding someone for him in Coldwater Port. Anyway, it's all for nothing. Giving it to Her Royal Highness the Princess will not only thank the other party, but also stabilize the relationship between the two parties. And more importantly:

"The mermaid earrings I gave you last time were bought from a souvenir shop. They were just fake gemstones. Look, I see you are still wearing them now. It doesn't match your status at all, so I got real gemstones."

He yawned. He really didn't sleep well yesterday.

Because of the yawning movement, he didn't see the corners of Her Royal Highness's lips curling up.

The third step of the "sea return" ceremony, which is the emergence of the red ocean, is expected to be on Tuesday or Wednesday this week. Although this was not a summons to the evil god, but just a ritual to flood the city, Shade was still worried about Lesia's safety, so he lent the leaves to her.

And during the half week that Shade returned to Tobesk and fought for fifteen credits in the city, a lot of things happened here.

Through the information obtained in the fish-man stronghold of Kezem Lane, the church launched a manhunt across the city, and gradually realized that the Evil God's Familia who had existed in the shadows of the city since the establishment of Coldwater Port had long been unknowingly... It has penetrated into every aspect of the city.

Even though the church is determined to eradicate them, the situation is still not optimistic. Because there are too many fishmen, not just a few here and there, but in large groups hidden in the cold water port.