Whispering Verse

Lesia gave Shade the right to enter and leave the study at will, so when Shade found the maid and asked to open the door, the frightened maid immediately went to the housekeeper to ask for the key.

Shade's existence is considered a secret among the servants of Sophia's mansion. Only Lesia's personal maids knew who he was. A very small number of servants knew that Her Royal Highness the Princess "raised a man" in the mansion during her stay in Coldwater Port. The other servants did not even know who "John Watson" was. exist.

Now everyone in the manor was summoned by the elderly housekeeper, behind the gate on the first floor, preparing to deal with possible sporadic intruders. It was not convenient for Shade to let too many people see his appearance, so he was alone in the study, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and looking at the situation outside.

I thought the battle would end soon, but I didn't expect the gunfight to last for twenty minutes and become increasingly fierce.

Although Shade was not anxious, he also noticed something was wrong. He paced in the study, thinking about the situation he was facing, and then thinking about how many bullets he could take before dying.

Theoretically speaking, as long as he was not killed by a single shot, Shade could use [False Immortality] to give himself a chance to fight back. However, while [False Immortality] lasts for half an hour, if you are severely injured again, the effect of the spell will disappear immediately. This is the biggest shortcoming of this spell.

The yellowish light of the brass gas lamp illuminated the stranger who was carefully counting the fatal spots on his body. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door in the study room.

"Um?"

He turned around in surprise, and before he could say anything, a tall man with messy yellow hair burst in.

He was wearing black rain boots, and his clothes and pants were also black. His head was shaped like a spindle, and there were red ringworm marks on his face. The water dripping from his body was contaminating the expensive carpet in the study.

Seeing a man in the room, the intruder looked very surprised:

"Where's Lesia Cavendish?"

There was a strange gurgling sound in his throat when he spoke, and his accent suggested he was a native of Coldwater Harbor.

Shade looked down at the wet carpet under his feet. The man closed the door roughly with his backhand, first threw a piece of metal at the door, and then looked at Shade fiercely.

He didn't even give Shade a chance to speak and answer. He stretched out his hand and waved to Shade, and Shade wanted to walk in front of him with a signal.

But this simple spell is useless to the Ring Warlock. Shade only shook for a moment before returning to normal, and the next second, the whistle and the bell appeared behind the two people at the same time.

Brass life rings emerged from the gushing steam. Shade is a second-level warlock, while the opponent is a fourth-level warlock.

"Princess Lesia, you went to attend the party of the Aurora family. You didn't even know this, so you barged in rashly?"

Shade gave the answer at this time. He was not afraid of these people going to the Aurora family's manor to cause trouble. After all, he would not let the person in front of him leave.

"Didn't she refuse yesterday? This is a trap! Damn trap!"

While cursing loudly, the man's ugly face quickly transformed into a fish. On the life ring behind him, the Whispering [Skeleton] is glowing. The man casually sprinkled some white powder, which gathered together during the fall, forming a bone blade engraved with strange runes, and stabbed Shade's throat.

"Yes, I refused yesterday and agreed today. Can you do a serious investigation before you attack this place?"

Shade did not dodge, and the [Original Silver Moon] in his pocket flew out under the control of the thaumaturgy [Treasure Object] and blocked his throat. The bone blade pressed against the card, but it couldn't penetrate.

"oh?"

As if he was puzzled that Shade blocked the attack so easily, then the [Bubble] on the life ring lit up, and he put his two hands together in front of him, so that the backs of his hands were parallel to the ground. Open your hands slightly, and under the gas lamp, bubbles with colorful colors quickly disperse and fly towards the entire room.

Although it looked like just a bubble, Shade subconsciously sensed the danger. He held the bone blade in his left hand and threw it forward. After the bone weapon touched the bubble, although it pierced part of it, it itself was corroded.

"poisonous?"

Without thinking too much, Shade pulled the chair with his left hand and threw it forward. After the chair was corroded, two silver arc-shaped light blades flew out of his hands.

This is not a physical weapon and therefore is not threatened by those corrosive bubbles. But those bubbles can slow down [Silver Moon Slash] in the air, allowing the man to easily avoid Shade's counterattack.

"Don't resist. I use [bubbles] as the core of my ability system. These bubbles are not only poisonous, they can explode, imprison, release curses, create illusions, fill injured tissue in the body, and reflect energy. If you only have the second ring, don't want it."

Before he finished speaking, he saw Shade wave his hand in front of him. The silver mist spread outward from his hands and enveloped him almost instantly.

The bubbles flew towards the mist created by the illusion, gradually dissolving them. At the same time, the man sprinkled more bone powder again, and the bone powder gathered together like running water, eventually forming a slender bone stabbing sword engraved with runes.

The man's right hand held the sword, and his left hand continued to spray bubbles towards the silver mist that covered half the room.

Bang~

Suddenly a gunshot rang out from the silver mist, and the man's right chest was hit by a revolver bullet, but the result was that the transparent bubble in his chest exploded, which did not affect his actions at all:

"You think I'm afraid of ordinary firearms?"

His eyes were fixed on the silver mist that was gradually disappearing. The gunfire just now confirmed to him that Shade was not running away, but was right in front of him.

Bang! Bang!

There were two more gunshots, and this time Shade aimed at the opponent's head, but a steady stream of bubbles blocked the man's head, and the bullets were unable to penetrate them.

"It's useless, don't waste my time here."

As he spoke, the bubbles ejected from his left hand had already melted two-thirds of the silver mist. The sleeves of Shade's coat appeared at the edge of the mist. The man immediately let the bubbles float to that location, but at this time there was the sound of heavy objects falling behind him:

"What? When are you behind me?"

Subconsciously, he turned around and raised his sword to resist, but only the chair fell to the ground behind him. Then he seemed to be aware of it and looked up. Shade raised his sword with both hands and struck it down.

The silver moonlight fell, and the moonlight sword neatly chopped off the yellow-haired man's right hand.

Shade, who was wearing a shirt, took the broken bone sword in his left hand and thrust it forward. However, because the other party canceled the effect of the thaumaturgy, the sword disappeared from his hand.

So the big sword in his right hand thrust forward. Although it successfully hit the opponent's abdomen, it was stuck there because of the return of the bubbles.

The two looked at each other, and for a moment the man's eyes seemed to turn into light-absorbing black holes. There were spiral lines in the eyes, and the soul felt slightly stripped away at this moment, but this thaumaturgy of attacking the soul had very little effect on Shade.

The cards flew out of the pocket and blocked the man's eyes, and Shade, who was counting down in his mind, had already counted to the last number:

"It's the third second! The Blade of Disrupted Time!"

"What?"

The disappearing bone stabbing sword actually appeared from the void again. Most of the bubbles in front of the man were used to resist the moonlight sword, and his eyes were temporarily blocked by cards.

This moment of negligence allowed the sword that summoned his own magic to pierce his heart.