Whispering Verse

Seeing Shade take out the garter from her pocket, Lesia showed no expression, while Agelina thought about it and said to Shade seriously:

"Mr. Knight, I give this to you as a thank you for saving me tonight."

"No, I don't need any thanks."

Of course Shade didn't want to answer it, and it was useless for him to hold the thing, but Lesia unexpectedly asked Shade not to be so polite:

"Shade, just accept it. You may not know much about it. In the past, aristocratic women of the upper class would give garters to commend knights for their bravery; but in today's era, aristocratic women He would also use the same method to express his admiration and love for the bravery of noble men. This is a very romantic and classy move."

This is not a lie. When outsiders learn about the world through books, they have seen similar records.

Although Shade still didn't want to take it away, seeing her say this, he could only put the white garter belt into his pocket. Agelina seemed very happy and invited Shade again to attend his salon next time, and said that she must let him perform card throwing again.

Lesia didn't seem to care at all.

After Mr. Anlos arrived, the MI6 director pretended not to notice that Shade was in the same carriage with the two unmarried princesses. Let Shade wait outside first. Together with the two maids, he asked the princesses about the situation in the carriage.

Later, Lesia and Agelina didn't even have a chance to say hello to Shade, and returned to Yodel Palace under the protection of a group of guards.

Shade stood with his boss, Director Dark Anlos, watching the convoy leave.

"Shad, you did a good job this time. Otherwise, that gun would have caused us trouble. I knew that some people were reselling arms, but I didn't expect that they would even sell action guns."

Mr. Anlos praised, and Shade wanted to be modest, but the gentleman lowered his voice, tilted his head and asked softly:

"But how did you end up hanging around with the two princesses?"

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"Don't forget that Miss Carina is also watching you. I don't know what your relationship is with the two princesses, but you must be careful not to get too involved in politics."

Shade looked at him in surprise, but Mr. Anlos looked like he didn't say anything.

After helping a woman find her lost child last time, Mr. Anlos admired Shade's character. This prompt was a statement that as the director of MI6, he should not have said it casually.

"But speaking of which, how do you throw cards with such force? I only know that some boring old gamblers will train this skill."

Mr. Anlos suddenly asked again, probably trying to change the subject.

"Well, I think since my skills as an agent are mainly in Rhodes cards, training some interesting skills will probably be very useful in the future."

"Playing Rhodes, hurting people with cards, and being charming to girls will probably never make you a qualified agent."

Mr. Anlos sighed, as if he was regretting Shade's future.

After telling Mr. Anlos what he had experienced, Shade returned home in a carriage.

It was already eleven o'clock in the evening when we got home. In the empty house, only the cat ran down from upstairs to welcome Shade.

Since Lesia did not come to Saint Teresa Square, the four 1-shilling printing masters in the basement could only continue to be hidden there for the time being. While Shade casually stuffed the garter into the desk drawer, he touched the newspaper with numbers in his pocket.

The newspaper was picked up on Silver Cross Avenue, and Shade suspected that it was some kind of secret code for contact. But he was only proficient in words, not passwords, so there was nothing he could do about those numbers.

I simply put it on the bookshelf and ended everything tonight.

Shade put his hands behind his head, sat on the chair behind the desk and looked up at the ceiling:

"Darkness, why aren't you here yet?"

(Little Mia is running)

The attack on Princess Agelina Cavendish at the Opera House did not cause much turmoil in the city of Tobesk. Shade did not even read about it in the Sunday newspaper the next day. news.

Early on Sunday morning, Dorothy came to visit in a hurry. The blonde girl, who had already learned about what happened last night from Lesia, complained to Shade that all her careful preparations were in vain. After sending Dorothy away, Shade went to the Prophet's Association to find Luvia.

Tonight, he can enter the Dreadfort for the third time to complete Mr. Riddle's life gamble, but Shade still has no idea about the last four stories.

But it is a pity that Luvia also failed to obtain more information from the association. It's not that the association doesn't have the information Shade wants to find, but the information about the prophet who lived in the early fifth era is top secret within the association.

Luvia applied in many ways, but failed to convince the association to let her read the sealed documents. But Luvia got Shade all the information about the life gambling table of the secret keeper-level relic. If you can't win from the gambling game itself, and you can't find a breakthrough point from the old god, you can only try to find a chance to win on that gambling table.

"Um?"

Looking at the size information of the life gambling table, Xia De raised his eyebrows.

"what have you found?"

The girl with purple eyes asked curiously:

"I've also read the information. You can't take advantage of these characteristics at all."

"No, no, it's not the features, it's the size. Look at this number."

Shade put the document paper in his hand on the table and pointed out the length and width of the twenty grooves:

"3.4681 inches long (about 8.8m), 2.4841 inches wide (about 6.3m). Luvia, don't you feel familiar with this number?"

"Familiar?"

Luvia still doesn’t understand.

"This is the size of a Rhodes card."

Shade said with certainty

"Yeah?"

The female diviner frowned slightly:

"Have you actually measured the size of the Rhodes card? Let's not mention this for now. The Rhodes card is a one-to-one imitation of the Wanxiang Impermanence card, and the history of the Wanxiang Impermanence card should be compared to the Keeper-level (level 3) relic. The table, which is what you call the unknowable (level 0) relic God of Gamblers table, is longer. Is the appearance of the life gambling table related to the impermanence card? Otherwise, there is no reason for the size to be exactly the same."

"No, no, I actually don't care about the relationship between the Impermanence Card and the gambling table. What I mean is, Luvia, although I can't play the gambling game on behalf of Mr. Riddle, but you said that if I combine the Founder Silver Moon and the Founder... What if the balance is stuffed into the remaining groove? Does that count as two cards?"

Luvia was stunned for a moment, she was really shocked by this idea:

"Yes, the Impermanence Card is the only special item you can bring into the past, but I don't know what will happen. However, even if it is useful and can give you the upper hand in that gambling game, you still have to Find a way to fill those last two grooves or the game won't end."

"No, you're wrong again, it's one."

Shade stretched out his finger and pointed at himself. Luvia retracted her surprised expression and nodded clearly:

"Yes, one. There is only one left, Shade, what are you going to do?"

"Instead of taking risks, it is better to be conservative. When Darkness appears in Tobesk next week, we will use his information to the association in exchange for Mr. Riddle's information."

Shade said, and then carefully put away the information on the life gambling table.

Therefore, this Sunday, Shade did not use the time key of 1784 in the Fifth Age. But during the day, he went to Coldwater Port again to confirm the progress of helping the doctors collect materials.

But he did not forget to try to take out this week's gifts from God's gift box after the clock struck midnight on Sunday night.

This is already the fifth time Shade has collected gifts from the box, but he still hasn't had the luck to obtain the relic. Under Mia's curious eyes, Shade actually took out a pair of red high heels from the box this time. The color is bright and the style is also very good. The upper is dotted with some diamonds.

It's just that Shade would rather get another screwdriver than a pair of high heels.

"Why does this happen?"

Shade stared at the shoes in his hands, puzzled. In the end, I thought it would be more appropriate to rename this gift box "Prank Box". The innocent creator of the Old Gods might be better known as Mr. Mischief.

This week's task is equally easy. In the next seven days, Shade needs to ensure that on three of them, he can sleep for more than eight hours at night. This is no problem for detectives working from home.

On Monday morning, a new client arrived in Saint Teresa Square for the first time in a long time. But this time it was not a big commission. The old lady Midela saw the detective advertisement in the newspaper and commissioned Shade to find her lost cat.

Old Mrs. Midela is a wealthy widow who lives alone. The blue-gray short-haired kitten raised at home has a deep affection for her. Although it was a bit difficult to find a cat in the city, for the sake of the commission of up to 10 pounds, Shade happily went ahead with the commission.

For an ordinary detective, 10 pounds is enough to live on for a long time. Therefore, detective is the kind of profession where you can make money immediately when there is no business at ordinary times. Shade published advertisements in newspapers, but failed to attract too many clients. This was also because the frequency of detectives accepting commissions was really not high.

Shade planned to carry out this commission by publishing a cat search notice in newspapers and searching the neighborhood where Mrs. Midla lived. But before he went out in the morning, he met Miss Carina.

The witch had nothing to do with Shade. She just told him that Darkness appeared again yesterday. The location this time appeared in a rural town only an hour's drive from Tobesk.

This is yesterday's news, which means that Darkness is now very likely to have entered the Tobesk range.

"Xia De, this time it was not the parliament that discovered Ivan Darkness. It was the priest of the Peace Church in the town who discovered the aura of the devil. After investigation, he discovered the second chosen one who was wanted within the church. Xia De De, you can't imagine the current situation."

The red-haired duchess sat on the sofa of Shade's house, holding a teacup in her right hand:

"The Righteous God Church has basically determined that Darkness's destination is Tobesk. Although the news has been deliberately blocked to prevent too much information about Darkness's location from being leaked, many identities will definitely appear in Tobesk in recent days. Unknown high-level warlock. There is even news that the Blood Spirit School, which suffered betrayal, also sent high-level warlocks to the Old Continent to deal with the traitors."

"So will the Council send a new witch here?"

Shade asked curiously.

"Of course not. First of all, the Orthodox Church's attitude towards the parliament is not very friendly; secondly, am I not here?"

Miss Carina pointed to herself:

"I am responsible for Darkness' affairs. After the council evaluated the matter, they decided to wait until Darkness becomes the chosen one, and then let me kill him with my own hands as much as possible. This is not easy. There are two people in Tobesk now. There are thirteen-ringed sorcerers in the church, but I only have eleven."

"The Council is preparing to make the Dark Chosen disappear? I can understand this, but why do you have to kill them with your own hands?"

Shade asked curiously.

"I can't tell you this."

The Duchess showed a slightly charming smile and wrapped the red hair around her ear with the index finger of her right hand:

"It's like Tifa refused to tell me more details about your joint investigation last week."

Shade looked up at the maid standing behind the sofa. The latter smiled shyly at Shade. It seemed that she did not reveal that the two of them encountered the secret servant.