Whispering Verse

After Dorothy left, Shade continued to wait. At eight o'clock in the evening, Luvia asked someone to send a letter to Shade. The letter said that the Peace Church had discovered traces of Darkness and the Bloodweeper in the south of the city, but due to the appearance of other ring warlock organizations, The tracking of the two men was not smooth.

"There are other Ringman organizations"

Shade, who stayed in Saint Teresa Square, felt that the situation seemed to be getting worse. The organization of ring warlocks pursuing the chosen ones is far more than just churches, colleges, councils and the Blood Spirit School. If we delay for a few more days, there may be new thirteen ring warlocks appearing.

In addition, Luvia has already contacted Iluna. The danger inside the dark realm of out-of-control relics is extremely dangerous. The church has made some talismans to protect those who need to enter it. Iluna has already obtained two extra ones, and Luvia will bring the amulets with her the next time she comes to Saint Teresa Square.

She also seemed to think that Darkness had a high probability of successfully entering the dark realm, so she asked Shade to be ready to go at any time.

In this way, we came to Saturday morning, which is the 31st day of the Flower Month and the end of the Flower Month in August.

When he woke up in the morning, Shade thought that if Darkness' whereabouts could not be confirmed at noon today, then he would go find Luvia and wait no longer.

But just after breakfast, there was a knock on the door downstairs. Only when Shade, who was full of expectations, opened the door downstairs, did he realize that the visitor was Luvia again, not the maid holding the box of darkness, but Priest August.

"Why are you so disappointed when you see me? Shade, do you hate me so much?"

The priest was not involved in the matter of the chosen ones, so while Shade was waiting nervously and expectantly for the decisive battle, the priest's life was still very leisurely.

"No, no, I'm glad you can come. But I'm waiting for Luvia. I have something very important to ask her."

Shade said, and then made way for Priest August to enter.

"Luvia? Who is this? Have you met a new girl?"

The priest asked with a smile. When he was about to enter, he saw Shade standing there stunned:

"Detective, you are acting strange today. What's going on?"

He frowned.

"Priest, don't you know Luvia Anat?".

"Who is that?"

Priest August asked strangely, touching his chin, and it seemed that he was not joking.

At this moment, Shade had some doubts that he hadn't woken up yet, but he immediately thought of the characteristics of the dark realm:

"Then priest, please think carefully, how many people are there in our group, including you and me?"

Shade asked again.

"There are also doctors and writers, four of us, huh? Why does it feel like there's something wrong? Wait, isn't our team complete with five people?"

He looked up at the detective at the door:

"Did something affect my memory?"

"It's not about affecting memory, it's about changing cognition."

The area covered by the Dark Realm will not only disappear completely, but will also be forgotten by people, and any relevant records will also disappear in a relatively reasonable way. Therefore, people who enter the area will also be forgotten by everyone. But even if all the records disappear, gradually people will find something wrong, which is why the church initially discovered that the dark realm appeared around Tobesk.

"Follow me, priest, there is something very important that needs to be confirmed."

Shade quickly walked up the stairs. The priest closed the door behind him and followed him while thinking:

"Oh, don't walk so fast. Do you think I'm the same age as you? Shade, tell me first, what level of relic is this?"

Shade was almost on the second floor at this time. His speed was very fast, and the priest had just reached the corner of the stairs:

"It's an angel-level (level 1) relic of the dark realm!"

"As long as it's not agnostic level (level 0), I don't want the bad luck I encountered last time to happen again."

"Priest, have you ever experienced an uncontrollable incident involving an unknown-level relic?"

When the priest panted and came to the second floor, Shade's voice came from the study.

"Yes, yes, that time was really bad. It was me and Anat. I remembered Anat!"

The old priest said in surprise, calmed his breathing and walked through the living room to the study:

"When the unknown-level relic was traced back, it looked like an hourglass on the outside, with silver sand inside. This thing caused the Tobesk area to cycle repeatedly within a day, and as the number of cycles increased, the area covered increased. The bigger. When she found me, the influence of the relic had almost reached the southern border of the kingdom."

"Um?"

Shade's head stuck out from the study door:

"Time loop? You two can solve this kind of thing?"

"Mainly Anat. She is completely immune to this kind of time reset and can remember the contents of each cycle. She tried 8 times and failed to find the relic and contain it within 24 hours, so she found me to help. .”

The priest was slightly pleased with himself:

"Although I only have the second ring, after knocking Bishop Owen unconscious and stuffing him into the broom closet, I can mobilize all the ring magicians in the Dawn Church in the name of finding the missing bishop."

He walked into the study and saw Shade walking towards the door holding a huge rolled-up map:

"Priest, there's no need to come to the study. Please help open the door to Room 2 on the wall of the living room. This map can only be fully unfolded next door. So what did you do with the unknowable relic? It's such a tricky thing. , was taken into custody and then sold to the academy?"

"No, no, Anat thought that after finally getting an unknowable relic, how could we get rid of it so easily? The hourglass was placed in the church. I dug up the floor under the statue and buried the hourglass at the foot of the statue. To prevent it from getting out of control again. Speaking of which, Anat saved the world that time."

The priest said, opening the door and walking into room number two first.

"Priest, you have a great idea. But isn't that blasphemy?"

"Of course not. I took the initiative to use my Lord's power to suppress an unknown relic. If this matter can be told, the church will canonize me after my death."

The priest said proudly, and together with Shade, he spread out the map that Miss Carina evaluated as "military grade" on the floor.

"But Shade, don't tell anyone what I just told you. I originally promised Anat not to tell anyone."

The priest reminded with some worry:

"I will tell you when this happens this time and you have a good relationship with Anat."

"No problem Padre."

Shade knelt down and looked down at the map of the southern region of Tobesk while explaining to Priest August what the Dark Realm was. Although the priest is not a ring magician of the church, he has heard about this dangerous angel-level relic that appeared in Tobesk Diocese, so Shade doesn't have to waste too much time talking.

"But why are you not affected by the Dark Realm?"

The priest asked doubtfully, standing behind Shade.

"I'm not completely unaffected, but I'm less affected. When I woke up this morning, I was thinking about waiting for someone, but I just couldn't remember. When you knocked on the door downstairs, I didn't know Why did I blurt out, 'Louvia is here', and then I realized that I was waiting for her, I thought I was asleep."

Shade explained this way, and the priest nodded and accepted this statement:

"But I really can't think of the reason why Anat is not affected by the cycle time. In my impression, she doesn't have any time power."

The priest muttered under his breath, a question Shade knew the answer to.

When kissing Luvia under the moon, "she" reminded Shade in a very mysterious way that Luvia Fiocchi Anat was cursed by time. The great power of any time has no chance with her, and the damage of time will be more obvious on her.

Probably the time cycle can be regarded as a kind of great power of time.

Although Shade slandered "her" for being ignorant, the voice in his ear still assisted Shade. Together with Priest August, he compared the current map. Compared with the last time Shade saw it, it disappeared. How large an area is.

The situation was better than Shade thought, and urban areas were not affected. When I heard the news of this relic with Dorothy at the Opera House a month ago, the Dark Realm had only swallowed up a small town southeast of Tobesk. This time, on inspection, the missing part of the map had moved northward. west, extending to the southern outskirts of Tobesk.

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This shows that the relics that have been basically controlled have experienced new changes, but the changes are not particularly big. This is most likely related to the approach of the dark chosen one.

This situation should have occurred within a few hours, because before going to bed in the early morning, Shade had studied the terrain in the southeast of the city on a simple map, and everything was normal at that time.

"The Dark Realm got out of control, and then it got taken over again."

Priest August made the same judgment as Shade.

"Yes, the murderer the church is chasing must have done something."

Shade stood up and looked at the map at his feet:

"Priest, I have to do something that should be done by me. Please tell the priest about the relics that are out of control. They must know that I look down on the Zhengshen Church too much."

Shade shook his head.

Priest August frowned and looked at Shade:

"What are you going to do?"

"Sorry, I can't tell you this."

"Is it related to the demon you asked about? Is it related to the dark realm?"

"Yes."

Shade nodded:

"And Luvia is probably in that area. I'm going to save her. Priest, you don't have to stop me or follow me. I'm ready. Don't forget what I did at Lakeview Manor. I can use that power again.”

The two returned to the living room of Room 1. The priest watched from the side as Shade put away the things on the coffee table and prepared to leave. The old man hesitated to speak:

"Well, at my age, even if I follow you, I probably won't be able to help Shade."

"What's wrong?"

The stranger looked at the old priest who suddenly raised his voice in surprise.

"Darkness is never invincible. I have always believed that the human heart is originally darkness and needs to be purified through faith, but I also believe that even the deepest darkness will definitely encounter someone who can swallow it."

Priest August looked serious:

"Please close your eyes and don't look directly at me. Before you set off, I can give you some blessings and strength. Detective, if your trip is a righteous act, you will be blessed by the gods."

Shade was holding the cat, intending to throw it on the sofa and close the lid of the God's gift box. When the priest said this, he put the cat down:

"Okay, what do you want to do? I believe you."

He stood next to the coffee table and closed his eyes. Then the air around him began to flow, and he seemed to hear the sound of flapping wings in his ears.

Shade understood that the priest spread his wings.

Cold fingers suddenly touched Xia De's eyebrows. A chill that almost froze his soul entered Shade's forehead from Priest August's fingertips, making him almost unable to help but tremble because of this penetrating chill.

Outlander, you feel "The Whisper."

This is the power of death. A death so brilliant, so beautiful, so dazzling.

She was murmuring softly, like she was singing.

"alright."

Withdrawing his fingers, Priest Augustus said weakly.

Shade opened his eyes and saw the priest sitting down on the sofa with a pale face.

"Priest, what are you doing?"

"I'm fine."

The old man waved his hands with difficulty. The wrinkles on his face were more obvious than ever. He didn't look like he was fine no matter how he looked:

"I'm too old, Shade, so I can't go with you. The blessing just now has little effect. It can only protect you from the influence of darkness after entering the influence of the relic."

Shade has not yet obtained the amulet specially made by the church. He originally wanted to rely on his divinity to resist the influence of the relic like he did when he went deep into the fishbone pirate ship, but he did not expect that the priest gave him the convenience.

"Are you really okay?"

"It's really okay. I just want to take a rest. I'm too old to compete with you young people."

His tone was still weak. Seeing that Shade wanted to treat him, he waved his hand again:

"I was exhausted, not injured. Go quickly, Shade, and be careful. Don't think that with the blessing I gave you, there will be no danger.

You have to remember that overcoming darkness depends on courage and strength, not light. Light and darkness are one in themselves, darkness is also power, and darkness is never equated with evil. "

The priest explained that this kind of rhetoric was very consistent with his identity as an old priest of the Church of Light and Shadow.

"I remember."

Shade nodded, turned around, closed the lid of the god's gift box on the coffee table, and then put it into the shoulder bag he sewed.

Priest Augustus obviously didn't know what it was.

After packing everything, I put my backpack on my back, and then I realized that Mia, who was on the coffee table just now, was gone. The cat probably followed the open door and ran to Room 2 to sharpen its claws.

Shade tried shouting a few times, but the orange cat did not appear at a trot. Because time was tight, he didn't go looking for little Mia anymore. Anyway, she wouldn't be in any danger if she stayed at home.

"Oh, by the way, priest, what did you come to me about?"

Only then did Shade remember this.

"Oh, I almost forgot."

Priest Augustus patted his face which had regained some color with his hand:

"Schneider asked me to inform you that today's study meeting is cancelled. He has important things to do out of the city and will probably not be back until very late."

"That's great. I definitely won't be able to go back to the city in the afternoon."

No matter how fast Shade moves in the dark realm, it still takes a lot of time to get from the city center to the south of the city.

"Well, you will see Anat later and tell her about the cancellation of today's study meeting. I will rest here for a while and then inform Louisa."

"Priest, you can rest here peacefully."

Shade adjusted the strap to the appropriate position and threw the house keys to the priest:

"Lock the door for me when you leave. Then, I'm going to leave."

"Whatever you do, be careful."

The priest sighed:

"The light shines on the shadows, and the shadows follow the dawn. May Mr. Dawn bless you, Shade."