Whispering Verse

Hearing Shade's question, Luvia smiled sheepishly in the dark. Shade noticed that her two eyes were emitting an imperceptible purple shimmer in this terrifying darkness, which was extremely obvious in the current lightless environment:

"This is part of the reason, but more importantly, President Stan is not good at frontal combat."

She let go of Shade's hand and could barely stand up on her own:

"The president has gone so far on the path of divination and prophecy that he has neglected other aspects of research."

Shade nodded to express his understanding. After all, everyone's energy is limited.

The [Truth Society] appeared in this area, probably for the second chosen one. As for the reason for fighting the Prophet Association, Shade and Luvia didn't know.

They did not try to intervene in this kind of battle that had little to do with them, but before leaving the town, Luvia still asked Shade to help gather the fortune tellers sleeping on the streets and place them in the shops on the street. And arrange rituals around them as protection to prevent them from encountering evil spirits.

Luvia then left another letter, informing President Stan that she left alone after waking up to find a team of church ring warlocks in the nearby area to come and help. In this way, there can be a reasonable explanation for Luvita's sudden disappearance.

"Do you know where Iluna might be right now?"

After leaving the town, it was time to plan the next step forward. Shade asked the most critical question. The female fortune teller thought for a while:

"It's time to head to the core area with the church team."

She also carries a map of the area with her, and the records about herself within the [Dark Realm] will not disappear:

"From what I learned before I fell into coma, the core area is near here."

Shade looked at the map with the faint light from his fingertips. The location pointed by Luvia was a forest. The countryside far away from the city is full of farmland, wilderness and woods, and this place named Millwood Forest is a larger forest farm in the south of Tobesk, supplying the city with fuel wood in winter.

Shade had no memory of this place at all. After all, when he came to this world, the area had already disappeared.

"Go to Millwood Forest immediately?"

Luvia asked Shade for his opinion, and Shade frowned and thought for a while:

"Do you still have your [pirate's blood money] with you?"

"Yes, I always carry it with me."

"Use your divination to choose the direction we want to go."

The surroundings were dark, and Shade only knew that the two were currently one mile outside the town. As for what was around, no one knew.

"The current situation is very complicated. We don't know what happened in the core area of ​​the relic, and we don't know what we will encounter if we continue to move forward. You are the third ring, and I am the second ring. Once we encounter a powerful demon, we There is no way to win. So, to use divination to point out the way forward, I only need a direction or an exact destination."

Luvia nodded and took out the blood money that Shade had harvested from the [Fishbone Pirate Ship] from her pocket. The transaction with myself activated the properties of blood money, and then I closed my eyes and threw it into the air.

In the pitch black environment, it was easy to see the purple light flakes floating from her fingertips, as well as the dim pure white light on her body at this moment.

The coin began to fall from the top, decayed rapidly and dispersed into fly ash in the air, which meant there was a conclusion.

"Strange, the divination shows that we should go here first."

She pulled out the map again and compared it, this time pointing to a field about half a mile from her current location.

"What do you mean? Can we meet help here?"

Shade frowned and asked:

"But who will help us? Although Miss Carina's manor has also been swallowed up by darkness, it is obvious that she will also go directly to the core area... Isn't it the doctor who is coming? Or, there is someone nearby What weapon against evil, but isn’t this just ordinary countryside?”

"Why do you think of a doctor?"

Luvia asked in surprise. She had heard about the doctor and the devil from Shade, but she had not connected Darkness with the doctor:

"And it doesn't necessarily have to be helpers or weapons. There might be other information there. Leave as soon as possible, Shade. Unlike you, I won't last long."

"However, you seem to have never asked how I managed to move here intact."

Shade said curiously again.

"What happened to you is normal, and compared to what you did on the night of Torbesk's arrival and in Coldwater Harbor, isn't the current situation more normal?"

Compared to walking alone, being able to act with others in this darkness gave Shade a great sense of psychological comfort. The surroundings were extremely silent, and Shade and Luvia tried their best to lower their voices when exchanging information with each other.

Luvia's spirit was gradually becoming weak, so in order to prevent Shade from having a way to seal the devil after she fell asleep again, she gave Shade all the ritual information and materials she had prepared to seal the devil. Combined with the [God's Gift Box], you don't have to worry about letting the pus demon escape even if you kill Darkness.

Shade couldn't do anything about Luvia's situation, so he could only let her hold the Eternal Leaf that he had kept for himself. Now that Luvia can insist on walking with him, he is extremely surprised. This is definitely not only because of the four magical talismans, Luvia herself must also have a way to resist the erosion of darkness.

It's just that this resistance is not strong. The darkness is absorbing her spiritual power, dissolving her will, and grinding away her sanity. Coupled with the risky use of cost divination just now, Shade knew very well that he was probably the only one who could finally go to the core of darkness.

Before that, Shade still needs to find a safe place for Luvia to sleep.

Because there was no reference in the dark, even with the map in hand, it took them at least three times longer than normal to find the location Luvia learned from the divination.

Just when Shade's eyes noticed the corns that had been dyed black at the edge of his field of vision, Luvia suddenly pulled him and pointed to his ears, signaling Shade to listen carefully.

Holding my breath, sure enough, an extremely soft singing sound came to my ears from the cornfield in front of me, and there was the sound of tapping stones intermittently.

The voices that make up the singing voice come from hundreds of high-pitched, high-pitched sounds. A normal person would probably have to pinch his neck to make a similar sound.

"What is going on? Who sings in a place like this?"

Shade was confused and wanted to enter the cornfield and use the shelter of the tall plants dyed black to explore forward. But just as he entered the cornfield, the light on his body suddenly weakened. At the same time, the headache caused by the singing almost made Shade take a wrong step and fall into the field.

The situation of Luvita next to her was even worse. The four talismans on her body made a cracking sound at the same time. If you look closely, there were cracks on all four pieces of metal. She shook her body a few times and held on to Shade's shoulders to prevent her from falling:

"The dark forces are stronger here."

"Singing is part of the ritual. The rituals held in this place are strengthening the power of darkness. I have encountered similar situations on the road, but it is not as exaggerated as here."

Shade helped Luvia sit down in the black corn field. After thinking for a while, he took off the metal box he was carrying behind him and let Luvia, whose eyes could barely open, hug him. Those golden brilliance illuminated Luvia's face, and her breathing finally calmed down:

"Wait for me here, and I'll go to the front to see what's going on."

"These low-intelligence demons should have gathered together to perform rituals within the domain to spread and enhance the darkness."

Luvia pulled Shade's sleeve:

"This kind of thing has also appeared in previous records. Shade, don't go. You can't deal with them."

"How do you know if you don't give it a try? Our target is in the center of the cornfield. I must see what else is there besides the devil."

Shade asked with a serious face:

"Is this your wish to witness the thirteen chosen ones? Or, Luvia, are you willing to withdraw with me and wait for good or bad news from the church?"

At worst, Shade still has two drops of divinity in him. No matter how reluctant he is, even when his life is threatened, Shade will not be stingy with the power of divinity.

"Do you have your pocket watch?"

he asked again.

"I'm taking it with me."

"Stop twenty minutes, I will definitely be back."

Shade assured, taking out the [Weak Angel Potion] from his pocket, and after shaking it slightly, the potion itself seemed to sense the surrounding environment, emitting extremely weak white fluorescence, but it quickly went out.

"Keep this in case there is any other danger."

He put the test tube into Luvia's hand, then turned around and bent over, walking towards the center of the cornfield.

Luvia wanted to stop him, but in the blink of an eye Shade disappeared into the darkness.

She held the bottle in her hand and didn't know what to say for a moment. In the dark package, something seemed to be peering at her. Luvia held the box in her hand tightly, thinking of Shade who was far away.

"It doesn't matter, I will protect you."

She heard the voice in her ears, and a smile appeared on her lips, so she closed her eyes and wanted to take a break. And behind Luvia, who couldn't see it, the white transparent figure, the more mature-looking Luvia, hugged her gently, put his head on her shoulder and rubbed his ears together:

"You've done a great job."

The white halo and the golden brilliance of [God's Gift Box] together support a small safe area.

"Meow!"

And it seemed that because of Shade's departure, the metal box actually shook slightly. But because the box itself has a sliding lid, it is impossible to open the lid by yourself even if there is something inside.

Luvia had closed her eyes and fell into a short sleep, so naturally she couldn't hear the sound. The white figure behind her didn't pay attention to the slight meow, but hummed a lullaby softly.

The sound wasn't loud, but it was extremely reassuring.