Whispering Verse

After Professor Garcia left, Shade continued to slump in the chair with his eyes closed. After several minutes, he quietly squinted his eyes and looked around the silent living room to confirm that the other party was really gone, and then he sat upright.

He touched the sweat on his forehead, and under the light of the gas lamp, his face showed an expression as if he had just woken up from a dream. The look just now was of course an act, and it seemed that the deliberate performance was correct. According to the professors at St. Byrons, even just seeing the abode of God should not be easy.

Then he lowered his head and looked at the basin. Under the light of the brass gas lamp on the living room wall, there was not a drop of water left in it. Only the dry elective parchment roll lay quietly inside, without any words behind it.

"What happened just now?"

He asked his head, taking out the keys from his pocket. Sure enough, it was still the same time key, but the surface of the key was full of cracks.

"Why can the key be reused? Why did I encounter the mission of [Father of the Infinite Tree] when I traveled through time and space for the first time? Why is that god called the ancient god? The thirteen original gods mentioned by the old god... ..."

[Outlander, I am you, you don’t know, and I don’t know either. 】

The woman chuckled.

[All the differences from the normal situation that I have shown so far are all due to your specialness. The knowledge of the Delarian language is the broken memory of the previous soul in my body that I absorbed; being able to perceive the relics at close range is the specialness of the soul of a foreigner. I am you and this is your specialness. You don’t know, and neither do I. 】

The explanation she gave was completely consistent with Shade's thoughts during the day.

After hearing what he heard, Shade leaned back on his chair and looked at the ceiling:

"I finally saw a god with my own eyes in this world."

He sighed, and after he completely recovered, he thought of more things:

"Thirteen Ancient Gods, why have you never heard this statement? The father of the Infinite Tree...the thirteen founding series of Rhodes cards, the last thirteen Witch Emperors of the Fifth Age, what exactly is this? What kind of coincidence is this? The number thirteen must have some special meaning. Does everything originate from the ancient gods?"

[Maybe you can guess by yourself, I think you should already have an idea. 】

"Yes, but there is no evidence for this idea..."

Sighing and summarizing tonight’s “adventure”:

"This time, at least I didn't lose anything."

[You also obtained the spell [False Immortality]. 】

"But I did not complete the task and receive the reward of thaumaturgy and spiritual runes."

[You still have two chances. 】

"I don't understand the power of the 'afterglow of God' that the old god called."

[But at least you are still alive and you still have unlimited possibilities. 】

Shade sat on the chair and laughed:

"Actually, I am very grateful that you can speak in my ear. Although I am still not sure who you are, it feels good to have someone by my side all the time. There is no need to comfort me, I am not such a fragile person. Since When I see the opportunity to gain power, I won’t let it go… God’s afterglow… Maybe Priest August will have an opinion.”

He looked at the bedroom door, which was slightly open. Mia, the orange cat who was tired from playing, squeezed sleepily out of the crack in the door, but the cat was obviously not that narrow.

He looked at Shade with his big amber eyes, took a run with his short legs, and jumped onto Shade's knees. After lying down, he didn't feel Shade touching him for a long time, so he slapped Shade's legs with his paws very dissatisfied.

Shade then reached out to touch the soft fur on Mia's back. The orange hair was unusually soft and warm, like holding a small stove.

"Meow~"

It turned over on Shade's legs, kicking its four calves wildly, exposing its white belly to Shade, tilting its head and looking at Shade from below with its big eyes. Only then did the stranger feel that he was completely free of the thing just now. The mental impact of the incident:

"Thank you too, Mia. Thank you for liking me so much."

He played with the orange cat with his hands, raised his head and looked at the window covered by heavy fabric curtains:

"god."

murmured the stranger.

(Little Mia is running...)

The next day was Thursday, the fourth week of the Sunshine Moon. When he was getting newspapers, milk and goat milk in the morning, Shade received a letter from the "Taylor and Wanda United Mining Company" in the southern part of the kingdom. It was the poem page that allowed Shade to contact the college directly. It was exactly the same as the one from Dr. Schneider.

When having breakfast with little Mia, Shade hesitated for a while. Although Professor Garcia said that he could ghostwrite the report, Shade finally wrote another one himself, and then described his physical condition and passed it to the college through the pages of the poem manuscript.

The college's reply was also very fast, and it seemed to be the reply written by Professor Garcia. The cursive letters in the handwriting looked like continuous vines. He asked Shade to pay attention to rest. The credit award and other rewards for this investigator mission will be decided after the college meeting of the School of History.

This kind of investigative incident that almost led to a meeting with a god raised the level of the [Time Key] from the fifth era - 1068 to angelic level. Shade therefore guessed that if he really saw a god, he should be classified as unknowable level 0.

After dealing with these things, I whispered good morning to the woman in my head for the first time, and then sandwiched the pages of the poem manuscript into the novel "Silver Knight". The broken key is now locked in the drawer of his bedroom desk. The spell [False Immortality] obtained yesterday can only be used when the person is seriously injured. Shade is unwilling to hurt himself or the cat to the point of being seriously injured and dying, so it cannot be used for the time being.

But at least I got a new spell, and the effect is extraordinary.

He still didn't understand what happened last night, and planned to try to open a new [Time Key] again after the History School summarized the incident to confirm whether last night was a special case.

Although he really wanted to get the mission reward from the Fifth Age - 1068, Thaumaturgy - Blade of Disarrayed Time and the spiritual rune [Echo], the old god [Creator of Innocence] said that he must at least have the power of "God's Afterglow" to complete it. Task.

So before he understands what "God's Afterglow" is, Shade will not waste the other two opportunities of the key in his hand.

"Is this caused by the special nature of my soul? I don't want to think about that much for the time being. Today's target is the Prophet Association."

He said while adjusting his clothes in front of the floor-length mirror, while Mia rolled and played on the bed behind him.

[Outlander, your soul is very special. This is still a problem caused by your characteristics. I am you, no doubt about it. 】

The murmuring voice said, the sound pleasant. This was the first time that Shade heard the other party talking like this. She seemed to be in a good mood, probably because Shade said good morning to her.