Whispering Verse

The bride under the moon is very beautiful, wearing a white veil. The white dress fits her figure very well, and the width of the waist can also show her slenderness. Her carefully styled hair hangs down behind her, and she wears a pair of black high heels on her feet.

At a rough inspection, she was taller than Iluna in high heels.

The reason why she is considered a "corpse bride" is because judging from her body shape and vague appearance, she is clearly the "fiancée" she just saw in the house.

"Can you tell me what kind of relic it is?"

Shade asked Iluna next to him. The girl from the Zhengshen Church replied with some annoyance:

"There are so many relics that can give corpses the ability to move. Without determining their characteristics in more detail, I can't give an answer."

The [Fish Training Ring] currently held by Shade also has the ability to "resurrection" the corpse, but wearing that ring on a dead person's finger and reciting the incantation will have consequences beyond just resurrecting the dead person.

"Anyway, let's try her power first."

Shade said, Iluna nodded aside and stood side by side with him:

"Quickly, there are other residents on this street. The Silence Charm doesn't work well in such an open environment. Remember not to make too much noise."

The Corpse Bride did not attack during the conversation between the two, but stood quietly in the middle of the street under the moon, as if she was not used to the environment here. And as Shade pulled out the moonlight sword from the air, golden lightning flashed in Iluna's hand, and her limbs started to move stiffly.

Waving the sharp knife emitting cold light in her right hand, she rushed towards the two standing people as if gliding. Before this, Shade couldn't imagine the scene of a bride wearing high heels charging with a sharp knife under the night:

"Maybe it could be used as material for Dorothy's novel."

He was thinking wildly in his mind.

"Sunshine Gun!"

Iluna whispered, and the spear she projected did not make a loud crackling sound because she deliberately controlled its power.

The golden thunder penetrated the bride's veil, and she slashed with the sharp knife in her hand. The metal knife collided with the thunder, and part of the reduced-power sunlight gun dissipated, but most of the golden thunderbolts followed the blade and spread towards the bride's body.

The moment the Corpse Bride's movements suddenly stiffened, Shade's figure appeared above her.

"Raglai's jump!"

Shade held the sword in both hands and struck at the bride's head, but at the last moment, the bride, who had escaped from paralysis, raised her hand and swung the sharp knife upwards. The swords collided, and silvery moonlight fragments flew everywhere with a clanging sound. Shade, who held the sword in both hands, used his downward slashing motion to forcefully suppress the knife in the corpse bride's hand.

I don’t know what the material of the knife was. After colliding with the Moonlight Sword, there was only a gap in the blade.

"Good opportunity, Iluna!"

Shade whispered.

"coming!"

A black vortex appeared from Shade's side. Iluna's hand quickly stretched out, and the sun gun she held high struck the bride directly in the face at close range. The Sun Church's high-level magic [Sunshine Spear] is said to be more powerful the closer the distance is.

This kind of hit is almost close to the target. Even if Iluna reduces the power for the sake of silence, it is still enough to destroy most targets.

But the target in front of him was obviously not a normal target. The sun gun penetrated the face, and even a big hole appeared in the veil, but the body still kept moving.

She kicked Shade away in front of her with her high-heeled foot, and then she actually disappeared into the air, and then appeared behind Iluna holding a knife.

"The [Sunshine Gun] that restrains the undead does no obvious damage to it, and that was actually a spatial movement just now?"

Shade couldn't figure out what could create such a terrifying undead. Iluna on the other side also noticed the noise behind her. She had quite a lot of fighting experience and did not hide at all. Instead, she summoned the life ring.

The sound of bells and whistles when the life ring appears can only be heard clearly at a close distance. The golden life ring emerging from the high-temperature steam mist forcibly bounced the body behind Iluna away.

For ordinary ring sorcerers, the life ring cannot be used as a weapon, but the Chosen One is different. In the crystal forest, she even held a scale in her hand in the darkness, and protected Shade and Tifa.

"Space stabilizing halo!"

Shade's figure also appeared behind Iluna, and then immediately activated the magic technique of prohibiting the enemy's spatial movement. He swung his sword again, but was blocked again by the blade in the Corpse Bride's hand, leaving a gap in the blade again.

This time Shade noticed that the bride was wearing a wedding ring on her right hand, but unfortunately the ring was an ordinary item and was not a relic that caused the corpse to move.

"balance!"

Golden ripples spread, and Shade, who was holding a big sword to contend with the corpse bride, clearly felt that the opponent's power was rapidly weakening. At the same time, looking closely at the veil that had a small opening, Shade could clearly see the face behind the veil.

The damage caused by the sunlight gun had disappeared, and the bride's face was clearly that of the missing third corpse, that is, Anne Julian.

"What does her brother want?"

Using strong force with both hands, the knife in the bride's hand was completely pressed back to her body. As the bride continued to retreat, Shade continued to press forward without giving in. Suddenly, behind the veil, the mouth covered with bright red lipstick opened, and then a bright red tongue like a snake was spit out.

The tongue seemed to be piercing Shade's throat, but Shade, who had just been sprayed all over by the darkness spat out by Darkness not long ago, had long been prepared for this move of the enemy. Holding the sword in his right hand, his left hand suddenly pulled it from the upper right to the lower left.

The slanting moonlight split off, splitting the slender tongue, leaving cracks on the white wedding dress, and then leaving a huge wound on the body.

There was no bleeding from the wound, as if the flesh on this body had been scorched, and even if it was scratched, it was just a scratch.

Holding the sword in his right hand, he continued to suppress, and his left hand pressed directly on the opponent's face:

"Feliana's Witch's Light!"

A bright yellow halo spread outward layer by layer from the bottom of his hand. Under Shade's control, the scope of action of thaumaturgy was only the area under his hand.

The cold face first melted like lard under his palm, then the layers of flesh and blood under the face, until the hard skull. In just one breath, Shade's hand on the bride's face melted most of the face like coals falling into butter.

At the same time, dark and filthy chains flew out of Shade's sleeves and wrapped around the bride's body along her neck. But the Corpse Bride still didn't stop moving. It abandoned the weapon in its hand and escaped from the chain like an illusory shadow.

The gliding shadow retreated dozens of steps and stood motionless in the middle of the street under the moonlight again.

"Shadow, look!"

Iluna pointed to the scars on the corpse that were cut by Shade's moonlight. The scars were being repaired, but not at a fast pace.

"A large wound had to be created at once to stop her from moving."

Shade also understood:

"The opponent can not only move in space, but also use shadows, and the body itself is extremely hard. Iluna, can you make her stand still for at least three seconds?"

"Okay. Although I haven't learned the witch's law series of thaumaturgy yet, I think I understand its principles. Shade, only one second!"

As she spoke, the seventeen-year-old girl walked quickly towards the body.

Shade dropped his frog legs and took off, jumping lightly to the roof of the two-story shop facing the street. He looked up at the silver moon above his head, and then his arms drew crossed silver traces in the air in front of him.

The cross moonlight stopped in the sky. Shade calculated the distance and angle, spread his hands and threw a stack of 54 playing cards into the night sky. The cards overlapped each other, and under the influence of the thaumaturgy [Treasure Object], they formed a square in the air that was as big as two palms.

"It's now!"

The golden life ring behind Iluna was like molten gold liquid, reorganizing into a golden scale behind her:

"Laws!"

She shouted softly, looking at the body in the wedding dress with wide eyes under the moon, holding her hands together and pointing her middle finger at it:

"stop!"

He quickly turned around and looked at the night sky. Under the moonlit night, Shade spread his arms and took off under the moonlight. He came into the air lightly, stretched out his hand to press the Rhodes card in the sky, adjusted the direction of his feet with the help of the opposite force, and then pushed down with both hands to kick.

The body tilted down and touched the cross light traces suspended in the air. Then his foot stepped on the center of the cross moonlight and tilted downward. Silently, the corpse bride was split into four irregular pieces from the right shoulder by the charged moonlight falling from the sky.

Shade's feet landed on the ground, leaving cross-shaped depressions on the street. At the same time, the four neatly cut corpses turned into fly ash and disappeared behind him. The ashes flew into the closed door of the grocery store like a thin trickle.

Shade did not turn around, but looked at the traces on the ground for a moment:

"Breath of Time!"

With a sudden breath, as the invisible air flow rose from the ground and entered Shade's nasal cavity, the destroyed stone bricks under his feet went back in time and returned to the complete state three seconds ago.

Iluna, who hurried over, saw this scene, but didn't say much:

"The other party seems to have been seriously injured and disappeared. Taking advantage of this time, we quickly go in and arrest Toby Julian. No matter what it was just now, it is absolutely inseparable from the other party!"

[Look at the upper left window. 】

Shade looked up at the third floor window of Mr. Julian's house. There were no lights on the third floor. Under the dim moonlight, behind the glass window in the corridor, the corpse bride with her veil lifted slowly backed away, her eyes and body lifeless. Together, hidden in the darkness.

"I really hope I don't have nightmares tonight."

Shade thought again:

"Third floor, the other party is on the third floor."

The two walked towards the door of the grocery store. Shade unlocked the door and broke into the store. Shade walked in front holding a moonlight sword, and Iluna followed behind vigilantly to prevent sneak attacks from behind.

When the ashes just flowed in the air, they left extremely weak traces of the [Whisper] element. Following these traces, the two of them walked from the first floor to the third floor. There were no lights on in the corridor on the third floor. In the darkness, Shade looked at the place where the corpse bride appeared just now:

"This way, in the room at the end."

The two walked quietly along the corridor side by side without knocking on the door. Shade tapped the door lock with his finger. This purely physical door without any protection was no obstacle to him at all.

Taking a deep breath, Shade suddenly turned sideways and opened the door. As he rushed into the room that was also unlit, a shout came from the wall behind the door:

"No one can stop me, just go to hell!"