Whispering Verse

"last words"

Shade, who was sleeping, gradually regained consciousness as the sound came over and over again.

In a daze, he realized that he was once again standing on the endless field ridge, looking up at the huge silvery moon disk in the starry sky.

"Am I dreaming?"

At this time, "her" voice came from the dream:

[Outlander, you have obtained a piece of information. 】

"What?"

Xia De, who was on the ridge of the field, asked blankly. He was completely awake in his dream and looked at everything around him in surprise:

"Why did I dream here again?"

[Communication was established with you through unknown relics and methods, and a piece of information was passed to you. 】

After the words fell, the voice that had echoed countless times came clearly again in the dream:

"Shad Hamilton, open your eyes. I am Rat Augustus. These are my last words to you from the world of the dead.

"Priest Augustus?"

In the dream, Shade only felt his scalp numb. He heard this passage clearly, but could not understand it:

"Priest!"

I turned around, but there was no one on the field ridge under the moonlight. Priest August's illusive and hoarse voice was still repeating. Shade looked around blankly, then suddenly raised his head and raised his hand:

"Life ring!"

With the emergence of steam, the high-speed rotating life ring appeared behind Shade. The life ring under the moon seemed to be coated with a layer of silver, but this time there was no sound at all.

"echo!"

The spiritual runes imbued with the first drop of divinity suddenly emitted a dazzling golden light. In this light, Shade used thaumaturgy:

"Soul echoes!"

On the field ridge under the moonlight, where Xia De was the only one, a vague figure gradually took shape.

"Sure enough."

Shade thought in his mind.

Priest Augustus, whose body was transparent, finally took shape under the illumination of spiritual light. He stood in front of Shade, looked around in surprise, and then looked up at the sky:

"Shadow, where is this?"

"This is my dream."

"Why does this dream look so weird?"

The priest looked even more surprised than Shade.

"It doesn't matter, priest, what happened?"

Shade asked doubtfully. The shadowy figure of the priest no longer looked at the moonlight above his head, but coughed and looked into Shade's eyes.

The outsider suddenly had a very bad premonition.

"Oh, Shade, yes, time is running out, let's get down to business. I'm very happy that you can let me see you one last time. This must be my Lord's blessing. That's it, the thing is very simple, I Dead, delivering my last words to you.”

"What?"

The expression on Shade's face froze.

"I don't have much time, so don't ask questions."

The priest raised his hand to tell Shade to stop talking. He spoke very quickly:

"I have arrived at Fort Midhill, and for some reasons, I crossed the boundary of death, and then died. In short, you don't have to think about saving me, there is no possibility. Just because of the characteristics of the relic, my thaumaturgy [Last words], and I gave you my power, so I can contact you now. These are my last words, please remember them."

He coughed and didn't give Shade any chance to ask questions:

"There is no need to look for my body. All my property, please supervise the donation to Tobesk Parish of Dawn Church. My potion workshop is left to you, Shade, you need this.

In addition, you ask Anat to find a way to dig out the level 0 relic that I buried in the church, and not to leave it in the church forever.

Although there is no body, I hope there will be a tomb in Tobesk and I can bury my clothes in it. I have discussed the location of the tomb with the doctor and just tell him directly.

Finally, I promise to donate some quilts to the Sunshine Welfare Home in Tobesk during the winter. I hope you will contact Bishop Owen and donate those quilts in your name. "

"Priest"

Shade stretched out his hand, but his hand passed through the priest's transparent body.

Priest Augustus looked at Shade regretfully. Under the huge silver moon disk above his head, his body quickly became more transparent:

"Shad, I'm sorry, I'm really dead, please accept this fact."

He looked at Shade with a smile, but his eyes were very sad:

"We're all going to die, aren't we?"

Shade couldn't accept it. He opened his mouth, but found that he was speechless and could no longer speak.

"Don't feel sorry for me. All mortals are mortal, and everything is destined to perish. Shade, I am very content to live to this age. It's a pleasure to meet you, and it's also a pleasure to meet Schneider, Anat and Louisa. It's you who made my later life so interesting. Shade, seeing you at the end is something I never expected.

farewell"

A black hole appeared silently behind Priest August. Countless pairs of transparent hands stretched out, grabbed Priest August's body, and pulled the pale figure behind the darkness.

Those hands seemed to be very afraid of the light of the huge silver moon above their heads, but even so, they still caught the priest in the moonlight.

"don't want!"

The moonlight flew out of the hand, but only passed through those arms, as if they were just phantoms.

Shade stretched out his hand again, trying to hold the priest, but his hand passed through the priest's transparent body. Looking back at the hole with countless pairs of arms stretched out, darkness, loneliness, and death, Shade actually shuddered in the dream, as if he really saw the concept of death itself.

[Outlander, what are your thoughts on "death"? 】

The priest was pulled into the darkness by those hands. The moonlight illuminated the entrance of the cave, and then the entrance disappeared. Only Shade remained in the posture of trying to hold Priest August. The priest's voice seemed to have been in his mind. echo.

"Priest August, is he dead?"

he asked himself.

"No!"

He suddenly sat up from the bed, startling the cat next to the pillow.

"What just happened?"

He breathed heavily and asked in his mind, looking towards his bedroom in the darkness, feeling that his back was already soaked. The curtains were closed tightly, but the faint morning light could be seen through the gaps in the curtains, and the night had passed.

Little Mia stood up and patted Shade's hand on the bed with her little paws, as if she wanted to comfort him.

[The other party enters your dream, and you make its soul appear briefly through "echo". The friend who can perceive the soul characteristics of the object is your friend. 】

"Priest Augustus? Really dead?"

In his dream, he felt that this fact was a bit unreal. When he woke up and thought about it, Shade felt that it was even more absurd. He didn't understand, he didn't understand at all. It was obvious that he had just won the championship of "Big City Players 1853", and it was obvious that Priest August just went to Fort Midhill on a business trip, why did the priest suddenly die.

[There is a subtle difference between the soul of the dead and the soul of the living. He is indeed no longer alive, but he is not dead yet. 】

"What's the meaning?"

Shade sensed the meaning in the words.

[He is in a subtle state between death and non-death. 】

"Is there any hope?"

[I can’t give an answer, but he is closer to death than the Ring Warlock is to his ‘other self’. 】

Shade got out of bed and opened the curtains. The faint morning light could already be seen outside. It was now 6:10:

"Dawn, Death, Priest"

He clenched his fists and looked at himself in pajamas reflected in the glass:

"Priest, if I don't let you die, you will never die! The next stop is Fort Midhill!"