Whispering Verse

Even if Shade could successfully reach the city of Fort Midhill, it would not be easy to find the missing priest in such a large and unfamiliar city. And with Priest August's current situation, he might not be able to wait for Shade to search like a needle in a haystack. As for [Shadow's Blood Echo], he could only see the traces left by the owner of the body fluid within 24 hours, so he had to set off before the afternoon.

In fact, the sooner the better. Although the priest had a dream at night, it did not mean that he had just encountered danger and immediately found Shade.

"Okay, I can do a cost divination, but didn't you go play cards last night? How could you get new coins?"

Luvia took the silver coin from Shade's hand, looked at it front and back, and nodded with certainty:

"I know this, a poet-level relic [Liar's Coin]. This is the kind of relic with the smallest negative characteristics. This coin will end up with the holder being deceived every time, and it will fall into the hands of the next holder. Also That is to say, if you hold it, you will definitely be deceived. Who did you deceive?”

"I didn't lie to anyone."

Shade said, watching Luvia close her eyes and prepare to toss a coin, but he felt very strange in his heart:

"But now this coin has been transferred from my hand to Luvia's. What did she lie to me about?"

The coins were thrown away in the advancing carriage and fell at the highest point of flight, scattering into fly ash. This poet-level relic, because its "currency" itself is not very powerful, does not provide much power for divination of Luvia's price. It is definitely impossible to use this to find the third chosen one, but it is still possible to find the blood of Priest August.

Luvia opened her eyes, and the purple arc in her eyes flashed:

"The blood you want is in Priest August's potion workshop. Sometimes human blood is needed to prepare potions. If it is a small amount, Priest August will use his own. He kept some and hid it in the lower left corner of the basement. Under the big iron box in the corner. Although there are ice cubes to preserve it, I’m afraid it’s not fresh anymore.”

"Understood, as long as there is still blood. But if it is not fresh, the maintenance time of my thaumaturgy will be shortened. We must act as soon as possible."

The Mineralogical Association of Tobesk is located in the Royal University of Delrayon in the University District. Originally, the association had nothing to do with the university, but because of the kingdom's geological exploration policy for the New World and the newly established geology department at King of Delrayon University, the Tobesk Mineral Association, which was originally a semi-private organization, was affiliated with the university. middle.

A white sign hangs on the colonnade at the entrance of the association, and the interior looks more like an exhibition hall than a university research room. After explaining his purpose, Shade met Mr. Francis, the president of the Mineral Association, and confirmed that there was indeed a white stone crystal hidden here.

"However, this kind of ore is difficult to process. Mr. Hamilton, why did you buy this?"

Mr. Francis, who works as a part-time teacher at the university, agreed to sell the association's only crystal to Shade at a price of 30 pounds a piece, but he was confused about this. (Note)

"Because it is difficult to destroy and transform, it has no use other than being beautiful, but doesn't it fit in with the metaphor of 'love'? 'White stone crystal lasts forever, and one crystal lasts forever.' I plan to polish and cut it. , given to the girl next to me."

Shade said casually, and while Mr. Francis was slightly confused and Luvia held back her smile, he got the crystal that could obtain new coordinates.

Next, Shade and Luvia went to Dawn Square, opened Priest August's workshop in a friend's basement, and found the blood that he had hidden.

Ring sorcerers usually don't put their blood around randomly, because many curses are activated through blood.

Although the priest was a little careless, he actually didn't leave much blood. The liquid content only covers the bottom of the bottle. Based on a rough estimate of the degree of deterioration, Shade believes that this is enough to activate [Shade's Blood Echo] for about three to five hours.

"Time is very tight."

When the two returned to Saint Teresa Square together, Dorothy and Dr. Schneider had not yet arrived. Because she was not sure what was going on on the other side of the [Space Maze], whether it required diving and swimming, or survival in the wild, Luvia helped Shade pack his luggage, then put those things into the suitcase and turned them into toys for him Take it with you.

Mia squatted aside and watched Shade pack his things the whole time. Mia probably guessed that Shade was going to travel far away, so she looked very unhappy.

It was not until twelve o'clock at noon that Dorothy and Dr. Schneider arrived one after another.

Dorothy failed to find a way to get good luck, but quietly gave Shade a pendant with the royal family crest on it, and explained that with this emblem, she could go to the police station in Fort Midhill to seek help, which should be Lesia's stuff.

Doctor Schneider brought the relic he was talking about, but the characteristics of the relic were somewhat different from what Shade thought:

"This is it."

In the living room on the second floor, little Mia squatted on the back of the sofa behind Shade's head, watching the four people sitting around the coffee table.

What the doctor took out was an item contained in an iron box soaked with blood. He didn't know how the coachman got him into the car.

When I opened the box, I discovered that it was filled with blood. What the doctor pulled out of the blood while enduring nausea was a piece of black hair:

"Don't worry, this is pig blood. This relic must be contained in the blood."

He placed about a dozen slender black hairs on the towel prepared by Shade, and as the relics left the containment environment, some thin whispers gradually became clear in his ears.

Those hairs actually squirmed slowly like insects on the towel. Not only Mia who screamed, but also Shade, Luvia and Dorothy all felt uncomfortable.

"The Keeper-level relic [Long Hair for the Unfortunate] is actually a relic that brings bad luck."

The doctor said, carefully dipping some pig blood on his hair with his fingers. The whispers in the surrounding environment weakened, and it immediately stopped moving. The coin just now can be held in the hand without any problem, and as long as these hairs are not contained in a containment environment, they will immediately mutate, which is enough to prove their power.

"Very dangerous, extremely dangerous. Alan planned to submit it to Sirkess Medical College over the weekend. If I hadn't borrowed it, he would never have taken it out. According to legend, this is a creature living in the Third Age. The hair of an unfortunate lady, her life was full of accidents, big and small, and she could even choke on the water she drank."

Although the doctor's luck is not very good, it is limited to very little luck and is not exaggerated to this extent.

"After her death, her hair was acquired by the extraordinary beings of the third era and made into a cursed item of bad luck. After a long time, it became this relic that brought bad luck."