Whispering Verse

"So what happened to Sister Matilda?"

Shade sat on the sofa and continued to ask curiously. The blind lady shook her head slightly:

"They continued to exchange letters. Aunt Matilda even thought about waiting until she was 45 years old to unload her burden and go to Tobesk...About 15 years ago, she died due to a terrible accident. And passed away.”

Ms. Michelle had a sad expression on her face, and Shade was speechless for a moment.

"Yesterday, I just met Mr. Rat August, whom I haven't seen for more than 20 years, and learned that he has become the ring warlock of Zaras."

"It's Byrons, you don't have to test me."

Shade interrupted, Ms. Michelle nodded:

"I understand. He has become a student at St. Byron's School of Chemistry. I feel really sad for them, if it could have been earlier... I told the Augustan, Aunt Matilda buried The location, after he left us, he should have gone directly to the cemetery."

Shade sighed:

"It turns out that he has never told us friends about his past. That's right. There is clear evidence that Priest Augustus encountered an accident and is very likely to die soon. So. , I want to know if the divination you did yesterday pointed to other clues."

"Sorry, although I have certain divination abilities, all I can see in him is death."

"Speaking of which, you are already the second diviner to divine the meaning of 'death' for a priest."

Shade said, and Sister Matilda showed a slightly surprised expression:

"Doesn't that mean that gentleman..."

"We friends can only do our best to save him."

Shade stood up and prepared to leave. He didn't have so much time to waste. Priest August’s final missing location must be found before the effect of [Echo of Blood] fades.

"Please wait a moment, Mr. Watson. Although I can't provide you with direct help, if you need anything, you can come here to see me at any time. In addition, I would like to do a divination for you."

"Divination?"

"Yes, our divination method is different from ordinary divination. We do not need any auxiliary tools, but directly use our eyes to capture spirituality."

She motioned for Shade to sit down again, then raised her hand to untie the strip of cloth wrapped in front of her eyes. Only then did Shade realize that the other party was not blind at all, but was deliberately blindfolding his eyes as a way of practice.

"Spiritual Order?"

He suddenly said softly, and Ms. Michelle stopped her hand and looked at Shade with her hand raised. Of course, because the strip of cloth is not completely removed, this cannot actually be regarded as "seeing".

"You know us?"

Although the Spiritual Cult is not a particularly secretive organization, it is not easy to guess it at once.

"I am a friend of the priest in Tobesk. I have met your people in the city during the 'Darkness Fall' incident in Tobesk some time ago."

"Yes, Sister Devlin did lead the team there herself."

Ms. Michelle nodded, lowered her head and took off the cloth completely.

Seeing that she was about to look up at him, Shade immediately sat upright. Ms. Michelle raised her head and opened her eyes. I don't know if it was a psychological factor, but Shade felt that her brown eyes were very beautiful.

"oh!"

After just one glance at Shade, the nun from the Spiritual Cult screamed in pain, covered her eyes and lowered her head.

"Sorry, what happened?"

Shade was a little at a loss, but Ms. Michelle just waved her hand to tell him not to panic:

"Mr. Watson, the moonlight on you is really dazzling. It is so shining, so pure, and so eye-catching. I should not be so bold and peek at you so easily. I think it is up to you to solve the matter of Priest Augustus. I’m afraid there’s no problem.”

"Are you really okay? I have a potion here that can treat your eyes. Do you want to try it?"

Shade took out the bright yellow eye drops prescribed by an ophthalmologist that were not used up in the [Dark Realm], but Ms. Michelle covered her eyes and politely refused. An organization like theirs, which has special eye training methods, has no shortage of magic potions to treat eye diseases.

Knowing that Shade was in a hurry, Ms. Michelle called another middle-aged nun from the "Home for the Blind" to send Shade downstairs. This middle-aged nun is a third- or fourth-level sorcerer. She was very surprised to see Ms. Michelle's state, but she did not blame Shade for this.

Shade almost understood what this so-called "House of the Blind" was. It should be a local stronghold of the "Spiritual Cult", and Ms. Michelle was the leader of the stronghold. Therefore, before leaving, he kindly told Ms. Michelle that the disappearance of Priest Augustus would soon attract the attention of the church and college.

Shade can check here, and the church and college should also be able to check here, so they need to prepare in advance.

Foreigners are actually very interested in this organization, but right now the matters of Priest August are the most important. After bidding farewell to the House of the Blind, he left through the back door and continued following the path of the Augustan priest.

The priest first went to a flower shop in the alley to buy flowers. Shade spent 5 pence and found out from the flower shop that the flowers were a bouquet in memory of a friend.

After that, the priest got on the carriage again. Shade, who already knew the priest's destination, did not use his legs to track him this time. He also got into a carriage and went to the Fort Midhill City Public Cemetery.

Large cities in Delarion have public cemeteries planned by the city hall. This is also to facilitate municipal planning in the rapidly expanding cities in the steam era and prevent the dead from occupying the land of the living.

As for the city of Fort Midhill, the city can only expand to the northern plains, and it is basically impossible to expand toward the Sikal Mountains in the southwest. Therefore, the public cemetery of Fort Midhill is actually in the southwest of the city. It is at the foot of Mount Sikal.

Strictly speaking, that is already considered a mountainous area. But because the cemetery is built on a mountain, not only is the greening condition excellent, but there is even a canal dug by others through the cemetery, so the conditions of the cemetery here seem to be better than those in Tobesk.

"If I fail to become a god in the end and die like a mortal, maybe it would be good to be buried here."

Shade was thinking about random things.

For some reason, when the carriage brought Shade to the entrance of the cemetery, a thin layer of mist actually appeared in the forest. Sikal Mountain was already towering. When Shade looked up, he only saw the layer of white mist that had covered the cemetery at the foot of the mountain from the mountainside.

This is not a haze caused by the steam industry, but a naturally formed haze. But when Xia De came down from the mountain at noon, everything was still normal in the forest.

"You are probably a stranger."

The coachman who was looking for money for Shade saw Shade looking at the rolling mountains in surprise, so he smiled and explained:

"Every autumn, this kind of dense mountain fog always appears in the Sikar Mountains from time to time. It can happen at night, morning, day, or evening, and the duration is uncertain. People living in this city know this kind of fog. The thing is, adults always like to use the monsters in the white mist of Mount Sikal to scare disobedient children."

Talking to Shade about local stories, the coachman handed the 7 pence he found to Shade, but Shade just took a 1 penny coin, then waved goodbye to the other party, and turned to look at the cemetery in the fog:

"If I remember correctly, after using [Long Hair of the Unfortunate], the negative effect of easily attracting evil spirits is still on me..."