Whispering Verse

"Yes, this is indeed the spell. Do you also know about this ring?"

Sister Devlin nodded. The evening wind of autumn leaves on the cliff blew the hems of the blind nuns' robes. In the wind, they kept exactly the same posture, and the way their blindfolds reflected the light in the moonlight was indeed a bit weird.

"This relic is not famous. I heard it from my mother-in-law Cassandra before. Even the incantation was told to me by my mother-in-law. It is said that it is the knowledge of her teacher. This sage-level relic, It was originally owned by the local vampire clan in Fort Midhill. According to Cassandra’s teacher, this relic first appeared in the fifth era. The great vampire gave it to a human male. After the mortal died in the Sikar Mountain area, this relic returned to the hands of the vampires."

"This is how he died in the Sikar Mountain area."

Shade nodded with some sadness. The ring of a sage-level relic should have been given by the saint to the gray-haired old man in armor at the end of the god's cocktail party. And now, after an era, Shade heard about the ring again. The ring had transformed from a powerful magical item into a relic, but the old man had long since disappeared.

"The vampire ring changes race, and unlike the reincarnation ring, it seems that it can be activated by other people chanting a spell. If given to Mia, it is equivalent to turning Mia from a cat into a vampire. In this way , maybe I can use the [Fish Training Ring], and then speak and use the [Metamorphosis Ring]. What am I thinking, the user of the [Vampire Ring] will be infected with blood thirst, and I can’t let that cat get it. Such a troublesome disease.”

The nuns of the [Spiritual Order] had to rush to the top of the mountain, so after making sure that Shade was fine, they said goodbye to him. Shade watched the nuns leave the cliff and enter the dense forest again. He turned around and came to the edge of the cliff, and then looked down.

Even if he wasn't afraid of heights, looking at the dense forest under the cliff late at night from this angle still made him feel a little dizzy. And the witcher's silver sword is in the secret cave under the cliff. . The entrance to the cave cannot be seen by ordinary methods, only the person holding the roll of parchment can see it.

"Finally found"

It was already very late, and Shade was also thinking about the cat at home. Although Luvia, who was stargazing on the third floor, would help Shade feed the cat, Shade was still a little worried.

"Move quickly, I want to go back as soon as possible."

He looked up at the moon in the sky, and then found some thin threads in his pocket. After covering it with a white cloth, he turned it into a thick hemp rope and tied it to the tree closest to the edge of the cliff. The other end was tied around his waist. After pulling a few times to make sure it was very firm, he slowly slid down from the edge of the cliff.

"That's why I say it's really troublesome to find things in the mountains."

Fortunately, he found the right location this time. Not long after, Shade, holding the roll of parchment in his hand, saw twisted traces of fluctuations on the cliff. Pasting the parchment there, the dark cave entrance immediately appeared.

Shade swung into the cave and used Feliana's witch's light to create a handle-like depression on the stone wall at the entrance. He untied the rope and tied it to the "stone handle" to make it easier to climb up later.

"Silver Moon."

When he raised his fingertips, the moonlight bloomed, illuminating the dark cave. This does not look like a nest dug by an animal, but rather like a naturally existing natural stone crevice that has been widened to become what it is now.

The cave is very deep, all the way down, and you can't feel the wind. There seems to be no other exit. Because the location of the trap and how to disarm it were written on the parchment, Shade was not in danger. On the contrary, he confirmed that all the traps had no trace of being triggered, and the warning rituals were only damaged due to time, not man-made destruction.

"That's good news. The sword is still here. It seems I'm pretty lucky."

The passage becomes narrower the further you go inward. The deep cave is like an ant's nest, with no end in sight.

When it was almost nine o'clock, the voice in his ears suddenly reminded that there was a whispering element ahead, which was the trace of [Relic], which meant that Shade was getting closer and closer to the finish line.

"How did the ancestor of the high-level warlock and ophthalmologist Mr. Jacob Alfred find this cliff cave?"

He thought to himself, holding on to the uneven stone wall on the side and continuing to walk forward. The ground here is not flat and walking is quite difficult.

"And why does it feel like it's getting hotter?"

This is definitely not the illusion of a closed space caused by going too deep into the cave, nor is it a natural increase in temperature in a cave that is not ventilated all year round. I didn't feel it when I first entered here, but after the whisper element appeared, the feeling of rising temperature immediately became very obvious.

"Could it be that the power of that sword is related to flames? Can you feel anything about a sword related to fire?"

[There is indeed an abnormal heating phenomenon, but it is not caused by the whispering element. 】

"No? Could it be that this passage leads directly to the underground magma lake?"

Shade thought in surprise, and as he continued to move forward, even the rocks in the cave became hot, which made the sound of his breathing become more and more obvious:

"What's going on? This is definitely not normal."

Continuing to move forward, the increasingly narrow passage finally came to the end. A faint red light flashed in front, and at the same time, a billowing heat wave hit the face. The moonlight at his fingertips showed that there was a vast space outside the passage, and according to Shade's estimation, he should be in the heart of Sikal Mountain now.

He walked out carefully, raising his right hand as high as he could to illuminate his side. Outside the passage is a small stone platform, and outside the stone platform is a huge hollow in the heart of the mountain. In the quiet, empty, dark, deep, and extremely depressing environment, the faint light of the flames swayed, exacerbating the weirdness of the environment at this moment.

The top of the large hollow is not too high, about three stories, and the bottom.

Shade bent down and picked up a stone, then threw it under the stone platform. It took a long time before he heard the sound of falling.

"In the Sikar Mountains, there is indeed everything."

Opposite the cave in the center of the mountain, there is a stone platform that connects to another cave. Between the two stone platforms, there is a thick stone pillar that seems to extend from the bottom. The two platforms and the stone pillar in the middle happened to be connected in a straight line, and when Shade got closer to the edge of the platform, he found traces of bridge pillars and broken bridges.

In other words, a long time ago, there was a rope bridge with an astonishing length here, connecting the platform from this platform to the stone platform in the center of the large cavity, and then to the platform at the other end. But now, although the pillars of the bridge and a small part of the rope bridge hanging downwards remain on the stone platform, the main body of the bridge has disappeared.

"What happened here?"

Fortunately, Shade didn't think about continuing to explore here. The sword he was looking for was on the stone platform where he was currently standing. To be more precise, right in front of the damaged rope bridge.

The silver sword blade shimmered in the darkness because of the moonlight on Shade's fingertips. He could clearly see the inscriptions on the sword. Those ancient words came from an earlier era, from the era when evil spirits and demons were rampant in the material world:

[My heart is clear and my sword kills demons. 】

After finally seeing the sword, instead of being happy, Shade frowned. Because the sword was not stuck in the soil, but on a cluster of sparkling bonfires.

Although the bonfire had long been extinguished, only a few scattered dark red sparks shot out, and the dim red light came from those sparks. The temperature of this bonfire was extremely high. As soon as I walked out of the narrow passage behind me, I felt a rolling heat wave hitting my face. The increase in temperature I noticed just now after feeling the whisper element was due to the influence of this bonfire.

"What is this?"

As Shade squinted his eyes and stared at the bonfire, sparks instantly ignited the extinguished ashes, and dark red flames sprang up. Amidst the loud noise, Shade was forced back several steps by the heat wave.

The flames reached the top of the large hollow in the mountain almost immediately, completely illuminating the stone platform. The flames splashed in all directions, and at the same time, the firelight also caused Shade's huge shadow to be reflected on the cliff behind him.

The silver sword inserted in the bonfire buzzed and vibrated. The originally black inscription on the silver sword lit up with bright yellow light from bottom to top, suppressing the rise of the flames. The bonfire was suppressed bit by bit until it became normal size. Amid the crackling sound, the flames licked the silver sword thrust sideways, as if the two were wrestling.

Shade stared at this scene dumbfounded. A faint murmur sounded in the large hollow in the belly of the mountain. There was a voice tempting Shade, tempting him to pull out the sword immediately.

"Oh shit, this can't be"

He took out a ring from his pocket and put it on his right hand. He put his right hand behind his back, and then walked over step by step as if he was really bewitched.

The heat wave hit his skin, and the dazzling firelight made him have to squint his eyes. In the bonfire flames that were forcibly suppressed by the silver sword, there seemed to be a terrifying face made of flames looking at Shade. The eyes were sharp and slender, and the split mouth could almost extend to behind the ears.

It is whispering, it is whispering, and it is watching this mortal who has stepped here for the first time after eight hundred years.

Light and shadow were intertwined on Shade's body, and the swaying bonfire made his shadow keep shaking. The fire on the ground was layered with layers. When Shade finally came to the bonfire, as the bonfire broke out again , in the surging flames, a giant hand larger than Shade's body, as if made of broken obsidian, with magma-like luster shining in the gaps, suddenly stretched out from the bonfire and grabbed Shade.

"Moonlight Great Sword!"

The right hand wearing the [Demon Hunting Seal] slammed the silver giant sword towards the attacking giant hand. The two-handed sword collided with the devil's giant hand. At the cost of the sword scattering into dots of light, Shade took a few steps back to stabilize his body. The huge arm was split into a bunch of flames, and was forced to return to the bonfire again.

The silver sword stuck diagonally on the bonfire completely suppressed the flames, and the crackling bonfire returned to the appearance of only a few sparks. Although it was still crackling, there was no trace of what had just emerged from the flames.

"So that's it. It turns out that Dr. Alfred's ancestors didn't put the [Demon Hunting Seal] and this sword together in the house where their descendants live. It's for this reason."

Shade covered his right arm, stared at the bonfire, and stepped back step by step. The firelight illuminated his face:

"The high-level warlock from eight hundred years ago actually used this sword to seal a demon here! Demonologist Mr. Sean Asmon was actually right!"

PS: Metamorphosis Ring (find a way to get a body, you must recite the incantation yourself) ← Fish Training Ring (let a dumb creature speak, but cats cannot use it) ← Vampire Ring (turn the creature's race into a vampire , but will be infected with thirstemia).