Whispering Verse

The fortune teller with short brown hair also caught sight of the two people in the shadows. He was stunned for a moment, but did not walk into the grass. Miss Louisa's dress is relatively simple, but Miss Anat's dress cannot be scratched by the grass:

"The champagne you wanted."

She smiled and said to Miss Louisa, and then looked at Shade as if she were looking at a rare animal:

"Detective Hamilton? Good evening. You were mentioned in the doctor's letter. It turns out that the doctor has really found a new gifted person. Did he use some rare [relic] to overdraw his luck?"

Several people's evaluations of Dr. Schneider were surprisingly unanimous.

After greeting each other, Shade once again briefly told what happened tonight. Miss Anat, the fortune teller, was not as surprised as Miss Louisa:

"If that's the case, I actually have something to say."

She seemed a little too calm.

"Anything else?"

Miss Louisa asked hesitantly.

"Actually, I shouldn't have said it. This is information from the Prophet Association. According to regulations, we cannot tell other people, but everyone is here, and I can't put you in danger... That's it, don't you think so? Don’t you want to know the reason why Mrs. Lasoya attended the banquet as mentioned by the detective? Is it really that she was deeply affected by the relic ring and just came here to accompany his lover? "

Miss Anat's index finger tapped the glass goblet between her thumb and slender middle finger.

"What's that for?"

Shade already had a bad premonition. Under this inexplicable luck, if something important didn't happen, it would be a shame for this wonderful night.

"If you want to use the sage-level (level 2) relic [God's Gift Box] to synthesize the angel-level (level 1) relic [mercury blood], you need more powerful materials to support it. Lasoya attended the banquet just for it. One piece. [Mercury Blood] plans to call the evil god [Lord of the Blood Feast] in the mansion of Lakeview Manor. They need the power given by the evil god."

"Lord of the Blood Feast?"

Miss Louisa said in surprise.

"Evil God? Coming?"

Shade didn't even know what expression to make.

The night the professors arrived home, he heard about the name of this evil god and knew about the cooperation between the cultists and [Mercury Blood]. I just didn't expect that Mercury Blood would actually call Him, and it would be tonight.

Miss Luvia remained calm, she seemed to think the situation was still under control:

"I just learned that when I went to bring champagne, the association sent me information and asked me to leave here as soon as possible. But don't worry, the ritual of calling the evil god will only take effect at eleven o'clock sharp, and I'm afraid the Righteous God Church will also get it. The news is out, a warlock above level 10 should be here soon."

Shade took out his pocket watch:

"It's ten twenty tonight."

"Dorothy, I will enter the mansion with you and bring out the priest Augustus and the doctor. Detective, you stay here. Leaving hastily may arouse suspicion, but do not go near the mansion. According to the intelligence, the cultists mainly go The members of the [Mercury Blood] who entangled the Ring Warlock team of the Church of the Righteous God and came to execute the plan, in addition to the 'Silver Light' Rathod you mentioned, there was also a high-level person called the 'Heart Collector' High level magician, be careful."

The short-brown soothsayer raised her slender white neck, drank the champagne in her hand with her red lips, and then with a stab, tore off the hem and petticoat of her dress, turning this expensive dress into A regular skirt for easy movement. Miss Louisa also nodded, raised her hands to tie her long blond hair, which she had carefully taken care of, behind her head, and then stepped hard on the heels of her high heels.

Miss Louisa turned to look at Shade:

"Detective, remember, do not approach the mansion under any circumstances tonight. If we all die, you will be responsible for informing the academy of the situation."

"Is this a possibility?"

He was slightly worried.

"It is commonplace to always consider all possibilities, and we cannot but save doctors and priests. Detective Hamilton..."

Luvia Anat, a fortune teller with short brown hair, stared at Shade, and then Shade noticed that this lady's eyes were actually light purple. The purple color is so stunningly beautiful that it gives the illusion of falling deeply into it. Although purple eye color can occur naturally, it is extremely rare (note):

"I am a soothsayer. Destiny is giving me revelations, and the other me is also giving me warnings. I see an abnormal trajectory of fate in you. Something big will happen tonight, so please be careful."

In this way, Shade watched the two ladies leave in a hurry. This feeling of sending a woman to the battlefield and being powerless is really uncomfortable.

"I'm still too weak and can't do anything."

Looking at their beautiful backs, Xia De couldn't help but think in his heart. But before the woman's voice in her heart expressed her opinion, she thought that she had forgotten to mention that there was a [blasphemy] element related to the evil god near the grape trellis.

"Could it be that that's the point of the ceremony?"

According to records in history textbooks, the Ring Warlock system was only formed in the middle to late fifth era. Unlike the thaumaturgy and incantation that only exist in the contemporary ring magician system, "ritual" is an occult content that has existed since ancient times and can play a role in both past and modern power systems.

However, in the Sixth Age, due to the convenience of thaumaturgy and incantation, ritual science gradually declined, with only a few people still studying it. But this does not mean that rituals are useless. Although rituals require preparation in advance, generally require huge consumables and meet stringent conditions, the role of large-scale rituals is usually irreplaceable.

Just like calling the evil god to come, no thaumaturgy or incantation can do it. This requires ritual. And since it is a large-scale ceremony, it will never only exist on a table or in a room.

If the information from the Prophet Association is correct and [Mercury Blood] is really that crazy, then the scale of the ritual to call upon the evil god is entirely possible, covering a small area from the Lakeview Manor mansion to the garden.

"Perhaps I could try to disrupt the ceremony's arrangements in the garden."

Shade immediately found the point and was happy that he might be able to play some role without taking risks. He has already seen a relatively friendly old god in the past time and space, and does not want to see the evil god in the current time and space.

When he returned to the grape trellis, the young poet at the stone table had already left. Now there is only a middle-aged man in a burgundy fashionable formal suit, sitting at the table and reading a small book in his hand with one hand.

Shade walked over, trying to find some excuse to let the middle-aged man leave so that he could find a way to destroy the ceremony. Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man actually put down his book, looked at him with a smile, and spoke first:

"I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Not a Tobesk accent, it's not local.

"Wait for me? Sorry, sir, do we know each other?"

Shade said in surprise. He was still some distance away from the stone table under the grape trellis, but he had already stopped:

"Is it a ring warlock?"

I asked in my heart, and the woman's voice also gave the answer:

[Yes, the level is quite high. 】

His heart seemed to have stopped beating for a moment, but Shade showed no panic on his face:

"I think you must have the wrong person."

After saying that, he wanted to turn around and leave, but was stopped by the man. The smiling expression was still on his face, but Shade felt the danger of his scalp going numb, as if he was facing a shotgun that was about to be activated.

The other party’s malice is no longer concealed:

"No, I didn't find the wrong person, it was you. Although I don't know your name, your identity, your occupation, or your address, I am indeed looking for you... .”

He pulled up the sleeve of his left hand, showing his black left arm that looked like it had been burned:

"Have I used up the good luck I gave you? It's a gift from fate, and now I'm going to receive my reward!"