Whispering Verse

Seeing the black fog bullets flying towards each other, and having no time to dodge, Shade simply stopped. He stretched his left hand forward, and the flying red butterflies gathered into a red shield, blocking the first round of attacks. Then he quickly swung his sword forward with his right hand, and while the silver light splashed out, [Night Watcher] accurately destroyed every black mist ball. When the last sword was swung, the dark sword light broke through the white mist, melted the black mist, and was finally held by Count Darak with one hand.

After the sword light and the earl were in a stalemate for a brief two seconds, the sword light dissipated and the earl's right hand melted completely, but it soon grew back. This certainly doesn't come without a price, as his body becomes increasingly transparent.

"If you become completely transparent, will you completely lose your mind? In that case, I won't waste my time."

Shade said, and when he dropped the sword in his hand, there were loud bells and whistles in the white mist behind him.

The scorching steam mist merged with the surrounding white mist, but the huge brass ring in the white mist became increasingly clear as if floating from a distance.

The four-color aura shone, and as Shade moved forward, a huge life ring followed closely:

"Earl, then we don't have to waste time, please leave!"

As if in response to Shade's words, the Earl, who was swollen like a corpse, let out a miserable roar again. The black mist wrapped around him swept toward Shade like tentacles, but as the runes of sin flickered, the [Crimson Chain] flying out of his sleeves swept across, cutting off the black mist one after another.

The Ghostface Black Mist Bomb was fired again, and this time 54 Rhodes cards flew out of Shade's pocket automatically like flying knives. With the power of the red butterfly, the playing cards in the sky collided with the flying black fog bombs. With the help of the red butterfly, the hardness of the playing cards could temporarily resist the black mist with the power of Hazama.

Chains, black mist, playing cards, red butterflies and black energy exchanged in the air, and the aura above the life ring dispersed the thick white mist.

Seeing Shade coming step by step, Count Darak, who was floating in the air, finally couldn't hold himself back. Wrapped in black mist, he rushed toward Shade with a sword from the air. A top-down attack was already quite a deterrent, but Shade was not panicked.

He watched the count getting closer and closer, accumulating a huge spirit in his body. He raised his right hand holding the sword and pressed his index finger on the sword:

"silver"

Frowning, inspiration suddenly came to him. The [Silver Moon] that originally shone with the ultimate aura dimmed, but the enlightening aura of the [Light of the Witch] suddenly flashed:

"Solar Ray!"

The fingertips accumulated rich warm light representing the noon sun, but the positive energy light did not emit from the fingertips, but spread to the [Night Watcher]. The good compatibility between the demon-slaying sword and sunlight makes the silver sword emit a blazing light like the sun.

The light gathered at the tip of the sword, and as Shade thrust forward with the sword in both hands, a huge beam of sunlight shot out like a light cannon. The light cannon collided head-on with the black mist surrounding the Count. The black mist melted quickly in the sunlight as if encountering a natural enemy, revealing Count Darak who had almost completely turned into a corpse.

His skin melted rapidly, but only death can defeat death. Relying on his strong immortality, when the panting Shade put down his sword, the earl just fell to the ground and could still get up.

"[Night Watcher]'s amplification effect on sunlight is much stronger than that on moonlight, right?"

The consumption of the "solar cannon" just now was a bit too much even for Shade. [Night Watch] is an angel-level relic of the same level as Grace and Helen. Its biggest feature is actually that it serves as a spell-casting medium to increase extraordinary power. But as a sword against evil, its amplifying effect on different thaumaturgy is obviously different.

It's not that the concept of "silver moon" is unjust, but that the concept of "sunlight" itself is too just.

Count Darak, who was as if he was highly scalded, had already climbed up with difficulty, holding the nearly broken stabbing sword, and rushed towards Shade again. After being hit head-on by the "sunray ray", his melted skin actually revealed his original human appearance again.

His sanity seemed to have returned somewhat, but he still chose to continue the duel. The stabbing sword stabbed Xia De's chest accurately and hard, and Xia De raised his hand to block it with his sword. The [Chain of Sin] had been retracted, and the free left hand was used to slash. As the arm fell, the bright yellow long sword cut off Count Darak's right hand holding the rapier.

With a clang, the sword fell to the ground. The earl covered his severed hand and retreated. The severed hand quickly returned to normal.

Shade did not stop there. The yellow moonlight sword in his left hand dispersed into light spots and disappeared. He took a step and took a deep breath. All the power of the original death was gathered in his left hand.

"Soul echoes."

The [Psychic Crystal Ring] on the left hand was dyed black in an instant:

"Guide to Death."

The aura of the life ring behind him explodes to the extreme, and this blow will be the last blow:

"Mind blast!"

The left fist he swung made a sonic boom in the air, but it didn't spread very far because of the white mist. The soul power and spiritual power were vented, causing an illusory afterimage to appear on Shade's fist.

This punch hit Count Darak's chest head-on. As a sound like an explosion came out, the Count flew backwards and landed on the ground completely motionless.

He was lying there on his back, and in his illusory body, white ash continued to float upward.

Shade, who was panting heavily, took a rest with his sword in hand before walking over:

"Priest August and I are still very powerful together."

The life ring slowly disappeared in the surrounding white mist. Apart from the depressions and broken stone bricks on the ground, the dead trees and the almost flattened lawn, no one would know what had happened here.

Shade carried the [Night Watcher] and walked to the Count. Because of the effect of the combined thaumaturgy, the Count returned to a living person before it completely dissipated.

He stared at the sky with bulging eyes, and did not move at all when he heard the footsteps.

"Are you still not willing to give in?"

Shade asked softly.

"If you suddenly died of illness and were given a chance to live again, would you be willing to leave again?"

asked the count, his voice weak and hoarse.

Shade shook his head, but the lying earl couldn't see this action.

He bent down and reached out, grabbing the count's cold arm. White ash flows out of the palm and floats towards the endless sky.

Shade pulled the earl up:

"Finish the last game. It's the second game now. The total score is one to zero. The score of the second game is two to one."

"I'm going to die, and you're actually telling me this?"

The Earl looked like he wanted to laugh and cry, but he saw that Shade's expression was serious and it didn't look like he was joking.

Shade looked into his eyes and asked seriously:

"Don't you want to play Rhodes? End this round before leaving?"

The earl was stunned for a moment, and then nodded with some relief:

"Yeah, this round should be over."

He seemed to have really figured it out at this moment.

Shade wanted to lend his spare deck to the earl, but footsteps came from the direction of the building behind him. It was Priest Augustus who was walking through the fog, supporting the old butler who looked younger than him.

"Master Lawrence, your deck is here."

The old butler, who was crying, handed the deck of cards to the earl. Shade also sat down and waved the cards flying in the sky, one by one, back to his hand like afterimages.

The two sat on the floor without shuffling the cards or picking out other cards that had been used in this round. They each drew the first hidden card, and then the Earl, whose body had begun to become transparent, took the lead in getting his second card. After seeing that it was Flower 13, he opened the hole card and took a look, and a weak smile appeared on his face:

"I stop, I'm blackjack."

He didn't reveal his cards.

"Earl, do you want to deceive me? I noticed that you did not reveal your trump card."

"Why do you want to reveal it? I chose to suspend trading, but before you choose to continue or suspend trading, I have the right not to reveal the hole cards."

This is indeed within the rules, but players who do this are usually using "bluffing" techniques.

"No, you have to reveal your cards."

Shade, who had already received his second card, avoided the direction of the old butler and showed the card to Campbell's Count Darak. The earl looked at the cards, his expression froze. The smile that appeared on his face afterwards was a smile that truly came from the heart:

"It turns out to be you. My wish actually came true."

[Big City Player·1853 Tobesk Champion], suit: Star 12. When you draw this card, you have the right to view a hidden card that your opponent has not revealed.

When he threw out the cards just now, he was throwing out a deck with special cards.

Shade revealed the hole card for the count who could hardly move, but the hole card was not 8 points, but the moon 5, and the total was only 18 points.

"It's true that you lied to me."

Shade said softly, and then checked his trump card, which turned out to be Sun 9.

"A total of 21 points, John Watson took the lead in winning three rounds and won the second game. The score was 2-0, Mr. Watson won."

The priest announced. Earl Darak shook his head slightly and looked at the young man whose face seemed a little blurry in the white mist. He has reached the limit of life, and even his soul is about to leave. And at this last moment, he suddenly felt that the person sitting in front of him did not seem to be a human being, but some kind of indescribable and terrifying existence:

"It's blackjack again. Are you really blessed by the God of Gamblers? I'm willing to admit defeat. That [Ancient Fairy Tale Sleeping Princess] belongs to you, and this doesn't count as burying it."

He reached out his hand to Shade, who helped him up. The Earl's current weight is about five or six little Mias.

"Mr. Hans, thank you for all your hard work over the years."

The count said to the old butler:

"After I leave, don't embarrass these two guests. The family's property and titles can be distributed according to the will. Fortunately, I still have an illegitimate child. Thank you for taking care of me over the years."

His voice became smaller and smaller, and Shade felt that the weight leaning on him was almost completely gone.

"I understand, I understand that you should have left this spring. Now that you can come back for a short time, this is God's blessing."

The old housekeeper lowered his head and wiped his tears.

Shade looked at the scene and suddenly frowned. He turned to look at Priest Augustus and shook his head very covertly:

"You do it."

His lips moved but no sound came out. The priest actually knew lip reading. Although he didn't know why Shade asked him to do this, he still came behind the earl without leaving a trace. He gently patted the earl's back with his hand, keeping the outline of the earl's transparent body completely spread out. , white ash floats to the sky, to that distant place.

"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. May God bless your soul."

The old housekeeper lowered his head, tears falling at his feet; Priest Augustus drew the Holy Emblem on his chest, closed his eyes and prayed quietly; Shade stabbed his sword into the soil in front of him and put his hands in his pockets Inside, I looked up at the sky shrouded in white mist.

Sister Devlin burned the first nail brought by Shade, and Joy Barton took away the second nail that Shade defeated on the ice lake. Now the third nail was successfully pulled out by Priest Augustus with Shade's efforts.