Whispering Verse

[Death's Door] is a thaumaturgy that Shade learned after returning from death, allowing the souls who voluntarily left and the caster himself to pass through. Because it was a one-way passage, Shade never thought that one day he would really die from here.

He knew that Mr. Mattis was looking at him, but he did not look back, but stepped into the gap.

[Stranger, you have entered death. 】

[Outlander, you have a better understanding of "Sleep". 】

Cold and shaking.

The moment of nothingness and extreme cold almost caused Shade's consciousness to fall into deep sleep again, but he soon realized that he had reached his destination.

There is no sound, everything is still; the dark moon shines on everything, and this moment is the end.

Behind him are the two huge stone doors, and at his feet is the weak "Kiss of the Tree" bonfire that is almost extinguished. In front of them, the huge silver moon half-sinked at the end of the dark water. The water in front of them seemed to have no end. Just looking at it, there was a primitive fear in my heart.

An immeasurable number of shadowy white shadows, with their backs to the narrow beach at the water's edge. They looked up at the cold dark moon, and gradually moved away from each other as their bodies flickered, heading towards the silver moon.

There is no sound here, even breathing is not necessary. Quiet and solemn, cold and profound, here is death itself.

Looking down at his hand, he saw that the cracks were spreading all over his body, and the divine radiance was shining through it, protecting Shade's soul from going far away.

"Iluna!"

He took off his mask and walked a few steps quickly, and came to Iluna who was collapsed on the ground. He inserted the [Night Watcher] into the ground, put down the kerosene lamp containing the first fire, and then carefully picked up the seventeen-year-old girl. .

A dark golden scale was suspended above her head to protect her safety, but Iluna was a living person after all, and she was very uncomfortable here.

Looking further into the distance, Joey Barton was sitting sideways on a big rock at the end of the tidal flat, with his right hand holding the stone surface, his left hand hanging naturally, and his two feet unable to touch the ground due to his short stature. He turned his head and looked quietly at the water surface in the distance and the dark moon. The dark moon reflected its shadow on the gravel beach, and he seemed not to know that Shade had arrived.

"you"

"She's fine. When I pushed the door open, she wanted to catch me, so she followed me. She is also very talented at death, plus that dark golden magical scale, which she held in her mouth in advance leaves, so they did not leave with those souls.”

Joey Barton's voice was very calm.

Iluna was indeed temporarily unable to move, but after being held by Shade, she seemed to be affected by his divine aura, and her body temperature and breathing rate were returning to normal. She tried her best to open her eyes and look at Shade. Her lips wriggled and spit out the pale leaf that had lost its effect. Shade immediately stuffed her with another piece (note).

The seventeen-year-old girl wanted to speak, but nothing came out.

"It's okay, I'll handle the rest."

He whispered, carrying Iluna back to the tree's kiss campfire. Looking at the weak bonfire, after hesitating for a moment, he opened the shade of the kerosene lamp and carefully pulled the weak first flame into the bonfire.

There was no sound, but the nearly extinguished bonfire was rekindled. Even the spiritual and physical recovery that completely stagnated in death tended to recover slowly.

Putting the [Night Watcher] next to the bonfire and letting Iluna sit there holding the sword, Shade turned and walked towards the end of the tidal flat and came to Joey Barton's side.

Only then could he finally see the calm expression on his face. The light of the dark moon illuminated the somewhat deformed young man's face. The middle-aged man looked at those hesitant and blurry white figures, and Xia De didn't know what he was thinking.

"Is this what you really look like? You're so handsome."

Joey Barton sighed softly.

"You still haven't given up?"

Shade asked.

"Yes, it's almost done."

"So, are you talking to me now a clone or your true body?"

"One-third of the body. I won't put eggs in one basket."

"I see."

Suddenly he raised his right hand high, and when he lowered it, the moonlight sword in his hand had already taken shape. Mr. Barton did not dodge, and the moonlight sword struck his shoulder, but it was as if it hit an object with indestructible properties and had no effect.

"Mr. Watson, you really don't understand this."

"What don't you understand?"

Shade dismissed the sword in his hand and was not ashamed of his sneak attack.

"This is death itself. We who come here are already dead. How can you kill people here?"

His tone was still so calm as he explained the facts he had learned.

"Yes, this is death"

Shade nodded and stopped observing Mr. Barton. Instead, he put his hands in his pockets and turned to look with him at the water in front of him and the thousands of souls on the water.

The tide was not calm. The surging water stopped in front of Shade's boots, retreated, and then came back again, washing away the small stones and pebbles.

"The only thing that can harm us here is to enter these waters. Whether it is you or me, if we touch these waters without special methods, we will never come back."

Mr. Barton continued.

"So, how are you going to find the soul you're looking for here?"

"When I come here, I know more knowledge and know more secrets. My wish, my true love, is in front of me."

Gu Xi

His thick, misshapen fingers pointed toward the depths of death represented by the dark moon:

"Right here."

"Why don't you act now?"

"Because I'm not complete yet."

After the words fell, a voice came from behind the two people. It wasn't Iluna who stood up, but a new guest arrived.

Turning around and looking, another Joey Barton appeared in front of the [Death Door]. Compared to the first one who was intact on the surface, he looked much more embarrassed. His right hand was missing and his body was covered with all kinds of strange scars. Even half of his head was cut off, but he was still alive.

The second Joey Barton seemed to have fully understood what was going on here. He crossed the bonfire and walked towards Joey Barton on the rocks on the shore, and merged with him.

Shade couldn't stop this process, but he noticed that someone followed Mr. Barton here, it was the familiar old priest.

Priest Rat Augustus frowned and looked at the scene in front of him:

"Really, I'm so old, why would I get involved in this kind of thing?"

He walked to the bonfire, then sat down carefully with his hands on the ground, and stretched out his hands to face the bonfire, as if he wanted to keep warm.

"Priest Augustus?"

Iluna, who had recovered a little, asked in a low voice. Because she had the leaf in her mouth, her voice was a little strange:

"What are you"

Priest August is a very famous old priest in Tobesk diocese, even pagans know him.

"Good evening, oh, it's Miss Bayas. I was attending the ceremony on the top of the mountain, and then Joey Barton came up and was seriously injured by the three thirteen-ring warlocks from the church, but I still managed to fall in with all my strength. He entered the crack on the top of the mountain. I originally wanted to stop him, but then the unlucky guy followed him in. Well, I took the initiative to follow him in. I can't watch him do bad things."

The priest shrugged:

"Relax and wait until Shade solves this matter. Although I don't know what Mr. Detective wants to do, he has always been very good at it. What kind of fire is this? It's really heartwarming."

"I'm actually curious."

At the end of the tidal flat, the two men looking at the dark moon and their departed souls were still talking to each other:

"Why no matter which one of the three passages you enter here, you can see the [Death Door]."

Shade asked softly.

"Not only through the narrow room, no matter what method or means you use to enter here, it is actually the same. Because the [Death Door] is indeed the only correct way to enter this tidal flat other than the normal death process. .So theoretically speaking, the passage at the foot of the mountain is indeed the most stable.”

Joey Barton replied that this knowledge probably comes from the identity of the chosen one.

"Then do you know that the 'Scar of the Holy Tree' ritual is almost completed, and now none of us can get out?"

Shade asked again, and Joey Barton hesitated:

"I don't know, but after seeing her, there will always be a way."

Shade shook his head, knowing that he would never be able to convince the person in front of him.

They did not continue talking, but looked together at the distance of the silent dark water, watching the flickering white figures appear, advance and disappear at the end of the field of vision.

"What do you think of this moon?"

Shade suddenly said again. Mr. Barton did not give an answer immediately. He listened carefully and then spoke:

"After the ancient gods left, due to some reasons, the dark moon that was supposed to guide death here also disappeared. But now it appears again. Maybe just like me, the chosen one who deeply grasps the power of the moon The author is also carrying out his own epic."

Shade shook his head. This dark moon appeared because the priest invaded his dream, and the moonlight above the wilderness in his dream shone into death. But he cannot be the chosen one, Luvia has said this many times.

"This moon is really beautiful. The moon and death, the two most original powers, are shown here to stabilize the rules of death and ensure that all living beings die. If, if the dark moon could appear two epochs earlier, maybe Mead The narrow gap between life and death in Fort Sill will not expand that fast at all.”

While speaking, another voice came from behind.

The third Joey Barton appeared. In addition to being highly burned, his legs were cut off at the roots, his eyes were gouged out, his nose and ears were cut off, and even his mouth was sewn shut with cursed black thread.

After appearing, he lay down directly on the ground, and then crawled hard to the end of the beach. The power of the curse was blooming on him, it was the curse of the witches. At the same time, Shade also noticed that his chest was glowing, as if there was an unquenchable fire burning his heart.

Even after the third Mr. Barton merged with Joey Barton on the stone beside Shade, the latter still clutched his heart and made an expression of unbearable pain.

The emergence of the third Joey Barton brought a new ring warlock for the third time.

Sister Devlin was still so calm, wearing a nun's robe made of gray-black silk, with a shawl of the same color on her shoulders. A silver crown-style eye mask tied her silver-gray hair around her ears, and her long hair was braided in a complicated pattern behind her, almost hanging down to her waist.

His hands were folded and placed in front of him naturally, his head was slightly lowered, but the eye mask still reflected the light of the dark moon.

Flames, crimson flames, were appearing on the nun's body bit by bit. At first glance, it looked like she was being set on fire, but then I saw that the nun had fiery red cracks attached to her body. Not only her skin, but even the hem of her clothes and the ends of her hair were glowing with the light of flames. As the fierce flames gradually subsided, the embers of the flames floated out from the cracks, until the afterglow of the first fire completely stabilized, protecting her from staying here for a long time.

Although she wears an eyepatch, Sister Devlin can still "see" everything.

She first nodded slightly to Shade who turned around at the end of the beach, and then walked to the "Tree Kiss" bonfire. Instead of sitting on the ground like Priest Augustus, or sitting sideways and leaning against the [Night Watcher] like Iluna, the nun moved a stone and sat on it.

From the earliest times to the present day, this is probably the day with the largest number of living people here.