Shade did not ask Miss Chloe Yin to prevent the witch who turned into a cat from feeling embarrassed. While there was still some time, Shade asked the other two people about the situation. Of course, during this period, Shade had to control his instinct to pet the cat.
In the past six months of raising Mia, she has developed her body's instinctive reaction.
Mrs. Marquez decided to set off to the top of the mountain. She wanted to take the missing witch's boots to the top of the mountain and put the shoe print on it, so Shade checked the boot. Although the boots were very well made, and the feet were unexpectedly
It's as small as Miss Chloe, but it's just an ordinary item, so it doesn't require special attention.
As for the man cowering aside, the reason he didn't speak was because he was afraid of the witch. But after Shade came closer and asked, he was still willing to say something. The man lowered his voice, as if he was afraid of being heard by the witch.
He didn't want to reveal his name, but he admitted that he was exiled here because he stole something.
When he was discovered by Miss Croyin, he was almost freezing to death in the snow. Miss Croyin was a relatively open-minded witch, so she kept him here. If she encountered a job that required a living person to explore the way or sacrifice
, let him do it.
And when Shade asked the man what he had stolen, he was too frightened to speak.
The witch who was drinking soup snorted softly:
"It shouldn't be something too valuable, otherwise he would be executed directly. But it shouldn't be something very common, otherwise it wouldn't be worth using the means of exile."
The witch's words made the man curl up again:
"I stole a card. The Territory Witch thought the card was interesting and wanted to study it, but to no avail, so she threw it into the warehouse. After I was caught, the Territory Witch threw me and the card together.
Here, let me and that card be together forever."
This is in line with Shade's understanding of the witches of this era. When the man took out the "interesting" card, he recognized the sun, moon and stars on the back of the card at a glance, which were located in the three directions of the star map.
The figure itself is circular and has intertwined lines.
“They are everywhere”
Turning over the front of the card, there is a black humanoid creature with its side facing away from the card. It has no hair on its head and wings sticking out from behind. There are curved spikes on the top of the wings. Its eyes are like snake eyes, looking at it tiltedly.
The person outside the card has scale-like marks on his exposed skin.
No matter which direction he looked, Shade felt that the snake's eyes were looking at him.
"Everything is impermanent and dark?"
Shade also has this card. It was given to Shade by Queen Diana. But what’s interesting is that the rules underneath this card, which will fall into Shade’s hands more than six thousand years later, are not ones that Shade is familiar with.
Rhodes rules, but
[Sacrifice one's own health and create a black vortex on the card table corresponding to the number of sacrificed health. We can move through the vortex, and receive fixed treatment each time we move. The amount of treatment is one-third of the sacrificed health, and we will
Round down. The enemy is close to the vortex and needs to roll a dice to determine the number of rounds it will be bound.]
"Cards in the game of life?"
Chloe Cat recognized what it was. She had no interest in playing cards, so she didn't even want to take the card and look at it carefully.
Shade didn't expect that he could still see this card after nearly six thousand years. However, the appearance of this card could not help the Witch and her party change the current situation. They still had to climb up the Silver Mountains on their own.
Main peak.
“What is the card game of life?”
Shade held the card and vaguely felt that he could control the current card in his hand just like the card in the Sixth Age.
"A game that has been popular since the beginning of the Fifth Age. It is difficult to verify who created it, but witches like to use this game to show off their lives. I heard that some cards are very valuable."
The cat in his arms said, and then saw Shade's command card flying around, but no one here could realize what it meant.
There seemed to be nothing special about Mrs. Marquez and the cowering man, so before leaving, Shade chatted with the cat-like Miss Cloyin again.
Now that the evil spirits in the snow-capped mountains have been expelled, the witch plans to rest here for a while before continuing to the higher reaches of the Silver Mountains.
How far the current position is from the top of the mountain, none of the three people here can tell clearly. But since the mountain is there, it is enough for them to keep climbing.
As for the god who appeared to help them again just now, not only Miss Cloyin, but also the other two people had no impression. Although under Shade's statistics, the three of them unexpectedly discovered that they all believed in the "winter girl"
", they have all prayed to this winter girl for luck, but this kind of ordinary prayer is definitely not enough to call the gods.
Shade had a lot of contact with the old gods, and he knew very well that the appearance of the gods would not happen to happen here.
No matter how friendly the gods are to humans, they will only respond when mortals make requests. If you do not express your wishes in front of the gods, the gods will only watch and not take action. And the gods who just appeared,
No matter how you look at it, they are taking the initiative to protect them, so in this snowy mountain, someone must have taken the initiative to call the gods.
He informed Miss Croyin of his thoughts to the cat-like Miss Croyin, but the witch could not explain the things about the gods. She was only at the eleventh level, and her power was not outstanding in the early fifth era. Of course, she was not qualified to understand those things.
The secrets of the great.
"Then what is your status in Zarath Academy?"
Shade asked curiously, and the silver-white cat turned its head slightly:
"Just an ordinary member."
She seemed a little embarrassed to admit this, and added:
"However, one day I will become the thirteenth level. It is not impossible to even surpass the thirteenth level. The academy has the secrets of demigods, and I have also researched them myself."
Shade smiled:
"I'm sure you'll be fine."
None of the people he could come into contact with in the past were ordinary people.
Chloe Yinmao looked at Shade unexpectedly, and nodded after a long time:
"You look really good as a man. Do you know any witches you know?"
"Of course, and I am still her lover. Although nothing happened between me and the lady, but with her maid."
Shade raised his right hand and saw that white mist had wrapped around it. Although this adventure lasted forty minutes, which was longer than the previous half hour, time was limited after all.
The wind was howling outside the tent, but the temperature inside the tent had gradually increased. The campfire did not sway due to the wind, and the aroma of vegetable soup made everyone satisfied. Compared with when Shade came, the place became safer and more comfortable.
"Look, I'm leaving."
Shade said to Miss Cloyin. The cat twisted its body and looked up at him:
"You promised, you will come back."
In such a bad environment of ice and snow, it is not easy to find someone strong enough to talk to her.
"Yes, I will definitely come back. Although you didn't ask me to find any information or precious items, there is a very powerful flame in my home. Maybe the fire-wielding nun can let me turn that flame into my own.
Partly, this should help you."
Shade said, politely saying goodbye to everyone in the tent. Mrs. Marquez responded to Shade nervously. The scent of jasmine on this lady's body was very strong; the unknown man held the card and shrank.
He waved goodbye to Shade, he was afraid of the cat on Shade's body.
Miss Chloe jumped down from Shade and ran into the white blanket just now. Unlike Tifa's transformation that only changes her body, this eleventh-level witch's transformation includes clothes:
"Goodbye then."
Her red-gold eyes looked at Sha De. She stretched out her hand to Sha De. When the two hands were held together, the white mist that rolled in completely enveloped Sha De. When the white mist dissipated, the stranger
Have left the warm tent.
Mrs. Marquez was cooking vegetable soup in a slightly mechanical manner. The cowering man by the wall looked down at the ground motionlessly. Only Miss Cloyin held her face in profile and tilted her head to look at where Shade had been sitting just now.
position, I don’t know what I’m thinking about.
【Outlander, you have returned to the present time.】
"oh!"
Stumbling out of the white mist door, leaving the snowy mountain environment and returning home, the feeling of being frozen made his whole body tremble:
“Fireplace fireplace fireplace!”
While Xiao Mia cast a concerned look, Shade trotted quickly to the fireplace in the living room, letting the burning firelight of the fireplace envelope him. Bathed in the warm light, he felt as if his soul was connected.
The feeling of being frozen is slightly lessened:
"Huh~"
He took a long breath, only to find that what he breathed out was actually cold air.
"Meow~"
Because Shad's body was too cold, little Mia just approached him and did not jump on Shad. However, the cat seemed to smell an unusual smell on Shad's body, like a cat, but not a cat, which made this cat
The cat was confused. It didn't know what Shad had encountered, so it couldn't be angry with Shad at this time.
After leaving the Silver Mountains, the temporary blessing of "eating snow" given by the god to Shade disappeared, which is why Shade behaved so rudely. But fortunately, he was far away from the weird snow mountain, and the surrounding environment became much more normal and warm.
His home still makes Xia De feel at ease as it did in the past.
Thinking about it this way, it's really amazing that the three witches and their party can withstand that kind of severe cold, especially that man. As an ordinary person, he can actually do it.
"What's wrong?"
The blonde girl who was awakened by Shade appeared at the door of the bedroom wearing pajamas and slippers. The familiar gesture of touching her earlobe told Shade that this was Lesia.
"I just came back from the snow-capped mountains and it was really cold."
Shade said tremblingly, thinking about whether to go to the attic and swallow some of the sparks in the kerosene lamp containing the "Fire of the Sun". But those sparks finally turned into flames, and he also thought about taking them to Devlin
nun.
Lesia asked sleepily:
"Snowy mountain?"
Only then did he realize that Shade had returned from his past adventure.
"Let me help you keep warm, knight. I often see this kind of plot in knight novels."
As she walked towards Shade, she untied her nightgown, threw the skirt to the sofa, and covered the cat who stared at the two of them with wide eyes. The girl with a high body temperature pulled Shade, who was a little hypothermic.
.
"Very good, this time you only have a potpourri-type perfume smell."
Her Royal Highness the Princess was very satisfied with this, but also had some doubts:
"But you are really awesome. With an average of thirty minutes of adventure, you can win the favor of those ancient old women every time."
