The knife that Shade found in Miss Norma's house was used to collect blood to make potted plants and give them to the men who favored her, so that after her death, she could continue to use her soul to draw strength from the land. And let the three people who loved her
A man burying her was the land's last call to her. It was a very ancient ritual about 'love', voluntary sacrifice, crazy and pure love, and deceived ritual performers.
These combined gave birth to the terrifying undead that Shade had just seen. Although the undead was not strong to him, he was not an ordinary five-ring warlock. Not to mention, most of his abilities were extremely aimed at this kind of person.
Monster-like.
As Shade released his left hand that touched the soul, the thaumaturgy of "Guiding Death" stopped working, and the resentment entangled in Miss Norma's soul also eased a bit. But she still looked so crazy, even if she was struck by the moonlight sword
Nailed on the ground, still struggling to bite Shade.
"Answer me, madam, what is in this land?"
Shade asked in a deep voice. He indeed did not feel anything wrong with the ground under his feet. But Miss Norma's strange appearance after her death was definitely not explained by her mental illness and auditory hallucinations.
"You can't hear the pulse of the earth, you can't hear the last cry of the earth. I am already with this land, and I will look for more blood food for it until the end."
She continued to struggle, but the more frequent contact with the moonlight sword made those dark things in her soul continue to diminish.
"Don't pretend to be crazy with me. You knocked the three of them into a coma and erased the memory of meeting me. Isn't it just because you wanted to protect them? Moreover, those men who received the potted plants did not have any
One died because of you."
Shade said calmly, and released the spell, causing the three swords summoned by the "Blade of Disarrayed Time" to disappear, leaving only the last sword:
"Tell me what happened here, and then I'll send you away to find a way to solve the problem here."
Sure enough, the struggling soul stopped squirming. The terrifying head covered by long hair lifted up, revealing the face of Miss Norma. In the photos Shade had seen, this lady had a good appearance. Even after death,
The former glory can still be seen in the terrifying face:
"I just don't want this land to go crazy like this."
"Crazy Land? What do you mean?"
Shade asked in confusion. In order to show his sincerity, he released the hand holding the sword and made the moonlight sword disappear. Of course, he was not unprepared for the other party to escape.
Possible mistakes.
"I don't understand either. But the earth is indeed becoming crazy. Someone must stop this. I volunteered to sacrifice for this and collect blood food, just to appease this land. I know what I did is wrong, but this land
Shouldn’t be crazy. May the earth be with me.”
She spoke very vaguely, and it wasn't that she was hiding anything. It seemed that she didn't understand what was going on. And Shade also knew why he didn't feel the abnormality in the ground under his feet, because the abnormality was affected by this "self-sacrifice"
It was stopped.
"I understand, then please leave. I will do my best to find a way to solve the problem here. Even if it cannot be solved, I will at least warn people not to come near here."
He said, Miss Norma's soul looked at him, she did not open her mouth, but her voice appeared directly in Shade's ears:
"You promise?"
"Yes, I promise to solve the problem here as soon as possible or stop people from coming near here."
His idea is to come once a week, wait for another problem to occur in this land, and then sense the problem to determine whether it is some kind of relic or other weird things that are causing all this. And even if he cannot prevent the danger here, he can
You can tell Iluna and ask her to notify the Church of the Sun.
Although the Righteous God [Old Man with the Lamp] is the Sun God, the full name of this Righteous God is "God of the Sun and the Earth." The church specializes in land issues. And even if the believers of the Earth God have no solution to the situation here, naturally
The believers will certainly not be stingy in giving help.
Of course, these things can't be solved until problems arise again here. Now there are no problems, even if the church is called, there's nothing we can do.
Seeing Shade's sincere attitude, Miss Norma bowed slightly to him. Shade waved his hand and drew a dark crack beside him, revealing the shoal illuminated by the dark moon.
The soul gradually turned pure white, and finally looked at the three young people unconscious in the snow. Tears flowed down from the soul body, turning into ice crystals and falling into the snow. The soul pulled out the white light and shadow, crossed the crack, and entered
Entering the real afterlife. As the cracks closed, Miss Norma truly entered death.
"Soul Teardrop?"
The crystals in the snow flew towards Shade. This is an extremely rare special material that can only be produced by the stranded undead after their wishes are fulfilled. Not only does the wish need to be fulfilled, but the undead itself needs to be very powerful. This is a lot of alchemy.
The material was expensive. Shade had obtained this material before the Battle of Sikal Mountain by making a starving undead feel full, but he later gave the teardrops of his soul to Luvia.
But this thing is useless to Shade. After the Battle of Sikal, the "Rain of Light" blessing he received on the top of the mountain is the purest soul teardrop of thousands of souls. However, if it is only regarded as an alchemy material, it is just
This drop of crystallization far exceeds the sum of all other rewards that Shade received from this commission.
"With your reward, I will solve the problem here."
Shade exhaled and watched the white smoke drift away from his mouth in the wind. Then he looked at the three people lying on the snow:
"Although it was Miss Norma who lied to you about her resurrection and asked you to bury her alive, you still killed someone this time. Why did I send the client's relatives to the Redwich Field again?"
"She" laughed softly in the empty courtyard, and only Shade could hear it. Shade raised his hand to cover his eyebrows, and looked up at the sun, which was half covered by the edge of the clouds:
"May the earth be with everyone."
(Little Mia is running.)
"That's pretty much it."
At 2:30 on Saturday afternoon at Dr. Schneider's clinic, Shade was holding little Mia and sharing his story with the other four people in the group.
Dr. Schneider was amazed:
"So, that Miss Norma"
"Buried alive by the three of them."
Shade stroked the cat's head and said something he knew was cruel:
"The cause of death was suffocation, so."
Priest Augustus has begun to pray softly. Miss Writer listened very carefully just now. She was very interested in another question:
"Did the three young men you mentioned finally know the truth? That is, um, they buried their lovers alive?"
Shade recalled what happened in the morning:
"Before coming here, I went to Riddwich Field again to confirm the details of the confession. As you know, the church is very sensitive to this kind of thing, so the person I contacted at that time was the environment arranged by the church at Riddwich Field.
The warlock digressed. I was the one who told the three young people this morning that there would be no resurrection, and death is death. Those three people cried so hard that they collapsed. Gee, I have never seen anyone cry so much.
awful."
"You told them on purpose, right?"
The purple-eyed fortune teller joked that she knew Shade well:
"Deliberately letting them know this cruel truth."
"Although they blindly respected Miss Norma's orders because of love, they did kill someone with their own hands. Shouldn't they be punished for killing someone? Someone will tell them about this sooner or later."
No one will comment on Shade's words. However, although the three were arrested at Ridwich Field, since there are two ways to look at this matter, suicide and homicide, the specific crime will depend on the three young men.
How can the family behind the person work?
Lawyers will probably play a big role in this, but this has nothing to do with Shad. Although Professor Martin knew that Shad sent his son to Ridwich Field, he still paid the commission fee. This professor of the Department of Literature is
A very upright man. As for old Mr. Franco, he paid three times the fee as promised, and praised Shade with a smile for being the most famous detective in Tobesk.
"But I still don't understand, what is in that land?"
Priest Augustus asked again:
"Is there something buried underground? A relic? Or a sealed demon?"
"It can't be a devil, right?"
The doctor also said casually.
But this time Shade did not give an answer, but shook his head slightly:
"I will check the land from time to time. If there are any problems, I will deal with them as soon as possible. I can't make a conclusion yet. According to the memory I got from the soul of Miss Norma, that place can be peaceful for at least two or three months.
.”
"The sacrifice of a soul to the ancient ritual of love can only suppress the land for two or three months. It seems to be no small trouble."
Dr. Schneider sighed slightly, but everyone liked hearing all kinds of detective stories from Shade.
The exam week has been over for half a month, and the five people in the group have become relatively lazy, but everyone has not forgotten to obtain their own new magical skills from the library. Except for Priest August who has not been upgraded, several other people's
The new grade textbooks have been delivered last week, and this week I am considering taking some elective courses.
In addition to the fifth-year courses in the School of History and the School of Library Management, Shard is currently taking the "Introduction to the Basics of Mystery Locks" course taught by Professor Garcia in the School of History.
This was an advanced course on "Closed Space" that he took in the fall. In the fall, Shade had mentioned the problem of "multiple nested mysteries" in class, and this hypothesis itself had been confirmed by the God Caller.
Therefore, Professor Garcia hopes that Shade can continue to participate in the course and submit a paper on the nesting of multiple puzzles at the end of the course.
