Shade, who appeared behind Miss Sylvia, praised sincerely, and the witch turned her head with a smile:
"Be my apprentice, I can teach you everything."
Without giving Shade time to react, he added with a smile:
"Don't be my apprentice, establish other relationships with me, and I can teach you everything."
"Let's wait until this matter is over. I actually don't quite understand where the snake went."
Shade asked, getting on his horse again with Miss Sylvia.
"It was compressed into a mass point by space. Don't look at the monster. It doesn't look powerful, but on the ground, we have no way to completely destroy it. Only a few seals and methods like mine can really make sense.
I'll make them lose their fighting power. So, you'd better not leave me tonight."
The sound of horse hooves faded away, and the two of them continued heading deeper into the valley.
At half past seven in the evening, in the heavy gray snow, Shade and Miss Sylvia arrived at the small bridge outside the forest surrounding Oxenfurt Manor.
Shade and Miss Sylvia stopped here. After dismounting, Shade looked up at the manor in the distance in the snow:
"That's enough. Although it is a superstition among country women that demons and vampires will not cross rivers, if we go further, they may really be able to sense us."
Shade took off his gloves and stuffed them into his saddle bag:
"Miss Sylvia, you will have to wait for me in the snow and wind. This is not a good job."
The young witch looked at him:
"Compared to the weather, the things you have to face are more terrifying. Then just move forward and take this."
She handed Shade a stone rune, on which the ancient elven runes representing "space" were engraved with dark red paint:
"As long as you carry this with you, I can locate you at any time. And if you crush it hard, yes, crush this stone, even if you fall into a different space, I can still find a way to find you.
.”
Shade handed her [Creation·Balance]:
"If I need help, this card will disappear from your hand."
At this point, except for [Original Silver Moon], all four cards in Shade's hand have been temporarily loaned out.
"I see."
Miss Sylvia didn't say anything more, and kissed Shade gently. At this time, Sister Devlin, who had arrived in advance, walked out of the forest. She explained to the two of them what was happening with the church's team.
After the clones were together, they and Miss Sylvia each led a horse and walked towards the direction they came from just now.
After the two figures flickered briefly, they disappeared together with the two horses.
Shade touched the various relics and spell-casting materials on his body, then pressed his chest to feel the presence of the Mia doll, and then walked to the forest path at the other end of the bridge.
No one greeted him in the wind and snow, and Oxenfurt Manor did not have the slightest light at night, as if there was no living person in the manor.
[Note, after crossing that bridge, the power of the devil has already infiltrated into the soil. 】
"She" reminded softly, Shade stared at the gray snow and came to the gate of the manor. This time, there was no old housekeeper to greet him.
Judging from the fence gate, there was no one in the courtyard surrounded by high walls. Shade didn't want to call anyone to open the door, but directly reached out and pushed it, and then found that the door was locked as expected.
And it was not an ordinary iron rope. When he exerted force, the demonic runes appeared on the fence with a dim light. Shade had been in contact with doctors many times. Interpreting ordinary demonic runes no longer puts pressure on the spirit, but
The meaning of that rune is roughly:
【No traffic allowed until the end of the night.】
"The prohibition order at night is very similar to the 'Law Order' thaumaturgy that Miss Carina taught Iluna."
Xia De thought in his heart and muttered:
"You let someone else come to get something, and then you locked the door on purpose. I hope you didn't mean to owe me a debt. Generally speaking, I don't like to force my way in."
The spell [Key of the Door] can open this special concept lock, but Shade did not do so, but looked at the sky and said softly:
"There is no moon and no stars, so it is not night. Because it is not night, it is day."
After saying that, he took out the secret-keeper-level relic [The Soul-Draining Devil's Blade] given by the devil last time at the Sturgeon Tavern, and engraved the sentence "It's dawn" in ancient elven script. It would be better if the devil language could be used here, but it's a pity.
Shade doesn't know demon language, and Tree Father has not given him any rewards such as "a piece of knowledge - the demon race" for the time being.
As the elven writing was engraved on the fence door, there was a click, and the fence door opened automatically. Shade re-inserted the soul-sucking demon blade into the scabbard on his waist, and then took out the sword made by Priest August.
The hilt of the sword.
Press the last end of the sword hilt, and then shake it four times. With four clear sounds of metal friction and collision, the long sword appeared in Shade's hand. The crossed phalanges emitted a faint light, as if sensing the presence of the undead.
He officially entered the manor.
After crossing the gate of the manor, the courtyard with gray snowflakes looked more and more gloomy. The manor, which was originally in a semi-destroyed state, now looked more dilapidated than any time Shade had arrived. The renovated pavilion collapsed, and the flower garden
Buried in the snow, the big trees fell to the ground as if struck by lightning, and even the fountain sculptures that could not spray water were gone.
"Why does it look like decades have passed since my last visit?"
There is no moon tonight, and Xia De's footprints were left on the snow. The footprints extended all the way to the door of the mansion. But this time, Xia De did not reach out to push the door, because only the left one of the double doors at the entrance of the mansion was left.
That one:
"What happened? This place was abandoned?"
The building seemed even darker and gloomier than the outside, with worn-out furniture blocking the corridors and spider webs clinging to every corner. The corridors were filled with gray snowflakes blowing in from the windows, and from time to time you could even hear noises coming from unknown directions.
The sound of the coming woman sobbing.
"Did you discover the power of time?"
Shade asked in his heart.
【No.】
"She" replied gently.
Shade did not explore the first floor, but found the stairs in the dark. The stairs leading to the upper floor from the first floor were divided into left and right sides, but the right one was broken. He chose the left side, and then continued upward directly.
Arrived on the third floor.
After visiting Oxenfurt Manor many times, Shade has never been to the bedrooms of the owners of the manor, and this time his destination is there. Although he does not know the specific location, the architectural layout of such large manors is similar.
He easily found a door in the dilapidated building that was ajar with candle light inside. After pushing the door open and entering, the interior decoration was indeed the master bedroom of the manor.
The decoration here is not very luxurious, but it has a lively atmosphere.
A large double oil painting by Helena Oxenfurt and Stone Oxenfurt was hung above the bed. There were fruits and snacks on the small table beside the bed. On the desk was an unfinished letter.
The letter and the burning candle were placed on the golden candlestick. This candle was also the only source of light in the room.
In addition to the door through which Shade entered the room, there was a door on the other side of the double bed that led to the outside terrace. Although there was a wardrobe in the corner of the room, there were still hangers at the door. Gorgeous men's robes were hung on them, and the hangers
There is also a cane with a golden lion on the head placed against the wall below.
There was no moon outside the window, and the light from the candles was not very bright, but this did not prevent Shade from seeing Helena Oxenfurt in a black dress lying on the bed, on the side near the window and the terrace. She
The hands wearing black lace gloves were clasped together on the chest, but the shoes were still on, but the veil was placed on the bedside, instead of being put on as before.
"Fell asleep?"
Shade rudely entered the room and came to the bedside. He did not speak, but touched the woman's neck with his hand while his own shadow was reflected on the woman's body.
Completely cold and lifeless.
【die.】
"Her" voice is still gentle.
Helena Oxenfurt's eyes were closed tightly, and her originally pale cheeks now became even less like a living person. Her lips were purple, and the blood vessels on her face were quite obvious. In the hands held together, she held a withered
black rose.
Such roses also appeared in the hands of Stone Oxenfurt and Goethe, the Demon of Stone Mirrors.
In addition to the black rose, Shade also saw familiar sapphire earrings on her ears and a familiar wedding ring on her finger. On the pillow next to her that was free by the door,
Lying there lies the familiar medal of the Oxenfurt family.
"What kind of trick is this? Seeing the devil."
Shade activated the thaumaturgy given by the doctor, and while other locations in his field of vision became distorted, he squinted his eyes to look at the corpse lying on the bed.
Just like what I saw before, snowflakes fell from the body of Haila Oxenfurt. But what was different from before was that petrified rose vines climbed on her body, and those rose vines seemed to come from her heart.
It grew out of the body. Apart from the stones, there was nothing abnormal about the corpse itself. This was indeed a corpse.
"The body didn't have any temperature, but there were no signs of decay either."
Shade turned around and looked at the unfinished letter under the candle on the desk. After walking over, he saw the quill inserted in the dried ink bottle, and the spread out parchment had short dark blue words written on it. That was the history of history.
East Oxenfurt's handwriting:
"What you want is down there."
Opening the parchment, the card showed a woman in a robe, the Holy Grail, and the Rhodes cards of the countryside and the village, which appeared in the flickering light of the candle.
Shade picked it up:
"Flowers 12, Origin·Earth."
This was a genuine product, and it appeared in Shade's hands easily. He originally thought that he had to kill Oxenfurt before he could take it out of his body pocket.