The cat who was watching pigeons on the window sill on the second floor spotted Shade at a glance. So when Shade opened the door from downstairs, he was warmly welcomed by his own cat.
We are having dinner at home tonight. Before the maids left yesterday, they stocked up enough food in the kitchen. Naturally, the ones cooking were the Gemini girls who came to visit.
In their long lives, they learned many useful life skills. Compared with foreigners who can only cook simple meals, Helen and Grace are much better at cooking.
"I thought a long time ago that I could cook with my sister in the kitchen and not have to worry about one of us strangling the other next week and then waiting alone for another 21 years."
Grace was preparing the last soup in the kitchen, and Helen took off her apron and was already sitting next to Shade.
The gas lamp illuminated the restaurant, which was simply decorated but had a homey atmosphere. The oil painting painted by Hella Oxenfurt for Shade was hung on the wall behind Shade. A young girl in a black skirt sat next to Shade and looked at her.
He held his chin with one hand and turned to look at his sister in the kitchen.
Shade held little Mia who was looking forward to dinner:
"You will have plenty of time to live together in the future, just don't get bored." Don
Helen turned to look at him:
"How can I be bored? My sister is me, and I am my sister. Sometimes I feel that maybe God divided a whole into two individuals when he created us. We are destined to be together, and we will never, ever.
respectively."
"Helen, I'll be embarrassed if you say that."
Grace, who was wearing a white skirt and an apron, came over. To be honest, watching two girls of fifteen or sixteen years old preparing dinner for themselves, Shade still felt weird in his heart. Especially since the two of them had the same appearance.
, and he looks inexplicably mature.
"Sit down and eat. After dinner, you have to go see Sister Devlin. Sister asked me to take you with me. I need your help to help me learn thaumaturgy."
"No problem at all."
Grace said, pulling up her sister and sitting opposite Shade with her. Shade got up and took out Mia's special small bowl from the cupboard, put it aside and prepared dinner for it.
"Actually, I'm a little afraid of that nun."
Helen sat in the chair very relaxed, she really liked this night.
"Why? Sister Devlin can't beat you, right?"
Shade asked curiously, picked up a spoon and served soup for everyone.
"Most relics are difficult to destroy, let alone humanoid relics like ours, and the blind nun's original fire..."
Helen pursed her lips and took the soup bowl:
"We can become firewood." Tang
Shade looked at them in surprise:
"Don't say such things, how could Sister Devlin do such a thing?"
However, this also reminded Shade that in addition to subspace evil objects and ancient evil spirits, humanoid relics also fell into the category that could be burned.
"Anyway, I just feel that the nun is scary."
Helen shook her legs under the table, and Grace tied a napkin for her:
"Before Xina, we knew almost every great witch of darkness, so we have known the [Spiritual Order] since a long time ago. Those fire-wielding nuns are all great, even greater than the Guardians
Great. Even among the previous fire-bearing nuns, Sister Devlin is a special one."
Grace tied her sister's napkin, and then went to deal with her own napkin:
"She is simply a natural fire-proof woman. She seems to be born for the flame. But correspondingly, it is as if the [primordial fire] has also sucked away all her heat. Sir, don't look at her being very gentle to you.
In fact, that nun was so cold that she seemed..."
"Charred wood."
Helen added, then explained:
"This is not talking bad about others behind their backs. She really looks scary."
[Desire] also once commented that Sister Devlin looked like "charred wood" on the edge of the island in the middle of the Pantanal Swamp.
"What exactly is the Primeval Fire? Is it just the first flame in the world?"
Xia De asked curiously, and the Hongdie twins looked at each other:
"Strictly speaking, it is not true. The sun is the first fire, the first light, and the first thunder in the world."
"Meow~"
Mia shouted while eating dinner.
"The original fire comes from before everything, from the very beginning. It is an existence that is older than this world, so it can represent our world."
Helen said very carefully:
"The mystery of that flame is absolutely no less than any special item in your hand. Even the old gods..."
"Helen!" Don
Grace said seriously, so the girl, who knew she had said something wrong, covered her mouth and made an apologetic expression to Shade:
"We are just guessing about some things. You just need to know that [primordial fire] and the fire-holding nuns are very important to this world."
Grace tied her napkin and gave an example:
"Fire-wielding nuns have never been the protagonists of epochal epics like 'The Chosen One'. They are the ones who protect everything. When everything comes to the end, the fire will still light up the world. Therefore, all the fire-wielding nuns have
The inheritance is very cautious, and we heard from Zina that this generation of Sister Devlin has not yet found a suitable candidate."
But Shade knew the right candidate, which was Luvia. However, he had seen in his dream the scene where the nun turned into ashes and passed on the fire to Luvia before she died. He couldn't say anything.
Let it happen again.
After enjoying dinner at home, Mia refused to follow her at home as usual, so Shade went to Fort Midhill with Helen and Grace.
Because it was getting late, they went directly to the Shexin Hospital in the city, and then came to the sacrificial hall located on the top of the mountains.
Shade rarely comes here at night, so when he and the Red Butterflies stepped out of the picture frame, they were immediately attracted by the boundless sea of stars above their heads.
"This is really..."
The galaxy seems to be hanging upside down above your head, and you can even reach out and touch it. All the stars are so bright, even the stars that are rarely observed on weekdays can shine with their own brilliance.
"It's beautiful."
Grace asked softly from the side, and Shade nodded, then realized that after a long time, they must have seen similar scenery countless times.
"But only this time, I have someone with me."
Helen suddenly said, and Shade was startled: Don't
"Have you learned to read minds?"
"Oh, sir, you just wrote your thoughts directly on your face."
Although the red butterflies said they were a little afraid of Sister Devlin when they had dinner just now, they behaved very naturally when they greeted the nun after meeting her.
The weather near the top of the mountain tonight is excellent, with not a single cloud. It is the most suitable time to learn [Moon Dream]. Sister Devlin is already waiting for them, but the learning venue is not in the sacrificial hall, but in
Shade has been to the fire prevention female cemetery (Note) that is connected to the mountain top sacrificial site through steps and is located slightly below the mountain.
Although this is a cemetery, it is actually just a very empty and open open space. Because the body of the fire prevention girl will be turned into firewood after death, there is actually no remains that can be buried. The empty square-like cemetery is flanked by stone walls and
Shimen, and the other two opposite sides are cliffs and nearly vertical cliffs of tens of thousands of feet.
The nuns of the [Spiritual Order] have already prepared for the ceremony here this afternoon. To be precise, they have drawn the "Sun, Moon and Stars" pattern on the open space of the Randall Valley [Night Temple].
The flat ground was covered with white ash.
After making preparations, the blind nuns left one after another, leaving only Sister Devlin and the Hongdie girls.
Shade took off his coat and shirt according to the nun's instructions, and then Sister Devlin used the tail hair of a strange alien creature "Moon-shaped Rabbit" to apply special paint to Shade's body. Centered on the chest,
With a small amount of mithril fragments, the shimmering pigment extends to the throat and the center of the back.
The "Moon Rabbit" is an extremely ugly rabbit with a face shaped like a crescent moon. Shade has only seen them in books before, and these rabbits are considered to be the ugliest rabbits that have ever appeared in the material world.
After everything was ready, Shade, with his upper body naked, sat cross-legged in the center of the huge ritual array on the ground, while the nuns and the Hongdie girls retreated outside the venue.
After looking up at the stars and remembering the appearance of the galaxy, Shade closed his eyes and gradually entered a meditative state - this was very simple for him. For this world, due to the "spiritual spirit" of the ring warlock
"It is not pure energy, so meditation alone cannot quickly restore the spirit. This leads to the fact that meditation, which seems to be very useful to extraordinary people, is actually just an auxiliary ritual, a means to enhance mental power and echo certain thaumaturgy.
Correspondence students have not been guided by professional professors in meditation, but high-level ring magicians have mastery of their own minds and bodies, allowing them to quickly master meditation techniques even without frequent practice.
Shade is a person who is very talented in "meditation". After relaxing his mind, he slowly let the physical senses disappear, and then forced the spirit body to gradually sink in the dark field of vision to the "starry sky" illusion he just memorized.
middle.
Deep meditation is very close to the state of sleep. When Shade found that he could vaguely see the boundless wilderness around him, he knew that he had succeeded.
In the real world, the silver lines on Shade's body took the lead in emitting light like real moonlight as his spirit entered a deep state of meditation. As the light "ignited" the ritual matrix on the ground, the sun, moon and stars
The pattern also emits the glimmer of the silver moon.
The light spread like ripples on the ground, and the sparkling light adhered to the surface until it was like a galaxy projected on the ground of the fire prevention female cemetery.