"Speaking of which, I just wanted to ask, where did this sword come from?"
Luvia asked curiously.
"I got it from an adventure with the doctor. This is an angel-level sword. Unfortunately, I can only hold it for a short time."
Shade didn't remember to talk to Luvia about this sword before he came.
"Oh, this is really awesome."
Dorothy also said:
"It turns out that you entrusted me to temporarily take care of your cat on Monday for this reason. But what did you and the doctor do to obtain a relic of this value?"
Both girls looked at Shade curiously. Shade glanced at the doctor. The doctor hurriedly shook his head:
"Let the detective say, it is mainly the detective's credit."
"Um"
It was impossible for Shade to say that the doctor had swallowed a Balrog, so he could only keep his mouth shut:
"This is also a secret, a not-so-important secret."
Since Shade claimed to have a way to solve the problem on the third floor, the others did not stay long and left after saying a few words. After all, Shade arrived so early, and most of them had not had breakfast yet.
After Shade said goodbye to his friends in the foyer, he did not turn around and go upstairs with Mia, who was watching him on the stairs. Instead, he waited in the foyer for a while.
Sure enough, there was a knock on the door. It was Luvia who was back.
"Are you still going to Fort Midhill today?"
She asked directly, and the two went upstairs to continue the conversation.
"certainly."
"There was another earthquake there. The last earthquake caused the emergence of evil spirits and the increase in the power of those terrible guys. I don't know what will happen this time."
Luvia said worriedly.
"It's not just the problem."
Shade asked Luvia to sit down first, and he waved his hand to draw a black crack in the air. Luvia immediately closed her eyes, her strength was not enough to let her look directly at "death".
Shade looked through this crack at the beach in front of the tranquil waters illuminated by the dark moon, and the red-gold bonfire on the beach that was the trace of the secret seal of "Kiss of the Tree". The flame was a little weak:
"The seal I left has been severely weakened by two earthquakes. Unless I take the risk and push open the door through the narrow space again, once a third earthquake occurs, the effect of the Kiss of the Tree will be completely destroyed.
The situation was again as it was before I arrived at Fort Midhill."
In fact, Shade wanted to say "before the priest sealed it", but he promised the priest not to tell his secret. Although the thaumaturgy [True Death] could allow Shade to pass through the crack and directly enter behind the door of death, but in this way
First, he will directly complete the transition from the world of the living to the world of the dead. His soul and body cannot bear this change, so he must make the transition through a narrow space.
"No, no, you can't go again. Do you want to die again? You were able to escape last time, but you can't escape this time. Don't forget that after the two earthquakes, the narrow room itself has also undergone new changes."
Luvia stopped Shade’s idea:
"The key now is the third chosen one. The poem has indicated that he or she can solve this big trouble."
But the problem is that four coins are not enough for divination.
"I understand. I will enter the Sin Mansion today and try to get the blood money."
Shade picked up the long sword on the coffee table:
"We can't wait any longer, not even if the city of Fort Midhill can still exist, but also to get ahead of the church and the college. Iluna told me last night that the church is already taking action. Once I can get enough
With coins, almost all current difficulties can be solved.”
"Wait a moment, I will perform a divination for you to determine whether your trip will go well."
Luvia put her hand into her pocket and took out a silver coin with blasphemous elements. This is the clerical relic that Iluna applied to the Church of the Sun [the fortune teller's silver coin]. Even a magician who has not learned divination can use it.
Rely on this coin to enhance your own inspiration and capture more traces of destiny when making one of the two choices.
For the magicians who are proficient in divination, this is almost a "divination amplifier". Although it has the disadvantage of misleading fate and making oneself fall into a fate trap, this coin is an extremely useful relic for any fortune teller.
Luvia asked for a piece of Shad's hair, rolled it with one hand, and threw the coin away with the other hand. Her purple eyes seemed to light up at this moment, and the coin that was thrown away did not fall, but was in the air.
It kept spinning and took half a minute to fall.
Luvia closed her eyes and took a deep breath before opening her eyes:
"I can't tell whether this trip will be life-threatening, but I can be sure that you can meet an old friend from the secret-keeper-level [Sin Mansion]."
"Old friend?"
"Not the people you met at Fort Midhill, but old friends from far away places."
Regardless, getting new coins is the most important thing right now.
It was not safe at home now, so after sending Luvia away, Shade took the cat back from the church and sent it to Dorothy, asking her to take care of it. In this way, he could leave Tobesk City with peace of mind.
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The location of the [Sin Mansion] is closer to the top of the mountain than the ruined tower in the mountain. According to the information provided by Granny Cassandra, this relic, rated as a keeper of secrets, usually does not stay in one place for more than
Three weeks later, when Shade stepped out of the abandoned tower and felt that the blood money he carried with him could still feel the same kind of coins, he knew that the [Sin Mansion] was still on Mount Sikal.
Because of yesterday's earthquake, Shade was still worried about encountering evil spirits on the way up the mountain. But he was very lucky this time. Of course, it might also be because there was no fog in the Sikal Mountains in the morning, so he was not able to see evil spirits all the way up the mountain.
It's quite peaceful.
However, with the arrival of late autumn, most of the green color when Xia De first saw this place in early autumn has turned into golden yellow. The leaves falling from the branches not only dyed the earth golden, but also made the branches bare.
I wonder if this scenery foreshadows the fate of the city below the mountain.
Although he did not encounter evil spirits, Shade met a group of ring warlocks from the Zhengshen Church on the way. He knew the identity of the other party because they used magic to drive away mosquitoes in the mountains while walking.
Sprinkling holy water on the ground seems to be surveying the terrain.
It seems that the large-scale ceremony led by the Natural Church is really about to begin.
At 9:23 a.m., Shade, holding the [Night Watch], arrived at the outskirts of the [Sin Mansion], and saw the three-story building surrounded by a fence with black spikes through the fallen leaves.
But what Shade didn't expect was that when he looked at the main door of the building, he happened to see the door closing silently. He didn't know if some unlucky guy had accidentally entered it, or if someone was inside the [Sin Mansion].
The soul captured by the relic is at work.
The night watchman's long sword was inserted into the scabbard and was held by Shade in his hand. When Shade walked out of the forest and formally set foot on the gravel path leading to the mansion, the sword immediately vibrated slightly. But when Shade stepped out of the tree decorated with thorns,
After passing through the black fence gate, the sword returned to its original state, as if knowing that the sword holder was determined to approach a dangerous place.
