The purpose of Shade's visit to Mr. Bernhardt so late was of course not to brag about what he had done at the banquet, but to entrust Mr. Bernhardt's priest friend at the Peace Church to find out through the church's relationship.
Let’s take a look at the time when Professor Drake went to look for the Lady of the Lake more than ten years ago. Did any strange things happen in the city?
This is quite easy for the church's magicians, because there is no restriction on querying such basic information. Mr. Bernhardt agreed and promised that Shade would get the results on Sunday:
"But are you still investigating about the Lady of the Lake? This is a legend I have heard since I was a child, but our family has been living here for generations, and no one has ever noticed the authenticity of this story."
When saying goodbye to Shade at the gate of the manor, the gentleman asked again. Shade shook his head, turned over and rode the horse:
"It's something else. Something happened in Huntington, something is happening now, and something will happen in the future..."
After saying that, he waved and then disappeared into the night on horseback. The middle-aged vampire looked at Shade's back suspiciously, and then thought of a series of things they experienced at Fort Midhill in the autumn:
"Could something big happen in Huntingdon... Oh, my lord, should I go somewhere else for a while?"
After returning home from Huntington, Shade projected himself from his home to the St. Byrons Library at the agreed time, met and informed Miss Denister that he had seen the "Guiding Moon"
.
Miss Denister took this matter very seriously. After learning that Shade had already started talking to the other party and confirmed that the other party was connected to the local Serkses Correspondence Circle Warlock Group in Tobesk, this thirteen-ring female
The warlock praised Shade without hesitation.
She has already made an alchemy item that can collect spiritual light. Because this matter cannot be known to the academy, it cannot be sent to Shade through the poem manuscript pages. The item will be sent from the academy by ordinary mail on the weekend.
It was mailed to Shade's home from the property controlled by Delarion.
What Shade needs is to control the alchemy item to collect spiritual light when the "Moon of Guidance" reveals its life ring. If the core spiritual rune "Moon of Guidance" can really replace the core spiritual rune "Yellow Moon", then Silver
The [Silver Moon Library] left behind by Ancient Moon God may be found before the end of this year.
"Speaking of which, Miss Daniste, when can I come to the library in person again?"
Shade didn't forget to ask before he left. This was of course for the one third of the "time perception" tablets that were suspected to exist in the college library. Although his spell [Library Search] could not exert its full effect in the projected state, in person
Come and cast a spell, maybe you can find the stone slab.
"Wait until the role of the Guiding Moon is confirmed."
The thirteen-ring sorceress held her face and sighed in annoyance:
"I hope it will really work. Otherwise, we can only hope that the 'Yellow Moon' core spirit rune will take the initiative to appear in front of us."
(Little Mia is running...)
At the end of the adventure in the Cadiz Library in the Deadly Valley, the knowledge promised by the old god [The Gray Sage] is now suspected to be divided into three. After the order fell apart, they are respectively held in the library of St. Byrons Comprehensive College.
In the hands of the Apna Library and the Priory of the Guides of Light.
Among them, the slate in the hands of the Priory was exchanged by Shade from Mr. Edmund of Coldwater Port at the cost of the remaining verses of the poem "The Secret of Immortality". It took more than half a week to obtain the slate.
It was delivered to Mr. Edmund, and it was Friday morning when Shade saw the stone slab.
It's interesting to say that probably because he slept so much at Carina Manor on Wednesday, Shade actually violated his own biological clock on Friday morning and opened his eyes before six o'clock and saw the familiar ceiling in the bedroom.
He tilted his head and glanced at the cat next to the pillow. The cat was curled up into a cat ball and still sleeping. Because the breathing "cat ball" was shrinking and returning in a regular way. It wasn't until Shade got up that the alert cat
He opened his eyes, got up in a daze and found that it was not yet time for breakfast - he knew that the milkman hadn't come yet, so he said "meow~" and fell back on the bed.
Because he got up very early, Shade went to Coldwater Port alone after breakfast. He first went to Aurora Manor and changed out of clothes that were soaked in sea water. When he saw Mr. Edmond, time was just
It was eight o'clock, but by that time there were already other customers coming to trade in the old lighthouse.
Shade stood on the sea cliff looking at the sea and blowing in the wind. After the three-ring warlock wearing a ridiculous monkey mask left, he walked into the tower.
"Good morning, Mr. Edmond, has the slate I asked for arrived?"
Shade said hello and sat down. The old man seemed to have had breakfast, and there was a smell of boiled eggs in the tower.
"Here we are, I thought you would come on the weekend. Wait a moment, I'll get the goods."
As he spoke, he followed the spiral staircase to the upper level of the lighthouse. While Shade was looking at the new fish specimens that appeared in the tower, the old man came back holding a mahogany box. The box was designed to be opened and had a small lock.
There is a copper lock hanging on it.
This design seems unnecessary. After all, it is not difficult to destroy the wooden box. But Shade, who has gradually enriched his knowledge of occultism, can see that the lines on the lock itself and the wooden box form an exquisite ritual. Do not open it.
Lock, even if the box is destroyed, you will never be able to "get" the contents of the box.
Mr. Edmond opened the box with the key and pushed it from the table to Shade. Shade immediately raised his eyebrows after opening it. The wooden box that was larger than a palm had a very thick lining inside.
Lying on it is a stone slab with four corners wrapped with silver bumpers and only the size of an adult's hand. This can probably be used by little Mia as a surfboard.
Specifically, it is about the size of a small portable book that people would carry on long-distance train journeys. The light-guiding hermitage has kept it very well, and there are almost no traces of time. The surface of the stone is smooth, with only a few scratches that are not easy to observe.
mark.
"Little Mia won't like surfing."
Shade thought in his mind, and then said with a smile:
"Based on its appearance alone, this is also a very good piece of art."
He reached out and took the slate out of the box. He thought that there would be no words or patterns on the upward side, but there would be on the other side, but the result was completely unexpected. There was only an ancient rune representing the number "two" on the other side.
"After this item came into our hands from the disintegrated Old God Order, except for a few lucky guys who obtained spiritual runes or thaumaturgy through touching it, no other more specific function has been analyzed so far. We can only confirm that this item
It’s a book. If you can find a way to know its function, don’t forget to tell us how to interpret it.”
Mr. Edmund said, and Shade frowned. He originally thought that this kind of stone slab was the same as the ancient books from the First Age in the Gaddis Library. You could get the content by reading the name. Now it seems that he wants to
It's still too simple.
He hurried back home with the slate. He was originally worried about how to obtain the knowledge in the slate, but when he swam from the bottom of the sea to the cave under the sea cliff and saw the statue of the ancient god [Primal Crack] behind the hidden wall, Shade was again
Got new inspiration.
The great sage in gray robe once said personally that although he seemed to have inherited the power of the ancient god [Secret Keeper], in fact the power of this great sage came from the ancient god of the moon [
Silver Moon Sage], because this ancient god has the power of "recorder".
Even when invoking the gods in the library of Gaddis, the stone slab in the shrine recording the "poetry of invoking the gods" also has symbols representing the phases of the moon (Chapter 672).
"Could it be said that to open the content of the slate, what is needed is..."
With his own thoughts and his whole body covered in water, Shade returned home. First he took a simple bath, then sat on the sofa and solemnly opened the wooden box.
"Meow~"
Little Mia stretched out her head and sniffed curiously. After the cat walked away without interest, Shade called out his life ring. Amidst the sound of whistles and bells, the life ring emerged from the hot steam. The huge life ring radiated out
The aura makes the orange cat's hair reflect a strange luster.
Shade controlled his core spiritual rune "Silver Moon" to emit light. When the enlightening spiritual light shone on the stone slab wrapped with silver horns at the four corners, the stone slab that was originally lying in the box seemed to be responding to the spiritual light, and the whole body radiated.
The silver light particles automatically floated up in the cat's surprised expression:
"Oh, that's true!"
Shade excitedly grabbed the cat on the coffee table and put it on his lap:
"The old sage also saw that I have the power of the moon, so he set it up in this way, just like the aura of [Time and Space] opens the hidden wall... But for so many years, no one has
Have you ever tried shining a spiritual light on it?”
He thought suspiciously, and "her" murmured his doubts:
[Perhaps, it’s just because other people are not smart enough.]
"Yes, [Grey-robed Sage] prepared this gift for me."
The stone slab under the enlightenment light of [Silver Moon] exudes a faint silver moonlight. Originally it only had a very weak miraculous element, but now the overflowing miraculous element is like a magical item in a church.
"Very good, the answer will be revealed next, whether this really contains the knowledge of time."
Shade tried to reach out to the stone slab. When his hand touched the glowing stone slab, a stream of silver light rushed to Shade's fingers. At the same time, the carvings of the silver moon suddenly appeared on the originally smooth surface of the stone slab.
Surrounded by the olive branch pattern is the clearest silver full moon. The mark only flickered for a moment and then disappeared. The traces of light pouring into the fingers have already sent the complicated and confusing knowledge into Shade's mind.