"This is easy to handle. Just take this. When you need me, find a corpse and bury this in its chest. I can remotely control that corpse."
What Priest August gave Shade was a small piece of pale bone, but it probably wasn't the angel remains that Shade had found. As for the priest's method, although it didn't sound like something a positive character should use, it was when Shade had just joined the group.
At that time, Dr. Schneider said that Rat August was good at undead thaumaturgy.
If Shade remembered correctly, the priest himself also said that he was very skilled in the "corpse explosion technique".
After negotiating the plan with Priest Augustus, Shade purchased a batch of magic potions from him as important supplies for the upcoming battle of Vista Woodland, and then continued to take little Mia to Dr. Schneider in the east of the city.
Psychiatric Clinic.
He got off the carriage and looked up to see that every window of the psychological clinic was lit with lights. He was originally worried that the doctor was currently receiving patients. Fortunately, after informing the maid at the front desk, the doctor appeared quickly:
"Let's go, let's go to the reception room on the second floor."
"Are there no patients now?"
"Of course, I am a busy man. But the patient has just been hypnotized by me, so I have an hour now. I know what you are thinking now without looking back."
The doctor led Shade up the stairs:
"They are patients with insomnia. Although I do charge based on time, I will not use hypnotherapy for all patients."
Shade, who was holding the cat, asked curiously:
"But does insomnia also fall within the scope of diagnosis and treatment in psychological clinics?"
"Detective, in theory, as long as people are willing to pay, I can treat any disease."
After sitting down in the familiar reception room, Shade told again what he had just told Priest Augustus. After listening carefully, the doctor's first emotion was not that the war was coming:
"So everyone should be able to come back next week, right? You know, I'm really not used to you not coming to my place for meetings every Saturday. The old priest came last Saturday, but he brought
A bottle of wine, the two of us drank and chatted all afternoon. I hope you all still remember what happened during the exam week around the New Year's Day. There are still one and a half months left. Even if you are busy saving the world, you can't
Forget about annual exams.”
He smiled and joked, and Shade laughed too:
"If things go well, the group meeting can proceed normally next Saturday. Then you can supervise everyone's review progress."
When Shade said this, he felt like normal life was about to return again:
"So doctor, how is your recovery now? Can you help?"
The doctor nodded:
"No problem. The power of demons and hunters has reached a basic balance, and I have adapted to the current state of the Ten Rings. However, yesterday I heard from Old John about the big event in the Vista Woodland two days ago.
, you can smash the moon with one blow, do you still need my help now?"
"Are you talking about that thing about the Crazy Moon? I also saw that Old John wrote to my house and asked me to visit him when I have time. I will go there in a while."
Shade sighed and touched the cat. The cat was very happy:
"That was not my normal state. It was the moon that gave me abnormal power. Besides me, there were three thirteen-ring warlocks present at that time."
If possible, Shade would also like to recreate the situation that night. The power of that blow even surpassed the normal demigod blow. But unfortunately after the crazy moon subsided, neither Shade nor the three ladies who cast spells on his palm at that time
I can never get back to the state I was in then.
Although if the "Moon of Madness" appears again, they might be able to do it again. But to cause another disaster in order to stop the Ancient One is a bit too exaggerated. Shade plans to discuss it with Miss Olanold after he returns.
After a while, even if the blow cannot be fully restored, it is still a good thing to have five or six points of restoration.
He has another chance to summon the projection of Ms. Helena Carter, and then the three thirteen-ring sorceresses can gather together again.
In short, the doctor can now go to Vista Grove to help, but Shade does not intend to let the doctor participate in the affairs of the city, nor does he intend to let him help guard the city:
"What may not happen tomorrow night, doctor, you will be waiting for us in the forest then. No matter what happens ahead, the final battle will definitely take place in the forest."
Of course, Shade didn't expect the doctor to be able to defeat the ancient one, but he just hoped that when he and Emilia went to the woods, the doctor could solve other troubles blocking the way.
"This is better. If I am allowed to move around the city, I will have to worry about how to use this power. After getting such a big improvement, I am actually also curious about how powerful I am now. This time I have been given a
Opportunity to play.”
The doctor once again gave Shade the mirror used to summon him:
"Now you can no longer call me only at midnight. You can call me at any time between seven o'clock in the evening and three o'clock in the morning."
"Okay, then please spare your time tomorrow night. I may call you at any time. Doctor, although I have asked you for a lot of help before, this time I am afraid it will be more dangerous than any other time."
The doctor smiled and said:
"I don't believe it's more dangerous than Moon Bay this summer. But you're not sure, are you? Or maybe you're worried about something, right?"
Shade sat across from him without speaking, and the middle-aged psychiatrist stood up and poured him a cup of tea:
"When I was young like you, there was a long time when I was still striding forward, but I was very worried and panicked about the future. You were much luckier than me. I was alone at that time, but
You have a lover, friends, and, oh, lovely pets.”
"Meow~"
The cat on his lap meowed because Shade put the teacup on it.
"Doctor, actually an hour and a half ago, someone just told me that an uncertain future allows people to move forward with hope. But now I want to know what will happen in the future immediately. I am really worried."
He expressed his troubles at this time to Dr. Schneider, and Bill Schneider was still smiling. He has gone through a lot of things to get to where he is today, and has more stories than a foreigner who has just been in this world for more than a year. He
Understand the mood of the young man across the coffee table:
"So in order to prevent yourself from regretting in the future, make more preparations for the future now. Besides, once you get busy, you can temporarily forget your worries.
Shade, don't let troubles and worries become a stumbling block for you to move forward. Most of the time, the stumbling blocks in people's life are just ourselves. Maybe I really have the potential to become a writer."
After saying goodbye to the doctor, Shade went directly to Old John's pawn shop. The business of the pawn shop seemed to be not very good. On this Friday when there was no daylight, there was no business in the entire shopping street. Probably to save gas.
Due to the cost, the gas light in the pawn shop was only turned on the lowest setting.
Instead, he saw Shade and his cat enter the door. The old man who was checking the account books behind the counter turned on the old-fashioned lotus leaf mouth gas lamp on the table that might be considered an antique.
"Good morning, Father John, do you have anything to do with me? The Vista Woods are preparing for the final battle. I'm very busy today."
Shade shook the letter in his hand at him, and the old man took off his reading glasses and did not talk to Shade:
"I know you are very busy, so I have prepared some useful things for you. I won't let you come here in vain. I just want to talk to you about the night of 'Crazy Moon'. I want to represent [
Guiding Light Monastery] Make sure, are there any ancient gods still alive in our era?"
"Why are you asking me this question? I don't know."
Shade shook his head and reached for the two suitcases that Old John moved to the counter. The boxes contained alchemy props and potions, and each item had a label. It looked like it belonged to the "Light-Guiding Hermitage".
Among the internal supplies, there were many potions that Shade had only heard of in books.
Estimate the selling price. If you buy it with direct money, the price of these materials must exceed four-digit gold pounds, and they may not be available. So this is definitely not something that Old John prepared for Shade personally. It should be a hermitage.
A favor will be given to the "God Caller".
"I won't hide it from you. In fact, we have always suspected that the old god that the God Caller calls every time is not the old god whose name has disappeared in the long river of history. He, sorry, she is actually calling the Sage of the Moon.
.”
"Why do you think so?"
Shade asked suspiciously, so the old man behind the counter lowered his voice and replied:
"Although it is quite a long time since the ancient god left in the sixth era, this does not mean that all the information about the ancient god has disappeared. There are actually many descriptions about the ancient moon god, the God Caller
The performance of summoning gods in previous times has already explained the problem. Therefore, in our era"
"I really don't know, it's not that I don't want to tell you, I really don't know, but I think there is a high probability that the ancient gods have left. I also hoped that those gods who are said to be older than the world itself are still watching.
The physical world, but I have prayed many times and never received a direct answer.”
After hearing what he said, Old John sighed with regret:
"Okay, this is also expected. So, the God Summoner is actually as the church estimated, calling the power of the gods in the past? No, no, you don't need to answer me, you know that the ancient gods are really gone
, is enough."
As he spoke he took out another small bag from under the counter;
"Our monastery is not a large ring sorcerer organization, nor does it have two thirteen rings like the Witches' Council. This time in the battle of Vesta Grove, we only sent members to wait for the results, and we did not directly help the people there.
In addition to the two boxes of supplies, I give this to you, hoping it will be helpful."
"What is this? Oh, it's a relic."
Shade took the ziplock bag, opened it, and poured it into his hand. A piece of beautiful silver-blue glass. The "glass" itself has an irregular shape, but its appearance is similar to a rhombus with a concave arc. Painted on its surface are
The constellation pattern composed of five stars was actually just five glowing bright spots and silver lines connected to each other, but Shade did not recognize what constellation it was.
"The Keeper-level relic [Broken Stardust], according to legend, when the original moon was broken, it also tore part of the starry sky. Some of the star debris fell into the material world, forming this rare relic.
Point it at the moon and tell your troubles and doubts, maybe you will get the answer. This is not a consumable relic. Theoretically, as long as you don't lose it, you can always make a wish to the stars and the moon. But compared to its deeds, its value
, it is more like a romantic legend, because few people can really get the answer."
"Stars that break with the moon?"
Shade raised the piece of "glass" and pointed it at the light of the gas lamp on the counter. Through the dots of light inside the glass, he seemed to really see a corner of the most primitive and ancient starry sky.