The Whispering Verses Chapter 1452: The cards in hand

Chapter 1452: The cards in hand

"That's awesome."

Shad, who appeared behind Miss Sylvia, admired heartily, and the witch turned her head with a smile:

"Be my apprentice, I can teach you everything."

Not 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 did the snake go?"

Shad asked, getting on the horse again with Miss Sylvia.

"It was compressed into a mass point by space. Don't look at that monster, it doesn't look powerful, but on the ground, we have no way to completely destroy it. There are only a few seals and methods like mine. Only in this way can they truly lose their fighting power. So, please leave me tonight."

The sound of horse hooves faded away, and the two continued to move deeper into the valley.

At seven-thirty in the evening, in the heavy gray snow, Shade and Miss Sylvia arrived at the small bridge outside the forest surrounding Oxenfurt Manor.

Shad and Miss Sylvia stopped here. After dismounting, Shad looked up in the snow and looked at the manor in the distance:

"That's enough. Although it is a superstition among country women that demons and vampires will not cross the river, if we go further, they may really be able to sense us."

Shad took off his gloves and stuffed them into the saddle bag:

"Miss Sylvia, next, you have to wait for me in the wind and snow, which 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, with ancient elven runes representing "space" engraved on it with dark red paint:

"As long as you carry this with you, I can locate your position at any time. And if you crush it hard, yes, crush this stone, even if you fall into a different space, I can still think of you. Find you."

Xia De handed her [Origin and Balance]:

"If I need help, this card will disappear from your hand."

At this point, except for [Founder Silver Moon], all four cards in Shade's hand have been temporarily loaned out.

"I understand."

Miss Sylvia didn’t say anything more and kissed Shade gently. At this time, Sister Devlin, who had arrived early, walked out of the forest. After explaining to the two of them that the person who was with the church team was a clone, she and Miss Sylvia each held a horse. , heading towards the direction they came from just now.

After the two figures flickered briefly, they disappeared together with the two horses.

Shad touched the various relics and casting materials on his body, then pressed his chest to feel the presence of the Mia doll, and then walked to the forest path on the other side 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.

Looking from the fence gate, the courtyard surrounded by high walls is empty. Shade didn't want to call someone 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 has been in contact with doctors many times. Interpreting ordinary demon runes no longer causes mental stress, and the meaning of the runes is roughly:

【No access until the end of the night. 】

"The prohibitive orders at night are very similar to the 'Law Order' thaumaturgy that Miss Carina taught Iluna."

Xia De thought in his heart and muttered:

"Let someone else come to get something, and then lock the door on purpose. I hope you don'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. Instead, he 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 daylight."

After finishing speaking, he took out the secret-keeper-level relic [The Soul-Draining Demon'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 Devil's language could be used here, but unfortunately Shade doesn't know Devil's language, and the tree father has not given him a reward such as "a piece of knowledge - the devil race" for the time being.

As the elven characters were 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 hilt made by Priest August.

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. A faint light emitted from the crossed finger bones, as if sensing the presence of the undead.

He officially entered the manor.

Crossing the gate of the manor, the courtyard covered with gray snowflakes looked increasingly 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, the flowerbed was buried in the snow, the big tree fell to the ground as if struck by lightning, and even the fountain sculpture that could not spray water was 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 the double doors at the door of the mansion were only left The one on the left:

"What's going on? This place is abandoned?"

The inside of the building seemed even darker and gloomier than the outside, with worn furniture blocking the corridors and spider webs clinging to every corner. The corridor was filled with gray snowflakes blowing in from the windows, and from time to time you could even hear the sound of a woman sobbing from an unknown direction.

"Have you discovered the power of time?"

Xia De asked in his heart.

[No. 】

"She" answered gently.

Instead of exploring the first floor, Shade 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 up to the third floor.

After many visits to Oxenfurt Manor, Shade had never been to the bedrooms of the owners of the manor, and this time his destination was there. Although he didn't know the specific location, the architectural layout of this kind of large manor was similar. He easily found an ajar door with candle light inside in the dilapidated building. After pushing the door open, he entered , the interior decoration is 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 Hai? Oxenfurt and Stone Oxenfurt was hung above the bed. Fruits and snacks were placed on the small table beside the bed. On the desk is an unfinished letter, and a burning candle is placed on a gold candlestick. This candle is 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. And although there is a wardrobe in the corner of the room, there are still clothes hangers at the door. Gorgeous men's robes were hung on it, and a walking stick with a golden lion on its head was placed against the wall under the hanger.

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 Sea Oxenfurt in a black skirt lying on the bed, near the window and the terrace. side. Her hands in black lace gloves were clasped together in front of her chest, but she still wore shoes, but her veil was placed on the bedside instead of wearing it as before.

"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.

【Death. 】

"Her" voice is still gentle.

Hay? Oxenfurt's eyes were closed tightly, and his already pale cheeks now became even less like a living person. The lips are purple and the blood vessels on the face are quite obvious. And in the hands held together, there is a withered black rose.

Such roses also appeared in the hands of Stone Oxenfurt and the Stone Mirror Demon Goethe.

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 on the free side by the door, lay the familiar medal of the Oxenfurt family.

"What kind of trick is this? Seeing the devil."

Shad 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 Hai·Osenfurt's body. But what was different from before was that petrified rose vines were climbing on her body, and those rose vines seemed to grow from her heart. Apart from the stones, there was nothing abnormal about the body itself. It was indeed a corpse.

"The body does not have any temperature, but there are no signs of decay"

Shad 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 brief dark blue words written on the open parchment. That's Stone Oxenfurt's handwriting:

"What you want is below."

Opening the parchment, the Rhodes cards with the woman in robes, the Holy Grail, the countryside and the village appeared on the card in the flickering light of the candle.

Xia De picked it up:

"Flowers 12, the origin of the earth."

This is a genuine product, and it appeared in Shade's hands easily. He originally thought that he had to kill Oxenfurt before he could find it out of his body pocket.