The Whispering Verses Chapter 2002: 【Star Trace】
Chapter 2002 [Star Trace]
"Heart of the Living Dead!"
There was a letter in an envelope sandwiched between the ice cubes. With Shade's permission, Miss Benanis opened it:
"The Peace Church obtained this object during the Coldwater Harbor incident last summer.
The young man living in the harbor lost his lover, so after being exposed to the curse of the 'Song of the Mermaid' and seeing the indescribable things in the deep sea in his dreams, he took the initiative to find the [Scarlet Cult] Group], at the expense of becoming a voluntary sacrifice and dying after being tortured, the Evil God Cult used divine magic to resurrect the dead lover. ”
She read the content of the letter. After reading this, she quickly scanned the content behind it, and then handed the letter to Sirius behind her with regret:
"Tell me, I don't like this story."
The young blonde girl continued to read the story on the letter:
"The blasphemy and filthy ritual resurrected the dead girl as a 'living dead', but the price was the mutilation of the soul and the transformation into an ugly fish-man. She became a member of the [Scarlet Order] He also participated in the Battle of Coldwater Harbor and escaped into the deep sea after being wounded. However, he came ashore late at night last winter to retrieve the mutilated body of the sacrificed man, so he was taught to patrol the seaside. The team discovered and defeated her heart, which is the Heart of the Living Dead."
Hiris also understood why Miss Benanis was unwilling to finish the story herself:
"What the church did is definitely right, but this story is too sad."
"The heart of the living dead does not only require the heart of a simple resurrected person, but also requires the hottest emotions and the saddest stories. Every heart of the living dead represents a tragedy. The heart of stone is, So does this."
Xia De shook his head and closed the box again with emotion. There is a constant temperature ritual in the box, and the heart can be preserved for a long time.
"However, during the Coldwater Port incident, this kind of thing actually happened?"
Miss Aurora asked from the side. As the second great witch to know Shad, she and Shad experienced the major events in the coastal port city on the west coast of the Old World last summer:
“It seems that in the corners we don’t know, even the big events we have personally experienced, there are many stories we don’t know about.”
"Such is the wonder of life and adventure."
Shad said, taking the letter from Sirius, which also contained the specific preservation method and precautions for the heart. But it won't stay in Shade's hands for long, it will be used soon.
Open the second box. Because there are weight-reducing runes inside, the weight of the three boxes is the same, and you can't guess what is in the second box.
"Oh, the design is really exquisite."
A slender silver chain connects the inside of the lid and the inside of the box. The chain cooperates with layers of silver metal partitions. When Shade lays the box down and opens it in the correct way, a parallel five-layer structure of the box composed of four layers of metal partitions is revealed.
At the left and right ends and in the middle of each layer, brown leather buckles that pass through the metal plate or the inner compartment at the bottom of the box are used to bind metal bars of different colors. Three leather buckles firmly fastened five pieces of metal with different sizes and thicknesses, but Shade still recognized what they were at a glance:
"The bottom layer is orichalcum, which is the largest and has a lot of weight; the upper layer is mithril, oh, the church is really willing to give it up, almost as good as the piece I got in Randall Valley; the third layer is mithril. The layer is pure gold, but the weight is still full.”
He also deliberately took out the piece of fine gold. During the group mission more than a month ago, Shade obtained a piece of fine gold ore from the ring warlock who used the invisible relic sword, but that There is not so much pure gold extracted from the ore.
"Xia De, if you are not in a hurry to use it, how about selling me one-third of this piece of fine gold?"
Miss Aurora asked on the side.
"Of course it's no problem. I'll go get the Night Watchman later and use the sword to separate it. Forget about selling it, you can just take it. There's no need to say this about our relationship. I'll ask you for help in the future. ”
The great witch of "light" smiled and nodded. Shade put the metal back and looked at the fourth floor:
"This is."
The metal on the fourth layer has a cyan luster, but it is not bronze. It was an extremely thick color, and there were obvious traces of scales on the metal surface.
"Dragon scale metal."
Xiris recognized what this was:
"There is a piece in the inventory of the Order. I saw my father use a small part of it when I was a child. However, the metals kept by the Order are not so large. Dragon scale metal, devil gold and angel holy silver are very famous ones. A special alloy related to the race. Dragon scale metal is said to be derived from the scales of dragons and is considered to have powerful magical and physical protective powers. It is usually used to make strong armor, but that is a thing of ancient times. In this era, this metal was particularly rare."
Metals such as mithril and fine gold were never abundant, but "dragon scale metal" became rare as dragons became scarce.
"The church is really generous, but the value of these four pieces of metal far exceeds the five-digit gold pound, right?"
"And this is something money can't buy."
Miss Benenice commented.
As for the top metal, it is a piece of silver carved with leaves, vines and roots. Although the silver nugget itself has a faint miraculous element, it is just ordinary silver that has been blessed. The key is the small red "little stone" embedded in the center of the metal strip.
The stone is only half the size of a fingernail and has a bright red color. Shade just glanced at it, and his breathing became heavier. He carefully took off the "little stone", put it in his hand and looked at the sunshine outside the window:
"Philosopher's Stone!"
The Philosopher's Stone has no distinction of purity, either it is or it is not, so the quantity can be estimated by volume alone.
"But why is it not as big as my original piece? It's only about two-thirds of the original piece."
"Shadow, do you think the Philosopher's Stone is easy to get?"
Miss Aurora smiled and reminded:
"Based on my experience, the piece in your hand is already quite big."
"There's a letter here too, oh, it's handwritten."
Miss Benenice said that as for the letter here, it was handwritten by the Thirteenth Ring Warlock of the Church of Nature, Sister Devlin's friend "Nightmare Witch" Miss Maria. She said in the letter that the metals in this box, except for the Philosopher's Stone, were all gifts from the Five Gods Church. But that Philosopher's Stone was a gift given solely to the "God Caller" by the Church of Nature.
This is a gesture of goodwill shown by the Natural Church to the "God Summoner" through this move. As for why the Natural Church is allowed to prepare a separate gift among the gifts sent by the Five Gods Church, that is the Five Gods Church's own problem. The five orthodox churches are in the same camp, but there are not without any conflicts and interest entanglements between heretics and heretics.
Since the first two boxes contained the items that Shad requested, the last box should contain the items that the church originally planned to give to Shad, except for the metals.
He opened it with full curiosity and found that the box was stuffed with straw, and between the straw were items wrapped in soft red satin. After Shade took it out, he found that the satin Inside is a rather thick silver crescent-shaped piece.
"Jade? Or metal?"
After touching it, I realized that the crescent moon was made of metal, larger than the palm of my hand, and felt quite cold to the touch. Originally without light, the crescent moon began to emit a faint silver light after Shade made contact with it. This is a relic with a strong whispering element. No matter what its function is, its appearance is the best among the relics that Shade has ever seen.
There was also a letter in the box, this time it was Sirius who opened the letter:
"Xia De, try to guide your spirit to flow into it. Do it slowly and try a few more times. Oh, don't forget to hold it and hold it flat in front of you. Let's all get out of the way."
Xia De then gave it a try. Since his perception was very strong, his control over the spirit was quite powerful. He succeeded in guiding the spirit to flow into the "Crescent Moon" in his hand in one go.
The relic absorbed a small amount of Shade's soul, and then the luster on the crescent moon became clearer, but it was not very dazzling. The two ends of the crescent moon stretched outward in the light, and after the stretching was completed, a silver thread emerged from the two ends of the bend to connect. What finally appeared in Shade's hand was a large silver bow. .
This large bow is exceptionally gorgeous, all silver and white. The bow is carved with fine star pattern patterns and is decorated with things that look like crystal clusters. The handshake part is an ancient rune symbolizing "starry sky" and "moonlight", and the recognizable sentence is-
[Star marks, empty marks. 】
The bow string is like a phantom, exuding a faint silver light like the bow body. Even in the dark night, the light on this long bow is enough to illuminate. In Shade's opinion, this is a weapon that should only exist in fairy tales.
"Is this the sage-level relic [Star Trace]?"
Miss Benenice recognized what it was, and seeing Sirius nodding with the letter, she took the initiative to introduce Shade:
"This is a very famous relic, quite famous. This bow comes from the Second Era, or even the First Era. According to legend, it is a weapon used by the ancient **** [Silver Moon Sage] in the form of a saint. ”
It should be from the Second Age, because Shade's thaumaturgy [Ancient Voice] was not triggered by him touching this item. As for whether it was used by the ancient god, this is not what Shade can know.
"This bow can be used without arrows. After being drawn, it can use its own spirit to gather into arrows. It has extremely strong exorcism, demon-breaking, and penetrating power. It can even easily penetrate powerful objects forged from mithril and dragon scale metals. Spell-resistant armor. Used under moonlight, arrows are more effective."
PS: This chapter shows the sage-level relic "Star Trace".