The Whispering Verses Chapter 643: Dorothy’s Promotion Ceremony
Chapter 643 Dorothy’s Promotion Ceremony
Tonight Dorothy will hold a ceremony in Shade's attic to be promoted from the fourth ring of the low ring to the fifth ring of the middle ring, so Shade does not plan to go to Fort Midhill this Sunday.
After breakfast, Shade went to Old John's **** shop first. Because he arrived so early, Papa John had just opened the door and didn’t even take out the small sign outside:
"Come to my place so early. Do you want to buy something?"
After the gray-haired old man greeted his neighbors, he yawned and stood at the door of the store and asked Shade who was walking along the street. Tobesk is so peaceful in the early morning, especially for those who don’t have to work hard for a living:
"Detective, help me get the padlock from the door to the counter."
"Okay, but Father John, is the steam pipe at your door leaking? Why did you put a basin here to catch the water?"
Xia De asked curiously.
"The pipeline company has been notified to repair it. This cannot be delayed, otherwise it will freeze and crack when winter comes. Speaking of which, what are you here for?"
The two walked into the store together. The light was not very good in the morning and the gas lamp was turned on in the store.
"Is there a moonstone?"
"Of course, today's first business is so small? Detective, how much do you want?"
As he spoke, the old man rummaged through the goods list under the counter to check how many goods he still had. . .
"A small piece is enough. One of my magic arts requires casting materials, but only a very small amount is lost each time, so a small piece of moonstone can last me a long time."
"It must be inconvenient to always carry stones in your pocket, right? And they are easy to lose."
Old John raised his eyes and looked at Shade.
"So what do you mean"
"I happen to have a ring made of moonstone here, and it is written with runes that can enhance the effect of thaumaturgy using the moon script of the ancestors of the Fourth Age. Not only that, it"
"You can just make an offer."
Xia De smiled and said:
"So early, you are really interested in making money from me."
“For the sake of you introducing Louisa to me and placing a big order, I plan to sell it to you at cost price this time!”
Old John said with his neck raised, and finally took Shade's 1 pound 8 shillings and handed him the ring that looked like it was made of gray stone.
The surface of the ring is relatively smooth, and is engraved with a circle of small and elongated inscriptions. The letters look like a missing moon.
The translated meaning is quite normal:
【May the moon be with you. 】
After returning home, Shade did not wait for the blond female writer. Instead, a strange carriage stopped at the door of his home.
Then a middle-aged woman who called herself "the owner of Aikedi Clothing Store" asked the clerks to carefully take down the twenty sets of clothes from the carriage and send them to the second floor for Shade.
"Miss Princess ordered it for you and she gave us the size information."
When the confused Shade took the order from the female shopkeeper and was about to sign for it, he realized that it was the clothes sent by Lesia:
"How many gold pounds did these clothes cost?"
On the manifest there is only information about these hand-tailored clothes, but no price.
"Miss Prince's servant asked us not to tell you the price. It was the lady who asked for it."
Xia De nodded and signed his name on the receipt. This way, he won't be short of clothes this fall.
Shadow was at home all day long, and Dorothy did not come until ten in the morning. She looked a little nervous and kept checking the documents she got from the academy to see if there were any gaps in her ritual.
Shad suggested that he invite Luvia and Dr. Schneider to help out in the evening, but Dorothy refused. Her ceremony requires as few people as possible, otherwise it may affect the success rate of the ceremony.
In order to make Dorothy feel more relaxed, after dinner in the evening, Shadra took Dorothy with her to walk the cat in the university area. Afterwards, they did not go home, but sat together on the lawn of the Terrarel River embankment through the university district to watch the stars.
The two talked about many things, and this conversation under the stars was very relaxing for Dorothy. Anyway, when they got home at nine o'clock in the evening, the blonde looked completely fine.
The time chosen for the ceremony was ten o'clock that night. In order to prevent Mia from causing trouble, Shade locked it up on the second floor in advance and prepared the cat food it liked to eat and the two rings it liked. The cat shouldn't make too much noise.
At nine fifty in the evening, Shade and Dorothy came to the attic together. Shade raised his head and glanced at the star map drawn in chalk on the sloping ceiling of the attic:
"If it goes well, the ceremony will be over in twenty minutes. But I am curious, when you are promoted, will there be any reaction from Lesia a few blocks away?"
"When Lesiya was promoted to the fifth ring, I just felt a little warm in my body, and there were no other abnormal phenomena. But once I am promoted this time, we will be on the same level again, and our connection will be strengthened. Therefore, Leziya is in a When I was young, I hid in her room in advance to prevent accidents."
Dorothy stood in the middle of the floor filled with ritual items, looking at the floor-to-ceiling mirror in the center of the ritual array. This mirror is an antique, said to have been used by the Cavendish princesses three hundred years ago. Dorothy borrowed it from Old John.
Although Papa John is a bit stingy, the products in his hands are absolutely authentic.
Dorothy’s core spiritual rune is [Writer] [Play] [Another Princess]. When she is in a low level, she uses [Writer] as the core of the system, uses fairy tales as a means of strength, and draws from enlightenment. Power, until it can summon characters from fairy tales as summons to assist in battle.
Lesia's low level also uses this method, while the two ladies plan to use [acting] in their middle level. In addition to continuing to connect the sublimated words of fairy tales and calling out the characters in the stories, try to "play" the characters in those stories by yourself, so that you can have the power of fairy tales.
Therefore, in addition to thoroughly connecting the words of the lower fourth-level sublimation in this promotion - [Besides the dream of matches, the writer feels compassion for those who freeze to death], she also needs to activate the power of the core spiritual runes as much as possible to do Build the system well after Central.
This resulted in Dorothy dressing up as a "Match Girl" at this time. That is to say, he was barefoot, wearing patched coarse cloth clothes, his head was wrapped in a turban, his face was smeared with pot ashes, and he was carrying a small basket with matches in the basket.
Probably to show the feeling of being "under-clothed", some of Dorothy's clothes are not suitable for wearing on autumn nights, but the four-ring warlock will not catch a cold easily, so there is no need to worry about her In good health.
In addition to the ritual traces painted with special chalk, the precious metal charms bought from the academy, the potion bottles on the cabinets on the wall, and the ritual symbols used as antiques, there are also roots on the ground. Standing matches. The matches are glued to the clay and fixed on the floor without tipping. Fixing these matches is the most troublesome step in arranging the entire ceremony.
"Attention, there are still ten seconds!"
Shad, who can sense time accurately, said, quickly walking to the attic window and opening it. Tonight's sky is still shrouded in mist, but the moon can still be seen.
The light of the moon shone on Shade, and he stood at the window and turned around:
"Five seconds! Call out the life ring!"
With both hands stretched out, huge brass rings appeared behind both of them, and four-colored auras immediately overflowed in the attic.
"Three seconds! Silent moonlight!"
The moonlight slanted in from the window and shrouded Shade's body, helping him speed up his spiritual recovery. Of course, only he can see this beam of light.
"Two seconds! Mysterious lock, the little match girl!"
With only three rings, Shade would of course be unable to fully use this thaumaturgy.
But with the first ring, he can summon snowflakes. With the second ring, he can vaguely summon the moon above his head. In the third ring state, while his spirit is rapidly consumed, his body and life ring are outside the window together. The moonlight resonated, and then the starry sky vaguely overlapped with the star map on the ceiling of the attic. It was as if the ceiling had become transparent, allowing the bright galaxy to hang directly above their heads.
Mystery locks can also be used in large-scale ceremonies. Dorothy spent the winnings from betting on players in the big city some time ago to arrange a mystery lock ceremony, in order to allow Shade to use [The Little Match Girl] as fully as possible at this moment. 】.
"One! Dorothy, it's time!"
Dorothy stood in the middle of the loft, eyes closed, facing the huge copper-framed floor-to-ceiling mirror. The moonlight outside the window and the starlight above her head shone on her body at the same time. At the same time, snowflakes fell on her head and shoulders, and then slowly melted.
She is carrying a basket on her left arm, and in her right hand she is holding a handwritten story of "The Little Match Girl". This is the original version of the story provided by the creator of the story, Shad, and symbolizes the word of sublimation. source.
The parchment roll automatically flew into the sky, and the curled paper roll unfolded little by little under the illumination of Dorothy's spiritual light. Then the flame ignited from the tail of the parchment paper, and then spread upward.
The ceremonial array on the ground lit up, and the 365 matches that were not originally lit lit up together under the snow-covered ceiling.
In the swaying light of the fire, the surface of the floor-to-ceiling mirror that originally reflected this strange scene in the attic gradually became blurred. A strange white mist covered the mirror after the parchment roll was completely burned out. Dorothy still kept her eyes closed, her right hand swung gracefully in front of her, and then a match appeared between her fingers.
Shake the match slightly, and the flame appears on the head of the match. She opened her eyes and lightly threw the burning match towards the mirror.
Surrounded by hundreds of matches, surrounded by the ritual matrix that lit up on the ground, surrounded by moonlight, starlight and spiritual light, the match ignited the white mist on the mirror. After the fire, a street scene with falling snow appeared in the mirror.
Shad, who struggled to maintain the starlight and falling snow, breathed a sigh of relief, which meant that the ceremony went very smoothly.
Dorothy was holding a basket and looking at herself in the mirror on the streets of the snow-falling town. In the mirror, she was huddled on the side of the street, with obvious traces of frostbite on her fair skin, and her face was pale as she looked at the snow-falling town. .
"The fantasy of matches."
She said softly, and Dorothy's reflection in the mirror seemed to be looking at the "other Dorothy" in the mirror, trembling and standing up.
Dorothy drank the potions prepared in advance, and then evenly sprinkled the dust at her feet with the [Forged Philosopher's Stone] as the material.
The spiritual light on the life ring behind him shone brighter and brighter. The matches burning on the ground did not shrink, nor did they gradually extinguish. The fire light became brighter and brighter, until the entire attic was illuminated like daylight.