Whispering Poems

Chapter 2596 Signature Mist and Call
"Miss Danister can see the fog, but Miss Charlotte Bell and the others can't. Does it require the gift of time or is it a curse of time?"

Shade thought with a frown.

At this time, three hours had passed since Shad arrived at the Accordion Hotel, so it was already afternoon. Shad didn't know what the law of time change was, but it was clear that the matter of Miss Winslet's room 321 was still unresolved, because there was still a blank in the "Strong Spatial Perception".

The white mist in Room 317 was gradually dissipating, but when Shad glanced out the window unconsciously, he discovered that the entire city of Vista within his field of vision was shrouded in this misty fog.

Ordinary people on the street obviously still cannot see the fog, so the streets are still very busy, as if the afternoon "Golden Hall Concert" is in the audience entry stage.

When Shad opened the door and brought Miss Danister to the corridor, the only person left in the corridor filled with white fog was the witch apprentice Miss Bell.

She was surprised to see Shade and Miss Danister push the door open from room 317:
"You guys are out! Is the problem solved?"

"It's just that the issue of 317 has been resolved. What's going on with the fog outside?"

Shade asked, and Miss Bell was puzzled for a moment before answering:

"I still can't see the fog you mentioned, but it should be spreading outwards over time, right? I was worried that someone might see the fog and track it down, but no one has shown up until now."

According to "her", the fog underfoot is not a physical entity, but a phenomenon caused by the influence of time on space. Therefore, it is not flowing, but slowly growing in stillness. Since Miss Danister can also see this kind of fog, Shade is very sure that someone in the city must be able to discover the abnormality, but has not yet traced it here.

"This is for you. These appeared out of nowhere in front of the door about forty minutes ago."

Miss Bell handed him the note and a gold ring that was very familiar to Shade.

The handwriting on the note was clearly Miss Winslet's -

[We have run into some troubles, very dangerous enemies, but we can deal with them for now. The method given by the Excellency is: use the ring to enter the parliament, let the corridor connect with the hotel corridor, and lead the fog into the corridor. The signature on the back of the note will guide us. ]

On the back of the note was the words "Adele Isabella" written in cursive letters, which was the autograph of the 13th-level witch.

Miss Danister may not understand the meaning, but Shade knows that it means that after singing the "Witch's Song", a brick and stone corridor will appear, and at the end of the corridor is the white mist door leading to the [Witch Council].

He still doesn't know where that corridor is. He only knows that a similar corridor appeared in the night passage connecting "Eternal Night City" and "Randall Valley" that he accidentally established when he took Fiona away in "Eternal Night City" with a puzzle lock.

But this did not prevent him from knowing that this method might really work:

"Which of the six ancient witch rings is this ring? Did you try it just now?"

Xia De then asked Miss Xiang Bell, who was a little surprised that Xia De also knew this:

"I want you to find other witches to help me. I tried just now, but the white mist refused to enter the tunnel. This is the young lady's ring, [Ancient Witch's Golden Ring·Right 3]."

"No need to look for other witches. Am I not here? I'll do it."

He said this, but Miss Bell was very frightened:
"But I'm not an official witch, I don't know if I can take you into that."

"I'm not asking you to take me in. I'm saying I'll go in by myself and you two should wait for me outside."

As he spoke, he put the golden ring on his finger. He gently touched the ring, and a bright golden glow flashed.

Shade ignored the surprise of the young black-haired girl and Miss Danister's doubts, but rummaged in his pocket and took out the magic potion "Spiritual Elixir" given by Father Augustus last Saturday, which could "permanently purify the soul and remove the curse":
"Miss Danister, take this. If you really need to fight, drink this potion and see what happens. It may not work, but at least it won't hurt."

As for the two umbilical cords, Shad carried them with him, as Miss Winslet might need them.
"I'll leave now. You guys go to 317 first. I remember that when I entered that corridor, I asked that no one be nearby."

He was about to sing, but Miss Charlotte Bell seized his wrist and looked at him intently:
"Mr. Watson, who are you?"

"I am a male, as many people can attest."

The simple witch apprentice still didn't understand, but she still followed Miss Danister to room 317 temporarily.

Xia De looked down at the ring on his hand, and prayed softly that no residents on either side of the corridor would open their doors while he was singing. Then he stepped forward:

"The princess in the castle will never understand that the freedom to walk in the world is what we pursue."

"If you meet a witch at a road crossing covered with lavender, where will you go to pick a handful of herbs?"

A sudden wind blew in from the window at the end of the corridor. The wind was not violent, but the light seemed to be blown by the wind, and large patches of shadows were gradually suppressing the light of the autumn afternoon.

"Hold the snow on the top of the mountain and watch the sun in the depths of the desert."

"If you could meet us, dear girl~~"

The wooden floor of the hotel merged naturally with the stone floor of the corridor in the shadow, and the white mist lingering under his feet dissipated as Shade moved forward, but the fact was that as the corridor gradually replaced the scenery of the corridor, the white mist did not enter the corridor.

This is the situation Miss Bell encountered just now, but the difference between Shade and the witch apprentice is that Shade has a talent for time.

As he sang, he recited a spell in his mind at the same time, and the black key of time turned into the Staff of Yggdrasil in his hand.

The bottom of the staff touched the fog layer below and the white ash attached to the ground of the corridor. Xia De even simply tried to drag the staff forward, and the originally non-flowing fog was actually driven forward.

[Staff of Yggdrasil] indeed has a very strong time effect.

“Please call our names softly and ask any questions you have.”

"Where the lilies are in bloom, or, westward where the sunflowers are."

There was no clear boundary between the long and narrow brick and stone corridor and the hotel hallway. It seemed that he had just taken another step forward and was completely in the corridor illuminated by torches on both sides.

In the dim light of the seemingly eternal torches, the thick fog was rapidly expanding until it became as dense as the corridor of the hotel. The ground was covered with white ash, leaving clear footprints of Shade. Walking in the narrow and dilapidated corridor, Shade knew that he had succeeded, and his singing soon came to an end:
"Please wear your beautiful dress and hold the purple thyme."

"The people who love you and the people you love are all here, in this palace filled with sunshine."

[Foreigner, the concept of time is seriously confused, please do not use the power of time here lightly. ]

[Outlander, please do not use your space jump ability here, otherwise you will most likely enter a random time point. ]

Standing in the foggy corridor, Shade looked forward. Silky white mist floated out of the white fog door, which was the door leading to the [Witch Council]. He lowered his head and looked at the note with the autograph of "Adele Isabella" in his hand. When he looked up again, on his left hand side, the hotel door with the number 321 was already embedded in the side wall of the corridor.

Even though he hadn't done anything yet, he had a feeling that he could open the door with just a little effort.

But before he did so, "she" in his ear said again:

【Pocket watch.】

"what?"

The stranger frowned slightly, but still reached for the silver lady's pocket watch in his pocket, then suddenly looked down at his feet.

On the white ash covering the stone bricks, a half-palm-wide white glowing mark suddenly appeared there. The glowing rune had a steady glow, and Shade certainly knew what it was:
"But, how could this happen? This is the entrance to the Witch Council. The time here is seriously confused. The signature on the note in my hand has Isabella's power... How could this happen? If I create such a time confusion accident again, will it still happen..."

【Please do not destroy the time stability at will. 】

"She" reminded gently. Xia De was in a trance for a moment, and then asked:

"The one I called out with this rune shouldn't be the Adele behind the door, right?"

"She" just chuckled, and Shad knew the answer. He took a step back and said in the most standard Delarion language:

"Adele Isabella!"

As the voice fell, the glowing rune emitted an even stronger white light upwards. In the floating white light, the figure of the blonde lady kneeling on one knee appeared.

She lifted the hem of her skirt and slowly stood up. When she looked up at Xia De, Xia De also saw her beautiful and delicate face with a teardrop mole under her right eye. Her golden eyes met his, and both knew that the other had a thousand words to say:

"It's been a long time since we last met, Shade. Since the Battle of Moon Bay, I have been expecting you to call me again. Later, you should talk to me about how you won after I left."

The lady with long golden hair spread out behind her was smiling and was greeting Shade, but she looked around in surprise:

"Wait, this isn't Saint Teresa's Square, this is... But after the apocalypse, didn't this place collapse? Wait, the time is wrong, and you found a way to call me out in the real world!"

Adele knew the corridor and the fog door, but she obviously didn't know the door to Room 321.

"Adele, I need your help again."

PS: Thanks to the reader @辰络 for the reward. Thank you very much. I will add another chapter.