Whispering Poems

Chapter 2645 The First Oil Painting

"Thank you."

The young girl whispered, and Shade shook his head:

"It's getting late, so I'll leave first. Ms. Bullock, I'll trouble you to help take care of these two. Of course, if there are others coming here, please leave them here. I will take you away with me next time."

The thirteenth-level witch agreed while roasting by the fire, and then the three of them saw Shade "stuff" the cat into his chest pocket, and then stepped on the rippling water at the end of the beach with a curious look on his face.

Xia De didn't expect that "walking on water" would work here. Out of curiosity and running out of time, he stepped on the water, crossed the dock and the boat, and walked towards the deep waters.

Facing the dark and boundless water, the loneliness and fear were even more obvious than when he went deeper into the water by boat just now. Shade was actually very curious about what was under the water, but even though he was about to leave, he didn't intend to do such a thing to cause trouble for himself.

So he just kept moving forward. After walking more than fifty steps, he turned back to look at the bonfire by the dock, smiled and waved to the three people who were looking over here:

"See you next time."

When he turned his head and looked forward again, his eyes widened in surprise, because the black water surface shrouded in a thin white mist was already covered with densely packed corpses.

The bodies were floating on the water, one next to the other, with no space between them. Looking left, right, and in front of him, he could see bodies floating everywhere.

A soaked hand stretched out from the water and grabbed Shade's right foot. Then, something huge under the water seemed to be awakened, and two creepy red lights lit up in the water below the corpses.

"So that's how it is. The soul of the person taken away by the ferry starts a new life to forget this one, while the body is left here. As the boat carries the soul away, the body floats quietly on the water behind the boat without anyone noticing. It's really atmospheric."

Before being pulled underwater, Shade, entangled in white mist, had already left this time and space.

To the three people sitting by the campfire on the pier, he just walked gradually into the distance until he could no longer be seen in the thin fog.

(Little Mia is running.)

Walking out of the door of the Elf Lady's tree house in the early autumn morning, although it looked a little cloudy, the morning sunshine and the vibrant trees still made Shade very happy after leaving that strange place just now. He took a deep breath of the fresh morning air, then smiled and said:

"I am back."

"You were only gone for three seconds. There's really no need to greet me like that."

The blonde elf who continued to eat breakfast said this, Shadra pulled a chair and sat at their table, handing the blindfold on her arm back to Sister Defulin:
"It has been used up. You will never guess that I met the Fire Sister of the Fifth Age in death in the past."

The elf girl continued to nod, her attitude was very perfunctory. The nun turned around and put on the blindfold again, and after fixing her hair, she "allowed" Shade to see her face:

"The fate of the nuns holding the fire is always to become firewood for the flames"

She stopped talking for a moment. Xia De was puzzled, so she asked again:

"You, accepted guidance from other Fire Sisters?"

The voice was as calm and emotionless as before, but for some reason, Xia De and Miss Elf, who were sitting at the same table, both felt a chill.

The "she" beside her ear laughed softly, and the blonde elf girl immediately lowered her head. The cat that had just been transformed back by Shade now crawled back into the gift box on the table, and it seemed that it was not going to come out for a while.

Xia De felt that Sister Defulin seemed a little angry. He nodded hesitantly:

"Yes, the nun gave me a spiritual rune and a magic to thank me for helping her sister. That magic can leave an eternal flame mark."

Although the half of Sister Defulin's face under the eye mask was still expressionless, Shad could clearly feel that the surroundings seemed to have become colder. He had not done anything wrong, but at this moment he felt as if he had made a huge mistake, such as destroying the world.

He originally wanted to introduce the magic in more detail, as the nuns who also used the First Fire might be interested in the "techniques" of other nuns in the Fifth Epoch. But he was very tactful and kept his mouth shut, so the two of them fell silent. The only sounds around them were the leaves blowing in the morning wind, the sound of the elves beside him and the two nuns eating behind him.

Perhaps it felt too quiet, so Mia poked her head out of the gift box and looked at Shade. But she probably didn't understand Shade's look of "do something quickly, like knock over the dishes", so she shrank back.

Finally, Shade took the initiative to say:
"From now on, I will not accept any other repairs."

"No, it's okay."

Sister Defulin said softly, and the strange atmosphere around them returned to normal. The elf girl, who had just felt as if a stone was pressing on her chest, let out a breath, and then found that Sister Defulin was "looking" at her, so she lowered her head and continued to eat obediently.

"Each generation of nuns has their own unique abilities, but the changing of eras and various events have prevented all the knowledge and power of the nuns from being passed down. Since the nuns who spent their entire lives guarding the First Flame were unable to wait for the hero who holds the flame when they were alive, they still have the responsibility to help you after they turn into ashes after death."

She grabbed Shade's right hand and sensed it for a moment, but quickly let go:

"She just gave you the power and didn't mention anything about the First Flame?"

"That Sister Brock said that the First Flame has become extremely weak in our time."

Sister Devereign did not comment:
"We will return as soon as possible after leaving this place. The residual heat of the ancient flame brought news, and the instantaneous feeling made me touch something: it seems that there is fire in this woodland."

The stranger just nodded. Based on what he knew about the strangeness of Vista Forest, he was not surprised by anything here:

"Well, I'll keep an eye out for rumors about this. Are you going to live in the city after you come back?"

The silver eyepatch looked at the elf girl, who immediately said:
"Just let the nuns live here. If there's not enough space, I can build some tree houses. It won't be a big deal anyway."

It looked like these tree houses were also built using thaumaturgy, probably similar to the "Traveler's Camp" in Shade.

After breakfast, due to the special nature of this "inescapable woodland", Miss Sylvia's portal could not be opened here, so Shade and the elf girl first sent the three nuns out of this area.

Then Sister Devlin used Miss Sylvia's space beacon - a hexagonal crystal. With a humming sound, the space shattered like glass, and then a rotating black and gold vortex appeared out of thin air.

This is not a one-way door, because the young black-haired witch was the first to emerge from the vortex, and then she saw Shade at once, with a look of surprise on her face:

"Good morning, Shad."

"Good morning, Miss Sylvia."

He also smiled and greeted, and the Great Witch of Space passed through the portal and hugged Shade:
"I knew you would come to see Sister Devereine off. Margaret has just left, and she must be regretting not waiting a little longer.

Margaret originally wanted to persuade her mother to come to Vista City to watch the concert, but you also know the current situation. The Queen thinks that it is not appropriate to let the public see that the royal family is still on vacation at this time of year. It is really a pity. "

She hugged Xia De and took a deep breath:

"But it's okay. This place is very close to Willendel. If Flora bullies you, remember to tell me~"

After saying that, even Xia De laughed.

Then Shade and the elf girl waved goodbye to the three nuns. When the portal disappeared, Shade turned around and planned to send her back to the tree house and then go into the city:

"By the way, do you know 'Nightsong Elf'?"

The blond elf nodded:

"Of course I know. This is also a very famous elven clan. Although the Nightsong elves and our Moonbrook clan have different beliefs, because the elders intermarried, many people are related. St. Byron has many Nightsong elves students."

"Oh?"

Xia De then asked curiously:
"Have all the Nightsong Elves settled in the Academy City of Saint Byrons?"

The elf girl then explained:
"Of course not. They had their own settlements in the Fifth Era, and gradually moved to places not yet exposed to civilization at the end of the Fifth Era. Now the largest gathering place of night song elves is at the Zaras Academy of Arts, while the night song elves in the Sekses Higher Medical School and Saint Byrons are small settlements.

In addition to the three major colleges, I heard that they have a large island settlement on the overseas islands in the east of the old continent, and one or two small settlements in the rainforest in the south of the old continent. So if you want to find the elves of the Night Song Clan, you must first figure out which branch you are looking for. "

So with new questions in mind, Shad and Mia entered the city together. When they left the forest, the weather was still gloomy, and when he got off the carriage in front of the Accordion Hotel in the city center, the raindrops had already begun to fall.

The coolness brought by the autumn rain made it easy for people to realize that half of the year had passed. When Shad knocked on the door of Room 317, he found that there was an easel in Miss Danister's room.

The easel was placed in a corner of the living room where it could get sunlight, and on the easel was an oil painting that had been completed but was still being dried.

The picture is taken from an upward angle, depicting a young man holding up a huge moon standing on top of a golden spire against a dark blue starry sky. The picture is extremely wide, and the city with lights on can be seen, thus forming a contrast between the blue of the night sky and the golden color of the city.

And against the background of the moon, which was painted using transparent techniques, there is actually an owl flying across the night sky.

The whole painting is in deep colors, and the atmosphere seems grand yet a bit weird and strange because of the starry sky, but also warm in the weirdness because of the depiction of the city scene below.

But all this did not prevent Xia De from seeing that this was probably describing the scene that happened above the Golden Music Hall last night.

　PS: The picture in this chapter is "Flora's first oil painting".

　　(End of this chapter)