Whispering Poems

Chapter 2657 Mermaid Shadow

"Based on today's performance, it is reasonable for this [Damaged Antarctic Constellation Clock] to be classified as a sage-level. If you were not here, there would be few people in the entire Tobesk Diocese who could deal with this thing."

Iluna continued, while Shade was puzzled by the scene he just saw:
"That person was wrapped in branches just now, but he was not affected by the relic. What's the principle behind this?"

"I don't know about this either. This requires investigating his identity and background."

Although Iluna was answering the question, her eyes were actually fixed on the weapon in Shade's hand:
"This staff of yours is really powerful."

"Of course. This was once the branch of the World Tree."

"you know?!"

Iluna was startled and immediately asked:
"Then can it still grow into the original World Tree?"

In the five conditions that "If" gave her to help Shade, "flame, cards, resurrection, power, and love", "resurrection" should refer to resurrecting the World Tree (2016). However, "If" also said that this matter could not be told to Shade, so she could only ask after Shade knew it.

"This is a dead Time Key. Of course it can't grow back. What a strange question."

Shade shook his head, put away his staff, bent down and covered the fallen clock face with the red velvet cloth:

"I think the people who are lost in the narrow space of time are about to come back. I will leave here first, and you can handle the rest. Remember to think clearly about how to explain. I will not leave the opera house before 10 o'clock in the evening. If anything happens again, remember to come find me."

Iluna returned the can of umbilical cord to Shade. She actually wanted to stay with Shade for a while:

"If those lost people don't come back within half an hour, they probably won't be able to come back. I'll come find you in the evening. It looks like I also need to find a way to improve my time resistance."

Vanessa and Hillis were not surprised at all that Shad solved the problem so quickly. After seeing Shad come back, they arranged for everyone to have dinner here together.

Although such an incident happened in the opera house, there has been no notice that it will be closed tonight, so the girls from the opera troupe will still perform on stage tonight.

Vanessa seems to often have dinner with her followers backstage like this, and everyone is chatting and laughing around the dining table that is made up of multiple tables.

The rain gradually stopped in the evening, so when well-dressed men and women climbed the majestic steps in front of the opera house as usual, there were no umbrellas in their hands.

As expected, the audience tonight filled every available seat, and Shad sat in a secluded corner with Vanessa and Hillis to enjoy the opera.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the opera ended. When the audience left one after another, talking about the wonderful performance tonight, the exhausted Iluna found Shade backstage, who was about to take Mia home:

"The investigation has produced results."

The girl who had been busy all night sat on the chair in front of the dressing table. Shiris, who felt sorry for her, poured her a glass of water. Iluna drank the whole glass of water in an unladylike manner before continuing to say to Shade:

"The dead man was a handyman at the theater. He bought the clock from a local second-hand shop. The second-hand shop also sent someone to investigate. The clock was purchased from a foreign businessman more than ten years ago and has never been sold. The account book can prove this."

In other words, the origin of the relics cannot be traced, but it does not seem that anyone deliberately wanted to destroy them.

"The handyman bought the clock to place in his home. According to the traces the church traced in his home in the afternoon, he seemed to have found a collection instruction for the clock inside the clock. However, it was not a collection report from the church. It was probably left by another organization that had previously collected it.

We found the instructions under his mattress, which were probably written around 400 of the Sixth Era. In addition to the description of "time pause", it also said that by tying certain branches, a person can be temporarily immune to the time-stopping effect of this relic."

As he spoke, he took the teacup handed to him by Sirius, but this time he just held it in his hands.

The Thirteenth Level Earth Witch confirmed:
"So the truth of this matter is: the man who coveted beauty, driven by desire and greed, and of course, influenced by the whispering elements of the relic, let the relic go out of control and caused the consequences today? This is not a good story, but it does serve as a warning."

Xia De originally thought so, but he didn't expect Iluna to shake her head:
"It's not that simple. The other protagonist of the story, the girl in the costume, didn't come back. She was one of the victims this time. But we also checked her apartment in detail. To put it simply, she also had problems."

Seeing that everyone was looking at her in surprise, Iluna continued to explain:

"Is it normal for the handyman to be so obsessed with her? Xia De, you and I have both seen the past scenes. I admit that men will do many unreasonable things when they are obsessed with girls, but isn't the handyman's obsession a bit excessive?"

Xia De nodded hesitantly, and suddenly had some bad guesses:
"You go on."

“The church found out that she was not a well-known actress. Although she was affiliated with the Tobesk Art Performance Troupe, she only played an unimportant supporting role at most.

In order to make herself famous and liked by more people, the girl arranged a ceremony in her home.

The witch, Siris, Shade, and the two high-level girls who were listening all shook their heads. Iluna certainly understood what they meant:
"Yes, it was an incident where an ordinary person was involved in a mysterious world. However, I don't know which book she found the ritual from, but it was not a formal ritual. Judging from the traces left at the scene, she paid a certain price in exchange for a bottle of magical perfume that could make her very charming."

"What a silly girl. So she died because of herself?"

The witch sighed softly, and Shade asked:

"Is the church sure that the perfume was the catalyst for this incident? Then who did she make a deal with? A demon? It can't be an evil god, right? I don't think gods would easily make such a deal with mortals."

God is not a wish-granting machine, and being able to communicate with God is not something that ordinary people can easily do.

"It's probably not a demon. The church's detection ritual didn't find any traces of demons. It's probably not an evil god either. We didn't find any blasphemous elements. The ritual set up by the actress probably didn't have any effect. What worked was a stone wrapped in seaweed."

She paused for a moment:
“I didn’t go with the actress when she investigated her apartment, but I heard that the stone looked like a mermaid.

Also, the remaining half bottle of perfume was found in the girl's makeup bag, and the ingredients are still unknown. But it is certain that she used too much perfume, which made the handyman who bought the clock have improper thoughts. In short, both of them are responsible.

As for the perfume bottle, before I came here, my colleagues told me that there was an abstract mermaid symbol on the bottom of the bottle. "

She stopped talking because the witch and Sirius both looked at Shade. So the 13th-rank witch waved her hand to let the girls who were listening to the story step aside temporarily. She cast a spell to block the nearby sounds. This time, Iluna looked at Shade and said:

“Last fall, the church discovered traces of an extremely dangerous unknowable-level relic in Coldwater Harbor and continued to track it over the following year.

In fact, similar incidents have occurred in every corner of the Old World in this year, and this incident is suspected to be related to the Unknown Relic. The Church directly paid attention to the relic out of control incident. Although the impact was not great, only more than a dozen people died, and no property losses were caused, but.
If nothing unexpected happens, Ms. Benanis, Ms. Lasers, the Golden Dawn Opera Company will probably have to change its performance venue. The Vatican has sent a special team to thoroughly check the Queen Maria Opera House. "

Vanessa and Hillis didn't say anything, but continued to look at Shad.

Although Xia De never actively talked about "desire", he mentioned that his perfume bottle was related to the mermaid. And in many incidents since last year, many girls have come into direct contact with the "mermaid" around him.

For example, in Moon Bay, Miss Belindel was on the rocks below Count Dalmanin's estate, and was held by Shad when she saw the head of a beautiful woman appear in the water; and in the Green Lake incident, Megan turned her back to the lake and Shad, and heard each other's voice.

As for Iluna, now that she is eighteen years old, she still feels resentful about the comment Desire made to her on the shore of the island in the middle of Pantanal Lake: “She is too naive” (Chapter 1112).

“I think that’s probably it.”

Xia De nodded slightly, but comforted them:
"Don't worry, she's not in Tobesk. The lost actress praying to her was probably just an accident. Since she broke free from the seal of the fishmen during the Coldwater Harbor incident last fall, I haven't found anyone in the material world who can seal her again."

After a moment's hesitation, he said:

"In fact, I'm pretty sure she's in Moon Bay right now, but she promised me that she wouldn't mess with Miss Belindel or anyone around her. I know it may not be right to say this, but for now, we can only treat her as a mobile disaster."

Unless he burned his divinity, Xia De felt that even if he reached the thirteenth ring, he would probably be powerless against her. Moreover, she had helped him so many times, even if he knew that she was evil, Xia De could not really do it without hesitation.

He even still has a "debt collection" job to complete. The timeline of Vista Grove is quite confusing, and he is still not sure which generation of Bennet he is looking for.

(End of this chapter)