Whispering Poems

Chapter 3194 Command Card

It was not difficult to prepare gifts for the witch apprentices. In order to adhere to the basic principles of "the apprentice's gift cannot be better than the teacher's gift" and "no matter what the relationship is, it is best not to distinguish between them", the gifts for the five girls present were all combs for combing hair.

It does look very thoughtless and worthless, but those combs are handmade, not factory-produced goods. Although they are not made by Shade himself, the raw materials are the strongest spines of pure-blooded dragons.

When Xia De was worried about what gift to give and the girls refused to answer, he went to his friends from all over the country for help. The raw materials for the combs, which were a batch of very old dragon bones, were provided by Mr. Albert from Yuewan, and he also helped to make the combs after collecting the labor fees.

In order to appear more creative, Shade asked the chosen one of light to engrave runes inside the dragon skeleton when making the comb, so that they could emit a faint light in the dark. Finally, he asked Mr. Albert to engrave the name of each girl on the comb.

Xia De remembered that when he used the silver moonlight to write out six names in the air, the vampire coroner looked at him with a strange look before nodding:

"I know that there is no perfect saint in this world."

Of course, including the comb that was not given to Margaret, the six combs were all in different shapes, which showed his thoughtfulness even more. Although Mr. Albert was somewhat "disgraced" by Chad's behavior, he still added some extra rituals that Chad did not ask for when he helped make the combs. He said that combing the hair with these combs can promote blood circulation and make the hair better.

All the witch apprentices accepted the gift. Among them, Miss Haley Aurora, who was not very familiar with Shade, accepted the gift a little embarrassedly. She also whispered that the gift she prepared for Shade was a little simple in comparison, but Shade didn't care.

Dorothy's gift was two copies of the story of The Crystal Light that Shad had rewritten on tree bark. The bark was a special and expensive oak bark purchased from the Hermits of the Forest. Carrying this kind of bark on your body could make you luckier.

Grace and Helen actually said that Shad didn't need to prepare any special gifts for them at the end of the year. The two sisters had spent thousands of New Year's Days together, and their only request for the holidays was to spend them with their sisters and Shad.

But despite what they said, Shade still prepared two new dresses for the two sisters. One black and one white, although the dresses were not made by Shade himself, at least he used the money he earned from his detective work and chose them himself.

Grace and Helen expressed their appreciation for the gifts with a kiss.

After dinner, Emilia changed back into her elf form and lived in the side bedroom of Room 2. There were three small beds in the room, so that three girls, including Ajelina who had not yet arrived and Iluna who had already arrived, could live together.

The elf originally said that she didn’t want any year-end gifts since she had the “tree staff”. But just like Flora, Grace Helen and the others said they didn’t want any gifts but Shade prepared them anyway, Emilia’s year-end gift was a thick notebook for learning the ancient elven language.

Although she became the chosen one of time, it was a pity that the power and knowledge she inherited did not include the knowledge of the ancient elves. After all, the believers of the Tree Father were not only the elves, and the elves did not only believe in the God of Time.

"Xia De, why do I feel like you are bullying me?"

The pointy-eared elf girl had studied too hard some time ago, so she felt uncomfortable when she saw a notebook full of words. As she spoke, she flipped open the notebook and immediately looked up at Shade after seeing the love poem on the first page. Then she lowered her head and looked at the opened page again, confirming that although the words on it were written in the ancient elven language, the content was completely written by Shade himself to express his feelings - Shade was not just focusing on studying this month.

Emilia's ears turned red.

"My gift to you is not as thoughtful as this one, so I'll give you this one. It's a photo of me and little Lianna. People say that seeing a unicorn brings luck. This way you can see unicorns more often."

She did not explain why she carried such photos with her.

Iluna was holding back her laughter, and then she saw Shad walking towards her with another gift box. So the 18-year-old girl was reserved and did not express her expectations. The gift Shad gave Iluna was a short dagger he called the "Moonlight Dagger".

The dagger was forged from silver moonlight, but unlike the ring that Vanessa often wore on her hand, this dagger was not solidified by "Carina's Ice Spell". After all, the dagger was a weapon used in combat, so of course it had to be stronger.

Shad's "Adele's Time Stop·Crystal Form" can only pause the time of one object at a time, so he went to the Temple of Night to get the moonlight and merged it into the "Moonlight Water" and fixed it into the shape of a dagger. He first froze it with the ice power given by Chloe, and then asked Dorothy to use the magic "Crystal Touch" to turn the ice crystal into eternity.

"You always face various battles, and you like to fight with your bare hands, and at most you just use the 'Sunshine Gun'. Carry this dagger with you, maybe it will come in handy someday."

It can be seen that Iluna also likes this gift very much.

Of course, Miss Elizabeth, who lived with Xiwei, would not forget that the boat girl herself had accumulated a lot of wealth. It was also a problem to choose a suitable gift for her. Finally, Xia De found a suitable gift in the black market at the dock area of ​​Coldwater Port a week before the end of the year.

The Secret Keeper-level relic, [Love of the Sea], is a silver anchor-shaped ornament, about half the size of a palm. As long as it exists on a ship, the probability of the ship encountering severe weather such as storms while sailing in the ocean will become very low.

Although the relic also has the negative effect of making the ship's wooden planks more susceptible to corrosion, this does not have much impact on a special ship like the "Glorious Emissary".

By the way, Shade found the runes engraved on the surface of this relic very interesting - [The Favor of the Sea, the Dislike of the Sea.]

The boat girl accepted the gift generously. She simply knitted a scarf for Xia De as a gift because she thought that everyone would prepare gifts for Xia De and she didn't need one.

However, when she handed the dark blue scarf to Shade, she invited Shade to inspect her bridge as the "captain". The so-called "bridge" is the protruding part of the main body of a ship. Shade once again confirmed that the ship girl had a bridge second only to Tifa.

"So what do you have in store for me?"

After Shade entered, Danister asked with a smile:

"You're not really going to give me that [Flower of Eternal Life] in the end, are you? If you're really bothered by the gift, then you can give me that."

"If I say I want to give you a gift with good grades in this year's exams, will you be angry?"

Shade asked jokingly. The red-haired girl shook her head and first confirmed that there were no eavesdropping owls in the living room outside the door behind Shade, and then kissed him.
"Don't be angry. This gift is quite good. At least it shows that I am very qualified as your teacher."

"But considering our relationship, this gift is still a little too simple. I found that most of you around me have everything you need, so I want to give you this in the end."

The red-haired girl untied the ribbon and unwrapped the colored paper. After opening the small wooden box, she saw the leaf lying inside:
"【Leaf of Eternal Youth】?"

After the Battle of the Woodland, Shade took out a leaf from the [God's Gift Box]. At that time, he had four leaves. Later, because Iluna consumed a leaf in the battle, he gave her another one. In addition to the one he gave away, Shade had two leaves left:

"I know you had a leaf of [Eternal Youth] (Chapter 197) a long time ago, but doesn't the ritual for Ms. Helena Carter require a leaf as a material?"

The red-haired girl looked at the box in her hands:
"So this is what you prepared for the teacher?"

"No, your leaf is for Ms. Carter, your teacher. The job of saving her belongs to you. It is your right. This leaf is given to you by me. Of course, if the ceremony fails for various reasons, you can use this leaf to prepare for the second ceremony."

After putting the box down, she gently hugged Xia De. Even though the teacher had not come back yet, she had found her own happy moment.

"You've sent everyone else off, right? Just now you came to the room to look for Bella and Matilda, and then left without coming to see me. I knew you would leave me last."

In the master bedroom of Room 1 on the third floor of No. 6 Saint Teresa's Square, Luvia, who had already tidied up, stood at the window looking at the fireworks outside and said to Xia De who pushed the door open and walked in.

She turned around, leaving the gorgeous fireworks outside the window and herself to Xia De:

"So, what's the surprise for me?"

The purple eyes were smiling, and Shade knew that she would be happy no matter what gift he prepared:
"I have prepared some special gifts. I hope you don't mind them being cheap."

This time there was no ribbon or colored paper wrapping. Instead, Shad handed Luvia a stack of rectangular cardboard cards the size of business cards.

The fortune teller was a little surprised, and then she saw the words written on the white card at the top:

[Command Card: You can ask Shade to do anything]

[Valid until December 1855, 12 in the Common Calendar.]

There were 12 cards in total, and the content on each card was exactly the same. In order to prevent the card design from being too monotonous and straightforward, Shade hand-painted some not-so-good-looking border patterns on the edges of these cards, and then wrote the above content on both sides of the same card in Draerion and Carsenric.

Finally, he hand-painted a "cat running" pattern as a seal in the lower right corner of the card, which means "guaranteeing the validity of the card in the name of Mia."

PS: The picture in this chapter is "Emilia and Little Lianna".