Whispering Poems

Chapter 3220 Xia De's Promise

The workmanship of the denture was also very rough, and for some reason it had a faint smell of bird droppings. Xia De was not sure whether it was a burial object, but Sister Belen thought it was indeed a burial object after checking it.

It was very lucky for Shade to get the burial objects without using up the shovel. Therefore, even if they were attacked, they did not turn back immediately, but continued to move forward. Shade continued to chat with Sister Belen, but he did not talk about the topic of "the fire bearer" again:

"Sister, I am actually looking for flames as well. At the time I belong to, my sister discovered that one of the flames should be in a certain bay, and now I suspect it is a snowy mountain."

Because he was afraid of causing a time paradox, Shad was quite vague when describing the location:

"Your search for the flame has almost reached the final stage, and my investigation has just begun. Apart from being able to sense the power of the First Flame at close range, I have no other way to find the First Flame. Do you have any experience you can pass on to me?"

Sister Belen nodded slightly:

"The split of the First Flame was not forced, but was to use the power of fire to suppress disasters that could affect the entire world. If the flames used to seal something or seal a place have not been taken away by others, then there must be a big problem where it is located."

Shade frowned and thought about it, and found that what Sister Belen said was very right. In addition to the flames on the "crazy fire monster" in the New World, which he did not know the origin of, the flames in Pantanal were used to seal evil things, the flames on Green Lake Island were used to suppress spatial changes, and even the flames that merged with the fire demon-Dizast were originally used in the forest to suppress the instability of time.

“So there won’t be any evil creature with an octopus head in the Falling Star Bay that will only appear when the stars reach a certain position, right?”

He was thinking about this, and Sister Belen took this opportunity to say:
"In order to find this flame, I created a secret method to sense flames based on the secret techniques of my predecessors."

She and Shade walked side by side, and at this moment, she turned her head slightly to let the Mithril Eye Mask "look" at Shade. Shade knew exactly what she wanted to say, but thinking of Sister Devilin's kiss, he really couldn't open his mouth to ask further. Sister Devilin might not mind him having other girls around him, but she definitely minded Shade getting power from other fire-bearing nuns, and Luvia and the others also understood this.

Seeing that Xia De had a subtle expression and did not respond, Sister Beren nodded to show that she understood, and lowered her head again.

Shade explained:

"My nun and I have an agreement. Anyway, I can't stay here for a long time. This time will repel me. When I leave after a while, I will ask my nun and see what she thinks. That's about it. Thank you for your kindness."

"You'll come back, won't you?"

She asked this, and Xia De nodded with certainty:

"I will definitely come back. I will send you away from here, and I will definitely let you leave with the flames."

After all, Shade didn't want to look for traces of the "Tombstone Wasteland" in the Sixth Era. If he found the flame now in the Fifth Era, then the remaining three uncertain flames in the Sixth Era would definitely not include this one.

Sister Beren nodded again. Although she didn't say anything this time, Shade could clearly feel that her steps had become lighter.

While walking and checking the tombstones, Shade talked to Sister Belen about "firewood". Although he met Ms. Brock, the candidate for the 13th-level Death Witch, at the "Black Sand Pier" last time, she was not a nun after all, so Shade cherished this opportunity to talk to a nun from the past era.

Sister Beren was also happy to answer all of Shad's questions. No matter whether the first fire was weak or strong, it had the ability to burn firewood and make the flame stronger.

When Sister Beren heard Shad say that his nun could transform the ashes of firewood into power and even materialize them as weapons, she whispered her envy, and then taught Shad some more subtle applications of the first fire ember state.

Although it is the end of the era, it is still closer to the ancient times. Many secrets that disappeared in the sixth era are still being passed down today. Sister Belen responded to Shade's doubts as detailed as possible, and supplemented the secrets and inheritance she knew. What Shade wanted to know most was actually the origin of the First Fire:
"What exactly is the [Primordial Fire]?"

Sister Defulin said that this was a flame that existed before the world came into being. Although the answer given by this nun from the Fifth Age was very similar, she added one more sentence:

"In the era before the ancient gods left, fire-wielding nuns could receive courtesy from the 13 ancient gods' orders. I once read a diary of a nun from the Fourth Age. In her diary, she wrote down the record of the Second Age nun. The Second Age nun saw it from the memories of the flame inheritance."

"Can flames also pass on memories?"

"This is a lost secret technique, or it may be a power that can only be possessed by a more complete state of the First Flame. The nuns of previous generations have speculated that perhaps the First Flame is related to the origin of the world, but this speculation has been denied - the ancient gods are the origin of the world. But the First Flame is absolutely of great significance to this world, and before the destined end comes, the flames must be gathered again.

This is not only to see how long it will take for the world to end, but also to see what happens after the end.”

After the ghouls retreated, the fog around them became less dense. Not long after they continued walking, the kerosene lamp in Sister Belen's hand illuminated a vertical marble tombstone.

This tombstone is a little more ornate because it has a base underneath it.

【Steve Royston】

[Fifth Era 5140 to 5180.]

[An excellent blacksmith and father of four children. ]

[If you die in a vendetta, please remember: your peers are your greatest enemies. 】

[He was as sharp as the kitchen knife he forged, but in the end his spine was broken by an iron rod.]

"It's 5182 now, so the blacksmith died two years ago?"

Shad touched the tombstone and whispered. After discussing with Sister Belen and confirming how to deal with accidents, he took the shovel and dug up the soil on the grave.

The coffin buried behind the tombstone this time was actually a metal coffin, which is quite rare in any era. After all, metal is expensive and will rust. As for making a coffin with metal that is not easy to rust, it is even more expensive.

The iron coffin in front of him has not rusted yet, but this time it is no longer a sliding lid but a lift-up lid, so it can actually be considered a coffin-style box.

There was a lock on the coffin lid, and a big iron lock was hung on the lock. When Xia De bent down and touched the lock, it popped open automatically.

But when he opened a crack in the coffin lid, a rotten right hand holding a kitchen knife stretched out from the inside of the coffin and chopped towards Xia De's neck.

"What a sharp kitchen knife!"

Before the blade even touched Xia De's neck, he already felt the chill. With his body that could withstand bullets, he certainly wouldn't have any problem facing an ordinary kitchen knife, but this kitchen knife was clearly not an ordinary item.

Then he frowned slightly:
"Time stands still for Adele!"

A click~ sound came from the void, and the spirit consumed a large part of its energy out of thin air, which meant that the other party had a certain degree of time resistance, or in other words, all the undead in this wasteland had various high resistances.

Xia De reached out for the kitchen knife and wanted to snatch it away, but at this moment, a black crack opened in the air, and another hand holding a kitchen knife appeared from behind him and chopped at the back of his head.

The distance was too close, so the "Hedon Seal" was not effective. Just as Shade was about to dodge, Sister Belen reached out and grabbed the kitchen knife. The blade left a faint white mark on her palm, and then the flames in the nun's hand ignited the knife and the arm, until they were all burned to ashes.

Even though Xia De had used the "Space Stabilization Aura", there were still dozens of arms around the two of them, holding kitchen knives and emerging from the fog. Of course, if he hadn't used it, there would probably be hundreds of arms.

【This wasteland is the home of the dead.】

Sister Beren signaled to Shad not to do anything. She clasped her hands together in front of her chest. As she lowered her head, her whole body turned into an endless sea of ​​fire that rushed around. However, when the flames touched Shad, they did not cause any harm to him. He even felt that the flames were very warm.

The flames also did not harm the surrounding tombstones or the candles and kerosene lamps around them, but all the arms and kitchen knives, including the objects sticking out of the coffin, were melted by the sea of ​​fire. When the flames gathered again, Sister Belen appeared on Shade's right:

"Get this over with as soon as possible. When I turned into flames, I felt like we were being watched."

Blind nuns usually have very strong inspiration, and Shade did not doubt her guess. So he reached out and completely opened the iron coffin, but there was no body inside, only a black bloodstained iron kitchen knife, and three gold bracelets scattered next to the kitchen knife.

"There must be a body in the coffin. Since there is no body here, the blood on the kitchen knife must be the blacksmith's blood. Maybe his family didn't find his body, but only the murder weapon."

Sister Belen guessed this, while Shade could feel the terrible resentment attached to the kitchen knife. If this thing appeared in the real world, it would probably be more terrifying than the undead in [The Narrow Space between Life and Death]. This was not a relic or an alchemical item, but a resentful object commonly seen in ghost stories.

However, neither Shade nor the nun were interested in this thing. The best ending was to let it rest here forever.

After hastily collecting the three gold bracelets, Xia De buried the iron coffin again, and finally jumped twice on the grave to ensure that the soil was compacted. Every grave here must have its own story, but most of the stories are probably only known to the deceased themselves.