Whispering Poems

Chapter 3251 [Doom Cult]

The dinner lasted until 7:30 in the evening. Since Miss Rhinehart invited Shad to dinner to thank him for his help, she was determined not to let Shad pay the bill.

The two walked out of the Shining Antler Restaurant together. Xia De looked up at the starry sky and let out a long breath, then said to the girl beside him:
"Come on, I'll take you back."

The witch smiled:

"Why, you're worried about my safety?"

"I guess so. After all, what happened in the past two days is very abnormal."

She originally wanted to talk to Shade for a few more words, so she readily agreed to Shade's arrangement. It was so late that there were no carriages running between Kyle-Todd Town and Wheel of Time City. The cities on the island did not have much nightlife, and no one would go out into the wild at night.

However, when Xia De was strolling around with Xiaomia this afternoon, he saw a carriage rental company in the west of the city, so he thought about renting two horses there, or at least a carriage.

The two of them were planning to find a nearby horse-drawn carriage, but as they were walking towards the intersection next to the square, the witch stopped again:
"Look over there."

She pointed carefully across the square. Xia De looked up and saw a figure quickly passing under the clock tower in the center of the city. Although the other person was wearing men's clothes, Xia De could tell that it was a woman:
"The childhood friend you mentioned?"

"Yes."

The witch frowned slightly and looked in the direction where the other party disappeared with some worry:
"It's so late, what is she doing in such a hurry? Forget it, let's not pry into other people's affairs. Let's go."

Then he asked Xia De to continue walking towards the intersection, but Xia De shook his head:

"Now that you've seen it, chase after it. I'll go with you."

"But."

"Honestly, are you really not worried at all?"

Claire Reinhardt pursed her lips, hesitated for a moment, then whispered thank you to Shad again, and then chased after him with Shad.

The woman in men's clothing didn't walk very fast, but she kept looking back after every few steps, as if she was worried about being followed.

Xia De and Miss Reinhardt chased her from a distance. After the lady left the core area of ​​​​Time Wheel City and entered the West City District, they actually saw her enter the alley and whispered a spell. Then her body gradually became transparent, and after becoming invisible, she continued to walk deeper into the alley.

"Your childhood playmate is actually a ring wizard?"

Xia De, who was also hiding in the illusion, asked the witch next to him, and the latter shook her head and said that she didn't know either, after all, the two sides hadn't seen each other for more than ten years.

But the other party seemed to be just a low-level warlock, and since they had already chased here, there was no need for them to retreat. They continued to follow along the alley until they saw the woman in men's clothing meet up with another man and woman in the alley, and then entered a second-hand watch shop.

This type of store is also a local feature, and many outsiders like to "hunt for treasures" in these old stores hidden in the alleys.

The store is a small two-story building squeezed between two dilapidated apartments. There is a clothesline extending from the second floor and tied to the iron railings of the balcony of the house across the alley. It doesn't look like it has any special features.

Xia De closed his eyes and listened:
"There are quite a few people in the store, five of them."

"We don't want to pry into other people's privacy. Let's wait here for a while. If she leaves safely, we will leave too. When everything is fine after a while, I will go talk to her myself."

There was no place to hide in the empty alley. Xia De closed his eyes and listened again, then found a house where no one was and could directly see the store:

"Can you give me your hand?"

He asked the witch, who was a little surprised, but still blushed and put her hand in Shade's. Shade's left hand comforted Mia again, then took a step forward:
"Raglai's Leap."

The two people and the cat went straight into the dim house without lights on. Miss Reinhart looked around:
"Is this the ability you used to carry me to the cliff in the early morning? My level is higher than yours, but you were able to carry me?"

"To be honest, compared to little Mia, you're not 'heavy'."

Xia De made a joke in the dark, and when he turned his head to look outside through the gap in the curtains, he did not notice that the witch's face behind him was covered with a layer of blush again.

Since Mia was curled up in his arms obediently, Shade did not turn her into a toy. When he looked at the watch shop through the gap in the curtains, he could not see any figures or fire inside the shop. Miss Reinhart also came over to look outside, and tried not to get her face too close to Shade.

Illusions are not transfiguration. Illusions will have loopholes when observed from close up, especially for highly perceptive ring sorcerers or witches. The eleventh-level witch obviously has high perception. Although she was unable to completely see through the "Moon Shadow's Illusion" at night, such a close distance was enough for her to vaguely recognize Shade's general appearance:
"Sister Defulin chose him. I wonder if his appearance has anything to do with it."

She was still there with her mind wandering.

Xia De thought he would have to wait a long time, but in fact, only five minutes after he and the witch entered the house, chaotic elemental reactions appeared in the shop across the street. After a few strange noises, two yellow flashes penetrated from the window.

"The fight started."

The witch lowered her voice and spoke to Shade, who nodded. After a few seconds of confusion, the store returned to silence. Before they could decide whether to go and see what was going on or continue waiting, the door of the store was knocked open from the inside, and then the witch's childhood playmate in men's clothing stumbled out.

She looked seriously injured, and chasing after her was a thin man with a head twice as big as that of a normal adult.

"Hand over your stuff."

The big-headed man took a few quick steps and threatened in a low voice. Seeing that the woman in front of him still wanted to run, he threw a thin needle at her back.

Under the cover of night, the high-speed flying silver needle was almost undetectable in the air, but before it hit the woman's back, a hand stretched out from the side grabbed the thin needle.

Flames rose from the witch's hands and melted the alchemical item. The stumbling woman accidentally fell down at this time. When she turned around and looked back, she was surprised to find that someone had protected her, and that figure seemed familiar.

The big-headed man was facing a formidable enemy, and even released the six-ring life ring behind him:

"Who are you? Ma'am, we haven't met before, have we?"

The woman who fell quickly explained:

"We are a correspondence group from the Sukses Higher Medical School. They traded items with our group, but when we arrived they wanted to directly rob us. Ma'am, we will repay you!"

Although correspondence ring mages seem very "wild" to students like Emilia, non-church ring mages generally believe that correspondence students are also "regular ring mages", so they are willing to help when encountering problems.

The witch didn't say anything, but just stared at the six-ring warlock. The latter was about to say something else when he felt a pain in his head and lost consciousness.

Shade emerged from the darkness behind the big-headed man, but instead of talking to the witch, he turned around and looked back.

At this time, a black-haired man wearing black rain boots walked out of the second-hand watch shop. He glanced at his unconscious companion, and then looked at the man and woman who had just appeared.

Then he clicked the pocket watch in his left hand, and black mist gushed out from his side, and a huge rusted bronze disc emerged. This was not his life ring, but a relic that was summoned. The surface of the disc was engraved with symmetrical reliefs of crying and laughing human faces on the left and right, and in the center was a pointer made of human spine.

The cat poked its head out from between the buttons of Shade's coat, and was then pushed back by Shade's fingers. The powerful whispering element indicated that this was another high-risk relic. There were many high-risk relics on this remote island.

The bronze disc rotates, and the spine pointer keeps jumping between a smiling face and a crying face.

"Sunshine Gun!"

The blazing light stream passed by Xia De, but was swallowed by the relic after hitting it. The dazzling golden lightning jumped on the surface of the bronze disc and then disappeared completely. Not sure if it was an illusion, Xia De clearly felt that the corners of the smiling face on the bronze disc were grinning even wider.

The black-haired man bowed his head and drew the holy emblem of the evil god [Mr. Doom] on his chest to pray, and the disc quickly stopped and finally pointed to the side of the smiling face. The light from the grinning mouth of the smiling face shot towards the pocket watch in the black-haired man's hand that summoned the relic, so he raised his head and smiled at the three people, then pressed the pocket watch again:
"Time stands still!"

A click sound came from the void, and the alley under the moonlight suddenly had a layer of leaden halo. The falling snowflakes, the old newspapers flying along the ground in the wind, the skirts of the women blown by the wind, and even the wind itself were frozen.

"May bad luck bless you."

The man in black rain boots breathed a sigh of relief, and then suddenly realized that the scene in front of him seemed to be wrong. Although the frozen scene remained unchanged, it seemed that one person was missing.

"The story of time has ended, but you are still using time to stand still. You are out of date!"

The silver moonlight cut off his left hand holding the pocket watch, and the pocket watch in the broken left hand was snatched away.

With a crisp sound, the frozen time began to flow again because of the loss of control. After the "Battle of the Crystal Throne", Shade, whose time resistance was almost full, kicked the man with the broken hand with his pocket watch. The other party was a cultist who believed in "Mr. Doom". The team had run into them and the puppet when they were performing the experimental task before the holiday. Unexpectedly, they appeared again on a distant island.