Whispering Poems

Chapter 3252: Shadow of God

The man kicked over by Xia De fell to the ground and turned into black foam and disappeared. Xia De did not look for him, but looked at his right hand. The pocket watch in his hand suddenly disappeared, and the man with the broken arm who reappeared from behind the huge bronze wheel was holding the pocket watch in his right hand.

The pocket watch is the body of the bronze roulette wheel, which seems to be some kind of relic of fate.

"Space power?"

[No, the relic's characteristics make it return automatically. ]

"She" reminded softly, and the man with the broken arm saw Shade raise his hand and spun the wheel again. Miss Reinhardt's attack was absorbed, so Shade did not take this opportunity to attack again. At this time, the witch more than ten meters away had helped the woman in men's clothing and asked her to leave first. As the witch walked towards Shade, the wheel stopped spinning for the second time, and this time the spinal pointer still pointed to the "smiley face".

The man with the broken arm was very satisfied with the second result. He pointed his pocket watch at Shade:

"You may be very strong, but the spinning wheel has already predicted that this operation will not fail. As long as this wheel is there, no matter how strong you are, there will always be a force stronger than you. This is the fate that will befall you tonight - it cannot be changed. Since the time stop can't deal with you, then let's look at a more powerful force."

As he finished speaking confidently, the light from his grinning mouth fell on the pocket watch again.

The man tapped his pocket watch, but as Shade and the witch cautiously took defensive postures, the time pause did not occur again, or at least nothing happened.

The doubtful man looked at the roulette wheel suspiciously, and after confirming by the moonlight that the spinal needle had indeed stopped at the smiling face area, he looked at the pocket watch in his hand. Then he found that his palm was emitting fine dust. He blinked in confusion and realized that it was not just his palm, but his whole body was emitting dust:

"how"

Before he could finish his words, his entire body was blown away like a pile of ash by the night wind blowing through the alley.

"What happened? Did the negative effect of the relic get triggered?"

Miss Reinhart frowned and walked over to Shade and asked. Shade didn't know either. He didn't pick up the fallen pocket watch, nor did he look at the roulette wheel that still didn't disappear. He turned around and looked around. Although there was nothing in the darkness, he still had a strange feeling:

"Touch my chest."

"what?"

The witch was startled, then said angrily:
"How can you say such a thing?"

"I'm not kidding you."

Xia De grabbed her hand seriously and put it on his clothes:
“Is my heart beating fast?”

"You are, why is that?"

"I don't know either. I just feel like I'm in a state of suffocation. It's strange. Aren't the enemies already dead?"

Click~ The sound of footsteps, although slight in the snowy night, sounded like thunder in the ears of Shade and Miss Reinhardt.

The two looked into the depths of the alley in front of them. The moonlight illuminated half of the alley, but in the thick, almost impenetrable darkness outside the moonlight, something had appeared and was standing there looking at them.

The witch, who had not yet realized that something was wrong, raised her hand and tried to summon light to illuminate the darkness, but her hand was held down by Shade, who was frowning.

She looked towards the deep darkness with increasing curiosity. At first, the darkness was just a chaotic picture, but gradually she actually caught a human figure made up of lines in the chaos.

And once the imagination has outlined the appearance of a person in the darkness, the mind will involuntarily try to outline what is standing in the darkness and looking at them from afar.

She didn't notice that something was wrong with her at the moment, and she was still looking over there, and even started walking forward involuntarily.

Then the existence in the deep darkness became clearer. It was a man wearing a black hat, thin and wearing a monocle. He was standing there, playing with a deck of cards in his right hand, which looked like a dice. If you look closely, it is clearly a pendulum pendant. After noticing the witch's sight, the existence in the darkness looked at her.
"Get behind me!"

Xia De's voice pulled her back from the chaos of consciousness, and when she regained consciousness, the first thing she felt was not the panic of her back being soaked, but her hand being held by Xia De's big hand like an iron hoop.

Before she could understand what was happening, Shade used unreasonable force to force her behind him. When Claire Reinhart hid behind Shade, she felt that his back was like the thickest wall to block the "gaze" from the darkness of the alley.

[Stranger, you feel "blasphemy". ]

"what is that?"

When she opened her mouth to speak, she realized that her voice was actually trembling, but Xia De was very calm. After all, she had not yet entered the "Divine Afterglow" state:

"Once the wheel of smiley and sad faces turns to the smiley face, it seems that it can summon a being stronger than the enemy. The dead cultist must have really hit the jackpot, but fortunately the basic rules of this world are not so easy to break. Even if he is completely sacrificed by the relic, the relic cannot summon a being of that level."

The witch understood Shade's "hint" and she almost lay on Shade's back:
"You mean he didn't summon a powerful ring wizard, but..."

"I can't use an accurate definition to describe the thing standing deep in the alley, but please rest assured, the thing looking at us right now is definitely not what you think. Maybe it's just a hazy shadow in someone's memory, or maybe it's just something that's infinitely close to a statue of a god, but it's definitely not it."

She lay on Xia De's back and felt his heart beating, but she soon realized that it seemed to be her own heartbeat:

"So we're safe?"

"No, we are in danger. Even if it is not real, but that thing continues to exist, I am worried that it will really attract the attention of the 'higher'. We don't know who it is, nor do we know how it is related to the other party. It moved."

Shade's voice was very steady, but the witch with platinum hair still trembled. Even if it was not real, mortals would still instinctively fear such an existence.

But she was not the kind of girl who couldn't stand being frightened. After hearing what Xia De said, she still suppressed her fear and wanted to face it with Xia De, reminding herself in her heart that it was fake.

She tilted her body slightly to expose her head and half of her shoulder from behind Shade, and then she saw that the black figure, whose outline existed only in the darkness, seemed to be closer to the area illuminated by the moonlight than before.

She subconsciously grabbed Xia De's arm, and only let go of her hand apologetically after Xia De whispered to her, "Be gentle."

"What should we do now?"

She felt that Xia De seemed to be particularly experienced in this kind of situation. It would be impossible for her to turn around and leave now. She was almost certain that as soon as she turned around, the other party would move more than just a small step forward.

The witch's pale golden eyes glowed uncontrollably, and the power inherited from the ancient gods was passively activated at this moment. She still poked her head from behind Shade, and Shade had already thought of a countermeasure:

"Leave everything to me. If it is just the current situation, there are many ways to deal with it. But the cultist of doom really brought doom. Has your friend left this alley?"

"Yes, I left."

"Well, the worst strategy is to wait for the relic effect to disappear. The user of the relic is already dead. Theoretically, unless it is a permanent relic, it cannot exist forever. But no one knows how long this wait will last."

pat~
The two of them saw the figure take another small step forward, as if deliberately teasing their nerves.

"The general strategy is that you grab me, and I use space-related powers to get us out directly."

“But it will catch up.”

Miss Rhinehart now grasped Shad's arms instead, and she could feel the tense muscles of Shad.

Xia De also thought of this:
"So I'm not going to use ordinary space power. I'm going to take you across half of the old continent to my home. That place is very special. Maybe it won't be able to catch up with you, and maybe even if it catches up with you, it will be affected to a certain extent."

Xia De took a deep breath:

"But there's a chance it could cause permanent damage to my home, and I'm not sure what that would be."

The witch pursed her lips, not knowing what to say. This method was better than the previous one, but she couldn't say to let Xia De bring that thing home.

But she was very curious about what was so special about this stranger's home. Was it an ancient manor hidden in the wilderness, or an old-time sorcerer's tower hidden among the hills, or an unknown single-family house outside a remote village?

"So what's the best way?"

She asked in a low voice, but as soon as she finished speaking, they both saw the figure in the dark take another step forward. A snap~ sound was heard like thunder, and at this moment it was only one step away from the alley area illuminated by the moonlight, or it could be said that it was standing on the edge of light and shadow.

Even Shade subconsciously took a step back, and the witch behind him got closer to him. Shade didn't actually think he would lose if he really fought with that thing, he was worried that the fake would attract the real thing.

The conversation between the two of them ended temporarily, and they stared at the intersection of light and shadow, waiting to see if it would really appear completely. The city under the night sky was completely silent at this time, and even the night wind stopped without knowing when.

The thumping sound of the witch's heartbeat behind him was too obvious, and Xia De also felt a drop of cold sweat sliding down his forehead.

The blasphemous elements were becoming more and more dense, and the more people didn't want bad things to happen, the more bad things would happen. Claire Reinhart had only half of her face and one eye exposed to look ahead, so she saw that after the last step and pause, the vaguely visible outline in the darkness actually took another step forward, and this time, it was about to appear in the moonlight and really come in front of the two of them.