Whispering Poems

Chapter 3254 Spider Silk and Spinning Wheel

"Meow~"

After getting ashore, Mia quickly shook her body twice to shake off the wet seawater all over her body. She didn't touch Shade, who was still wet, with some disdain, but looked up at the moon, then stood on the high dry reef and meowed at him.

The moonlight sprinkled on the cat's body. For a cat who seldom went out, tonight was already wonderful enough. It was urging Shad to go home with it.

"Are you OK?"

Shade helped Miss Reinhardt up and summoned fire to evaporate the seawater off their bodies, but they still felt very uncomfortable and it looked like they would need a bath to be completely clean.

The witch shook her head. She had no talent for space, and the long-distance teleportation just now made her feel like vomiting:
"It's okay for now. Sorry. Hoo~ Hoo~ Do you know the mermaid just now?"

"Of course I don't know him."

Xia De helped her walk towards the shore, picked up the cat and put it on his shoulder.

"Then why did they do that to you? Humph, I didn't expect mermaids to be the kind of creatures that only care about appearances. I mean, luckily they were able to send us back. I feel relieved when I see the snowy mountains. The magic and secrets of the mermaid race are very different from those of humans. In the sea, they can do many things that human ring sorcerers cannot do."

She patted her face lightly to cheer herself up:
"Let's not talk about mermaids. It's good that we can return safely. Come back to the city with me. I don't know what happened to that alley."

The two flew directly to the destination, as they were on the south bank of the island not far from the Wheel of Time City, so they returned to the alley in the city in a short time. The knocked-out big-headed cultist and the pocket watch-like relic that summoned the bronze roulette wheel were gone, but fortunately the shadow in the darkness also disappeared.

“Is it really gone?”

Miss Reinhardt asked carefully from behind Shade, and Shade nodded with certainty:
“It’s really gone.”

Because the "confrontation" just now did not actually cause much noise, the church was not attracted. There were still people in the second-hand watch shop. When Shade and the witch, who had disguised themselves again, broke in, they even scared the three people from the Sixes Higher Medical College.

Miss Reinhardt's childhood playmate, the woman in men's clothing, was healing the wounds of her two companions who had lost their ability to move. Although she did not recognize Claire Reinhardt, she knew that they had just saved them. After a brief exchange of words, she told the story:

"I ran outside to the street and waited for half an hour, then I came back because I was too worried. All of you were gone, so I went back to the store and saw that both of them were unconscious."

The two companions of Miss Julia Meyer were a man and a woman, with five and four rings respectively. They were both sitting on the ground leaning against the counter, smiling at Xia De and the others shyly.

"What's going on with this deal?"

Shade asked, scanning the second-hand store, and finding nothing else unusual, but Miss Meyer did not hide it:

"Some time ago, our team acquired a precious material on the black market. Not long ago, someone offered a very high price to buy the material from us. We didn't want to sell it, but they really offered a very high price.

So, they probably didn’t intend to pay the bill in the first place, and now the material has been taken away.”

"We are lucky to be alive."

The gentleman with the glasses and the four rings sighed and said, and Miss Reinhardt, who was standing behind Shade, frowned and asked:

"So, you didn't know beforehand that the person you were trading with was a cultist."

The three of them shook their heads together:
"I don't know, I really don't know. If we had known in advance, we would not have come at all. Although the price they offered is really very high, we are not willing to take such a risk for such a small amount of money."

"What exactly is that precious material? It's rare for the cultists to act like this tonight."

Xia De continued to ask, and the three of them seemed to find it difficult to speak. In the end, it was the older lady with five rings who gave the answer. She was probably the leader of this group:

"That material is actually illegal. Before the end of the year, St. Byron's Comprehensive College carried out a large-scale off-campus mission. That mission produced a special material called [Life-Weaving Spider Silk]. Someone in the local area intercepted a part of it and let it flow into the black market."

"Life-weaving spider silk?"

The witch tried hard to recall whether she had heard of this material, while Shade did not expect that someone would dare to intercept the spider silk during that mission. Dorothy and Luvia had such thoughts at the time, but the girls did not do it in the end. After all, the college would sell some spider silk to correspondence students afterwards. Although the price would definitely be high, there was no need to violate school rules.

The three people from the Sexes Higher Medical School left quickly. Miss Reinhardt would investigate on her own about her childhood playmate becoming a ring mage.

The two men watched the three people disappear into the alley, then turned around and walked out onto the street from another direction.

The dresses and formal wear they had prepared for the dinner had become a mess. Walking side by side on the street, they both felt a little melancholy.

The witch wanted to apologize for involving Shade tonight, and wanted to invite Shade again to dine together at a restaurant in the city next time. But Shade was thinking about other things, and before Miss Reinhardt could muster up the courage to speak, he suddenly asked:
"The cultists of the evil god [Mr. Doom] have appeared in the local area. Do you think this is a sign that the Chosen One of Destiny is about to appear?"

"what?"

The witch was startled by his words, and after thinking carefully, she asked:
"Are these two things related? Although the power of that god includes a part of fate, it does not mean that you know something about the place where his believers appear?"

Xia De shook his head hurriedly:

"I don't know yet, I just thought of it. But do you know anything about the cult of the evil god [Mr. Doom]? The man who sacrificed himself just now seemed to have mentioned a spinning wheel."

The witch frowned and thought for a while, but couldn't come up with an answer:
"I don't know, but the spinning wheel may be related to spider silk. I must admit that what I encountered on this trip back home has exceeded my expectations. This is only the second day since I returned home."

It was so late that even the carriage rental company had closed, so the two finally flew back to Kyle-Todd. Shade parted with the witch in front of the village gate. It was getting late, and he had to go home:
"It's up to you to decide whether to inform the church about the cultists. See you tomorrow. After all, the cultists are not the focus of our investigation. I just hope that the investigation into the magic sword will yield new results."

He waved at Miss Reinhart, but was stopped by the witch again. She pursed her lips and looked at Shade, and after a long while she whispered:
"Thank you for today."

Xia De smiled at her:
"You're welcome. And if you still need my help tonight, just go to Victoria Street."

The girl with beautiful long platinum hair covered her mouth and smiled reservedly. She stood in front of the gate of the village and watched the man walk down the mountain until she could no longer see him. Claire Reinhardt turned around with a smile and saw her grandfather standing not far away.

The girl who was a little excited just now immediately stopped smiling, clasped her hands together and even felt a little shy:
"Grandfather, when did you come?"

Elder Harald looked over her shoulder towards the bottom of the mountain, then he let out a long sigh:

"Just pretend that I just arrived. I saw that you hadn't come back yet so late, and I was a little worried, so I came to wait for you. I was thinking just now that if that boy tried to kiss you in an unruly way, I would definitely hit him like I hit your father with a long stick."

"Really, Grandfather, what are you talking about?"

The witch complained quietly, but she did not deny that she did have some thoughts. The tribes at the foot of the snow-capped mountains were somewhat different from the "city people". The girls here always liked to express their feelings frankly. Although Claire Reinhart had been away from home for many years, she was still a girl who grew up at the foot of the snow-capped mountains:
"We were in danger tonight, and you didn't even ask about my situation."

"Because I saw you guys are back safely. Let's go, your students are worried about you and they want to come with me to wait for you. You have really changed a lot in the past few years since you left home. The last time you left home, I was really worried that what you said in anger about finding a beautiful girl to live with in the future was true. Now it seems that everything is fine, it's fine."

"Grandpa!"

After returning home with his crystal shoes, Shade appeared in the attic this time. So he first collected the Moonlight Water and Sunfire that the two rituals had recently collected, and then went downstairs with Mia.

I thought there might be no one at home, but unexpectedly, Luvia, Karina, Lecia and Ajelina were all there.

Resia and Luvia were playing chess on the short sofas facing each other. Ajeelina was sitting on the right side of the sofa studying with a book in her hand. Karina was staring at a document in her hand. Tifa and the maids were busy in the kitchen.

The firelight from the fireplace illuminated the girls' delicate faces. The sound of footsteps and the meowing of cats upstairs made the room, which had been silent, suddenly lively. The girls on the sofa stood up to greet Shad. When the three girls from the Cavendish family stood together with the lady, the scene was particularly pleasing to the eye.

"What happened to your clothes?"

Luvia asked Shad with some concern, while Carina asked if Shad and the cat had eaten dinner.

This is the feeling of being home. Xia De likes the feeling of being cared for.

Although Shade only left for Fatumunster Island in the afternoon, his experience in the afternoon and evening was indeed rich. After changing his clothes, he sat on the sofa with a cup of tea and briefly described the encounter with the cultists with Miss Reinhart after dinner.

PS: The picture in this chapter is "Cavendishes".

Left: Karina, center: Leicia, right: Ajelina.