Whispering Poems

Chapter 682 The Seal on the Mountainside

"Doctor, there are still 17 seconds."

Xia De reminded again, but he was relieved.Holding the sword, he watched the body of the Balrog gradually disappear on the distant platform, while the flames on the doctor's body became stronger and stronger.

Finally, with 10 seconds left before the doctor had to go through the door again, the Balrog on the platform in the middle of the large hollow in the mountainside completely disappeared.

The doctor flicked his normal right hand, and the flames on his body gradually went out.He smiled and turned to look at Xia De, but saw Xia De looking behind him in surprise.

Dr. Schneider only felt a fast-flying object flying past his face, and then he saw a black stone with red cracks on its surface rushing towards Shade's heart.

Xia De instinctively swung the long sword in his hand and slashed forward. At this moment, he felt as if the sword was leading his hand, stabbing the black stone with incomparable precision.

The stone was pierced through the body of the sword, and the crimson flame-like cracks on the surface flickered a few times before it stopped moving completely.

"This is the heart of the Balrog. Yes, it's the Balrog itself, not an evil spirit or demon. I didn't expect the Balrog that mimicked it to have this organ. Wait a minute."

The doctor reached out and touched the stone that exuded residual heat:
"Pure Balrog Heart, no other power. Pack it in that bottle in the suitcase, the one I labeled. Oh, time is running out."

The doctor patted Xia De on the shoulder, and then trotted into the half-open door.

With a clang, as the wooden door with the metal base disappeared, the metal key fell onto the stone platform.At the same time, as the doctor left, the two balls of fire he summoned for illumination also disappeared.

The entire hollow in the mountainside returned to darkness, leaving only the bright yellow rune on the long sword in Xia De's hand [My heart is clear, the sword cuts the devil], emitting a faint light in the darkness:

"Silver Moon!"

Holding the sword in his left hand, the silver moon lit up at the tip of Xia De's right finger. He squinted his eyes to look at the long sword in his hand, then bent down to pick up the key, and put the devil's heart pierced by the sword into the bottle prepared by the doctor in advance. After a mile, he slowly walked towards the edge of the stone platform.

Standing on the wooden board in front of the broken bridge, he crossed the central stone platform and looked at the stone platform hidden in the deep darkness on the other side of the mountainside.Just now when the flames of the Balrog lit up the entire mountainside, Xia De vaguely saw a stone tablet standing on the stone platform on the other side of the mountainside.

After hesitating for a moment, he held up his right hand and raised his right index finger:
"Silver Moon!"

Standing on the edge of the stone platform, with the abyss under your feet, the bright moonlight erupted from your fingertips. The sudden light turned the mountainside into daylight, and even the long sword in your hand was stained with moonlight.The dazzling moonlight did not have much effect on the caster himself, so Xia De saw the whole picture of the stone tablet.

It was too far away, and he couldn't see a single letter clearly, but at least he could see the base of the stele and the shape of the stele itself.

The knowledge in [Witch Reverberation - Fei Lianna] immediately matched it, and the style of the stone tablet opposite was obviously the style at the end of the Fifth Epoch.And judging from the standard, it was made with a spell that only high-level witches could use.

"It seems that the hallucination I saw when I raised the sword just now is real. The witch emperor of the Fifth Epoch - Violet Marshall, left a stone tablet here. Hundreds of years ago, Dr. Alfred's ancestor , after the high-ring warlock came here, he did not explore, but left the sword to seal the Balrog. Yes, it seems that there is a high probability that the location corresponding to this place in the narrow room is the mountainside seal!"

Xia De extinguished the silver light on his fingertips, packed up the suitcase, erased the traces of the ceremony, and left here with the suitcase in one hand and the long sword in the other.

(Mia is running...)
"Come on, detective, let's toast to friendship and today's victory!"

In the eastern part of Tobesk, the lights on the first and second floors of the Schneider Psychological Clinic have long been turned off, but the lights in the bedrooms on the third floor are still on.Under the bright and cheerful gas light, Dr. Shade and Dr. Schneider each held a glass goblet and clinked glasses in front of the window to celebrate.

The time was 09:30 that night, the key on the wooden door by the wall had returned to its original place, the suitcase was opened and placed on the desk in the bedroom, and the bottles and cans were shining under the gas lamp.And the long sword was wrapped in the bed sheet by Xia De, leaning against the wall of the door.

"Doctor, congratulations."

The two clinked glasses, and the middle-aged doctor could hardly suppress the smile on his face:

"It went smoother than I thought. It's really good. This is already the seventh demon I've swallowed."

In his right eye, a frightening scarlet light flashed, but this was just the doctor showing Shad this impressive power:

"In addition, I also learned two additional thaumaturgies related to the Balrog, and obtained a brand new spiritual rune."

Xia De toasted again:

"It's a pity, doctor, you haven't held the ceremony to be promoted to the sixth ring. The current spirit rune can only be regarded as the fifth ring."

"No no, I deliberately controlled the process of digesting the power of the Balrog. I think if it goes well, I can get one or two more spirit runes after the ceremony is held at the end of this month when Huang Yue is full."

Both of them were in a good mood, so they chose to stand in front of the open window and talk with the night breeze blowing.

Xia De took a sip of the said to be extremely expensive red wine provided by the doctor, and squinted his eyes to look at the night scene of Tobesk:
"Doctor, are you sure that devouring this weird thing won't make you lose control?"

"I may have had some emotional changes in recent days, but at least I'm not out of control for now."

The doctor said, the smile on his face faded a little:
"Don't worry about me, I've made all the preparations. At least I won't lose control until I successfully rescue the souls of Mr. Shelf Tim and Miss Shana Aya."

Xia De nodded:

"You still have to pay attention to safety, so you go to my house tomorrow morning. There is a door in my basement that can help you suppress your emotions."

He refers to the door leading to the [Dark Dungeon], because this is the door that can only be obtained by killing the chosen one, so the use of the dungeon does not have to be limited to ring warlocks who have the "dark" spirit rune.After entering the trapdoor that represents oneself in the dungeon, one can talk and even fight with the "self" in the dark, so as to reverse the loss of control.

According to Iluna, the Church of Light and Darkness, that is, the Holy See of the Church of Dawn, has also found a door that can enter the dark dungeon, so the ring warlocks of the Church of Dawn have a lower probability of losing control than other churches.

"Ok."

The doctor nodded without asking further questions, and said:
"However, I can't identify the sword you got. You can go to Old John for an appraisal. He is absolutely reliable. Or, go to the college for appraisal. I remember your relationship with the librarian Miss Daniste Very nice, she even gave you a college assignment with a lot of practice credit."

"Yes, but I don't think I'll go to the Academy for identification."

Xia De looked back at the sword by the wall:
"Once I let the academy know that I have this, I won't be able to run around with it. And I got the news from the sword that this sword can be the key to solving the narrow problem, it should not always belong to me .”

"It's up to you to decide."

"And the heart of the Balrog"

Shad brought this up again.

"All spoils are yours."

The doctor shook his head indifferently. Although Xia De found the location, strictly speaking, the Balrog's heart is the doctor's trophy:
"If the heart was intact, it would be worth quite a lot, probably enough to buy your neighbor's house."

This kind of metaphor can fully explain the value of "a flawless Balrog heart".

"Unfortunately, I have absorbed too much of its power, and now it is almost an empty shell. There has never been such a thing on the market. Let me estimate that its current value should not exceed five thousand pounds."

"This is already very valuable, who can make so much money at once? Oh, if it can sell for a high price, I even want to learn the expensive thaumaturgy that the priest gave me."

Xia De said with a smile, and then asked:
"However, why did the heart attack me at that time? I thought it was an evil spirit that wanted to possess me."

"Impossible, you were wearing a demon-hunting seal at the time, and the souls of evil spirits and demons have already been extracted and crushed by me."

The doctor shook his head:

"Let's not talk about this. In short, tonight is really a great harvest. But I want to remind you, detective, don't go to Midhill Castle often. Because of my strength, I am very sensitive to whispering elements and profane elements. Except for Tobes I've never felt the same elemental confusion as in Midburg anywhere."

"So how do you feel about Fort Midhill now, and have you found anything?"

Xia De asked curiously, the doctor held the glass and thought for a while:
"The last calm before the eruption."

"Volcano"

Xia De sighed, drank the red wine in the glass, and looked at the night sky in the east of Tobesk with the doctor.The lights in the buildings lined up in the distance are dotted with lights, and the chimneys further away are still spewing black smoke into the night sky.

Nights in big cities are exceptionally quiet, especially in such affluent areas.The only sounds could be the barking of dogs in the alley, and the rhythmic sound of the carriage rolling over the cobblestone road when it came from outside the block.

"But in this way, the warrior who killed the dragon and the hero who killed the demon appeared beside me at the same time."

He sighed softly.

"Kill the dragon, where did the dragon come from? Are there any dragons in Fort Midhill? I can't deal with this."

The doctor asked curiously, picked up the wine bottle from the small round table beside him and poured wine for Xia De, then pointed at himself with a smile:

"Besides, I'm not a hero."

(End of this chapter)