Silver Blade and Rose

Xuesting felt very unconvinced, and originally wanted to follow Zals to see what good methods Edwin could teach, but saw the two of them going upstairs on their own, and entered the room at the end of the corridor——the door almost hit him On the nose, Xuesting made fun of himself, touched his nose and went downstairs.

Zals didn't realize that he almost slapped someone's nose flat. After closing the door, he suddenly remembered that he didn't bring his notebook and wanted to go back to his room to get it.

"No need." Edwin sat down on the chair and tapped the table with his fingers, "Come here, it's not that difficult."

Zars was dubious, sat next to him, and handed the "Hunter's Cloak" over.

Edwin hadn't seen the necklace with his own eyes yet, but now that he had it in his hand, he looked at it for a moment in the light of the balcony, nodded slightly, and said, "It's true."

"what?"

"I suspected that Grant was lying before," Edwin said, not hiding it from him. "To be honest, I don't trust him, and I don't trust the cornered Xuesting Fern he said. The timing of his appearance is too coincidental. I need such a thing." He just happened to come into our field of vision through Grant's introduction, if you accidentally use a fake product, you will probably never come back."

This is true, everyone in No. 179 no longer trusts Grant, Zals can still feel this, and can understand their thoughts.But in his opinion, there was no need for Grant to lie to them on this matter—if something happened to Edwin or himself, Grant would undoubtedly lose the opportunity to enter hell through the "gate" of No. 179.

He told Edwin what he thought, but the latter didn't think so, raised his eyebrows and asked him, "What if I go in by myself?"

Zals was stunned for a moment, and he said again: "Muen and Hannah can't stop Grant."

Not to mention him.

I didn't think of this before, but even if Edwin said so, Zales was unwilling to easily speculate on others with this possibility.He knew that he was still naive to think like this, so he didn't say it out loud, so that Edwin would not spend any more time educating him.

"But you see, Grant didn't lie to us," he said.

"Indeed." Edwin held the pendant in his hand and held it up to the sunlight. "This thing is true, but due to improper use, there is not much energy left in it."

The silver holder inlaid with gemstones is hollowed out, and the light transmission of the gemstones can also be seen from the perspective of Zars-there is a thin light-colored trace in the middle of several gemstones, which is almost impossible to find without looking carefully. Like a slight crack, obviously not in great shape.

"This thing is said to be made by druids, but it doesn't really matter." Edwin handed him back the pendant, and said casually, "An old friend of mine made some gadgets in his free time, and he planned to give them to The junior made a gift, but it was stolen and sold on the black market, and finally disappeared without a trace, and has never been found. I was planning to use other props instead, but I didn’t expect that there would be one in York City, so I was lucky.”

"Since it's your old friend, why don't you ask him to make another one?"

Zals didn't think much, blurted out this sentence, and realized that it shouldn't be after asking——If it was convenient, Edwin would not settle for the second best, and planned to find something else to replace the "hunter's cloak".

Sure enough, the other party smiled and said something amazing: "He has been dead for almost 100 years, where can I ask him to make another one?"

Zales: "..."

He was speechless, and couldn't help asking: "Then how old are you?"

Although he knew that Edwin was not human, this question has been bothering him until now, and they are in a safe place at home, so it might be a good choice to take this opportunity to ask.

It's not necessary to know, but as Edwin's current partner, he still hopes that the other party will trust him more and tell him the real situation.

But Edwin just glanced at him and said, "I don't suggest you ask this for now."

"What do you mean?"

"I will tell you, but not now." Edwin said, "Maybe next week, maybe next month... I will seriously consider this matter again when you make great progress."

"This is a matter of trust between you and me. Why is it related to whether I have made progress?" He was obviously changing the subject. Zals could accept him bluntly saying that he couldn't, but he couldn't accept this obvious delay "If you don't want to talk, just tell me."

He stood up and wanted to leave, but then remembered that Edwin originally said that he was going to teach him how to use the "hunter's cloak", so he looked back at the other party, and did not immediately walk away.

Edwin was watching him too.

His eyes were different from usual. He had never seen Edwin like this before. His eyes were sharp and there was a hint of probing, as if he wanted to see through people.Although he was still sitting on the chair and didn't show any intention to keep him, Zals felt that he didn't want to leave.

"..."

Zales sighed, and sat back in the position he had just been in.

"Aren't you going?" Edwin said. "I thought you were angry."

"I'm a little angry, but it's not to the point of arguing with you." Zars put the necklace on the table helplessly, feeling that it was unnecessary for him to be serious at this time, "Come and teach me how to use this."

The pendant was held in the palm of his hand just now, and it was still warm. Edwin paused when his fingers touched it, and then picked up the pendant together with the chain.

"hand."

He held out his hand to Zals, palm up, asking him to fold his hand on top of his own.

According to Zals, he stretched out his hand and put it on his hand, and found that Edwin's hand was surprisingly cold, so he couldn't help but look up at him.Edwin didn't look at him, picked up the necklace with the other hand, put it in his palm, then wrapped his hand around his hand, making him clenched his fist.

The cut surface of the gemstone was not sharp, even if it was squeezed like this, it didn't hurt his hand, but there was another strange feeling rising - the coolness spread from Edwin's palm, making him shiver.

Sensing his reflex tremor, Edwin said in a deep voice, "Don't move."

Even if he didn't say it, Zals realized that he shouldn't move, and straightened his back stiffly, his whole body was like a stick that was frozen hard, and he didn't dare to move.

The coolness spread all over his body, like some kind of baptism, and like a layer of chilly cloth, tightly wrapping his whole body in it.He could feel that Edwin took his hand and let it go, but the layer of "cloth" did not disappear, but remained on his body.

Edwin patted him on the shoulder, motioning him to turn his head to look at the full-length mirror in the corner of the room.

Zars turned his head following his line of sight, and found that he still existed in the mirror, but it seemed to be covered with a layer of veil, not to mention translucent, and somewhat faintly visible.

"This is……?"

"Aiwen's little trick, less-savvy users can use it to fool people's eyes, but not dead things, mirrors can reflect them, so Xuesting Finn needs to avoid mirrors and other reflective objects when fleeing. On the other hand, clever users can use it to hide their body shape and aura, and even deceive the forest guards of the "Forest of No Return" to sneak into the forest from under its nose."

Aiwen must be Edwin's friend, the maker of this pendant, but another term...

"'Forest of No Return' has a forester? Is it the same as Mr. Wagner?"

"It's not the same." Edwin firmly denied, "Wagner is just a human soul who was guided to guard the forest, while the forest guards of the 'Forest of No Return' have nothing to do with humans."

He looked at the translucent body of Zals in the mirror, and seemed to be wondering if he could fool the eyes of the forest guards. After a while, he said: "It's a beast. The forest itself was born to protect the core of the beast. It perennially Staying in the forest will tear everyone who gets lost in it."

"But didn't that lost guy go in?" Zars felt a bit contradictory between his words and the facts.

"If that person didn't lie, he was swept directly to the 'core' area in the center of the forest by the space turbulence. In this way, the forest guards would not find him, because its existence itself is contrary to the core, and there is no way to get close to that area."

"Contradictory?"

"It's hard to explain," Edwin said. "You'll feel it when you go in."

He put his hand on Zals's hand holding the pendant again, and whispered, "Relax."

To be honest, this request is a bit difficult.

He was very close, and the faint cold fragrance from his body drifted into Zarles' nose. His hands were obviously cold, but they subtly neutralized the coolness brought by that layer of "cloth", like a gust of cool wind, suddenly Getting closer blew him back to reality.

Zals subconsciously struggled with the held hand, looked up at Edwin in the mirror, only to find that the "cloth" on his body had disappeared, and he was no different from normal in the mirror, normal It was as if he had just had a dream.

Edwin didn't let go of his hand, and still maintained the too close distance, and said in his ear, "Concentrate, think about what you want."

"Ok?"

Zals was stunned for a while, probably because Edwin was too close, he felt a little lack of oxygen in his brain dullly, and didn't understand the meaning of the other party's words for a while.

"If you want to hide, you want to disappear in the sight of others, you want to become the wind that cannot be caught... anything is fine, it will feel your thoughts."

This description is a bit illusory, Zals tried his best not to care about Edwin behind him, and imagined as much as possible, only to see himself in the mirror flashing, and for a moment it seemed that the "cloth" appeared again , but quickly returned to its original state.

Although it was only for a moment, he seemed to have grasped something.

Zals tried again, this time the layer of "cloth" actually appeared, covered by the invisible coolness, and he in the mirror became the indistinct and indistinct appearance just now.

No wonder Edwin said that there is no way to explain how to use it in a few words. It really takes personal experience to figure out what's going on.

Knowing that his attempt was successful, Edwin let go of his hand and took two steps back to a safe distance.

"Don't try too much once you've learned it," he said. "This thing will lose its effectiveness after a few times of use. Save it."

"Okay." Zars hung the necklace around his neck as promised, thinking of the subtle contact and feeling just now, he suddenly didn't know what to say.

He seemed to have no resistance to Edwin's sudden approach. He was so close that he froze there like a petrified statue, not daring to move.Zals never knew that he would have such a big reaction to other people's contact. This is not a good phenomenon. His intuition is not very good, but because the other party is Edwin, he somehow feels at ease.

He held down his beating heart, returned to his usual self, stood up and prepared to go back to his room to get his clothes and take a shower.

Edwin stopped him behind him.

"I won't sell you, don't worry."