"If you want to steal books, then steal them. Why burn down the library?"
Xia De looked straight into his cold eyes:
"Sir, you're not going to tell me that you have a habit of setting fires, are you?"
"A fire will burn everything cleanly, leaving no clues."
The Jazz gently shook his glass, turned away from Shade's gaze, and looked at the heavy snow again. Even though he was exposed, he still maintained his so-called elegance:
"This is not the first time I have done this, Mr. Hamilton, but this is the first time I have been discovered and forced to admit what I have done. I have never been discovered doing this before. I have systematically studied psychology and criminology. Oh, the latter is a new discipline. I even mastered some special tricks for anti-divination. The learning process fascinates me, and to be honest, the feeling of being exposed is quite good. It makes me realize that I still have a long way to go on the road of seeking knowledge."
The middle-aged gentleman smiled and said:
"You reminded me that I should never be arrogant. We are all students in the pursuit of knowledge."
"The church already knows about you."
Shade said, and the Jazz nodded:
"What I am about to do will not be allowed by the church, so it is nothing to know this little thing. Knight, this is probably the last time we meet. Next, I will go to the 'promised land' bestowed upon me by fate to receive the unique supreme wisdom. I am very happy to talk to you before I leave."
He sighed softly:
"I'm not familiar with you, but I'm somewhat familiar with you. You know some things about me, but not much. Talking to you is probably the best choice."
"Why do you think I'd let you go?"
Shade asked curiously, and the Jazz smiled again, throwing the glass with most of the red wine left in it into the alley below.
The wine glass fell into the thick snow in the alley. The poured wine first dyed the white snow blood red, and then the glass glass was embedded in the snow.
He turned his head slightly and looked at Xia De:
"Of course it's because..."
Pointing at himself:
“… I want to leave.”
The silver moonlight flashed in the wind, and the shield-shaped transparent book blocked it.
The Southern Lord in a black coat fell from the terrace like a bat and came to the deserted alley. When Shade, who had taken back the bottle, also jumped down, the steam mist brought by the life ring of the five-ring warlock began to melt the cold snow.
Shade did not show his life ring, but looked at the knight across the snowstorm:
"Shad Hamilton, you are also a wise man. Think about it carefully. If I didn't have the confidence to beat you, why would I take the initiative to show up just now?"
Xia De did not try to persuade the other party. He just tapped his toes lightly and his whole body turned into a group of scarlet butterflies.
The butterflies dragged red dots of light in the snow and flew quickly in the direction of the knight. The light runes on the life ring of the five-ring warlock flickered with spiritual light. The middle-aged gentleman stretched out his right hand and pointed. A thin beam of light burst out from his fingertips, sweeping across the red butterflies, melting the snow and even leaving traces of heat rays on the ground.
But the loss of a small amount of red butterflies had no effect on Shade's true body. He dodged the attack, and after determining that the distance was appropriate, he revealed his true body. Before the light that followed approached, he took a step forward and appeared behind Sir Prisha:
"Moonlight Greatsword."
The scarlet dagger stabbed at the man's back, but he seemed to have predicted that Shade would move through space, and instantly turned around to block with the cane in his hand—
Ding!
The moonlight dagger shattered the wooden shell of the cane, revealing the metal rapier hidden inside. The wooden shell turned out to be some kind of containment measure, and after shattering the shell, Shad realized that the rapier was a relic.
The metal collided with the dagger in Shad's hand, and scarlet fragments flew everywhere, but the Moonlight Greatsword did not break. Instead, Shad relied on his extremely strong physical fitness and used his strength to hold down Sir Prisha, who was holding the rapier with both hands, with one hand.
"The three months came together and unexpectedly created such a huge enhancement."
He thought to himself.
"Space power? Incredible."
Sir Prisha squeezed out a sound from between his teeth, and at the same time when Shad used the Blade of Chaos Space-Time to summon a second dagger to stab, the whole person of Sir Prisha exploded in front of Shad.
The fireworks and sounds of the explosion were covered in the wind and snow. Xia De, whose clothes on his chest were all torn apart, snorted and looked forward.
Laijins Prisha covered his chest and gasped for breath, then reached out and took out a book from his clothes:
"Your Highness said that although you are only a fourth-ring warrior, your combat power is extremely strong. Now it seems that what Your Highness said was a bit euphemistic. I sensed the power of time and space, as well as the short knife. Even though it didn't touch me, I could feel that my flesh and blood were about to be corrupted by it."
After all, the Red Moon Spirit Rune came directly from the divinity of the God of Vampires. Shade had already experienced how powerful the Gluttony Spirit Rune, which also came from the god, was.
Shad remained silent. As a snowball large enough to block the alley fell from Sir Prisha's head, he moved forward again with the dagger in his hand.
The snowball looked ordinary, but it made the Jazz feel dangerous. He tried to blow up the big snowball with a fireball, but was surprised to find that it had no effect, and then he was directly crushed by the snowball.
But before Shade could get any closer, the snowball exploded from the inside. Sir Prisha appeared in front of Shade again, and there were three new spirit runes on his life ring:
"Knowledge is power, and stories can inspire me. I enjoyed your story, detective, and I also love an old legend about a swordsman."
The Southern Gentleman held his own rapier, and Miracle-Sword, Miracle-Hero, and Inspired Justice flashed with spiritual light at the same time. These were all temporary spiritual runes added by the book for him:
"Mr. Hamilton, I have to leave now, or I'll be late. I actually have a very good impression of you, and the world needs people like you. If I were you, I would leave this city as soon as possible and take Her Highness Margaret with me, fleeing in a direction away from the Pantanal."
The rapier was held in front of him with one hand, the blade pointed at him. As his wrist turned, the blade rotated ninety degrees, and a golden light appeared on the relic sword. The knight burst out with power that did not belong to a five-ring warlock:
"Thaumaturge! Dawn - Sword of Justice!"
The blazing light directly melted all the snow in the alley, and the sharp sword light almost penetrated the space at that moment. A light with extremely high spiritual power exploded in the alley in the blizzard. The strong sense of crisis forced Xia De to evacuate quickly, but it was too late.
"Ragarai's Leap!"
He took a step into the air, moving away from the position where the sword light was the strongest:
"Calm posture."
At this moment, he didn't need any emotion to cooperate, he was already angry enough. He covered his face with his hands, and turned into an angel statue with wings curled up in the air. But even so, after the loud noise, Xia De still felt like his whole body was about to fall apart when he landed. You know, in a calm state, his own defense is extremely amazing.
I managed to get up and look at the alley again. All the snow had melted, and a deep trench that occupied one-third of the alley surface had appeared on the ground. At the same time, the surging residual power made the ground glow, forcing the drifting snowflakes to melt before they hit the ground.
“It’s impressive, but not too impressive.”
Xia De, who also did not use his full strength, thought in his heart that when he first fought against Qiao Yin Barton in the fall, the opponent was already able to use the power of the Level 0 relic, the Narrow Space of Life and Death.
"It's too noisy, let's go!"
They moved forward in the muddy alley after the snow melted, one step deep and one step shallow. Fortunately, the first people to appear were Sister Defulin and the maid.
The two men supported the injured Xia De and left quickly.
"Sister, do you know what the Sword of Dawn of Justice is?"
"High-level magic that can only be used above the twelfth level has extremely strict casting requirements."
It seems that not only can Laijins Prisha borrow books to obtain temporary spirit runes, but he can even omit the requirements for casting spells. I just don't know if he has more skills. If this is all he has, any thirteenth ring warlock can defeat him.
Attracted by the loud noise, people were approaching the alley cautiously. I'm afraid there will be a news report about a gas pipeline explosion in the Huntington Morning News tomorrow. The police blew their whistles and used sharp voices to drive people away. At this time, Shade had disappeared from the corner of the street with the help of two ladies.
The injury he suffered was not as scary as it looked. If it weren't for Sister Defulin's timely treatment, he would have almost recovered on his own. Of course, the dislocated bones still needed help to be put back in place. Sister Defulin did a good job of this. Only then did Shad remember that the Spiritual Order was actually a group famous for its expertise in healing and stargazing.
Although Shad had lied to Kings Prisher that he was there to meet Margaret and give the princess a surprise, Shad did not go to see the princess in the end. Instead, after the steam train carrying the visiting delegation arrived at the train station, he went to the White King Club in the city with Sister Defulyn and two witches to discuss the current situation.
The room used by the four was on the third floor of the club owned by Margaret. It was also the place where Qiu Moxiade first met Miss Sylvia and Margaret when he first came here.
In the blink of an eye, it is already deep winter.
Needless to say, the witches had an unpleasant journey. They came here for the matter of the Chosen One. Miss Carina, who sat down in the warm club room, noticed that the clothes on Shad were not the ones he usually wore when he went out. She laughed and teased him, and then she realized that they had just met Laikins Prisha.
"As you know, he was supposed to be with the delegation, but he lost track of them. Yes, I found out in Tobesk that he was involved in an arson and murder case. When the church went to arrest him, he had already escaped. He admitted to me that he had colluded with the Pantanal Voodoo Society and was going to the 'Promised Land'."
Shade looked at the three ladies in front of him. Of course, the key point was the two witches who didn't know that Sir Prisha was the chosen one:
"He has a very strange ability to use books to temporarily add new spiritual runes to himself."
He briefly described the battle experience just now. After listening to it, the witches looked at each other. Miss Sylvia said in a positive tone: "So, the chosen one is him."
"Yes, I think so."
"I always feel like you already knew it."
The red-haired Duchess said, sitting there leisurely with a cup of tea:
"Before getting off the train, we received new news from the parliament. The Zaras Academy of Literature successfully deciphered a batch of new ancient documents. Through the fragments of poems, it was basically confirmed that the location of this ceremony of the Chosen One is the island in the middle of the central lake in the Pantanal region. The poem gave the island in the middle of the lake an interesting name - the Heart of the Pantanal. It is the most important area in the entire Great Swamp and plays a pivotal role in mysticism and sealing rituals."
This is another term that Xia De is very familiar with. Since the end of autumn, all the clues and contradictions have converged in the center of the distant swamp. The epic of the fourth chosen one finally came to the final scene in this blizzard.