"Shadow, how do you feel now?"
Tifa suddenly asked.
"After lunch, I feel fine, but I still need to rest for a while. After all, it's too much of a stretch to force myself to use the words of sublimation."
"Now that you have had lunch, please drink today's potion. This is the last bottle. Please follow me and I hope you like the taste of the potion."
The maid said, and after the carriage turned and disappeared outside the manor gate, the two returned to the inside of the building.
On a snowy day, the maids in the manor were also very leisurely, but Tifa did not let any maid follow the two of them. Instead, she took Shad to the third floor alone and came to the double golden doors of the master bedroom of the building, which was Miss Carina's bedroom.
"That bottle of potion is very precious, so the young lady placed it in her bedroom. Please come in with me. The young lady will not mind you entering her bedroom."
Before Shad could ask, Tifa explained, then opened the door and motioned for Shad to come in.
This was not the first time that Shad had entered Miss Carina's bedroom. During the "Darkness Falls" incident, the "Dark Domain" covered the manor. Tifa led the maids of the manor to take refuge in the master bedroom. When Shad came to the manor, he entered here.
This time, the Duchess' bedroom was still filled with a strong scent of incense. The large room was quite tasteful. The Duchess of Saradir had high standards for living.
The red wool carpet covered the entire floor, and the surprisingly large bed was placed on a step higher than the floor of the room. There were even small doors around it, leading to a separate study, bathroom and cloakroom, but according to Miss Carina, the area of this bedroom was much smaller than her bedroom in Saradir County.
Miss Carina, who was supposed to be "sick and resting in bed", was of course not here, but the maids still cleaned on time every day and brought breakfast, lunch, and dinner and afternoon tea. The pink curtains around the bed were hung high, revealing the bed without any wrinkles. The quilt was neatly folded at the head of the bed, and the bright red sheets were bathed in the midday sun.
After Shad walked in, he looked around the room with interest, while Tifa took a step behind and gently closed the door.
"Where is the potion? If it's too precious, you don't have to give it to me. I feel much better now."
Shade turned and asked.
"Here."
Tifa bent down and picked up Mia from the carpet, and opened the door of the cloakroom under the latter's curious eyes. Shade originally thought that there was a safe or a potion workshop hidden by the witch in the cloakroom, but the maid just put the cat in and closed the door.
"The potion is in..."
Shade already sensed that something was wrong.
Tifa shook her head:
"Please don't worry."
She walked to the window and carefully closed the curtains, then went to the wall and dimmed the gas lamp.
Finally, she walked to the end of the bed, gently lifted the hem of her skirt, and sat on the edge of the smoothly made bed, with her feet in black leather shoes tapping the ground.
She bit her lip and looked at Shade:
"The potion is right here."
Xia De was stunned for three seconds before he understood:
"But... this is Miss Carina's bedroom."
I heard "her" laughter, obviously mocking Xia De for asking this.
On her fair face, her red lips curled up into a smile, and the maid nodded slightly:
"Yes, but now, the lady is not here. Isn't this... exciting?"
She raised her hand and unbuttoned the first button of the white lace decoration on her chest:
"So, Knight, would you like to drink this... potion?"
He raised his head slightly, his face slightly red, and his voice trembled. Shade stayed where he was, so Tifa stood up in dissatisfaction and pulled him.
The gas lamp was dim, and the shadows of the two people fell on the wall. The light illuminated the brass mechanical bird on the bookshelf, the lotus-shaped table lamp beside the bed, the expensive silk edging on the curtains, and the antique oil paintings on the wall.
Tifa gently held Shad's head and held him in her arms. After rolling over, she pressed him down on the bed. She bit her lip and blushed, trying to control her breathing. She saw a half-length oil painting of Miss Carina on the bedroom wall:
"Shad, thank you for everything you have done for us, but you must be careful in the future... Half an hour after a meal is the time to drink potions."
The fair face has been stained with rosy color:
"Please pay attention to the time, otherwise the other maids will get suspicious."
In the painting, the Duchess sits elegantly on a chair with her hands clasped together, looking out of the painting with a faint smile. At this moment, the maid, with a muffled nasal groan, looks into the eyes of the Duchess in the painting, and the two look into each other's eyes.
The owner of the manor, the owner of the room, the owner of this soft bed, Duchess Carina Cavendish, is in Huntingdon.
(Little Mia is running...)
The advantage of Miss Carina's manor is not only its size. Most of the household facilities that Shade can imagine that may appear in this era can be found in the manor.
For example, the hot spring bath located on the first floor of the manor can only be accessed from the third floor. The bath may be a little small to be used as a swimming pool, but it is only slightly smaller than the swimming pool imagined by outsiders.
After two days of bed rest, it felt good to take a bath in the bath, especially in the cold winter. But out of courtesy and hygiene, Shade did not take Mia to the bath before dinner that evening, and the cat certainly did not want to get close to such a wet place.
Tifa arranged for the manor maid to help Shade take a bath, but Shade refused.
The black-haired maid said with a slightly troubled look:
"I will have to receive the Kingdom's Chief Justice and his entourage to discuss the candidate for the new Chief Justice of the Dukedom. Otherwise, I can serve you personally."
"Oh, Tifa, stop kidding me."
Shade said with some trouble, and then thought of what happened in Miss Carina's bedroom a few hours ago. Tifa probably thought of it too, and looked at him with her hands folded in front of her chest and a slightly red face:
"How does the potion feel?"
“Very…very good.”
This is not the adjective you think of.
Shad turned around and went to the bath with the prepared clothes, leaving Tifa smiling at his back.
As the year draws to a close, the Prophet Association has a lot of things to do. Luvia didn't make it to the manor for dinner that night. She sent a letter to Shade, telling him that she would probably be late to the manor, so Tifa sent a carriage to pick her up. Shade used this night to take stock of his gains from the Pantanal War.
The biggest gain was naturally the promotion from the fourth ring to the fifth ring, and the attempt to use the words of sublimation.
The echoes of time and space resonated with the remnants of the witches in Shad's soul, thus truly crossing time and space and summoning five demigod witches.
Although he felt extremely sorry that he couldn't talk to those ladies, Xia De could still feel their farewell kisses.
"The Tree Father said that I cannot use the Word of Sublimation easily to prevent disrupting time and space. And using the Word of Sublimation like I did on Thursday morning requires the assistance of an ancient ritual array..."
Shade thought to himself that in this way, the meaning of "Witch's Echo" to him was not only the knowledge of witches and the voting rights in the parliament. It also represented the number of witches he could call in the future. "Witch's Echo" and "Demigod Witch" were requests that came across time and space.
In addition to his own level and words of sublimation, the Aikenola-Arrow of the Chosen, which Shade cannot use at present, has become the most important relic in his hand.
Of course, except for Shade himself, everyone else can use this arrow with Shade's assistance, and the arrow's power is enhanced. Shade doesn't quite understand the church's specific relic rating process, but now this arrow is called an "unknown-level relic", which is probably not too exaggerated. It's just that given the power of Shade's two relics, Desire and Life and Death, which are the full power of Shade's experience, it is probably more reasonable to consider the Arrow of the Chosen One as an Angel-level (level 1) relic.
Since Luvia has refused to become the chosen one of "Knowledge and Wisdom", Xia De plans to wait until Yin Luna comes back to discuss the fate of the chosen one.
But in fact, he already had an idea in mind. Instead of giving it to someone now, it is better to wait until all twelve chosen ones appear before choosing a suitable target. Although this means that Shade can no longer use the power of this arrow, the ability to give power to the ring warlock is still very useful.
In addition to the new arrows, another thing worth mentioning is the new parchment scroll that appeared after the destruction of the "Secret of Immortality". It was the true "Secret of Immortality" co-written by the demigod witches Miss Violet and Miss Theresa at the end of the Fifth Epoch.
This book no longer explores the secret of immortality like the original "Secret of Immortality", but is a spellcasting book that includes many magic arts and spells with "immortality" as the core, which is very similar to the "Pink Book" that Desire gave to Shade.
However, after Tifa's confirmation, only Shad could see the contents on the parchment, while everyone else could only see a blank.
Compared to the Pink Book, which Shade always suspected might contain some traps, he was completely relieved about the Secret Art of Immortality. Unfortunately, most of the magic and spells in it were not very useful to him. Only in the chapters on "treatment" were the healing magic and spells very useful.
But he believed that the girls around him would probably like this book very much. Although "The Secret of Immortality" was written in the language of the Fifth Epoch and contained many mystical terms that were only used in that era, Shade was able to translate it into the terms of this era with the help of "Witch's Echo".
"Ms. Violet, Miss Theresa, I'll see you again."
Looking at the thick parchment, Shade could almost imagine the smell of perfume on the Witch Queen and the young witch with glasses.