"I won, help me recover!"
"Oh, be patient. I need to heal you first, otherwise you will be injured when you return to your adult form."
The puppets on the upright puppet stage all grumbled, and as they spoke, green spots of light appeared on the puppet Shade's body, and the wooden body grew and healed like living wood. Then, in another puff of white fog, Shade, who had returned to human form, lay on the coffee table, and even his damaged clothes were restored.
He looked at his palm with joy and jumped up from the coffee table. Miss Benanis stared at him with wide eyes in shock. When Shade was still a puppet just now, the strange feeling was not obvious. Now that it has fully recovered, she immediately understood what was strange.
Shade had already taken his cat by now, and had time to look at the local witch.
Miss Vanessa Benanis wore a long red dress, her long blond hair was waist-length and naturally curly, her golden eyes had a hint of green light, she was a beautiful blond lady in the most traditional sense.
Although it was clear that she was already in her thirties, she looked even younger than Miss Lathers. Her fair face was neither too big nor too small, her small mouth was painted with lipstick, and her three-dimensional facial features showed a confused look like a girl. The silver star-shaped earrings on her ears further highlighted her charm.
The great witches all have extraordinary beauty. Although I have seen several great witches, I have to admit that Vanessa Benanis, the ninth seat of the Witch Council and the Witch of the Earth, has a different charm from other witches. Especially the perfect sense of weakness on her face, which makes this charm... ...
It's not a feeling of weakness. What Sirius Grand Lathers said was right. There is indeed something wrong with this witch's condition.
Why the witch was "sick" will be solved later. While Miss Benanis was staring at Shade, Shade sat on the sofa beside him and asked the puppet on the puppet stage:
"The puppet show is over. According to the agreement, you need to restore all the people you have turned into puppets recently."
"Of course, I am very satisfied with this puppet show. The demon king riding a dragon and the knight riding a cat, why didn't I think of such an interesting plot before?"
The bandaged puppet said, looking at him with its shiny black button eyes:
"Reeler of the Toy God, since you have completed this drama, I think I should give you a reward."
As he spoke, the "heart of the forest giant", "the ring of the evil wizard" and "the long sword of the royal knight" appeared on the puppet stage together. Of course, the size of the three was adapted to that of a normal human being, that is, it was actually a heart-shaped ruby, a normal ring and a normal sword:
"A gem that increases strength, a ring that continuously summons fireballs, or an extremely sharp sword. Choose one as a gift."
The puppet laughed and said.
Although it looks sane, a relic is still a relic after all. Although Miss Lathers, Miss Benanis, and Shad seem fine, they are not ordinary people, and the relic's effects have mostly ended. You know, behind the sofa, Miss Benanis's servant and several waiters from the opera house are still lying there unconscious.
All three items were relics, and it was unknown whether they were made by the puppet itself or collected and stored by it over the years. Shade made his choice after only a brief consideration.
"I don't want any of them."
He shook his head slightly. Judging from the whispering elements and their functions, the three relics were at most at the Secret Keeper level. He still remembered why he came to the Wilde Opera House today:
"This witch has been looking for you recently for her maze - the golden stage that sings glory."
Shade pointed at Miss Benanis. This was the information he got from Miss Carina and the others:
"If possible, I hope you can give her some help so that she can make her own maze stronger."
The puppet smiled and nodded:
"No problem. You put on an interesting puppet show with me. This is a perfectly acceptable request. I can't let God say that I'm stingy."
As she spoke, Miss Benanis's puppet and the disk on her head floated out from behind the curtain next to the puppet stage. Of course, the puppet was just a puppet now, but it was attached with the whispering element. The puppet floated into Shade's hands, and Shade knew that this would definitely be of great use to Miss Benanis:
"Thank you very much."
He expressed his gratitude sincerely, and the puppet waved his hand:
"Well, may the guardian of innocence bless you forever. This was really fun. The other living people in this city who I turned into puppets will recover soon. See you next time."
It wanted to leave happily, but it seemed to remember something. It sat on its puppet stage, and as the curtains on both sides slowly closed towards the center, it said to Xia De with a smile:
"Speaking of which, do you know why I appeared in this human city?"
"Why?"
Xia De asked cooperatively, knowing that the other party just wanted to tell him the answer.
"The Crazy Puppet Master of the Fourth Age created this theater and split a small part of his soul to form my foundation. Now, the notes of that crazy puppet master have appeared in this city. I wanted to take them back, but now it seems that if you keep it in human hands, you can perform more interesting dramas."
The blood-red curtain closed, and the color of the physical wooden puppet stage faded little by little, disappearing like a pencil mark on paper being erased by an eraser.
Xia De opened his mouth and understood immediately:
"The Puppet Master's Notes, an angel-level relic, came from the same maker as this puppet... The Puppet Master's Notes have always been in the hands of the Blood Spirit School..."
The story of how it all began was related to that relic. Just a page of the notebook almost caused the stranger to die under the grapevines in summer.
"The 13th-ring warlock Blood-weeper Hermons escaped with serious injuries in Yinfan Darkness's 'Darkness Descent' incident, causing the entire Blood Spirit School's power to shrink in the Old Continent. Now, the Blood Spirit School has actually sent someone with at least one page to Randall Valley City... What is going to happen here?"
This means that at least one of the chosen ones has local connections and is likely to appear in the near future.
While Shade was thinking, the puppet stage had completely disappeared. But neither Miss Lathers nor Miss Benanis spoke, because they saw the black iron-colored spiritual light rushing towards Shade at the place where the puppet stage disappeared, and thick steam mist rushed out from behind Shade, and the black shadow of the huge life ring kept approaching from the depths of the steam mist.
Outsider, you touched the whisper.
In ancient times, a crazy puppeteer walked in the chaotic material world, just to find and perform the most perfect drama in his mind. But in the end, he realized that the best stage is this world, and the best puppets are all mortals.
Relic - Crazy Puppet Theater, giving you new powers.
As the clear brass wheel ring behind him spun rapidly, the black iron-colored spiritual light almost formed a halo. The spiritual light was enriched, and the whispering power obtained from the relics added the first spiritual rune of the five rings for Shade on his life ring.
Outsider, you have inscribed the Dark Iron Rune of Whispering Spirits - Puppet.
This is the spirit rune of the middle ring. When the life ring slows down, the strange rune is so dazzling. Miss Benannis and Miss Lathers are not surprised that Shade has obtained the spirit rune. After all, his contact with the relic just now is indeed very deep.
To their surprise, Xia De was not lying and he really only had five rings.
"Can puppets and Silver Moon be related to the language of sublimation?"
Xia De thought silently in his heart, and let the life ring disappear behind him. The opera in the opera house had not yet ended, but the box suddenly became quiet, which made the three people who were awake at this time look at each other.
The witch reacted the fastest. Although Shade saved her, this lady with long golden hair, who was considered the best opera singer and singer in the past hundred years, immediately asked the question she wanted to know the most:
"Are you a man or..."
"man."
Miss Benanis had barely uttered half a sentence when Shad gave the answer.
The witch looked at Shade with disbelief in her green eyes:
"That's absolutely impossible!"
She frowned slightly, her voice rose, and her tone was a little stern. Miss Lathers, who was standing by, didn't know what was going on, and tried to persuade her;
"Vanessa, Mr. Hamilton just saved us, you..."
"Sirius, please don't speak now. I won't do anything to him, but you don't understand what we have before us, and what this means for the Council if he is really a man!"
Shade understood Miss Benanis's current mood very well. He held Mia in one hand, stood up from the sofa on the side and came to the witch. He stuffed the witch's puppet into her hands and then stretched out his wrist to her.
"please."
"you... ... "
The witch held the puppet. Although she was surprised, she still reached out and grasped his wrist in the face of Miss Lathers's incredulous expression:
"Vanessa, have you been in contact with a man?"
The blonde witch and Shade maintained a strange posture. After a long while, the witch's white nose wings fluttered, showing her emotional fluctuations. She took the initiative to let go of Shade, and then looked at her palm in disbelief:
"This isn't right! This isn't possible! Hamilton, what are you?"
Suddenly he looked up at Xia De:
"Hamilton? Shad Hamilton?"
"Yes."
"Carina Cavendish's lover?"
"Yes."
After getting a definite answer, the witch, who was originally a little excited, immediately slowed down her tone. Obviously, if she was not the first witch to discover the "man" in front of her, then the matter would not be as serious as she thought:
"You actually exist? I thought she had her maid disguised as a man to fend off her suitors."
The blonde witch muttered softly, sighed slightly, and leaned back on the sofa.
"I'm sorry, what happened?"
Miss Lathers on the side still didn't understand:
"Vanessa, why did you take the initiative to touch Mr. Hamilton? Since the Duchess is a witch, how can... "
“He’s different.”
The blonde witch still stared at Shade and said something she couldn't believe:
"This man is not within the range of the witch's curse... Witches can interact with him normally."