Miss Danister was in a very bad condition, so Shade tried to support her and took two steps back. The library scene in the sea of stars was covered by the thick fog that surged again. After taking two more steps back, they walked out of the double-opened holy silver doors.
White mist poured out from the crack of the door, enveloping the door. When the mist dissipated, the door that was called by the ritual also disappeared. The wordless black book and the yellow moon slate fell to the floor, and the gems, diamonds and rare materials that made up the ritual all turned into dust.
The ceremony worth 400,000 pounds ended just like that. Shade believed that although Miss Danister was very rich, she would never hold this ceremony again. Although Shade obtained very important information through the ceremony, if he really had 400,000 pounds, he would not be willing to spend the money to obtain this information.
Miss Danister still didn't look very well, so Shade helped her back to Room 1 and asked her to sit on the sofa. Then he went to the study and took out a small bottle of holy water. After the librarian recovered a little, he brought hot tea with holy water.
Miss Danister also brought potions with her. She drank a bitter brown potion with a painful look on her face, and then took a few sips of hot tea, and her face regained some color. She held the teacup and looked at Shade with the cat lying on his lap:
"I'm so sorry for letting you see what happened just now."
"It doesn't matter. There is always a price to pay for peeping into knowledge, not to mention that it is a story recorded by the moon."
He stroked the cat and said:
"You still look unwell. Do you need to rest at my place tonight? My house is quite big and I can arrange a guest room for you."
Miss Danister smiled, but shook her head slightly:
"I didn't inform the academy of my trip, so I have to return before dawn. Xia De, aren't you curious about why I'm so persistent in finding the library?"
"This is your personal secret, I won't ask."
Shade shook his head. Miss Danister had spent 400,000 pounds to complete the ceremony, and she let him participate in it for free. He had already gained enough and would not pry into other people's secrets again.
"Yes, I have never told anyone else about it. Even the principal, Mr. Pigman, only vaguely guessed that my purpose was related to my teacher."
Steam rose from the teacup between their hands, and the light from the gas lamp and the fireplace illuminated the two of them. This late-night atmosphere of winter was quite nice for listening to stories. Xia De touched Mia and asked hesitantly:
"Your last librarian?"
"Yes. Although we are both thirteen-ring sorcerers, the teacher is more talented and better than me. The teacher is also proficient in the power of the moon, but unlike me, her core spiritual rune is the silver moon."
She showed a rather nostalgic expression:
"She disappeared a long time ago. In the second year after I took over the position of librarian, the teacher disappeared completely after going out. I know what she did. The teacher said a long time ago that she wanted to meet the ancient god of Silver Moon - Silver Moon Sage."
"Um?"
"I have talked to you about this ancient god before, and I think you know her well. She is the moon, the starry sky, and the night. For those of us who possess the power of the moon, even if we do not believe in this ancient god, we must maintain the most basic respect and reverence for her."
Miss Danister gave a forced smile.
"Yes, I respect..."
Xia De was particularly shocked and even suspected that he had misheard the content:
"But haven't the ancient gods already gone? Does your teacher know where they are sleeping?"
"Of course I don't know. She is also a mortal after all."
Miss Danister pursed her lips:
"But when the ancient gods left, they left some traces in the material world. Teacher has always believed that Silver Moon Sage, the god of the moon, night, and starry sky, left behind the body of a saint she used, or something equally important, in the material world."
Xia De looked at her in shock. He had thought that in a few years the only memory he would have of this Friday would be him riding a cat and fighting a puppet.
"The teacher has been studying these things for a long time. After handing me the identity of the administrator, he set out to look for her. I didn't know where she ended up. Maybe it was the legendary astral world, maybe it was deep in the ruins of the collapsed tower on Mount Karas, or maybe it was some other hidden corner of the material world..."
She looked at Shade:
"In order to continue the teacher's research and to find her whereabouts, I inherited all of her research materials and have come to this day step by step."
"So, did you see the answer just now? Where did your teacher go?"
Shade asked immediately, but Miss Danister shook her head slightly:
"Prophecy, divination, and other signs all indicate that the teacher is dead, and I can accept that. The content of the book just now... is not something I can bear. There is indeed an answer, but I only saw that she went to the ruins of the tower on Mount Karas and found something... I saw the rest of the content, but my body forced me to forget it. Fortunately, you were by my side at the time. It would be very dangerous to faint in the Silver Moon Library."
"Karas Mountain..."
Xia De frowned slightly. He remembered that this name had only appeared twice. The first time was when he had just arrived in this world. At that time, the frightened stranger tried hard to remember everything he saw, so the impression was quite deep:
"Last summer, on the day my uncle Detective Sparrow died, I read the news in a crumpled newspaper, the investigative report on the collapse of the tower on Mount Karas (Chapter 4). Also, a professor friend of mine said that the Karas area has a primitive tradition of moon worship (Chapter 927)."
"Yes, the ruins of the tower on Mount Karas collapsed around the spring of last year. The ancient Moon Worshipping Order once built a magnificent church and sacrificial site there, but not much is left now. When the tower collapsed in the spring, the church investigated for several months to make sure there was no problem, and then allowed ordinary people to write and publish the investigation report in the newspaper. Originally, it was thought that it was just an ordinary collapse..."
Miss Danister's cheeks were fumigated by the steam of hot tea, and the color of blood was returning:
"The last time I came to Tobesk, I met the vice president of the illegal organization Truth Society. She admitted to me personally that the Truth Society had investigated the ruins of the Karas Tower (Chapter 1081). Last autumn, the church captured a ring sorcerer who was studying the ritual of resurrection of the dead in the local area (Chapter 440), from which we learned that the collapse of the tower was closely related to them (Chapter 564). Moreover, the original owner of the relic "Source of Chaos" in your hand, the astrologer Mr. Euclid, had also been to the ancient tower of Karas Mountain. The Truth Society found his notebook there and learned that the source of chaos that the bard keeper wanted to obtain was in Tobesk City.
Shade immediately thought of the letter Mr. Euclid left in the secret compartment: "I plan to find the legendary tower, the tower that buried the moon (Chapter 1088)". Now it seems that after Mr. Euclid left No. 6 Saint Teresa Square, he most likely went to the ancient tower on Mount Karas.
Because the letter left by Mr. Euclid also contained information about the "Chosen One of the Moon" - he would stay overnight at No. 6 St. Teresa's Square, so Shade did not tell Miss Danister about the existence of the letter, but there are already many clues:
"Miss Danister, what are you going to do next to investigate the remains of the collapsed tower?"
"Yes, it would be great if we could learn from the Truth Society what happened to the tower in the spring that caused it to suddenly collapse."
The sorceress nodded. She saw that Shade was also very interested in this and thought that he also wanted to know the secret of the ancient god Silver Moon Sage:
"I admit that you are my student, just like I inherited my teacher's research. If I don't get the final result, you will also inherit the investigation and research on this matter. So, if there is any new information, I will tell you."
She said softly, looking like she had recovered well:
"Just now you revealed your life ring, and I noticed that you already have the first spirit rune in your fifth ring. That's great. If you can be promoted to a higher ring in time, maybe I can take you on adventures and investigations. Do you need to use this spirit rune to connect to the Word of Ascension?"
She inquired.
Xia De called out his own life ring:
"Whispering Spirit Rune Puppet, although I haven't seen all the words of sublimation in the academy, I think even if it can be connected to the Silver Moon, the words of sublimation are not suitable for me. Let's wait a little longer."
Miss Danister finished her cup of tea and left. Shade sent her to the door downstairs and watched her figure "melt" into the shadows on the street. The fog in the city was very light tonight, and the moonlight illuminated Shade's profile. At this time, Shade, half of his face entered the shadows, but he did not have any expression.
For him, perhaps the most important information tonight was not the secret of "Crazy Land", he thought of more things:
"The remains of the tower on Mount Karas collapsed in the spring of 1853... When Joe Yin Barton used the divination of death to predict my death, he said that I should have died in the collapsed tower in early 1853 (Chapter 676), which was also the same time in early spring last year... Before the Battle of Pantanal, the keeper of the lighthouse on the island in the middle of Lake Pantanal said that I fell from the tower and sacrificed myself voluntarily (Chapter 1118)..."
So, do you think there are other secrets in this body's past
she asked with a chuckle.
Xia De emptied his mind and quietly looked at the gas street lamp closest to his home. It took him a long time to come up with the next question:
"I want to make sure that even you don't have any memory of this body before I woke up."
Stranger, I am you and you are me. I opened my eyes because of you, there is no doubt about that.
Xia De nodded slightly:
"So, the academy's summary of my past and Helen and Grace's investigation of this body's past are most likely problematic. The academy may have been negligent, but Helen and Grace's investigation... ... I can wait for Miss Danister to further investigate the tower on Mount Karas, or I can go to Miss Pavlo and ask what the Truth Society has done... ... Or, I can go to Mount Karas myself."
"Meow~"
The cat poked its head out from behind Shad's feet, looked out the door, then retracted its head because it didn't like the cold air.
Shad bent down and picked up Little Mia, and then he saw Dorothy appear at the intersection of St. Teresa's Square.
He walked over with the cat in his arms, and the blonde girl smiled and walked quickly towards him.
Whatever secrets this body, this identity held, there was only Shad Suellen Hamilton in the world now. The Outsider would seize what he had, everything. No matter what happened in the past, as he had told Luvia tonight, he would create his own future.