That night, Shad did not return to Tobesk, but stayed overnight in the Randall River Valley with Mia. As for the configuration of the paint for painting in the night, he planned to ask Old John in Tobesk for help tomorrow.
Although the Golden Dawn Opera Company is now based in the Wilde Opera House, Miss Benedict and Miss Lasser do not actually live in the opera house. They still live in the manor in the east of the city.
Hearing that Shad was not planning to go home tonight, the witch invited Shad and Luvia to stay at her manor together. Shad glanced at Luvia, and after the latter nodded, he agreed.
In short, it was another passionate and gentle night. Because Shad had not stayed overnight in the Randall Valley for a week, when he was whispering to Luvia that night, the girl leaning against his arms, with her brown hair sticking to her skin due to sweat, complained quietly that she seemed to have lost her attraction to him.
"I'm just not used to spending the night away from home. The nights at 6 St. Teresa's Square are really reassuring."
As Shad explained his reasons, Luvia noticed the faint scar on his chest and whispered:
"I know. Yin Luna said, 'I love my family,' right? Oh, aren't you learning the difficult magic of Moon Dream? I think what you lack is deep sleep. You always sleep lightly. How about I guide you into the dream this time? Give it a try. Maybe you will succeed next time, and you can have a good dream too."
"sure."
Shade nodded in agreement, and Luvia stretched out her fair arm with a blush on her skin, and took out the obsidian pendulum from the bedside table. She shook the pendulum, letting Shade stare at the shaking obsidian in the moonlight outside the window. Shade's eyes gradually became blurred, and with Shade's complete trust in her, the purple-eyed girl successfully hypnotized him, so the worried stranger fell on the pillow and fell into a deep sleep.
Luvia sighed softly, carefully placed the spirit pendant back into the box at the bedside, and then curled up in the quilt, leaning on Shade's chest and preparing to fall asleep. But suddenly she opened her eyes again and placed her right hand on the palm print that had become very light:
“Same size.”
Luvia Annette spoke softly, the moonlight illuminating her slightly raised face that looked like a work of art, revealing a very complex expression:
"Shad..."
Biting her lip, she raised her right hand but lowered her middle finger slightly, letting the tip of her middle finger brush across Xia De's face, which was illuminated by the moonlight outside the window. He slept soundly. Although Xia De described his actions in the afternoon in a rather light tone, he was indeed busy all day.
The purple eyes reflected the silver moon, making the transparent purple even more fascinating. The female fortune teller asked in her heart:
"Is that you?"
What
Her own voice rang out in her mind.
"Ever since I embarked on the thirteenth ring path of the ring wizard, you have always helped me in a mysterious way, but refused to explain everything clearly. You guided me to capture the fate of the chosen one and told me the special way of divination. I know that I have always known that my other self is different from ordinary people. But you... shouldn't hurt him."
Luvia pursed her lips again and ran her fingers across Shade's chest:
"You don't need to ask me how I know that this mark is related to you. It's easy to guess. When I saw this, I even imagined you hitting him from a distance. I know that you are me and I am you. This will not change for any reason. So, I can forgive you for anything, but you shouldn't... hurt him."
The voice in her ear did not give an immediate response. Luvia touched Shad's cheek again with some heartache, and then kissed Shad gently on his lips.
Feel sorry.
Luvia whispered in Luvia's ear.
The girl with purple eyes shook her head:
"What he did in the Night Temple is also related to you, right? He was injured when he returned from the Night Temple last time."
Feel sorry.
The voice in my ear was very low.
Luvia didn't say anything else, but carefully pulled the quilt back up, leaned against Shade's chest and closed her eyes.
The moonlight outside the window illuminated the man/woman hugging each other. It illuminated the back of Shad's head, the profile of Shad, and the profile of Luvia.
After a long while, the transparent figure appeared behind Luvia. Although it was almost completely transparent, there was a clear purple arc of light at the position of the eyes, and there was endless sadness in the eyes.
The transparent figure almost overlapped with Luvia herself, also lying down. She wanted to reach out and touch Shade's face in the moonlight, but as soon as her arm reached into the moonlight, it was caught by another hand emitting silver light. That hand was obviously a woman's hand, slender and long.
Then the transparent arm froze, and the purple eyes widened. But when she looked again, she saw nothing. Only her own transparent arm stayed in the moonlight, only 1 inch away from Shade.
"Is it a hallucination..."
The long-haired Luvia did not touch Shade's face again, but withdrew her arm and completely overlapped her body with Luvia. She also leaned her face against Shade's chest, feeling the powerful life force and strong heartbeat:
"Goodnight, Shad, my... love."
(Yin Luna is praying...)
After getting up on Friday, Shad noticed that the weather in the Randall River Valley was gloomy again. There was no snow in the sky, but the fog in the city was quite thick, almost the same as in Tobesk. But when Shad opened the window, he didn't smell the familiar burnt smell, but a hard-to-describe stench of rotting leaves.
During breakfast in the morning, Shad discussed this matter with Miss Benannis, but the witch looked at Luvia's radiant appearance and said absent-mindedly that she also didn't know what had happened.
However, her followers did bring new news. When the four of them went to the mountains yesterday, 492 cases of "petrified plague" symptoms appeared in the Randall River Valley within 24 hours.
The mildest symptom was that the toes could not move, while the most dangerous was death due to organ failure. After two days and nearly a thousand cases, the church and doctors also summed up their experience:
More than 90% of all petrification symptoms first appeared in the lower limbs and then spread to the upper body. Moreover, the more people walked through the Randall River Valley in the month before the onset of the disease, the more severe the petrification symptoms were.
In other words, guys like Shad who run around in the Randall River Valley all day would probably be the worst hit once they were infected by the "petrified plague".
So far, apart from the "absolute safety zone" of the Sun Church and devout prayers, no large-scale treatment method has been found in two days, but at least the area around the church can prevent the spread of petrification in the body to a certain extent.
Therefore, Miss Benanis told Shad that the houses around the local Sun Church were undergoing emergency reconstruction, and the Sun Church was trying to build a large area around the church to accommodate patients. The cost was borne by the Sun Church 30%, the Kingdom 30%, and other churches each 10%.
After all, this is a great opportunity for believers of the God of the Sun and the Earth to preach.
Shade now has five holy grails in his hand, namely, healing, sweetness, gold stone, conservation and memory. The healing potion produced by the healing holy grail is inefficient but still useful. The strange and solid black stone made by the gold stone holy grail is also a useful extraordinary material, and the conservation holy grail and memory holy grail are even more useful.
Therefore, after breakfast that day, Shade took out the "Sweet Holy Grail" and gave it to Miss Benannis, asking her to prepare it into a potion and then trade it to the church, which could also change the church's attitude towards the Witch Council.
At the same time, the potion produced by his "Cure Holy Grail" can not only cure diseases, but also some minor curses. Shade thought that this might also be useful for the petrification plague, so he gave it to the witch to test whether it was effective.
If it does work, Miss Benanis can do with it as she pleases.
As for Shad himself, after breakfast, he, Luvia and Mia went out together.
It was clearly eight o'clock in the morning, but because of the heavy fog, the city was as dark as before dawn. The destination of the two was the Dawn Church. Shad had made an appointment with Stone Osenfurt on Wednesday to meet him at the entrance of the Dawn Church at nine o'clock.
The urban planning of Randall Valley City is quite interesting. The whole city is divided into four parts by two huge rivers that run diagonally and cross each other, and the churches of the Five Gods Church are on both sides of the river.
The belief in the "Lantern Man", the god of the sun and the earth, is the dominant belief in the local area, which can be judged from the location of the church and the tall side towers of the church that can be seen from afar. The Dawn Church is located in the northwest of the Randall River Valley, on the east bank of the Ailon River.
Although the belief in Mr. Dawn is not as strong as that in the Sun God, at least the church in such a large transportation hub city is still magnificent. When the carriage carrying Shade and Luvia passed through the strange fog that enveloped the city and arrived at the location of the Dawn Church, the church, which is located on the east bank of the Ailon River and covers a large area, was already crowded with people.
It was only 8:20, and there was still half an hour before the appointment with Stone Oxenfort, so after getting off the carriage, Shade and Luvia talked about the differences between this place and Tobesk while walking into the church. Shade got a bottle of No. 1 holy water from the gift box on Monday, and the mission happened to be to go to the church for worship, so since he was at the church, he might as well deal with this matter.