The clerical-level relic wishing coin is made by drawing a pentagram on the ground, placing five candles of different lengths at the vertices of the pentagram, and then throwing the coin into the center of the pentagram, and then you can make a wish.
The way wishes come true is always strange. The smaller the wish, the more normal the way it is realized. The bigger the wish, the more likely it is to cause other disasters.
This coin was once received by Shade from Miss Carina (Chapter 467). At that time, his relationship with Miss Carina was not as close as it is now, and the reward required by the Duchess was...
Have dinner with her.
The second time I encountered this kind of coin, Mr. Edmund sold it at a normal price. Because wishing relics are relatively rare, no matter how strong the side effects are, they are still very useful. Therefore, wishing coins are also considered to be more expensive among document-level relics. But no matter how expensive it is, Shade must buy it.
Considering that the journey from the abandoned tower in the mountains to Middleburg, and from the White River Valley Vineyards to Huntington City was quite far, after leaving Coldwater Harbor, Shad only went home to take a shower, then arranged dinner for the cat who had just woken up from a nap, and left a note for Dorothy who might come tonight, and then went to Randall River Valley.
It was still early for Margaret's party, so Shad went to the Prophet's Association to find Luvia.
Luvia has been in the Randall Valley for more than a month now, and has gradually adapted to the work here. A few days ago, the association informed her that the negotiations with the cult had made crucial progress, but in fact, Miss Lathers said that the Prophet Association seemed to have forgotten to send her a letter.
Anyway, when Shade arrived at the Prophet's Association, Luvia was still busy at work and asked Shade to wait for her at the Plenty Land Inn. Luvia came hurriedly after Shade finished reading a whole copy of the Randall Valley Evening News and talked with the guests at the next table for half an hour about the "petrified plague" that had appeared in the city in recent days.
She didn't look like she was off work, so she wasn't holding her purse.
This time, the two did not chat on the first floor of the hotel, but went to Luvia's room. Shade happily showed the two coins he got today, while Luvia looked very troubled:
"I really can't leave recently because the local association is short of manpower due to the matter of the chosen one. So the association communicated with the college and extended my secondment time. Now I'm afraid I really have to wait until spring to return to Tobesk."
"It doesn't matter, you can see me every day no matter where I am."
Shad said:
"Also, Yin Luna told me at noon today that she has received a notice to leave on Sunday and arrive locally later next week."
"The church must have made great progress, otherwise they wouldn't have let Yin Luna come now."
Luvia was a little worried:
"Do you want to use divination on those two coins now? Use divination to find the sapphire earrings and the two hexagonal gems whose whereabouts are unknown."
"Not yet, maybe I can run into them myself. Spring is getting closer and closer, and there will be more important things waiting for divination in the future."
Shade said, and then extended an invitation:
"I'm going to Margaret's party tonight. Do you want to come with me?"
"The association still has some work to do. The association is trying to use divination to find out the location of the crazy land in the entire area. One was found today, and the church has already dealt with it."
The purple-eyed girl said, holding Xia De's hand. She really wanted to go with Xia De:
"Also, the 'Universal Earth Elixir' you asked the witch to give to the church is indeed effective. I heard that the elixir diluted 10 to 500 times can delay or even cure different degrees of petrification. Although it is not a cure, it is already very effective. As for the cure of the Holy Grail, unfortunately, the potion transformed by the Holy Grail has no effect."
"It's a pity that I don't have enough Holy Grails."
"Today's case count is 302. Even if you get one Holy Grail a day, it will never be enough."
Luvia saw it clearly:
"We can never hope that we can save everyone."
Purple eyes looked at Xia De, and for a moment, Xia De doubted who had said this to him.
Since Luvia didn't have time, Shad went alone to the manor where Margaret was staying to attend the party.
The manor where the princess and the prince live is the local asset of the Anjou royal family. Located in the north of the city center, the manor covers an area that is about twice the size of the Earl of Granger's manor.
Although Margaret said that this was a banquet to celebrate the completion of the shipyard and invited relevant people and their families, the number of visitors to the banquet actually exceeded Shad's expectations.
He arrived early and talked with Margaret in the room for a while. When Margaret took her maid and attendant to greet the guests and Shade also came to the banquet hall, the long dining table illuminated by the crystal chandelier and the gas lamp with the Anjou family crest was already full of people.
“Does the shipyard incident involve so many local people?”
Margaret and Prince William, as the hosts of the party, were very busy at the beginning of the party, so Shad could walk around. He was wondering if he could meet Stone Oxenfurt again, but then he thought that even if he did, there would be nothing to say.
Then he thought about going to see who was playing Rhodes in the banquet hall, where he could kill time. But as he was walking through the bustling crowd with his glass of wine, he noticed an acquaintance standing by the window.
Xia De then changed his direction and walked over with a glass of wine in hand:
"Mr. Enriquez, I didn't expect to see you again."
The man looking out the window alone turned around and recognized the young gentleman he had met at Lord Granger's on Tuesday:
"Mr. Watson, what a coincidence, I meet you again."
The two clinked their glasses, and Shade glanced out the window. The banquet hall was on the first floor, and outside this window was the back garden of the manor. Now it was the end of winter, and although the weather was still unusually cold, there were still people willing to go out at night in this temperature.
At this time, two ladies can be seen sitting on a stone bench covered with cushions at the corner of the evergreen bushes.
There were only a few solitary gas lamps in the garden, which made the two ladies who were talking in low voices dim and cold. But the banquet hall was warm and bright, with pleasant music and lively chatter. Because the room was so bright that the glass reflected the inside of the window.
Mr. Enriquez's face was thus reflected in the glass, almost overlapping with the figure of Mrs. Enriquez, who was sitting in the far end of the garden, wearing a white shawl.
One is outside and the other is inside, one is in the cold and the other is warm and comfortable.
“If it was not an elderly woman talking to Mrs. Enriquez but a young, handsome man, it would almost be a world-famous painting.”
The stranger spoke in his heart something that only he could understand, and then asked Mr. Enriquez:
"It's so cold, why is your wife... "
"She's talking to Aunt Angela."
Mr. Enriquez looked melancholy and spoke in a particularly low voice. He probably didn't care who he was talking to, he just wanted to find someone to talk to:
"It's cold outside, but..."
He drank the wine in his glass in one gulp and looked out the window:
"Please forgive my meddling, but are you guys...having relationship problems?"
Mr. Enriquez nodded slightly, put the glass on the windowsill, and asked:
"By the way, Mr. Watson, I see you are of marriageable age. Are you married now?"
Shade shook his head:
"No, but I do have a few pretty good friends of my own."
Overage.
Mr. Enriquez nodded. He came from an aristocratic family and naturally understood what Shade meant.
He looked outside with sharp eyes:
"It's better not to be married. Love is always happy and perfect, but marriage is always the grave of love. I didn't understand this sentence before, but when I got married, I realized how accurate it was... So, Mr. Watson, do you know why fairy tales always end with the wedding of the prince and princess?"
Xia De followed his thoughts and thought:
"Because after marriage, life is no longer as beautiful as in fairy tales. Ordinary life, friction of trivial matters, conflict of personal habits. Children who read fairy tales should not be exposed to the helplessness of the adult world at a very young age."
"Yes, the helplessness of the adult world."
Mr. Enriquez stared blankly at the two people holding hands and talking outside the window:
"I used to be immersed in the beauty of love, but only after I got married did I realize how difficult it is to start a family with another person."
It seems that what troubled him was not only his wife's experience while studying in Willendel, but also the fact that life after marriage was different from what he had imagined.
However, although it seemed like he was talking to Shade, Mr. Enriquez never told what he knew. No matter how distressed he was, he couldn't tell a stranger that his wife had had an affair with someone else.
"Perhaps you could ask your long-married relatives for help."
However, Shade still gave his own suggestions:
"Although young people often think that old people have old-fashioned ideas, in fact, they are right most of the time."
Mr. Enriquez nodded:
"Yes, that's why my aunt talked to my wife outside. But she obviously misunderstood and thought that it was my unkempt habits that made Maggie disappointed in me. In fact, it was..."
He did not continue speaking, but took another glass of wine from the tray of a passing waiter.
There was no so-called "marriage counselor" in this era, but Xia De knew of a similar profession:
"Have you considered seeing a psychiatrist?"