In any case, at least for now, no one can see the guardians, so it is impossible to judge what their current situation is.
After meeting Sister Defulin that night, Shade finally received a document sent by Miss Danister at the Plenty Land Inn. The document contained some rumors and inaccurate history about the early days of St. Byron's.
Xia De took the documents home to check. After learning the magical art of soul whipping, he arranged the handwritten or photocopied documents one by one under the gas lamp on the desk.
In fact, although the materials are very thick, there are only three copies in total.
The two handwritten copies were part of the notes left by a witch headmistress in the last era, which were discovered by Headmistress Pigman in recent years, and part of the handwritten content from the headmistress's memorandum. The one photographed with the camera was part of a huge stone tablet that Miss Danister did not indicate the source of.
The three documents all pointed out that the current location of the academy was indeed from the territory of a certain Old God in the Fifth Age. As for the transaction conditions given by Miss Mana Felena, the three documents had completely different answers.
The notes of the unknown witch principal believe that the original founders used an interesting story to win the favor of the God of Night and thus obtained the land;
The ancient principal's memorandum records that the real bargaining chips offered by the founders came from the ancient gods of the First Age. They were treasures that even the old gods could not refuse.
As for the stone tablet, it recorded that the founders did not take out bargaining chips, but instead released some kind of terrifying ancient evil beast, forcing the God of Night to give up a small part of his territory.
Of course, Shade thought that among "interesting stories", "treasures from the First Age" and "ancient evil beasts", the latter was the least likely. He had been in this world for nearly a year and naturally knew what gods represented, so he did not believe that the God of Night, Eternal Night Curtain, would be frightened by some ancient evil beast.
Besides, Miss Feliana and Miss Orlanod don’t look like the kind of people who would release the ancient evil beast.
"So, what Fiona forgot is most likely a treasure from the First Age. An interesting story, more like a bargaining chip I put forward."
Shad guessed.
Because the final battle of Randall Valley is likely to take place this week, in order to save the precious 40 minutes of rest time, Shade did not use the time key of 3028 for the last time on Monday. However, he did remember to open the gift box of God and get the gift for this week.
Last week, he got an ivory comb, and this week, he got a beautiful white ceramic teacup with patterns of cats playing in various colors. Although it was just an ordinary item, Shade liked the teacup very much, so he planned to keep it for himself. This week's task was to learn how to brew black tea and pour tea for people older than him.
This is actually very easy, because there are only a few friends around Xia De who are younger than this body of his.
Because it was already the third day of the Windy Month, Shad was not in a hurry to go to the Randall Valley. Instead, he used the morning to take care of some personal matters at the beginning of each month in the city.
I waited until noon to take Mia home after a full lunch before heading to the southern city. When I walked out of the Forgotten Church, I found that the atmosphere in the city was even more tense than the previous two days. After arriving at the Wilde Opera House, I heard from Miss Lathers that a small-scale earthquake occurred again in the east of the city around early this morning.
Although the direct impact of the earthquake was only to cause cracks in the walls of several houses, after the earthquake, a fire spread from the residential area to all directions. The fire was not completely extinguished until this morning.
"Look that way."
Miss Lathers stood by the window and pointed to the east of the city:
“See that smoke over there?”
The city was already foggy, so Shade had a hard time seeing the black smoke drifting into the sky in the distance:
"I thought it was the smoke from the chimney of the steam factory east of the city."
"It's the smoke from the fire. This fire killed at least a hundred people..."
The blonde young girl looked out the window. Of all people, she was the only one who was truly from Randall Valley, and this was the only place where her hometown was truly.
Miss Aurora and Miss Bernardess went out of the city to investigate the situation outside the city, while Miss Sylvia was with Miss Carina at Miss Bernardess's manor. So after leaving Wilde Opera House, Shad went to the manor again.
As soon as they entered the door of the mansion, they saw Tifa and the old witch's apprentice, Miss Rita Swift with beautiful long flaxen hair, chatting and laughing with a team of maids, holding tea cups and pushing a dining cart, walking towards the right corner of the corridor.
Seeing Shade appear, the black-haired maid greeted him warmly, while Miss Swift was a little reserved, not at all like when she forcefully kissed Shade at the end of last year's festival.
Miss Sylvia and Miss Carina were in the basement, and the maids were preparing to bring them afternoon tea and snacks.
When Shade met the two great witches, they were in the potion workshop in the basement, expressing their opinions on a bottle of yellow-brown liquid.
"Those fallen earth elemental giants are quite troublesome. Miss Swift brought Grandma Cassandra's potion formula, 'Mud Potion'. This potion can turn solid stone into mud, similar to the deterioration effect of the spell 'Fossil to Mud'. But if you are willing to spend money and add some expensive catalysts and enhancers, you can also play an effect that is not inferior to the spell."
The Duchess of the North said that she was wearing a black long skirt today, long boots on her feet, and a black leather coat over a white women's shirt on her upper body, but the coat was not buttoned. This was the first time that Shade had seen such an outfit, probably because there was no "Duke" here, only a "Great Witch".
"We tried to mix the potion, but the color of the finished product is not quite the same as what Grandma Cassandra said."
Miss Sylvia said with some trouble, and then handed the potion to Miss Swift and asked her to check it:
"Mother-in-law's potion-brewing skills are quite strong. We still have a lot to learn."
Miss Swift had already uncorked the bottle and sniffed:
"The taste is fine. If it's just the color that's different, I don't think it will have much impact on the effect."
"Why not give it a try?"
So Miss Carina suggested, and Shade was a little surprised:
"Give it a try? Go out of town now and find a monster?"
"No, no, I already have one."
Miss Sylvia smiled and said:
"In order to study the local monsters, Benanis went out of town last night and caught one and put it in the basement."
With that, the group left the potion workshop and headed deeper into the basement.
On Saturday night, a huge piece of ice appeared at the location where Miss Sylvia opened the portal. Ancient golden seal runes were engraved on the surface of the ice, and inside the ice was a monster that Shade was quite familiar with.
Miss Carina waved to Tifa, and the black-haired maid, together with the other maids around her, released flames to melt the symbols on the surface of the ice.
When the seal was almost destroyed, the maids retreated to Shade's side. Miss Carina glanced at Shade again, and Shade waved forward casually:
"Moonlight Slash."
The silver moonlight created deep cracks in the ice, and then a clear cracking sound came from inside the ice. As the cracks continued to expand, the ice finally exploded with a roar, and the fallen earth elemental giant was freed.
Unfortunately, this freedom only lasts for a second:
"Spider Web Technique."
Miss Sylvia's lazy voice came. It was clearly one of the basic spells, the spider web spell, but when she used it, it did not shoot out white spider silk as thick as a cable like the normal effect.
Shade keenly sensed the abnormality in the space, and then three almost completely transparent octopus spiders the size of a human head appeared from the void, and almost instantly weaved a large transparent web connected in the space, trapping the earth elemental giant inside.
Because of the power of space, Miss Sylvia's "Spider Web Technique" was even more effective. Although the trapped monster's head could still move slightly, the rest of its body was completely still, like a specimen.
"Inspiration - The effect of weaving spirit runes."
The young witch responded to Shade's doubts with reserve, while Miss Carina reminded her:
"Shad didn't even ask."
As he spoke, he motioned for Miss Swift to come forward. The flaxen-haired girl took the bottle of potion and moved closer, then threw it at the elemental giant's chest.
The bottle collided with the monster's body and shattered, the liquid splashed out and adhered to the stone surface. As the potion glowed faintly, the sound of corrosion and white smoke appeared. The monster's chest collapsed inward at a speed visible to the naked eye. After waiting for half a minute, because the damage exceeded the threshold, the fallen elemental giant collapsed into a pile of black rubble in front of everyone's gaze, with a sound that was almost wailing.
"Is this the foundation rock? This is the first time I've seen it."
Miss Sylvia picked up the stones with great interest, while Miss Carina talked to Miss Swift about the effects of the potion. As for Tifa, she led the other maids to clean up the broken ice and stones to prevent the owner of the manor from complaining.
"For ordinary elemental giants, this potion is enough. This time, the Speaker approved an additional operation fund for us, so we don't have to worry about the expenses. We can even sell a batch to the Orthodox Church, and they will be happy to buy it."
Miss Carina seemed to be in a good mood. When she saw Miss Sylvia coming over with the selected stones, she asked her again:
"You came earlier than me. Do you know how far the relationship between Shad and Benannis has developed?"