Maybe you can let your cat out and let it figure it out, as it has a very keen sense of smell.
While Xia De was hesitating, "she" whispered a reminder in Xia De's ear, but Xia De refused without thinking:
"No, it's too dangerous. Although the Hamilton Detective Stories describes Mia as a very capable detective cat, that was all made up by Dorothy. I know Mia doesn't have such a great ability. Tonight, it was wrong of me to take the risk of bringing it to this manor. How could I expose it to the devil?"
"She" smiled gently in Shad's ear, and after eliminating the "cat power", what Shad had to face next was to choose alone from the remaining two animals which one was the hidden devil.
Want to try your luck? Rely on the blessing of the God of Gamblers.
"She" whispered in Xia De's ear again, but Xia De still refused:
"Although the blessing of the God of Gamblers is very effective, I can't just rely on luck at this time. The Lady of the Lake treated this devil's game as a test for me, which proves that the game itself has an answer, and this answer needs to be thought about by me. It is definitely not something that can be guessed by luck."
He narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he had thought of something. There was a possibility that the two remaining animals in front of him were not Shade's target, and the demon was actually hiding somewhere else. After all, if it was Shade who set up the game, Shade would also use this trick to deceive.
"Tell me again the rules of the game the devil just proposed."
Shade said to "her" in his heart. As the whisper in his ear gently repeated, the devil's voice appeared again in the gray sky above his head:
"There are only ten minutes left. Oh, look at you. You look so pitiful. Do you need me to give you some hints? I am a kind person, hahaha..."
Shade approached the brown bear and the black snake with the Profane Cross, but just like facing the Night Watchman, both animals showed similar uncomfortable reactions.
The Stone Mirror Demon-God is very good at hiding itself, and its best trick is to disguise itself as other lives by reflecting itself. In this case, even if Shad has the eye drops of the Augustus priest and the help of the night watchman, it is difficult to distinguish which one is the real demon by the confrontation of extraordinary power.
Fortunately, after "she" repeated the rules, Shade suddenly understood what the devil had done. The devil was good at playing word games, and the answer was actually in the rules.
He did not point it out immediately, but whispered softly:
"Let me try that ritual."
As he spoke, he used his sword to draw the base array of the mysterious ritual corresponding to the magician's escape box on the ground. He was not worried that the demons would find out what the ritual was used for. After all, the owner of the magic box was a man from the Fifth Age, and the ritual base array he drew at that time had no meaning in mysticism.
Of course, the current location is in the demon realm, so Shade only drew out the ritual in advance and did not call Dr. Schneider for the time being.
After finishing the painting, in order to cover up his actions, Shade pretended to put the black snake on the brown bear's back in the last few minutes and moved them together to the ritual base.
The ritual had no ability to identify demons, so naturally nothing happened.
Xia De nodded slightly:
"In this case, I can only take a gamble and guess. With a 1 in 20 chance, I won't be that unlucky."
"She" chuckled in Shade's ear, and the laughter echoing in the gray world turned into the devil's mocking words:
"You have finally come to this point. Mortals always try to prove that they are the ones favored by fate, but they don't know that it is just the arrogant ramblings of poor people before their defeat. There are still five minutes left, and you are doomed to lose."
"You are deliberately leading and distracting me."
Shade stared at the two animals in front of him:
"What is it that you don't want me to notice?"
The devil did not answer, and his disgusting laughter continued to echo in this gray world.
"But I don't know if you noticed that when I made the rules, I obviously had such a good relationship with Desire, but I didn't ask that after this game, neither of us could do anything to each other to ensure my own safety. I just made a ridiculous request that the loser couldn't leave the manor. You are very confident in yourself, so you wouldn't ask that we couldn't do anything after the game, after all, you are stronger than me. But you don't seem to realize what my failure to make a similar request means about my thoughts."
There was no smile in Shad's tone. On the contrary, if Luvia, Dorothy, or Lecia, who were familiar with him, were here, they would know that Shad was serious:
"You are very good at playing word games. I have known this from the beginning. And now, you still want to play this trick on me. Are you ready, Goethe? Are you ready to fight me to death after the game is over?"
The laughter continued, and Shade continued to speak:
"My compassion made me save the squirrel, my curiosity made me find out about the story of the tiger and the folklorist, and my honesty made me keep my promise and set the demon servants free. These helped me eliminate three answers in advance. Without them, my attention would still be on choosing one out of the five, instead of starting to consider your tricks."
He took out a small bottle of water from his pocket, and the liquid was splashed into the air. Then, under the effect of the "Water Manipulation" spell, a thin water curtain formed in front of Shade.
"When you were making the rules just now, you said 'I will be reflected in the form of any animal.'"
Shade looked at the water curtain. Although the burning forest could not illuminate the dark courtyard, the silver sword of the Night Watchman in his hand could still illuminate the water curtain, making the water curtain almost like a mirror, reflecting the reflections of the snake and the brown bear:
"so... ... "
Shad's eyes were still on the two animals, but his left hand reached into the water curtain and grabbed Stone Oxenfurt, who was riding on the back of the brown bear in the mirror reflection:
"You are just as you described. You didn't turn into an animal at all. You turned into their reflection in the mirror!"
Crash!
The gray world cracked, and large pieces of gray peeled off. The firelight from the normal world illuminated Shade's pale, bloodstained face, and also illuminated the huge, old stone mirror that Shade reached into.
Petrified rose vines adorn the surface of the black stone frame, and ancient evil demonic runes write the story of the devil. The blood of the innocent stains the mirror, and the souls of the fallen wail on the frame.
Stone Oxenfurt clapped his hands and laughed in the mirror of the demon's body:
"It's really wonderful. Did I become guilty of the sin of arrogance last time I saw your arrogance?"
Shade turned his head, and the hand wearing the Demon Hunting Seal reached into the mirror and grabbed the demon's throat:
"The game is over, I win!"
The demon was still laughing, and the skin on its neck was smoking due to corrosion, but it grabbed Shade's hand with both hands, allowing itself to be corroded by the power of the Demon Hunting Seal while letting him strangle its neck even harder:
"I abide by our contract and will not leave here before the sun rises. Stone Oxenfurt's soul also belongs to you. But you dare to get so close to me. Don't you realize what you are doing? Maybe you have made a lot of preparations, but at this moment, you have failed!"
The demon's domain was collapsing, the black snake died, the tiger, lion, two squirrels and brown bear fled in panic. The burning forest in the normal world turned the whole manor red, as if this was a burning hell.
Strong winds mixed with gray snowstorms greeted Shad as he returned to the real world. Hela Oxenfurt watched all this silently from the window on the third floor of the manor. Miss Sylvia was rushing towards the manor wall at full speed. Oxenfurt, whose soul was pierced by a black chain, was dragged towards the manor gate by Ms. Handel. This story seemed to have come to an end.
Although it called itself "arrogant", the Stone Mirror Demon also knew that Shade must have the confidence to deal with it. This time, it did not hold back like it did at Watson Manor. Its dark eyes stared at Shade, and the image of "Stone Oxenfort" in a robe was melting and deforming.
Shad's left hand broke free from the demon's hands that had become invisible due to the deformation. The strong wind caused the Rhodes deck in his right hand to fly out of his hand. Fifty-four Rhodes cards flew around him, and the card that slid past Shad's eyes rotated 180 degrees. It was the Origin of Darkness.
It takes time for the relic to be used and for it to take effect, but at most ten seconds, the doctor will appear:
Amidst the flying cards, the dazzling flames, and the doomsday-like sight of the mountains and cities in the distance, Shad grasped the Night's Watch, the weapon of the witcher from the Third Age, in both hands and stabbed the demon's body again in this distant Sixth Age.
The long sword pierced the mirror, and the mirror began to shatter. The blade pierced into the deep darkness in the mirror, and Shade heard the sound of hands clapping again:
"Do you know who is the greatest enemy of mortals?"
"Eight seconds left."
The power of the Night Watchman collided with that of the demon. Shad, who was already in poor condition, could only grit his teeth to maintain his sword and his own power to prevent himself from being repelled by the counterattack.
"As you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
"Six seconds left."
The stone mirror shattered due to the power of the Night's Watch, and Stone Oxenfurt disappeared completely from the mirror, and the darkness reflected another person.
"I am the reflection of the hearts of mortals. I am the darkest secrets that people do not want to be seen."
“Four seconds!”