The maids who followed Miss Carina did not follow her into the room. Only Tifa and Shade followed the witch to the innermost part of the room.
He didn't feel anything when he walked into the room, but when he approached the damaged dressing table, Shade noticed the whispering element:
"The relic is the mirror, and the table is just an ordinary item... The relic itself is not powerful."
Shade said softly, and the witch nodded:
"Very sharp. Just stand here and don't get close. We are still unsure what this is. The clue I have is that people who look in the mirror have a very low chance of seeing some vague figures appearing around themselves in the mirror. Of course, that is what ordinary people encounter. The situation for a ringmaster facing a relic is probably a little different."
"Although the whispering element is obvious, there is almost no fluctuation in the element, which means that the relic is in good condition. I will go give it a try."
Shade said, and Miss Carina and Tifa did not object. Shade had the lowest level here, so even if he had any problems, they could help him.
"Take this."
The witch took off the golden necklace that represented her identity and handed it to Shade. Shade nodded, holding the necklace and continued to walk forward until he came to the broken mirror and sat down.
The mirror was badly damaged. Judging from the marks, it looked like someone had hit the center of the mirror head-on with an iron ball or something. Although all areas of the mirror surface were still there, the center of the mirror was sunken inwards, and then dense cracks radiated outwards around the circular sunken area.
This divided the mirror into many areas, and each mirror could reflect Xia De's figure. He watched carefully and waited for something to happen, but after five minutes, there was still no abnormality.
"I'm not being controlled by the mirror. Let me try another method."
He said to the two ladies behind him, and after receiving a reply, he reached out and touched the mirror.
You came into contact with Whisper.
"She" said softly, then paused:
This mirror has a certain power to connect space.
Xia De's perception will become stronger as the contact distance gets closer, and he indeed discovered unexpected information when he made direct contact. This mirror is exactly the same style as the other mirrors in the dressing room, so the relic itself is not physical, and it is very likely to be some kind of "event" relic, or a relic that can be integrated into the mirror itself.
He told the two ladies behind him about his discovery. Although there were very few clues at the moment, the well-informed witch still thought of something:
"Shad, look in the mirror and say 'Courage with me' in Evra."
Although the request was strange, Shade still did it. He did not understand the language the witch mentioned, and had not even heard of the name of this language, but this did not prevent him from repeating the not very long sentence in full.
Sure enough, as Xia De finished speaking, the broken mirror became flat again as if time had gone backwards, and the cracks were perfectly integrated. At the same time, a golden ribbon of stick figures appeared in the center of the mirror, and then, as if by an invisible hand, it wrote below the ribbon:
The brave are fearless.
The image of Xia De that originally existed in the mirror completely disappeared. After the white mist covered the mirror, as the mist dissipated, what was revealed in the mirror was actually the scene of a strange room with the lights off.
There is no light source in the room, but all objects can be seen.
On the wall facing the mirror hangs an oil painting of a lake landscape in a brass metal frame, while on the cabinet below, which has three layers of drawers and golden drawer handles, are placed precious jewelry boxes, music boxes, and tobacco boxes.
This looked like a noble's collection room, but Shade frowned, because in the landscape painting in the center of the mirror, a black mark became clearer and larger. The black mark soon left the painting in the mirror and entered the room in the mirror, and then left the room in the mirror, as if it was about to enter the world outside the mirror.
An element of blasphemy, an element of whispers, some kind of evil thing tainted with the power of a relic.
He stood up and stepped back while listening to the reminder in his ear. Miss Carina also came over with Tifa. The witch knew what the relic was, and she spoke quickly:
"It is indeed this relic. It seems that I am quite lucky. Xia De, that thing is about to come out. Deal with it first and then I will tell you the information of the relic. I will leave this battle to you. I want to see your strength in normal combat state with six rings."
"no problem."
Shade knew that Miss Carina believed that she could control the situation no matter what happened next, so he held the witch's golden necklace with confidence and began to cast a spell:
"Chains of Sin!"
The black chain in the sleeve shot forward, and was about to penetrate the black mass in the mirror in the next second. But in the squirming black, a large hand with six blue-gray shriveled fingers stretched out and actually grabbed the end of the chain of sin.
Xia De originally thought that the Sin Chain's blocking effect on supernatural powers would be effective, but he did not expect that the black mass actually disappeared in the mirror, and the chain fell on the dressing table under the mirror with a crash.
You hit its mirror image, not the real thing.
Without "her" reminding him, Xia De could sense that something was wrong with the space around him. The thing that came out of the mirror did not disappear, but used its own spatial ability to hide in the gap between normal spaces.
The sudden inspiration of danger made Xia De turn to the right, and then the slender yellow moonlight sword that suddenly appeared in his hand stabbed behind him.
There was nothing in the air, but the slender yellow moonlight sword did hit the target:
"Space Stabilization Aura!"
The magic forced the enemy hidden in the space gap out, and Shade's weapon hit its abdomen. Unfortunately, for this monster, which was not sure whether it was a living creature, this was not a fatal injury.
It was not until this moment that Xia De saw the true appearance of the enemy behind him in the mirror he was facing. It was about the same height as a five or six-year-old child, gray in color, and had an upper body that was almost identical to its body growing out of its hunched back, making it look like two identical monsters, the product of the fusion of their lower bodies.
The two upper bodies have a total of four blue-gray arms, and three of the four arms have already grasped the blade of the Moonlight Greatsword.
Although Xia De did not cancel the casting of the space stabilization aura, the front half of the Moonlight Greatsword still appeared three meters away in the next second. The spiritual weapon disappeared due to the break. Xia De frowned slightly and turned around to chop out the moonlight with his left hand, but the monster disappeared again.
He stood there and waited for two seconds:
“Run away.”
The witch who had been standing aside without doing anything asked with a smile:
"I know you are good at spatial power, and you also have a magic that specifically prohibits abnormal spatial states. But compared to those monsters who truly use 'space' as their talent, you, who are at the sixth ring, are nothing. Fortunately, according to the characteristics of the relic, it cannot stay away from this mirror in a short time. With your personality, you will definitely not let it leave. So, Shade, do you need my help?"
The golden eyes looked at Xia De with a smile.
"No need. If I can't even do something like this, I won't even think about skipping to the sixth grade in the summer."
Xia De said, hanging the necklace in his hand around his neck, then closing his eyes to sense the abnormal traces in the space.
He let that thing run away just now, partly because the other party's spatial ability was indeed strange, and partly because he didn't want to make too much noise in the opera house. But now that the other party wanted to run away, he didn't have to worry so much.
"Wait for me here. I'll be back in five minutes at most."
Shade opened his eyes and said, Tifa stood beside the Duchess with no expression on her face. The loyal maid would not communicate with her lover at this time. The witch nodded:
"Well, you go deal with that monster, and I'll take care of this mirror. Remember not to make too much noise. I'll give you ten minutes. If you can't solve this kind of trouble, come to my place every Sunday morning with Yin Luna for class. Xia De, show me your strength."
She showed full trust in Xia De, which made Xia De feel that he must not fail.
Red butterflies flew out from his body one by one, until his entire body turned into a swarm of red butterflies, flying out of the window.
The abnormal space traces were quite obvious to Xia De, who understood the power of space. But if he didn't catch up in time, the stable space-time of the material world would soon stabilize the fluctuations.
The red butterflies used magic to cover themselves in the moonlight, and the moonlight illuminated the glittering butterflies. They flew high in the sky in groups until they arrived at the roof of the opera house.
It is worth mentioning that although the roof of the Maria Opera House is large, it is not open to the public, so there is usually no one on the roof.
The escaped monster was now on the roof. After revealing itself, the lower half of its body lay on the ground, while the upper half of its body was facing the starry sky above. Although there was still fog in the city, the starlight was shining on its body like a spotlight on the stage, allowing the sword wound on its body to heal quickly.
The illusions of Red Butterfly and Moon Shadow were cast on Shade at the same time, so that the monster that escaped from the space crack could not find him immediately. When Shade gathered his body at the edge of the rooftop and prepared to launch a fatal attack, he frowned and looked at the other side of the roof.
The view of the opera house rooftop was unobstructed in the thin mist. The air, which was originally empty, twisted a little in the next moment. Then, with a slight crackling sound, two men in their twenties holding hands suddenly appeared here out of thin air.