The sorceress raised her hand and used a transparent force field to block the splashing water. After confirming that the whispering element was still as thin as before, she returned to her previous position.
Even though such a strong explosion occurred underwater, the bottle remained motionless at the bottom of the water, as if it was just an illusion.
"interesting."
The two brothers then formed a frame with their hands and pointed it at the bottle. After a moment, they came to a conclusion:
"It can be locked. This is a real entity, not an illusion."
As they spoke, they raised their hands and tried to use a spell to pull the bottle up from the bottom of the water. With the power of an eight-ring sorcerer, the basic spell "Move Objects" could move not only a small bottle like this, but even a pile of small Mia. But the strange thing was that Shade and Megan clearly felt that they had cast the spell successfully, but the bottle didn't move at all.
"Let me try."
As Megan spoke, a column of water shot out from the water surface beneath her feet, and then condensed into a thin icicle in her hand. The icicle grew longer and longer until it could touch the glass bottle at the bottom of the water, and then Megan put it underwater.
The three people and the cat all saw the other end of the icicle touch the bottle, causing the bottle to roll underwater. But when Megan tried to extend the icicle further and freeze it with the bottle, the icicle in her hand suddenly shattered completely.
"I am very sure that I can't fail in casting such a simple ice-condensing spell."
The brown-haired sorceress said in a serious tone:
"It seems that this is one of the characteristics of the relic. Unless the correct method is used, there is no way to get it out of the water."
Because the bottle was still sinking to the bottom of the water, even the Great Witch of Knowledge and Wisdom could not recognize what it was.
"What's the right way? Go into the water and touch it with your hands?"
One of the brothers asked, and Shade Cat reminded:
"Of course not. The method is actually very simple. Aren't the methods recorded in the notebook we found and the memoirs you got? Every time Count Gaiman sailed alone from the dock, he didn't do it empty-handed."
"fishing rod?"
One of the brothers asked, and Megan understood;
"I see. But in this case, this relic... is caught by a fishing rod, and the wish..."
Even if you are not a ring wizard, as long as you have some exposure to fairy tales, you will know what this means.
"Don't think too much, just get that thing up first."
Shade Cat said, and then pulled out a cat hair. After the transformation, personal belongings, except for relics, will become part of the appearance, so many toys become cat hair. The cat hair rubbed on Megan's clothes and returned to the shape of a fishing rod.
Megan threw the fishing rod to the two brothers. Although they had a lot of opinions about it, the man with a disabled left eye still threw the fishing line into the water. It can be seen that his fishing rod throwing action is very standard, and the fishhook without bait just fell next to the bottle.
Then, as if the glass bottle was a magnet, the fish hook was actually "sucked" over. As the roller turned, the fishing line was retracted, and the glass bottle that could not be lifted up just now was easily lifted out of the water.
After casting a spell to freeze a small area of the water surface, the bottle was placed steadily on the ice. The weather around Green Lake was quite good. It was almost noon, and the somewhat dazzling spring sun shone on the glass bottle, reflecting a dazzling and strange seven-color light. Looking more closely, it was clearly the seven-color smoke inside the glass bottle that was glowing.
The silver hoop firmly fixed the cork on the bottle mouth, facing the light, so that everyone can see the inscription on it -
I will fulfill all your wishes.
The three of them took a step back together, their expressions very solemn. When it was underwater, the whispering element was so low that it could not even be detected without observing the bottle with the naked eye, but as the bottle left the water, the concentration of the whispering element increased rapidly, and in a very short time exceeded the limit of ordinary "Secret Keeper-level" relics.
"A sage-level relic?"
"Yes, a sage-level relic."
Megan asked the question, and Shade said the affirmative sentence. He finally confirmed that the thing in front of him was the one he had seen before:
"Sage-level relic - the reward for greed. Demon!"
As soon as he finished speaking, without anyone touching the bottle, the cork popped open automatically. The colorful smoke that was originally just spinning slowly in the bottle suddenly poured out from the bottle mouth.
Along with the gushing out of colorful dreamy smoke, a light blue transparent giant appeared in the sunlight with a loud laugh, and appeared above the waters of Green Lake.
It wore a sleeveless jacket with its buttons unbuttoned, but that was only the upper half of its body. Its lower half was connected to the glass bottle in the form of mist. From the perspective of the "seeing demon", the pale blue mist was clearly a black mist made up of countless screaming tiny souls, and the seemingly empty glass bottle was filled with countless souls.
This was the bottle that the bard had fished up on the River of Death during the second adventure of the Seven Days Journey. There were more souls in the bottle now than the last time he encountered this relic. Shade really didn't expect that he would see it again after five or six thousand years.
"Finally someone rescued me from the water!"
The pale blue "Giant", or the sealed "Devil of Wish-Zatanna", laughed and said to the three people around him:
"Okay, okay, since you saved me, I will fulfill your three wishes. Tell me, mortals, what do you want?"
The two brothers and Megan, who was holding the cat, continued to retreat, but found that the invisible barrier prevented them from moving too far away from the bottle. In this situation, no one dared to speak, and after the blue "giant" found that everyone was very cautious, he crossed his arms and looked around, and marveled at these people:
"So that's how it is, a wonderful soul, a similar soul, and this!"
The two brothers, each blind in one eye, were stared at by its eyes. The huge pressure made them completely sure that this was a sage-level relic. The crazy wails and prayers of various souls that flooded into their minds in an instant almost made it impossible for them to maintain their standing on the water.
But the demon just glanced at them and then looked at Megan:
"Look, what have I found? Such a wonderful soul!"
Shade the cat, who was held by Megan, clearly felt the sorceress's arms begin to tremble slightly, and her arms began to exert force unconsciously.
The blue giant made a "tsk tsk" sound, and lowered its huge upper body to look at Megan. As it got closer and closer to the cold-faced sorceress, the corners of its mouth curled up more and more:
"What a wonderful soul! Is this a unique soul that can only be created by the power of fate? Double..."
At that moment, Megan seemed to see a huge mouth opening, and her soul was about to be sucked in. Her soul, which had been basically stable, had once again undergone unpredictable changes. Megan's face immediately turned pale, and her spirit became disordered. She was more afraid of this kind of polluting power that could directly interfere with the soul than anyone else.
Shade noticed Megan's change and quickly climbed up her arm to her shoulder. In the demon's puzzled expression, he did what Mia had done before. Of course, compared to the cat's "meow", Shade certainly wouldn't say such a shameful onomatopoeia:
"Stay away."
The cat said to the giant spirit that was getting closer and closer that he was not afraid of any demon, especially this demon that had become a relic. The doctor had told him about the other party, and this was something that even the doctor was unwilling to eat.
Because he wanted to intimidate the other party, Shade's tone was inevitably a bit heavy. The two blind brothers looked at the cat provoking this sage-level relic with some horror. Megan also hurriedly tried to grab Shade cat off her shoulder, but Shade slapped her hand away:
"seal."
He reminded, Megan was startled, and then she took out Shade's Demon Hunting Seal from her bag. Because he knew there were demons in Green Lake, Shade brought this relic with him. When he was in the Randall River Valley, he was afraid that the Stone Mirror Demon-Goethe would know his identity in advance, but now he is eager for the demon to show up and let him know who the other party is.
After the Demon Hunting Seal appeared, the blue giant instinctively stood up and moved away from Megan:
"Witcher?"
It murmured to itself, and then looked at the "little thing" on the woman's shoulder. After hesitating for a moment, it returned to the posture of holding its hands in front of its chest, and said in a daze:
"Oh, I was wondering who it was. It turned out to be you."
The way demons observe humans is more by looking at their souls. In addition, the last time on the ship, Shad was in the form of a cat after drinking the potion, so it completely remembers this unique soul.
Megan and the brothers were startled, but Shadcat was not surprised:
"You still know me?"
"Of course, I am very impressed by you and the cat that keeps rubbing against you."
The giant nodded and said with great interest:
"Speaking of which, how did you finally escape from that river that leads to real death?"
Xia De actually doesn't want to recall that incident:
"Old Ma voluntarily followed the soul."
"Self-sacrifice? I see. But it's a pity that such a noble soul who has suffered so much was let go like this."
The blue giant shook his head and glanced at the three people who were listening to this conversation in shock:
"Are these three your traveling companions this time? The same as they were thousands of years ago? I have to admit, you are very good at choosing souls."
Shadcat stepped on Megan's shoulder, ignoring the increasingly suspicious looks from Edwards and the others:
"Devil, what I'm going to do is none of your business. Do you want to fight us, or do you want to be like last time, answer one question and then we all go our separate ways?"
The Giant looked at him with a smile:
"After I saw you last time, it took me a long time to realize that we had never met. It was some great power that constructed you and your group. What confidence do you have this time? Just relying on that ring?"