Since she asked Shad what he had done with Megan and Audrey, Shad immediately stopped objecting to the Duchess's arrangements for the banquet. He didn't want to talk about the experience of kissing with two tongues.
Shade thought about it and mentioned that he had recently met followers of the old god "Love". Of course, he did not talk about "desire", but talked about the new magic he had obtained.
"Love God? According to the records of the Council, witches in the Fifth Epoch liked to go to the priests of Love God to seek the blessing of love. However, those witches who were still single at an old age never thought that they couldn't find beautiful girls. It was because of their weird personalities."
Miss Carina told some interesting stories, then motioned for Shad to try the Thorn of Eros.
Then, as the crystal pink light emerged in Xia De's hand, beautiful pink crystal spikes appeared in his hand. The sunlight that broke through the gray fog outside the window shone on the crystal, making the ambiguous pink light even more dazzling.
Xia De blinked suspiciously. He clearly remembered that the "Thorn of Eros" summoned by this magic should be a bright red color similar to the holy emblem of Eros, not this pink. However, the essence of the magic has not changed, and it is not important to just consider the color.
The witch couldn't wait to take the weapon from Shade, and then carefully stabbed it into her chest - in fact, any other place would be fine.
"It doesn't feel like something solid piercing flesh, but more like falling into water."
She commented, releasing her hand and seeing the crystal that had pierced her body turn into light and disappear.
Then, a pink sheen appeared on her palm. As she swung her hand suddenly, a crystal sword appeared in her hand with a rustling sound. The pink sword was covered with dense clusters of crystals, but there was no blade.
"This crystal sword itself does not rely on the blade to cause physical damage. Shade, you probably haven't seen anything like this. This is a magical weapon, a more traditional magic sword. It's really beautiful."
The twelfth-level, twelve-ring witch smiled and said this. She stood up and gestured a few times with the sword, then asked Xia De to summon the Moonlight Greatsword to test the hardness of each other.
Then the crystal sword turned into a point of light and disappeared. The witch raised her hand and waved it again. Several pink streams of light fell from the sky like small meteorites with flame tails, but they disappeared before causing any damage to the floor.
"Crystallized Hail, and this..."
She drew a circle with her finger, and on the right side of her body, several streams of pink light converged together to form a huge crystal light cluster. And as the witch cast and accumulated power, the spirit accumulated in the pink light cluster became more and more terrifying. Even before it was released, Shade knew that it would not be difficult to destroy a building with one blow, but fortunately, this move also turned into a light spot and disappeared before it was actually released.
As for Miss Carina's last experiment, she turned the pink crystal into a shield to block herself. But compared with the previous attempts, this simple spell shaping was not worth mentioning.
"As expected of a twelfth-level witch, you've thought of so many uses in such a short time."
Xia De praised from the side, and the red-haired witch waved her hand with a smile:
"You will be able to do it sooner or later. Besides, what I care more about than casting a spell is that you and I really love each other."
She sat down again, touched Xia De's chest, and asked again when Xia De blushed:
"How much did this spellcasting cost you?"
"I just performed a standard spellcasting, so the loss was a quarter of my spiritual limit."
In fact, the standard casting cost of the Thorn of the God of Love is to temporarily reduce one-third of the spiritual limit, but Shad is affected by the "Afterglow of Divinity", so the effect of one-quarter is the same as one-third.
"Your spirit is truly enormous. Just a quarter of your upper limit can bring about such an effect. However, this crystallized soul magic does not enhance me much. It's not that it is not effective, but that I have better means of my own. But for those girls who are lower in level than you, it will be very useful."
Miss Carina commented, and at this time Shade also interrupted the spell to let the upper limit of his spirit return to normal.
"You also think this is a spiritual magic?"
Xia De asked curiously, and Miss Carina nodded:
"Of course it's soul magic. You are still at the middle level and have little exposure to it, but high-level sorcerers usually have one or two soul spells. This is one of the symbols of high level."
She signaled for Shad to use the magic again. Of the other two people in the room, Ajelina was not yet a ring mage, so she could only use it on Tifa.
So Shade condensed a pink crystal spike again and handed it to Tifa. Including Ajelina behind the desk, the three of them watched the black-haired maid pierce the crystal into a part that the other girls envied.
The crystals melted into her body. Tifa first tried the spellcasting process that Miss Carina had just used. There was no problem with the crystal shaping, but the levels of the crystal hail and crystal light clusters were obviously weaker.
"It really makes sense that the followers of the God of Love call it the core divine art of the cult. This is equivalent to adding a crystal soul spellcasting system out of thin air."
Xia De thought highly of this, but Miss Carina was concerned about other things. She chuckled:
"Tifa can use it too... You and my maid are having an affair."
Ajelina, who eavesdropped on all this, didn't feel strange at all, but took it for granted. She had seen this kind of thing too many times. The black-haired maid had no expression, which meant that Shade had to face this topic himself:
"Um... ... "
"Look at you. I know this before. Why are you so nervous? Do I look like a bad person?"
She teased for a moment, then talked about other great witches:
"Emma has arrived at the City of Glass this morning. Vanessa will arrive at the south shore of Green Lake with Sirius Lathers and Golden Dawn this weekend or next week. Grandma Cassandra and Xiwei will probably be a little later, but it will only be a week or so."
Shade noticed that she addressed the other witches, except for the old witch, by their first names.
"So what plans does the parliament have for Green Lake? Is your speaker going to do anything?"
“Yes, the Speaker knew that Megan was a descendant of Edwards, and naturally speculated whether she was the chosen one.
This opportunity is rare. The Speaker instructed us to explore the secrets of the Edwards family as much as possible while ensuring safety. Give me the command this time. I will finish the work at hand first, and then find a way to get more detailed information about the central island of Green Lake. When the five witches gather, we will conduct the test work, but we still have to follow Megan's wishes, after all, she is the protagonist. "
Xia De nodded:
"So how are you going to get information about the island in the middle of Green Lake?"
As far as he knew, Miss Carina had no local sources of intelligence.
"Of course it's you. Is there anyone who knows that place better than you these days?"
The witch said with a smile, sitting on Shad's body and putting her arms around Shad's neck, motioning Shad to pick her up.
When Shade stood up, the witch said to her personal maid:
"This afternoon, even if my nephew, Larus III, came from Tobesk in person, I would not see him. I am going to torture Green Lake for important information. Don't let anyone disturb us."
"Yes, ma'am."
Tifa said, winking at Shade again. However, Miss Carina, who was speaking in Shade's ear at the moment, did not notice her movements. The witch said softly:
"The bedroom is on the third floor. I've had the wine chilled in advance. We can... have a drink together."
The voice was a little hoarse, and for a moment it made Xia De think of "desire" again.
"But... ... "
"You must go home tonight. It's hard for me to convince you not to go home at night, so I can only do it in the afternoon. The boring train journey is finally over. Wouldn't it be nice to help me change my mood? Besides, since I said that you didn't recognize me in the reeds last night, I will give you some rewards. I am the Duchess of Delarion, and I keep my words."
She whispered a few words into Shade's ear, causing even the bold stranger to blush. The witch was very satisfied with the result, and after instructing Ajelina, who was blushing, to read the documents to be used tomorrow carefully, she whispered:
"Oh, didn't you just say that you gained new power and blessings from the moon last night? Why not let me see it now?"
Because he thought of "desire", the delayed "aftereffects" after multiple contacts with "desire" yesterday were showing up. Thinking of Luvia's comment of "full of desires" when she interpreted the dream this morning, Shade thought for a while, lowered his head and kissed the red-haired lady's cheek in his arms, making the smile on her face even more charming.
"But will it really not delay your business? I don't want to damage your reputation."
He carried Miss Carina in a princess hug and walked towards the door of the study. The witch shook her head slightly and said with a smile:
"If you really need me to come forward, at worst, let little Ajelina come to the bedroom and take over from me."
There was obviously her head maid in the room, but she mentioned her niece's granddaughter. This should be a teasing to two people at once, no, it was a teasing to three people.
Ajelina, with a red face, watched the two disappear at the door, and the black-haired head maid just smiled at her and followed. So, Her Highness Ajelina Cavendish, with sweaty palms, waited in the study for an entire afternoon, absent-mindedly looking at documents, and rehearsing many possible situations in her mind.
But until the evening, she waited for no one except the maid who brought afternoon tea. As for her beautiful aunt, the red-haired witch who dared to challenge the knight, she spent her first romantic and passionate afternoon in Green Lake City contentedly.