"Half? What's the use of half? Don't you know how much weight the Speaker's voting rights have? What about you? What is your relationship with Shade now?"
Audrey asked again. The Great Witch of Balance didn't want to reveal "that" secret yet, and hoped to enjoy the delicious meat alone for a while:
"Can't you see our relationship? Just as you thought, apart from that incident our relationship couldn't be any closer."
She put down her glass and hugged Shade's arms:
"I am the first witch to know Shade. If I am not as fast as others, I will not only be laughed at by Emma and the others, but also looked down upon by the witches of the Fifth Age."
"What does this have to do with the witches of the Fifth Age?"
Audrey asked suspiciously, and Miss Carina blinked at her:
"I'll tell you about this later. It's a very complicated matter. But one thing can be explained - Shade is indeed the God Summoner, as you guessed yourself. All the chosen ones so far are related to him."
"When you mentioned that long list of titles just now, I guessed it... Yin Luna Bei Yasi and he are also in a relationship?"
She asked patiently, this matter is very important.
Miss Carina couldn't help laughing when she heard this question. She wanted to comment on her anonymous student, but Xia De saw that she wanted to tease Yin Luna, so he spoke first:
"Yes. I and another female fortune teller helped Yin Luna complete the ritual of balancing the chosen ones. You can assume that Yin Luna is willing to help me do anything except betray the church."
"In fact, it is not necessarily impossible to discuss betraying the church with Yin Luna."
The red-haired witch added in a low voice:
"The Chosen One of Darkness, Yin Fan Darkness, was killed by Xia De and Yin Luna together; the First Chosen One of Death, Qiao Yin Barton, lost his qualification because he was defeated by Xia De in death."
"So what is the relationship between Sister Defulin and Shade? You wouldn't say that the nun who always has a cold face also has a crush on Shade, right?"
Audrey asked, and the Duchess thought for a moment:
"I really don't know what Sister Defulin thinks, but if you ask her to choose between the Parliament and Shade, she will definitely choose Shade."
Audrey thought for a moment and looked at Shade unexpectedly:
"The flame that you once attached to the chain was the original fire? You inherited the original fire?"
"Yes."
"Then I understand. For the spiritual order, as long as you don't intend to extinguish the First Flame, Sister Defulin is willing to do anything for you... After balance, darkness, and death, there is knowledge. Oh, that goes without saying. Shade must have participated in the Pantanal War, and the authority of knowledge and wisdom has also disappeared. Finally, there is the earth. Isn't the 'Guardian of the Earth' cold and like a tool of the earth? Except for Sirius Lathers, who is the daughter of one of those souls and can be talked to, isn't it difficult for others to approach them actively?"
Shade briefly explained:
"I helped the Earth Guardian solve a big problem. I ate some unclean things and purified the earth. I can tell you about this in detail later."
"In short, Megan, Audrey, this is what happened. Shad is pursuing the Chosen One, and he has been doing a good job. Although I don't know what he wants to do, it does not conflict with the interests of the parliament."
The Duchess sat there and held out her hand to the brown-haired girl opposite her:
"Do you want to report Shade to the Council? Or do you want to join us and keep this secret together?"
"How could I possibly do anything that would be bad for Shade?"
Audrey asked back, looking at Miss Carina's hand, and asked hesitantly:
"So, the first girl Shad mentioned meeting him was you?"
"I'm not that lucky."
Talking about this topic, the Duchess also felt a little melancholy:
"She is a girl with beautiful purple eyes. Although her level is not high, her methods are very powerful. You can meet her when you have the chance in the future."
So the two hands were clasped together. Xia De felt a little relieved when he saw this scene, but he still said:
"Meghan, Audrey, it is indeed my fault for hiding my knowledge of the witch for so long. I am sorry."
"I think it should be someone else who says sorry to me."
Audrey looked at Miss Carina, who smiled and asked:
"I also feel like someone wants to apologize to me. After all, Shade is my knight, but someone..."
Peng!
The sudden noise made Miss Carina stop talking. It was the sound of gunfire. They looked towards the banquet hall downstairs at the same time. The Duchess closed her eyes and took a deep breath, then signaled to Shade and Megan not to worry:
"Before I left Tobesk, I knew this trip wouldn't go smoothly, but I didn't expect it to go wrong on the second day... Wait here for me, I'll take care of it."
Then he stood up and left quickly.
Just after the door was closed, Audrey stood up, walked around the coffee table, and sat next to Xia De. Looking at Xia De with golden eyes, Xia De pursed his lips with guilt:
"I... ... "
"I don't care about that. You are so honest and loyal. This must have been Carina's idea."
She put her arms around Shade:
"Now I understand why you said you would tell me your identity today. This is great. It's better than I thought."
Xia De also hugged her, but he was still thinking about finding a way to formally apologize. She was really angry just now.
But at this moment, the window on the side wall of the lounge was knocked open with a bang, and then a man wearing a black coat and a clown mask, holding a rope, swung into the room from the window.
He rolled neatly on the carpet to relieve the impact, and when he stood up, he saw the man and woman hugging each other looking at him in shock.
This was an ordinary man. He obviously didn't expect that there were still people here. When he reached out to take out his gun, Xia De had already stood up with his gun raised:
"MI6? Or Grey Gloves?"
Shade repeated the sentence in both Draerion and Carsenric, but the stranger who broke into the room certainly would not answer. The stranger decisively took out a pistol, pointed the muzzle forward, and then dropped the gun with a scream, because the flying knife pierced his entire right hand.
He stumbled back a few steps, then turned around, grabbed the rope and jumped out of the window. There was no chance for him to jump to the roof of other buildings around the manor house, but there seemed to be someone upstairs, pulling the rope directly upwards.
"I'll follow and see."
Xia De said, and Audrey also stood up:
"I'll go with you. I just want to vent my emotions. I want to see who it is this time."
The illusion concealed their bodies, and then Shad turned into a red butterfly, and Audrey turned into a stream of light and flew out of the window together.
The rope just happened to pull the man to the roof, so the two of them went to the roof together and saw the man with the dinner knife still in his hand being supported by a man wearing a black top hat and a tuxedo, who was obviously a guest at the banquet.
The man in the black hat looked about thirty years old, with a somewhat feminine appearance. He was a seventh- or eighth-ring sorcerer. Although he failed to spot the butterflies and streamers under the moonlight, he got a clue from his companions immediately:
"Hurry up, there's someone in the lounge!"
Without a second thought, the man in the top hat took out a piece of transparent silver cloth to cover the two of them. After becoming invisible, he grabbed his companion and flew into the air.
For a ring sorcerer, flying is not a rare ability. Even as they enter a higher ring, they will gradually master similar skills even if they don't specifically learn to fly. For example, Shade's Red Butterfly Incarnation, although he relies on this to fly at a slow speed, it is safer than ordinary flying abilities. Therefore, Shade was not very surprised to see that the other party could fly at this time.
"Shadow Ball."
The red butterflies gathered in the air to form Shade, and the shadow ball was hidden in the night, flying silently towards the two people in the air.
The man in the tuxedo seemed to sense something and turned back to release the transparent shield, but as Audrey's fingers cut a light mark in the air, the shield broke neatly. The shadow ball flew towards the back of the ring warlock, but the other party directly blocked his injured companion behind him and caught Shade's magic for himself.
With a clattering sound, the chains of sin had soared into the sky at some point, and as Shade's feet touched the rooftop floor and pulled hard, the man in the top hat finally fell down and was firmly tied up by the second chain of sin that was waiting on the ground.
"I'll do it."
Audrey stood in front of Shad, so Shad nodded and took back the chain.
Of the two people who fell to the ground, the ordinary person was hit by the shadow ball, and his body was broken into two pieces. The man in the tuxedo got up awkwardly and summoned his life ring without hesitation.
The seven-ring life ring appeared in the steam mist, and Blasphemy-Dispute and Enlightenment-Victory glowed together.
He clasped his hands together, and the scattered light formed a double-barreled shotgun like crystal.
"Hurry up, this is Rose Manor, people from the church are coming."
Xia De said softly. Audrey shook her hair and did not even summon the life ring. Two overlapping voices came out at the same time:
"Knowledge is..."
The glowing right fist swung forward, and then two huge diamond-like fists appeared on the left and right sides of the man who was about to pull the trigger on the shotgun:
"strength!"
After a muffled sound, the floating metal life ring shattered and dissipated in the steam mist. The eleventh-level witch took a deep breath, waved her hand to let the dinner knife fly into her hand, and then left the roof with Shade. Less than five seconds later, the door to the rooftop was opened, and the church's ring magician team came here, but they only saw the broken stone statue and the crushed man.