Yin Luna patted her back gently. Luvia coughed a few more times, swallowed the blood in her mouth, and then rinsed her mouth with the tea handed by Xia De. She was not a delicate girl:
“Five powers beyond the Thirteen Rings, not even including himself, and this is just what I saw.
The first is the evil object that Sister Defulyn saw from Rust Edwards' memory - the Door in the Bottle. That thing has self-awareness, and the fortune teller's initial madness is related to it;
The second one was a third of a pale skull. I didn’t know what it was, but it shouldn’t be a relic. This thing was related to death. When I saw it, I felt like my whole body was frozen.
The third one is a book, a book held up by many souls, which seems to have the power of destiny. It may be angelic (level 1) or even unknowable (level 0).
Then there was a man who was locked up in a coffin. There was something wrong with him. Time and space overlapped on him. He seemed to be in the present, but also in the past. I didn’t know what he had been through. It might be related to experiments and human transmutation.
Finally, the cards..."
Xia De suddenly looked at Luvia, and the purple-eyed girl shook her head:
"It's not the Vientiane Card. I recognize that card. It's the angel-level relic Poetry Card he took with him when he defected from the Association. Shade, do you remember that he used a deck of cards to summon a monster during the eclipse?"
Xia De nodded:
"Of course I remember. I guessed it was his alchemical item at the time."
"The church later contacted us to verify that when he defected, he actually took away an angel-level relic of the association. However, the association did not inform the church and the academy for the sake of face."
Xia De and Yin Luna had the same expression at this moment.
"There is only one Poem Card. It is said to be one of the game cards made in the Fourth Age that imitated a unique type of card. However, only this one became a relic. Its function is to call upon the heroes who were once recorded in the poems. This relic is very suitable for ring sorcerers like Dorothy, who use the inspirational elements of stories as their core system. If I am not mistaken, the deck used by Laplace Howard was developed based on this angel-level relic. As for the Poem Card itself, the association's containment records say that it can call upon demigods."
"What?!"
"Don't worry. Summoning heroes from the past requires very strict conditions. The card is not activated right now, so I don't know how he will use it. But what is certain is that the ancient hero who is summoned must be quite extraordinary."
The atmosphere was a little heavy for a moment. The thirteen-ring fortune teller was difficult enough to deal with, and now with all these added, the trouble became even bigger.
Luvia then added:
"In addition, before the fortune teller arrived at Green Lake, the association believed that there was a considerable problem on the central island of Green Lake itself, a problem that was close to a natural disaster. We must also pay attention to this when we deal with Laplace Howard."
If Shade was alone, he could not think of any other solution to the upcoming battle at Green Lake except burning his divinity, and it might not be just one drop of divinity that needed to be burned. But now he had many great witches around him, the Five Gods Church and the three major colleges in full condition, and even the "Hidden Mirror Man" was willing to help secretly. There was still a possibility that he could solve this matter with his own strength.
"Fortunately, Shade solved the demon in advance, otherwise the five problems blocking the road would have become six."
Yin Luna wanted to liven up the atmosphere, but Luvia was still quite troubled:
"The most important thing now is to figure out what I'm seeing."
Xia De signaled her not to be nervous:
"The church noticed the matter of the door in the bottle during the battle on the night of the lunar eclipse. The relic held by many souls is an angel-level relic soul storybook. You can think of it as an enhanced full-page 'Puppeteer Script' that works on souls. I can tell you the details later. I don't know the person in the coffin, but it might be one of Edwards, but..."
Old Mr. Nicholas Green has told us almost everything about Edwards' current situation, so there are very few suspects, or even only one: the eldest son of the third generation, who was said to have died young, but was actually Envy Edwards, who was imprisoned in a well for experiments on elixirs of immortality.
"On the night of the demon hunt, in Mr. Thoren Green's dream, I entered the dry well of Edwards' old house and saw strange murals. Half of it was Envy Edwards being forced to swallow drugs for experiments, and half of it was him passing through doors, and the lines depicting his body became increasingly unclear."
Yin Luna and Luvia looked at each other:
"In addition to the elixir experiment, he has also experienced other things."
"It's hard to say... Let's talk about other things first. The Prophecy Association should be more anxious to deal with the matter of the Poetry Cards than we are. After all, this is a relic that the Association has taken in."
"Evil Item-Door in a Bottle, Relic-Soul Storybook, Suspected Envy Edwards, Relic-Poetry Cards... Then what about the one-third of the skull?"
Yin Luna was not surprised that Xia De knew so much, after all, he had always been like this.
"The skull..."
He stroked the cat and sighed:
"I will take it away from Laplace Klein Howard before the decisive battle at Green Lake."
Xia De, Luvia and Yin Luna discussed the results of divination for a whole morning, and they understood that without the help of the church, it would be difficult to win even with the support of the witches.
Luvia and Yin Luna summarized the information that could be told to the church, and Yin Luna revealed it to increase her weight as the "Chosen One of Balance" in the Five Gods Church. At the same time, during the discussion, Yin Luna mentioned a strange dream she had recently:
"I seemed to dream that Princess Ajelina Cavendish was standing barefoot on the Lake of the Cherubim of the Lady of the Lake, and she was saying something strange like the chosen one of the witches."
She thought this would cause a heated discussion between Shade and Luvia, but she didn't expect them to care at all:
"Let's solve the problem here first. When I got the source of chaos, didn't I know from the ancient astrologer Mr. Euclid that the chosen one of the moon would stay at No. 6 Saint Teresa Square? We are not sure whether these things will happen. Yin Luna, it was just a dream. Even if it was true, it is not something we should discuss now. As for Ajelina... I will keep an eye on her."
After lunch at Green Lake Hotel, Yin Luna and Luvia left. Shade found the witches working in the basement and told them the new information he got that morning. On this Monday afternoon, he went to the Glass City on the other side of the lake. On the one hand, he visited Margaret who was frightened last night, and on the other hand, he inquired about the progress of the church's investigation into the Tyranny Club.
Although he was busy all day at Green Lake, Shad did not forget to make up for his opera date with Lesia tonight and the fairy tale study class that was delayed on Saturday.
In order not to miss the time, he took Mia to say goodbye to the reluctant blonde princess and returned home at 5 pm. Leisia said that she would send a carriage to pick up Shade to the opera house at around 7 o'clock, so Shade waited at home after dinner.
But he waited until the sun set and the gas street lamps around the square were lit one by one, illuminating the edge of Saint Teresa's Square, which was filled with a peaceful atmosphere in the night, but he still saw no sign of the carriage.
Xia De, who was walking around the living room in a black suit with his hands behind his back, gradually had a bad feeling in his heart. He turned his head to look at the clock in the corner, watching the second hand and minute hand move to the top together until they overlapped on the number "12".
The sound of the city clock tower chiming in the distance made Xia De stop and look solemn:
"It's seven o'clock, and neither Leicia nor the carriage has arrived... It seems something has happened."
Why wasn't she late
she asked softly.
"When it comes to dates, Lecia would even like to arrive an hour early. She would never be late."
Leaving Xiaomia, who had no idea what was going on, at home, Xia De quickly went downstairs and walked out of the house. He flashed in the shadow of the square and turned into a silver cat.
Instead of taking the normal route, he nimbly climbed up the steam pipe on the outer wall of his house. After reaching the roof, he looked at the place where the long-haired Luvia had sat in his dream, and then jumped out from the back of the house.
Something was wrong with the Yodel Palace. Although nothing could be seen from the outside, when the silver cat entered the palace garden under the cover of the fence, he found that the guards of the palace were being moved abnormally. In order to make it convenient for Shade to come to see her at any time, Leicia told him the duty schedule and guard roster of the Yodel Palace, and the current situation was obviously not right.
Under the cover of moonlight, the cat quickly approached the building where Lecia's bedroom was located, and then climbed up to the upper floors along the pipe outside the wall.
He peeked in through the window glass and found that there were indeed many people in the room, but there was no Leicia. Leicia's maid, Miss Weiss Dur, was being questioned by a man whom Shad did not know but who looked like a colleague of MI6, and the head maid of the Yodel Palace was leading a team of maids to check every corner of the room.
They didn't rummage through Leicia's things, but seemed to be looking for some clues. No one noticed that a silver cat appeared outside the window, and although the glass was soundproof, Shade still barely heard words like "missing".
The cat pondered outside the window for a moment, then turned and left. After returning to human form in the shadow of the alley on the side of Silver Cross Avenue, Shade immediately rushed to No. 221 Quill Pen Street in the university district in the night.