After the new space distortion object appeared, it immediately attacked Leicia. Leicia, who had already revealed the life ring behind her, quickly began to burn the parchment scroll in her hand:
"Sleeping Princess, Match Girl."
Two shadows quickly solidified in the white mist, and the princess holding a spindle and the barefoot girl carrying a small basket appeared in front of Leicia.
The five-ring life ring slowly rotated behind her, and the corresponding magic runes flashed with extremely dazzling luster. Even Leicia herself did not notice that her life ring was completely overlapped with a similar but different life ring phantom, but the most important thing now was to defeat the enemy in front of her.
The space distortion floated closer to Leicia, and the girl with the basket came to meet it. Behind the match girl, Leicia took a deep breath and stretched out her hand for the sleeping princess to put her hand with white lace long gloves on her hand.
The sleeping blonde princess turned into light and entered Lecia's body. Her attire changed rapidly. The originally bright red dress was decorated with a sky blue skirt, her long red hair was highlighted with gold, her emerald eyes were filled with golden light, and there was a golden spindle in her hand.
Saturday after Saturday taught Shade the power of fairy tales, and the princess and the writer also felt a lot from Shade.
In the fog at night, the space distortion did not come into contact with the match girl, but disappeared out of thin air and appeared behind Leicia, opening its six arms to try to hug her. It really caught something, but in an instant, Leicia and the match girl switched positions, and then the flames of the little girl holding the basket completely ignited the chimeric spirit.
"Thaumatology - Lullaby."
The soul rune that was originally shining shone even brighter. The spindle in Leicia's hand fell to the ground, and then the area with a radius of 20 meters around her feet was shrouded in a layer of gray mist. The mist was entangled with the white mist, and the traditional nursery rhyme of Drarion - Lullaby sounded, and the struggling movement of the deformed soul ignited by the flames actually slowed down a little.
But it still stretched out one of its arms and pointed at Leicia. For a moment, the curse from the soul made Leicia's movements stiff. Fortunately, she immediately raised her hand to touch the sage-level relic on her earlobe - the Saint's Curse-Removing Stone, and then whispered the spell. The Enlightenment-Knight shone, making her shadow on the ground longer.
In the shadow, a dark figure on horseback leaped out, slashed at the burning spirit with a sword, and neatly split it in two... ...The horse seemed a bit like a cat.
Seeing that the spell was successful, Lecia breathed a sigh of relief. She was almost equivalent to two fifth-ring warlocks. With the help of Shade, she was able to use the power of fairy tales to the maximum extent without using the words of sublimation. This was how she gained the upper hand in this battle.
The battle was about to end, but unexpectedly, a change suddenly occurred at this time. The burning girl hugged by the aberration finally exploded completely because she could not withstand the erosion of the undead. At the same time that Leicia spit out a mouthful of blood due to the backlash of the magic, the split burning aberration waved an arm at the black knight who had not disappeared yet, and the black knight was wiped out by the power of space.
The two halves of the body moved closer and together again, still burning with flames, and the six arms were fully opened, hugging Leicia head-on. The red-haired princess was about to cast a spell again, enduring the severe pain in her head, when a familiar voice came from a distance:
“Thunder gun!”
White thunder streaked across the night, and with a loud bang, the lightning spear pierced through the white mist and struck the evil spirit's back.
The burning monster immediately disappeared from the spot, aiming its silver-white lightning spear at Leicia. Behind Leicia, the deformed monster appeared again, with six arms closing inwards towards Leicia.
In the oppressive white fog, the sound of the lightning gun exploding did not travel far, but the jumping arcs still paralyzed the burning monster for a moment.
In front of it, pink crystals suddenly pierced out from the smoke produced by the explosion of the lightning gun, and then went straight through the deformed body, nailing it in place. Even if it was contaminated with the power of the chaotic space, the essence of this monster was still a spirit, and its biggest nemesis was still the magic of the soul power.
In the smoke, Lecia, whose skirt was decorated with pink crystals, raised her hands high. The pink crystal spikes pierced upward from the ground, one after another, crossing over and fixing the deformed being in place.
At the same time, as the fluttering red butterflies appeared in the distance, Shade and the doctor finally arrived. The roaring flames of the Flame Demon and the greatsword that fell from the air once again destroyed this monster that did not belong to this world.
The two sides reunited, and Lecia dissipated the magic she was maintaining, opened her arms and hugged Shad, but Shad just patted her on the back, and then he and the doctor looked up at the window above.
Laplace Klein Howard still stood there, looking down at the three people.
"It's all right. It's all right."
Xia De comforted Leicia softly, then motioned for her to let go:
"You go first."
The doctor looked at him in surprise, and nodded when he saw that Shade was serious. Leicia, who had just reunited with Shade, held Shade's hand tightly, unwilling to leave him alone, but Shade said:
"After the last incident, didn't you guys promise me? Listen to me, I'll be with you soon."
"Last time" refers to the risky move they took when Dorothy used the ghost iron coin to try to separate their souls. Later, the whip that Shad used to separate them was still fresh in Leicia's memory.
The princess' body trembled for a moment, then she pursed her lips and nodded, and left with the doctor along the same route they came.
The man upstairs did not stop the two from leaving, he just made a gesture to invite Shade from the window. Shade held the night watchman and stood there without moving, waiting until the doctor and Leicia really left, then he stepped out and appeared in the living room upstairs.
He was a little nervous at first, but when he really faced the man wearing a monocle up close, he realized that something was wrong with him:
"phantom?"
Laplace Klein Howard nodded:
"If I appeared directly in front of you, I'm sure you wouldn't mind destroying me immediately. Although you haven't shown the power of the Thirteen Rings yet, I'm a fortune teller and I can see what's dangerous. You're more dangerous than the rumors say."
He snapped his fingers and lit the fireplace in the living room, which had not been lit for many years.
The flickering flames illuminated the profiles of the two men, and the fortune teller said to Shade:
"This is a good opportunity. I thought I would have to wait until the end before I could have a chance to talk to you, but I didn't expect to meet you now. Even if you hadn't shown up just now, I would have protected the princess. This is my sincerity."
He took the initiative to come to the sofa in front of the fireplace, and Shade asked:
"What did you want to talk to me about?"
"Some very interesting things. You should have a lot of things you want to talk to me about, right?"
Shade then walked over. The fortune teller cleaned up the dirty sofa and coffee table in an instant. They sat on the single sofa facing each other across the wooden coffee table. The red butterfly pendant in Shade's hand, which belonged to Dorothy, became increasingly dim. It seemed that the doctor and Leisia had really left.
"What do you think about what happened tonight?"
Xia De pointed upwards, and the middle-aged man with a fine beard and gray hair put his hand on the back of the sofa:
"The Green Lake region, as the center of the unstable state of the material world, has reached a certain limit. This is easy to understand and there is no need to worry. This is a natural phenomenon and one of the signs of the end of the world. You and I can't stop it. Things will get worse step by step. The situation in Green Lake will gradually happen all over the world.
Unless the chosen ones of the space hold a ceremony and use the power of the ancient gods to temporarily suppress the situation in the Green Lake area, it can be temporarily alleviated. You who have experienced the Randall Valley incident should understand what I mean. "
He looked at Shade, who was frowning:
"I know what you are thinking, but it has nothing to do with me. In fact, if I hadn't restored the ancient rituals on this island and suppressed the chaos in space in the past two hundred years, the disaster in Green Lake would have happened long ago. God Summoner, my goal is also to save this world."
Xia De also looked at him:
"You want to tell me that you are actually a good person, but you are just not understood by others?"
The fortune teller knew what he wanted to say, and could tell it was sarcasm:
"Are you Shad Hamilton?"
"Sorry, what?"
"The detective who possesses the Tobesk of the Vientiane, Silver Moon, Balance, Darkness, Death, Knowledge, and Earth. I think you should know why I left the Prophet's Association. I am probably the person who has done the most in-depth research on the Vientiane card in this era. I have been paying attention to that detective since the Grand City Players' Rhodes Card Competition in the fall of 1853. Because of Princess Leicia just now, I thought, could you be him?"
Shade asked:
"Since you knew about Shad Hamilton last year, why don't you go meet him? Even if your real body can't leave here easily, I think your clone and phantom should be no problem."
The firelight illuminated the profiles of the two people, and the fortune teller's eyes were very sharp:
"Because I'm scared."
"I'm sorry, I still don't understand."
"When I was young, I naively wanted to take the Vientiane Card away from the Association, but later I understood why the Association was not afraid of it being stolen. You can't possess those cards by actively pursuing them; the cards choose their owners. So, what kind of person do you think Shad Hamilton, who has been chosen by six cards, is? Perhaps even the Prophet Association itself cannot understand this, and they are in awe and fear of that set of cards. But I understand, so I choose to wait here peacefully for the poem to begin, rather than causing trouble."