Perhaps because of all the luck last night, Shad and Dorothy's classes were temporarily cancelled on Saturday night. Dorothy was called home by her father, Professor Louisa, to talk about Hamilton's Detective Stories, which was Professor Louisa's recognition of her daughter.
And for the time being, Leicia is unable to see Shade without her father noticing, so she takes a break on Saturday. The princess can also use this time to think about how to help Shade get the Sleeping Spirit Rune.
This time, Her Royal Highness the Princess and the female writer swore to help Xia De.
On Sunday morning, Shad went to Tobysk railway station to see off Captain Rades who was heading to the border.
As an officer, the captain did not have to sit in the second-class carriage with other soldiers heading to the border. On the platform, the captain, wearing the uniform of the Royal Army, took Shad's hand in the bustling crowd and thanked him again. He thanked Shad for saving him from frustration and for everything he had done.
For the middle-aged Captain Rades, this train station can be regarded as an important node that changed his life. After being captured, he returned to Tobesk in frustration and assisted Shad in arresting the child traffickers outside the station. Today, he will start again here.
He looked at his colleagues who were saying goodbye to their families, the porters at the station, and the crowds who came to see them off, and for a moment he was filled with emotion.
"But I still don't know where the Windy Path is."
Shad asked.
The train whistle sounded, and the train was about to depart. Citizens who went to the station to see off their relatives and friends were saying their final goodbyes to the soldiers who were about to depart. The surroundings were very noisy, and Shade also shook hands with the captain for the last time.
The "Windy Trail" was where the captain's troops were stationed, and it was considered the real border. But such a small place would not be marked on the map, so Shade only knew that it was the northern foothills of the Xikar Mountains.
The captain picked up his black suitcase and prepared to enter the carriage. The soldiers who had already boarded the train leaned out of the windows, waving or kissing passionately with the beautiful girls who were seeing them off.
"Windy Trail, do you know the mountain city of Midhillburg?"
The captain asked with a smile, his voice not very clear amid the surrounding noise and sirens.
White steam mist came out from under the steam locomotive, blurring the vision of Shade and the captain. Shade nodded:
"Of course I know."
"Windy Trail is not far from Fort Midhill. To be exact, we are also responsible for part of the defense of Fort Midhill."
He smiled and waved at Shad. With the harsh sound of metal twisting, gears turning, and pistons pushing and pulling, the metal door closed, completely separating Shad and Captain Raddes.
The gushing steam made the platform crowded with the farewell crowd especially hot and humid. Amid the farewells and blessings, the huge roar and the bell of departure, white steam was gushing into the misty sky. The metal wheels moved slowly and steadily, driving the transmission rod and potential energy to move the carriage slowly.
The rumbling sound became louder and louder, the whistle went away with the carriage, the wind passed by Shade until there was nothing on the track. In the distance, you could vaguely see white doves being released. They were the War and Peace Church sending off the soldiers. The Peace Church was keen on such activities.
A few pigeons that didn't fly far returned to the platform and pecked at the food on the ground after the people who saw them off gradually dispersed. Shade also put his hands in his pockets and prepared to go home. He also planned to go to Coldwater Harbor in the afternoon to see if he had bought any coins, and then visit Mr. Edmund, the lighthouse keeper, to talk about the legends of various places in the Old World and prepare for the next drop of divinity.
"But Captain Raddes also went to Fort Midhill."
He thought to himself:
"Reverend Augustus and Miss Black also went there... Hmm... Is this a hint?"
There was not much gain in Coldwater Harbor on Sunday afternoon. It was not easy to acquire currency relics, and although Mr. Edmund could produce all kinds of strange legends, there were so many of them that Shade could not tell which one might be related to divinity.
However, the old man from the Guiding Light Hermitage was very interested in the rumor that Miss Feliana had appeared in the Tobesk area, and he pulled Shade to inquire about the relevant information:
"When I saw the letter from old John, I suspected he hadn't woken up yet."
The old man said with a smile, and looked at the sea view in the distance with Shade at the top of the lighthouse. The arrival of autumn did not seem to affect the ocean too much. After the Coldwater Harbor Shadow incident, although there were more fishman attacks on the seaside, the city itself became much more peaceful.
"When I went to Father John to buy the ritual materials, he didn't ask me any questions about it."
"You, the correspondence ring sorcerers of Tobesk, will be suspected by the academy and the church first. John just doesn't want to get into trouble. However, Miss Mana Felena, the witch of the Fifth Age, actually appeared in the present... Although too much information has been lost, making it impossible for us to explore the mysteries of the Fifth Age's extraordinary system, can people in the previous age actually travel to future events?"
The old man stroked his chin, while Xia De held the cat that he had brought to the beach with great difficulty to breathe fresh air.
"Did the witch find a way to reverse the relic time key?"
Mr. Edmund said suspiciously.
"Do you think this has something to do with the Time Key?"
Shad smiled.
"Yes, this is also the current mainstream view. What is the relationship between Whispering Poems, Felena, and the Key of Time?"
Mr. Edmond said, and in some ways, this view is not wrong.
After returning home from Coldwater Harbor, Shade did not go out again, but waited until midnight to open the new key of the Fifth Era 3014.
Although the waiting time for the key actually arrived on Saturday evening, Shade decided to wait until midnight. This was not only for the sake of the sense of ritual, but also to complete the key task and get the daily gift in the gift box.
After all, even if most of those gifts are useless, drawing gifts itself is one of the few pleasures for outsiders in this era.
Your Friday night...
"one."
He added, amidst the laughter in his ears.
On the clock in the corner of the living room, three hands simultaneously moved upward. The lights were on in the living room on the second floor of No. 6 St. Teresa's Square. Shad, who was sitting on the sofa with a book in his hand, put down the Potions textbook in his hand, which disturbed Mia who was sleeping on the sofa with her legs against his.
By the time the sleepy cat stood up, Shade had already come to the bedroom door with the key given by Miss Carina for free:
"Will I meet Miss Feliana this time?"
He thought to himself before reciting the spell.
So what do you think
"I shouldn't be so lucky, right?"
Xia De held the key to the keyhole and silently recited three numbers in his mind. The clock in the corner struck the first o'clock midnight.
"May the World Tree protect me in time."
Because he didn't know where this adventure would take him, Shad still didn't plan to bring the useless Mia cat with him. If this was still a dangerous place like the Terrorfort, he was worried that the cat would be frightened to death as soon as he stepped out of the white fog.
"Meow~"
The small cat lay on the sofa, and actually had no intention of following Shade out of the house. It stared with big eyes as Shade inserted the key into the keyhole and then entered the white mist behind the door.
The cat yawned and squirmed on the sofa to find a more comfortable place. It had seen Shade walk into that strange white mist door many times, so it was not curious. It was just curious why Shade looked very sad every time he came back from that door.
Cats are never sad.
Stranger, you have stepped into the "Corridor of Time".
Message from the ancient god "Father of the Infinite Tree":
Spring of the 3014th year of the Fifth Era, Eastern Continent, Night Manor.
Event: The God of Vampires' cocktail party.
Duration: thirty minutes (1/3).
"After the Southern Continent - Hope Town, the Western Continent - Thousand Tree Forest, and the Northern Continent - Dreadfort, we finally arrived at the Eastern Continent."
Shade in the white mist was not surprised by this, but he still frowned, because the "God of Vampires" seemed to have another very well-known name:
"This time I met an acquaintance... I mean a familiar god?"
You get additional information.
The figure of the Infinite Tree Father watches over you.
The ancient god of time has given you a test.
Attend the reception of "Duke of Vampires Laoaire" with the mortals until the end of the reception.
The Father of the Infinite Tree will give you rewards: Thaumaturgy-Silent Moonlight, a True Message-Elf.
"I can understand that time and space are inseparable, but isn't it a bit too exaggerated that the ancient god of time gave me the magic of the moon? Also, this time the goal is to participate in the god's cocktail party and make it end. If the cocktail party is not ended before the end of three thirty-minute periods, does it mean that my mission has failed?"
Xia De thought to himself, and he didn’t have any idea about the “real information”, he just regarded it as expanding his knowledge.
The most crucial piece of information mentioned above is "Vampire Duke Laurel". Strictly speaking, Shad's first spell, Blood Echo, was obtained by touching the statue of this old god.
Therefore, after selling the information about the statue to Miss Carina, Shade also looked up information about this god, so he was not as clueless as in the previous times.
Vampire Duke Laoel, also known as "the protector of the alien-vampire species" or "the blood-sucking god". This is an evil god, and there is clear evidence that this god has never left until the time when the outsiders existed in the Sixth Epoch. But unlike the Lord of the Blood Feast, who is also an evil god, this blood-sucking god is not that evil.
This is somewhat similar to the difference between a "serial killer" and an "ordinary killer". Although this analogy is not appropriate, at least even if you really meet "Vampire Duke Laurel" in the material world, you will not necessarily die.