"Redanput? Sewell?"
Now Shad knew both girls' middle names; before that he had only known, during the summer exam week, that Dorothy's first name was R.
"Open the gates of the four elements and witness the path to ascension."
On the mirror-like snowy street where there were originally no matches or ritual formations, 365 matches exactly the same as those in the attic suddenly appeared out of thin air, along with a ritual formation with the sun, moon, stars and a simple diagram of the human body as its core.
The ritual array inside and outside the mirror was completely connected into a whole. To Shade, who was divided by the mirror, this scene was strange, but inexplicably made him think that it should be so.
"Open the gates of the four elements and witness the path to ascension."
"Open the gates of the four elements and witness the path to ascension."
The last sentence was finally read out, and Shade immediately removed the hands of the two people who were touching the mirror. Although the pain did not completely disappear, Shade thought it would be reduced. But their situation was still not optimistic. Leicia in the mirror had completely collapsed beside Shade, and her life ring was only a shadow. Although Dorothy outside the mirror barely maintained consciousness due to the increase in strength, she looked like she was about to die.
At the same time, Shad used a spell to make four matches that had been prepared fly out of Dorothy's pocket and appear in front of him:
"Maze Lock - The Little Match Girl!"
The extremely incomplete puzzle lock unfolds again, affecting both the inside and outside of the mirror:
"The first one, the beginning of a ring of transcendence!"
The first match was lit and then blew out by Shade. The matchstick turned into a point of light and flew into the ritual formation on the ground.
Dorothy should have said these words, but she could not speak them now.
"The second root, the second ring of life foundation!"
The second match was lit and then blew out by Shad. The matchstick turned into a point of light and flew into the ritual array on the ground.
The life ring behind Dorothy spun rapidly, and the steam gradually enveloped the brass ring. Shade could feel the sweat and heat on the two palms that seemed to have no power at all. They really couldn't hold on any longer.
"The third root, the secret of the three-ring soul!"
The third match was lit and then blew out by Shade. The matchstick turned into a point of light and flew into the ritual formation on the ground.
Although Leicia had lost consciousness at this moment, her life ring became clear again. Because Dorothy's life ring was wrapped in white mist, the spirit rune could not be seen, and Leicia's core spirit rune, which acted as the writer and the princess, actually flashed with spiritual light at the same time, but the owner of the life ring had no idea.
"The fourth root, the path of four-ring sublimation!"
The last match was lit and then blew out by Shade. The matchstick turned into a point of light and flew into the ritual formation on the ground.
Amid the whistle and the sound of the bell, the white mist dissipated, and Dorothy's five-ring warlock life ring appeared above her. Then, because Dorothy was semi-conscious, it gradually disappeared.
Shad looked at Leicia, who opened her eyes with difficulty, gave Shad a difficult smile, and then disappeared into the mirror. Feeling the increasingly strong whispering element of the mirror in his pocket, Shad quickly emerged from the mirror.
"Dorothy! Dorothy!"
He sat on the ground, picked up the blonde girl, and placed his silver-glowing palm on her forehead:
"Silver Moon's Gift from Scindia."
Because of Leicia's departure, the pain completely disappeared, and she was getting better little by little. Hearing Shade's cry, she opened her eyes reluctantly. Her whole body was soaked with sweat from the severe pain, and her body temperature was abnormally high. The broken hair on her forehead was stuck to her skin by sweat, but there was a weak smile in her emerald eyes:
"I succeeded, Shade, I succeeded."
"It's all the fault of that mirror ghost!"
Speaking of which, Xia De wanted to crush the other party into pieces.
The blonde took a deep breath and whispered:
"No, I have a hunch that this problem would still occur even without the mirror ghost. Leicia and I... You don't have to worry about her. She has a personal maid to take care of her... Oh, no!"
Dorothy's eyes widened.
"What's wrong?"
"Mirror ghosts can only move through the nearest mirror and tend to attack anything living."
This evil spirit has a stronger desire to attack than its peers.
"Yeah... Oops!"
Shad also understood what Dorothy was worried about:
"Mi Mia on the second floor!"
"You go downstairs first, I'll follow you right away."
After carefully putting Dorothy down, Shade rushed down to the attic. After the mirror ghost disappeared, he simplified the ritual because he was in a hurry, but it still took him three or four minutes to complete the ritual. He couldn't imagine what he would see on the second floor if the evil spirit really took advantage of this time to attack Mia.
Don't worry, the cat...
"Don't comfort me."
Shade was so confused that he didn't even know how he got back to the second floor from the third floor. He only remembered that he broke open the door and happened to hear Mia's "scream".
"Raglai's Leap!"
He walked directly from the door into the open bathroom area, and then saw in the mirror above the sink that the evil spirit had returned to its terrifying appearance and was reaching out to grab the cat standing on the sink.
The small orange cat turned its body, and with its tail carrying two "heavy objects", it slammed towards the evil spirit that was sticking out of the mirror.
The piercing scream almost broke Shade's eardrums. The Transformation Ring and the Fish Training Ring hit the evil spirit at the same time as the cat flicked its tail. There were only two possible consequences of the relic contacting the soul and causing the whispering element infection.
One is that the spirit collapses directly, and the other is that the whispering element turns the soul into something even more terrifying, and the latter is more likely.
But this time the cat was obviously lucky. Its "tail swing" created a small hole in the body of the evil spirit that was sticking out of the mirror. Then, with the wound as the center, the mirror ghost collapsed.
"Want to die? How can it be so easy?"
Xia De picked up his cat with one hand and grabbed the dissipating evil spirit with the other hand. Relying on his ability to directly contact spirits, he dragged the other party out of the mirror.
With a furious mood, he dragged the cold evil spirit to the kitchen and picked up the empty wine bottle. He placed the curious cat on the dining table, holding the bottom of the bottle with one hand and the neck of the bottle with the other:
"Blood brew!"
The evil spirit that was about to collapse had almost no power to resist, and the white light spot after the soul dissipated was actually sucked into the bottle. The process lasted for half a minute before Shade plugged the bottle cap with a cork.
The exhausted Dorothy had already reached the door of Room 1 on the second floor. Seeing that the lively orange cat was safe and sound, she breathed a sigh of relief and leaned against the door frame and said weakly:
"In order to prevent accidents during the ceremony, I placed a silencing spell in your house in advance, so the screams just now won't be heard... I didn't place it on the second floor, but only at the stairwell. Even if your neighbors hear it, they can only vaguely hear a faint sound and probably think it's a woman screaming."
"Dorothy!"
Shade put down the bottle and went to help Dorothy. After letting the blonde lie down on his bed, he quickly went downstairs and stuffed the corpse mirror, which seemed to be out of control, into the God's gift box. Although the God's gift box can suppress out-of-control relics, Shade was still worried and put the gift box at the foot of the ancient god's original crack in the space.
The mirror immediately calmed down.
Only then did he heave a sigh of relief, and went back to the second floor to get the bottle and went to the side bed. At this time, Mia had already run in by herself. She was very dissatisfied with the woman who occupied the bed. Even though Dorothy had taken care of her, Mia still believed that the bed was her inviolable territory.
"Don't sit up."
Putting the bottle of wine on the table, Shad asked Dorothy to sit down and brought her some hot tea.
"How do you feel now?"
He asked with concern.
"Still a little weak, but much better now."
Despite saying this, the blonde's lips were still pale and the cold sweat on her face did not disappear.
"Stay here tonight. I'll sleep on the sofa."
Xia De didn't want to go to the first floor, in case something happened at night and he couldn't hear it. As for the master bedroom of Room 1 on the second floor, that was Detective Sparrow's bedroom. Xia De had not changed the decoration inside until now, and he didn't want to live in it.
"I'll boil some hot water for you so you can take a shower. It's uncomfortable to sleep like this."
He said again.
"OK."
She lay there, with the gas lamp Shade at the head of the bed, lying on the bed with her head tilted, looking at Shade with her green eyes:
"Thanks to you tonight."
"It's okay, but where did the mirror ghost come from? Did it run away from the homes of other residents in St. Teresa's Square? I think I should set up a ritual to defend against evil spirits around this house. Maybe the Dawn Church will be willing to help."
Xia De said distressedly. He was now sitting on a stool beside the bed. The cat was squatting beside the pillow, looking at the person on the pillow with dissatisfaction that even Xia De could see.
He had no doubt that the Mirror Ghost was already in the house because he had checked it many times. Although House No. 6 was rumored to be a haunted house, there were indeed no evil spirits in it.
"The mirror ghost is not important. Without it, Leicia will appear in the mirror."
Dorothy whispered again, and reached out her right hand from under the quilt and took Shad's hand, which was still burning hot:
"I just saw that you imprisoned a soul?"
"Yes."
Xia De pointed to the bottle:
"Although the power of the evil spirit has become very weak due to the erosion of the whispering element. But I think drinking this bottle of 'blood brew' brewed by the soul can still heal the pain of the soul. Do you want to..."
"Do you think I'm like a soul-eating demon?"
The blonde girl shook her head slightly and refused. Normal people in this world would not be willing to devour souls, just like Shad was unwilling to drink human blood.
"Well, then let's make it disappear quickly."
Shade said, looking at the bottle fiercely. He stroked his right hand beside him, and the dark crack immediately split open. Pulling out the cork of the bottle, Shade poured the entire bottle of soul blood brew into the land of death.
After doing all this, I got up and prepared to boil water. Although there was a steam pipe, the water in the steam pipe could not be drunk directly or used for bathing:
"I'm going to tidy up the sofa. By the way, do you want some midnight snack?"
"If you have snacks, you can bring some."
She bit her lip and said, watching Xia De stand up and reaching out to hold his hand:
"Shad, tonight..."
Feeling weak, the blonde girl shook her head again:
"Nothing, can I kiss you?"
Xia De nodded in surprise:
"Of course, and I'm glad you asked first."
Most of the girls he met were not so polite.
"Also, don't laugh. They really don't ask every time."
Shad said in his heart, lowered his head, let Dorothy kiss him on the side of his cheek, and then went outside to do his work.
The blonde girl who was lying on the bed sat up, leaning against the headboard, covered with Shade's quilt. She first smiled and glanced at the unhappy cat beside the pillow, then looked out the window.
The window facing the west was the direction of the Yodel Palace. She could see the dim starlight, the red, yellow, and silver moon, and the night sky of this peaceful autumn night:
"Finally I became a middle-ring warlock... Monday is the last day of the Harvest Moon."
This means that half of autumn has passed:
"Lecia...Shad..."
She murmured to herself, not knowing what she was thinking about, and a gentle smile appeared on her face.