Carrying the body and the black suitcase that caused more than one murder, Xia De did not stay in the city for long, but went directly out of the city into the mountains. For safety, he did not choose to go directly to the abandoned tower with a basement connected to a hidden space, but after deviating from the main road into the mountains, he found a small open space in the forest.
After making sure that no one was around, he put on the moonstone ring and turned on the quiet moonlight to prevent any unexpected situations, and then restored the body:
"Soul echoes."
As the magic was used, a cold wind blew through the forest in the evening, and the sun, which had begun to fall behind Mount Sikar in the distance, became even dimmer. It seemed that there were wolves howling higher up in the mountain, but if you listened carefully, it sounded like the wind was blowing through the treetops.
In the quiet forest at sunset, Shade stood beside the corpse with a frown on his face, watching the soul fragments that were channeled appear above the corpse. Strictly speaking, the channeling ability of the soul echo is not to retrieve the complete soul, but only fragments like remnants.
Therefore, the souls that appear at this time are weaker than normal souls, but they will also lose some of their memories.
"Guide to death."
A cold grey light appeared at his fingertips, and Shade's hand touched the surface of the soul fragment. He closed his eyes, and scenes flashed before his eyes.
Although it was still incomplete, the series of images basically confirmed Shade's conjecture. The dead man who was shot on the fourth floor of the hotel a week ago, the businessman with two pistols, and the professor himself were all members of the Gray Gloves. Although they were not as good as the "Gray Eagles", their ranks were still very high. The purpose of the three being sent here was just to get the briefcase.
But they had no idea what was in the suitcase.
In the broken memory, there are also some common password styles and passwords of the "Gray Gloves". Of course, these are changed at any time, so they are not very meaningful. The most critical final delivery location is actually the Gray Gloves headquarters in Willendel, the capital of Carsenrick, the small gray house on the side of the royal palace.
This means that the acquisition of this "cargo" obtained by the Principality of Set through the intelligence transmitted by the "Grey Eagle" and assisted by three top agents was an order directly issued by the leader of Carsenrick's spy organization "Grey Gloves" or even the royal family.
"What's in that alley?"
Xia De looked at the suitcase he had thrown next to the body. The suitcase was not heavy, not even as heavy as the four metal banknote printing plates in his basement.
"Could it be a photo of King Fire Leaper Larus III?"
He stood in the mottled shadows of the trees and thought, but this kind of gossip didn't seem that important:
"Or is it evidence of treason by Leicia's other brothers and sisters?"
But there shouldn't be that many descendants of the Cavendish family who want to commit treason:
"Or maybe it's a blueprint for a new weapon?"
This is very likely.
"Why are you fighting among yourselves?"
Because of the effect of guiding death, the soul in the state of ignorance is dissipating after "awakening". While Professor Higgins's soul has not completely disappeared, Shade asked again, this is the answer that was not seen in the previous picture.
"Because of betrayal."
Professor Higgins's voice was very dull, and seemed to come from a very far distance:
"It's a shameful betrayal. One of them wanted to hand the suitcase over directly to his superiors, while the other wanted to hand it over to His Royal Highness Samuel Anjou."
Samuel Anjou is the oldest prince of the contemporary United Kingdom of Carsenrick. Shad knows this person, not because he is very concerned about foreign news, but because there are only three princes and two princesses in Carsenrick, unlike Delarion, which has double-digit direct descendants.
"Is this the reason for the internal strife?"
Shade felt a little amused:
"And you? Who do you want to give this suitcase to?"
"Her Royal Highness Margaret of Anjou."
This one is the second princess of Carsenrick, and is planning to visit Tobesk in the autumn or winter as a return visit to the United Kingdom by Leithia Cavendish in the summer on behalf of the Cavendish royal family.
“Haha~”
Xia De laughed dryly. He really couldn't understand how the upper echelons of the Gray Gloves gathered these three people and let them team up to complete the mission.
"Are you making fun of Princess Margaret?"
Professor Higgins's spirit asked, seemingly misunderstanding the reason for Shade's dry laugh.
"Of course not... Wait? Why did you start talking?"
He looked at the soul in surprise, only to see that the soul that was originally disappearing into a white light had become solid as if time had reversed. White mist of unknown origin poured down from the head of the corpse lying on the ground, causing a pale green light to appear in the soul, while giving the soul the elemental power of "whispering".
"Damn it, the soul is about to transform into an evil spirit. It's the influence of the Level 0 relic, the Narrow Space between Life and Death! If I had known earlier, I should have brought it back to Tobesk to communicate with the spirit again."
But this was not something Shad could have predicted. Iluna only said that after the earthquake, the local evil spirits would become more powerful and terrifying, but she did not say that evil spirits would be more likely to appear in the local area.
"I am not laughing at the beautiful, kind, innocent and honest Princess Margaret of Anjou!"
Shade hurriedly said loudly, hoping that this could stop the soul fragment from becoming evil, but he didn't expect that these words would make Professor Higgins' soul even more violent:
"ah!"
The shrill cry seemed to pierce the eardrums. If Shade hadn't used Silent Moonlight in advance, it would have scared away a large number of birds in the forest:
"If you don't want to listen to my advice, then I'll make you listen to my advice!"
He stepped back to create some distance, and at the same time, he lightly drew an arc of light in the air with his right hand, striking forward. But after hitting Professor Higgins's spirit, it only left a horrifying scar, instead of directly cutting the spirit into two halves as usual:
"It turns out that the stronger the evil spirit becomes, the stronger its defense becomes."
Xia De thought to himself, put the extract on the tip of his tongue, took a step back and disappeared on the spot, then held the sword in both hands and stabbed from behind the spirit that had already transformed.
clang!
Silver spots of light splashed everywhere, and the Moonlight Greatsword actually chopped on a layer of translucent pale green light shield behind the evil spirit. The light shield wrapped around the evil spirit's back like half an eggshell. Even if it was pierced by the Moonlight Greatsword, only spider web-like cracks appeared. Before the second sword summoned by the Chaos Time Blade pierced it, it had been completely repaired:
"Isn't this kind of enhancement a bit too exaggerated?"
He truly realized how terrible the disaster that was about to happen in Midhill Castle was.
The evil spirit roared towards the sky. Under the influence of the white mist from the narrow space, the whispering element almost corroded it beyond human form. Its limbs were completely reversed, and black hands stabbed out from inside the spirit. Even Shade couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling when he saw this scene.
What he feared was not this enhanced soul, but the power that belonged to the narrow space, the power between life and death that should not exist:
"An evil spirit of this level is almost equivalent to a human sorcerer below the fourth ring."
With the roaring soul as the center, the grass in the forest withered completely, and even was shocked and retreated.
The white mist blurred his vision, and in the white mist, carrying large shadows and pale green air currents, the soul stretched out its hands to Shade. The translucent light shield also deformed closely to the spirit body, giving Shade no chance to break through the defense.
"The chains of sin should be able to penetrate the protection formed by the soul power, but I don't want to make this soul even crazier."
So he punched out with his left fist that contained the Soul Crystal Ring, but it hit the light shield again, but this was not completely ineffective.
Soul echo, mind blast and guided death, the combined effect of these three magics made this attack almost create the effect of a sonic boom in the air.
Although the attack force was blocked by the shield, the violent evil spirit was like a cannonball, floating towards the woods behind along with the white mist, green smoke and the black face wrapped around its body.