"Speaking of which, I wanted to ask just now, where did this sword come from?"
Luvia asked curiously.
"I got this through an adventure with the Doctor. It's an angel-level sword. Unfortunately, I can only keep it for a short time."
Shad hadn't yet remembered to talk to Luvia about the sword.
"Oh, this is amazing."
Dorothy also said:
"So that's why you asked me to take care of your cat temporarily on Monday. But what did you and the doctor do to get such a valuable relic?"
The two girls looked at Xia De curiously. Xia De glanced at the doctor, who shook his head hurriedly:
"Let the detective say it. It's mainly the detective's credit."
"Um... ... "
Shade couldn't say that the doctor swallowed a Balrog, so he could only keep his mouth shut:
"This is also a secret, not a very important secret."
Since Xia De claimed that he had a way to solve the problem on the third floor, the others did not stay long and left after a few words. After all, Xia De had called them so early and most of them had not had breakfast yet.
After saying goodbye to his friends in the hallway, Shad did not turn around and go upstairs with Mia who was watching him on the stairs, but waited in the hallway for a while.
As expected, there was a knock on the door. It was Luvia who came back.
"Are you still going to Fort Midhill today?"
She asked bluntly, and they both went upstairs to continue their conversation.
"certainly."
"There's another earthquake there. The last earthquake caused the emergence of evil spirits and the increase in the power of those terrible guys. I don't know what will happen this time."
Luvia said worriedly.
“It’s not just that.”
Shade asked Luvia to sit down first, and he waved his hand to draw a black crack in the air. Luvia immediately closed her eyes, her strength was not enough to let her look directly at "death".
Through this crack, Shade looked at the beach in front of the tranquil waters illuminated by the dark moon, and the red-gold bonfire on the beach that was the mark of the Tree Kiss Mystic Seal. The flame was a little weak:
"The seal I left behind has been severely weakened after two earthquakes. Unless I take the risk and push open the door through the narrow space again, once the third earthquake occurs, the effect of the Kiss of the Tree will completely collapse, and the situation will return to the state before I arrived at Midhill Castle."
In fact, Shad wanted to say "before the priest sealed it", but he promised the priest not to tell his secret. Although the real death of the magic can allow Shad to pass through the crack and directly enter the door of death, in this way he will directly complete the transition from the world of the living to the world of the dead. His soul and body cannot withstand this change, so he must pass through the narrow space to make the transition.
"No, no, you can't go there again. Do you want to die again? You managed to escape last time, but you may not be able to this time. Don't forget that after the two earthquakes, the narrow space itself has also undergone new changes."
Luvia stopped Shade's thoughts:
"The key now is the third chosen one. The poem has indicated that he or she can solve this big problem."
But the problem is that four coins are not enough for divination.
"I understand. I will go into the Mansion of Crime today and try to get the blood money."
Xia De picked up the long sword on the coffee table:
"We can't wait any longer. Even if it's not for the survival of Midhill Castle, it's for the sake of getting ahead of the church and the academy. Iluna told me last night that the church is already taking action. Once I can get enough coins, almost all of the current difficulties can be solved."
"Wait a moment, I will tell you whether this trip will go smoothly."
Luvia reached into her pocket and pulled out a silver coin with a blasphemous element. This was the silver coin of the Documentary-level Relic Fortuneteller that Iluna had applied for from the Church of the Sun. Even a ringmaster who had never learned divination could use this coin to enhance his own inspiration and capture more traces of fate when making a choice between two options.
For a ring sorcerer who is proficient in divination, this is almost a "divination amplifier". Although it has the flaw of misleading fate and thus falling into the trap of fate, this coin is an extremely useful relic for any fortune teller.
Luvia asked for a strand of Shade's hair, and with one hand she rubbed the hair while with the other she threw a coin. Her purple eyes seemed to light up at this moment, and the coin she threw did not fall, but kept spinning in the air for a full half a minute before it fell.
Luvia closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and then opened them again:
"I can't see whether this trip will be life-threatening, but I can be sure that you can meet an old friend in that secret-keeping mansion."
"Old friend?"
"Not the person you met at Midhill Castle, but an old friend from a faraway place."
In any case, getting new coins is the most important thing at the moment.
The house was not safe now, so after sending Luvia away, Shad took the cat back from the church and sent it to Dorothy, asking her to take care of it. In this way, he could leave Tobesk City with peace of mind.
The location of the Sin Mansion was closer to the top of the mountain than the abandoned tower in the mountains. According to the information provided by Grandma Cassandra, this relic, which was rated as a keeper of secrets, usually would not stay in one place for more than three weeks. When Shad stepped out of the abandoned tower and felt that the blood money he carried with him could still feel the same kind of coins, he knew that the Sin Mansion was still on Mount Xikar.
Because of the earthquake yesterday, Xia De was still worried about encountering evil spirits on the way up the mountain. But he was lucky this time. Of course, it might also be because there was no fog on Mount Xikal in the morning, so the journey was relatively safe.
However, with the arrival of late autumn, the green that Xia De saw here for the first time in early autumn has mostly turned golden. The fallen leaves from the branches not only dyed the ground golden, but also made the branches bare. I wonder if this scene foreshadows the end of the city at the foot of the mountain.
Although he did not encounter any evil spirits, Shade encountered a group of ring sorcerers from the Orthodox Church on the way. He knew their identities because they used magic to drive away mosquitoes in the mountains while walking and sprinkled holy water on the ground, as if they were surveying the terrain.
It looks like the large-scale ceremony led by the Church of Nature is really about to begin.
At 9:23 in the morning, Xia De, holding the night watchman's gun, arrived at the outskirts of the Sin Mansion and saw the three-story building surrounded by a fence with black spikes from the fallen leaves.
What was beyond Xia De's expectation was that when he looked towards the main door of the building, he saw the door close silently. He didn't know whether some unlucky guy had mistakenly entered it, or whether the souls captured by the relics in the Sin Mansion were working.
The Night Watchman's long sword was inserted into the scabbard and held in Shade's hand. When Shade walked out of the woods and officially stepped onto the gravel path connecting to the mansion, the sword immediately vibrated slightly. But when Shade passed through the black fence gate decorated with thorns, the sword returned to its original state, as if it knew that the sword holder was determined to approach the dangerous place.