He turned around and tried to walk towards the Natural Church, but suddenly stopped and looked at Shade again.
Xia De raised his left hand, holding a red butterfly pendant:
"I know I can't beat you now, but you must know one thing - bringing the dead back to life requires a price. I know two girls who, even though blessed by the gods, still paid a heavy price to get a life beyond what they were supposed to have. Do you know what the price is? To be bound forever, tormented by separation, and to cycle through time. Mr. Barton, what price are you prepared to pay?"
"Any price, anything."
He paused and looked at Shade:
"Mr. Watson, in half an hour, the power of true death will once again impact the Narrows, triggering the third major earthquake in Midhill Castle, which will also be the last major earthquake. By then, I will guide all the undead in the Narrows City to impact the Natural Church; I will guide all the undead in the Narrows Mountain Sikar to impact the mountainside and the top of the mountain. At least eight-digit souls will launch the final attack on the three seals. Even if the church can stop them, I will let the remaining undead merge into the final death aggregate. This is the decisive battle.
No matter which one of me is, one of me will eventually be able to pass through one of the channels, enter the real death, and bring back my beloved. "
"Why are you telling me this?"
"I want you to get out of here."
Xia De covered his right shoulder and shook his head. His arm was really broken:
"The church will start the ceremony ahead of time. The seal will become weaker if the ceremony is started ahead of time, and it won't be effective for three years. But at least, after the ceremony is successful, most of the souls in the narrow space will fall into a coma again."
"Then let's see whether the church is faster or I am faster."
The deformed middle-aged man walked into the fog alone, and his figure gradually disappeared.
"It's this troublesome race against time situation again."
Shade walked out of the ruins of the store, took back the night watchman, and picked up the kerosene lamp that had fallen on the ground. For his hand with multiple fractures, he could only use the potion he prepared in advance to slightly treat the pain, and then walked along the street to the Natural Church.
The battle around the Natural Church has not yet ended. Relying on her high mobility, the bride, riding on a crimson mount and holding a man's head, is engaging in guerrilla warfare with two high-ring warlocks of the church.
The two ring sorcerers, who belonged to the Church of Creation and the Church of Peace, could not leave the church too far away, so the woman on horseback could temporarily escape from the battle by staying away from the church. But she did not leave, but after recovering a little, she harassed them again.
This approach would sooner or later give the church's ring warlocks an opportunity, but before the church could fight back, the woman had already noticed Shad limping out of the fog with his right arm hanging down, looking extremely embarrassed.
The reins were pulled tight, and the crimson horse raised its front hooves in the air. The woman in the wedding dress waved the sickle in her hand and rushed towards Shade from above.
Xia De looked up at her:
"Do you think I'm easy to bully like this?"
The people in the church also noticed Shad, who was wearing a black coat and a mask. Although they didn't know who he was, they didn't want to see him die under the sickle.
The two high-level warlocks in the air had already flown over, and Iluna, who was standing at the door of the church, also ran over with a small team of ring mages.
Xia De stopped and watched the woman on horseback approaching. As the latter swung her sickle towards him, Xia De's body turned into a group of red butterflies, letting the sickle sweep through them.
Because the speed of the downward rush was too fast, the horse slid forward for a distance before stopping after it touched the ground. Xia De, holding the red butterfly pendant, appeared behind the horse at this time.
He dodged the horse's hoof that kicked him backwards by leaning sideways, and raised his hand to catch the black sickle with a clang. After seeing the power of Joey Barton, Shad actually felt that the power of the sickle was so weak.
He was standing next to the horse, so he could clearly see the wedding ring on the finger of the woman in the wedding dress holding the sickle.
The sickle shook off Shad's sword and swept towards Shad's neck again. Shad thrust forward with his left hand and accurately hit the woman's wrist. Then he dodged backwards suddenly, avoiding the black cloud emitted from the man's head and continued to retreat backwards.
With the sound of horse hooves, the blood-stained bride turned her horse's head, and the undead with a sickle held high appeared in front of Shad again.
This time, Shad also dodged the sickle by leaning sideways, and even chopped the horse with the Night's Watch at the moment the two came into contact.
As the last nail, the woman was indeed powerful, but unfortunately she had been imprisoned by the church for too long and her strength had been seriously lost. Moreover, she was not good at using special weapons such as sickles, while Shade could barely call himself a "swordsman".
The two weapons collided several times in the fog. Although Shad could only use the sword with his left hand, he was able to inflict wounds on the bride and her mount.
After a brief fight, the church members arrived. Iluna threw the Sunlight Gun directly in that direction, and the horse carrying the woman flew into the sky in the thick fog.
But the horse's hoof was wrapped with Shade's chains of sin. Even if Shade was not injured, he could not pull the horse down. He was not the strongman in the story. But the effect of the chains of sin in restricting movement still exerted some power.
The horse in the air suddenly stopped for a moment, and the golden thunder spear that followed pierced straight into the woman's heart.
The chains of sin loosened, the high-level warlocks fell down, and Iluna also came over with her team.
The horse carrying the woman slowly landed on the ground, then slowly lay down, neighing indistinctly. Gray dust continued to fly upwards from the woman's body, but she just stroked the head in her arms.
“Do they have any stories?”
Shade asked, making no move away from the church's ring warlocks.
The middle-aged man, a twelve-ring sorcerer, holding a long staff in his hand and a white dove on his shoulder, said in a local accent:
"This is the undead Lady Maria from three hundred years ago. Her husband was a famous knight. On the night of their wedding, the knight was summoned by the lord and went to the front. What Lady Maria finally waited for was the knight's head and the knight's warhorse that the lord paid a ransom for..."
He didn't continue speaking, and the group of people watched quietly as the last nail disappeared into the narrow space.
"Too bad, we haven't received the signal to destroy her yet."
Iluna said with some distress, glancing at Shade who was wearing a mask:
"Killing her in advance might cause changes in the narrow space in advance."
Of course she knew who the person in front of her was. Even if Shade didn't take the Night Watchman, she could guess that the strange person who appeared here at this time must be Shade.
"Don't worry about that, I know something."
Shade said, everyone looked at him, the very long stick behind him really attracted attention.
He coughed hard to show that he had internal injuries and blood in his lungs. Then he stuck his sword into the ground and took out a letter with his trembling left hand:
"I'm here to deliver a letter. Also... can you help me heal my wounds?"
He pointed to his drooping right arm.
"This..."
The Twelve Rings Warlock of the Peace Church hesitated:
"Master of Swordsmanship, I wonder what organization you belong to?"
They had just seen how Shade, despite being at a disadvantage, relied on swordsmanship to fight the Bloody Bride. The extraordinary system of this era was more inclined to use the so-called "spells", and there were not many ring sorcerers who were good at using cold weapons. Therefore, they did not associate Shade with the "God Caller".
After all, the Godcaller is characterized by the complex, varied, and brilliant moonlight series of magic.
"I am a lone traveler from the New World, with the goal of hunting demons. I heard that there was a Balrog in Midhill Castle. I came here last month, but I didn't find the Balrog. Instead, I encountered what happened here."
He handed the letter out, and the ring warlock of the Peace Church took it and introduced his name, Newman Landau.
"I think you need help, and I need help too."
Xia De covered his right shoulder:
"I just drank some pain-relieving potion, but the effect is about to wear off. The Church of Nature should have a doctor who can treat me, right?"
Mr. Landau, with a pigeon perched on his shoulder, nodded, opened the letter and took a look. After confirming that there was no problem with the letter, he glanced at Iluna.
Iluna nodded, walked forward and held out her hand to Shade:
"This... um... witcher, you are aware of the current situation. The church will not allow suspicious people to enter the narrow church. But you have already gained our friendship, so after a small test, you can go with us."
Shade held Iluna's hand, and then noticed that the seventeen-year-old girl was trying hard to hold back her laughter.
A brass wheel appeared behind her. As the life ring rotated, it transformed into a dark golden scale in the dazzling golden color.
The scales symbolizing the power of the ancient gods appeared and immediately dispelled the surrounding fog. Iluna suppressed her laughter and asked in a serious tone:
"Good, evil?"
Time seemed to have returned to the midsummer night, when Shad and Iluna had gained further trust in each other. Shad missed that time very much, and it was obvious that Iluna, who was close by, did the same.
Shade didn't have to answer this question, because the scale behind Iluna was overwhelmingly tilted to the left. It seemed that the good and evil of the outsiders had not changed at all in the past three months, and he was quite pleased with it.
After all, he hadn't really done anything bad, other than trying to illegally take possession of someone else's cat.
"Very good sir, you seem to be a nice guy, so... Order, Chaos?"
The scale regained its balance, and then, in the dark golden light, it tilted to the left again as if it was pressed by a finger. Shade even thought that if it had been faster, the entire scale would have completely tipped over.