The purpose of Shad's visit to Mr. Bernhardt so late at night was certainly not to brag about what he did at the banquet, but to ask Mr. Bernhardt's priest friend in the Peace Church to use the church's connections to find out whether any strange things happened in the city when Professor Drake went to look for the Lady of the Lake more than ten years ago.
This was quite easy for the church's ring sorcerers, because there were no restrictions on the search for this kind of basic information. Mr. Bernhardt agreed immediately and promised that Shade would get the results on Sunday:
“But are you still investigating the Lady of the Lake? This is a legend I heard when I was a child, but our family has lived here for generations, and no one has ever realized the truth of this story.”
When saying goodbye to Shade at the gate of the manor, the gentleman asked again. Shade shook his head and turned over to ride on the horse:
“It’s something else. Something happened in Huntington, something is happening now, and something will happen in the future.”
After saying that, he waved his hand and rode away into the night. The middle-aged vampire looked at Shade's back suspiciously, and then thought of the series of things they had experienced in Midhill Castle in the autumn:
"Could something big happen in Huntington... Oh, my God, should I go somewhere else to avoid it?"
After returning home from Huntington, Shad projected from home to St. Byrons Library at the agreed time, met and told Miss Danister that he had seen the "Moon of Guidance".
Miss Danister took this matter very seriously. After learning that Shade had already talked to the other party and confirmed that the other party was in touch with the local Sixes correspondence ring sorcerer group in Tobesk, the thirteenth-ring sorceress praised Shade generously.
She had already made an alchemical item that could collect auras, but because this could not be known to the academy, it could not be sent to Shad through the manuscript paper. The item would be sent to Shad's home by ordinary mail from the academy's property in Delarion on weekends.
What Shade needs is to manipulate the alchemical item to collect spiritual light when the "Moon of Guidance" reveals its life ring. If the core spiritual rune "Moon of Guidance" can really replace the core spiritual rune "Yellow Moon", then the Silver Moon Library left by the Silver Moon Ancient God may be found before the end of this year.
"Speaking of which, Miss Danister, when will I be able to come to the library in person again?"
Before leaving, Xia De did not forget to ask, this is of course for the suspected existence of one-third of the "time perception" slate in the academy library. Although his spell library search cannot be fully effective in the projection state, if he comes in person and casts a spell, he may be able to find the slate.
"Wait until the role of the Guidance Moon is confirmed."
The thirteenth ring sorceress held her face and sighed in annoyance:
"I hope it really works. Otherwise, we can only hope that the core spirit rune of 'Yellow Moon' will appear in front of us on its own initiative."
(Little Mia is running...)
At the end of the adventure in the Library of Gadis in the Valley of Death, the knowledge promised by the old god Grey Sage is now suspected to be divided into three parts. After the disintegration of the cult, it is in the hands of the Library of St. Byrons Comprehensive College, the Apna Library and the Guiding Light Hermitage respectively.
The slate in the hands of the hermitage was exchanged by Shade from Mr. Edmond of Coldwater Harbor in exchange for the fragments of poems in the Secret Art of Immortality. It took more than half a week for the slate to be delivered to Mr. Edmond, and Shade saw it on Friday morning.
Interestingly, perhaps because he slept too much at the Carina Manor on Wednesday, Shad actually went against his biological clock on Friday morning. He opened his eyes before six o'clock and saw the familiar ceiling of the bedroom.
He tilted his head to look at the cat beside the pillow. The cat was still sleeping in a ball shape, and the ball was shrinking and restoring in a regular manner due to breathing. It was not until Shade got up that the alert cat opened his eyes. He got up dazedly and found that it was not yet time for breakfast. He knew that the milkman had not come yet, so he "meowed" and fell back on the bed.
Because he got up very early, after breakfast, Shade went to Coldwater Harbor alone. He first went to Aurora Manor to change his clothes that were soaked by sea water. When he met Mr. Edmund, it was only eight o'clock, but there were already other guests who came to trade in the old lighthouse.
Shad stood on the cliff, looking at the sea and feeling the breeze. He waited until the three-ring warlock wearing the ridiculous monkey mask left before he walked into the tower.
"Good morning, Mr. Edmund. Has the slate arrived?"
Shad greeted him as he sat down. The old man looked like he had already had breakfast, and there was a smell of boiled eggs in the tower.
"Here we are. I thought you would only come on the weekend. Wait a moment. I'll go get the goods."
As he spoke, he went up the spiral staircase to the upper level of the lighthouse. While Shade was looking at the new fish specimens in the tower, the old man came back holding a mahogany box. The box was designed to be opened, and a copper lock was hung on the small lock.
This design seemed unnecessary, after all, it was not difficult to destroy the wooden box. However, as Xia De gradually gained more knowledge of the mystic, he could see that the lock itself and the patterns on the wooden box constituted an ingenious ritual. If the lock was not opened, even if the box was destroyed, the contents of the box would definitely not be "taken".
Mr. Edmund opened the box with the key and pushed it from the table to Shad. Shad raised his eyebrows immediately after opening it. The wooden box, which was bigger than his palm, had a thick lining inside. On the lining were four stone slabs the size of an adult's palm, wrapped with silver corners. This could probably be used by Mia as a surfboard.
Specifically, it is the size of a small portable book that people would carry on long train journeys. The Light Guides have preserved it very well, and there are almost no signs of age. The surface of the stone is smooth, with only a few scratches that are not easy to see.
"Little Mia wouldn't like surfing."
Xia De thought in his heart, then said with a smile:
“Just based on its appearance, this is also a very good work of art.”
He reached out and took the slate out of the box, thinking that there would be no words or patterns on the side facing up but there would be on the other side. However, the result was far beyond his expectations. There was only an ancient rune representing the number "two" on the other side.
"After this item came into our hands from the disintegrating Old God Cult, except for a few lucky guys who gained spiritual runes or magic by touching it, no other more specific functions have been analyzed so far. We can only be sure that this is a book. If you can find a way to find out its function, don't forget to tell us how to interpret it."
Mr. Edmund said, and Shad frowned. He originally thought that this kind of stone tablet was the same as the ancient books of the First Age in the Gaddis Library, and that the content could be known by reading the name. Now it seems that he thought it was too simple.
He hurried back home with the stone tablet. He was still worried about how to obtain the knowledge in the stone tablet. However, when he swam from the bottom of the sea to the cave under the sea cliff and saw the statue of the ancient god's original crack behind the hidden wall, Shad had new inspiration.
The great sage in gray robes once said that although she looked like she had inherited the power of the ancient god's secret-keeping mentor, in fact, the power of this great sage came from the ancient god of the moon, the Silver Moon Sage, because this ancient god had the power of "recorder".
Even when invoking the gods in the Gaddis Library, the stone tablet in the shrine that records the "Poem of Invoking the Gods" also has symbols representing the phases of the moon (Chapter 672).
"Could it be that to unlock the contents of the slate, what is needed is..."
With his thoughts in mind, Xia De, who was soaked in water, returned home. He took a simple bath first, then sat on the sofa and solemnly opened the wooden box.
"Meow~"
Mia stretched her head out of curiosity to sniff it, and when the cat walked away without interest, Shade summoned his life ring. Amid the whistle and bell, the life ring emerged from the scorching steam. The huge life ring radiated aura, making the orange cat's fur reflect a strange luster.
Shade controlled his core spiritual rune "Silver Moon" to radiate light. When the enlightening spiritual light shone on the four corners of the stone slab wrapped with silver corners, the stone slab that was originally lying in the box, as if responding to the spiritual light, emitted silver light particles all over the body, and automatically floated up in the cat's surprised expression:
"Oh, that's exactly what happened!"
Xia De excitedly grabbed the cat from the coffee table and put it on his lap:
"That old sage also saw that I possessed the power of the moon, so he set it up to open in this way, just like the aura of time and space opens the hidden wall... But over the years, has no one tried to use aura to illuminate it?"
He thought suspiciously, and "her" whisper answered his doubts:
Maybe, it’s just because other people are not smart enough.
"Yes, the Gray Sage prepared this gift for me."
The stone slab under the enlightenment light of the silver moon exudes a faint silver moonlight. Originally, it only had a very faint miracle element, but at this time, it was overflowing with miracle elements, just like a divine item in a church.
"Very good, now we will reveal the answer. Does this really contain the knowledge of time?"
Shade tried to reach out to the stone slab. When his hand touched the glowing stone slab, a stream of silver light flowed towards Shade's fingers. At the same time, the mark of a silver moon suddenly appeared on the originally smooth surface of the stone slab.
Surrounded by the olive branch pattern was the clearest silver full moon, and the mark only flashed for a moment before disappearing. The light that flowed into the finger had already sent the complicated and chaotic knowledge into Shade's mind.