At that moment, it was like placing a leaf of eternal youth before my eyes, and information poured into my mind from the slate. But the amount of information was very small, and all of it was incomplete sentences.
"I see. It really is one third."
But instead of disappointment, Shade's face was even more excited. Although the information was incomplete, from the broken sentences, Shade could fully confirm that the knowledge in the stone tablet itself was definitely related to enhancing time perception.
"Mia, I didn't choose the wrong target. This is what I want, a way to enhance time perception and obtain the most realistic time information!"
He excitedly picked up the obviously reluctant cat, his heart beat faster, blood rushed to his brain. His mind immediately diverged, and various possibilities were constantly given and eliminated. Whether the Sixth Age was the Sixth Age, and whether now was really now, perhaps it was not important in the eyes of others. But for Shade, who could travel in the past, it was very important.
With a light touch of his finger, the slate flew back slightly, but soon stopped again, floating in the air at the level of Shade's eyes. Mia, who had been waiting for an opportunity, quickly broke away from Shade's hands, landed on his legs, and quickly jumped up, jumping onto Shade's shoulders, then suddenly jumped, and actually "caught" the flying slate, and then stood there with an amazing balance.
"Meow~"
The orange cat looked at Shade proudly, and Shade also looked at Mia with a smile. He stretched out his right hand toward the stone slab again, and Mia jumped back onto his legs along Shade's arm.
Caressing Mia, Shade looked at the stone slab in the air again:
"I thought that after the knowledge was given to me, the slate would turn to dust, but it still exists."
He touched the stone slab with silver corners again, but the stone slab did not pass on knowledge to Shade for the second time, which meant that the stone slab's mission of "transmitting knowledge" had been completed.
“Why wasn’t it damaged?”
Shade was a little confused. He had come into contact with many old gods before, but no matter whether it represented a miracle or blasphemy, those gods would never allow their creations to appear in places where they should not appear. Since the stone tablet passed on knowledge but was not damaged, it meant that the stone tablet was still useful.
"Why did the Gray Sage leave it to me?"
He gently touched the side of the stone slab, and it immediately began to spin smoothly in the air. Silver light was still floating around, and Shade could fully imagine what a beautiful work of art this would be in the long, dark night.
"Can't you just give me a lamp?"
He took the stone tablet and put it back into the box. But no matter what, it was a good thing to have an artifact left by an old god who had no ill will towards him. Perhaps when Shade found the three stone tablets, the secret of the stone tablets would be fully revealed, and any interference in the Sixth Epoch by the old gods who left in the Fifth Epoch would be justified.
Since the blood-sucking god had been planning for a thousand years just to get the wine out of boredom, maybe the patron saint of the library really just wanted to give Shade a beautiful work of art, or maybe -
"Is it possible that passing on the knowledge of enhancing time perception was just a byproduct, and giving me the three mysterious stone tablets was the main purpose of the old god?"
“She” was laughing:
Very likely.
"Touch the slate and feel its specialness?"
Shad closed the box.
Miracle element, very pure miracle element.
“How pure?”
As pure as the silver moon.
Shad nodded, carried the cat and the box to the basement, and placed the slate and the printing plate of the four 1 shilling notes together.
Before leaving, I took another look at the four "gifts" I took out of the gift box:
"What if, as a grey eagle, I gave these four prints to Princess Margaret?"
This was the thought that Shad entertained himself before leaving the basement.
It was past ten o'clock when they finished dealing with the time slate. Xiaomia didn't want to go out with Shad, so Shad went to the university district alone to visit Professor Manning.
Unlike Professor Drake, who was disabled in both legs, Professor Manning was in good spirits and health, so he was not at home every day. That morning, when Shade arrived at No. 17 Cattail Lane in the fog, he knocked on the door but received no response.
Fortunately, he had anticipated this situation, and after waiting for a while to make sure that neither Professor Manning nor the servants were there, he took out his notebook and planned to write a note and slip it through the crack in the door.
But before Xia De finished writing, he felt someone tap him on the shoulder:
"Oh, Shad!"
Turning around, I saw Yin Luna smiling behind me.
The 17-year-old girl standing in the fog was wearing a white ruffled collar shirt with two rows of silver decorative buttons on the chest, and a brown warm women's coat on the outside. She had a black silk scarf tied around her collar and a brown checkered handbag in her hand. This was considered a very formal outfit.
The hazy light of Friday morning penetrated the thick fog, and the gray world seemed to have more colors because of her presence. Every time he saw Yin Luna, Xia De would sigh that she really was like the protagonist of this world:
"Oh, good morning. Yin Luna, why are you here?"
"I am Miss Beas, the nominal police detective. I am here to investigate the theft case on behalf of the Redwich Field."
Yin Luna pointed to the police badge hanging on her chest. She still remembered that she used this identity when she first visited Xia De's house:
"Professor Tiris Manning, yes, 17 Cattail Lane. Shad, are you here to see this old professor as well?"
"Yes, Professor Manning is an old friend of mine, but he is not at home."
Xia De shook the notebook in his hand, but the note was not finished yet.
"It's okay. I made an appointment for a visit at 11 a.m. before I came here. The professor should be back soon."
Yin Luna said, looking at the unopened door curiously. It was the first time she knew that Xia De knew this kind of old gentleman.
Xia De nodded:
"There are still ten minutes until eleven o'clock. Let's wait together. But what kind of theft is it that even the church wants to intervene? I just thought that the professor was just...nothing."
He felt that he should not speak ill of others behind their backs, and besides, the professor just had some peculiar hobbies.
He put his notebook back into the inside pocket of his coat, turned his back to the wall of Cat Tail Alley, and Yin Luna held her handbag in both hands, standing by the lamppost and looking at Xia De. The gray fog on the street outside the two of them seemed to be frozen. In this winter day with a sudden drop in temperature, only pedestrians could be seen passing by in a hurry.
No one could disturb them, Yin Luna liked this atmosphere very much:
"It's related to the relic. Some time ago, the Church of Creation notified all the churches in the diocese that a humanoid relic related to theft appeared in the city. So far, no one has ever seen its true form. It is an invisible person."
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