Whispering Verse

Following the attendant to find the maid Tifa, while walking through the long and quiet corridor, Shade first considered the price of the carpet under his feet and how much Mia was worth, and then realized that after meeting the king, he did not look like the protagonist in the stories he had read in the past. Similarly, the idea of ​​"I can replace him" arises.

Not only because, compared to the occult and those extraordinary powers, worldly rights are really nothing. It's also because the learning of a ring wizard is too time-consuming, and the king just now was still working at eight o'clock in the evening, and it didn't even end at eight o'clock.

The other party's tragic hairline can well illustrate the hard work of the king's profession.

After finally arriving in a different world, foreigners want to see more of this magnificent and mysterious world instead of spending their lives in front of a desk.

After meeting up with the maid Tifa, the two left the Yodel Palace. But instead of returning to Saint Teresa Square immediately, he took a carriage to pick up the relic promised by the duchess.

By the way, the maid will also give the promised "white stone crystal" to Shade.

In the carriage, Shade took back his belongings. And he also mentioned the conversation with Larus III, especially the last sentence. Miss Tifa Servit smiled after hearing the question, telling Shade not to worry about it:

"Those who hold power will always think that they are surrounded by pretenders. Obviously our king cannot escape this sentence."

The promised relics were placed in Miss Carina's mansion on the outskirts of the city. Although Shade got the address last time, this was his first time here.

This place is really weird.

He looked out from the window of the carriage the whole time, and found that the closer he got to the house, the thicker the surrounding fog became, and the fog did not look like a heavy fog caused by exhaust emissions in the city.

When the carriage stopped in front of the tall fence gate of the suburban mansion, the surrounding fog suddenly disappeared. Looking around, except for the dirt road the carriage came from, it was surrounded by woods and wasteland, and beyond it was completely gray.

"This place looks a bit like the witch's house in the story."

Of course, he just thought about it and did not dare to express his thoughts in front of the maid.

Because the owner of the house, Miss Carina, was not there, Shade did not go in, but waited in the carriage. The maid Tifa quickly returned along the gravel path along the central axis of the mansion's courtyard. After boarding the carriage, the carriage immediately turned around and returned.

Shade looked at the house in the night from the car window, and then he realized that not a single light was on inside. This strange situation increased his doubts about this place, but because he did not actually enter the house, the voice in his heart could not sense the elements.

"Detective, this is what you want."

While Shade was thinking wildly, the maid had carefully opened the cloth bag in her hand. Wrapped in yellow linen with blood stains, it was a stone mask with a ferocious face, but it only had a hole for the mouth, and the eyes and nose were blocked.

Shade's thoughts were suddenly withdrawn. After a blink of an eye, [Echo of Blood] was activated, and the stone mask was covered with blood.

"This is a secret-keeper-level relic that the young lady found for you. Detective, would you like to guess its function?"

she asked, handing the mask to Shade. Because it is made entirely of stone, this thing is quite heavy. The surface of the stone is rough and even feels prickly:

"Wearing it will turn humans into vampires?"

Shade thought for a moment and said jokingly.

"No, this is the Keeper-level relic [Another Face]. By dripping two drops of his own blood onto the two eyes of the mask, the user can control this face to make it fly. You Share your vision, smell and senses with it. The mask itself is extremely aggressive and has the ability to devour and digest. If the mask swallows any living creature, it will bring a short-term increase in strength and physical strength to the holder."

"What about the side effects?"

If you just listen to these functions, [Other Face] can be regarded as a perfect long-range attack weapon.

"Once you start using this mask, the association with it cannot be broken unless the user dies. The user must control this mask to eat a living person every week, otherwise it will lose control and forcibly attach to the back of the user's head. Devour the soul of the user and manipulate the soulless corpse. Do not put it on the head of any living thing, and when left unattended, be sure to wrap it with this linen cloth. On this cloth are hundreds of pious The blood of church clergy is a condition of containment."

Probably because the wheels crushed the stones, the carriage shook:

"Detective, are you satisfied with this relic?"

She asked Xiang Shade, and she also knew that the negative characteristics of this relic were almost unacceptable to normal people.

In a relatively small space, Shade could easily sense the scent of the maid's perfume. When she asked, there was a subconscious movement of her head forward, which made the smell even more obvious.

Although the side effects of the relic are huge, Shade fully accepts them. He doesn't need weapons, he needs disposable props.

As long as he uses this mask when he has the opportunity to absorb divinity, even if he fails, the mask will be shattered by trying to devour the gods beyond his own ability, and he will not be allowed to have it forever.

"Very satisfied."

Hearing this answer, the maid made a strange expression, but she didn't ask any more questions.

"Besides, this is the white stone crystal you want."

She handed Shade another tawny wooden box. After opening it, I saw that it was filled with straw, and in the center of the straw lay a round crystal as big as a goose egg.

White and translucent, the interior is not uniform, but has floc. This is not a standard elliptical sphere, its surface is a pentagonal facet.

Shade just glanced at it and closed the box. Although he could not find the information on "White Stone Crystal", he also understood that the other party did not need to deceive him:

"So Miss Servit, as the price for me to obtain this crystal, what do you need me to do?"

He didn't forget that it came at a price.

The maid who was in the same compartment as Shade smiled because her lips were painted with very light lipstick. This action made the lines of her lips clearer:

"It's not a difficult task. It doesn't even have anything to do with dangerous relics. It's my private matter. That's right. I've been researching some unique potions recently."

She put her right hand into the pocket of her maid's skirt and took out three thumb-thick wooden vials with the same style but with different numbers engraved on the surface between her fingers. The length was similar to that of an ordinary pen.

Shaking his palm, the small bottle between his fingers immediately made the sound of liquid sloshing:

"I probably succeeded, but I hope I can find someone to help me..."

"No, I will not drink any potion of unknown origin."

Shade shook his head and said that White Stone Crystal was not the only place to get it, and he was not willing to take the risk to try some magic potion. Although the maid and Miss Carina were temporarily trusted by him conditionally, this did not mean that he would agree to anything without thinking.

What's more important is that he doesn't understand Tifa Servit's potion skills at all.