Whispering Verse

As for what happens next, there is no need for Shade to participate. His mission was to get Steve Ivant, who was carrying the [Metamorphosis Ring], out of here, away from his normal surveillance post, and away from the densely populated mansion.

The departing maid will guide him to where he should go, where Miss Tifa Servit will be waiting for him.

Of course, Ivante cannot be killed yet to avoid disturbing the cultists. Of course, the maid lady had a way to replace the real ring with a fake ring and make Evante temporarily forget what she had experienced. As for the specific method used, that is something that Miss Carina needs to worry about and has nothing to do with Shade.

The plan was implemented smoothly. Shade only had to wait for the signal, then meet the maid in the courtyard of the mansion, and then he could leave openly.

While I felt relieved, I began to worry about another big adventure for a while.

He walked non-stop to the innermost part of the restaurant and spent a large sum of gold pounds he got from the maid to get the two items he bought. It will take some time for the maid to deal with Steve Avant, and during this period, Shade had better find a safe place and wait patiently.

The lesson learned at Lakeview Manor made Shade understand that wandering around will greatly increase the probability of encountering bad luck. Especially tonight was another god-summoning ceremony, so he had to be even more careful.

You can't stay at the auction venue in the restaurant. When Yvent comes back later, he might think of something because he saw Shade again.

"You definitely can't go to the third floor. There seem to be a lot of big shots on the second floor. You can't go to the courtyard either. It will remind me of what happened at Lakeview Manor, so I still want to go to the first floor."

Thinking in his mind, he walked to the first floor with the two priceless auction items he bought. The banquet still followed the buffet style service. Shade did not serve any food here to prevent him from accidentally eating strange things.

But he still stood by the table full of food for a while, pretending to be curious about the fruit salad on the table:

“Is there something wrong with the food?”

He curiously asked the female voice in his heart.

[At this distance, I don’t feel any problem. 】

So he pretended to be casual and wiped his fingers on the traces of dark liquid left on the tablecloth at some point.

"What now?"

[There is a very slight strange feeling, but I can't tell what has been done to the food. 】

"it is as expected."

Standing alone in a corner makes you look weird. So I looked around on the first floor and ended up joining a group of people watching others play Rhodes.

Unexpectedly, this time I didn't meet any acquaintance who I could talk to casually, so Shade just stood in the crowd and said nothing. As for what kind of special cards both sides of the card game had, he didn't care at all, he just wanted to get out of here as soon as possible.

There were not many Rhodes card enthusiasts at this party, and most of them came for the two special cards that were auctioned at extremely high prices. Shade didn't look out of place standing here, and the people who came to watch and then left didn't look out of place either.

Therefore, when a strange middle-aged man walked up to Sha De and watched the ongoing card game with Sha De, Sha De didn't pay too much attention.

But the voice in his ear really surprised him:

[Don’t move your eyes, look in front of you. 】

"What?"

[Don’t change your expression too much. 】

Shade squinted his eyes and looked at the card game, feeling a little surprised:

"What happened? The evil god came early? Burn the divinity, I..."

[It’s not that serious, you have a high-level warlock by your side. 】

"Oh, it's just a ring wizard."

He breathed a sigh of relief and could see the middle-aged man beside him from the corner of his eye. He wore the same black formal suit as Shade, but he was slightly taller than Shade and had a medium build, neither fat nor thin.

Because he couldn't observe directly, Shade couldn't see more details. It was only after being reminded by the voice in my heart that I suddenly realized that this stranger had a very unique temperament.

The so-called temperament is actually difficult to define, but when Shade noticed him, that strange feeling rushed into his heart, as if a huge mountain stood beside him, but generally speaking, he just felt that the other person was very powerful, but not I feel something weird.

This led him to the conclusion:

"Thirteenth Ring Warlock?"

【should be. 】

There are only a few thirteen-ring warlocks in the entire material world. The one next to him should be Mr. Hogg Rendell, the "Great Sword of the Sun" of the Church of the Sun.

Shade has never met this gentleman, but the other person may know him. When Schade was shot at noon last Wednesday, the man was standing a few hundred steps behind him, and it was very possible that he had subsequently seen the photo on the news.

"You can feel that the other person is a high-level warlock, so can the other person feel that I am a high-level warlock?"

Judging from Shade's basic lessons, this should be impossible, but he still asked.

[Don’t worry, as long as you don’t use spells or magic around him, he will never be able to sense us. 】

He didn't know whether the other person's appearance was a coincidence or intentional, but thinking that he had done nothing bad, Shade didn't feel too nervous.

So neither of them spoke, but stared at the ongoing card game seriously. During this period, Shade was bored and thought that the magic trick copied on the piece of [Witch's Carbon Paper] he swallowed was the other party's famous magic trick.

Thinking of this, he glanced at the other person again. The sharp and warm temperament of the middle-aged man made Shade thoughtful. He probably understood what kind of thaumaturgy he would obtain.

It wasn't until one side of the game turned over the Moon 7 with some annoyance and lost to 18 points with 22 points, temporarily ending the game. Shade sighed, then turned and left here, while Mr. Rendell continued to look at the cards. bureau.

"It seems like you didn't come here to stare at me on purpose."

Shade didn't want to have anything to do with anyone here. After successfully leaving the thirteen-ring warlock, he thought about finding a cooler place to stay.

Although the auction is only held on the second floor, the rooms on the first floor are also open to guests. The earl's youngest son took out part of the family's collection, rented some from friends, and arranged it like an exhibition. The external publicity is to demonstrate the family's financial strength and incidentally make the high ticket prices have some value.

Shade's idea was to find a room with fewer people to calm down, but as he was walking in the corridor and looking around at the portraits hanging on the wall, a decent middle-aged gentleman holding a wine glass walked out of the room in front of him. Both of them were stunned:

"Dr. Schneider?"

"Shadow?"

It was the middle-aged psychiatrist with blue eyes who came out of the room on the side of the corridor. He looked at Shade in surprise, and Shade was even more surprised.

"follow me!"

After reacting, Shade held the doctor's hand without any explanation and walked to the window at the end of the corridor. Outside the window was the courtyard of the mansion in the night.

After confirming that no one was outside the window and that no one in the corridor behind him was paying attention, Shade lowered his voice and asked hastily:

"Doctor, why are you here?"