Whispering Poems.

Chapter 1452

"Amazing."

Xia De, who appeared behind Miss Sylvia, praised sincerely, and the witch turned her head with a smile:

"Be my apprentice, I can teach you everything."

Without giving Xia De time to react, he added with a smile:
"If you don't become my apprentice, establish other relationships with me, and I can teach you everything."

"Let's wait until this matter is over. I actually don't understand it very well. Where did the snake go?"

Xia De asked, and got on the horse again with Miss Sylvia.

"Compressed by space into a point with mass. Don't look at the monster that doesn't look powerful, but on the ground, we have no way to completely destroy it. Only a few seals, and methods like mine, can really make sense Let them lose their combat effectiveness. So, you better not leave me tonight."

The sound of horseshoes faded away, and the two continued to march deep into the valley.

At 07:30 in the evening, in the heavy gray snow, Shad and Miss Sylvia arrived at the small bridge outside the forest around Oxenfurt Manor.

Xia De and Miss Sylvia stopped here, and after dismounting, Xia De looked up at the manor in the distance in the snow:

"It's enough to get here. Although it is a superstition among country women that demons and vampires will not cross the river, if we go forward, it may really be able to sense us."

Shad took off his gloves and stuffed them into the saddle bag:

"Miss Sylvia, from now on, you have to wait for me in the snowstorm. This is not a good job."

The young witch looked at him:
"You have more dreadful things ahead of you than the weather. Then you go ahead and take this."

She handed Xia De a stone runestone, on which was engraved with dark red paint the ancient elf runes representing "space":

"As long as you carry this with you, I can locate your location at any time. And if you crush it hard, yes, crush this stone, even if you fall into a different space, I can still find you .”

Xia De handed her [Original Balance]:

"If I need help, this card will disappear from your hand."

So far, except for [Founding Silver Moon], all four cards in Xia De's hand have been temporarily loaned out.

"I see."

Miss Sylvia didn't say anything more, and kissed Xia De lightly.At this time, Sister Divelin, who had arrived earlier, came out of the forest. She explained to the two of them that the one who was with the church team now was the avatar, and she and Miss Sylvia each led a horse. , and walked towards the direction they came from just now.

After the two figures flickered briefly, they disappeared together with the two horses.

Xia De touched the various relics and spell-casting materials on his body, then pressed the position on his chest, feeling the existence of the Mia doll, and then walked towards the forest path at the other end of the bridge.

No one greeted him in this snowstorm, and Oxenfurt Manor did not have the slightest light at night, as if there were no living people in the manor.

[Note that after crossing that bridge, the power of the devil has soaked into the soil. 】

"She" reminded softly, while Xia De stared at the gray snow and came to the gate of the manor. This time, there was no old housekeeper to greet him.

From the fence gate, the courtyard surrounded by high walls was empty.Xia De didn't want to call for someone to open the door, but stretched out his hand and pushed it, and then found that the door was locked without any surprise.

And it wasn't an ordinary iron chain. When he exerted force, the devil rune appeared on the fence with a dim light shining.Xia De has been in contact with the doctor many times, and reading ordinary devil runes will not cause mental stress, and the meaning of the runes is roughly as follows:

[No traffic until the end of the night. 】

"The prohibition order at night is very similar to the 'Law' thaumaturgy that Miss Galina taught Iluna."

Xia De thought in his heart, but muttered in his mouth:
"Let others come to get things, and then lock the door on purpose. I hope you mean that you don't want to owe me a debt. Generally speaking, I don't like to break in."

The incantation [Key of the Door] can open this special concept lock, but Xia De did not do so, but looked at the sky and said softly:
"There is no moon and no stars, so it is not night. Because it is not night, it is day."

After finishing speaking, he took out the keeper-level relic [Soul-sucking Demon Blade] given by the devil last time at the Sturgeon Tavern, and engraved the sentence "It's dawn" in ancient elf script.It would be better if he could use Demonic Language here, but it's a pity that Xia De doesn't know Demonic Language, and Treefather hasn't given him rewards such as "a piece of knowledge - demon race" for the time being.

And as the elven script was engraved on the fence gate, with a click, the fence gate automatically opened.Shad re-inserted the Nestor's blade into the scabbard at his waist, and then took out the hilt made by Priest Augustus.

Press the last end of the hilt, then shake it four times, with four clear sounds of metal friction and collision, the long sword appeared in Shad's hand.The crossed phalanges radiated a faint light, as if sensing the existence of the undead.

He officially entered the manor.

Stepping through the fence gate of the manor, the courtyard with gray snowflakes looks more and more gloomy.The manor, which was originally in a half-destroyed state, now looks more dilapidated than any time Shade came.The renovated gazebo collapsed, the flower beds were buried in the snow, the big trees fell to the ground as if struck by lightning, and even the fountain sculptures that could not spray water disappeared.

"How does it look like decades have passed since my last visit?"

There is no moon tonight, and Xia De’s footprints are left on the snow surface, and the footprints extend all the way to the door of the mansion, but this time Xia De did not reach out to push the door, because the double doors at the entrance of the mansion are only left. That one:
"What's going on, is this place abandoned?"

The inside of the building looked darker and more gloomy than the outside, with dilapidated furniture clogging the corridors, and cobwebs clinging to every corner.The corridor is full of gray snowflakes blowing in from the window, and from time to time, the sound of a woman sobbing from an unknown direction can even be heard.

"Have you discovered the power of time?"

Xia De asked in his heart.

【No. 】

"She" replied gently.

Instead of exploring the first floor, Shad found the stairs in the dark.The stairs on the first floor leading to the upper floor are divided into left and right sides, but the right side has been broken. He chose the left side, and then continued up to the third floor.

Having visited Oxenfurt Manor many times, Shad has never been to the bedrooms of the owners of the manor, and this time his destination is there.Although he didn't know the exact location, the architectural layout of this kind of large manor was similar. He easily found a door in the dilapidated building with candle lights inside. After pushing the door and entering , the interior decoration is indeed the master bedroom of the manor.

The decoration here is not very luxurious, but it has a living atmosphere.

A large two-person oil painting of Hella Oxenfurt and Stone Oxenfurt is hung above the head of the bed, and fruit and snacks are placed on the small table beside the bed.On the desk was an unfinished letter, and the burning candle was placed on the golden candlestick, which was also the only light source in the room.

In addition to the door through which Shad entered the room, there was a door on the other side of the double bed leading to the outside terrace.And although there is a wardrobe in the corner of the room, there are still hangers at the door.Ornate men's robes are hung on it, and below the hanger is a walking stick with a golden lion on the top against the wall.

There was no moon outside the window, and the light from the candles was not very bright, but this did not prevent Shad from seeing Hella Oxenfurt in a black dress lying on the bed, on the side near the window and the terrace.Her hands in black lace gloves were clasped together in front of her breast, but she still wore her shoes, but the veil was placed at the head of the bed instead of wearing it as usual.

"Fell asleep?"

Xia De impolitely entered the room directly and came to the bed. He didn't speak, but touched the woman's neck with his hand while his shadow was projecting onto the woman's body.

Completely cold and lifeless.

【die. 】

"Her" voice is still gentle.

Haila Oxenfurt's eyes were closed tightly, and her already pale cheeks became even more unreal at this time.The lips are purple, and the blood vessels in the face are quite obvious.And in the hands that were held together, they held a withered black rose.

Such roses have also appeared in the hands of Stone Oxenfurt and Stone Mirror Demon-Goethe.

In addition to the black rose, Shad also saw familiar sapphire earrings on her ears and familiar wedding rings on her fingers.On the vacant pillow next to the door beside her lay the familiar Oxenfurt family medal.

"What kind of gimmick is this playing? Visual magic."

Xia De activated the thaumaturgy given by the doctor, and while other positions in his vision became distorted, he narrowed his eyes and looked at the corpse lying on the bed.

As seen before, snowflakes fell from Haila Oxenfurt's body.But what was different from before was that petrified rose vines were climbing on her body, and those rose vines seemed to grow out of her heart.Besides those stones, the corpse itself has no abnormalities, it is indeed a corpse.

"The body did not have any temperature, but there was no sign of decay"

Xia De turned around and looked at the unfinished letter under the candle on the desk. After walking over, he saw that the quill was stuck in the dried ink bottle, and there were short dark blue words written on the spread parchment. Don Oxenfurt's handwriting:
"What you want is below."

When the parchment was lifted, the card had a woman in a robe, the Holy Grail, the Rhodes card of the countryside and the village, and appeared in the flickering light of the candle.

Shad picked it up:

"Flowers 12, founding · earth."

This is the real product, and it appeared in Xia De's hands so easily.He originally thought that Oxenfurt had to be killed before he could find it out of his body pocket.

(End of this chapter)