Whispering Poems

Chapter 4093 Search and Speculation

As Wei Ge spoke, everyone in the restroom felt the floor tremble slightly. This time, prepared, they covered their ears in time to protect their hearing from the deep, resonant sound of the giant pipe organ.

The four then left the building through the window and went outside. At this time, thick steam was continuously rising from many windows on the third floor of the opera house, near the east side.

The low and high notes rang out continuously, followed by a deafening roar as the dome and brick walls on the east side of the opera house shattered and flew apart, and a giant machine burst out from the roof.

The array of metal tubes pointed straight into the night sky, and high-temperature steam swirled like white mist around the brass machine. The metallic resonance dissipated the clouds in the night sky, and the cool moonlight shone on its icy body, making the metallic color even deeper and more profound under the influence of the "Twisted Life Spark".

While maintaining its original basic structure, the pipe organ continues to deform and creak, which makes it look like a metal giant awakening from a fantasy on the opera stage when it stands up completely.

A series of booming, buzzing, clanging, and clattering sounds blended together, as if it were playing a celebratory symphony for its own birth. The sound was so loud that even people far away in Gray Rock Pass had probably heard it.

Xia De and Wei Ge made no move, because the giant metal giant that the giant pipe organ had just appeared when several figures appeared in the night sky. Illusion magic immediately concealed the shape of this behemoth, and at the same time, it also concealed the sound of the vibrating spirit and energy.

The ring mages from the Church of the Sun and the Church of Nature immediately engaged in battle. Their arrival was not so swift as it was because they had already discovered the problem, but rather because the churches of both churches were located in the Upper City, not far from the opera house.

The metal giant looked terrifying, spewing steam and energy while also being proficient in sonic attacks. But in Shad's view, this thing had only just been activated and had no advantage other than its enormous size. It was only a matter of time before it was defeated.

"We will not get involved in this battle."

Xia De said to Wei Ge:
"While the church members are outside fighting this thing, let's go back into the opera house and search for traces of that evil creature."

He reached out his hand to Wei Ge:

"We'll split up. Once the fighting outside is over, we'll immediately return to our boxes and regroup. Don't waste any time. Be careful; we don't know what's going on inside the opera house right now. If we encounter any danger, we must retreat immediately."

Viggo nodded and bit Xia De's palm again, sucking out the blood. However, this time she noticed that the maid Xia De had brought was looking at her scrutinizingly, which made her, who was almost used to doing this, quite embarrassed.

The old opera house was quite sturdy; although a small portion of the east side had collapsed, the main structure remained intact. Back inside, Miss Rowling followed Viggo away, while Shad and Winnie went their separate ways to search.

There were no people running around inside. The loud noise from the giant organ as it came back to life was not just a sound; the power it contained had already rendered everyone in the opera house unconscious that night.

Therefore, when Shad explored the interior of the building, he didn't need to worry about being seen by others. However, he was still thinking about the damage to the ancient building and the possible casualties when the metal giant broke through the east side of the opera house.

Loud noises echoed outside the building, not only from the sounds of battle itself, but also from the giant pipe organ playing music to aid its combat. Inside, visibility was poor, with dust scattered throughout the corridors and steam rising from nowhere.

Shad searched with the help of the "Heart of Stone," the "Eye of Edwards," and his ability to sense the spark of life, but he was never able to find the newly born evil.

However, as he approached the main performance hall on the first floor, Shad encountered a stranger in the corridor.

The stranger, a ninth-circle warlock, stood in the corridor without moving, waiting for something. Seeing Shad emerge from the depths of the steam, he was slightly surprised but made no move.

"If you're also waiting here, trying to collect the scattered life energy, there's absolutely no need for us to make a move before the battle outside ends. After all, this big guy contains a very strong amount of life energy, and no one can monopolize it."

Although he said that, Shad still sensed traces of him using divine magic:
"A traitor to the Church of Creation?"

Xia De exposed the other party's identity:

"That giant pipe organ, you guys built it?"

"Of course not. If we had the ability to revive such a giant, wouldn't it be better to monopolize its life force? We can only detect certain areas with unusually active life force and then send people to wait in various places. Tonight, I was obviously lucky."

The nine-ringed sorcerer spoke, and Shad asked again:

"Did you just see something strange made of flesh and blood?"

The stranger shook his head:
"I didn't see it."

"So, did you encounter any uncontrollable relics in this opera house?"

The stranger continued to shake his head:
"No, not really. But I just saw some professors from the [Truth Society]. They were fighting with the [Holy Son Alliance] in the second-floor corridor. If you're looking for something, you can go check out their side."

He clearly intended to wait there, and after nodding, Shad continued into the steam. The damp feeling wasn't pleasant, and the cat, which Shad had already hidden in the inside pocket of his coat, had absolutely no desire to peek out.

Meanwhile, Vigo and Miss Rowling's search was also unsuccessful. Although Vigo recovered to her full strength with the help of Shad's blood, this did not allow her perception to grow by leaps and bounds.

"Let's try divination and see what happens. Let's try to find the only possibility in the chaotic and disordered future."

Having some divination abilities, Vige gave up actively searching and, after having Miss Rowling help prepare, performed divination using a few pebbles she casually picked up from the ground. However, the result was somewhat unexpected:
"Not here, but outside?"

The opera house is not only situated on high ground in the Upper Town, but it also marks the eastern edge of the Upper Town in a strict sense. A block further east from the opera house lies the rugged forest nestled on the hillside.

The private cemeteries of many local noble families, including the Astley family cemetery, are located in the area of ​​the eastern mountains and forests. Surprisingly, Viggo's divination with pebbles showed that the evil spirit they were looking for would appear there.

"Master, shall we go take a look?"

Miss Rowling asked, and Vig hesitated for a moment:
"Let's go take a look, but we shouldn't go alone."

They wanted to meet up with Shad first, but instead of Shad, they encountered Winnie, who was also searching. The maid walked through the steam; she disliked this environment and naturally didn't object to going outside.

"I'll go with you. Divination isn't always accurate, and we still need to leave some people here to search."

Winnie condensed the water vapor in the air into ice crystals, blew out a breath of cold air, and transformed it into a little pigeon to find Shad's whereabouts and inform him that the group had gone outside.

Wei Ge asked curiously:
"Is this giving life to ice?"

Winnie shook her head:

"Of course not. It's just that ordinary ice crystals are infiltrated into me, allowing me to control them. It's somewhat similar to my master's [Blood Seed Parasite]."

The three girls then left the building again, by which time the most dangerous part of the battle outside had passed. The church's forces had successfully used control abilities to restrain the behemoth, preventing it from leaving and heading deeper into the city.

Meanwhile, the ring mages maintained their entanglement with it while waiting for the "Spark Source" from the Holy See to be transported to contain the twisted spark within this giant metal construct.

Under the cover of night, Wei Ge and her two companions successfully left the battlefield. Once they were a certain distance from the opera house, the sounds and firelight behind them disappeared completely.

Vige wasn't actually sure if her divination was accurate; her divination skills were inferior to those of the Countess of Moon Bay, and it might only be useful in a "flash of inspiration."

But now that she was out, she had no intention of going back. Leading her housekeeper and Shad's maid through the increasingly desolate forest, she even had the leisure to chat with Winnie:

Do you often go on adventures with him?

"No, my master usually goes on adventures by himself. When he does go on adventures with others, it is always with a lady as beautiful as you."

Vige was initially pleased to be praised for her beauty, then felt a little disappointed that she wasn't the first, and finally realized that the person the maid was referring to was likely her colleague, which made her somewhat unhappy.

"You also know who the other witches he knows are, right?"

Viggo then asked again, and Winnie, recalling the complex relationships between the great witches of the modern [Witch Council] and Shad that she knew of, nodded gently:

"Yes, I know, but I don't think it's my place to tell you the truth."

However, the ice maid from the Fifth Age still showed some respect for the Council's Great Witch:

"However, I must warn you that the answer will be very unexpected. Try to think in the least likely direction; conventional thinking will only lead you astray."

Winnie kindly reminded her, and after thinking for a moment, Viggo threw out the least likely answer:

"Could it be that the witch he knows is really the Speaker?"

Winnie smiled and shook her head, revealing no opinion of her own. As the manager of the ice castle where Shad and Miss Sabel first met, Winnie knew all too well who Miss Sabel was.