Chapter 777 Teardrops, Correspondence Education, and Owls

Signaling the nun not to do anything, Shade handed the water that had been treated by [Food for Fullness] to that hand. The cyan hand grabbed the rice bowl and then exited the door. Shade immediately closed the door again, leaving only a gap.

The left hand is holding the inner door handle, and the right hand is holding the [Night Watch]. But Shade did not wait for the opportunity to take action. Both he and the nun heard the sound of drinking water coming from outside. The rice bowl is very big, so the evil spirit outside is the one who has drank the most [fullness food] so far.

It drank it all in one gulp and then burped loudly. Shade held up the sword and narrowed his eyes. Sister Michelle also held a shiny stone and prepared to cast a spell. But the evil spirit did not rush in, and they heard the sound of the bowl being placed on the doorstep, followed by a sigh of relief. .

This time the voice is still old, but not hoarse at all:

"If I can meet you when I am alive"

The sound disappeared, the [Night Watch] in his hand returned to normal, and the light on the orange runes on the surface of the sword gradually receded.

"Did it disappear?"

Shade asked hesitantly.

"It left and continued walking. The undead stranded in the narrow space cannot enter the real death from the narrow space, but when they return to the real world and fulfill their wishes, they can still continue walking."

Sister Michelle explains.

This is also the method given by the Witch Emperor Violet, which requires guiding the undead souls spanning several eras in the narrow space to the real world, and then guiding them from the stable space cracks opened in the real world to connect the real deaths. Reasons to keep going.

The undead just now must have been very powerful, otherwise the Night Watchman's reaction would not have been so great. Since you can let him leave without doing anything, then it is naturally a good thing.

Of course, Xia De did not forget to open the door and recycle the rice bowl at the door. But he unexpectedly discovered that there was a small white stone in the empty bowl. The shape is irregular, but it feels very smooth.

Mia seemed to like this very much and stretched out her paws to touch it, but Shade refused.

"What's this?"

Sister Michelle couldn't see directly without her eyes like Sister Devlin, so Shade described it before she gave the answer:

"This is a very rare thing. Soul tears are produced by the stranded undead after their wishes are fulfilled. It is an extremely rare special substance. Not only does the wish need to be fulfilled, but the undead themselves must be very powerful. Even if these conditions are met. , the appearance of such a substance also requires probability. I have only heard of it in the records of the Order, and this is the first time I have actually seen it."

After hearing the name of this substance, Shade rummaged through two pieces of knowledge about Witch's Reverberation and found the relevant description. Just like Sister Michelle said, this is an extremely precious semi-physical substance. As a potion material, you can configure potions that directly heal the soul; as an alchemy material, the alchemy items you make can have a variety of effects that affect the soul; even, if you use special means to directly absorb them, you can enhance the soul strength of the Ring Warlock without any side effects.

Sister Michelle even believes that apart from the legendary sage-level relic [Philosopher's Stone], soul teardrops can be regarded as one of the most versatile basic materials.

Since the evil spirit just now was solved by Sha De, then this soul teardrop will naturally belong to Sha De. This can be considered as a very good harvest for him before the final war broke out.

There were countless scary guys on the street. Shortly after the evil spirit who knocked on the door left, there was another knock on the door. This time the knock on the door was much more urgent. Before Shade could even ask who was outside the door, the person outside took the initiative to call for help:

"Sister Michelle, open the door quickly. I am the gray hamster, and our friend the pointed deer is injured!"

This time the [Night Watch] did not give a warning, and Shade looked out of the peephole and saw a young man in his twenties, carrying an unconscious middle-aged man on his back, and followed behind him a man with short hair. anxious lady.

The person who calls herself "Gray Hamster" is this woman who looks to be in her thirties.

Sister Michelle was still on the first floor. She came over again when she heard the sound. After hearing Shade's description, she knew who was coming:

"They are the correspondence ring magicians from the local Serkses Medical College. They also live in a nearby neighborhood. They are friends of the Blind Home. We have a very good relationship."

Of course, she did not open the door immediately. Instead, after asking some questions, she asked Shade to go to the room on the first floor to avoid it, and then opened the door to let the three people in the thick fog. They started a conversation in the foyer, and Shade also learned from this that the three major thaumaturgy academies and churches had anticipated what would happen today, so they notified the local correspondence magicians yesterday not to go out casually.

The three people from the Serkes Medical School originally got together and planned to spend this boring day together without being able to travel, but the evil spirit actually invaded their house from the attic that they forgot to seal. About half an hour ago, they had a big melee with that powerful evil spirit. Although he succeeded in the end, one of his companions was unfortunately affected by the "soul scream" before the evil spirit collapsed and fell into a coma.

Because they didn't know whether a long-term coma would have any impact on their lives, they took the risk to go through the white fog to seek help, and Sister Michelle was not stingy about lending a helping hand.

Shade did not appear due to his identity, but outside the room prepared for a group of three people, he heard the descriptions of the fog by Serksese's correspondence ring magicians.

Although it was still daytime, it was gloomy and terrifying outside, coupled with the influence of thick fog. Basically, the distance that the arm could stretch was the maximum distance that the field of vision could reach. Because of the horn sound just now, the weak souls were driven away by magical power, so there are not particularly many evil spirits on the streets now. But once encountered, it is definitely not something that ordinary people or even ordinary low-level warlocks can deal with.

Compared with the night of God's arrival in Tobesk and the great flood in Coldwater Harbor, the disaster encountered by Fort Middlehill seemed more difficult. Because this is not a man-made disaster at all, and it cannot be ended by defeating a specific target.

The ring wizards of Serkses have no plans to leave today. They came here with the intention of defecting to the House of the Blind. No one knows what will happen next, so more people gather together, at least if something happens they can solve it together.

It is late autumn now, and the sunset time at Fort Midhill, which is when the ceremony begins, is about six forty-two. The anxious Shade waited until five o'clock that afternoon before finally receiving the reply that the "opening" ceremony was ready.

A folded paper crane flew from the fog to the window of Sister Michelle's office on the second floor of the Home for the Blind. It knocked on the glass several times before being noticed.

The above is a message from Ms. Ronal, the high-circle nun of the [Spiritual Order]. They have found a suitable location to open the door, but due to the weird weather now, they are unable to send a carriage to pick up Shade. Therefore, they hope that Shade can go to the ceremony location as soon as possible. .

"Where?"

Shade, who had been waiting for a long time, asked.

"At Fort Midhill Mechanical Institute."

"good."

After turning little Mia into a toy and putting it away, Shade looked at the white mist outside the window:

"It's finally starting."

Carrying the fishing rod on his back, he picked up his sword, put on his kerosene lamp, put on his coat, and solemnly said goodbye to Sister Michelle in the foyer on the first floor, then Shade stepped into the heavy fog outside.

The wet and cold fog almost made Shade think that he had reached the narrow space between life and death, and the silent city seemed to have died in this heavy fog.

He had to enter the narrow room before the church ceremony started. After all, Joey Barton couldn't make any move after the ceremony. Therefore, Shade cannot waste too much time on the road. Fortunately, compared with the narrow room, the number of evil spirits in reality is not too many, and the kerosene lamp burning with the first fire in his hand can illuminate a larger area for him. range.

In addition to evil spirits, he also has to avoid a team of church ring sorcerers who are looking for evil spirits in the fog, as well as strange ring sorcerers whose origins are unknown. After the personnel sent by the [Truth Society] to Middleburg were almost wiped out, not all foreign forces withdrew from the city.

And on days like today, the conspirators are active again.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Shade. He just wants to reach Fort Midhill Mechanical College as soon as possible. Naturally, there was no carriage on the street, and it was even difficult to find a horse.

He could only rely on his own legs to travel from the blind home in the center of the city to the college in the southernmost part of the city. He avoids all fights along the way and even helps two ordinary patrol officers who were attacked by headless evil spirits.

After leaving the House of the Blind, Shade also understood more and more clearly what was happening in the Middleburg and Sikal Mountains. Outdoors with a wide field of vision, standing on the roof of other people's houses and looking far into the distance, he could see the people in that big house. In the fog, I saw five golden light pillars reaching into the sky. From a direction perspective, that is the direction of the five Orthodox churches in the Diocese of Fort Midhill.

At the same time, a large number of birds of unknown origin were patrolling in the sky, as if they were monitoring the city.

Shade took the risk and stuck a piece of youthful leaf on the fishhook, while hiding in the alley, and sure enough, he seduced an owl that fell from the sky. After capturing that silly guy, I used the [Fish Training Ring] to give it the ability to speak, and then learned that they were sent by the "good guys" from the Church of Nature to monitor the city and search for evil spirits in the city.

The owl, which looks even more silly than little Mia, actually speaks Kasenlik with a heavy accent. In a dialect, it describes that it and its companions come from a warm area "very south" and complains about the heavy fog. It was really annoying to Bird, but the light of the kerosene lamp in Shade's hand was very comforting to Bird.

"Very Southern" is probably the Holy See of the Natural Church.

Even when caught by Shade, it did not panic, and even begged Shade to give it some food after Shade asked questions. The church asked these birds to monitor the city and deliver messages from this morning, but only fed them some food at noon.

The owl said some dirty words that were not unpleasant, and finally got some little Mia's cat food from Shade.