A clerical relic [wishing coin], draw a pentagram pattern on the ground, place five candles of different lengths at the top of the pentagram, and then toss the coin to the center of the pentagram to make a wish.
The way wishes are realized is always strange, and the smaller the wish, the more normal the way it is realized; the more grand the wish, the more likely it is to cause other disasters.
Shade once got this coin from Miss Carina (Chapter 467). At that time, his relationship with Miss Carina was not as close as it is now, and the reward the Duchess requested was
【Have dinner with her.】
The second time I encountered this kind of coin, Mr. Edmund’s selling price here was the normal price. Because wishing relics are relatively rare, no matter how strong the side effects are, they are still very useful. Therefore, [Wish Coin] is in
Among the clerical relics, they are considered to be the more expensive ones. But no matter how expensive they are, Xia De must buy them.
Considering that the journey from the ruined tower in the mountains to Fort Rice, and from the White River Valley Vineyard to the city of Huntington is quite long, after leaving Coldwater Port, Shade just went home and took a shower, and then made arrangements to wake up.
After eating dinner for the napping cat, he left a note for Dorothy who might come tonight, and then headed to the Randall Valley.
It was still early for Margaret's banquet, so Shade went to the Prophet's Association to find Luvia.
Now Luvia has been in the Randall Valley for more than a month, and has gradually adapted to the work here. A few days ago, the association also informed her that the negotiations with the sect have made critical progress, but
In fact Miss Lassers said that the Prophets' Society seemed to have forgotten to send her a letter at all.
In short, when Shade came to the Prophet's Association, Luvia was still busy with work and asked Shade to wait for her at the Fertile Land Hotel. While Shade read an entire copy of the Randall Valley Evening News, and talked with
After the guests at the next table chatted for half an hour about the "petrified plague" that had appeared in the city in recent days, Luvia hurried over.
She didn't look like she was off work, so she wasn't holding her handbag.
This time the two did not chat on the first floor of the hotel, but went to Luvia's room. Shade happily showed off the two coins he got today, while Luvia looked very troubled:
"I really can't leave recently because the local association is short of manpower due to the issue of being elected. So the association communicated with the college and extended my secondment. Now I'm afraid I really have to wait until spring to return to Torbes.
gram."
"What does it matter? No matter where I am, you can see me every day."
Shad said:
"In addition, Iluna told me at noon today that she has been notified that she will leave on Sunday and arrive locally later next week."
"The church must have made great progress, otherwise Iluna would not be allowed to come now."
Luvia was a little worried:
"Those two coins, do you want to divination now? Use divination to find the sapphire earrings and the two hexagonal gems that are missing."
"It's not necessary now, maybe I can run into them myself. Spring is getting closer and closer, and there will be more important things waiting for divination in the future."
Shade said, and then issued an invitation:
"I'm going to Margaret's party tonight, do you want to go with me?"
"There is still some unfinished work in the association. The association is trying to rely on divination to learn the location of the crazy land in the entire area. Today we found a place and the church has already gone to deal with it."
The purple-eyed girl said, holding Shade's hand. She really wanted to go with Shade:
"In addition, the 'universal earth elixir' you asked the witch to give to the church is indeed effective. I heard the news that diluting the elixir from 10 to 500 times can delay or even treat different degrees of petrification. Although it is not a cure, it can
It’s already very effective. As for the [Healing] Holy Grail, it’s a pity that the potion transformed by the Holy Grail has no effect.”
"It's a pity that the Holy Grail in my hand is not enough."
"The number of cases today is 302. Even if you get one Holy Grail a day, it will not be enough."
Luvia saw clearly:
"We can never hope that we can save everyone."
Purple eyes looked at Shade. For a moment, Shade wondered who had said this to him.
Since Luvia had no time, Shade went alone to the manor where Margaret was staying to attend the banquet.
The manor where the princess and prince live is a local asset of the Anjou royal family. It is located in the area north of the city center, and the manor covers an area approximately twice that of Earl Granger's manor.
Although Margaret said that this was a banquet to celebrate the completion of the shipyard and invited relevant people and their families to attend, the actual number of visitors to the banquet exceeded Shade's expectations.
He came very early and talked to Margaret in the room for a while. When Margaret went to greet the guests with her maid and attendants, and when Shade also came to the banquet hall, he was struck by the crystal lantern above his head.
People were already standing around the long dining table illuminated by gas lamps with the Anjou family crest.
"Did the shipyard matter involve so many local people?"
As the hosts of this banquet, Margaret and Prince William were both busy at the beginning of the banquet, so Shade could walk around. He originally thought about whether he could meet Stone Oxenfurt again, but
Later I thought that even if I met him, there would be nothing to say.
Then he thought about going to see who was playing Rhodes in the banquet hall so that he could kill time, but when he was walking through the lively crowd with a wine glass, he noticed an acquaintance standing by the window.
Shade then changed his direction and walked over with the wine glass in hand:
"Mr. Henriquez, I didn't expect to meet you again."
The man who was looking out the window alone also turned around and recognized that this was the young gentleman he met at Earl Granger's place on Tuesday:
"Mr. Watson, what a coincidence, I meet you again."
The two clinked their glasses, and Shade also glanced out the window. The banquet hall was on the first floor, and outside this window was the back garden of the manor. Now at the end of winter, although the weather is still surprisingly cold, there are still some people who are willing to
Traveling at night in these temperatures.
At this time, around the corner of the evergreen bushes, two ladies could be seen sitting on a stone bench covered with cushions.
Only a few lonely gas lamps were still on in the garden, leaving the two ladies chatting in low voices in darkness and cold. The banquet hall was warm and bright, with pleasant music and lively chatter coming one after another. Because the room was too bright,
So that the glass reflects the situation inside the window.
Mr. Henriquez's face was therefore reflected on the glass, almost coinciding with the figure of Mrs. Henriquez sitting far away in the garden, wearing a white shawl.
One is outside and the other is inside, one is cold and the other is warm and comfortable.
"If Mrs. Enriquez was talking to a young and handsome man instead of an older woman, it would almost be a world-famous painting."
The stranger said something in his heart that only he could understand, and then asked Mr. Henriquez:
"What's wrong with your wife in such a cold weather?"
"She's talking to Aunt Angela."
Mr. Henriquez's expression was melancholy and his tone was particularly low. He probably didn't care who he was talking to, he just wanted to find someone to talk to:
"It's really cold outside, but..."
He drank all the wine in his glass in one gulp, and Shade looked out the window:
"Please forgive me for being nosy, are you having a relationship problem?"
Mr. Henriquez nodded slightly, put the wine glass on the window sill, and asked instead:
"Speaking of which, Mr. Watson, I think you have reached the age of marriage. Are you married now?"
Shade shook his head:
"No, but I do have a few girls of the same age who are quite close to me."
【Overage.】
Mr. Enriquez nodded. He was from a noble family and naturally understood what Xade meant.
He looked outside with bright eyes:
"It's better not to be married. Love is always happy and fulfilling, but marriage is always the grave of love. I didn't understand this sentence before, but when I got married, I realized how accurate it is. So,
Mr. Watson, do you know why fairy tales always end with the wedding of the prince and the princess?"
Xia De followed his train of thought and thought:
"Because after marriage, it is no longer as beautiful as fairy tales. Ordinary life, trivial frictions, conflicts of personal habits. Children who read fairy tales should not be exposed to the helplessness of the adult world at a very young age.
"
"Yes, the helplessness of the adult world."
Mr. Henriquez stared blankly at the two people holding hands and talking outside the window:
"I used to be immersed in the beauty of love. It wasn't until I got married that I realized how difficult it is to start a family with another person."
It seems that what troubles him is not only his wife's experience while studying in Willendale, but also how life is different from what he imagined after getting married.
However, although it seemed that he was confiding to Shade, Mr. Enriquez never told what he knew. No matter how distressed he was, his wife had been with others outside and could not tell it to strangers.
"Perhaps you can ask your long-married relatives for help."
However, Shade still gave his own suggestions:
"Although young people always think that the old people's ideas are outdated, in fact they are correct most of the time."
Mr. Henriquez nodded:
"Yes, that's why my aunt was talking to my wife outside. But she obviously got the wrong idea and thought it was my slovenly habits that made Maggie a little disappointed in me. In fact, it was"
He did not continue, but took another glass of wine from the passing waiter's tray.
There was no so-called "marriage counselor" in this era, but Shade knew of a similar profession: