Shade opened the door directly and entered the stable. The horses, which were still neighing uneasily because of the noise, immediately became quiet because of the smell of Shade.
The horses became quiet as soon as Shade walked in, causing the two people facing each other to look at the door in surprise.
The thin moonlight could only illuminate a small area at the entrance of the stable, and the kerosene lamp hanging on the wall could not illuminate the shadow on Shade's face. His boots stepped on the hay on the ground, and Shade put the wine glass in his hands.
, casually placed it on the stone fence of the stable nearby:
"Isn't it too rude to kill someone here?"
"you again?"
Stone Oxenfurt looked at him in surprise:
"How do I feel that I can bump into you wherever I go? Didn't I send a servant to tell you that we made an appointment to meet tomorrow?"
"Yeah, see you tomorrow, so what are you doing?"
Shade looked at the fat man on the ground who wanted to call for help. Oxenfurt kicked the fat man with his boot in disgust. The latter covered his arms and screamed on the ground:
"I was wrong, I know I was wrong!"
"John Watson, since you always think of yourself as righteous, please leave this matter alone."
Xia De did not have a sense of justice and must stop the other party's behavior, but asked:
"I'm very interested in your feud with him. Let me guess. He owed you tens of thousands of crowns and refused to pay back, and then you caught him gambling at Rhodes in the casino? Or maybe he stole something from you?
"
"neither."
Oxenfurt kicked the man on the ground again, and the latter sobbed and did not dare to move in the direction of Shade:
"You know, I have a pretty good group of friends."
"Subordinates."
Shade corrected.
"If you want to hear a story, just shut up."
Oxenfurt said in a low voice, because his back was to the only kerosene lamp in the stable, his whole body and face were in shadow, and the pitchfork in his hand was never put down:
"He hurt the sister of a friend of mine and used Rhodes's debt trap to force others to sell themselves to repay the debt. In other words, this is legal loan sharking. My friend didn't ask me for help at first. I recently
I just found out about this.”
"When did you have such a sense of justice?"
Shade asked suspiciously.
"Sense of justice? According to you, if I don't care if my men's families are hurt, then how can I do business in the Randall Valley? This bastard has been avoiding me in recent weeks, but I
I know he will definitely come to this banquet, and he wants to curry favor with those nobles. Look, won’t I catch him now?”
After speaking, he turned to look at Shade:
"What, you want to stop me?"
"I generally don't get involved in things like this that have nothing to do with me and neither party is a good person. Once I get involved, no matter who I help, I will become just like you."
"But if you don't save me, doesn't it mean you are helping Orson?"
The fat man on the ground received another kick, this time in the stomach. He was hunched over and shaking on the ground, seemingly speechless.
"I would like to know, based on your sense of morality and justice, how would you judge what I am about to do?"
Oxenfurt raised the pitchfork. Although this weapon is difficult to see, it is quite dangerous in close combat.
"Judgement?"
Shade thought for a while:
"If what you just said is true, then he must have done something bad. And if he did something like legal loan sharking once, it must not be the first time. So in theory, he does deserve to die. But
."
Shade looked at the scene in front of him.
"You want to say, let the law punish him?"
Oxenfurt sneered.
"I wouldn't say that, after all, I have done a lot of illegal things myself.
I mean, even if you want to kill someone, don't do it in someone else's manor. Even if you kill him, turn him into a stone and bury him in your garden, it's impossible not to leave any traces. And once he is killed by someone else,
Prince William and Princess Margaret will probably have a headache if they find out that someone died here tonight."
"Hela was buried in the garden. Did you even tell you such a thing?"
Oxenfurt squinted his eyes and looked at Shade, as if he wanted to see something from his appearance, but Shade raised his eyebrows:
"That's not the point."
"The point is, you don't want me to kill him here?"
Shade thought for a while:
"It can be understood this way."
"I thought you would save him even if you fight me in a duel."
Oxenfurt said, and then dropped the pitchfork in his hand. Because the ground was covered with hay, the sound of the fork falling to the ground was not loud.
The fat man on the ground thought he had escaped this life threat, but in the next second, as Oxenfurt's boots stepped on his palms, and with a scream like a slaughtered pig, the fat man's
The palm of his hand was petrified first, and then the petrified parts quickly spread along the palm, until his whole body turned into stone.
"I remember that your hobby is sculpture? When I went to your house to pick up the agreed statue, I saw the statue you made in the studio."
Shade picked up his wine glass and said, looking at the stone sculpture on the ground.
"You said that, I broke it. I'm always dissatisfied with my work, so I always break it and make it again."
As Oxenfurt spoke, he bent down and pressed the forehead of the stone statue, and then ripples appeared on the ground until the stone statue was completely swallowed into the earth.
"This method is really good. After you get home, you should be able to take it out directly from the soil, right?"
Xia De suddenly asked again:
"If I remember correctly, the word 'Stone' has a very similar pronunciation to 'stone' in the local spoken language of the Randall Valley. I'm curious as to why you used this name."
"You should ask the ghost about this, not me. It also praised my name."
After saying that, he stood up and prepared to leave. Shade stood still and did not move. When Oxenfurt was about to walk out of the stable, he suddenly asked:
"You have done so many things and have so many enemies. Don't you believe that sooner or later, you will be retaliated against?"
Oxenfurt twisted his upper body to look at him:
"You may have forgotten that I am immortal. Although I am not a magician, I am not an ordinary person either."
"But you can still feel the pain."
Schade pointed out:
"The last time I attended the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Enriquez, when we dueled under the dead trees on the top of the hill, I saw clearly that you are not incapable of feeling pain. You can enjoy all kinds of fun and appreciate the scorching heat.
I feel like my heart is beating in my chest, but I live every day as if it’s my last. I’m very curious about how I developed this attitude towards life.”
Oxenfurt looked at Shade with a gloomy face:
"Don't forget to come to my manor tomorrow night and take away [Original Land]."
After saying that, he left. Shade took another sip of the wine in his hand, and then felt that even the wine smelled like horse manure:
"Sure enough, when it comes to his heart, he doesn't want to talk to me anymore. Sure enough, there is something wrong with his heart."
【Heart of Stone?】
"It won't be that simple."
Shade spilled the remaining red wine in the glass into the feed trough of the stable, and then planned to leave. However, he just took a step forward and turned around in surprise to look at the darkest place in the stable that he had not noticed at all just now.
corner of.
"You haven't been standing here since just now, have you?"
"No, I know your senses are very sensitive, and trying to eavesdrop on your conversation is impossible."
Mr. Lassus stepped out of the shadows, and he made a sound when he walked, because his body was actually solid, not an illusory shadow of his soul.
However, this is not a resurrection from the dead. The sound of this body walking is too "heavy", which means that the density of the body is much higher than that of a normal person.
"Since you took the initiative to show up, the restlessness of the earth has been calmed?"
Shade asked hesitantly, but Mr. Lacers shook his head slightly:
"No, the situation is more serious. It is expected that in the early morning of Saturday, with the northern part of Randall Valley City as the epicenter, there will be a major earthquake no less than three hundred years ago. By then, the distortion of the earth will enter the fourth stage."
The guardian once said personally that there are only five stages of earth distortion, and the last stage is an irreversible disaster:
"The sign of the fourth stage: All situations that occur in the Randall Valley will occur with equal probability in any corner of the material world. At the same time, serious natural disasters will occur in the Randall Valley, such as storms, heavy snow, and mudslides.
Some ancient monsters will be resurrected, and you can understand that the fossils have been given life."
Shade sighed slightly:
"It's early Saturday morning. What a coincidence. I plan to deal with the devil on Friday night. After dealing with the devil, can you come to see me in the early morning of Saturday to hold a ceremony?"
The Guardian neither agrees nor disagrees:
"The person meeting you now is not me, but an incarnation of clay. Now, I can no longer leave the Heart of the Earth. I have to rely on the Heart of the Earth to maintain my own stability, and the Heart of the Earth also needs me for final maintenance.
No one knows that the complete heart of the earth was broken long ago when the ancient god left, and what is left now is the most complete part. The ruin of the earth is something that has long been destined.
However, there is no need to worry, we have made preparations in advance.”
"Don't tell me this. In other words, after I've defeated the demon, I still have to go to the heart of the earth to find you personally and wake you up?"
Luvia said that the chosen ceremony of the earth is best carried out in a place that can directly connect to the heart of the earth. So if it is carried out directly next to the heart of the earth, it seems to be the best choice.
The guardian seemed to see what Shade meant:
"The ceremony of the chosen one must be on the earth. This is the information I got."
The candidates, especially the first candidates, can always get some information that others don’t know:
"Moreover, the situation in the Heart of the Earth is very complicated now, and the distortion there is more serious than any other place. Even you may not be able to reach there."