After breakfast, they continued to wait. However, Iluna, who had attended last night's banquet and spent the night on the boat with Shade and Luvia, had to return to the church in the city first.
The chaos in the city has not calmed down even after daylight arrived. There have been as many as eleven light pillars spewing from the ground into the sky, but there is still no trace of the divine descending.
The battle in the outer sea is more intense than in the city. According to the information transmitted by the mermaid girls every twenty minutes, the sea surface in the storm area outside Yuewan Port has even been dyed reddish brown. The storm zone is quickly approaching Yuewan, and even
The ups and downs of the sea surface can be clearly felt on board the "Glory Messenger".
At nine o'clock in the morning, Carina, who was at Belindel Manor, passed through the portal and sent a note to Shade:
"A bat just threw this at the door of the manor. I think it's for you."
The note was rolled into a cigarette shape, and when unfolded it contained very simple contents:
[The divination has come to fruition, the last clue is in the lair where the fourth child was alive - for the "despicable stranger".]
"Despicable Stranger" was a nickname given to him by the Marquis of Morson when Schad, Mr. Bernhardt and Mr. Albert were racing horses together. Therefore, this note came from Mr. Albert. It seems that "
The Diamond of Hope aided in divination and indeed gave him results.
"The fourth son's lair?"
Luvia was beside Shade, her purple eyes narrowed slightly:
"The fourth son died at the end of the Fifth Epoch. Where to find him now?"
She and Shade, who also raised his eyebrows, looked at each other, and both of them knew that they were thinking of the same place.
"Finalize it."
Shade gave the last special coin [King's Egg] to Luvia. With the help of clues, even the content that could not be divined can be divined at this moment.
Luvia did not toss the coin in front of everyone, but left here temporarily. After coming back not long after, there was an uncontrollable smile on her face:
"It turns out that the answer lies at the starting point. Shade, we are right. The lair of the Fourth Son is the ancient dragon's lair that you have to pass every time!"
Her voice was trembling slightly, and it was obvious that divination was not as easy as she thought:
"Combining this divination, Bella's interpretation of the ancient books of the Eddington family and our research in the past week, the ancestor witch of the Eddington family is the only one who has not taken away the dragon scales! At the end of the fifth era
After the battle that established the current structure of Yuewan, she left her share of the dragon scales in the lair of that strange dragon, so I couldn't divine it at first."
"I've searched there carefully, but there's nothing there."
Shade asked, Luvia's face turned a little pale, but she still smiled and held his hand:
"There is another most obvious place that you didn't search carefully, which is the most conspicuous place. The Dragon Altar! The last dragon scale is under that altar!"
Shade stood up immediately:
"I'll go now, throw away the glass slippers and go home, and rush back as soon as I get the dragon scales."
When the others saw Shade standing up, they all looked over. Luvia briefly explained the situation, and the countess handed him the [Night Watch]:
"The situation in the city is very complicated now, so be careful along the way."
"rest assured."
As she spoke, she looked at the cat on the table again. Little Mia seemed to realize that Shade was leaving, and meowed as she wanted to follow him.
"Agelina."
Xia De said suddenly, and the little princess came over immediately:
"I'm here, I'm here!"
"Please help me take care of this cat."
"OK."
After saying that, he saw Shade throw out the glass slipper and disappear directly on the ship.
"Good morning~"
No. 6 Saint Teresa Square, after saying hello to the maids and ladies who looked at his sudden appearance in surprise, Shade quickly ran down the stairs, and dozens of seconds later he appeared at the Dragon's Nest in the northern suburbs of Yuewan.
middle:
“If I had known there was a problem here”
After arriving in front of the altar, the altar felt Shade's power, and Shade didn't even touch it with Fiona's gloves. As a clear cracking sound came, the small clay body lying on the earth-colored dragon egg
The dragon started to move.
The base of the circular platform radiated light upward, and the egg slowly rose into the air and floated. The brown soil peeled off inch by inch on the surface of the egg shell, and the mud layer on the mud dragon's body was also peeling off.
Until the end, the golden dragon egg shining with golden light floated in the air on the golden platform, and the small golden dragon statue lay on the dragon egg, with its eyes closed but still seemed alive.
Shade ignored the activated altar, but bent down slightly, hugged the altar with both arms, and then took a deep breath——
"Hmm~ah!"
The altar remained motionless. Shade let go of his hand, stood up and moved his body a few times, took off his coat and activated the [Red Dragon Power]:
"Come again!"
He bent down and hugged the altar. As his face gradually turned red, the altar actually rose up a little bit. The strong miraculous element of the altar itself prevented Shade from sensing what was under the altar, but at this time he did not
He had time to think about this. It had been a long time since he had encountered something so heavy.
Compared with this thing, the stacked weight of Dorothy and Carina was as light as a leaf.
【A very strange metaphor.】
"She" said in Shade's ear with a smile, and at this time Shade finally picked up the altar completely, then moved it aside and put it down again.
Boom~ There was a loud noise, and Shade felt the ground beneath his feet shaking. The reason why he did not directly push and pull it to the side was because he was worried that the pushing and pulling process would damage anything that might be hidden underneath.
After holding on to his knees and gasping for breath for several times, Shade looked at where the altar was. Such a heavy thing had been placed for many years, but it didn't leave many traces on the ground. And in that almost imperceptible depression, a
A silver box was tilted with its corners exposed.
He bent down and took out the palm-sized box, and then unexpectedly discovered that the box was made of mithril alloy:
"Although it is not pure mithril, and there will not be much mithril after purification, it seems that the seven witches did make a fortune in the dragon's nest. The other spaces in the dragon's nest were destroyed before they left, right?"
The doping of mithril allowed the box to last for thousands of years without decaying. After the lock was opened with a click, a folded piece of letter paper and a small piece of copper-colored dragon scale lay inside the box.
Shade closed his eyes and took a deep breath:
"Got it."
I touched the dragon scale to make sure it was genuine. Then I looked at the folded letter paper. When I opened it, the beautiful handwriting wrote the common language of the end of the fifth era. Because of the course of St. Byrons
I have learned it, so even if I don't need "Language Proficiency" Shade can understand the above content.
[Acquisition means loss, and the starry sky shows me the future. People of the future who came here to obtain dragon scales, please protect Yuewan and the people here. We once pulled out that sword together, please be sure
Remember, rituals and power may not be important, what matters is your heart.】
"Soothsayers always like to say things that seem reasonable but are actually meaningless."
Shade dared to say this because Luvia and Miss Belindel were not here, but there was indeed nothing in the note. At most, it showed that the ancestor of the Eddington family was the one who held the position of fortune teller in the "Seven Witch Team"
Miss.
Turning the note over, to my surprise there were two lines of small words:
[The name Moon Bay was given to it by me. Originally we wanted to name it "Sword Bay" to commemorate the sword we drew out together. 】
[It’s just that the power of the ancient god allowed me to glimpse my destiny in an instant. The name of the area comes not only from the shape of the coastline, but also from the bright moonlight I saw rising from the dark waters. 】
"Um"
Shade still didn't feel that she said anything valuable, so he just put the note away. After all, it was considered an antique. But the ancestor witch of the Eddington family was definitely not a thirteenth-level witch, nor a demigod, so she was definitely not
Witch Emperor, Shade is not sure whether the [Witch Council] would be interested in the relics of ordinary ancient witches.
For safety reasons, Shade did not take all the dragon scales off the "Brilliant Messenger". He did not want to fight with others and suddenly the dragon scales were scattered on the ground. Therefore, after finding the last dragon scale, he wanted to
Knowing the information contained in the six dragon scales, we still have to return to the ship.
"Can this be the venue for the Chosen One's Ceremony?"
Without leaving in a hurry, Shade turned back to look at the dragon's nest that he had become very familiar with in the past two months.
【Foreigners, there is no power or symbolism here.】
"Her" voice was still gentle, and Shade sighed:
"It seems that it can only be the [Dragon Food Sacrifice Site]."
Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly heard a loud rumble from the ground, and then the ground began to rise and fall like waves, and even Shade almost fell down due to this.
Dust and gravel fell rustlingly from the stone wall above the head. The undulation of the ground lasted for at least twenty seconds before it ended. Shade realized that it was an earthquake:
"Such a strong earthquake? What happened again? Could it be that the divine descending ceremony has begun?"
He no longer wasted time and jumped forward suddenly, turning into a swarm of red butterflies and flying towards the higher exit of the dragon's nest.
Behind Shade, the surface of the golden dragon egg that was floating quietly above the altar cracked and a gap opened.
But that's it.
Boom!
The most powerful earthquake that Yuewan City has experienced in thousands of years appeared at 9:30 am this Sunday, accompanied by the twelfth pillar of light spewing into the white mist in the sky.
In the Yuewan City Orphanage, the swaying building was shaking violently like a block castle built by children. Priest Augustus, who was packing the clothes of the last few children who had not been transferred on the first floor, looked at it with wide eyes.
A huge crack appeared in the wall, and then the house collapsed with a loud noise, and the three children in front of them rushed towards them.
The priest's vision went dark, and he completely lost consciousness amidst the severe pain in the back of his head.