The black-haired maid hurriedly walked from the door of the manor along the gravel walk in the courtyard to the magnificent three-story mansion. If Shade remembered correctly, this was on the third floor of the Lucky Southern Cross Club, where "that person"
Lady" handed the relic [Vampire Ring] to his maid.
"'That lady' is here too?"
Shade stood at the long table and looked up at the manor house not far away. He could only see a few young girls in formal dresses standing on the terrace on the second floor chatting with each other.
One of them, a girl with long red hair holding a glass of wine, noticed Shade's gaze and pointed Shade's direction to her friends.
He saw that the girls on the second floor terrace were all looking here. Although he didn't want to get into trouble, Shade still nodded slightly to express his greetings, and then left the place as if nothing had happened.
"It's really a novel experience to see so many hair colors at once."
He thought to himself when he came to the courtyard behind the manor.
Shade didn't know the specific area of Lake View Manor, but even if you don't count the racecourse connected to the manor and the nearby farms, the area here exceeds the imagination of outsiders.
Behind the house is a garden, which is divided into different parts. Going towards the back, the manor is directly connected to Schluch Lake. There are even small docks and cruise ships on the lake. Shade has already seen young men and women boating on the lake with candles.
He didn't get too close to the lake, not because he didn't want to enjoy the beautiful scenery of March in the night sky, hanging above the blue waves, but simply because it was too cold by the lake.
The garden itself is enough for Xia De to see the world, but I don’t know if this is a common practice. There will always be young lovers burrowing into the depths of the garden. Although they don’t do anything disgraceful, they just talk to each other on the bench.
Sincerely, but it still embarrassed Shade who was wandering around.
He walked around simply to gain more experience and better adapt to life in this world. He deliberately found something to do to kill time, but unknowingly, he only had the last few business cards left in his hand, which were for
There is no need to distribute the items prepared by Baron Lavender's friends.
So I wanted to find a place to sit, and saw that there were already many gentlemen and girls walking among the flowers in the garden maze, so I left the area and thought of taking a rest under the tulip bush statue over there.
But before they had walked a few steps, they saw a group of people emerging from the path surrounded by flowers on the side of the manor, which was the side entrance from the manor garden to the racecourse. They were hurriedly guided by an old man dressed as an old housekeeper who held a kerosene lamp.
Came in.
They were more than a dozen church personnel with serious faces, wearing uniform black coats. The reason why they were judged to be members of the church was because not long ago, Priest Augustus talked about the dress and weapon wearing requirements for the church's ring warlock team.
Although Shade didn't see the church's holy emblem, so he couldn't tell which orthodox church these people belonged to, but they were undoubtedly dangerous.
Thinking in my mind, I naturally turned in another direction on the path in front of the garden and passed by a group of people.
As they passed each other, the voice in their head reminded them of the emergence of "miracle", "enlightenment" and "whisper" elements, which once again confirmed Shade's guess about their identities.
"However, if every ring warlock who passes by the Zhengshen Church team can be reminded so clearly, then what secret actions do they have left... You can't be the only one who can do it, right?
?Claims herself as another lady of mine.”
[Do you need me to repeat it again?]
"It's because my soul is sensitive."
Shade said in his heart, and then heard the woman's sweet laughter again.
Among the team of more than ten people, the leader is a middle-aged man who is about the same height as Shade, but is so strong that he can kill a Shade and an orange cat Mia with one punch. Most of the team members behind him are
Male, of the two women, one looks to be about thirty years old, with purple lips; the other is probably less than eighteen years old, with long brown hair. Even Shade can tell that she is older than
Looking a little nervous from the others.
"Is this your first mission with the team? Why does it look familiar? Oh, yes, I met her when I picked up little Mia at Purple Iris Lane that day. There was something strange about her at that time.
Feeling(note).”
Shade thought in his mind and did not look back at the group. Instead, the voice in his head spoke, and of course it was not teasing Shade for paying attention to the strange girl:
【Outlander, you have seen your destiny.】
"Hmm? Did I see it? When did I see it?"
He thought in his mind in confusion, but kept moving forward, for fear of being regarded as bad guys by the ring warlock team of the Zhengshen Church.
"But think about it carefully, why am I nervous? I don't seem to have done anything bad, so what are you afraid of...I am a good person."
The pace slowed down, but still did not look back.
[It’s hard to explain. Meeting her many times has made you realize how different this strange girl is. Even if I didn’t say it, you should have felt the difference in her. 】
The voice whispered.
"Can you express it in a way that I can understand?"
Shade asked back, his eyes pretending to be curious about the blue-winged butterfly in the flowers in front of him.
I thought I still wouldn't get an answer, but I didn't expect that this time the woman's voice turned out to be understanding:
[The appearance of the chosen person of destiny here seems to indicate that something big is about to happen. 】
"'That lady' arrived, and the Zhengshen Church team also showed up... Something is indeed wrong, so do I need to leave?"
He asked in his mind, but did not get another answer.
Shade knew that he had to make a decision and could not rely on the voice of the woman who claimed to be "I am you".
But after thinking about it, he didn't leave. This was of course not because of the at least half a pound of remuneration and the unreimbursed fare, but because leaving suddenly would be very eye-catching, and he made up his mind not to go near any dangerous places.
Take the initiative to reach out to trouble.
"This place is so big. As long as I don't wander around and deliberately pursue danger, can the danger still affect me with the presence of the Zhengshen Church's ring warlock team?"
He thought to himself as he returned to the long table filled with food.
Even if stranger men gather together, they can still talk about common topics. Shade, who thought about finishing his late night snack in advance, was also unknowingly involved in the discussion about "the feasibility of immigration to the New World."
In conversation.
The New World, which was discovered due to the Great Geographical Discovery fifty years ago, is vast and rich in products, and the hidden places are dotted with strange ancient civilization relics and even tombs.
But so far, no traces of living aborigines have been found in the New World. Therefore, scholars from the Delarian Kingdom in the north of the Old World and the United Kingdom of Carsonlik in the south agree that this is abnormal and that the population cannot be easily relocated
In the past. Due to this reason, there has been no large-scale official colonization operation between the two continents so far. There have only been a large number of military pioneers, adventurers and careerists, bringing their families and friends to the prosperous land.
Kingdom officials are also considering this issue. It has been more than fifty years since the Great Geographical Discovery, and the first generation of adventurers who set foot on the New World are all old. Some even spent their entire lives in the New World, but nothing went wrong. So.
, whether official population migration can be carried out has become a hot topic again in the last decade.
The men at the long dinner table at Lake View Manor, dressed in decent formal attire, were blowing the cool night breeze of early summer, and had a heated and non-substantive debate on this issue. The novel viewpoints made Shade nod frequently, and he knew
No matter what era it is, people always like this kind of conversation.