Because the wedding banquet on Tuesday night was so intense, Shade actually did almost nothing on Wednesday. But on Thursday, it was time to continue dealing with the things at hand.
After getting up early in the morning, I first used the manuscript pages in my hands to make an appointment to meet with the librarian Miss Danister in the evening. Then I caught little Mia walking around the house in high spirits after breakfast.
The cat went out and struggled desperately, taking it with him to the city of Huntington.
Yesterday, Shade had left a letter to Sister Devlin of Fort Midhill and agreed on a specific time to use the [Magician's Escape Box].
He showed up at the White River Valley Vineyard half an hour earlier than the agreed nine o'clock. In order to prevent the "escape ritual" from being affected by the statue of the ancient god, he specifically left the wine cellar and arranged the ceremony in the vineyard house.
The servants who stay in the vineyard during the winter are not eligible to use the house, so there is a lot of space here. Although the old vampire who is responsible for guarding the warehouse in the winter does not know what Shade is going to do, he still cooperates and provides him with help.
The first snow has arrived in Tobesk, but the city of Huntington is still waiting for the early winter.
Little Mia, who came to Huntington for the first time, was obviously not interested in such a strange place. However, the cats raised in the White River Valley Vineyard to catch mice soon annoyed it. After discovering that they had "unfair intentions" towards Shade,
, the small orange cat roared with fur and roared for a long time, frightening the three Kasenlik cats that were at least three times larger than it and fled away.
Shade still doesn't understand why little Mia has such a powerful deterrent to her kind.
When the time reached nine o'clock, the ritual array on the ground, which was completely different from contemporary mystical rituals and should have no function, shone with light. Sister Devlin, with her head lowered and her hands clasped together, appeared in the light.
Using the relic [Magician's Escape Box] should have caused a slight feeling of being pierced by a sharp blade, but the nun's expression did not change. After "seeing" Shade holding the cat, she only greeted her softly, as if she was not across thousands of miles, but
It's just like visiting the neighbor's house next door.
After erasing the ritual matrix on the ground, Shade took the nuns into the underground wine cellar of the White River Valley Vineyard, entered the space behind the hidden wall, and touched the statue of the ancient god to establish a road sign. Because some time ago, the nun had already set up a road sign in Sikal
The statue was touched in the abandoned tower on the mountain, so the nuns officially established the Fort Midhill-Huntingdon transmission channel.
After taking the horses from the stables, Shade and Sister Devlin set off on a horse respectively. Although it sounds dangerous for a blind person to ride a horse, Sister Devlin, with a blindfold on her face, was indeed riding a horse.
They did not enter the city, but went straight to the west of the city from the White River Valley Vineyards on the plains east of the city.
Shade was originally worried that Sister Devlin was not good at riding horses. As a result, the blind nun's amazing equestrian skills even made Shade wonder whether people in this world learn "horsemanship" as a basic course like literacy.
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It was a bit cloudy in Huntington today, but it did not prevent them from enjoying the scenery in the outskirts of the red wine capital along the way. When they approached Kalek Lake in the west of Huntington marked on the map, Shade signaled to Sister Devlin to stop:
"Sister, the 'Lady of the Lake' gave me a tip that we should bring an animal that is smart enough and it can give us instructions. So I chose this place. Let's walk around now and try to forget our original purpose.
Little Mia will probably lead the way for us soon."
The main reason is that there are no villages or small towns nearby, so Sister Devlin doesn't have to worry about being seen by others in her unique dress.
"Meow?"
Hearing his name being mentioned, the cat lying on the horse's head glanced at Shade. It's funny to say that after Shade dismounted, he originally put little Mia on the saddle, but the cat probably thought that the scenery on the saddle was
It was not good, or I simply thought it was not high enough, so I climbed onto the horse's head.
The black horse was not angry at all, and held Mia Cat on its head very docilely, making the cat look like a cat-shaped "horse controller".
Sister Devlin led the horse and walked beside Shade, and the two walked along the country road along the lake. The temperature in the early winter morning was not particularly low, but you could still feel the cold wind near the lake. Recently,
For several weeks, the temperature has dropped every day. The lake has not yet frozen, but there are no fishermen nearby.
One side of the country road is a large lake, and the other side is a wasteland with no apparent purpose. In the distance, you can see a dead forest, which looks like an orchard that was purchased nearby.
The two chatted while walking. Shade talked about what was discovered in Tobesk about the fourth chosen one, and told the nun the clues about the "Secret Keeper" and the "Wise Pyroxene". He also asked the nun,
How do you plan to deal with the "evil of the Pantanal"? This is a rare existence that can be burned as firewood by the first fire, and the nun cannot let it go.
"Although I am a high-level sorcerer and a chosen one, compared with the mysterious Pantanal region, I still have some shortcomings. The cult is in the process of acquiring a private hospital in Huntington City and developing it into a church property.
The nuns of the order will stay in the local area to conduct investigations. After one to two months of intelligence collection, I will seek help from the Witch Council and go deep into the swamp with the council’s chief witch to find the location where the evil thing is sealed.”
Although this method is time-consuming, it is indeed quite cautious and appropriate. After Shade expressed his appreciation, the nun turned her head and "looked" to the west, which is the real location of the Pantanal:
"The Spiritual Order believes that all things are animistic. The blind nuns of the Order can perceive the world keenly. The Pantanal is not as simple as we think. Even though I have not yet penetrated into that area at the moment, I can still
Feel the presence of those terrors."
Although Sister Devlin used Delarian, it was in ancient grammar. Even if Shade understood it, he had to think for a while before he could understand it:
"Are you saying that the Pantanal is as dangerous as the Sikal Mountains some time ago?"
"No."
The nun shook her head slightly, and Shade's eyes lingered on her silver-gray hair for a moment.
"Much more dangerous than Mount Sikal."
"Ha~"
Shade sighed, but he was not surprised at all. Not only was he not surprised, he was not even worried at all. No matter how dangerous the Pantanal was, it had nothing to do with him. Although the city of Huntington was on the edge of the swamp, it was not in the swamp area after all.
The two of them were walking and chatting, and time went by very quickly. Shade and the nun were holding the horse, and the winter wind in the country was blowing their clothes; the horse was carrying little Mia, and little Mia was squatting on the horse's head and looking around, her cat eyes looking at strange people.
In the scenery, the cat's fur is blown low by the wind, and it looks like it is enjoying the feeling of the wind.
At 10:43 in the morning, when Shade asked Sister Devlin what she knew about the Society of Truth, the cat suddenly turned its head and looked at the silent lake in the distance, and then barked softly as if it had discovered something.
After a while:
"Meow~"
Its sound was not obvious outdoors, and Shade didn't hear it at first. It was only after "her" reminded him that he noticed something unusual about this cat.
"What's wrong?"
Shade immediately looked at the cat expectantly, reaching out to pick it off the horse's head. Unexpectedly, little Mia actually jumped onto the horse's back, and then jumped to the ground.
Shade was shocked at the time. Ever since he asked little Mia to guard Grace and Helen during the Battle of Fort Midhill, he had never seen the cat's four little paws touching the ground outside.
The orange and white kitten raised its head, twitching its pink nose and sniffing the air. Then it looked back at Shade, and then walked towards the river.
Shade and Sister Devlin then led the horse and followed it down the slope of the river. They found that the cat almost went straight to the shore of Lake Kalek. The natural lake in this wetland area is surrounded by wet mud, which is always loved.
The clean cat actually stepped on it without leaving any paw prints on the mud.
Just when Shade once again began to doubt whether the cat was normal, he discovered that he, Sister Devlin, and even the two horses did not leave any footprints on the mud.
The cat continued to go deeper into the lake shore, and finally entered the lake. However, it did not enter the water. Instead, as if it had learned to "walk on water," it stood on the lake and looked back, gesturing for Shade to follow.
There was no ripple on the lake surface under the cat's paws. The orange cat looked very energetic and kept looking back, as if scolding Shade for walking too slowly.
"Yes, the miracle factor!"
【There is a hidden road ahead.】
"She" said in Shade's ear with a smile.
Shade tried to stretch out his feet toward the water, and sure enough, he discovered that there was indeed an invisible solid road above the rippling water waves.
However, he didn't know how wide the road on the water was and whether he could walk side by side with the nun.
As a well-informed high-level warlock, Sister Devlin naturally knows how to deal with the current situation.
The slender fingers waved forward, and several stones emitting different lights fell irregularly towards the water. Most of them fell into the water, while a few "suspended" on the water marked the hidden road.
Location.
"Spell - Luminous Stone. Creates non-entity luminous stones. The stones can be maintained for a long time by spending extra energy when casting the spell. The caster can determine whether the target luminous stone is created by himself. In night exploration and ancient tomb excavations
, often used to mark roads and determine heights, and sometimes also serve as low-light lighting.”
Sister Devlin noticed Shade's surprise and explained softly.
This should also be a basic spell, but it is a pity that there is no such spell in Shade's "Pink Book". Although the list of basic spells in the "Pink Book" given by "Desire" is quite long, it is more biased towards