Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 602

2022-01-15

Chapter 600 Life and Death
With Sister Daveline's last blessing, the two behind The bonfire burst into flames. The flame is centered on the bonfire and flows along the traces of ceremony laid out on the ground in advance. After a few breaths, the fiery red lines have lit up the entire courtyard.

Those meandering lines and ancient runes are jumping under the starry sky, and the pulsation of firelight makes them more three-dimensional and more real.

At the same time, the flames flowing on the ground also flowed from the side of Shade and Sister Daveline to the mansion in front of them along the grooves on both sides of the trail. But turning around in front of the steps of the mansion, two fire waves extended to both sides, surrounding the entire building.

The nuns on the trail shook bells, held porcelain vases, and fluttered white flags. The two high-ring nuns in front of the gate opened the gate of the mansion at the same time.

In an instant, the white mist representing the boundary of the two worlds poured out like a roaring giant beast, but as it moved away from the door, it became lighter and lighter, and it happened to be in the courtyard. The edge stopped spreading. The fire in the courtyard danced in the fog, allowing the border to stay here stably.

Underfoot is still the land of the material world, but the world of the dead has also penetrated.

Shade said nothing and walked forward along the trail. The white fog seemed to be the thickest on the trail, and Shade couldn't even see the nuns on both sides clearly while walking in it.

But he could still hear the soft whispers of the nuns, who were praying to death itself, the quaint language and the old grammar that seemed to take time back to the old days when everyone was in awe. the age of death.

[Outlander, you feel Miracle. ]

[Outlander, you feel Blasphemy. ]

[Outlander, you feel the Enlightenment. ]

[Outlander, you feel Whisper. ]

The voice of "her" in his ears continued, and Shade, who kept moving forward, also vaguely felt that the world had become a little different. It wasn't just the gloomy wind and some weird Whisper, but the world as a whole was a little different.

When he came to the door of the mansion, he could hardly see the nuns standing on both sides. There was a gate ahead, and Shade stepped in without hesitation.

The white fog still exists in the room, but the mansion in front of you is no longer what it was when you entered it. There is no entrance hall, there is only a straight corridor in front of you, the corridor leading to the deepest part of the mansion, and at the end of the corridor is the door.

"Alright, I don't have to waste any more time."

The wind smells of decay and corruption. More and more, and none of them resembled the voices of the living. Shade held his breath, feeling the abnormal Space Power, and approached the end of the corridor step by step.

At the source of the white mist, the wall that originally represented the "crack" was no longer the whirling black vortex, but now a dilapidated wooden door. Shade stopped in front of the door, then extended the hand and pushed open the door.

Behind the door was darkness, and the icy airflow mixed with white mist hit his body and soul. The thin lines on the wrists emit the rays of light of the crimson and give him warmth, and the leaves in the mouth replenish the body with continuous vitality.

"Praise the Father of the Infinite Tree, may time be with me."

"Praise the Silver Moon Sage, may the moonlight shine on me forever."

"Praise Mr. Dawn, shine on the shadows, shadows follow the dawn."

【What else? ]

"She" asked softly after Shade's three praises,
"Praise the ancient Death God, may death bless me as a stranger."

He crossed past.

[Crossing between life and death, the blurred boundary allows you to touch the deepest secret of the soul. ]

[Outlander, you have some insight into 'death'. ]

This statement has also appeared before obtaining the "greed" spirit rune, which means that although Shade feels the power of [Death], it is not enough to build a spirit rune in the life ring. This is the second time I've heard it, the first time when Augustus priest gave him his last words.

【Death, stranger, you have left the world of the living. ]

[Even you can't stay in this world for a long time. ]

There was a reminder of "her" in my ears, and after stepping through the door, the cold and severe wind suddenly disappeared.

The change of space makes Shade, who is used to Space Jump, feel no discomfort. But the feeling of physical rejection around him made him really feel what "the narrow space between life and death" is.

Outside the door is still a world with white mist floating around, but the mist here does not flow, but is still in the air. In front of him is still the corridor in the depths of Russell Baron Manor, but everything in front of him seems to have faded, turning into gray, white and black, and it has become abnormally dilapidated like it has experienced a hundred years of baptism.

The cold and damp mist is very similar to what Shade encountered when going down the mountain in the afternoon, and it is even more unfriendly to the living.

"A low-ring warlock like the priest can stay in this kind of place for a week at most, so what about me?"

[With that leaf in his mouth all the time, You must leave within a thousand days. ]

"Understood."

Shade nodded, raised his hand and looked at it. In this world that has lost its color and life, his skin and clothing still retain color. It's just that when he uses his limbs, he clearly feels a different sense of power from his physical body.

This level 0 relic is very different from other relics Shade has encountered. The four elements of everywhere did not give him any negative feelings such as headaches. The Whisper element is being effectively balanced by the other three elements. write.

Although the power of the body is not prominent here, but the soul is outside the body, it is obvious that the soul that contains the divinity is stronger than the body of a mortal. Because the ring warlock system is the unity of the body and the soul, he still has three rings, but the abundant spirit and the feeling that he can penetrate the wall with a wave of his hand are not found in a normal body.

He even felt that he could barely use the labyrinth lock once in this place. But Sister Daveline said that in this world between life and death, the recovery speed of the warlock's spirit and physical strength is extremely slow. Therefore, if Shade dares to use the Mystic Lock here, he will suffer the consequences of being completely disengaged within a few hours, and unable to use any Mystic Art and spells.

"Not too bad."

The ground is covered with gray moss, and the walls are crawling with black marks. Turning around and looking towards the back, the door that came from was gone.

But the thin thread wrapped around his wrist still looks like a burning crimson. When Shade wants to go back, he can go back to this position and the line will guide him away.

I didn't set off immediately, but squatted down to check the moss by the wall, and barely recognized it was a special plant called [corpse grass]. In the material world, this plant is grown from a corpse. Not only is it highly toxic, but just carrying it will accelerate the aging of the carrier, while in this world, it looks like a very common plant.

"This place is even weirder than I imagined."

Standing up, looking towards the pendant on his chest, gently stroked, the holy emblem of the god [Mr. Dawn] was released. The golden rays of light came out, and then flew forward, but because they were tied by the rope, they only floated in front of the chest.

This place shouldn't exist, the world on the edge of life and death floats with white mist all year round. Shade with [Space-Time] spirit rune can clearly feel that this is not a stable normal space, but more like an illusory dream or something else.

The terrain is basically a copy of the West Carr Mountain and the city of Midhills at the foot of the mountain. It's just that there is no other life here, only wandering souls.

The entire world is devoid of a single sound, and even the sound of Shade's stomping is muted to the point where he can barely hear it himself.

Leaving the house to go outside, but unexpectedly found that the sky is not the black as imagined, but a strange gray. There is no sun, no moon and no stars, and everything seems to be dead.

Shade didn't want to stay in this kind of world, so he left the manor and walked towards the city following the guidance of the holy emblem.

The silent world is especially terrifying, and the Spirit Physique, who appears to be tragically dead from time to time, just brushed past Shade, but it still made the already suppressed mood even worse.

And before Shade actually enters the city, he encounters an Evil Spirit in the woods trying to attack him. It was a Knight undead holding his own head, riding on horseback, and his chest was sunken. It looked like a soul that died a long time ago.

The ceremony of the spirit cultivator should have been able to protect Shade from the Evil Spirit's attention, but probably because of the unfortunate's hair, the headless Knight's Evil Spirit, after Shade approached, looked towards it he.

"Sure enough, ceremony can indeed weaken the Evil Spirit's perception of me, but if it's too close"

Silently, Knight charged towards Shade on horseback with a long spear in hand. At the moment when Evil Spirit and Shade staggered, silver's moonlight flashed across this colorless world.

Then Shade continued to move forward, while Evil Spirit was silently split in two, and then dissipated into the air:
"I am the real Knight."

These are its last words.

Shade is really strong on the border between life and death.

The manor is far from the city, but when Shade crosses the forest, he finds himself standing on the outskirts of the silent city of Midhillsburg.

Continue walking down a street, cross the intersection and step directly into the city. Although it does seem like a reflection of the real world, it seems right but actually isn't, and it's not exactly the same.

"It's convenient for a rush, but Augustus Priest is in town? Is he in church?"

Shade guessed.

The white fog is hazy, and the shadowy soul is floating around. Shade has seen more souls today than he has seen since he came to this world. It seems that the souls of the people who died in Midhill Fort and the surrounding area have a probability of coming to this abnormal place.

This is a trampling on the Death Rule. After a normal death, the soul should leave directly.

"How did this wrong place where life and death ambiguous come into being?"

He really didn't understand, but if all the souls that exist here are flooded To the real world, even if there are only a few Evil Spirits in it, it will certainly be able to destroy the entire eastern part of the old continent.

"Don't the church have a one-time solution to this kind of place? If it is just blindly sealed, there will definitely be bigger problems in the future."

I thought to myself, suddenly A faint cry for help was heard. Shade stopped hesitantly, because this world will reduce some of the sound, so the source of the sound should be very close.

"Are there any other living people here?"

He remembered that the message from the Academy had mentioned that an exceptionally large number of people had gone missing this fall.

(end of this chapter)