Whispering Verse

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 the "Ms. "Give 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 a really 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 ​​​​Lakeview 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.

At the rear of the house is the garden, divided into different parts. Walking towards the back, the manor was directly connected to Schluch Lake. There was even a small dock and cruise ship on the lake. Shade had 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 appreciate 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 he doesn't know if this is a common practice. There will always be young lovers burrowing into the depths of the garden. Although they didn't do anything dishonorable and just expressed their feelings to each other on the bench, it still embarrassed Shade who was wandering around.

He wanders around simply to gain more experience and better adapt to life in this world. I deliberately found something to do to kill time, but unknowingly the business cards I brought were down to the last few. They were prepared for Baron Lavender's friends, and there was no need to hand them out anymore.

So I wanted to find a place to sit. I saw that there were already many gentlemen and girls walking among the flowers in the garden maze, so I left this area and wanted to take 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.

There were more than a dozen church personnel with serious faces and uniform black coats. The reason why we judge that this is a member of the church is because not long ago, Priest August mentioned 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 his mind, he naturally turned in another direction on the path in front of the garden and passed a group of people.

As they passed each other, the voices in their heads simultaneously reminded them of the presence 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? ?Self-proclaimed to be my other lady.”

[Do I need to repeat it again? 】

"It's because of my sensitive soul."

Shade said in his heart, and then heard the woman's pleasant 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 men. Among the two women, one looks to be around thirty years old with purple lips; the other is probably less than eighteen years old and has long brown hair. Even if she is Xia De, it can also be seen that she seems a little nervous compared to 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. Feel(note).”

Shade thought in his mind and did not look back at the group. But the voice in his head spoke, and of course it was not teasing Shade about paying attention to a strange girl:

[Outlander, you have seen your destiny. 】

"Huh? 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 Righteous God 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 that the strange girl is different. 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 man of destiny 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, I didn't leave. This was certainly not because of the at least half a pound of remuneration and the yet-to-be-reimbursed fare, but because leaving suddenly would be very eye-catching, and he had made up his mind not to go near any dangerous places or take the initiative to get into trouble.

"This place is so big. As long as I don't wander around and deliberately pursue danger, can the danger still affect me if there is a team of ring warlocks from the Zhengshen Church present?"

He thought to himself as he returned to the long table filled with food.

Even if strangers gather together, they can still talk about common topics. Shade, who was thinking about finishing his late-night snack in advance, was also unknowingly involved in the discussion about "the feasibility of immigration to the New World."

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 Aboriginal people 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 Kasonlik in the south agreed that this was abnormal and that the population could not be easily moved there. For this reason, there has been no large-scale official colonization operation between the two continents so far. There are only 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 have even spent their entire lives in the New World, but there have been no problems. Therefore, whether official population migration can be carried out has become a hot topic again in the past decade.

The men at the long dinner table at Lake View Manor, dressed in decent formal attire and enjoying the cool night breeze of early summer, had a heated debate on this issue without any substance. The novel viewpoints made Shade nod frequently and knew that No matter what era it is, people always enjoy this kind of conversation.