The Whispering Verses Chapter 1891: The Banquet of the Dead
Chapter 1891 The Banquet of the Dead
This is true. The demon sealed by the doctor is a big problem. The priest will definitely doubt whether the doctor is possessed by the demon. Although priests are related to angels, the power of killing angels is too dangerous after all. It is normal for doctors to be suspicious of priests.
Even if the two are willing to share their secrets, which is a very low probability, it is difficult for the priest to believe that the doctor can always control the demon, and Shade can also guess whether the doctor is willing to believe in a priest with angelic power.
Without Shad, the doctor and the priest would have to go out on their own to collect the remains of demons or angels, and the matter of the chosen ones was added to this. In the end, their relationship became completely hostile, with a situation similar to "I Situations like "I'm helping you, Bill, put down the gun in your hand" and "Priest, why don't you believe me" are not impossible.
"So, how did my joining make you trust each other?"
"Isn't this simple? Your attack in the manor and your subsequent performance have shown that no matter what happens, you can control anyone in the group. Moreover, you also actively participated in other people's affairs afterwards. , everyone continues to benefit because of you. As long as you are still here, everything is controllable, and even I have begun to trust myself, so there is no need to doubt each other. ”
The doctor's tone was very relaxed. It seemed to him that he was just chatting with Shade. But this made Shade think of the Sixth Age without him. In those cycles of past lives, the long-haired Luvia was probably the last person he came to.
The doctor and the priest are hostile to each other. Without him to solve the problems of Dorothy and Lesia, it is not known whether they can survive to the end. When Luvia witnessed the thirteen chosen ones and came to the end, there was probably no one around her.
"Meow~"
The cry of a wild cat came from the distance, and Shade thought of the silver-eyed little Mia he saw when he entered Luvia's dream at the end of last year:
"Will Mia in the past life be the one who accompanies Luvia until the end?"
If this is really the case, then there is definitely a secret in that cat that Shade has not yet discovered. If the dreams Luvia once mentioned are really related to the [past life], then even Sister Devlin and Miss Paavo of the Truth Society were not able to witness the final scene of the end in the past life.
【You are here again. 】
"She" sighed softly in Shade's ear. Shade looked at the moon above his head and smiled.
"After the small talk, I knew it wasn't going to go well."
The doctor suddenly said, Shade nodded and looked around:
"We are stealing other people's things. It would be strange if there was no response from the island."
The two people quickly moved from the farmland towards the priest. At this time, the huge oak tree was still shrouded in thick gray fog, and it was unclear what was going on inside.
When Shade and the doctor returned to the crossroads, a twisted phantom appeared on the edge of the turbulent gray fog. This is not an illusion, but a manifestation of the abnormal state of space. This is exactly what the two people chatting just felt.
The gray mist suddenly expanded outwards, swallowing both Shade and the doctor. The two stood back to back, looking around alertly. Shade has used the "space stabilizing halo" to prevent anyone from coming over, and to prevent himself from being transferred.
The priest’s voice came not far away:
"Don't worry, although the other party noticed my movements, he can't track us. I'm still calling that thing over. Remember, whatever you see for a while will be half-truth and half-false hallucinations. Don't Believe anything."
The priest's old voice gradually disappeared, and at the same time, the gray fog in front of Shade gradually dispersed. He squinted slightly, and the dazzling light came from the crystal chandelier above his head. When he looked around, he actually appeared in the old Edwards house on the island. Looking at the surrounding furnishings, it was clearly the small restaurant on the second floor of the old house.
Unlike the dining room on the first floor of the old house, which has Edwards's family tree, the dining room on the second floor is specially used to host banquets for guests. At this time, the restaurant was illuminated by bright lights. Antiques and gold and silver decorations made the place look resplendent. The floor was covered with red carpets, and the painted walls were completely different from the dilapidated mansion.
Men and women danced to the melodious music coming from nowhere. Looking out from the window, it is clearly a night scene outside.
"Prom? Is it an illusion now?"
[There is no sign of space transfer or time travel. It is an illusion. 】
But the illusion was so realistic, it was as if Shade really came to the banquet held in the Edwards family mansion.
However, he soon noticed that the dancing people had a cold feeling. If you look at it more carefully, you can clearly feel that what is dancing is not a living person at all, but a corpse.
Just after Shade realized this, the skin of the banquet guests, who were brightly dressed and well-dressed, began to fester as they danced around, but they were unaware of it.
The rotten flesh that fell on the ground was trampled by high heels and leather shoes. As the horrific-looking rotting corpses moved, the choking rotten smell gradually filled the room.
But the crystal chandelier is still bright, the music is still brisk, and even Shade has the urge to walk over and dance with them:
"What a strange impulse, I don't like dancing."
Xia De thought to himself, and then saw a familiar figure walking among the terrifying dancing corpses:
"Want to dance together?"
The young and beautiful "Lecia" smiled and invited Shade. She was already beautiful, but now she looked even more beautiful with the horrific corpses around her.
[Illusion. 】
"I know."
Xia De ignored the invitation in front of him and looked at the corpse's dance more carefully. The surrounding walls were almost unreasonably covered with oil paintings, most of which were landscape oil paintings, and the black spiral coat of arms of the "Reunifier" that he had seen before appeared in the form of an oil painting on the side of the banquet hall door. .
There are 21 portrait oil paintings interspersed among the landscape oil paintings. The first six of them are portraits of six people from the first three generations of Edwards, including Laplace Klein Howard. Incomparably ancient;
The seven paintings in the middle are portraits of four people from the fourth generation and three people from the fifth generation except Megan and Audrey. These seven oil paintings looked very new, and it was because of this that Shade learned the true appearance of the fourth daughter, Maria Edwards. The Green siblings do not have photos or portraits of their grandmother.
As for the last eight paintings, they are oil paintings of Meghan and Audrey, the Edwards brothers, the Fullan brothers and the Green siblings. But in these eight oil paintings, the characters all wear different animal masks, and Shade can only tell who they are through their clothing and physical features.
The witch sisters wear cat-shaped masks. One of them has a red mask and the other has a green mask. They look very weird;
The Edwards brothers are wearing wild boar masks. The two masks have the same color, but one has only the left eye and the other has only the right eye. I wonder if it is related to the fact that each of the brothers is blind in one eye;
The Fulen brothers correspond to the pigeon masks. Their masks are exactly the same, except that they have blood and tears on them;
The Green siblings wear long-eared bunny masks. Their eyes are scarlet, one cheek has a thick beard, and the other cheek has two blushes.
"Cats, boars, pigeons, rabbits."
Xia De thought silently in his mind, and when he looked at "Lecia" who had just tried to invite him to dance, the person standing there was clearly a fortune teller wearing glasses.
He held the wine glass, smiled and shook his head:
"Sorry, I saw Princess Lesia last time, so I used illusion to become Princess Lesia. I wanted to make a joke with you, but you seemed to mind."
Xia De ignored this meaningless question:
"Your descendants wearing masks are all descendants you have never come into contact with. Why do they wear animal masks? It makes them look like sacrifices."
"Yes, they are my sacrifices."
The fortune teller does not deny this:
"Including the dancing people you see, they are all sacrifices. These people are the citizens of Green Lake Town who once lived on this island. Now I let them come back, hoping that they will be with me Complete that ceremony together. Do you know the rumors about the ‘Reunifier’?”
"Yes, there is such a rumor in the lakeside village: It is rumored that the world will eventually return to a point, and the One will lead everyone to survive at the end of the world. I still have a few Returns in my hand If I guess correctly, you spread it."
The fortune teller nodded slightly:
"Except for my descendants, the townspeople in the territory and their descendants, if others are willing to accept it, they will also be qualified to complete the ceremony with me and survive the inevitable disaster with me."
"Is your Edwardsden magic to create a new space to escape the real disaster?"
Xia De couldn't help but ask, and the fortune teller nodded:
"That's true, but what you said is not comprehensive enough."
Shad still wanted to speak, but the fortune teller no longer wanted to continue the topic:
"Every action you take is beyond my expectations. I have studied that half skull for more than two hundred years before I can barely use some of its power, but the person you found can actually use it directly Control that skull."
He drank the red wine that looked like blood in the glass:
"Those are the remains of ancient death. They are existing items in the material world and are closer to the essence of death than anything else. I am not good at manipulating corpses, but with just a little research, I can Can create a powerful three-in-one corpse lich. I know that you want to take this key item before the decisive battle to prevent you from facing my undead army in the end."