Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 13

2021-07-05

Chapter 13 Ring Warlock and Fate Ring
The dead Sparrow Hamilton detective about half a year ago , took over a more difficult task. Huntington Baron, who lives in Tobesque, commissions Mr. Detective to find the missing maid. The maid, who had served the Baron family for many years, voluntarily resigned a few days ago.

Baron asked his steward to invite the maid back with a gift, only to find out that she had disappeared. Although Baron has a certain social status, he is not the maid's family after all, and he doesn't seem to trust the police very much, so he commissioned a number of detectives to investigate.

Detective Sparrow is not really a famous detective, and his usual commissions are nothing but trivial matters such as finding extramarital affairs. This time, the nobles came to entrust, or because of the introduction of previous old customers.

Sparrow Hamilton attaches great importance to this matter, even if it is just Baron, it is a great character that ordinary citizens cannot reach. He investigated very diligently. In the spring of this year, he used various clues to find the abandoned nursing home on the banks of the Auxerre, and determined that this was the cause of the disappearance case.

“This nursing home was abandoned about 30 years ago, when I was just a child, and my family mentioned it.”

The local Bill Schneider introduced, Reaching out to the buildings that gradually became clear not far away. Although the outside of the city is also hazy, the bell tower next to the main building, as well as the spire and the cruciform decorative spire, can already be seen.

"At that time, the royal family instructed the Tobesque City Hall to re-plan the municipality to accommodate the huge foreign population and the development of the steam industry. The policy at that time was probably the relocation of infrastructure such as hospitals to the interior of the city, factories and factories. Migrate to the outside of the city. This was originally a sanatorium for nobles, I hope you understand what I mean, it is dedicated to the great characters we can't imagine. After answering the call, the sanatorium completely moved out of Tobesque City and went to a neighboring city. It can be reached by train in half an hour, but it is more convenient than here.

So, this nursing home is abandoned, even the homeless will not live here, the neighborhood is deserted, and no one dies. I know."

It's surrounded by large patches of farmland and wasteland, and the nearest country town is an hour's walk away. However, there is a manor and a horse farm nearby, belonging to a certain count. During the racing season, people will choose the road that the two walk on as the track, but there is no who.

Although the industry developed rapidly in this era, traces of the steam age can only be seen in big cities. Away from the city, everything is regressing to the past, and Shade understands the meaning of this sentence.

The two soon followed the path to the vicinity of the abandoned sanatorium. The doctor did not mention the name of the place, and it was not important to think about it.

From the outside, the skin is completely peeled off and all windows and doors are missing. On the contrary, the walls of the sanatorium are still there, but the courtyard inside the wall is almost the same as the wasteland outside, and there is no trace of the garden in the past.

The tall buildings and minarets stand in the wilderness like this, and only the decoration of the fence gate can vaguely see the prosperity of the past.

"Follow me and let's talk as we walk."

The doctor said, kicking open the two fence gates that seemed to be rusted together. The fence gate slammed to the ground, startling the birds in the nearby woods.

Even at the edge of the city, the fog only dissipated a little. The gloomy sky looked like it was going to rain, and Shade regretted not coming out with an umbrella.

The two walked into the courtyard of the sanatorium, stepping on the grass with two pairs of boots:

"The so-called warlock means that we have the [Wing of Fortune]."

said the doctor, looked around, and led Shade to the main entrance of the main building.

"The ring of fate?"

"Time, years, fate, era, civilization, world, the rings forged for us, symbolize ourselves. Attention! You show the complete Wheel of Fate, not just a corner. Please watch carefully—"

The doctor walking in the weeds, his arms are slightly open, his hands are open, palms up, as if supporting Holding something like that, raise your hands at shoulder level.

Everything behind him became misty, like an extra layer of white fog. But he himself remained the same, only a faint smile appeared on his face.

Afterwards, Shade actually heard the sound and echo of the train whistle in this empty abandoned courtyard.

"What?"

He hurriedly looked towards all around in the waist-deep grass, but at this moment his skin gradually felt the heat.

Turning around and looking, what's behind the doctor is not white fog, but steam. The hot steam, the steam that makes people tremble for some reason, the steam seems to blur the distance and space, making the doctor's back completely blurred.

In the steam, a huge shadow is approaching, and the steam behind the doctor seems to contain infinite time and space.

The whistle roared, the steam exploded, and the shadow was getting closer. The extremely fast speed drove the wind pressure, causing the corners of the doctor's clothes, the weeds in the courtyard, and the placket of Shade's coat to fly, and he had to narrow his eyes.

And more serious is the sense of crisis that arises in the heart.

"What the hell is in that steam?"

Getting closer and closer, behind the doctor, in the depths of the steam, a huge hammer with momentum and energy manifests. I only saw that it was silver-gray, as high as the whole building, and hit the doctor with a loud noise.

The sound of the strikes made Shade's ears ring slightly, and he felt dizzy in front of his eyes. The strong feeling of vomiting made him have to reach out and cover his chest. The ground shook, the wind whistled, the thunder flashed, and in this series of hallucinations, the hammering seemed to open up Heaven and Earth, and strikes on Shade's soul.

But it was only the doctor who was struck by the giant hammer. The doctor was completely motionless, but Shade thought he saw it. Doctor Schneider was smashed into a piece of copper cake.

"Bronze?"

He felt increasingly confused about his perceptions.

It was indeed a piece of copper. After being pounded by the giant hammer strikes, a huge rotating copper ring appeared behind the doctor. It was a brass-colored metal ring.

The steam gradually dissipated, and the brass metal ring with a pentagonal cross-section slowly rotated behind the doctor. Strange light accompanied by more than twenty spirit runes roamed this circle of life.

The halo reflected on Shade's face, and the outsider heard the woman's chuckle in his head, and this magnificent, magical, and powerful ring was reflected in his eyes.

"This is the ring of life. The ring warlock will only be fully summoned when it is in full combat. Otherwise, don't call out the ring of life, or just call out a part of it. Any questions? Right?"

The doctor stopped in the grass in the courtyard of the nursing home and asked the stunned Shade. Shade could still feel the heat of the steam escaping from the doctor's back, and the heat on the huge brass ring.

The ring of life isn't a phantom, it's the real thing:

"Why steam? Why brass?"

He didn't even notice the words in his tone anxious.

The middle-aged doctor smiled:

"Youngster, a person's success depends not only on personal struggle, but also on the progress of history.

I said , the ring of life represents itself and the world. This age is the age of steam and machinery, so the ring of life emerges from the steam and is forged by the giant hammer strikes, showing a brass color. If this is the age of the rainbow, then the life ring The ring may be iridescent, if it is the age of the deep sea, then the ring of life is water. Do you understand?"

Shade was reluctantly nodded, his heart beating faster because of the shocking scene just now:
"Understood."

He didn't even want to blink, trying to imprint the full picture of the circle behind the doctor in his own eyes. But the doctor waved his hand at the back, and the life ring slowly became transparent and disappeared, allowing Shade to record only a few runes among them.

Shade can understand and understand the common language of the North Kingdom even without the knowledge given by the woman's voice in his head, but he can't speak or write. And now, Shade has unfathomable mystery to understand the meaning of those spirit runes with power, the ones he glimpsed are [Joy], [Hound], and [Motes].
Suddenly felt a pain in the head , as if someone knocked on the back of the head, so he gave up and continued to remember those runes with power.

In this world, knowledge is really power. Therefore, it seems understandable that the extraordinary organization that the doctor invited Shade to join is an Academy.

"But if my speciality is to be able to read and understand all the words, is this a good thing in this dangerous world?"

Shade thought With his own secrets, the doctor continued to walk forward in the weeds and introduced:
"The cross-sectional shape of my life ring is currently a pentagon, which means that I am a warlock of the five rings, and also an Academy. The fifth grade correspondence adult education students. The life ring of the first ring is a plane ring, and the spirit rune is branded on one side. The second ring is also a plane, but the spirit rune can be branded on both sides. The cross section of the third ring is a triangle, and the cross section of the fourth ring is a quadrilateral and so on. Do you understand? The higher the ring, the closer it is to the most standard ring."

"Yes, I understand."

The two entered while talking. I am afraid that countless people have visited this place over the years. There is no furniture, and there is a layer of ash on the ground, and when you step on it, you can immediately raise dust.

They didn't stop on the first floor, but walked up the stairs that didn't seem to be stable to the second floor. Shade was worried about the safety of such a dangerous building.

"spirit rune is the core of the ring warlock system. By engraving the spirit rune on our own destiny wheel, we accumulate spirit and experience the four elements [Miracle] [Blasphemy] [Enlightenment] [Whisper], Keep improving."

"Spirit? Element?"

Shade was puzzled, his heart was full of excitement, he finally knew these things.

The doctor leads Shade up the stairs:

"As for the spirit, in the past, it had many names. Magic, aether, mana, spirituality, light of the mind, but now The era is collectively called spirit. This is information, element, energy, the sum of everything in the world that you can understand, and one of the manifestations of the mind interfering with matter in the ring warlock. The means of accumulating spirit is the contact element, and the contact element is the most important The safest way is to read the stories and knowledge of those pre-epochs—culture, customs, heroic legends, myths passed down by word of mouth.

Access to this knowledge is just as dangerous, and the slightest insanity can lead to madness. So we generally look at the original transcript, or translation."

Shade simply translates 'Spirit' as a blue bar.

"But it is not necessary to accumulate enough spirit to enter the next ring. The most important thing in a warlock is not the spirit, but the elements. By accumulating the four elements of spirit rune, the upper limit of the spirit can be effectively increased, Sublimating the soul, tempering the body. The four elements can be felt in many ways"

Shade thought of the reminder from the woman's voice in his mind, and he came into contact with "Whisper", "Enlightenment" and "Miracle", respectively. Seeing Sparrow's death, walking down the street and seeing the world, and thinking about the meaning of God.

"Just feeling and contact is not enough, you need to engrave the elements on your own destiny wheel to prove the integration of yourself and the elements. Each upgrade of the ring warlock requires a different [Miracle] 【Blasphemy】【Enlightenment】【Whisper】spirit rune combination. I will answer this for you when you decide to join Academy. Now, let me introduce the difference between the four elements.”

The doctor paused After a moment, looked towards the front with a smile:
"I think the person we are looking for should be here."

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