Whispering Poems.

Chapter 13 The Ring Warlock and the Ring of Fate
The dead Detective Sparrow Hamilton took over a more difficult commission about half a year ago.Baron Huntington, who lives in Tobesque, entrusts Mr. Detective to find the missing maid.The maid had been serving the baron's family for many years, and she voluntarily resigned a few days ago.

The baron asked his butler to invite the maid back with a gift, only to find that she had disappeared.Although the 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 more than 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 a baron, he is a big man who is not accessible to ordinary citizens.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. I was only a child at that time, and I heard it from my family."

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 that the hospital and other infrastructures were relocated to the inside of the city, and the factories were relocated to the outside of the city. It is a sanatorium for nobles. I hope you understand what I mean. It is dedicated to the big people we can't imagine. After responding to the call, the sanatorium completely moved out of Tobesque City and went to a nearby city, which can be reached by train in half an hour. It's more convenient than here.

Therefore, this sanatorium was abandoned, and even the homeless would not live here. The neighborhood was deserted, and no one knew when he died. "

Surrounded by large patches of farmland and wasteland, the nearest rural town is only an hour's walk away.There is, however, a manor and horse farm nearby, belonging to a certain earl.During the racing season, people would choose the road that the two walked on as a track, but there are not many people yet.

Although industry developed rapidly in this era, traces of the steam age can only be seen in big cities.Away from the city, everything was going backwards towards the past, and Xia De understood the meaning of this sentence.

The two quickly walked along 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 has been completely peeled off, and all the 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 we'll 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, with two pairs of boots stepping on the grass:

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

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

"The Wheel of Fortune?"

"Time, years, destiny, era, civilization, world, the rings cast for us, symbolize ourselves. Attention! I want to show you the complete wheel of fortune, not just a corner. Please look carefully—"

The doctor walking in the grass, his arms are slightly open, his palms are open, as if he is holding something, his hands are at the level of his shoulders.

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.

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

"what?"

He hurriedly looked 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 mist, 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 was approaching, and the steam behind the doctor seemed 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 grass in the courtyard, and the placket of Xia De's coat to fly, and he had to narrow his eyes.

What's more serious is the sense of crisis that arises in the heart.

"What's in that cloud of steam?"

Getting closer, behind the doctor, in the depths of the steam, a huge hammer appeared with momentum and energy.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 bombardment made Xia De's ears squeak slightly, his eyes dizzy, and the strong feeling of vomiting made him have to reach out and cover his chest.The ground shook, the wind whistled, and the thunder flashed. In this series of hallucinations, the hammer strike seemed to open up the world, and it seemed to bombard Xia De's soul.

But it was only the doctor who was bombarded by the giant hammer. The doctor didn't move, but Xia De thought he saw it. Doctor Schneider was smashed into a piece of copper cake.

"copper?"

He felt that he was becoming more and more confused about his own perceptions.

It was indeed a piece of copper. After being hit by the giant hammer, 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.A strange light, accompanied by more than 20 spiritual runes, wanders on this ring of life.

The halo reflected on Xia De'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, and the ring warlock will only call it out completely when he fights with all his strength. Otherwise, don't call out the ring of life, or just call out a part of it. Any questions?"

The doctor stopped in the grass in the courtyard of the sanatorium and asked the stunned Shard.Shad could still feel the heat of the steam radiating from the doctor's back, and the heat on the huge brass ring.

The Ring of Life is not a phantom, this is the entity:

"Why steam? Why brass?"

He didn't even notice the anxiety in his tone.

The middle-aged doctor smiled:

"Young people, power cannot be separated from the times, and the world is also affecting us.

As I said, the ring of life represents the self and the world.This era is the era of steam and machinery, so the ring of life emerged from the steam and was forged by the bombardment of a giant hammer, showing a brass color.If this is the age of the rainbow, the ring of fate may be iridescent, and if it is the age of the deep sea, then the ring of fate is water.do you understand? "

Xia De nodded reluctantly, his heart beating faster because he witnessed the shocking scene just now:
"clear."

He didn't even want to blink, trying to imprint the full picture of the ring 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 Xia De to write down only a few runes.

As for the common language of the North Kingdom, even without the knowledge given by the woman's voice in his head, Xia De could understand and understand it, but he could neither speak nor write.And now, Shade has somehow understood the meaning of those powerful spirit runes. The ones he caught sight of were [Joy], [Hound] and [Module].
Suddenly I felt a pain in my head, as if someone had tapped the back of the head, so I gave up and continued to memorize those powerful runes.

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

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

Shade pondered his own secrets, while the doctor continued to walk forward in the weeds and introduced:
"The cross-sectional shape of my life ring, which is currently a pentagon, represents that I am a ring warlock of the five rings, and I am also a fifth-grade correspondence adult education student in the college. The life ring of one ring is a plane ring, with a spirit rune branded on one side. The second ring is also flat, but both sides can be branded with spirit runes. The cross-section of the third ring is a triangle, 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, understand."

The two entered the building while talking. Over the years, I am afraid that countless people have visited this place.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. Shade was worried about the safety of such a dangerous building.

"Spiritual runes are the core of the ring warlock system. By engraving the spiritual runes on our own destiny wheel, we accumulate spirits, experience the four elements [miracle], [blasphemy], [enlightenment], [whisper], and continue to advance."

"Spirit? Element?"

Xia De was puzzled, his heart was full of excitement, he finally wanted to know these things.

The doctor led Shade up the stairs:

"About the spirit, in the past, it had many names. Magic, ether, mana, spirituality, spiritual light, but the current era is called spirit. It's information, it's element, it's energy, it's something you can understand The sum of everything in the world is one of the manifestations of the mind of the ring warlock interfering with matter. The means of accumulating spirits is to touch the elements, and the safest way to touch the elements is to read the stories and knowledge of those pre-epochs - culture, customs, heroic legends , oral mythology.

Access to this knowledge is equally dangerous, and the slightest inadvertence can lead to madness.So we generally look at the original copy, or translation. "

Shade simply translates 'spirit' as a blue bar.

"But it is not enough to accumulate enough spirit to enter the next stage. The most important thing for a ring warlock is not the spirit, but the elements. By accumulating the four major elements of spirit runes, the upper limit of the spirit can be effectively increased, the soul is sublimated, and the body is tempered. The four elements can be felt in many ways”

Shade thought of the reminder from the woman's voice in his mind that he was exposed to "Whispers", "Enlightenment" and "Miracle", respectively seeing Sparrow's death, stepping on the street to see 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 fusion of yourself and the elements. Each upgrade of the ring warlock requires different [miracles] [blasphemy] [enlightenment] [ Whisper] Spirit Rune Combination. I will answer this for you when you decide to join the academy. Now, I will introduce you the differences between the four elements."

The doctor paused, looked forward and smiled:
"I think the person we are looking for should be here."

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