"Everyone is mortal..."
The corner of Oxenfurt's right mouth curled up, and he suddenly suggested:
"Do you want to compete with me again? If you win, I will tell you an important news."
"Compared to what?"
"Competition of swords to see who can kill the opponent."
As he spoke, he bent down, grabbed the dirt under the snow with his big rough hands, and lifted a stone sword from the dirt. This is the only extraordinary power he has shown so far, but Xia De still feels that he is an ordinary person.
"Why should I suddenly duel with you?"
"Because you need my information very much."
So Shade picked up the rusty long sword:
"Well, I hope you can tell me what you want to tell me before you die. If you die, I will take your body and go to your manor to get the statue I want."
He actually knew that Stone Oxenfurt possessed a certain degree of immortality, as Haihong Oxenfurt had said in the morning.
Clang!
The stone sword had already hit Xia De's head at this time, but was blocked by Xia De's long sword. It's just that the strength of the stone sword is really unexpected. Even with Xia De's current physical fitness, he still feels that the opponent's strength is greater than his own.
The rusty sword in his hand was still strong, but the blade had already been bent in a subtle arc. Seeing that Stone Oxenfurt really aimed to kill himself, Shad no longer held back.
He lifted his right foot and kicked towards the opponent's abdomen. While Oxenfurt bent back in a little embarrassment, Xia De followed closely and slashed down from the upper right with his sword in both hands.
This time it was Oxenfurt's turn to set up the stone sword to resist. The force of the impact of the stone and the metal made both sides feel their hands numb. But Xia De recovered faster, the long sword raised and stabbed at his chest, but was knocked away by the waving stone sword.
Oxenfurt's swordsmanship also has not undergone formal training. Instead, he learned to use a sword as if he had fought on the battlefield. Each of his blows was fatal, but Shad was able to defend and counterattack in a very clever way.
The sound of metal and stone colliding was continuous, and as the stone sword emitted scarlet light, Xia De clearly felt that the opponent's speed and strength were getting stronger and stronger.
In such a state, he dare not use [Magic Vision] to observe directly, but he understands that this battle cannot be dragged on. Taking a deep breath, the spell [Red Dragon Power] was activated. At the same time that the stone sword with scarlet light hit his head again, Xia De raised his left arm, and at the same time as the sound of fracture sounded, he supported the sword with his left arm alone.
"it's over."
The long sword in the right hand stabbed out, piercing Oxenfurt's left chest with the sound of piercing through the air.
He dropped the stone sword, looked at his pierced chest in surprise, staggered back two steps, and then fell heavily to the ground with the long sword on his chest.
Xia De had already let go of the sword in his hand, and his right hand emitted a faint silver light to heal the fracture in his left hand.
He looked at the "corpse" vigilantly, and sure enough, Oxenfurt soon stood up again. He pulled out the long sword on his chest, and threw it aside casually, without even bleeding during the whole process:
"You are really cautious. I originally planned to sneak attack while you were close."
"I don't know if you really know ring magicians, careless ring magicians are dead long ago."
Shad looked at him:
"Resurrecting the dead is not a common skill. I don't know what you are, and I don't care what you are. I won, and you have to fulfill the agreement. What important news do you want to tell me?"
"Today is Tuesday, the eleventh day of the Eldritch Moon. The day after tomorrow, Thursday night, around Eldron Lake, above the Elrond, something very dangerous is going to happen. Yes, very dangerously."
"Lake Eldron" is the largest lake in the upper reaches of the Elrond, one of the two important rivers that form the Randall Valley, and the largest lake in the southwestern United Kingdom of Carson Rick. When Shad and Miss Benanis went to search for the "St. Perry's Cemetery", they followed the river to the great lake, and then returned to land on the shore of the great lake.
"event?"
Shad frowned slightly, Oxenfurt continued:
"You can tell anyone about this. But I want to remind you, maybe those guardians are not what you think."
"protector?"
"Don't tell me, you don't know what I'm talking about."
Oxenfurt lowered his head slightly, but his eyes looked directly at Shad:
"Can resist madness, distortion, and ancient and powerful evil forces. Do you think that dead people who are more likely to be corrupted than normal living people can do it just by relying on dead undead?"
"what do you want to do?"
"I want to save you, my friend."
The tall and burly man folded his hands on his chest, and said with a smile under the tall withered tree at the top of the hill, it was the first time Xia De saw him smile, his face under the faint moonlight was extremely strange.
"You, aren't you saving yourself?"
Shad asked.
"If you think it's dangerous, you can quit, just pretend you don't know me."
"I have found two items, and [Creation·Earth] will be available soon, you want me to quit?"
Shad stared at him:
"Remember your promise, when I find your sapphire earrings, I will know right away who owns [Genesis·Earth]."
"You will be satisfied."
As Stone Oxenfurt said, he turned and walked down the hill wearing his clothes with a hole in his chest.
Only Xia De was left standing under the dead tree
"Don't forget to tell your steward that I will fetch the statue tomorrow."
Oxenfurt didn't turn around, raised his hand and waved it, then continued to walk towards the dark farmland.
Xia De bent down to pick up the stone sword, and looked up at the moon worriedly:
"Stone Oxenfurt, isn't he the Chosen One of the Earth?"
(Mia is running...)
Eleven o'clock in the evening on Tuesday, Roentgen Avenue, East District, Tobesk City.
Dr. Schneider, who had finished washing and was about to go to bed, welcomed Xia De who came to visit in a hurry late at night. The doctor knew that Xia De had visited Oxenfurt Manor today, so he hurried downstairs to open the door for him:
"Any clues?"
"There's a clue."
The two went to the reception room on the second floor to talk, and Xia De brought Little Miya along with him to prevent the cat from getting scared at home. He gave a detailed and complete explanation of today's experience, including the interaction with Haihong Oxenfurt in the manor in the morning, the battle with the ghoul gardener, the anomalies of the maid and the old butler, and the wedding party at night, and Stone Oxenfurt's dialogue and experience.
Dr. Schneider did not intervene in the whole process of Xia De's narration, and only after he finished speaking did he express his guess with a solemn expression:
"The soul at the wedding was tainted. This is a simple way for the devil to harvest the soul. As for that Stone Oxenfurt, he has probably been demonized."
"Demonization? Stronger power?"
"No, no, it's not the strengthening you think. This is the initial process of the soul degenerating into a demon, and signing a contract with the devil can be divided into two situations. One is that the devil wants your soul, and the other is that the devil takes a fancy to yours. Desires and sins, I want you to become them too. Only the most sinful souls are eligible to fall, this is not simply killing a person."
Speaking of this kind of soul, the doctor showed a complete sense of disgust:
"You can't imagine how powerful the desires and sins in your heart are, and you can gradually degenerate yourself. If you let him go, he will eventually be absorbed by hidden demons, or become a new evil spirit. Oh, the probability of the former is higher .”
"So who is the demon behind him?" "
The doctor was silent, picked up the ghoul gardener's shovel, and marveled at it:
"It's amazing, this is a real demon weapon. Made of corrupted souls, demon craftsmanship, soaked in
The power of demons. I only know the high-ring thaumaturgy [Call Demon Weapon], it is possible to get this kind of thing. "
"Doctor, if you need this, you can stay. I don't want to use a shovel as a weapon."
Xia De said generously, "Night Watchman" is enough for him, and the doctor seemed very happy:
"I happen to never have a melee weapon, so this probably suits me well. Oh, let's get back to the point, based on the features you see, the petrified demon servants, the snowy woman around, the black mist, the rose vine, I can only give It is roughly guessed, but the identity of the other party cannot be completely determined. "
"There is another clue. I came across the saint's burial in the Randall Valley. A nun told me that there is an evil in the area, symbolized by the petrified rose (1230)."
Shard said again, and Dr. Schneider was still shaking his head:
"You don't know how many evil spirits and demons were born in the third era. These clues are not enough."
Saying so, he picked up the stone sword that Xia De brought, stroked it, and then put it down:
"This weapon has nothing special. It is a simple application of the spell [Turn Mud into Stone] combined with demon power. From this stone sword, we can only judge that Oxenfurt signed a demon contract and was corrupted four or five years ago. For the demon, I have three different conjectures, the Eros-Terusius, the stone mirror demon-Goethe, and the faceless nun-Valak. We still need more clues to determine which one is from the three who."
Of these three demons, Xia De has only heard of the "Stone Mirror Demon". Miss Benanis once said that the Stone Mirror Demon is often confused by the ignorant people with the real evil **** [Stone Heart Demon].
"Oxenfurt told me that I can go to the curator of the Randall Valley City Statue Museum, Mr. Fernandez, who is a folklorist. Moreover, I will go to Oxenfurt Manor tomorrow to pick up a statue. Then there might be something to gain.”
"Okay then, I'll deal with the dead gardener you brought."
The doctor said ~www.mtlnovel.com~ At this time, the corpse was still in the state of a toy, and the doctor planned to ask Xia De to take it directly to the basement:
"If the gardener has really seen the true face of Oxenfurt, I can indeed find clues through his eyes, but it will take time. Corpses corrupted by demons are more difficult to handle than normal corpses."
"Then let's investigate separately... Besides the curator of the statue and tomorrow's visit, I have other clues. Oxenfurt said that something big will happen on Thursday, and I will notify the local church of this to prevent it from being a deliberate act." A trap to seduce me. Of course, I will definitely go to see it myself when the time comes.”
"I still want to remind you, detective, don't trust anyone related to demons. This time, the opponent is an ancient evil spirit in its prime. No matter how careful you are, you can't be too careful. The big demon of love and desire - special 荭Hughes, the stone mirror demon-Goethe, and the faceless nun-Valak, if these three are described as knights, they are all enemies that will appear before the final "devil king". "
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