novelonline Chapter 2690 "Confession"
Chapter 2690 "Confession"
Chapter 2690 "Confession"
Facing the witch's questioning, Shade gave a positive answer:
"Yes, of course I know about Margaret's right to the throne.
I have already made an agreement with Margaret that if she needs political help, the political forces of Delarion and MI6 will help her as much as possible. But in my opinion, Margaret herself is very capable, and now she has become a witch apprentice, she is very close to the throne. "
Although she was able to become a witch apprentice, it was also inseparable from Xia De.
Shade said this very honestly. Miss Danister beside him chuckled, while Miss Winslet opened her mouth slightly and shook her head suddenly.
"I don't care what you do! I know that someone like you can't possibly live an ordinary life. You are definitely not the famous detective who stays safely in Tobesk City as the information says. I don't care! Since Karina doesn't care about you, I have no reason to care about you either. You and Margaret can have whatever relationship you want."
Miss Danister then gave Shade a look, and Shade tried to hold the witch's hand, but she broke free. Seeing that Shade did not try again, the witch took the initiative to grab his hand:
"I admit that I was surprised just now, but I want to see what other secrets you have."
"Well, let's get back to business. We got York Bronte's hair yesterday. Did you use the bone-finding technique to find the location of the old family cemetery last night?"
Miss Winslet then sat on the sofa:
"Found it. Seeing that you didn't come this morning, Danister and I went to the woods to determine the approximate location."
She motioned to her apprentice, who had been silent, to spread the map on the coffee table:
"In the woods southeast of the city, roughly in this area. But although we found the specific location, we did not enter the woods directly."
“It’s for safety reasons.”
The red-haired girl took over the conversation and handed the file bag under the coffee table to Xia De:
"Didn't you ask the Night Song Elves of the Academy to help you search for the black fog-like death monster they encountered in this forest during the Fifth Era a few days ago? This morning, news finally came that the ancient documents and materials mentioned some of the things you mentioned.
The ancient Night Song elves called it the 'Mourner'. The elves only recorded that it had a terrifying ability to kill instantly, and circled the location where it often appeared, which was the forest area detected by Flora's bone-finding technique. "
Xia De said as he checked the information:
"So, the so-called 'God of Death' that Theodore Bronte found and wanted to seek immortality was this monster. Wait, the data records that the Nightsong Elves believe that the 'Mourner' was sealed by a powerful witch in the middle of the Fifth Epoch?"
He was a little surprised.
"The data should be fine, but it's been so long, so it's normal for the seal to have problems."
Miss Winslet said so, but what surprised Shade was not that the seal was opened, but he suspected that the one who sealed the monster back then might be the "candidate" death witch Ms. Bullock. If they could be sent out of Black Sand Pier by Shade in the end, then as a candidate witch, she would also have the responsibility to deal with this matter.
"We don't know exactly what it is capable of, or whether it is dormant or active, so we haven't entered that area. Shade, you decide. The power of the so-called 'Mourner' is definitely not weaker than that of the Dead Apostles. Which one should we deal with first?"
"Let's go to the cemetery first. Although the Nightsong Elves didn't record it, I know it doesn't like water."
Shade stood up as he spoke, and of course Miss Winslet stood up with him. As the great witch of death, she was more adept at dealing with this kind of monster than Miss Danister:
"You actually know something that the elves didn't even record."
York Bronte was still in the city this morning, so the owl took the cat directly to the woodland. Since the location had been detected, the owl put the cat on the ground outside the dangerous woodland at 11 o'clock in the morning.
She spread her wings and flew over the cat's head. As Shad bent down and stood up, the human-shaped witch fell from the sky and was held in Shad's arms.
She did not step back, her golden eyes stared straight at Shade, then she leaned forward and kissed him, but it was only a brief touch before they separated:
"If they can do it, I can do it too. You can tell Carina that I kissed you. It doesn't feel like anything. Why do they like kissing so much?"
But Shad felt that if he really told Carina, the Duchess would just laugh at him for kissing an owl:
"So you kissed me only because you saw Margaret do it just now?"
The witch's face flushed red:
"Of course not. Do you need a reason to like beautiful things? Rather than watching you being tainted and destroyed by them, I'd rather let you do it."
She felt that this statement seemed to be problematic, so in order to hide her embarrassment, she reached out and grabbed Xia De's collar:
"They can all like you, can't I?"
"Did you learn this from a chivalric novel?"
Shade asked, and even the witch laughed. She loosened Shade's collar and straightened it for him, and finally patted him caringly:
"Shad, I'm not that kind of girl who does things casually. I just like you now, so don't misunderstand it for other things. Let's continue to go inside. It's better not to tell Carina about what happened today. Wait until she can come to Vista Forest and tell you quietly. In fact, her temper is not as good as you say."
This area is no different from the surrounding areas. It should overlap with the "edge of life and death", but there is no breath of death at all.
When Shade and the witch walked through the woods and saw what looked like an abandoned old cemetery, they would have thought they had found the wrong place if the layout had not been exactly the same as it was in 1787.
"Be careful."
Shade warned, but reached out and pressed the badge hanging on his chest, and the badge did not sense the power of the angel skeleton.
The abandoned old cemetery was overgrown with weeds, and even the outer stone walls and fences were covered with creepers. The cemetery in late autumn was also golden. Miss Winslet first performed a detection spell to confirm that there was no problem before the two of them entered.
Without rushing to look for clues, they first came to the corner of the cemetery where the coffin was buried in the brink of life and death in 1787. But there was nothing there, just an ordinary flat land, and there was nothing buried under the soil even if they dug it up.
Because this is the real world, those souls are not here. But there are other clues here. At least the skeletons of every member of the Bronte family are here, or in other words, the skeletons here are not just the ancestors of the Bronte family.
When the two of them went deeper into the underground tomb to check the condition of the skeletons, the witch, who was using some kind of spell to sense the skeletons, suddenly said:
"There are still bones behind that wall, and lots of them."
She pointed to the wall at the deepest part of the underground tomb, and Shade used "Strong Spatial Perception" to confirm:
"There is a large space at the back, but it is not connected to the outside world. It is not a secret passage, it should just be a dark room."
After knocking twice to confirm the thickness and material of the wall, Shade pressed his hand on the wall and used the "fossil to mud" spell to melt the entire wall.
The illuminating ball of light flew in first, illuminating the pile of bones, two tables that looked like operating tables, and some shelves for alchemical items and potions. Shade went to check the shelves, and Miss Winslet bent over to check the bones.
Shade did not come to any conclusion, but could only confirm that these items were used for human experiments, and there were a bunch of similar items in the laboratory on Green Lake Island. However, he did find a record of the experiment through his perception, and then he realized that this was York Bronte trying to use his own blood to create something similar to himself, so as to help his family achieve immortality.
However, these cruel experiments seemed to have no effect at all. The last experimental record was dated fifteen years ago, and he probably gave up this idea at that time.
He informed the witch of his discovery, and the witch looked at the pile of dry bones with some sadness:
"The souls of these people have all disappeared. This is not only a laboratory, Bronte also brings his own food here to eat. The freshest bones here are probably from half a month ago. Although it seems that he does not eat human vitality very often, but the victims over the years."
She was deeply touched by this tragic way of death:
"Please find a way to enter the Brink of Life and Death to confirm the situation. We need to kill Bronte immediately. Although the lost soul cannot be saved, at least the murderer must be punished."
At this time, Shade was using "Blood Echoes" to observe this secret room, but he could not see anything except thick bloodstains everywhere. He also could not hear any useful clues when listening with "Echoes of the Past", as no one had been here recently.
He was silent for a moment.
"I haven't found a way to enter the life and death edge of this era yet."
The witch didn't say anything, but just moved a little closer to Shade:
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have made such a request. If I were still at the eleventh level, maybe I could lend me the umbilical cord. I'll try to open the door and ferry us to the other world."
She reached out her hand to Shade, but was grabbed by Shade. The handsome young man got an idea, but was not sure if it was okay:
"Don't think about deepening your curse. Why are you and her always like this?"
"But."
"Although there is no way, I didn't say we can't try. Let's go and get out of the underground first. If I remember correctly, didn't we find a river nearby in 1787? Since you mentioned ferrying, I will try to ferry."