novelonline Chapter 3493 The Red Butterfly's "Curse"
Chapter 3493 The Red Butterfly's "Curse"
Chapter 3493 The Red Butterfly's "Curse"
The document-level relic, "Dragon Blood Coins," is a cursed coin stained with dragon blood. It is said that these coins all come from unknown ancient dragon treasures, and thus, these coins can be used to detect nearby dragon treasures.
Shad had obtained one of these coins during his adventure in Moon Bay last year, but even in Moon Bay, which has so many traces of dragons, the coin failed to lead him to any dragon treasures.
Therefore, the legend is probably just a legend.
Because he still needed to return the horses to the White River Valley vineyards, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon when Shad arrived at Midhill Castle. Choosing to stay here for the final leg of his journey was naturally to spend more time with Grace and Helen; Shad always felt he owed them a great deal.
Miss Swift is currently helping to build the portal on Fatummister Island, so the flaxen-haired girl is not at Cassandra's Auction House. Instead, Granny Cassandra inquired about her apprentice and asked Shad to take some more luggage for Miss Swift before leaving.
“Middlehill Fort has a pleasant climate year-round, but it’s not as cold as Claire’s hometown.”
Grace and Helen weren't at Cassandra's auction house today. When Shad saw them, they were at the local Snakeheart Hospital watching twin sisters being born to poor women.
The thick walls of the delivery room became transparent under their hands. Instead of disturbing the two sisters who were focused on the delivery room, Shad stood quietly behind them and witnessed the birth of two new lives with them.
“The moment they were born into this impoverished family, their lifelong hardship and suffering were already destined. When the doctor cut their umbilical cords, I could already see their future worries about making a living and their lifelong toil because of poverty.”
Grace looked up at Shad and tugged at his sleeve:
"So, sir, if they are destined for an unhappy life, then why are they even born?"
"Because no one can foresee all the future destinies, their birth is a completely new possibility for everyone. Perhaps in a decade or so, one of the sisters will live a decent life, thus changing the fate of the entire family; perhaps the girl will join the army and save a key person on the battlefield who could influence the situation in the Old World; perhaps, the new life born from one of them in the future will be a writer worthy of being written into history."
Xia De also looked at the delivery room on the other side of the transparent wall. The pregnant woman there smiled weakly after giving birth to two girls, tilting her head to look at the babies being placed in the cradle.
"Life is full of new possibilities. Grace, Helen, just as you met me, I met you. No one can predict the future."
Shade spent the rest of the day on a date with the two sisters. The three of them visited the newborn babies at the Serpentheart Hospital, where the Red Butterfly sisters offered their blessings to the twins. They didn't have the power to change the fate of mortals, but they could wish the twins continued support for each other on their future journey.
The two sisters then accompanied Shad to Mount Sikar to learn the [Sword Pact], and Shad's bound weapon was, of course, his own [Night Watchman].
"Here comes the sword!"
He stood on the hillside and raised his hand, and the silver sword flew out of the woods with a whoosh and he caught it, startling Mia. At that moment, Shad's face was filled with a genuine smile, and Grace and Helen laughed happily at the sight of him.
Later that evening, Shad took the girls back home for a romantic candlelight dinner. After dinner, Mia was finally allowed to stay home, and the three of them went to the Moon Sanctuary in Vistalin. As Grace and Helen, each wrapped in a towel, soaked in the shimmering hot spring, Shad smiled and said:
“Look at you, you can even safely enter this hot spring. Whether you can still be considered relics is hard to say in my opinion.”
There are certainly no black bath towels, so Grace and Helen are both wrapped in white ones. Without the color of their dresses as a distinguishing factor, identifying the two sisters is only slightly easier than distinguishing Megan from Audrey.
Helen leaned against Shad's left, looking up at the starry sky and moon high above the sparse, withered branches of the hot spring:
"Sir, once something becomes a relic, there's no turning back. Only you would completely disregard our relic status. Judging from the appearance of these fake people, people's views on humanoid relics have remained unchanged for thousands of years."
However, this view is correct. If the difference between humanoid relics and truly intelligent life could not be distinguished, human civilization would have already perished during the Dark Ages of the Third Age.
"What are you talking about? You are not the same as the fake people."
Xia De corrected him, saying that he was in a good mood at the moment, having come here to relax in the hot springs after a long time.
“You are just little butterflies played by fate, while the fake humans truly harbor malice towards flesh and blood. The difference between you and the fake humans is greater than the difference between Mia and the other cats.”
Grace and Helen smiled gently, and Grace, as the older sister, said:
“Sir, we don’t really care what other people think, as long as you don’t mind the fact that our relics are ours.”
She and Helen sat on either side of Shad, and the two sisters each extended a hand, interlocking their fingers in front of Shad. Then, they kissed Shad's cheeks, one on each side.
"Relic - Gemini Crimson Butterflies, I bestow upon you a curse."
[Outsider, you've come into contact with "whispers."]
As "she" whispered a reminder in his ear, butterfly patterns appeared on the two hickeys on Shad's cheeks, but the patterns quickly merged into his flesh and eventually vanished. Grace, Shad, and Helen became one at this moment, and the curse of the angelic relic [Red Butterfly Twins] was fully inflicted upon Shad.
The "curse" states that if Shad is subjected to forced spatial teleportation, his body will disintegrate into a pile of blood-red butterflies. This would be death for an ordinary person, but for Shad, it would merely be a change of form.
"The power of relics is also mutually exclusive. We are more proficient in spatial power than the [House of Pseudo-Humans], so as long as our curse continues on you, they will be unable to take you away again."
Grace explained that the white bath towel was now floating in the water, and the black-haired, blue-eyed girls were looking at Shad just as the silver moon was looking at them from the starry sky.
In short, with the "curse" given by Grace and Helen, Luvia and the others no longer stopped Shad from going to the snow mountain, but just told him to be careful.
Thursday was the opening day of the Fatu people's All Souls' Day, and Shad wanted to invite Luvia to go for a walk on the island early in the morning—Luvia had already fallen asleep on the third floor when he returned home late last night after playing with the butterflies.
But the girl with purple eyes rejected Shade:
"During All Souls' Day, the tides of spirits and elements on Fatummister Island become erratic, and this phenomenon is more pronounced at night than during the day, making it easier to find those anomalies. I've already decided to go to the island to find you after work tonight and see if I can find the traces of the Fate Pilgrims directly."
As for the "House of the False Humans," Luvia is no longer worried. Mr. Albert's "internal organ tracing" technique for finding the false humans can be learned by Matilda and the others. And Shad now knows that he needs to bring the unicorn into the "House of the False Humans." As long as he finds the snake fang, then this matter can be considered over.
It just so happens that Shad brought back two Dragon Blood Coins from Huntington yesterday, so before going to work on Thursday morning, Luvia threw out one of them, trying to find out what to sacrifice to obtain the snake fang that symbolizes "the only solution to fate".
In the morning light, the coin scattered into ashes, and Luvia was not surprised by the result she had learned:
"So it really is only possible to perform such a sacrifice during All Souls' Day—first, you need to find a snake-tooth shaped stone by the bonfire at the dock tonight, pierce it into the heart of any candidate, and after it is stained with the blood of the heart, wrap the bloodstained stone with the other person's snake skin, and soak it in the lower, middle, or upper spring for 24 hours before you can go to the Shadow of Hem to complete the sacrifice."
This divination didn't seem to cause her much mental stress, probably because the problem was quite simple:
"By the way, each candidate can only obtain one snake fang in this way. If you don't go through my divination and really have to find a way on your own, you have to go to a village in the west of Fatummst Island, where snakeskin documents related to this ritual are still preserved."
Of course, no candidates are mentioned during the ceremony; this is their traditional method of forging snake-fang weapons.
"In that case, I'll go ask Miss Larson for help."
"It's up to you to decide. In any case, although the snake fang is a one-time use item, its power to fix fate is terrifying, so unless necessary, don't let others know this secret."
As she spoke, Luvia picked up her handbag and went downstairs. After kissing Shad goodbye in the foyer, she headed toward Silver Cross Avenue.
Early that morning, as soon as he arrived at the foot of Silvia's tower, Shad sensed a subtle difference in the snow-capped mountain environment compared to the past.
He stood on the stone steps at the foot of the tower, slowly waving his right hand as if trying to catch something invisible in the air.
Sylvia stood smiling at him from the tower's entrance, then asked:
"Good morning, Shad. You've felt it too, haven't you? The spirits and elements seem to be fully active. Generally speaking, the activity of the miracle element is related to the righteous gods, blasphemy to the evil gods, enlightenment has many forms, and whispers are a sign of the appearance of relics."
Today on the island of Fatumnster, all four elements are active. Claire told me that this is only the beginning of the phenomenon, and as All Souls' Day progresses, the activity of the four elements will become increasingly apparent.”