novelonline Chapter 3698 Insomnia
Chapter 3698 Insomnia
Chapter 3698 Insomnia
Xia De nodded:
"Yes, those elven elders said the summit of the snow mountain is very nice."
Next week you'll see a large number of elves appear on the island. The elves are organizing a team to help deal with some trouble; they want to end the story of fate as soon as possible. The church, of course, welcomes this, and is currently preparing accommodations for the elves.
That evening, Iluna had dinner with everyone on the ship before leaving, while Luvia was taken back to No. 6 St. Teresa's Square by Shad. She hadn't been there for the last time they forged destiny, and this time she wanted to see the specific process.
On Sunday evening, only Dorothy and Mia were at home. When Luvia returned, the writer felt a little embarrassed, since Luvia had been staying there recently, which she considered somewhat "unfair competition."
The forging of those three pieces of equipment went very smoothly: the monocle was given the meaning of "truth," the dagger was given the meaning of "slaughter," and the Rhodes Tablet was given the meaning of "champion."
The "killing dagger" gave Shad a very bad feeling, and Luvia even made a "prophecy":
"If this dagger falls into the wrong hands, it will cause a disaster no less than that of the Infinite Serpent. Our methods of using fate are still too crude."
As for the three [Lucky] arcs, Luvia and Bella briefly discussed it in the afternoon and decided that they didn't need to use "Star Fragments" this time. They had Shad mix his own blood into "Moonlight Water," then transformed the silver liquid with some reddish bloodstains into crescent-shaped crystals the size of a thumb, and finally made them into "Star Dewdrops."
Luck was bestowed upon the two crescent-shaped dewdrops that contained the blood of stars, the moon, and Shad.
The shimmering silver crescent pendants are exquisite. They serve as lucky charms and can also be held in the mouth to melt and restore spiritual and life force. According to Luvia's calculations, although consuming them as dewdrops will completely dissipate the power of the lucky arc, doing so can grant the user a very powerful boost to luck in a very short time.
"The power of stars is particularly suited to destiny; other methods would hardly be able to turn curves into consumables."
Now that she was home, Luvia naturally didn't leave that night. In fact, she hadn't been intimate with Shad for two whole weeks since she left Tobesk for Adelina's birthday two weeks ago.
So when night fell, the violet-eyed girl and the blonde writer were led into the room by Chad. Dorothy was truly a very considerate girl; she willingly gave the first opportunity to Luvia, and even helped Luvia when she was too excited to move.
That night, no similar incident occurred at No. 6 St. Teresa's Square. Luvia slept soundly in Shad's arms, while Shad, unusually, suffered from insomnia.
He knew the reason for his insomnia; the story of fate was destined to end with a "fall," and this fall not only meant the appearance of the words of high-level sublimation, but also that he might know what happened before he opened his eyes in this house in the summer of 1853.
He is now almost certain that he first came into this world before the summer of 1853, and that the "fall" occurred at that time and was related to the Moon Tower on Mount Karas.
The truth may await him atop the snow-capped mountain, and the truth also signifies change. Outsiders never show cowardice when facing the future, but this time he faces not the future, but the past.
Luvia and Dorothy's breathing had become even, but Shad, though he had closed his eyes, couldn't fall asleep.
A faint sound came from the other side of the bedroom. Mia, who was sleeping in the cat bed on the bedroom desk that night, tiptoed to the bed, lay down above Shad's head, and quickly fell asleep.
Shad felt a little guilty with his eyes closed, but he still didn't open them. More and more thoughts came to him, and just when he thought he probably wouldn't be able to sleep all night, he heard ethereal singing.
It wasn't Dorothy or Luvia humming, and certainly not Mia. The "she" beside my ear was humming a gentle lullaby in an ancient language.
Like the moon's cool solitude, like the stars' gentle tenderness, like the night sky's ethereal beauty. In that song, the weary stranger finally drifted off to sleep.
In his dream, he felt as if he were being held in a gentle embrace. Regardless of the past or the future, at least in tonight's song, he found a temporary haven.
Clang~
In the kitchen on the first floor of No. 6 St. Teresa's Place, moonlight shone through the window onto the wall, and the outline of a door vaguely appeared on the previously empty wall. Although it disappeared in an instant, the long-haired girl in her dim dream still noticed the sound.
She smiled from the rooftop, closed her eyes, and called out. Shortly after, Shad's figure leaped up from the attic:
"There's still a week until next month, why are you calling me now?"
He embraced the long-haired girl on the rooftop, and Luvia whispered in his arms:
"The dice are clattering, and the final curtain of fate is drawing ever closer. I can also do some extra things now."
"Could you elaborate?"
Her fingers gently brushed across the back of Shad's right hand, and a purple halo appeared:
"The next time that lustful person appears, whether she is in her true form or controlling someone else's body, if she tries to use the power of the Fool to escape again, use this hand to try to catch her."
"Can we just catch her?"
"No, but she will definitely regret appearing before you. Shad, [Noble Fate] is the most special kind of fate. If the god of fate hadn't forbade someone like me to directly interfere in its drama, then yes, I would already be sitting offstage."
(Mia is running.)
In the thick fog of Monday morning, the postman delivered a letter from Priest Augustus to Shad. At the breakfast table, he opened the letter, glanced at it, and immediately knew what the priest was talking about:
“The priest said he had heard that wild snakes had appeared in St. Teresa’s Square, and told me to close the door when I go in and out of my house recently.”
"So, on Saturday night, Infinite Serpent appeared across the square?"
Dorothy understood the priest's implication, and Shad nodded with great concern:
"Although the house is safer than before thanks to the blessing of the Lord of the Walls, I'm worried that the downstairs door won't be able to stop the calamity of the Infinite Serpent. Dorothy, you need to be careful at home lately. If anything breaks in, take Mia and run away immediately. Nothing else in the house matters."
Luvia, who was also at the dining table, laughed:
"Although the calamities of fate are manifesting more and more frequently, it is unlikely that two snakes will appear here anytime soon. No. 6 St. Teresa's Square is safe; I even think it is safer than the Jodel Palace."
Shade, however, remained worried:
"I'll go to the attic in a bit and change the blessing in the [Holy White Chapel] to that of the Old God. This will further enhance the house's defenses."
Although Dorothy and Luvia both thought Shad's worries were completely pointless, they understood Shad's personality and did not continue to persuade him.
The arrival of a new week also means that the second month of 1855 has come to an end. This Saturday is the 28th day of the Starless Moon, and Sunday marks the beginning of March.
The gifts from the last week of Starry Moon did not bring Shad any surprise. When he pulled out a large bag of the expensive cat food that Mia loved from the gift box, he vaguely remembered that he had taken out the same gift before.
"Why can't it be the Ring of Fate?"
As for this week's task, it was of course to feed the pets on time. Shad thought that Little Leona and the others should also be considered pets, but he knew that if he said it out loud, the cat would definitely get angry.
After changing the blessing in the attic, Shad and Luvia went to Fatummister Island. Snowflakes were falling again over the island today, although not as heavy as the blizzard of the past few days, it looked like the snow would continue for quite some time.
The Lucky Moon amulet was given to Stella by Shad, while the other was temporarily kept by Miss Elizabeth. He had originally planned to take Ellie out for a stroll that morning, hoping to encounter something unexpected, but at nine o'clock, Miss Aurora found Shad chatting with Sylvie about their new discovery of the mermaids:
"The Winter's Choir has sent word that an infinite serpent has appeared near their base."
then--
"A Falling Star Strike!"
Twenty minutes later, the starlight was still dazzling even in daylight. Stars fell from the heights where white snowflakes were fluttering, striking the silvery-white forest below. Accompanied by a star-blue halo spreading outwards, a rumbling sound reverberated as large flakes of snowflakes rustled down from the treetops and branches throughout the forest. Hundreds of small black snakes scattered throughout the forest were transformed into black smoke by the power of the starlight.
This "Infinite Serpent" is quite special, as its true form is a beehive. This beehive is not far from the location of the [Winter Choir], and the chorus's sorceress discovered by chance that bees were flying nearby. After following the bees to the beehive, she found that although bees were constantly returning to the hive, no bees ever flew out of the hive.
Bees leaving their hives in winter is a rare occurrence, so the sorceresses suspected that this was a spy planted by a hostile force to monitor their camp.
Then they removed the beehive and cut it open, and the normal state of the inside puzzled them greatly. No one needed to say "this is impossible," just a thought was enough for the entire beehive to explode on the spot, splitting into dozens of small snakes, all belonging to the same entity.
(End of this chapter)