Whispering Verse

Chapter 3186 The Direction of Destiny

After breakfast, the ladies went to meet Queen Diana, while Shad checked his "gift list" at home to see if there were any missing items. It would be very embarrassing if he found out that he had forgotten a gift for someone when he was delivering the gifts.

According to the schedule announced in advance by the witches, Megan and Audrey, Sylvie and Miss Elizabeth will all arrive in the city today, while Bella will come after giving her year-end speech at the City Council tomorrow.

However, Xia De didn't know when they would arrive today. Since he had maids at home to entertain the guests, he continued his journey of visiting friends.

I visited most of my out-of-town friends yesterday, and today I need to visit my local friends in Tobesk, as well as important out-of-town relatives and family members such as my mother-in-law Cassandra and Vanessa.

Having come to this world for a year and a half, Xia De has made many friends locally. However, due to his improved social status - mainly thanks to Karina, he does not have to visit many of his friends in person. Those friends will probably come to visit him according to etiquette.

So after he went out, he first took a carriage to the university district and visited Professor Tiris Manning, who always gave him various kinds of help.

Not only the core urban area where St. Teresa's Square is located, but in fact the entire "Steam City" has entered the pre-festival atmosphere.

The morning mist had not yet completely dissipated, and snowflakes were slowly falling in the hazy mist, covering the city with a layer of quiet silver. The carriage moved slowly along the cobblestone road, and the rustling sound of the wheels rolling over the snow mixed with the clattering of the horses' hooves, like adding a more peaceful melody to this peaceful winter morning.

Xia De looked out of the car window and saw that the eaves and carved balconies of the buildings facing the street were covered with snow. Holly branches and festive decorations were hung in front of most of the shops.

He even saw a steam-powered "monkey climbing a tree with a candy cane" mechanism running over and over in the window of a corner candy store, attracting a large crowd of children standing in the street to watch.

Behind the group of excited children, passers-by wrapped in heavy coats and wearing non-slip boots hurriedly walked in the morning snow. Although this winter is not friendly to most people, at least now that the festival is approaching, most people just want to celebrate the peaceful end of another year.

When the carriage turned the corner, the newsboy next to the mailbox raised the collar of his thin dark coat to block the wind. He waved the newspaper in his hand, and the sound echoed in the cold air.

"Year-end special issue! The Terrarelle River Gazette looks back at the events of 1854! Extra copies of newspapers at the end of the year without raising prices!"

Unlike Shad, who lived in a building, Professor Manning lived in a house with a courtyard. Like his neighbors, he asked servants to decorate the fences along the street when the festival approached, and even hung ribbons on the mailbox at the door.

The professor also guessed that Xia De would come this morning, and entertained him happily.

Professor Manning has many students and old friends, and he couldn't be free at the end of the year, but he still took half an hour to chat with Xia De. Xia De didn't give the professor old books or antiques, but chose a very fashionable black cashmere gentleman's hat as a gift.

The gift that Professor Manning gave to Shad was wrapped in a flat gift box. When Shad opened it after returning home at noon, he realized that it was a poetry manuscript written about three hundred years ago, which included a series of chivalric poems created by the author himself. In fact, the year-end gifts should not be opened until the day after tomorrow.

After bidding farewell to Professor Manning, who was in good physical and mental condition, Shad got on the carriage again and crossed the city to Old John's pawnshop.

Because Father John lives above the pawn shop, even though tomorrow is the end of the year, his shop is still open and there are even quite a lot of customers.

This was probably the most customers Xia De had ever seen in the pawn shop. There were five or six customers lining up to pawn their worthless items. Xia De pushed the door open and saw this situation, so he turned around and left. He walked around the nearby clothing store before returning. At that time, all the customers had left, and Old John was keeping accounts behind the counter:

"This winter, the number of customers who came to me to pawn their belongings so they could have money for the holidays has doubled compared to previous years."

He lowered his head and wrote down the accounts. He sighed, put down his pen, and raised his head. Seeing Xia De holding a yellow scarf, he couldn't help but say:

"Detective, don't tell me that this scarf you bought from the store next door is a year-end gift for me."

"Of course not. I saw that the color of this scarf matches my cat, so I bought it."

He took out the year-end gift for John's father from his pocket. The old man took it and stuffed it under the counter. He turned around and handed the prepared gift to Xia De:

"You happened to be here. I have something to tell you."

"You don't have a poet-level relic here, do you?"

Xia De asked suspiciously, and the old man behind the counter shook his head:

The news of the [Base of Destiny] was brought out by Shad from the "Black Mist Camp" and later reported to the Association through Luvia. The Association then went looking for the believers of the old god [Golden Lord] and only then found the clue of the relic in this era.

"It's good that you know about this. I received news last night that the Prophet Association seems to have found the [Pedestal of Destiny]."

The old man lowered his voice and said, Shade frowned slightly. Luvia did not provide such information. But he did not doubt the intelligence of the hermitage. Although they were small in number, their intelligence was always accurate:

"'Seems' to have found? So it's not actually in your hands?"

"Yes, we have only determined the approximate location of the relic. Of course, what I want to tell you is not about the relic. In fact, we also have some scattered fragments of poems. The content of one of them points to a unique divination tool. We have always suspected that it is the [Pedestal of Destiny]."

He came to the conclusion directly:

"The meaning of that fragment of the poem is probably that where the [Foundry of Destiny] is, that is where destiny is. Where that relic appears is most likely where the chosen one of destiny appears."

The stranger tried his best not to encounter new stories before the end of the year, but new stories still found him:

"Does the [Pedestal of Destiny] simply mark the location of the Chosen One, or is that relic related to the final Chosen One ceremony?"

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He asked again, and Old John shook his head:

"I don't know about that. Most of the fragments of fate are in the hands of the Prophet Association. That's all we know. But the fragments of poems will not be repeated, so the fortune tellers probably don't know what I'm telling you."

Although he knew that once he asked, he would most likely find himself something new to do, Xia De still spoke:

"So where is the suspected location of the [Destiny Base]?"

"We don't have any spies inside the Prophet, so the intelligence only shows that it is in the southeast of the Old Continent. The black building you mentioned that houses another Unknown-level relic should not be far from the real location of the [Destiny Base].

Although the Prophet Association found the wrong location in the fall, their results should not be too far off. It seems that the story of the ninth chosen one will probably begin soon. Fate is unpredictable and fickle. What will happen this time?"

The information provided by [Guiding Light Hermitage] helps Shade know where the next story will happen. But "Southeast of the Old World" is actually a very wide area. If you want to know more accurate information, you need more information.

Luvia's work before the holiday will be finished this morning, and she will stay at 6 Saint Teresa Square until the exam week begins. So Shad hesitated whether to discuss this with Luvia after the holiday or to inform Luvia right away, and he took the gift and prepared to go home for lunch.

After getting off the carriage, he took out the key and opened the door. Because he was still thinking about whether he should tell the information immediately, when he picked up Mia who came to greet him, Xia De did not notice that there were a few more pairs of shoes in the shoe cabinet in the hallway.

However, when he was walking up the stairs, he heard some lively voices coming from upstairs.

When we got to the second floor, we saw Miss Swift standing at the door of the living room talking to Tifa, Grace and Helen standing at the window looking at the scenery of St. Teresa's Square, and Grandma Cassandra sitting on the sofa in front of the fireplace, talking to Luvia.

The living room did not become very crowded because Xia De's house was quite large. Everyone heard Xia De's footsteps and turned to greet him.

"Granny Cassandra? Welcome, welcome. But didn't you say you wouldn't come over at the end of the year?"

The old witch smiled and said:

“I originally had no intention of coming here, but then I thought, although I don’t have to think about myself, I also have to think about the young people.

So we dealt with the matter at Midhill Castle in advance, and asked Grace and Helen to open the portal and send us here."

The sisters in black and white dresses holding hands smiled sweetly at Shade, while the witch apprentice with flaxen hair blushed a little. Only she knew that her teacher finally decided to go to Tobesk City because of her.