Hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, Miss Bayas turned around in the darkness. Seeing it was Xia De, she smiled apologetically at him:
“I couldn’t sleep at night, so I wanted to see the rain.”
She placed the teacup on the windowsill, her hoarse voice blending perfectly with the sound of rain in the background:
“Your place is really nice. I was worried about waking you up, so I went to this room to watch the rain. I am always busy, and there are not many opportunities like this.”
“Be careful not to catch a cold.”
Xia De reminded kindly, hesitated for a moment, did not turn around and leave, but walked into the room and came to the window.
Outside the living room windows of the two rooms are Saint Teresa Square. Although the gas lamps in the square are still on, in the rain, the light of the gas lamps can only turn into a warm yellow halo, which cannot illuminate the square. There are vast swathes of darkness.
The raindrops were like tadpoles, swimming densely downward on the window glass in front of me. Amidst the clattering sound, Shade noticed that on the glass in front of Miss Bayas, there were words she had written with her fingers using the steam from the tea cup.
That was not contemporary language, but before Shade wanted to see it clearly, Miss Bayas reached out and erased it.
“Are you worried about things at night?”
Miss Anat is the oldest of the three. Shade, a stranger, has also experienced too many things. Only this 17-year-old girl is a little greener. Shade is worried that she will have bad thoughts due to pressure. .
“It is certainly impossible to say that I am not worried at all. But mainly… I am still thinking about the ‘chosen one’.”
She looked towards the window:
“To be honest, I never thought that I would become the chosen one. There will be results tonight. Miss Anat said that I will gain great power, and the road ahead will become even more… …..Magical, she used this word. Maybe I am sentimental, but after all, I am a little panicked about this future.”
“Do you want to be the chosen one?”
“Of course.”
Her answer came without thinking.
“Then just move forward and don’t think too much.”
Xia De said, he thought of himself a month ago and the story he heard in the cemetery yesterday:
“Sometimes, we can’t choose what kind of future we will face, and we have no idea what kind of situation we will face… It’s good that you can still make choices. And you are not Alone, Miss Anat and I will always be by your side to help you. In addition to the two of us, there will be more chosen ones who will appear by our side in the future.”
He wanted to reach out and pat Miss Bayas on the shoulder, but he hesitated about whether it was polite to touch the young girl’s pajamas.
“This is probably really sentimental, Detective… Shade, don’t worry about it.”
She turned her head and smiled at Shade:
“Standing here watching the rain alone, my mood will really get worse and worse, but you are right, thinking about these things, it is better to plan more arrangements for tonight.”
Seeing that she adjusted her mood easily, Xia De didn’t know whether it was his words that had an effect, or whether the other party was inherently strong.
At this moment, I heard another sound at the door behind me. I turned my head and saw two luminous objects floating in the darkness outside the door. But before he could be surprised, the sleepy cat walked in with short legs.
It probably came here after seeing that Shade hadn’t gone back for a long time. Wandering to Shade’s feet, he slowly stretched out his right front paw and pulled down Shade’s pants a few times.
When Shade picked up the warm and soft cat, it actually fell asleep again. This cat’s life is quite regular. He wakes up at six o’clock in the morning and urges Shade to make breakfast. And now, it’s still its rest time.
Miss Bayas smiled and looked at Shade holding the cat:
“When everything is over in the future, I…”
“Stop! Never say such things.”
Xia De quickly stopped her from saying these words and reminded her seriously:
“Never say anything like this before doing something important.”
“Is this some strange superstition? Shade, a magician cannot be superstitious.”
Miss Bayas said with a smile, turned around and continued to look at the rain curtain outside:
“I really envy the life you have, which is quiet and peaceful. In your free time, you can hold a cat and watch the night rain. Although I am a church magician, I actually admire you, the founder of Byrons. A sorceress of the thirteenth ring, a witch of kindness, a witch of knowledge, who builds her own great career and then enjoys life comfortably instead of running around all her life… It’s not me who chooses to be the chosen one, it’s me It’s the power, it’s the price, it’s the blessing, it’s the balance.”
“The church seems to know that you are a candidate to be chosen?”
Xia De asked again.
“Yes, the Church of the Sun, where I belong, and the Church of Peace, which has mastered some of the witch’s relics, know.”
“So after tonight’s success, will you confess that you have officially become the chosen one from the candidate?”
“Yes, the value of my identity as the chosen one is that I will be promoted to the 13th ring. This is nothing to hide. On the contrary, I will use this to fight for more power and freedom, so that it can be convenient for you to cooperate with me. Looking for more chosen ones. There will be many opportunities to cooperate with you and Miss Anat in the future.”
She smiled softly at the glass, and Shade nodded, but before he could agree, Miss Bayas said again as if mumbling to herself:
“In the days since that Sunday night party, I have thought at length about the meaning of balance.”
“Anything gained?”
Xia De, who was holding the cat, asked softly, thinking that with his foreigner’s experience, he might be able to give her some advice, and Miss Bayas answered directly:
“To understand the meaning of balance, there is no numerical index for me to refer to. Since I became a ring wizard, I have been exploring my own special abilities. After meeting you, I realized that it is the power of the chosen one. . I can use the power of ‘balance’ to suppress the strength of ring warlocks who are higher than me.”
The day Shade saw the “Sunshine Gun” for the first time, she used this power to defeat the Ring Warlock of [Mercury Blood].
“I can use the power of ‘balance’ to identify the good and evil of others.”
So she has very few friends. Even without summoning the golden scale, she can instinctively measure a person’s balance of good and evil.
“I can even use this strange power to suppress the power of a powerful [relic] in a short period of time, allowing the whispering elements to maintain a balance with the surrounding enlightenment elements… Of course, this is very difficult, as long as Can suppress part of the power of [Relic]”
But this is already amazing. As a second-level warlock, she is really very powerful.
“After the banquet that day, I thought deeply about the deeper meaning of my own power, trying to discover the essence of power from ‘balance’ itself, and then…I failed. This power is like drinking water, walking, Raising my hands is an ability that I already have, but I just have to discover it step by step. They have no meaning, they are part of me, but for this reason, I understand a very simple truth.” /
“What’s the point?”
Xia De asked, the cat in his arms “meow~”, but it was just talking in his sleep.
“I am balance.”
Her eyes moved from the window to Shade, and the two looked at each other at close range:
“All balance is based on me. The power that is higher than me, I want to lower it; the judgment of good and evil is based on my thoughts; the power of balancing relics is based on my own enlightenment. Support point. Since I am favored by the ancient **** of ‘balance’ [The Hanging Judge], when I hold the scale, I am the fulcrum of all balances.”
At this moment, golden light seemed to be shining in her eyes.
But soon Xia De understood that it was definitely not “as if”.
Miss Bayas raised her right hand, and the golden color naturally lit up from the palm of her hand. Behind her, amid the sound of whistles and bells, rings of life emerged from the thick steam.
The light in the palm of the hand is connected with the life ring behind it. The brass ring actually shines with golden luster at this moment:
“Miss Anat is right. I used to only use power, not explore it. Now I can feel it. When the ceremony is over and I completely transform the life ring into gold material, I can truly master the balance. Strength.”
Her right palm clenched tightly, causing the light in her palm to disperse into light spots and float in all directions.
The rain was pattering, and Shade stared at the life ring behind Miss Bayas in stunned silence. He originally thought that understanding the “power of balance” would be very difficult, but he didn’t expect that in just three days, the other party seemed to have understood everything:
“I thought you would need help, such as dynamic balancing.”
He smiled sheepishly:
“The balance I understand is not a line, but a line that fluctuates up and down to form a solid balance. Miss Bayas, you are very good.”
“You are also very good. How about it, Shade, how about my power?”
Miss Bayas showed it to Shade excitedly, as if she wanted him to comment:
“I used that piece of [Witch’s carbon paper] to copy the balancing force I used on myself in front of the mirror. In addition, when I was watching the rain here tonight, I thought of many, many things. I just answered your question Only then can I have the current experience instinctively.”
Xia De praised sincerely:
“It’s not your strength that’s very powerful, it’s your talent and wisdom that are very powerful.”
Outlander has truly seen how unique a “person chosen by fate” is. Compared with Miss Bayas, Shade’s path as a ring warlock is really too ordinary.
“So, there will definitely be no problem with tonight’s actions.”
Let the life ring behind you disappear, Miss Bayas said. But after the excitement, fatigue came back, and he could only bid farewell to Shade temporarily and go to sleep for a while before dawn.
Xia De was left alone in the empty room, watching the rain in front of the window:
“The danger was predicted in advance, and everyone prepared new powers. Miss Bayas was only one step away from fully mastering the super-standard abilities… In this case, what happened tonight, I don’t think there will be any surprises.”
【Do you really think so? 】
She asked softly in her ear.
“Although there are always accidents in life, with such careful planning, even if an accident does occur, it is not something we can change. Besides…”
He felt the power sleeping in his soul and life ring. He closed his eyes and seemed to see the golden divinity directly in front of him in the darkness:
“In tonight’s operation, if something happens that they can’t deal with, I won’t be stingy with this drop of divinity.”
【Sacrificing a drop of precious divinity for Bayas? 】
“In order to have a powerful helper on the road to finding divinity in the future, I will sacrifice a precious drop of divinity. I will not do anything that I will regret after I die.”