"This is the stone slab you mentioned?"
The box Shade had retrieved was placed at one corner of the dining table. Once opened, it revealed a rectangular stone slab resting on soft lining.
The slab was exactly the same size as the one Shade had obtained from Mr. Edmund, except its four corners were wrapped not in silver, but in rubies. Furthermore, while the slab that automatically floated when illuminated by Shade's Silver Moon Spirit Rune bore only the ancient numeral "two," the rune on this one was "one."
After breakfast, Shade brought up the first slab from the basement as well. It floated in midair, directly above Little Mia, who was still eating with her head lowered. Shade had already tried illuminating the newly retrieved "Red Moon Stone Slab" with the light of the Silver Moon and Yellow Moon Spirit Runes, but it showed no reaction at all.
The slab left to him by the Old God Gray-Robed Sage could evidently only be unlocked using the light of that god's own rune. Thanks to the God of Vampires from the Battle of Sikar Mountain, Shade did possess Blasphemy Red Moon, but that Spirit Rune was currently sealed. He had yet to find a way to unseal it. It was not because Shade had failed to search actively, but because the reason this Spirit Rune had been sealed was truly difficult to compare with any other case.
His original plan had been to try using divine power to break the seal himself while in a divine state the next time he burned divinity. Now, it seemed he would have to think of another solution.
In the Fifth Epoch year 5177, the Old God Uncertain Wise Man had guided him to seek a higher-level moon and use power of the same