Whispers of the Machine Age
Chapter 1143

Soul, Old Wooden Boat, and Festival Blessings

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The pink perfume bottle was named the Perfume Bottle of Desire by Shade. After carefully putting it away, Shade and Sister Devlin continued onward together.

The two walked side by side across the lake surface, which had still not frozen due to the evil entity's power, advancing through the thin mist toward the opposite shore. They continued talking along the way, and Shade remarked that at the beginning of winter, they had entered Lake of Cherub in much the same way to meet the "Goddess in the Lake."

Now it was already deep winter, and the two of them were once again walking across the lake.

Their next destination was the miraculous underground passage that connected two spaces, the one Shade and Iluna had traversed before midnight on Wednesday.

Though the sky had been dark that night, fortunately, "she" still remembered the direction. With Sister Devlin's help, they avoided the Church's main camp and kept heading southwest across the lake. Before long, they found the small campsite on the shore where Shade and Iluna had camped that Wednesday night.

There were still traces of a fire on the ground, and behind the campsite was the underground passage. Though Shade knew where it was, Sister Devlin said that before he pointed it out, she had not noticed anything there at all.

The mysteries of this Great Swamp seemed not to have faded with the defeat of the Pantanal Evil.

Lighting his finger for illumination, they passed through the narrow, dim underground passage. After turning out from behind a rocky outcrop, they arrived at the site of the "Swamp Witch" remains and the Pantanal Evil temple ruins.

The great fire and earthquake on the night of the battle had already allowed snow and mud to cover the earthen grave Shade had dug

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