OBS Chapter 4101 Blood-Red Rainy Day
Chapter 4101 Blood-Red Rainy Day
Chapter 4101 Blood-Red Rainy Day
It's unclear when the city hall will reopen, but Agelina and Galina will definitely arrive before evening, so it's possible that Xia Dexian will meet up with Galina and the others instead.
However, Shad didn't have anything urgent to do, so after having lunch with Miss McDonald, he stayed at Fragrant Residence. Viggo had already gathered information about the murders and disappearances involving local nobles that Shad had proposed investigating last week, so that afternoon, Shad and Miss McDonald analyzed the intelligence together.
After all, this is related to demons.
The tall girl was quite satisfied with the afternoon, but the rain outside the window was getting heavier and heavier. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the sound of rain hitting the glass was even a little annoying.
Miss Rowling wanted to draw the curtains in the study and turn on the gas light, but when she reached the window, she looked in surprise towards Gray Rock Pass:
"The Distant Sky"
"It turned red."
The sound of Shad speaking behind her startled Miss Rowling. Miss Rowling moved aside to let Shad see the red rain clouds spreading out from the direction of Gray Rock Pass.
After opening the window, Shad even saw streaks of blood in the rainwater. Miss McDonald stretched her hand out the window to touch the raindrops and surprisingly sensed a faint whisper within them:
"His belongings?"
"Yes, relics."
Shad's eyes could already vaguely make out the blood-red city hanging upside down in the distant crimson rain clouds:
"False humans. But what are they doing?"
He had already informed the girls of Fragrance Mansion about the appearance of the "pseudo-humans," so he simply explained:
"The collective consciousness of the pseudo-people combined with the whispering element gave birth to the labyrinth [Flesh and Blood City], which grants them 'unknowable' potential. It seems that [The Pseudo-People's House] has activated this labyrinth again; something has probably broken into that building, forcing the pseudo-people to retaliate."
As he spoke, he pulled a crystal shoe from his pocket:
"The ones who clashed with the puppets might be the leatherworkers from the Leather Goods Guild, but have they started fighting so quickly? We don't know the specifics yet. I'm going to check out the situation in the direction of Gray Rock Pass now."
Miss McDonald hurriedly said:
“There are still a few followers of the High Ring in Fragrance Mansion. Let’s go with you.”
Shade shook his head:
"Leave someone here to send a message to Wei Ge, and don't forget that the girl from afar will be arriving soon. I'll set off first. If the two relics really do clash, it will be valuable to me no matter which side loses."
Miss McDonald, Miss Rowling, you…
He stopped speaking and looked out the window again. Miss Rowling and Miss McDonald followed his gaze and saw a bright red beam of light shooting into the sky from afar, followed by the blood-red light spreading through the dark clouds at a visible speed.
The rain outside the window had turned completely blood-red. It was still daytime, and the sun behind the dark clouds looked like a blood-red sun. Looking out from the Fragrant Residence, which was located high up, the entire city was shrouded in a red glow.
"I'll go first. If I'm going to take people with me, I have to be very careful."
Shad gave further instructions before throwing out the crystal shoe and returning home. Mia, in the form of a doll, followed Shad around. At first, Shad thought no one was home, but upon returning, he was surprised to find Ellie and Winnie on the second floor.
They were in the kitchen, Ellie was standing with her hands behind her back, head down, being scolded by the icy maid. Hearing Shad's footsteps, the short unicorn girl immediately cast a pleading look towards the doorway. Shad then asked:
"What's going on here?"
"When Emilia was taking care of the unicorns of St. Byron, she left a box of pea pods in the unicorn habitat. The unicorn girls knew how to eat pea pods, so they wanted to blow bubbles with them."
Winnie looked at Ellie with a cold expression:
"I originally thought Ellie was very mature, but I didn't expect her to play with the candy with them."
By the time Emilia found them, the candy pods were already stuck to the fur of more than one of the unicorn cubs who had come to join the fun. Saint Byron was still researching how to remove the sticky candy without damaging the sacred beasts' fur.
Although Ellie likes to act like an adult in front of the unicorns at the academy, she is actually just a young unicorn who has just come of age. In fact, because she has spent so many years frozen in ice, she is not as mature as she appears.
“It’s all a small matter. It’s also my fault for not explaining to Emilia the consequences of getting that candy stuck in her hair.”
Shad then said that he had decided to "save" Ellie:
"The House of the False Humans has appeared in the Arcadia region. They're fighting something and are currently releasing the Lock of Illusion. Ellie, you remember the False Humans, right? Come with me to Arcadia. When you and Emilia went to the Holy See to provide support, you should have visited the Blue Ink Library."
The white-haired girl immediately nodded:
"Yes! I touched the statue! I helped Shad! Let's go!"
Actually, she just wanted to avoid being scolded by Winnie again. Although Winnie saw through Ellie's little scheme, she didn't stop her.
"Ellie, do your best. If you help out this time, I won't say anything about the candy pod incident."
"Yes!"
The unicorn girl immediately puffed out her chest. With Chloe absent, Winnie was her direct superior and guardian, so Ellie was actually a little afraid of this cold maid.
Winnie shook her head helplessly, then said to Shad:
"I'll go with you."
"Of course, let's set off then."
"Blood rain" is an extremely ominous sign in any city, so on this Wednesday afternoon when it was raining blood, the city streets were almost deserted.
Standing at the entrance of the Blue Ink Library and seeing the scene outside, Ellie wasn't worried at all; instead, she was eager to try. After Winnie looked at her, Ellie transformed into her true form in a pure white light.
"Now that the whispering element is so strong, there is no need to worry about it being detected by the church's detection rituals."
Winnie said, indicating that Shad could set off. Shad hesitated for a moment before mounting the unicorn, after which Winnie transformed into frost and wrapped it around his arm, casting a spell to prevent the blood rain from touching Shad and Ellie.
"Ang~"
Ellie burst out of the library, sprinted a few steps down the sloping street, and then soared into the blood-red sky.
Five minutes had passed since the clouds turned red, and even if the church was slow to react, it couldn't possibly arrive at the scene later than Shad.
Shad had expected to arrive to find the Church's Thirteen Rings already besieging the "House of the False Humans," but as Ellie flew rapidly across the desolate area between the city and Grayrock Pass, the unicorn girl spoke in human language:
Where are we going?
The blood-soaked city was reflected in the clouds, but this didn't mean the location of the [False Human House] had been revealed. Based on the changes in the elements, it could only be roughly inferred that the building was located near Grayrock Pass, but its exact location still needed careful searching.
Xia Degang was about to suggest that he could try to sense it, but the flying little unicorn said again:
"It feels like this is the way!"
Even before she became a chosen one, she managed to find little Leona, who had been kidnapped, in the House of the Imposters through sheer luck.
Now that she has become a chosen one of destiny, and the relic [House of the Pseudo-Humans] was the opportunity for her to first transform into human form, she is definitely strongly connected to Ellie by fate. Therefore, Ellie guessed the true location of the relic's original form based on her intuition.
The unicorn flew over the Grayrock Pass fortress, then continued downstream along the Thernnir River, which looked like a river of blood under the red sky, and stopped about three miles from the Grayrock Pass fortress.
Far from any human settlements, the riverbanks are lined with wilderness and forests. On the south bank of the river stands a long-abandoned black stone tower.
The tower didn't look very tall, and its surface was covered with ivy and vines, Ellie said with certainty:
"This is it!"
She carried Shad down, and in fact, Shad had already sensed through the pseudo-human mother fluid he had absorbed that this stone tower was the disguised "pseudo-human home".
There was no sign of battle around the stone tower at this moment. It stood quietly in the rain of blood, almost blending into the surrounding mountains and forests. Therefore, Xia De had no idea what the situation was inside the relic.
"Should we force our way in?"
Things weren't quite as she'd imagined, so after Shad jumped off Ellie's back, Winnie stood beside him and asked softly.
Even after Shad closed the "door" and absorbed a large amount of the mother fluid, the [House of the Pseudo-Humans] was still a genuine Sage-level or even Angel-level relic, so Shad cautiously shook his head:
"Even with you following me, I won't go in unless absolutely necessary. Those traitors have a grudge against me."
Ellie remained in her unicorn form and rubbed against Shad from behind, eager to show him the new skills she had learned at school.
However, while he wouldn't break in, that didn't mean Shad would do nothing. Since the relic itself remained standing there, it was the perfect target:
"Miraculous Technique: Moonlight Slash".
Amidst the rain of blood, he raised his right arm high and summoned the silver moonlight. After a sufficiently long period of charging, he suddenly slashed forward, unleashing a dazzling silver moonlight.
Boom!
The black tower trembled with a deafening roar, and cracks appeared on its outer side, while inside the cracks, crimson flesh writhed, attempting to repair the building's walls.
"This strange vitality."
"Shad said softly, without continuing to attack the wall," Xia De said. As the wall repaired itself, a familiar male face emerged from the crack, then transformed into half a body protruding from the outer wall of the Black Tower.