OBS Chapter 2821: 8-year-old's worries and the foreigner's tactics
Chapter 2821: 8-year-old's worries and the foreigner's tactics
Chapter 2821: The Concerns of Eighteen-Year-Olds and the Words of Outsiders
After the three of them passed through the smoke and dust of the explosion, they saw a "magma lake" with a diameter of more than 20 meters in the forest. After the elf girl mobilized the power of the forest with a troubled look on her face to destroy the magma lake, they found the fourth paradox worm shell at the bottom of the deep pit that continuously turned raindrops into water mist.
"Don't use fire spells like this in the forest!"
She said to Shade in dissatisfaction, cooled down the hot insect shell before picking it up, and then threw a bottle of potion to Shade:
"The third bottle of paradox worm potion is ready. Really, if you keep doing this, even if you have the blessing of affinity with nature, the forest will hate you. Look at how many trees you have destroyed."
Even when she put one hand on her waist while "teaching" someone a lesson, she didn't look harsh at all, but rather cute.
After getting Shade's assurance, she asked for shelter under a tree nearby. At this time, the frightened yellow chocobo came over. She rode on the chocobo and was about to leave, but Shade stopped her again:
"Miss Emilia Sienold from the college will be here this weekend or next Monday. Would you mind meeting her?"
"I don't mind. Since you are your friend, why should I mind?"
The pointy-eared blonde girl said, sitting sideways on the Chocobo, holding its neck with her right hand and holding an umbrella for it and herself with her left hand:
"Goodbye then. Don't forget to continue helping me find arrows. This is more important than anything else."
Then the chocobo disappeared into the forest carrying her as if escaping.
When they left Sir Wayne's mansion just now, Miss Danister had cast a "water-avoiding spell" on the three of them. So even though it was still raining heavily, they didn't use an umbrella. When Shade looked at the red-haired girl, she had already opened the bottle of potion and drank the potion in it.
"I've always thought that the elves' potions are very unique. They can always make unpalatable potions taste delicious."
As she spoke, her life ring emerged, and the eight-ring life ring quickly transformed into a nine-ring under the cover of steam mist. Just as expected, the first bottle of magic potion made her change from seven rings back to eight rings, and the effects of the second and third bottles of magic potions combined made her change from eight rings to nine rings.
Emilia herself had said that the Paradox Worm Potion could not completely eradicate the Time Curse. The effects of the subsequent potions would only get worse, but fortunately, they were still a long way from being completely ineffective.
"The upgrade from middle ring to high ring is the second most important upgrade for a ring sorcerer. The most important one is of course the upgrade from twelfth ring to thirteenth ring. You also know that every upgrade of a ring sorcerer will lead to a comprehensive enhancement of the body and soul. The upgrade from middle ring to high ring is the most obvious. The difference between the eighth ring and the ninth ring is much greater than the difference between the seventh ring and the eighth ring."
The red-haired girl was in a good mood and was telling Xia De about her feelings, and then she found that Xia De was looking at her with a little surprise.
Only then did she touch her face as if aware of something, and then attracted the rain that was finally no longer evaporated by the heat to form a water mirror in front of her.
In the mirror, the slightly immature face of 18 years old was rapidly becoming mature, until it turned into her original appearance. But this "recovery" only lasted for a second, and the mature face began to age again, and finally stopped at the appearance of 18 years old.
The red-haired girl touched her face and seemed to be in a daze for a long time without saying anything. Xia De did not disturb her until she waved her hand to disperse the water mirror. Then Xia De said in the sound of rain:
"Now that you have recovered to the ninth ring, Flora will definitely be jealous of you when we return."
But Danister Gustav ignored this topic. Instead, he remained silent for a while before asking Shade:
"If I say that when I looked at my face in the mirror just now, I suddenly felt that it would be better if I stayed eighteen years old, would that make me seem... hypocritical? Before that, I have been complaining to you that I have become eighteen years old."
Xia De knew her psychology very well:
"Everyone has a desire for youth, and it's normal. And it seems that you can't recover in a short time, so don't worry about it now."
The beautiful young girl touched her face again. She had never paid attention to this problem before. But when she really saw her 18-year-old face "aging", she had to admit that she really couldn't bear to look like this now.
Youth is fleeting, and not many people can accept the fact that they will age in an instant. Especially since she really has the characteristics of being eternally 18 years old, at a certain moment, she really thought that maybe it would be nice to stay like this forever.
After sending the hypnotized Sir Wayne back to his residence, Miss Danister cast a spell to modify his memory, making him think that he had been discussing business with Shad, but the meeting was fruitless.
Then the two of them left here and rushed to Hoy Manor in the north of the city. The knight had already told them the location of the wooden trap door, and now as long as they recovered the door, the matter would finally come to an end.
However, it was almost noon, so they hurriedly ate lunch on the way. Seeing that Miss Danister was still not in a good mood during the meal, Shade tried to tell a few jokes, but then found that he had no talent for this.
So the strangers "shamelessly" plagiarized some of their hometown's classics. Although this only made the girl smile slightly, at least she seemed to be in a much better mood:
"Are you always this good at changing other people's emotions?"
"I'm just good at not making people so sad."
"So Xia De, can you answer me a question? Which do you like better, the 18-year-old me or the real me?"
The rain outside the window was pattering, and the pub was not noisy. The sound of the wine glass being put down by the next table seemed to become a bell, which meant that this was a fatal problem.
[Maybe you could say "I like both" and then make some positive comments about her being 18 and her actual age.]
"She" suggested with a smile, but Xia De did not accept it. Instead, he put down his knife and fork, clasped his hands together and placed them on the table. Then he turned his head to look at the rain outside the window as if thinking:
"To be honest, I probably prefer the way you look when you're in front of me."
The voice beside me laughed lightly, and the sorceress across the table actually laughed. She laughed really happily:
"Okay, I admit, Xia De, choosing you as my student is really one of the most correct choices I have ever made."
After dinner, the weather changed from cloudy to sunny, just like the mood of an eighteen-year-old girl. The heavy rain stopped without any warning, and the sun even peeked out from behind the clouds.
However, the operation still went wrong. When they could see Hoy Manor from a distance, the sky had already turned red due to the fire. When they got closer, they saw that the entire manor was now engulfed in flames.
Several people who were suspected to be middle-ring warlocks of the church were trying to put out the fire, while the servants, cooks and maids of the manor gathered far away from the gate, looking worried. However, it seemed that these middle-ring warlocks were not able to suppress the flames well.
"When I first came here to attend the wedding banquet, I wondered if this place would be engulfed by fire again like it did three hundred years ago. You see, my intuition was quite accurate."
Shade said, blinking at the flames again, and then continued to speak to the girl beside him:
"Devil's flame. It looks like the devil left something for Director Kant, or the devil has other means."
"That demon isn't dead?"
"No, he is definitely dead. There is no doubt about that. It should be just some trick. I will go to the manor to confirm the situation of the trap door. These flames can't hurt me. You wait here for me, and by the way, see what else these people from the church want to do besides putting out the fire."
The red-haired girl hesitated for a moment before nodding, and did not say that she wanted to follow Shade into the sea of fire:
"Then you have to be careful. After all, my teacher is not here to save you."
Although she obviously had not completely let go of what happened last night, at least she said this with a smile, so the degree of teasing was greater than anger.
Xia De responded with a smile:
"If Ms. Carter doesn't save me, isn't there still Ms. Gustav who can save me?"
An unhappy expression visibly appeared on her face, so Xia De changed the topic:
"I mean, isn't there a younger Miss Gustave who can save me?"
She then patted Xia De's arm gently:
"Why don't you go quickly? If you don't go now, the manor will be burned down."
"Got it, I'll be back soon."
This fire with demonic power did not have the power of a curse, it was just difficult to extinguish. However, even so, it still severely hindered perception, so the church's ring warlocks did not notice a group of butterflies of the same fiery red color flying into the fire from the side of the manor.
Compared to the actual fire used by the demon, the fire that was burning in the manor was nothing.
Shad flew into the house from the rear window on the first floor of the manor house, and then walked along the corridor to the dining room on the first floor amid the fire around him, which was where the bodies of the Hoy family were found three hundred years ago, according to legend.
The faces of the portraits on the wall had become distorted and terrifying in the fire, and the restaurant door had been deformed by the fire as expected, but it was still kicked open by Shade.
The restaurant is connected to the kitchen in the semi-basement, and the trapdoor is under the cabinet in the innermost storage room of the kitchen. Of course, every time Sir Wayne came to "move" the "treasures" in person, he took the tunnel leading to this place from outside the manor.
However, the tunnel was too long, and it would be less convenient to just break into the manor, so Xia De did not choose that route.
The trapdoor was still there, and the fire around it could not destroy it. What surprised Shade was that the cabinet pressing on the trapdoor had been moved away, but the trapdoor was still locked. Judging from the traces around it, it didn't look like someone had locked it after going down.