Chapter 1094

"Help me do a very simple thing."

Because the lake surface frozen by Xia De's return from the snow mountain was slowly melting at this time. The swaying lake water pushed the floating ice and a small pink bottle to the edge of the shore by the campfire. That bottle looked like the kind of extremely high-end perfume bottle that would only appear on the dressing tables of noble ladies.

The bottle body presented a shape similar to a heart, and the bottle stopper was made of the same frosted material, looking like glass.

It was the size of a high-end perfume bottle, meaning it could be completely grasped with one hand. The bottle was empty now, without any liquid.

"That island in the middle of the lake is about to become a stage for people who are insatiable. What is about to be staged is a great drama woven from numerous desires."

The beautiful head did not urge Xia De to pick up the small pink bottle, but explained with a smile:

"Take this bottle to the island, witness people's crazy and greedy desires, and catalyze those desires to reach a climax. This small bottle can convert desire into high-end essential oil. Take it to the island, let me taste these rarely seen intertwined desires... The essential oil brewed from desire can not only increase one's own charm, but after drinking it, it can even restore spirit."

Xia De frowned slightly. At least in the current era, there were almost no ways to restore spirit through external forces. After all, the so-called "spirit," "mana," and "aether" were not simple energy, but the sum total of everything in the world that a ring warlock could understand—information, energy, elements—and were one of the manifestations of the mind interfering with matter. Even holy water, except for No. 1 and No. 2, the effect of restoring spirit was not particularly obvious.

"I won't use your essential oil."

He said. A smile appeared on the beautiful woman's face:

"I didn't ask you to use it either. When you return to this shore, you can return it to me."

The whisper elements on the bottle were no less than those of ordinary relics, but Xia De had never found information about 【Desire】 through any channel, so he didn't know if this could be considered a derivative of a relic.

The existence information of 【Desire】 itself was a kind of extremely terrifying polluting power. Whether it was the church, the academy, or organizations like the Light-Seeking Cult or the Spiritual Cult, they would not easily open their data to anyone. Even though Xia De had almost the highest prestige and favor with Sister Dairin, she still refused to talk much about 【Desire】 with Xia De.

"I can take it to the island, but I won't catalyze any desire."

Xia De emphasized again. The beautiful woman's head revealed a smile that was just right:

"Okay. You know, actually, you are very suitable for my power. The first time you 'tasted' me and obtained the power of the Seven Deadly Sins was enough to prove this point."

Xia De immediately shook his head, not even willing to open his mouth to refute. The woman's head then teased:

"If you want to deny this, then throw away the ice block with lipstick marks in your hand. If you are willing to do so, I can take back my words."

The cold, dark lake water was constantly rippling on the shore. Even if Iluna was hiding behind Xia De at this time, one could completely imagine the expression on her face.

Xia De gripped the ice crystal in his hand tightly, still unwilling to dwell on this topic:

"Since I agreed to help you, can you stop blocking other people from landing on the island?"

Amidst the pleasant laughter, she said softly:

"I am of course willing for you to realize your wish, but I want to accompany you two to land on that island in the middle of the lake."

In other words, while Xia De and Iluna walked across the water, 【Desire】 would always be by their feet. Just thinking about this terrifying and eerie thing swimming in the deep water beneath his feet made Xia De shudder, but he still agreed. He knew that at least this time, 【Desire】 wouldn't make a move on him:

"I will walk with you, but let Iluna leave first."

He said in a deep voice. In the laughter that followed, there was a mockery that was just right. But even if it was mockery, the voice was still so charming:

"Please rest assured, I don't have much interest in the girl behind you. This is not only because she is a Chosen, but also because..."

Xia De and Iluna, who had quietly poked her head out from behind Xia De, looked together at the woman's head laughing on the dark water surface:

"She is really too simple."

Iluna Amelia Beiya admitted that at least at this moment, her annoyance even exceeded the wonderful physical desire.

There wasn't much luggage to pack. After extinguishing the campfire, Xia De picked up the small pink bottle, let Iluna continue to hold the 【Night Watcher】 emitting silver light, and helped her climb onto the horse.

"Let's go."

He held the reins and used the spell "Water Walking" to step onto the Pantanal Lake, which was swaying but whose surface was terrifyingly calm in the heavy snow.

The yellow orb floated above his head to illuminate him, breaking through the darkness of the lake surface. The knight leading the horse walked in front, and the weak girl lay on the horse's back. And against the background of the heavy snow filling the sky, the voice on the lake surface was singing softly:

"The princess in the castle will not understand that the freedom to walk in the world is what we pursue."

"Meeting a witch at the intersection full of lavender, where are you going to pick that bunch of herbs."

Desire hummed the witch's ballad softly, accompanying the knight and the girl as they moved forward together.

The wind and snow blurred their backs, and everything around them was dark and cold. Under the yellow moonlight, they were like the only actors illuminated by lights on a stage, and this scene, which looked like a cold-toned oil painting, was actually a knight and a girl being coerced by a demon to move forward.

Every step Xia De took would leave spreading ripples on the dark water surface, and that beautiful woman's head just followed them in parallel. Although he was wary of 【Desire】 in his heart, Xia De had to admit that she sang really well.

Amidst this ballad, Xia De and Iluna, holding the reins, actually crossed the calm big lake safely in this way.

When he and the skeleton horse landed on the island in the middle of the lake, which was filled with thick fog, the woman's head said goodbye to them on the shore:

"Looking forward to your performance, interesting soul."

That head watched Xia De while slowly submerging under the water, but the voice was still incomparably clear in the wind and snow:

"On the stage where desires are intertwined, what kind of performance will you have in the audience?"

She disappeared, leaving only a huge, eerie black shadow flashing past under the water. The sound of a huge tail slapping the water surface really sounded like the sound made by a legendary mermaid.

Neither Xia De nor Iluna wanted to recall what they had seen. Xia De held the reins and stood on the shore for a long time before suddenly letting out a long sigh with his nose. The heat in his body caused white smoke to puff out from his nose, but it disappeared quickly.

After all, it wasn't the first time seeing 【Desire】, and the "Blessing of the Wise" obtained on the island in the middle of the Lost Lake was indeed very effective for negative mental states. Xia De turned around and wanted to check Iluna's condition, but as soon as he turned around, he felt his lips kiss something soft.

He raised his eyebrows in surprise, only to find that it was Iluna, who was lying on the horse's back covered with a blanket, hugging the neck of that skeleton horse and kissing Xia De, who was standing in front of the horse.

That kiss stopped after only two seconds of contact. The seventeen-year-old girl jumped off the horse's back with a flushed face, covering her mouth:

"I, I... is that 【Desire】? It is indeed very terrifying. Even with the power of the Chosen, I couldn't resist her influence."

Her flushed face deliberately turned to one side, not looking at Xia De's eyes, lowering her head and kicking the stones on the shore into the lake water:

"Don't tell Luweiya about the kiss just now... I know your relationship... the kiss just now was just an accident."

【Desire was right, she is indeed very simple.】

"She" said with a laugh in Xia De's ear. Xia De made no comment on this.

There were many rumors about the island in the middle of the lake in the center of the Pantanal Great Swamp, and most of those rumors involved grotesque legends and terrifying stories. Even ordinary people had heard rumors about the "no-man's forbidden land" deep in the great swamp.

The core of the seal of the Pantanal evil object was on this island, making the whisper elements on the island in the middle of the lake even more intense than in the swamp. The mental pollution of the evil object had already begun to affect everyone who landed on the island. The whispers from the bottom of the heart and the decaying land under the snow layer were all reminding them what the most terrifying enemy tonight was.

The edge of the Pantanal Lake was overgrown with vines, and the blizzard was a little weaker. And after arriving on the island, the blizzard became even weaker. The snowflakes were still as big as goose feathers, but the wind had become much smaller. Starting from the shore, the ground was covered with gravel and small stones that had been slapped by the lake water over and over again. Going deeper, there were no footprints on the ground covered by white snow.

Before landing on the island, the island in the middle of the lake in the great swamp in the middle of the night was wrapped in a mass of milky white thick fog, and nothing could be seen except the firelight at the top of the lighthouse. But after truly entering the interior of the island in the middle of the lake, it was discovered that the fog was not as big as expected. At least Xia De and Iluna's field of vision could extend to an area beyond thirty meters in this snowy night.

They didn't set off from the shore immediately, but first did some preparatory work.

The ice crystal of Miss Chloe's teardrops was put away by Xia De using 【Toy Manufacturing】. After all, it was just a piece of ice, and if it wasn't preserved in the form of a toy, it would melt sooner or later. But after this incident, alchemical methods could be used to treat it so that the ice block could exist for a long time.

Since they had already landed on the island, 【Source of Chaos】, which could only guide the direction in complex terrain and couldn't help find things, was also put away by Xia De.

Iluna handed the 【Night Watcher】 back to Xia De, and she took out her own 【Judge's Holy Bell】. She didn't cancel the summoning of the skeleton horse, but let it continue to exist. Iluna asked Xia De, who was preparing spell materials:

"Actually, no one came to stop us... you say, are we the first to land on the island?"

"Probably not."

Xia De placed his hand on his chest:

"However, Miss Galina and the others haven't arrived yet; my badge hasn't heated up."

Iluna nodded:

"I have read the church's data. The area of this island is about 1.2 times the area of St. Derand Square to the Yodel Palace block. There is still a long way to go."

"Just now, in order to prevent accidents during the process of crossing the water surface, I chose the shortest path, so we landed on the island from the southwest, and the lighthouse is in the northeast of the island."

He looked up at the firelight in the depths of the thick fog. Iluna couldn't see the light of the first fire:

"It is now 12:07 AM on Thursday, and we still have about an hour and a half."

"Hmm."

Iluna nodded and looked at Xia De's profile. The drifting snow crossed his profile. In the lightless dark night, he was still so "dazzling," as if he had attracted her gaze at all times.

She saw Xia De re-confirming the bullets in the magazine, hanging the small crossbow on his waist, and hanging the slender arrows in the quiver specially sewn on the inside of his coat. There was a solemn expression on his face that had never been seen before. The quiet night did not mean that tonight was safer than the Battle of Midhillburg in autumn.

On the contrary, no one knew what kind of story would happen in this blizzard night in the great swamp far away from human civilization.