Chapter 1100: Falling from the Gao Ta

While Iluna was facing Leijins Puli Xia in the Stonehenge relic, Xia De, who chose the road on the right at the fork, passed through the library labyrinth and entered the darkness, wind, snow, and thick fog alone.

He moved forward against the wind along the uphill road. In the withered forest in the darkness, countless black shadows were patrolling. At this time, the Pantanal Voodoo Society and their allies had dispersed their manpower to all places. No one appeared to block Xia De under the tower, but the monsters on the island, which were becoming more and more crazy because of the power of the evil thing, did not leave because of this.

They were peeking at Xia De in the darkness. When Xia De walked halfway along the uphill road, ghouls with green mushrooms growing on their backs and dried corpses with vines pierced into their crowns rushed out from the front and back at the same time.

"Silver Moon!"

The moonlight from his fingertips illuminated the small path in the withered forest in the wind and snow. The monsters that surrounded Xia De layer by layer did not have the intimidation of Iluna's skeleton horse. Even if they were scared away by the moonlight, they still refused to leave.

His left hand reached toward his waist and took out the "Ebony Handgun" which only had one demon bullet left. He closed his eyes and stood still in place. "She" soon found the most powerful individual among those brown, turbid eyes in the withered forest:

【To the left, yes, it's this one.】

Pulling the trigger did not make any sound. The doctor's handgun finally shattered because of the power of the demon, and the demon's bullet flew out as a result. At the moment the darkness descended, it pierced through the leader of the mutated ghouls.

The monsters retreated quickly, and Xia De also ran quickly in the snow toward the old lighthouse at the end of the road.

There was a wooden door under the lighthouse, and it was not locked. But as soon as Xia De pushed open the door and let the island's wind and snow penetrate into the tower, he saw the man carrying the black suitcase looking at him in the darkness:

"How do mortals maintain eternal beauty?"

The question was asked directly. Xia De stepped back subconsciously, but hearing the sound of ghouls coming from behind, he gritted his teeth and entered the lighthouse and closed the door:

"Keeper?"

He did not recognize what kind of humanoid relic the person in front of him was, but having been familiar with various humanoid relics of the Keeper type recently, he could still distinguish that this was a Keeper.

Suddenly stunned:

"Wait, before I left home, Luvia said that there was something useful to me at the bottom of this tower. It wouldn't be referring to..."

Thinking of this, he frowned again. He vaguely felt a very familiar and wonderful power in the basement of the lighthouse under his feet. That was a faint miraculous element fluctuation that could only be perceived after having felt similar power and used it many times:

"There is actually a hidden space with an ancient god statue in the basement of this lighthouse?! Is this what Luvia was talking about? (Note)"

Although he was shocked in his heart, this was not the time to go home after all. So, facing the Keeper carrying the black suitcase, Xia De took out the "Secret Art of Eternal Youth" borrowed from Miss Galina to display:

"Eternal beauty? There is relevant knowledge in this book."

The Keeper shook his head slightly:

"There is indeed a secret about 'eternal beauty' in this book, but you need to display it. The book in your hand is just a shell."

This showed that Xia De was right. This book was absolutely not as simple as imagined, but he still did not know what the witches of the Fifth Era had hidden in this book:

"Gods can maintain eternal beauty."

So Xia De answered again, but the Keeper still shook his head:

"State the method that mortals can achieve."

Xia De shook his head to indicate that he didn't know the answer, and gave up this test. Fortunately, he didn't need more Wisdom Glow Stones.

He still remembered what he had to do, found the stairs, and walked toward the upper floor of the tower along the old metal stairs in the tower. But the Keeper followed behind him. Xia De looked back at him, didn't say anything, and continued to walk up.

The light of the "Original Fire" could only be seen by Xia De and Sister Daelin who possessed the power of the first fire. In fact, there was only an extinguished huge kerosene lamp (Note) at the top of the lighthouse, as well as a lens group used to move the direction of the light and magnify the light. The rusted and broken iron fence circled the very top of the lighthouse. Although there was still the spire of the lighthouse further up, the wind still sent heavy snow into the top floor.

This was almost the highest point of the entire island in the middle of the lake. Looking around from the top of the lighthouse, thick fog was scattered in all parts of the island, and under the thick fog were the figures of the Church's warlocks fighting.

At this time, at least four thirteen-tier warlocks had arrived on the island, but they were all fighting with those strange things in other directions of the island. Xia De had seen the power of thirteen-tier warlocks more than once, but thirteen-tier was still human after all. Even if they could suppress those ancient evil things, it was impossible to defeat them easily.

Especially, this was not the home field of the Church.

The old-era lighthouse used a kerosene lamp as a light source, and the person in charge of the lighthouse manually operated the clockwork device to rotate the lens system that concentrated the light. The Pantanal Voodoo Society probably used this place frequently, so although the lighthouse was extinguished at this time, the kerosene lamp and metal device could still be used.

Xia De ignited the huge kerosene lamp with fire. The dazzling light immediately illuminated the top floor of the lighthouse. This light should not spread far in the fog tonight, but at least Iluna in Stonehenge should be able to see it.

The "Original Fire" was sealed at the top of the tower, but he didn't know how to summon the flame, and even less could he take it away when the evil thing was about to be unsealed. Therefore, according to the method taught by Sister Daelin, Xia De stretched out a hand toward the central light source and closed his eyes.

Feeling the warm power of the first fire in his heart, in the dark field of vision after closing his eyes, a very familiar bright flame gradually appeared. The flame core was a standard black circle, dragging out a slender orange-red flame tail upward.

With Xia De's induction, the flame absorbed the power from Xia De himself and tried to maintain itself. Xia De opened his eyes and looked at the dazzling light source, vaguely able to see the phantom of the first fire flame in the deepest part of the firelight.

But he still maintained the posture of stretching his hand toward the light source. Only in this way could he stabilize the power of the first fire and maintain the seal that was now fragile to the extreme.

In this state, he couldn't even use strange arts like "Thunder Spear" to help Iluna, not only because he had to concentrate on stabilizing the fire source, but also because the distance was too far.

Looking down from a high place at the open space between the withered forest and the lighthouse hillside, the firelight of Stonehenge was connected into a piece, like a standard fire circle. Floating in the snow, the floating Leijins Puli Xia and Iluna on the ground were as small as ants.

"This time, I really became an audience."

Xia De sighed softly in his heart:

"I don't know where Sister Daelin is now."

He continued to think in his heart, and counted down for Leijins Puli Xia to hold the Chosen ritual. The corner of his eyes suddenly saw a light flash from Stonehenge. With a muffled sound of dong~, the 【Aikenola Knowledge Arrow】 flew over, nailing into the interior of the pillar, the arrowhead completely submerged in the pillar, and the arrow tail was still vibrating with a buzzing sound:

"Iluna's aim is really accurate. I remember that she specifically learned auxiliary aiming curses for 【Sunlight Gun】... Sure enough, relying on this arrow alone, it is still impossible to defeat him."

His left hand took off the arrow nailed to the pillar, carefully put it into the quiver, and then saw the Keeper standing on the side. His presence was very low, and he did not speak.

"Sorry, why are you following me?"

Xia De asked, and the man carrying the black suitcase answered in an awkward ancient language:

"I am the Tower Keeper. In human cognition, I will give tests to people who enter ancient old towers, and then give them knowledge. However, I am also willing to help those noble people who are willing to sacrifice and fall from the high tower. You once fell from a high tower, so I can give you some knowledge you want, even if you cannot answer my question."

"I once fell from a high tower? And it was a sacrifice?"

Xia De pointed to himself in confusion, and then inexplicably thought of the time in autumn when the Chosen of Death, Joy Barton, used 【Myriad Phenomena·Death】 to divine for him, and believed that he had already died under the high tower in the spring of 1853, ten months ago.

At that time, he thought the divination was wrong, but he didn't expect to hear a similar statement again today:

"What high tower did I fall from?"

He was very puzzled by this. In the past of this body investigated by the Academy, there was no mention of any "high tower." Grace and Helen, who had been waiting for Xia De since the Fifth Era, had also investigated the past of this body, and also did not mention any "high tower."

"I can only give you knowledge, I cannot trace your history."

Gao Ta Keeper continued to say. He used the language of the Fifth Era, which was not difficult at all for Xia De, who was proficient in ancient languages:

"You want to give me knowledge... Sorry, let me think about it..."

He maintained the posture of aiming his right hand at the light source, and tried to ask:

"Why do Wisdom Angels stay in the material world?"

Xia De had not forgotten the "fourth ring of the trial of the Goddess of the Lake," which represented a drop of divinity. But he actually didn't hold much hope. After all, even the gods of the Fifth Era refused to answer this question.

Gao Ta Keeper nodded slightly:

"I can give you the answer."

"What?"

Xia De raised his head abruptly, almost unable to believe his ears. This was probably the most shocking thing since tonight. He had to confirm it again:

"Do you know why Wisdom Angels stay in the material world?"

"All Keeper-type relics know, because this is our past."

The man carrying the black suitcase looked at Xia De with a calm expression:

"As long as you ask, we will all tell you, this is not a difficult problem."

But the problem was that for the sake of the Glow Stones, Xia De had never asked this question to any Keeper for a period of time. If it weren't for the fact that the Keeper in front of him thought he had fallen from a high tower and was willing to answer a question directly, it would be impossible for Xia De to choose to ask a question instead of a Glow Stone after completing the Keeper's test.

This also meant that the answer had always been in front of him, but he could not touch it. ===== CHAPTER 1101 =====