Chapter 1129: Door of Knowledge

Regarding Xia De's idea, Luvia naturally agreed, and Iluna also knew Priest Augustus of the Dawn Church, so she had no objections. Luvia refused to accept the qualification of the Chosen One, and Iluna, just like on the dead mudflats in autumn, refused to accept the power of the Chosen One outside of balance.

"To tell the truth, I once considered bestowing the qualification upon Miss Witch-Sylvia."

Xia De frowned slightly; facing Luvia and Iluna, he did not need to lie:

"But later I gave up. Miss Sylvia is different from Sister Dervin. Although the Sister is extremely close to the Witch Council, she herself is the leader of the 【Spirit Cultivation Sect】 and can make decisions for all her own actions; the Council cannot directly influence her.

"But we do not fully understand all the Great Witches of the Witch Council, let alone Miss Isabella, who is both a thirteen-ring Ringed Shushi and a thirteenth-tier Witch. Rather than creating complications, it is better to abandon this candidate. Therefore, I did not even mention this arrow to the Witches; I merely said that the qualification for the fourth Chosen had vanished as completely as the qualification for darkness."

He looked at Luvia and Iluna respectively:

"The only ones who know about this arrow are Sister Dervin, you two, and me, a total of four people..."

"Meow~"

The cat under Xia De's hand meowed.

"Oh, and Mia. Speaking of which, I also once considered giving the qualification to Mia."

He suddenly said something that surprised the girls:

"Give it to a cat?"

Iluna asked somewhat surprised, while Luvia looked at her:

"Mia also meets the requirements of the arrow itself?"

"Yes, she also meets the requirements, and... sometimes I really feel that her wisdom is truly very high. I find it hard to imagine what other cat could be smarter than Little Mia."

Fingers fiddling with the chin of the "smartest cat," the cat immediately made a purring sound; she liked playing with Xia De like this.

"This can serve as a backup option; I believe your cat will never betray you, even if she is bestowed with stronger wisdom and power. However, if you choose to let the qualification of the Chosen One remain in the arrow for a long time, it also means that you can no longer use the power of this arrow."

Luvia warned, and Xia De nodded:

"I understand, but compared to a powerful weapon, I would rather keep the qualification of the Chosen One in our hands and wait until the last moment to make a choice. In this way, at least when we are waiting for the final door to open, we have mastered complete initiative."

Luvia and Iluna looked at each other, and the girls nodded together:

"That's good, then it's settled; we will make the choice for the Chosen One of 【Knowledge and Wisdom】 at the last moment."

In the small dark corner of Iluna's heart, she rejoiced that the three were still three, and she was still the irreplaceable one.

Thinking about it, the seventeen-year-old girl summoned her destiny ring again.

Very unexpectedly, Iluna, who was originally at the fifth ring, had already been promoted to the sixth ring, once again one ring higher than Xia De. And among the spirit runes filling the fifth ring, the enlightenment 【Light of Wisdom】 caught Xia De's attention:

"This is..."

"That's right, the new ability I obtained from the enlightenment of the Chosen One ritual!"

Iluna said excitedly, and five 【Wisdom Glow Stones】 flew out of her pocket, floating in an arc above her head:

"Through these five glow stones, I can convert my own spiritual light into light rays that possess substantial damage ability... I tested it at the church; it is true damage similar to soul damage. Theoretically, the more spirit runes I have, and the stronger my understanding of my own spirit runes, the stronger the power of the light rays will be."

She commanded the five glow stones to shine:

"Now it is just five rays, but in the future, it can become five torrents of light rays... This is similar to the usage of the witch Xia De found."

"Leikins Pulisia also used a similar ability."

Xia De added, and glanced at Luvia. The latter said nothing, but both understood that Iluna had once again obtained the power of the Chosen One that did not belong to her. Although this ability was only a small part of the power of the Chosen One, it was indeed the power of the Chosen One.

Besides the power of "Light of Wisdom," the bone whistle that Iluna carried with her at that time also possessed the possibility of being permanently repaired because it was influenced by the light of enlightenment; in this way, the number of times the skeleton horse could be summoned would not be just three times left.

It was just that the cost of repairing this bone whistle was quite high. Even if Iluna was a Chosen One, it was impossible for the church to give her a large sum of money for free to let her do this. But fortunately, the bonus Iluna received every time she went on "official business" was not small, plus the year-end bonus issued for the Year-End Festival and her own savings, repairing this whistle was still not a problem.

Iluna's usual expenses were actually not much; besides reading novels, she did not have many hobbies. Plus, as a Chosen One, she received special training from the church, and she did not even have to pay too much for learning spirit runes and sorcery, and she had extra field subsidies and mission subsidies every month, so Iluna's financial situation was actually much better than Xia De's.

"Besides the qualification of the Chosen One..."

Xia De took his Rhode deck out of his pocket again, and found 【Founding · Knowledge】 from it:

"Just like when a door appeared in the Deck of Many Things after eliminating Darkness, after I defeated Sir Leikins Pulisia head-on and contained his identity as a Chosen One, a door also appeared in this card, a door leading to the space left behind by the Old God, the 【Hall of the Keeper of Secrets】. However, because it was not completely killing the Chosen One and letting the qualification disappear completely, after this door is placed, it requires the arrow and the card as keys to open the door, and it is best for the arrow not to be far from the door for a long time, otherwise it will cause the door to be unstable."

Looking at it this way, those strange spaces were truly closely related to the power of the Old Gods.

"The space left behind by the Old God of Knowledge and Wisdom?"

Iluna was very curious, and Xia De nodded:

"I have heard of this place from Miss Dannister of the Academy; to be precise, the three major academies possess methods to reach this wonderful location. Last night, I saw that Goddess of the Lake again in Huntington City, and She gave me knowledge about the Hall."

And originally knowing the function of the "Dark Dungeon" was because the Tree Father gave knowledge.

"Then try entering it and see."

Iluna suggested, and Xia De nodded:

"No problem; entering the space left behind by the Old God from different entrances, unless there is a prior agreement, will not lead to meeting each other, so we also don't need to worry about bumping into people from the Academy. It's just... where should this door be placed?"

"Your basement has two doors, the third-floor corridor has a door; this time, why not choose the first floor, second floor, or the attic."

Luvia suggested, and she also became interested in this.

"Let me think..."

Xia De, holding Little Mia, thought carefully for a moment, and looked at his own home:

"It definitely cannot be placed in Room 1 on the second floor; this is where Mia and I live, and guests visit from time to time, so try not to involve supernatural power... Then place it in Room 2."

He stood up with the card, and Iluna and Luvia followed him through the secret door on the wall to the next room.

Xia De had never added furniture to Room 2 on the second floor, but the structure of the room here was basically the same as Room 1. Because Miss Galina's maid would come to clean every Saturday, the floor and walls of the room were very tidy. Xia De held the deck in one hand and the arrow in the other, while Little Mia followed at his feet, wanting to see what Xia De was going to do.

Looking at the empty living room illuminated by moonlight, Xia De already had an idea:

"Looking at it this way, the placement problem of the 【Aikenola - Arrow of the Chosen One】 has also been solved."

The destiny ring appeared from the depths of the steam fog, and after producing shadows in coordination with the moonlight, that secret compartment with the yellow moonlight pull-ring appeared on the wall.

Mr. Euclid, the astrologer from a hundred years ago, used strange space and the power of the moon to create this secret compartment; Xia De did not even understand its creation principle at all, which involved quite sophisticated alchemy technology:

"I want to store the arrow here, and unless necessary, I will absolutely not take it out."

He said to the girls, and Iluna exclaimed in admiration:

"There is no better position than here; even if one knows about this place, without the moon spirit rune, one cannot open the secret compartment."

"This is a secret that only the three of us know."

The purple-eyed girl said to the other two, a smile bloomed on Iluna's face, while Xia De reached out and placed the arrow into it, then closed the door of the secret compartment, watching it return to the appearance of a wall.

Subsequently, he threw out 【Deck of Many Things · Knowledge】; under the moonlight, the card flew toward the wall automatically under the traction of inexplicable power, and then the back of the card stuck to the wall surface, which happened to be the original position of the secret compartment.

Xia De, with a serious expression, extended his right hand, with his index and middle fingers together, and pointed at the card.

Strange halos rippled out from the surface of the card as his fingertips touched it. At the same time, thin white fog drifted out from the gap where the back of the card contacted the wall, spreading along the wall as if it possessed wisdom, until it covered a square area the size of a door frame.

Xia De took the card away from the wall, watching that white fog door slowly disappear:

"No problem, the position of the door has already been fixed here. And then the incantation for entering—"

He coughed:

"May the Mentor protect me, in the sea of ignorance."

His palm pressed against the wall, and the white fog door was opened again. Generally speaking, entering the space left behind by the Old God requires three conditions, which are spirit runes, artifacts, and incantations. And the door formed by the 【Deck of Many Things】 does not require spirit runes and artifacts, only the incantation is needed.

And the knowledge given by the angel showed that the artifact needed to normally open this door is the "Wisdom Glow Stone."

"Follow me."

The three looked curiously at the fourth white fog door in Xia De's home, Xia De beckoned to the girls, then bent down to pick up Little Mia, and the three stepped into it together. ===== CHAPTER 1130 =====