Chapter 1169: Crossing the Silver Moon Gate

Xia De didn't stay overnight at Luweiya's place but returned home in the night, after all, Dorothy had said she was coming to St. Deran Square today.

He thought this slightly busy Friday was finally coming to an end. But just as Xia De walked out of the basement, Dorothy, wearing slippers, ran down from the upstairs lit by gas lamps:

"Oh, Xia De, you're finally back. If you didn't come back, I really wouldn't know what to do."

"What's wrong?"

Xia De asked in surprise, and also walked up the stairs. The blonde girl stuffed his poetry manuscript pages into his hands:

"Half an hour ago, your poetry manuscript pages had news. Miss Danister is coming here at nine o'clock tonight, asking you to prepare... although I don't know what you need to prepare, it's good that you're back. It's now eight ten..."

"Nineteen minutes and twenty-three seconds."

Xia De said the precise time, and immediately realized that Miss Danister had spent more than half a month finally collecting all the materials for the "Ritual - Calling the Gate of the Silver Moon Library."

"That's great. Actually, there's no need to prepare anything. Oh, I'm going to boil a pot of hot water and prepare black tea."

"I won't be here."

Dorothy kissed Xia De's side face and touched Mia's back amidst the cat's dissatisfied meows:

"I don't want to disturb your business."

"But..."

Xia De wanted to call Dorothy back, but the female sorcerer who had walked into the foyer guessed what he wanted to say, looked back and smiled at him:

"I'll go back to the apartment on Feather Pen Street to get some clothes and come back at ten-thirty to listen carefully to your adventures in Randall Valley. Or should it be later? I don't know how long you'll need."

Miss Danister was probably too excited. When Xia De opened the downstairs door at nine o'clock and saw the thirteenth-ring female sorcerer walking off the 【Midnight Nightmare Carriage】, her first sentence wasn't to exchange good evenings with Xia De, but asked somewhat nervously:

"Is the Source of Chaos still with you?"

"Of course it is, why wouldn't it be?"

Xia De asked curiously, watching the carriage slide away invisibly in the shadows.

"Just worried that something would go wrong at the end. After all, you know how long I've waited for this day."

She was carrying a large black suitcase. Xia De politely reached out to help carry it after Miss Danister entered the door; this contained the ritual materials.

This special ritual that could call the "Gate of the Silver Moon Library" needed to be held in a "Moon Holy Residence" with a "library or study scene." The second room on the second floor of St. Deran Square was the Moon Holy Residence, and in the first half of the month, Princess Lei Qianya paid for the renovation, turning the living room of the second room into a study and reception room, so the ritual was held there.

Such a renovation had other benefits; the 【Hall of Keepers】 was also in the living room of the second room, and having tables and chairs made it convenient for Xia De to use it at any time.

This was the most complex ritual Xia De had participated in so far. Miss Danister manipulated the items in the suitcase she brought, painting the ritual base array on the floor between the desk and the coffee table.

The thirteenth-ring female sorcerer relied on her exquisite control and wonders Xia De couldn't understand to let the materials fly to their positions automatically. But fine work like adjusting the tilt angle of the silver mirror and sprinkling "Star Dust" around specific runes still required Xia De and Miss Danister to do it themselves.

Setting up the ritual took nearly forty minutes. After everything was ready, Miss Danister took out that wordless black book, and she and Xia De checked it several times before finally confirming there was really no problem.

At this moment, mercury runes were painted on the floor of the second room on the second floor, and blessed holy silver and olive branches built a high platform, on which a gold and silver floor mirror was placed. The mirror itself was not a supernatural item, but this mirror was a creation of the Elven race, with a history of 1300 years, and the dense patterns were covered with Elven runes.

The number of gems and diamonds was almost uncountable. According to Miss Danister, the cost of all the ritual materials in front of them was close to 40,000 pounds. There were no rare items that "only exist in limited quantities in the material world," which meant that if Xia De could gather 40,000 pounds, he could also open this ritual once.

【Sell No. 6 St. Deran Square, you could also...】

"That's absolutely impossible!"

Xia De retorted in his heart, and then predictably heard "Her" laughter.

"Very good, very smooth."

Miss Danister said somewhat nervously, closing the black book floating beside her, and throwing the "Source of Chaos" floating out of the book back to Xia De, making the information in the book disappear:

"Confirm the key."

"It's here."

Xia De turned and walked toward the magnificent painted brown wooden desk, chased away the sleeping cat, and lifted the lid of the box, and the glowing stone slab floated out from it. Because Xia De didn't want to admit that all three keys were in his hands, he only took out the "Yellow Moon Stone Slab" that originally belonged to St. Byron's at this moment.

"The key is here, the ritual can begin."

Miss Danister nodded, and Xia De hugged the restless cat and walked out again, with the stone slab following behind him. In the center of the huge mercury ritual base array was the high platform with the silver mirror standing. Three thin rune lines extended from under the high platform, drawing three circles inside the ritual base array.

Miss Danister stood in the leftmost circle, Xia De stood in the rightmost, and then threw the "Source of Chaos" toward the central mercury circle. The round bead was like an iron block attracted by a magnet, falling accurately toward the circle, and then suspended above the ground.

Amidst the sound of whistles and bells, the Destiny Rings of the two sorcerers appeared behind them. With the illumination of the 【Red Moon】 and 【Silver Moon】 spirit runes, the light of the yellow moon represented by the 【Source of Chaos】 also shone toward the silver mirror.

The silver mirror became somewhat illusory in the light of the three moons overlapping, and the scenery of the second room on the second floor in the mirror's reflection gradually changed into the scene of three moons suspended in the starry sky.

The final step, the wordless black book flew toward the silver mirror on the high platform. As the book entered the interior of the mirror surface, the mirror itself shattered amidst a harsh sound. White thick fog surged from every shattered mirror fragment, wrapping the high platform in an instant.

Xia De and Miss Danister held their breath, and even little Mia widened her eyes, looking curiously toward there.

As the white fog dispersed, the original high platform had disappeared. The silver metal double-opening giant door flashing with the brilliance of stars and the moon stood on the floor of No. 6 St. Deran Square, surrounded by the fragments of the shattered antique silver mirror.

So sacred, so beautiful, so charming. On the silver metal gate, one door was carved with the trajectory of the starry sky and the moon, and the other was carved with a white-robed sage sitting on a high stool. It was a lady who was turning her head, her appearance unclear. The relief carved the beautiful side face, one hand holding up the moon, and the other flipping through the book on the desk, while the side was filled with bookshelves of varying heights.

"【Silver Moon Library】, finally..."

Miss Danister almost groaned these words, gazing obsessively at the gate in front of her:

"Unimaginable, truly beautiful."

That gate was reflected in the eyes of the two people and one cat. Little Mia blinked her amber eyes, and from a certain angle, her eyes had almost turned silver-white at this moment. And Xia De tried hard to control his breathing. His body underwent a strange change that even he didn't understand after that gate appeared.

His heartbeat accelerated sharply, and his breathing frequency was so high that even his chest showed visible heaving. He felt a certain power attracting him; it was a power that was very important to him, as if a part of his soul was missing, and the missing part was inside that gate.

【This is your illusion, your soul is more complete than anyone else's.】

Because the ritual required it, there were no lights on in the room at this moment. All the doors of the second room were closed, and the windows of the living room were also covered by curtains. Starry light appeared in the enclosed space as the "Gate" was summoned. Xia De hugged Mia and came to the silver gate with Miss Danister, crossing the starlight.

The two read the incantation written on the wordless black book together:

"May the original silver moon protect me under the starry sky of the long night."

Along the door crack from top to bottom, three rectangular grooves appeared in turn, their size exactly the same as the stone slab floating beside Xia De at this moment.

Without Miss Danister's reminder, Xia De took the initiative to push the stone slab beside him, and it automatically floated toward the central groove. When the stone slab was snapped into the silver giant gate seamlessly, faint golden moonlight, centered on the stone slab, extended up and down toward the door crack.

When the golden moonlight completely soaked every inch of the door crack, silently, the left door panel carved with stars and the moon opened a crack, of course, only a crack.

And behind that crack was indeed the thick fog squirming like white silk that Xia De was familiar with.

The library gate summoned by the ritual could only be entered by those participating in the ritual, which for this time was the two of them. Xia De then made a gesture of invitation. Miss Danister bit her lower lip, looked at the gate, nodded, and walked into the gate that only opened a crack first.

Xia De followed and walked in. Of course, he was still holding Mia. Because he had always brought this cat when entering such spaces left by Old Gods in the past, he didn't notice that the "Silver Moon Library," which could only be entered by two people, had an extra cat this time.

White fog wrapped around his whole body, and the warm feeling was as if he had returned home... he was home. His soul became sluggish for a moment because of the beauty of this moment, and "Her" welcome also sounded in his ears:

【Outsider, you have entered the "Silver Moon Library."】 ===== CHAPTER 1170 =====

【Outsider, you have entered the "Silver Moon Library."】