Chapter 1211
Margaret provided Xia De with news and said with a smile what she had just learned:
"My brother came to Randell Valley, and it turns out he had other purposes like me. Do you remember the gold ore you picked up last week? I was curious at the time where the gold mine was discovered locally. Just now I heard local rumors that Stone Osenfurt's men explored a gold mine locally and cooperated with my brother to develop it. Of course, it is still just a rumor, and this rumor seems to have problems, so it cannot be ruled out whether this is some trick."
"I heard from Miss Lasers that Mr. Osenfurt originally handled some things for your brother that he himself was not convenient to handle."
"Yes, Mr. Osenfurt's rise to fortune has something to do with William. This is a very capable and lucky person. However, this person is also too ruthless, and I will not use this kind of person."
Princess Margaret said softly, Xia De nodded, and thought of the warehouse burned by fire this evening:
"Don't talk about these. I obtained some information about the Stonemason Association from Tobesk. Miss Galina's relationship allowed me to access some secrets. By tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, I will bring the documents to you. It can be determined for now that the collapse of the colossus twenty years ago had nothing to do with MI6, but there was a shadow of MI6 in inciting the stonemasons to make trouble. The assassination last week had nothing to do with MI6."
"These can be guessed. Miss Bernice's test is not simple, but there is always a way to think of it. When the time comes, maybe I will need your help. People around me who are reliable and capable cannot compare to you."
"Helping you is my honor, Your Highness."
Xia De said with a smile. The princess with long light golden hair beckoned to him and offered her kiss again.
"Since you have urgent matters to find Miss Lasers, go quickly. Don't delay your business."
The princess pushed Xia De lightly and reached out to wipe the lipstick mark on his lips:
"Speaking of which, your kissing technique is really..."
A second before the incident happened, Xia De's inspiration captured the signal of danger. When he hugged Margaret and stood up abruptly, the whole house began to tremble.
The books on the bookshelf fell to the ground with a clatter. Because of the trembling of the floor, all the furniture seemed to dance together. The teacup on the table fell on the carpet and then hit the metal legs of the coffee table with a clatter. The crystal lamp on the head shook at a very dangerous angle, and the glass chandeliers collided with each other. Although the crystal lamp didn't fall, some broken glass shards fell.
"Earthquake!"
The music in the banquet hall had stopped, replaced by screams. The gas lamp flickered a few times and then went out suddenly, and it took at least five seconds to light up again, but the brightness was not as good as before.
Margaret felt the whole world shaking, but she was tightly hugged by Xia De, and Xia De stood still as if he had grown on the ground.
This earthquake lasted for thirteen seconds before stopping. At this time, the room was already in a mess, and only one corner of the oil painting frame on the wall was fixed by a nail. Fortunately, the Earl's mansion was strong enough, and this earthquake did not cause problems with the building itself:
"Let's go out quickly, maybe there will be aftershocks later!"
Margaret hugged Xia De's arm tightly. At this time, the maids outside the door had already rushed in, but they all pretended not to see Xia De.
"Margaret, you take people out first. Something happened, this earthquake is not normal."
Xia De looked at the back garden of the manor with a serious face:
"The essence of this land is changing. Margaret, take your people to leave the manor as soon as possible. Something extraordinary will happen later. I feel it, this time is very unusual. What exactly happened?"
"But Xia De..."
"We are not performing a knight's play, Margaret, take people out."
The princess nodded biting her lip, and after saying goodbye softly, she watched Xia De push open the window and jump out from the window - this is the second floor. Margaret wanted to look at Xia De's situation by the window, but then felt a kind of extremely chaotic power, which was trying to influence and penetrate herself. She knew that she couldn't help even if she stayed, so she could only leave in a hurry with her people. Worried about Xia De's situation in her heart, she didn't know what would happen later.
At this time, Xia De, who jumped into the back garden from the window, had landed lightly on the ground, and then saw a layer of black mist lingering near his ankles, penetrating towards the front of the manor.
Those black mists were only under his feet, and the way of penetration and spreading was very similar to the earthy yellow spiritual energy erupted by Xia De's 【Earth Power · Healing Aura】. And in that black mist, he clearly felt the power characteristics of black mud representing the crazy essence of the earth, which was something that had never happened before.
He wanted to walk towards the source of the black mist, but aftershocks did appear. While the ground shook, the black mist covering the ground flowed and spread at a faster speed. Although this could not affect Xia De, he dared not imagine what would happen if the black mist spread to ordinary people who had not yet exited the manor.
"People from the Orthodox Church should have come, right?"
Observing the flow direction of the black mist and walking quickly towards the source, just after bypassing the flower bed, he heard the sound of fighting in front. After confirming his disguise, he walked over, but the first thing he saw was not the people fighting, but the white stone fountain in the center of the Earl's manor back garden, which was spraying black liquid into the sky at this time:
"Oil was found here?"
The surprised thought was discarded by Xia De immediately:
"It's that kind of black mud!"
Everyone was avoiding the attack of the black mud, leaving a circle around the fountain completely empty. Among the more than ten ring warlocks present, there were both Miss Lasers and three others, as well as priests of the Orthodox Church.
Two middle-ring priests were busy arranging rituals and performing divine arts at this time, preventing the flowing black mud from spreading to the surroundings. But what they could do was only slow down the flow speed of the black mud, and they could not block the black mist spreading from the "fountain" at all.
Although the situation here is not as bad as the St. Perry cemetery, it must be known that the St. Perry cemetery has a seal. The violent erupting black mud is the enemy of all flesh and blood life, and as the range of black mud spreading gets larger and larger, the people fighting are also constantly moving.
At this time, Miss Lasers and the other two were fighting against a high-ring warlock and two middle-ring warlocks together with ring warlocks Xia De didn't know, as well as three ring warlocks of the Orthodox Church.
Clearly, the priests blocking the black mud and the middle-ring warlocks fighting belonged to the same team, and among the opponents fighting Miss Lasers and the others, Xia De recognized one of the middle-ring middle-aged men. That was the enemy who appeared with the high-ring warlock of the Blood Spirit School when he camped outside the city with Miss Bernice.
And since it is related to the Blood Spirit School, Xia De can be sure that the other party is his enemy:
"Light of Confinement!"
Five bright silver halos flew out. Although they were immediately shattered by the high-ring warlock's wind blade, they also bought time for Miss Lasers and others to move further away.
"No matter who you are, don't get close to those black muds!"
Miss Lasers shouted loudly at Xia De. She recognized Xia De, but Xia De also noticed that this young lady didn't seem to be convenient when walking. There was no time to talk at this time. The crackling silver thunder light had appeared in Xia De's hand. Just when he wanted to join the battle, a heavy sound came from the depths of the erupting black mud.
【Someone is coming.】
A humanoid creature with a height of almost three meters and wrapped in gray stones all over its body crawled out from the erupting "spring eye" stepping on the black mud.
Although the black mud did not affect the stone itself, the normal soul was inevitably polluted by the power of the crazy earth, so the red eyes of this "stone man" were abnormal, and while barely controlling himself to walk out, even his footsteps were a bit staggering.
"What is this? Xenogeneic creature?"
【No, the other party is human. Feeling the power of the same origin as 'Earth Power', this should also be a branch power of Earth Power.】
"He is a believer of the evil god 【Stone Heart Demon】!"
Just as Xia De was surprised, the church priest shouted loudly at Xia De. And the "gray stone giant" whose mental state was clearly abnormal also looked at Xia De for the first time. This was not bad luck, but the other party also sensed the power belonging to the earth:
"Ha!"
In the giant roar, the stone fist rushed towards Xia De stepping on the black mud, and the heavy footsteps made the ground seem to tremble again. Since every ring warlock with "Earth Power" could be the chosen one of the earth, Xia De was also interested in him, so he greeted him.
He didn't call any weapons, nor did he use any wonders of the moonlight series that would expose his identity, but fought back with physical strength.
The stone fist held high waved from a high place, and Xia De's clenched fist fought back from a low place. But the collision of the fists made no sound, and Xia De's body was passed through by the stone fist, directly scattering into a group of scarlet butterflies.
The flying red butterflies sprinkled light spots above the black mud, and the "giant" in a poor mental state could not distinguish where Xia De was from the illusion of the red butterflies.
He stood in place, roaring loudly while waving his fists at the butterflies in the air, which was completely useless.
"Elson! The thing has been obtained, don't entangle with the enemy, let's go quickly!"
Even if his companion shouted his name loudly, asking him to retreat with them quickly, he couldn't wake up the giant whose spirit was already on the verge of collapse.
The other party is a nine-ring warlock, and nine-ring also belongs to high-ring. Xia De in a normal state could not fight against such an enemy, but the abnormal mental state gave Xia De an opportunity. The flying red butterflies gradually surrounded the "giant", and at the same time, the silver mist summoned by 【Silver Moon Illusion】 also shrouded over.
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