Chapter 133: Battle on the Bridge

"No problem, this is the thing I came to get."

Xia De nodded and simply re-wrapped the makeup box with newspaper:

"That lady didn't let me bring the reward for you."

"She has already paid. She threatened us and then bought this at a low price."

The Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi of 【Mercury Blood】 said in a muffled voice and glanced at the stranger:

"You were hired by that lady, right? She didn't want us to know her true identity. But it's probably guessable. With this kind of behavior, it must be a witch from the Witch Council, just don't know which one specifically. That group of crazy women..."

"You don't have to tell me your guess."

Xia De stopped the other party. He didn't forget that 【Mercury Blood】 was not a good person. Even if everything the other party said was true, it was better to listen less.

"Oh? Are you afraid of being silenced if you hear too much news? Those women who claim to have inherited the legacy of the ancient witch emperors are quite hateful to men. Hiring you is just using you. She probably doesn't want people to know of her existence, so you definitely don't know who the other party is specifically. Or rather... are you not a man at all?"

The other party asked again in a provocative tone. Xia De deliberately sneered to show disdain. This kind of means of provoking conflict was too low-level.

Simply ignoring the other party, he watched the coachman and retreated slowly. After reaching a safe distance, he turned and left.

Thick fog filled the night. It was only a few minutes of short pickup, and standing in the middle of the bridge, he couldn't see the bridge entrance clearly.

The man dressed as a coachman saw Xia De not listening, laughed, and wanted to board the carriage to leave from the other direction of the Taqiao. But at this moment, a figure wearing a black robe and a hood suddenly rushed up from under the bridge.

The timing of her appearance was very clever, taking advantage of both the thick fog and the relaxation phase after the handover was completed. After boarding the bridge, she rushed toward the coachman. The coachman threw a punch forward, and mercury-like liquid wrapped around his arm, causing his fist to break through the air and make a startling whistle.

The hooded figure dodged nimbly to the side, and then summoned her life ring amidst the ringing of bells. The life ring rotated, and the brass-colored enlightenment rune 【Frozen Person】 flickered. In the summer night fog, there was actually a rustling sound of water vapor condensing.

Xia De turned to look at the sudden battle. The mercury on the coachman's fist seemed to have problems in the low temperature, but the hooded figure still didn't dare to confront him head-on easily.

Both people fighting summoned their life rings, and the emergence of steam mist made the vision even more blurred.

"Stranger, this is a conflict between me and 【Mercury Blood】. This matter has nothing to do with you, leave here."

The woman's voice came from under the hood. Xia De, who was about to leave, stopped his steps. He carefully placed the makeup box wrapped in newspaper on the bridge deck, and the life ring belonging to a one-ring mage gradually emerged behind him.

"A one-ring mage? Help me out, it won't be to your disadvantage."

The man of Mercury Blood shouted.

"Of course, no problem."

Xia De said, and walked quickly toward the two people entangled in fighting.

The situation now was evenly matched, but because of the sneak attack, the hooded person seemed to have the upper hand.

The brass-colored enlightenment spiritual light emerging from the hooded person's body was resisting the power of the mercury on the coachman's fist. The life rings of both sides rotated. The hooded person and the coachman were both four-ring mages, but the latter was clearly better at head-on combat.

Xia De had approached the two through the thick fog on the bridge deck, his right hand flickering with silver radiance, drawing a bright light in the air. The radiance was extremely dazzling and eye-catching, appearing in the summer night shrouded in thick fog, actually making the coachman lose his mind for a moment:

"So beautiful... No, why is this light toward me..."

The slash of the Silver Moon slashed to his face in a flash. Although he saw that the other party was a one-ring mage and knew that the power of the miracle wouldn't be very strong, the instinctive alertness in his heart still made him raise his other arm to block.

But unexpectedly, that silver light actually slashed a thin, long wound on his arm. The blood flowing from the wound was mixed with silver luster, and soon soaked the clothes on his shoulder.

"No! How could you slash through my skin?"

Xia De knew that the huge gap in ring numbers couldn't be made up by the state of divine radiance, so the second light trail of the Silver Moon left his hand immediately. At the same time, silver mist gradually gathered from all around, and the illusion of the moon shadow hid his figure in front of the enemy.

Facing the second moon mark, the coachman chose to dodge immediately this time, but he dodged the silver moon radiance from afar, but didn't dodge the figure under the hood nearby.

The hooded person grabbed his shoulder. As the white palm exerted force and the joints bulged, Xia De understood the meaning of the incantation:

"At the end of the fairy tale, the firelight takes away the traces of life!"

Dazzling firelight soared into the night fog. The coachman grabbed by the hooded person burned like a torch. He screamed and broke free from the hooded person's palm, and then was slashed on his left arm by the third light of the Silver Moon.

It still only broke the inner layer of mercury defense of the skin, but it wasn't fatal. The coachman in the firelight broke free from the hooded person's palm, and then jumped forward, jumping into the Terraril River on the side amidst the thick fog.

The hooded person hesitated for a moment, and followed the firelight trail in the air, jumping off the bridge. When Xia De dissipated the illusion and lay on the bridge to look down, he couldn't penetrate the thick fog to see the water surface and the two people who jumped off the bridge.

So he could only turn on 【Blood Echo】 to observe the bloodstains. Of course, there was a long string of red light halos in the air, but the blood was quickly washed away by the water after entering the water, and could not continue to be tracked.

"So the nemesis of the tracking ability 【Blood Echo】 is the water surface or the river channel."

He thought so, shrugged, looked at the frightened horse for a moment, and then turned to get the makeup box that was placed on the ground.

Five minutes later, Xia De met Miss Louisa, who was soaking wet, under the bridge. She had already taken off her hood, and her wet long golden hair was sticking to her side face, which further highlighted that the golden-haired girl was in a bad mood:

"Good evening, detective. Actually met you by coincidence again. Being able to let him escape in this situation, it's really bad luck!"

She said dejectedly, recognizing that it was Xia De from the silver moonlight just now. Xia De recognized Miss Louisa by her voice, which was very simple, her voice was very recognizable.

"This is a coincidence. Someone hired me to take an item, so I happened to be here."

He shook the object in his hand.

"That lady's task is this? It's quite simple."

Miss Louisa said while tidying her hair. She didn't care much about the transaction object of that lady being 【Mercury Blood】. As long as it wasn't deep-level cooperation with 【Mercury Blood】, just buying and selling items was a very normal thing. And according to Xia De's information, "that lady" had a high status and strong strength, so it was absolutely impossible to be a cooperation object of 【Mercury Blood】.

"Detective, is there any more water that can heal?"

After tidying her wet hair, without dealing with the clothes that were still dripping, Miss Louisa asked Xia De.

"Are you injured?"

While asking, he got some water from the small bottle he carried with him, and lightly touched it, letting the water surface radiate silver luster.

"Minor injury, was punched in the river. He seems to have the ability to transform into a fish, or it's an artifact. I'm fine, just feel that my lungs are a little uncomfortable."

Miss Louisa said, but learned the lesson of hiccuping last time, this time she only drank a little, then avoided Xia De's sight, and poured the rest of the water on her abdomen, before handing the bottle back to Xia De.

During this process, Xia De looked to the side like a gentleman, pretending to be interested in the night view of the Taqiao and Tobesk.

"Do you need 【Cynthia's Silver Moon Gift】?"

Xia De asked again, and handed the robe he used to cover his identity to Miss Louisa, who was soaking wet. Now it was summer, and the robe only meant hiding his identity to Xia De, not keeping warm.

Miss Louisa didn't expect him to do this. After whispering thanks, she wrapped herself tightly with the robe.

Although she could set others on fire, she couldn't use the flame to warm and dry herself. After all, in no version of the Little Match Girl story did the match girl save herself with flames.

"No need for treatment for the time being, that punch didn't contain mental attack components. Also, your 【Silver Moon Slash】 is really good, even the defense of a four-ring mage can be broken, but the power is still not enough, after all, the ring number is too low..."

She sniffed.

Xia De's reason for appearing was to pick up goods for someone, and Miss Louisa appearing dressed like this late at night was still for Doctor Schneider's Academy bounty order.

Although the doctor was now bedridden, Miss Louisa, as a partner, could still do some things.

Currently, under the pursuit of the Orthodox Church, the 【Mercury Blood】 organization had scattered into pieces all over the city. While tracking an important member, Miss Louisa learned of the transaction that existed tonight. So she thought about whether she could catch a live one and ask about 【Fake Philosopher's Stone】, but didn't expect that even with Xia De's unexpected help, she still failed.

"Now all the Ring Mages in Tobesk know that the Five Gods Church has reached an agreement. Next week, the Church of the Sun will send a thirteen-ring mage to fill the vacancy of no thirteen-ring mage in the Tobesk diocese for the time being. Cultists and 【Mercury Blood】 are eager to hide, hiding those important items and materials in various places in the city, kept by ordinary people, so now is a good opportunity to find 【Fake Philosopher's Stone】."

"Then do we need to continue to find that guy who entered the water? If we can find where he went ashore, I think my eyes can find him."

Xia De proposed, as long as that guy was still bleeding, he would definitely leave traces after going ashore.

But he shook the item in his hand again:

"I can only stay for half an hour, this thing must be sent to the employer as soon as possible."