Chapter 1367

The door opened, and a girl with curly brown hair walked in. She was tall, wearing a white lady's shirt with a black lady's formal uniform on her upper body, a fountain pen in her pocket, a black narrow skirt without any decoration on her lower body, and high-heeled black leather shoes on her feet.

She looked twenty-four or twenty-five years old, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, and her hair was meticulously managed and hung behind her. Although she looked very young, the whole person had a quite heavy sense of maturity.

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"You usually call my surname directly, so call her, just call her Hayley."

Miss Aurora said, signaling her niece to walk over:

"Hayley, over here. Sylvia and Bernice, you have seen them four or five times before, so I won't introduce them. This is Miss Ciris Lathers, the deputy leader of the Golden Dawn under the Council."

"Hello."

The young girl bowed to say hello, and Miss Lathers hurriedly stood up to indicate that there was no need to be so polite.

"This is Miss Luvia Anat, a good friend of ours."

"Hello."

She bowed to Luvia again, and Luvia also nodded to her, also quite curious about her.

"As for this handsome young gentleman."

Miss Aurora reread the word "gentleman", making the ladies on the sofa smile:

"He is our... very important person. Yes, it is the one I have repeatedly mentioned to you."

So young Miss Hayley Aurora wanted to bend over to bow to Xia De again. Because Xia De was closer to her, he reached out to support her:

"No need to be so polite."

Miss Hayley Aurora straightened her waist, but Xia De noticed that her ears were completely red. Obviously, the whole person looked quite serious and mature, but the blushing appearance was unexpectedly interesting.

"Xia De, don't look at her acting so seriously, actually she had mild autism before and didn't dare to talk to others much. It is because of this that I let her contact my business to exercise social skills."

Miss Aurora said with a smile:

"It's much better now, talking to strangers is fine, but I don't know why, as long as she talks to people I know and she doesn't know, she will still be a bit nervous. As for dressing like this, it's not because the Aurora family is very strict with girls, nor is little Hayley's aesthetics problematic. It's because she doesn't want people to take the initiative to talk to her. When she is at home, she likes to lock herself in the bedroom, hold a book and shrink into the quilt..."

"Aunt!"

The young girl finally couldn't help interrupting her, secretly glanced at Xia De, and then blushed again.

Although Xia De planned in the morning to go home after lunch at Miss Bernice's manor, in fact, when he said goodbye to the ladies and returned home from the Church of the Forgotten, it was already 2:30 in the afternoon.

He thought he had to go to Dorothy's apartment on Quill Street to pick up Mia. Didn't expect that just after walking out of the basement, he heard the familiar footsteps of a cat coming from the stairs:

"Oh, Mia!"

Xia De walked quickly to the hall, facing the stairs, opened his arms and happily caught the cat that pounced on him directly from the stairs. Mia "crashed" into Xia De's chest quite enthusiastically, and then meowed~ to express her dissatisfaction.

"We came over after breakfast."

Dorothy's voice appeared at the corner of the stairs high up:

"Fortunately, you also let it stay overnight at my place before, so it was quite honest. But since lunch, it has started to be a bit depressed."

The blonde girl also walked down the stairs quickly, looking at Xia De with concern in her green eyes:

"Xia De, what happened? Last night in the middle of the night, when that Miss Sylvia knocked on the door downstairs of my apartment with Mia, I was scared to death."

She hugged Xia De, and then went upstairs with Xia De who was holding the cat.

Xia De didn't lie. After sitting on the sofa, he said that he drank some unknown liquid to fight against a strong enemy, which led to a fever all night.

Because Dorothy didn't know that Xia De actually faced the shadow of an Evil God, her worry about this was not as strong as those ladies in Lunder Valley. However, she was also puzzled why Xia De, who had such strong physical fitness, would suddenly have a fever, and the fever subsided so quickly.

Because she couldn't figure it out, she could only attribute it to Xia De being cursed by some unknown curse.

Xia De didn't want to go to Lunder Valley again today, and Dorothy was quite happy about this. She spent the whole day writing in the study on the second floor. It just so happened that Xia De was back, so she wanted to go out with him for a walk.

And Xia De happened to have something to go to the Dawn Church to find Father Augustus, and Dorothy could just accompany him. Of course, the cat that hadn't seen Xia De all day seemed worried that it wouldn't see Xia De for a long time again, so this time it insisted on going out with him.

Xia De felt that he already knew how to make this cat have the motivation to go out.

Unlike Lunder Valley City, where the whole city is in turmoil and a little panic, Tobesk City has been peaceful since the beginning of this year, and it is even said that the crime rate has dropped a lot, so that the business Xia De has done since 1854 is less than two digits.

The flow of people in the Dawn Church on Wednesday afternoon is not very large, and Father Augustus has nothing to do at this time. Hearing that Xia De came to find him, he knew what Xia De was here for.

So he temporarily asked for leave in the church, and then took Xia De and Dorothy away from Dawn Square, coming to his magic medicine workshop in the basement of the street directly opposite the Dawn Church.

"Speaking of which, Father, Luvia and I went to the local Dawn Church in Lunder Valley and asked about the news of Father Murphy you mentioned."

When Father Augustus took out the key to open the door, Xia De explained to Dorothy about Father Augustus betting with others and losing 10 pence.

The priest asked curiously:

"Did you see him? After returning to us from Lunder Valley after a business trip when he was young, because the journey was long, sending letters was really inconvenient, so we had very little contact. How is Murphy's body? You're not going to tell me bad news, are you?"

He was even a bit worried.

"We didn't see him, but that Father Murphy is very good now, he has become the local bishop."

The three entered the basement with a special magic medicine smell together, and the priest was still a bit surprised:

"Already a bishop? That's really not bad."

"At that time, he went to the hospital to visit patients. There was a plague in the local area, so Luvia and I didn't see him. I might be busy for a while next, but I will go see him again."

Xia De said, and Dorothy asked curiously:

"Father, you actually bet with others? What did you bet on? Can you tell me?"

"Why are you all curious about this?"

The priest said dissatisfiedly:

"It's not a big deal, it's just a bet between friends as a joke, otherwise even if the shipping fee exceeds 10 shillings, I would have sent those 10 pence over long ago."

He originally wanted to open his mouth, but changed his mind:

"Young people, excessive curiosity is not a good thing. This time I want to give you a lesson, so I won't say it, let Xia De find out for himself. When Xia De really finds out and knows what a boring thing this is, you will regret the energy and time you spent on this."

But he said so, Xia De and Dorothy became even more interested in it.

Last Monday, Xia De got the angel's finger bone from the haunted Watson Manor. Because of the demon's "teach Osenfort a lesson" commission, he returned the finger bone to Father Augustus, and then let the priest get a weapon that looks good but is actually useless, to cover up Xia De's behavior to the demon.

At that time, the priest said it could be completed in a week. Now that Xia De came to find him, the weapon could naturally be given to him.

"This is it, I am good at configuring magic medicine, not good at blacksmithing, this was commissioned to Old John to help with the appearance, and there is a mechanical design inside."

While Dorothy was holding Mia observing Father Augustus's high-temperature calcination furnace, the priest handed the black iron box to Xia De.

After Xia De opened it, he saw a dark silver sword hilt, and the dark silver had a very metallic texture.

The center of the sword hilt was engraved with a groove. Inside the groove, two finger bones that were familiar but definitely not genuine were embedded in a cross. In addition, there were elderflower patterns on the sword hilt, which looked quite gorgeous.

"Why is there only a sword hilt?"

Xia De asked curiously.

"Because it is a mechanical telescopic sword, the blade is divided into four sections inside the sword hilt."

The priest said, took it out, patted the bottom of the sword hilt, and swung it violently. With a click~ sound, a section of the sword body shot out from the end of the sword hilt. Now this can be considered a dagger with an exaggeratedly large sword hilt:

"And then it's like this."

Father Augustus shook his arm again, so another section of the sword body shot out, turning into a short sword; the third time he shook it, the third section of the sword body appeared; finally he shook it, and it truly turned into a long sword. The sword body was the color of normal steel, and there were grooves similar to bloodletting on both sides of the center of the sword body, and ancient runes about death and life were written on both sides of the grooves.

While the priest was waving this long sword, Xia De could even see the flickering runes, reflecting the sword body into gold:

The priest introduced:

"Pure steel sword. Pat the bottom, and you can release the sword body. If you want to retract it, press the bottom of the sword hilt and push the sword body back on the ground or wall. You don't have to worry about the four sections of the sword body not being connected firmly, or shrinking back by itself during battle. I not only used a bonding spell, but also specially refined a special metal maintenance liquid for treatment to prevent metal fatigue at the connection. However, anyway, you are just holding it to pretend, to deal with the battle, so don't expect it to really exert great effect... it can indeed resist immortality to a certain extent, and it is no problem to deceive your opponent."