Chapter 1389: Watchtower

"You are in a good mood, what does it have to do with Margaret?"

Xia De still didn't understand, so the girl with flaxen hair said a little embarrassedly:

"I used to be unconfident. After all, among all the apprentices of the Great Witches, I was the one who started the latest and had the worst talent. But now, Margaret Anjou has appeared..."

She didn't continue, to avoid insulting the Princess, and then she stood on tiptoe and kissed Xia De too:

"I can't help you directly like other ladies, I can only do some logistics work in the city. Before leaving, Grandma told me that as long as you need it, you can take anything from the local auction house. Xia De, I wish you success in your action."

Saying this, with her hands behind her back, she said goodbye to Xia De in a very good mood and walked downstairs.

Xia De felt that he might never understand the thoughts of young girls.

After lunch, Margaret hurried to the manor and felt disappointed for missing the "lunch party" of the witches. However, she also had a private conversation with Xia De.

The Princess's mood today also looked good, and she was not affected by being petrified a few days ago.

She also gave Xia De something, but not a gemstone, but an invitation:

"Remember what I said? I need a banquet, a banquet inviting most of the nobles and celebrities in the city, to publicly reconcile with the Stonemason Association at that banquet."

"The time is... tomorrow, Thursday night?" Xia De asked hesitantly:

"Why so urgent? And, those businesses of Stone Osenfort have just started to be investigated, and it will take time to cash them out, right? What about the compensation for the Stonemason Association?"

"Plans always can't keep up with changes."

Margaret shook her head and threw the newspaper onto the coffee table in the study:

"The incident where William and I encountered an attack by cultists while heading to Stonemason Street in the Old City to reconcile with the Stonemason Association has become the headline news of the entire kingdom in the past few days.

Now the entire kingdom is praising and caring about us. I want to take advantage of this momentum to complete the negotiations with the Stonemason Association in one go, even if it's just reaching a preliminary agreement. Although this will also give my brother credit, I get more. Besides, because of his business with Osenfort, he will have big trouble after returning to Willondale." "You are forcing the Stonemason Association to have to agree to negotiate with you?"

"No, no, I won't use the word force, it should be... go with the flow? After all, I won't put forward any harsh conditions. In terms of compensation, my bottom line is very high."

She gestured a number to Xia De:

"But compensation has never been the key. Father does not agree to a public apology and insists on letting the Stonemason Association repair the mausoleum that has not been repaired to this day, so there are still some important things to talk about at the banquet. However, I have confidence in solving this matter, otherwise, how can I be a witch's apprentice."

She smiled and blinked at Xia De:

"Sorry, I know you are very busy recently, and the things you are busy with are far more important than my small matter. But on Thursday night, can you spare some time..."

"No problem, my matter is to be done on Friday. Before starting the big event, it's not bad to relax in the banquet."

Xia De asked again:

"Are there others attending?"

"Except for Ms. Galina who is inconvenient to show up, I have sent invitations to everyone else, and I am still waiting for a reply."

"Then see you at the banquet, I hope everything goes well." Xia De put away the invitation, and Margaret asked again:

"If the final negotiation doesn't go well, I might take out the gold mine as a bargaining chip. It's the one you and Ms. Bernice discovered when you went to the Temple of the Dark Night."

"However, we didn't find it at all... It doesn't matter, you take it as a bargaining chip."

Xia De said.

"I won't forget your share."

She smiled sweetly, looked at the door of the study, and then hugged Xia De's neck affectionately:

"Now Teacher Sylvia and Teacher Bernice are both downstairs... Knight, do you want to try something exciting?"

After saying this, she didn't give Xia De a chance to answer at all and kissed him passionately.

Xia De also had things to do this Wednesday. Before the decisive battle began, he only had the last thing left to confirm, which was the rumor about the place where the devil had been sealed that he got from the demon scholar Mr. Xiao En Asmon last night.

He himself remained skeptical about this clue, but since he had time and no more important things in his hands, it wouldn't hurt to go and take a look.

Because everyone had their own things to do, Xia De didn't invite anyone but went alone. It's just that because he was "delayed" by Margaret for some time, it was already three in the afternoon when he set off from the city.

The location provided by Mr. Asmon was outside the city, not in the mountainous area in the east of the city, but in the west of the city, downstream of the Ailong River, far from the valley.

It was actually not far from the city. After reaching the edge of the city,

he entered the village near the city. Walking along the country road towards the village cemetery,

he crossed the cemetery and walked for less than ten minutes before seeing the big lake with thin mist in the distance.

This lake was called "Niderland Lake." Although its area was far less than Elderon Lake in the upper reaches of the Ailong River, it was still very important for inland river shipping.

A watchtower built in an unknown era stood on the east bank of the lake. This was an important commanding height in the war years, but it generally functioned as a lighthouse now. And Xia De's destination was that old watchtower.

He originally thought he could end this short trip by just turning around, but when passing through that small village, he found many wheel tracks on the muddy country road. When passing by the cemetery, he chatted with the old gravedigger who was tidying up the cemetery and learned that a carriage of the Church of Dawn had passed by here in the morning.

And when Xia De saw the watchtower from afar, he really found traces of the Church's Ringed Ringed Shushi using investigation-type strange arts nearby.

He was originally a little surprised, but later thought that since even the ordinary person Mr. Xiao En Asmon could find the clues here, the Orthodox Church, which had fully confirmed the existence of the devil locally, could naturally find it too. Fortunately, just like Xia De, the Church obviously didn't care much about the clues here, so judging from the villagers' descriptions and the traces nearby, the local Dawn Church should have only dispatched a full team of Ringed Ringed Shushi to investigate.

This team of Ringed Ringed Shushi came in the morning, so when Xia De appeared near the watchtower in the evening, their search mission should have been nearing its end, and there was no harvest.

Otherwise, it shouldn't be just these people here now. Xia De didn't intend to meet the Church's Ringed Ringed Shushi, so after confirming that there were people in the tower, he planned to turn around in the nearby woods.

"However, if the devil was really suppressed under this tower, why didn't it knock the tower down when it broke free from the seal?"

Xia De thought suspiciously, standing by the lake watching the brilliant sunset, and "She" asked gently:

【Why must the tower be knocked down?】

"I know a story in my hometown: a white snake proficient in human transformation knocked down the tower when it broke free from under the sealed tower."

【Another fairy tale?】 Xia De immediately denied:

"This is not a fairy tale, this is a very adult story.

Do you know? In that story, a doctor who opened a hospital actually made that white snake pregnant... tsk tsk, this story should be more suitable for Mr. Leman, and Professor Manning... I don't know if Professor Manning helped me publish that article... Mr. Erfurt who gave me that article has passed away, but he left the pocket watch to me. Although he let me dispose of it at will, I still have to send it to his fiancée in Willondale City when I have time... I don't know how that tiger is doing, is it starved to death now..."

His thoughts were spreading infinitely.

When the dim sunset

turned the entire Niderland Lake, which had begun to thaw, into a brilliant golden color, the Ringed Ringed Shushi team in the tower finally took a carriage and left from that watchtower.

Xia De watched them leave and waited for a while. After confirming that the group would not return, he finally walked towards the tower.

Although it functioned as a lighthouse now, there wasn't even a tower keeper arranged here in winter. The door under the tower was locked by the team just now when they left, but an ordinary lock couldn't stop Xia De. It's just that this watchtower was too small, far smaller than the old lighthouse guarded by Mr. Edmund in Coldwater Port City that Xia De often visited, the city lighthouse in Tobesk City where he conducted the "Time Perception Enhancement Ritual" with the doctor's help, and the lighthouse on the island in the center of Pantanal Lake where the decisive battle took place last year. This tower had no basement and was divided into four floors in total. Except for the first floor which was a mud floor, the other three floors were wooden floors. Because the area was very small, each floor was connected by simple wooden ladders, which was quite troublesome to climb up and down.

Xia De didn't become a butterfly to fly up, but climbed from the bottom floor to the top floor. He saw the traces of the Church checking here through various means, and also saw living materials such as broken cotton quilts left by the tower keeper who left in early winter.

And when he reached the top floor, there was only a large brazier in the center. There was even some temperature in the brazier, probably because the Church's Ringed Ringed Shushi wanted to try whether lighting the brazier would have any different discoveries.

"I knew it, a complete waste of time."

Xia De muttered, standing at the very top of the watchtower, with his hands in his pockets, looking at the scenery of the big lake.

Far from the city, it was really quiet here, as if the disaster in the Randall Valley hadn't affected this place yet. The sunset turned the cracked ice into golden yellow, and the evening wind blew through the woods on the shore of the lake, making the forest make a rhythmic natural sound. ===== CHAPTER 1390 =====