Chapter 1390: The Devil's Transaction

If the decisive battle wasn't coming, Xia De would be very willing to take Luweiya to see the scenery here, and even talk about planning for future life and life ideals around this lamp fire at night.

【Do you really just want to talk about life ideals with her here?】

"Oh, don't disturb my thoughts with such things when I am sighing."

Xia De complained softly in his heart, and then prepared to leave. He had to prepare for the visit to Osenfort Manor on Friday night, and maybe after he solved the devil, the chosen one ceremony would also begin.

【Someone is coming.】

"She" suddenly said in Xia De's ear. Xia De listened intently to the sound, but heard nothing. 【Not a human, but the traces of elements on the body are very obvious, not a stranger.】

"Where is the other party?"

【You don't have to move, she is here.】

While speaking, a black smoke composed of a group of mosquitoes flew up from the hole where the ladder was set up on the side. That black smoke formed the maid of Mrs. Hela Osenfort, who was wearing an old-fashioned yellowish maid dress and was expressionless, on the top floor of the watchtower.

Xia De had discussed the old butler and maid of Osenfort Manor with Doctor Schneider. The doctor believed that they were both lower-level devils, used by the Stone Mirror Devil to monitor the manor's movements. The "lower-level devils" here referred to the alien devils themselves, not the ancient Third Era evil spirits.

"Um... hello."

Xia De raised his eyebrows with some surprise:

"Did Osenfort send you to find me, or did the devil behind you send you to find me... It couldn't be Hela Osenfort who sent you, right?"

He couldn't understand the reason for meeting the other party here.

"Master Osenfort sent me to notify you that the time for your visit to the manor on Friday night should not be later than 7:30 PM." Xia De frowned slightly:

"Is he that worried that I will break my promise? Rest assured, I will arrive on time." "In addition, I also have something to find you for."

The maid folded her hands together in front of her. This was a very common action for Miss Difa. It looked natural and elegant when Miss Difa did it, but it looked very strange no matter how you looked at it when the maid in front of him did it:

"To be precise, the butler and I decided to come to you before Friday." "You? What's the matter?"

Xia De put one hand on the railing and asked very casually. "We hope you can liberate us."

She was still expressionless. "What do you mean?"

"We are not subordinates of anyone. The devil whose name cannot be mentioned induced Stone Osenfort to use rituals to summon us, bound us, and keep watch over his manor and his wife for him. We are already tired of this job, so we hope you can liberate us."

Although people often say not to trust devils casually, this matter sounded like it was true: "Devils can also be bound by humans, this sounds very funny."

"You should understand that sometimes, humans are more terrifying than devils." Xia De agreed with this last sentence:

"So, you used this opportunity to meet me to tell me this? I find it hard to believe you, but I am very curious, what do you want me to do? Kill Osenfort?"

"No, the binding will not be easily broken. You have to let him admit in person that we are free." This didn't sound very difficult either. Xia De immediately thought of many ways:

"To tell the truth, I have no grudges with you. If what you said is true, I also sympathize with you. But, why should I do this? You are also devils. Maybe you are not as ancient as that guy, nor as evil as that guy, but you are devils after all."

Xia De put his hands on the railing, with his back to the maid behind him, looking at the sunset. He didn't worry about his back being attacked; "She" had been helping Xia De watch his back.

"I understand, redeeming freedom requires paying a reward, this is very fair.

Because of the binding of the contract, we cannot give you important information about that evil existence and Stone Osenfort, but there are some that can be said—Stone Osenfort took back the ring, medal, and

sapphire earrings from your hands. This is one of the contents of his contract with the ancient evil existence. After getting these three items that he himself could never find, he can get rid of the binding of the evil existence to a certain extent and gain greater power."

Stone Osenfort really wanted to resist Ge De.

Xia De nodded, and the maid continued to speak in the wind on the top of the tower. "She" reminded Xia De that the maid didn't open her mouth at all: "The real contract content between Stone Osenfort and the evil existence lies in a heart. If you want to completely eliminate Osenfort, what you need to pay attention to is the heart."

Xia De frowned slightly. This was indeed quite useful information. At least, it could provide a train of thought for the next step when he encountered difficulties:

"Only these?" The maid nodded slightly:

"Only after we gain freedom will we have the ability to give you more information."

"That's good. I cannot promise to definitely do anything, but I can promise you that if there is an opportunity, I can try to let Stone Osenfort speak and give you freedom. Although I won't sign any contract with you, this is my promise. I am a very honest person."

Xia De said, turned around, and stretched out his hand. The maid hesitated for a moment, then stretched out her hand and shook it with him. Xia De actually didn't promise anything, but he decided to see the situation on Friday night before deciding what he would do.

"I have one more question." Xia De looked at her and asked:

"Are you really not afraid of being discovered by it by telling me these things here?"

"It is busy with other things now. Besides, although I am not as strong as it, I am still a devil." The maid said, then pointed to that big lake:

"I know you came here to find something. This place was indeed used to seal it. But when it broke free from the seal, it destroyed most things. If you want some clues, go into the lake. Maybe there are some things still at the bottom of the lake that it didn't notice."

After saying this, she bowed slightly to Xia De, then turned into black smoke composed of mosquitoes again and flew towards the distant sunset-brilliant sky.

"Have to go into the water again? It's winter now."

Xia De complained in a low voice while holding his forehead, and then under the sunset, red butterflies dancing gracefully flew out from his body one by one, until his whole body scattered into a butterfly swarm and flew towards the red big lake below.

Of course, after going ashore later, he didn't forget to come back and close the door.

(Little Mia is running...)

"Is this what you found?"

Thursday morning, Kingdom of Carinsik, Randall Valley, Bernice Manor.

Xia De stroked Mia and sat at the breakfast table. The long dining table was very lively. Except for Luweiya who was called away by the Divination Association to help, and Margaret who was busy preparing for tonight's banquet, everyone was there, even Iluna. And the one who asked the question just now was Iluna. She thanked the maid who brought her scrambled eggs and continued to talk to Xia De.

"Yes, I swam at the bottom of the lake for a full four hours last night! By the time I went ashore, it was almost ten o'clock at night!"

Xia De said while drinking hot soup. Ms. Aurora, who was sitting opposite him and cutting bacon with a dining knife, said with a smile:

"If Ms. Anate were here, she would definitely talk about you." "So I have to say it when she is not here."

Xia De said, drove the cat that was sniffing around on the table to the side, and continued to point to the broken stones he took out and talked.

There were three stones in total. The smaller one was about the size of a palm, and the back was quite rough, looking like it was peeled off from some big guy, while the front was a smooth plane, with a ring embedded in the center, radiating concave marks and runes towards the surroundings with the ring as the center.

Of course, because only a palm-sized piece was left now, it could only be roughly judged that this was one of the cores of the seal: "If I hadn't sensed the elements of whispers at the time, I wouldn't have found these broken stones."

He said, asked the maid for a clean dining knife, and then pried the ring directly out of the stone.

The ring band was black iron, and the ring face was a deeper, simple black iron material. The ring face was rectangular, with

slightly convex edges and concave interior, but the pattern inside the rectangle was convex.

That pattern was an ancient Third Era rune. "Ring Mage-level relic, Ring Mage Seal." Xia De said the name of the relic:

"The symbol of the demon hunters of the Third Era. The seal itself and the pattern printed by the seal can cause huge damage to devils. But correspondingly, holding the seal will increase the probability of encountering devils. Moreover, the 【Ring Mage Seal】 that has not been held by a Ringed Ringed Shushi for a long time will highly likely encounter a devil immediately once it is held again."

Xia De played with the ring in his hand:

"Of course, because I often come into contact with devils recently, the negative characteristics of the ring have not been exerted for the time being." "I remember, you already have one."

Sitting beside Ms. Bernice was Ms. Galina. The red-haired Duchess was the last one to get up today. According to her, her background and the struggles of her ancestors had decided that she didn't have to get up too early.

"Yes, I got it from an ophthalmologist in Tobesk. At that time, Miss Difa was also by my side, acting as my detective assistant. After getting that ring of mine, we immediately encountered a lower-level devil from the 【Dark Realm】, the Secret Servant."

Xia De nodded. That was also one of the commissions left by Detective Sparrow, and together with that ring, there was also a clue about 【Night Watcher】 in Xikar Mountain.

The black-haired maid who heard Xia De mention her name smiled, and Ms. Sylvia, who also had beautiful black hair, waved her hand, letting the stone that lost the ring fly towards her:

"Let me see this. You said this was a sealing ritual set up by a Ringed Ringed Shushi when the ancient Stoneville Kingdom was destroyed? I didn't expect that there are still such powerful sealing masters in this era." ===== CHAPTER 1391 =====