Chapter 1400: Everyone's Preparations

"Do you really not need me to accompany you to Osenfurt Manor tonight?"

Luweiya sat beside Xia De and asked again. Xia De shook his head:

"You stay here with Xilisi, and Tifa, Miss Swift, and Miss Hayley Aurora will also stay. If you really need help, the witches will call you."

He held Little Mia in his arms. Having had lunch at noon just now, the cat was immediately sleepy:

"When I come back from Osenfurt Manor, maybe I'll need you to help look after Little Mia, this is quite hard work."

Luweiya showed a smile:

"Xilisi, you're calling her by her name... Yes, in your eyes, taking care of your cat is much more important than dealing with demons."

Hearing the sound from the stage, Xia De got up and walked over with Luweiya along the side stairs. Seven or eight brown lacquered wooden tables were placed together, and the tables for preparing potions and maintaining alchemical items were separated.

And Miss Hayley Aurora, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, was not wearing that relatively serious lady's suit today, but a purple mandora dress. She was holding that staff, looking at the items on the table with some trouble.

On the table were three candles, silver, golden, and black, and Miss Hayley Aurora was discussing with the high-ring female sorceress on the side, who was Miss Avril, who accompanied the Great Witches deep into the swamp center during the Battle of Pantanal, about which candle should be used to "light up" the staff:

"Different lights will give the staff different strengthening characteristics. The golden candle strengthens the teacher's control over 'light'; the silver candle gives additional dispelling effects against evil and curses; and the black candle can expand the influence range of the spellcasting effect. But unfortunately, it can only accept one kind of light at a time."

Seeing Xia De and Luweiya walk over, Miss Hayley Aurora explained with some trouble. Miss Avril first greeted Xia De respectfully, then suggested:

"I often hear Miss praise that Mr. Hamilton's light is quite brilliant. During the Battle of Pantanal, I was fortunate enough to see your moonlight. Why not try using your light?"

Luweiya on the side also encouraged Xia De to try, so Miss Hayley Aurora tilted the long wooden staff that was as tall as a person, Xia De supported the diamond at the top with his left hand, and his right fingertip stretched out:

"Silver Moon."

The faint moonlight from his fingertip touched the top of the long staff, and the silver moonlight seemed to fill the inside of the diamond in an instant. As the diamond emitted light like real moonlight, three strands of rune chains interwoven into chain marks appeared on the surface of the originally smooth oak staff, writing praise for the moonlight in the Elven language.

"Very successful."

Luweiya said with a smile:

"It's a pity that Yin Luna can only come over to see us in the evening, otherwise she could also be let to try."

"This moonlight is really beautiful."

Miss Hayley Aurora was still staring at Xia De's fingertips, her soft exclamation was heard by Xia De, and seeing Xia De look at her, she turned her head slightly with a blush, which made the smile on Luweiya's face even brighter.

Saying goodbye to Miss Hayley and Miss Avril, Xia De and Luweiya chatted while entering the backstage of the stage, then turned into the corridor, deciding to go see what others were doing.

"You just said that after returning from Osenfurt Manor, you want to entrust Mia to me."

The purple-eyed girl looked at the cat sleeping sweetly in Xia De's arms:

"Then after returning from Osenfurt Manor, are you still going to look into the Chosen's matter?"

"That's for sure, even if the demon is resolved, tonight's matter only counts as the beginning. We'll see the situation then, if it's not very dangerous, you can go with me, and let other girls in the opera house look after Mia."

"Are you finally willing to take me, a girl without any combat power, to a dangerous battlefield?"

This sentence of hers was definitely sarcasm, Xia De knew that Luweiya's combat power was definitely not weak.

Turning from the backstage corridor into the No. 5 public dressing room, and then entering the No. 2 performance hall from the backstage. The busy ladies here were no fewer than those next door. Miss Jia Lin Na's followers occupied this place, and Tifa was leading them to prepare potions and check spellcasting materials.

Although the group had made full preparations before setting off from Tobesk City, they still needed to prepare again before the big battle.

"It's as if returning to the Fifth Era all of a sudden."

When Xia De and Luweiya walked onto the stage together, the female diviner joked:

"Before the Witch Emperors set off, the court witches and magic consultants helped prepare weapons and spellcasting materials."

"The environment here is not comparable to the courtyards of the Witch Emperors of the Fifth Era."

Tifa put down the small bottle in her hand and greeted them. Very interestingly, the girls here were mostly wearing black and white maid dresses like Tifa, instead of wearing casual clothes like Miss Aurora's followers.

"However, Miss's palace in Saladir County can be compared with the courts of the Witch Emperors."

Xia De had always heard that Miss Jia Lin Na was almost a real Duchess in Saladir County, so she had a quite magnificent palace. It's just that he hadn't really seen it, only seen long-range photos, and that palace was praised as "a building that only an Elven kingdom could possess."

"What are you doing?"

Luweiya asked curiously, Tifa had potion bottles, alcohol lamps, test tube racks, and some miracle-driven centrifugal, distillation, and calcination devices in front of her. Although the equipment was not as complete as Priest Ao Gu Si's basement, it was enough to deal with most scenarios.

"Preparing the potion 'Ten Thousand Poison Spirit' for Miss. This potion can deal with most toxins and neutralize the conflicting toxicity in other potions."

After more than 1800 years of development in the Sixth Era, potion science itself had become quite mature and systematic. As long as one didn't drink too many potions, one didn't need to consider the toxicity in modern potion formulas. But drinking multiple potions together required considering the toxicity produced by pharmacological conflicts.

"Oh, I know this, St. Byrons' non-chemistry majors won't encounter this potion until the 7th grade."

Luweiya said, Tifa nodded, her beautiful brows slightly furrowed:

"The configuration of 'Ten Thousand Poison Spirit' is very complex, and the potion is only valid for one week. We made some preliminary preparations in Tobesk, configuring the potion precursors that hadn't undergone the final processing and brought them over. I originally wanted to prepare the potion with Martha this afternoon, but found that we missed the most important 'Colorless Honeysuckle'."

"Martha" referred to the young lady with long black curly hair beside Tifa, a mid-ring, also dressed as a maid, whom Xia De often saw in Miss Jia Lin Na's manor in Tobesk.

"Colorless Honeysuckle is a plant that can only grow in the North, it can't be found in the Landaier River Valley, right?"

"Yes, maybe we can ask other witches, maybe they have extras, or go to the local black market to see. If it really doesn't work, we can only use ordinary honeysuckle as a substitute, but that will reduce the efficacy of the medicine."

Miss Martha said, so Luweiya looked at Xia De:

"Miss Lasers hasn't returned yet, anyway, there's nothing to do, shall we help ask other witches? Or, aren't you very familiar with the local area? How about taking time to go to the black market to see? But in that case, we won't be able to do other things."

"There's another way, wait a moment."

Xia De said, not choosing the first two methods, but closed his eyes to rummage through the knowledge in his head.

The knowledge brought by 【Witch Echo】 was quite complex, and most of it was incomplete. Up to now, Xia De could not say that he had fully mastered any of 【Principal·Feiliananna】, 【Librarian·Oulannode】, 【Ice Witch·Chloe】, 【Witch Emperor·Violet】, 【Undead Witch·Teresa】, and 【Long-haired Luweiya】.

However, he seemed to have knowledge of "Ten Thousand Poison Spirit" in his impression, and now rummaging through his head, he soon had the answer:

"Using ordinary honeysuckle as a substitute can actually achieve the best efficacy. However, it requires silver powder, Stryker high-efficiency catalyst, and a small amount of egg white for filtration. I'll write the formula for you."

He found paper and pen on the messy table to write, Luweiya watched from the side, she didn't doubt the authenticity:

"Did you learn this from our priest friend?"

"No, it's... learned from witches of the past."

Actually, this was Luweiya's knowledge.

"Never heard that 'Ten Thousand Poison Spirit' could be configured this way."

Miss Martha exclaimed from the side:

"Even if this is knowledge from the Fifth Era, not our own creation, just this formula alone is enough to publish a good article."

Xia De highly suspected that this knowledge itself was something that would only appear in the future after 1854 of the Sixth Era. It's just that the time point of the current Sixth Era had not yet reached that year.

Having solved the matter for Miss Jia Lin Na's followers, Xia De chatted with Tifa for a few more words, and after accepting a kiss on the cheek as a blessing for tonight's action, he left here again and continued to stroll around the opera house.

"When Tifa kissed you just now, other maid ladies were laughing."

Luweiya said, very interested in this:

"I'm actually very curious about how Miss Jia Lin Na views the relationship between you and her personal maid/apprentice."

"Hmm... this question is really not easy to answer."

Xia De thought seriously for a while before giving the answer, and Luweiya didn't pursue it:

"I have always believed that sometimes Miss Jia Lin Na is too tolerant of her apprentices... it may also be because they have a good relationship, and Tifa's methods are stronger than we think."

"Luweiya, let's not talk about my affairs, shall we continue to talk about the main topic?"

Xia De asked, and returned to the backstage corridor with Luweiya again. Everyone had things to do, and there were quite a few girls walking in the corridor carrying boxes or holding potion bottles.

Xia De also curiously asked the opera troupe accountant lady pushing the dining cart whether the dining cart was also potion materials, and then learned that she was going to the basement to deliver afternoon tea to the four Great Witches.

"Back to the main topic... what do you think is the probability of God's descent tonight?"

Luweiya asked, immediately talking about the most serious topic.

"Nearly 100%. It's not that I don't have confidence in the Church, but... this is my sixth sense."

Xia De said, Luweiya nodded thoughtfully:

"Then the next question, have you made preparations to eliminate Osenfurt after eliminating the Guardian, and then use the Four Seasons Flowers you collected to let Miss Lasers hold the ceremony?"

Xia De slowed down slightly and looked at her:

"Did you misunderstand my plan? I never thought about letting Xilisi become the Chosen."

The purple-eyed girl asked with a smile:

"Why? Because the Guardian is more useful to us? Or because you have thought about how to reverse their madness?"

"Neither."

Xia De frowned slightly:

"In my opinion, the act of letting Xilisi become the Chosen is no different from Mr. Lasers leaving without a word more than ten years ago and throwing the entire Golden Dawn to her. Although I admire and respect the Guardian, and also know that Mr. Lasers might have had unspeakable difficulties back then, I really look down on this kind of behavior."

"Xia De, oh Xia De, it's because of this that you attract more and more girls."

Luweiya sighed softly, and added before Xia De tried to explain:

"However, I still like you like this, my knight."

She moved slightly closer to Xia De, and the cat in her sleep "meowed" like a dream, it was not disturbed by the voices of Xia De and Luweiya at all.

The two continued to walk forward, this time arriving at the performance hall occupied by the girls of the Golden Dawn, because Miss Bernice almost had all her belongings locally, so she could make the most preparations.

The youngest girl among the followers was boredly pinching small clay figures by the stage, which was the spellcasting material for 【Earth Power·Summon Stone Statue】.

This time, Xia De didn't need to help with anything, but he chatted with the girls, which made everyone more motivated.

After leaving here, Xia De and Luweiya walked toward the basement, and Luweiya counted:

"Your healing aura, my Abundant domain, Miss Bernice's Summon Stone Statue, the Earth Memory that Miss Lasers hasn't learned yet. Adding up, it's only four people, I think the Guardian who wants to hold the banquet himself shouldn't be counted as the fifth person, right?"

"There are still people on the Church side, there are more than five Ringed Shushi who have mastered Earth Power in the Sun Church. When seeing Yin Luna in the evening, just let her bring a word to the Church, and the Church will be happy to help. So, I was hesitating, after I come back from Osenfurt Manor, whether I should take you and Xilisi."

Luweiya hummed, and didn't express an opinion:

"Not just five, I have a premonition that Yin Luna will also master Earth Power. This is a very magical girl, she just hasn't been in the Landaier River Valley before, so there was no opportunity. I bet her talent for Earth power is definitely much better than mine."

"Although I agree that Yin Luna can also master Earth Power, but your talent..."