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Chapter 1433: The Excited Elf

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But "misfortune" still fell on the girl hugging the unicorn doll: "Which one is Miss Emilia Siamonod?"

Her name was clearly read out. Emilia shivered, and then shivered again as she raised her hand, the voice in her heart saying: "My running out of school privately has been exposed!"

So, she wasn't even allowed to change her clothes, and she left the room carrying her unicorn doll, wearing slippers, a nightcap, and pajamas, under the half-glad, half-worried gaze of another elf girl.

The "Forest Tree Sea" dormitory area

Along the way, no one spoke with the young elf girl, but unexpectedly, the destination was the Academy's library, rather than the imagined "Student Affairs Building," "Chemistry Academy Student Management Center," or the rumored "Confinement Building."

"Go in. Miss Daniste is waiting for you."

After entering the library at night and seeing the anxiously waiting Dean of the Library Management Academy, the elf girl was finally told the true purpose of this trip.

"What does Professor Daniste want with me?"

Emilia then realized that she had probably guessed some things wrong. She subconsciously hugged her unicorn doll tighter, though the others did not know the reason:

"Miss Daniste is currently away on business for a very important matter, and that major event is happening right now. Miss Xiangnuode, you must understand that the Librarian wanting to see you now is certainly not because you copied a book title wrong or messed up the order of the roster during library registration."

Professor Connery said very seriously to his student:

"This will be a matter that almost concerns time and history, so no matter what the professor asks you to do or answer, you must fully comply. Do not lose face for our Chemistry Academy. Go quickly; Miss Daniste is already waiting."

The young elf girl immediately felt as if she were bearing a heavy weight that an elf not yet fifty years old should not have to shoulder.

Thus, she was almost pushed by several professors together into the space between the bookshelves. And the destination was naturally Miss Daniste's usual office area, that is, the area located in the center of the Great Library that belonged solely to the Librarian.

The projection ritual that required four chairs and a basin of water was not being held; on that coffee table where Xia De and Miss Daniste usually met, there sat a silver spherical device.

At this moment, a transparent phantom appeared above the sphere, and Miss Daniste's green projection was waiting for her. "Professor Daniste!"

The elf miss immediately bowed, and upon lowering her head, she saw her attire, then saw the doll she was holding in her hand, and thus immediately blushed.

But then, something that made her blush even more occurred, because Xia De's projection also appeared beside Miss Daniste, looking at her current attire with some surprise:

"I must apologize to you, Miss Emilia Xiangnuode." Time was tight, and Xia De did not use much time for pleasantries: "Please forgive me for coming to disturb you so late..."

"It's alright. May I ask what the matter is?"

She asked, blinking her eyes. After confirming that the Student Affairs Office looking for her was not because she had left the academy without permission, withheld materials and unicorn feed while managing the unicorns, broken into prohibited areas of the academy, privately concocted illegal potions, often snuck out of the dormitory after curfew, entered a tavern to try to bribe the bartender to buy a pint of ale, or because her 1853 winter semester report card had been mailed to her parents who were conducting research in the New Continent, she felt much more at ease.

In fact, the elf girl was even a bit curious. After all, she knew that Xia De appearing in the Lende Valley also counted as a violation. And now that he was openly standing with Miss Daniste, it meant he had truly encountered a troublesome matter that urgently needed solving.

Xia De glanced at Miss Daniste beside him:

"I want to know... that passage... is

it, that is the passage."

Emilia blinked her eyes before reacting. She quietly glanced at the projection of Miss Daniste beside Xia De and asked very nervously:

"Must I know right now?"

"Yes. I know what kind of loss this means for you, I will compensate..." "Alright, you two don't need to speak in riddles."

The Librarian interrupted their conversation: "The secret passage from inside the school to the outside, right?"

Emilia pursed her lips and looked at Xia De, letting Xia De solve this problem. Fortunately, Miss Daniste did not conduct any so-called accountability:

"Miss Xiangnuode, tell Xia De the location and the method. I can act as if I know nothing about you using that secret passage before, and I can also guarantee to you that what you did in the past will not be questioned by anyone again. But after I return to St. Byrons, I will handle that secret passage depending on the situation. You should understand that the academy forbidding students from leaving at will is also to protect you and to protect the secrets of St. Byrons."

Hearing "past matters will no longer be questioned," the elf miss's eyes lit up; after all, the mistakes she had made in the past were not just sneaking out of the academy. But thinking that the secret passage probably couldn't be used anymore, her mood immediately dropped.

"I'm sorry, I'm truly sorry, but this is to save a friend of mine."

Xia De was still apologizing; it was indeed because of him that Emilia's life and secrets were affected. But the elf girl shook her head quite understandingly:

"If it is to save someone, I can understand, but after this matter, you must compensate me!"

She was thinking about Xia De's knowledge of ancient elf runes, and coupled with the fact that her past mistakes would not be pursued, this made her feel as if she had gone to the back door of the "Alchemy Tavern" to buy gnome spinach and hit the jackpot tonight.

Miss Daniste coughed, interrupting the young elf girl's chaotic thoughts. She had faced too many students and could easily see the joy on Emilia's face:

"Girl of the Moonstream Clan, you have already violated I don't know how many school rules, so please do not blackmail my student." "Oh~"

Emilia said softly, lowering her head and raising her eyes to blink at Xia De; the look was quite playful:

"However, the method of entering and exiting is a bit complicated. If Xia De can come directly to the academy side, I can demonstrate it for him." Miss Daniste immediately agreed:

"In order to facilitate the transfer of possible wounded, I brought a method to return to the academy immediately on this trip, though that method is not comfortable at all. I will have Xia De go over now, and I will explain it to the academy side. Tell me the location of the exit of that secret passage in the Lende Valley region, and I will go to the exit to meet you."

Fortunately, the location of the exit was quite close to the campsite where Miss Daniste was currently camped.

Thus, Xia De greeted Miss Sylvia not far away, and Miss Daniste set about preparing to send him to the academy.

The method was simple. As for the way to break through the dangerous spatial rifts of the material world, unless one is "gifted" like Miss Sylvia, or borrows ancient powers such as the 【Witch Council】 or ancient god statues, spatial transfer mostly relies on artifacts.

This time was no exception.

Miss Daniste perfunctorily gave Xia De a mask to cover his face, and then brought him back to the camp. Sure enough, everyone in the camp, including the church's Tiered Sorcerers, did not ask who the suspicious man wearing the mask was.

"Keeper-level artifact 【Coffin of the Twins】. This is a pair of metal coffins unearthed from the year 728 of the Sixth Era. The era of the coffins' burial is likely the Dark Era, which is the Fourth Era."

Miss Daniste asked for a model coffin about the thickness of an arm from the accompanying "Artifact Keeper," and the coffin was originally kept in a long box made of pure gold. After being placed on the ground, the coffin automatically turned into its normal size.

The cold aura made this snowy early spring night even colder, and even Xia De instinctively resisted approaching such things.

"The original owners of the coffins were a pair of twins, suspected of having giant bloodlines. Although they were seven years old when buried

, the size of the corpses was larger than that of normal adult humans. When the coffins were opened back then, those two ancient vengeful spirits caused huge trouble for the St. Byrons archaeological exploration team, and an Eleventh-Tier History Academy professor in the team was seriously injured in a single encounter. It was only when the principal of that generation took action that the vengeful spirits were resolved and sealed. As for this pair of coffins, they have the ability to transfer items, and even living people, between each other when there is a cat inside the coffin."

Miss Daniste smiled:

"I originally would have had to use transformation magic to prepare a cat, but look, you prepared one yourself." "Meow?"

Mia was currently poking her head out in Xia De's arms.

Thus, the sorceress had Xia De open the coffin lid and signaled for him to lie inside:

"Of course, the negative characteristics are also quite troublesome. Transferring artifacts almost one hundred percent causes the artifact to lose control; transferring living people, if one's own resistance to the undead is insufficient, one will also become undead. Not to mention, the process of exchanging through two coffins is extremely uncomfortable. According to those who have used them, the feeling is even worse than sleeping for a night in a mass grave outside the city filled with feces."

Xia De blinked his eyes and looked at the pitch-black bottom of the coffin, but thinking of the big-tailed dragon girl trapped in the Eternal Night City of the Fifth Era, he still climbed in and hugged the orange-and-white kitten tightly.

Mia did not feel afraid because of the coffin; on the contrary, it especially liked this relatively enclosed, dark environment, especially since Xia De was still by its side. Of course, if this coffin could be smaller, it would probably be even happier.

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