Chapter 1605: Derivative of an Angel-Level Relic

This traveling merchant mainly sold handmade ornaments and other shiny things in the countryside, and these goods were packed in his bags and baskets. Xia De certainly did not expect to find any treasures among them; in fact, these items were indeed quite ordinary.

He only took a glance and knew there was no reaction from any elements, but during a simple search, when his finger touched a circular metal coin the size of a fingernail, he actually detected a slight fluctuation of elements:

"What is this?"

The volume of the coin was so small that he was worried about dropping it on the ground when he picked it up. Both the front and back were engraved with the number 1, and there were no other patterns besides that.

Seeing that Xia De was interested in this, the merchant found all the identical coins. There were 8 in total, all of which had similar weak elemental reactions, and they all required direct contact to be detected.

The merchant himself did not remember where he had collected these items. He gave them all to Xia De, and Xia De planned to take them back for Old John to see; perhaps he had really stumbled upon good luck.

After bidding farewell to the enthusiastic traveling merchant, he contentedly carried the playing cards and those small coins, intending to return to the camp near Crossroads Village with Professor Boulanger and the two students to find Captain Lades. But when he returned to the west side of the tavern where they had just eaten, he found that people had gathered together for some reason, seemingly watching a quarrel. Listening to the voices, it was clearly Professor Boulanger.

Xia De hurriedly squeezed through the crowd and sure enough, saw the professor and the two students confronting two men in short shirts who looked like dock workers. The noisy crowd around them had already made the cause of the incident clear. The two sailors had accidentally spilled alcohol on the professor's clothes, and when the professor asked them to apologize, the sailors used insulting language, calling the professor and his students "Southerners."

"Professor."

Xia De called out and left the crowd to come to the professor's side. Neither the professor nor the two students seemed to be good at handling such matters, so he nodded to Professor Boulanger, signaling him to let him handle it, and then said to the two sailors:

"Gentlemen, this is a place to eat; let's resolve this matter peacefully."

The sailors sized up Xia De's attire and his physique, confirming that he did not look like a bodyguard or a boxer:

"As a Darian, how can you hang out with Southerners?"

Their statement was agreed upon by many people around them.

"Then what do you want?"

Xia De asked again.

"You compensate us because you wasted our time. Then get out of this tavern; you are not welcome here. Otherwise, we can use our fists to reason with you."

As he spoke, the short sailor also clenched his fists and clapped them twice. The onlookers became even more boisterous, egging both sides on to fight. The bartender, who had heard the news and rushed over, tried to dissuade the sailors from their behavior but was blocked by the taller of the two sailors.

Professor Boulanger behind Xia De was a bit embarrassed, but Xia De didn't care at all:

"You said it yourself."

As he spoke, he walked over. The sailors didn't expect him to be so bold, but they weren't afraid of Xia De either.

The two of them also rushed toward Xia De; one threw a punch at Xia De's face, and the other raised his leg to kick Xia De's stomach. Xia De, who could now even see flying bullets, nimbly turned his head to avoid the fist, then raised his leg and kicked away the leg that was kicking toward him.

While the sailor clutching his leg fell to the ground screaming, the other sailor wanted to retract his missed punch, but Xia De grabbed it. The sailor tried hard to pull his fist back, only to find that Xia De's strength was astonishingly great.

"This is what you asked for."

Xia De gave the opponent's fist a fierce twist, let go, and then raised his foot to kick the second sailor toward the wall. The whole process was very crisp and neat.

"Professor, let's go."

He waved to Professor Boulanger and the three of them, then walked toward the door. Having seen the scene just now, of course, no one dared to stop them, so Xia De came outside the tavern just like that.

"This is the second tavern brawl I've encountered in the Green Lake area."

He thought to himself.

The first conflict was Southerners in the Crossroads Village tavern speaking rudely to the female owner of the tavern; the second was Northerners speaking rudely to Southerners. Although they seemed to be small matters, if it weren't for the tense atmosphere caused by this negotiation and the emotions incited by it, things might not have developed into a brawl.

"Mr. Watson, I think we might as well hire you directly."

Professor Boulanger, who walked out of the tavern, followed Xia De's pace, and the two walked side by side on the muddy ground in the village, with the students following behind.

Xia De shook his head:

"Professor, you can't afford to hire me. Oh, I mean, I also have a pile of troublesome things to deal with. But your judgment is correct; if you and your students still want to stay on the north bank of Green Lake for a long time, it is very necessary to find some bodyguards."

The professor nodded deeply in agreement:

"Now we can still walk on Darian soil, but in a few years, maybe... no one can say for sure about the future. Let's go, let's go; what will happen will happen. Instead of worrying about this, I might as well think more about my own article."

He was not frightened by the fighting and brawling, but rather felt a bit dejected because of other things. Xia De quite understood the professor's thoughts; after all, although the Outsider lived in Darian, he actually had no sense of belonging to Darian, and his love for Darian was more because of the Cavendish girls.

Therefore, he could judge this negotiation and its impact from the perspective of a bystander better than anyone else.

"There is no justice or evil, at least in my opinion, really none."

After successfully finding Captain Lades with the professor's party, Xia De left. The captain did not resist the professor's request for help; he did not have much prejudice against the Karsnerians, especially those Karsnerians who were willing to give him money.

As for Professor Boulanger helping to trace the name on the fountain pen, once he had results, he would send a letter directly to the Green Lake Hotel. However, Xia De did not hold much hope for this kind of investigation; he still thought that Rotten-Eye Barry might give him some surprises tomorrow.

Because there was a long-lost group activity tonight, Xia De went straight home by throwing the crystal shoe. After taking a small sip of pink essence to rest, seeing that it was still early, he took Little Mia, who was enjoying her nap while watching pigeons on the windowsill, to deal with other things.

He didn't know if it was Xia De's illusion, but Mia, who had been sunbathing all afternoon, seemed to have a body temperature higher than normal, and holding her in his arms felt like holding a small stove. He once thought the cat had a fever, but not long after leaving the sun, Little Mia's body temperature returned to normal; this phenomenon was very magical.

He first took Mia to the Divination Association, but this time it was not to find Luweiya for divination, but to take the newly obtained Star 13 【Peace Dove · Kansas Mountain Talks】 to the association for appraisal. Hearing that Luweiya was very busy, Xia De did not specifically go to see her; anyway, they would meet in the evening.

Then he went to Old John's pawnshop.

Ding-dang~

"Good afternoon, oh, Priest August?"

Pushing open the door of the pawnshop, he saw the old man in priest robes talking to Old John at the counter at a glance. Hearing Xia De's voice, Priest August also turned to look at him:

"Oh, good afternoon, Xia De. Let's leave together in a while; I see it's not early, let's go to the train station together."

"Okay."

Priest August came to Old John's place to order a batch of special reagent bottles to store some liquids in a super-high temperature state. After Priest August finished his business, Xia De walked to the counter with Mia in his arms. He put the cat on the counter and then lined up the eight fingernail-sized coins:

"Old John, help me see what these are. They don't look like ordinary items, but I haven't checked any abnormalities."

"Such small coins are rare. You should understand that currency was invented to be used, and the size of currency is therefore related to the size of the user's hands. Such small coins may not be used by humans."

He took out his tools to check, while Xia De chatted with Priest August about church matters. The delegation sent by Karsneria to connect the negotiations had recently been keen not only on participating in Tobesk's aristocratic social activities but also on moving around the Five Gods Church in this diocese.

The priest had received more than one "distinguished guest" and believed they were not very pious:

"They all came with their own goals; I have always disapproved of using the church as a social venue."

Old John's inspection took a full twenty minutes. When he took off the retractable brass mechanical monocle and wiped the sweat from his forehead with a towel on the side:

"I was wondering why it was so strange. Detective, you are probably going to be disappointed; these are not coins at all."

"What? But things that are circular and have numbers on both sides, what else could they be if not coins?"

Xia De asked in surprise. The old man behind the counter looked at the cat Xia De was stroking and gave an appropriate example based on this:

"Your cat also has two eyes, a nose, a mouth, and two ears like us, and it is also made of meat. Could it be that your cat is also a human? Detective, don't let inertial thinking mislead yourself."

He stacked the eight small round coins together:

"This thing is very rare; I have only heard of it."

He opened the thick book he had just brought down from upstairs, then turned it around and pushed it to Xia De:

"It's this thing. Although it is different from the appearance recorded, the function is the same. This is a relic derivative, and it is a derivative of an Angel-level (Level 1) relic."

Xia De, Priest August who was interested in this, and Mia all stretched their heads over, and Xia De read the text in the book.

"Angel-level relic 【Feynman's Gold Storage Warehouse】. The appearance of this relic is an ordinary warehouse and cannot be opened in a normal way. Any attempt to open the warehouse will cause the relic to lose control. Specific descriptive information is omitted. Every natural day, you can find a varying number of standard square, circular, equilateral trapezoidal, or isosceles triangular metal pieces in the door gap, and the metal pieces have numbers written on them, using numbers to number the relic derivatives.

The characteristics of this type of relic derivative are as follows—

No. 1 metal: After mental resonance, it can be shaped and manipulated by a ring warlock, changing color and shape, but cannot change other physical properties. This characteristic fails after moving away from the manipulator;

No. 2 metal: After contacting any metal, it converts into that type of metal. It has been proven effective for supernatural metals such as mithril;

No. 3 metal: After continuous consumption, there is a probability of obtaining 【Metal】, 【Iron】, 【Hard】 spiritual runes, and a very small probability of irreversibly turning one's internal organs into metal;

No. 4 metal: Mixed and calcined with pig iron in a specific ratio to produce mental shielding alloy;

No. 5 metal: Once No. 5 metal appears, any metal items within three miles of the containment area must be melted within 24 hours;

No. 6 metal: Omitted."

"Is this a location-based relic? If I remember correctly, it was contained by the 【Church of Creation and Destruction】, right?"

Priest August looked up and said, and Old John nodded:

"Yes, there are rumors that this relic is actually a seal of an evil object created in the Second Era. What is actually imprisoned in the warehouse is something we cannot describe. I also know more news: No. 5 metal is called 'Wisdom Metal'. After it appears, it will give souls and wisdom to any 5 metal products within three miles, and it has great malice toward humans. No. 6 metal is related to the relic itself. Once it appears, it means that the things in the warehouse are coming out."

Priest August was not surprised that Old John knew so much, while Xia De was more concerned about his 8 small round coins:

"I thought they were eight special coins... sure enough, there is no such good thing."

He followed the book and resonated with the eight coins with mental power. Afterward, Mia saw the eight stacked round coins fuse into a cylinder. The cylinder flew into the air, then deformed and changed color as if it had melted, and finally turned into a blooming metal gradient red rose. With Xia De's mental interference, the gradient color of the flower changed in the visible light spectrum, from long waves to short waves, and after turning purple, it changed back to the long wave segment.

"It doesn't seem to be of much use."

Xia De said regretfully, and the old man behind the counter nodded:

"Your mental power is really strong... what did you think this could be used for? It's just a relic derivative, and it can't even be considered the main characteristic of that Angel-level relic. However, you can use it to copy other people's metal keys, or hide it on your body to temporarily turn into a blade, or when you can't find a sewing needle... some ring warlocks who are good at manipulating metal like this kind of thing... I won't charge for the appraisal fee; it's so cheap that I'm too lazy to find change for you, let's count it together with the next time."

Xia De nodded. He himself had the 【Key of the Door】, and also had the ability to turn items into toys. This derivative of the Angel-level relic was not really needed by him, but he had already thought about how to handle this thing. ===== CHAPTER 1606 =====