Chapter 1612: Winter Singer

The morning sun passed through the thick fog covering the Northern Pearl and shone on the city that was about to wake up.

On the river channel of the Terraril River running through Tobesk, a small cargo boat sailed quietly from upstream to downstream with the current. Not far away, one could see the steel-structured Disk Bridge, and it was only a thirty-minute walk from here to St. Deran Square.

Workers preparing to work had already appeared on the small pier by the river, and on another boat in the distance, the sailors who woke up were urged by the captain to prepare to wash the deck before breakfast.

No one noticed that the fog around the inconspicuous cargo boat was thicker than in other areas. This was because next to the metal black coffin placed on the deck, the golden holy grail was continuously producing fog.

This holy grail, obtained from purifying the land on the central island of Green Lake, possessed the power to produce fog. And the fog produced from the holy grail possessed properties extremely similar to the fog on the island.

Although the fog was not very thick, the line of sight could not easily penetrate it. And within the range of the fog, most spatial powers would be interfered with.

Dr. Schneider, who hadn't slept all night, stood on the deck looking at the scenery on both sides of the river, and the vigilant expression on his face did not disappear. And beside him on the coffin, the silver cat pushed away the orange and white cat for the umpteenth time. Little Mia showed an aggrieved expression on its face, as if it didn't know why it was hated by Xia.

"Xia, don't bully your cat."

"First, I didn't bully it. Second, this is not my cat."

The silver cat said to Dorothy, and the writer lady showed a smile, continuing to sketch the appearance of the two cats "fighting" in her notebook in the form of a pencil sketch. Although she could use a camera or her own occult art, she preferred the feeling of drawing by hand.

She did this on purpose, because the complaint Xia made after turning into a cat was really heart-moving to her. If it weren't for wanting to complete this painting as soon as possible, she would simply want to keep touching the cat like she did in the pumpkin carriage carriage two hours ago.

"This is why I don't want to tell others that I learned transformation spells. Oh, Mia, I know it's almost time for breakfast, I won't forget it!"

The silver cat continued to complain, but the indifference and emptiness in its heart caused by contacting "Nothingness" with its line of sight had improved a lot. The relic failed to erase Xia as well, because the divine status in Xia's body was much higher than it. But facing the characteristics of the relic head-on, it was impossible for Xia to be unaffected at all.

He had to go home to sleep for four hours later and use "Moon Dream" to clear the final discomfort in his heart.

Priest August walked out of the cabin yawning. Hearing the voice of the silver cat on the coffin, he couldn't help but smile, but he had another thing to say:

"Bill, I have already slowed down the boat. Does Xia's holy grail need to be put away? I'm worried that the people arranged by the Academy to pick up the goods will not be able to find us because of this."

"No need to put it away, I just contacted the Academy, and they will send very reliable people to pick up the goods. And, the reward for this mission has been increased, and the Academy didn't expect that the relic could almost break through containment."

The doctor said, stretching on the first ray of morning sun, and the good news of the increased reward made everyone show a smile.

It was just that the smile on Luweiya's face was the shallowest. She stood on the other side of the coffin, first looking down at the black long staff held in her hand, and then looking at the silver cat that Xia had turned into.

Although it was the first time to see and use this relic, she felt inexplicable familiarity with 【Staff of Yggdrasil】. It was as if the time she had used this staff was already very long. The "Sunlight Gun" strike just now was not her occult art, but she used Iluna's "Sunlight Gun Brooch" to perform the occult art, but even Xia didn't know that this relic could even enhance the effect of alchemical items.

"Although I have already praised you just now, your transformation spell is indeed very powerful."

Luweiya said to Xia, seeing the two "cats" playing, her low mood clearly improved a lot after gripping the staff tightly. She also reached out and touched Xia's cat, and sure enough, she heard Xia's complaint again.

"Although we all know that you will eventually gain abilities related to cats, I didn't expect that the first thing you gained was the ability to turn into a cat yourself. I originally thought it was turning your cat into a human."

"Oh, Luweiya, what kind of person do you think I am?"

Xia said, and the other four all showed smiles.

"Where did you get this staff? We originally thought that the only weapon you used was that sword."

Luweiya asked again, asking quite generously. Xia had already prepared the answer, so while pushing Mia who still wanted to approach, he said:

"This cannot be said for the time being, however, this is related to my time key adventure."

He didn't lie, but obviously Luweiya and others' understanding of "time adventure" was different from Xia's original intention.

The purple-eyed girl nodded and didn't ask anything more. And the silver cat, looking at Luweiya's profile, asked "She" in her heart:

"When suppressing the relic before leaving the warehouse, what was going on with the 'Sunlight Gun' used by Luweiya? I even thought it was Iluna who came at that time. The effect of that strike was already very close to Iluna, but Luweiya just promoted to the six rings."

【"Because, she is the true owner of that staff."】

"She" smiled gently, and then reminded:

【"Someone is coming, downstream, on the water surface."】

"Someone is coming, on the water surface, located downstream of us."

The silver cat said, and the doctor looked at the pocket watch in his hand:

"The time is just right. Don't be nervous, it's the person sent by the Academy. However, it shouldn't be the Academy's own people, after all, it is necessary to avoid being misunderstood by the church."

While speaking, the others also saw the figure appearing on the water surface in the morning fog. They originally thought that the person picking up the goods was also a team, but they didn't expect that the person stepping on the water surface was only one person.

Looking carefully, the lady wearing a dark blue long dress was not stepping on the water surface, but every time she landed, ice layers would appear under her feet to provide her with a foothold.

Dr. Schneider, as the group leader, walked to the edge of the boat to prepare to greet the other party, while Dorothy, who put away her pencil, noticed the surprised expression on the silver cat's face.

"Xia, what's wrong? The other party is not the person picking up the goods?"

She lowered her voice as much as possible and increased her vigilance.

"The other party is twelve... no, it's thirteen rings!"

Saying that, he kicked 【Night Watchman】 down with his paw. Dorothy caught it and neatly threw it into the cabin, then puzzled:

"Thirteen rings?"

"Yes, the perception is very sharp, I am indeed thirteen rings."

The lady in the fog turned into snowflakes and dissipated, and then the snowflakes condensed on the deck, revealing the lady.

She looked about the same age as Galina—referring to her young appearance, her hair was black, and she wore water-drop-shaped blue sapphire earrings on both ears.

Compared to the slightly exhausted group of five, she looked very energetic, and even looked at the two cats on the coffin with a smile, sizing up the appearance of the two cats in turn:

"Warm sun and gentle moon, I think you should be Danister's student, right? Mr. Hamilton who keeps cats."

She said to the silver cat, and Xia cat nodded, then pushed Little Mia again:

"Yes, lady, I don't know who you are..."

He actually already had the answer in his heart, but didn't dare to believe it.

"【Winter Choir】, Elsa Eisberg. Of course, people often use 'Winter Singer' to call me."

She said reservedly, and this time, except for the cat, the other four all expressed their respect to this lady:

"Lady, I didn't expect it to be you who came to respond to the cargo."

This lady appeared at the end of the Battle of Randall Valley and fought against the blood-weeping person Hermons together with Sister Daifulin. It was just that the distance was too far at that time, and the sky was very dark and it was snowing heavily, so Xia didn't see the other party's appearance clearly at that time. As for the surname "Eisberg", it was the same as the surname of the Eisberg Duke of the Far North Garrison of the Third Army of the Darian Royal Army. At the end of last autumn, one of Lei Qianya's sisters married the son of the Eisberg Duke.

It was just unknown whether these two "Eisbergs" were related.

The group of four all knew that 【Winter Choir】 and St. Byron's Comprehensive Academy had a close friendship, after all, this was part of the Academy's general education, so it seemed reasonable for her to pick up the goods, but the doctor still asked quite awe-inspiringly:

"Lady, may I ask how the Academy let you... I don't question the Academy's decision."

"Your principal and the librarian both have other things recently. But for safety, this dangerous relic must be monitored by a thirteen-ring warlock when passing through the hinterland of the Old World civilization. I shouldn't have appeared, but was waiting far away outside Tobesk, but the movement you made last night was too big."

She looked up at the sky in the West District of Tobesk. Under the morning sun, the black clouds had not completely dissipated:

"Although the relic was controlled, in order to prevent similar situations from happening again, St. Byron's asked me to check it and temporarily be responsible for the next transport of the relic."

She walked to the coffin, and Xia jumped down neatly. The silver cat turned into a silver light group, and Xia's body recovered in the light group.

He hugged Mia down again, and the black metal coffin shook, but very lightly. Afterward, the lady wearing a dark blue long dress put her hand on it, and after a while said to the five people:

"You did a good job, the power of the relic has indeed returned to the containment measures."

She took off a gray crystal on the surface of the coffin and handed it to Xia, and then patted the coffin twice. Ice layers appeared and frozen the black coffin. The whisper elements that could originally be perceived slightly were completely calmed down.

The five finally breathed a sigh of relief, which meant that this mission was over. As for the mission reward, it would be issued uniformly by the Academy later. At this moment, Xia finally understood why the previous team showed that kind of relieved expression when picking up the goods at Tobesk train station last night.

Although the mission duration was less than twelve hours, this night was not easier than Xia's adventures.

"Although you will certainly write a report to submit to your Academy about the situation before and after the relic loss of control last night, I still have to ask, to what extent did the remains in this coffin lose control? Did it, sit up? How did you handle it?"

The doctor and the priest looked at each other, and then Xia coughed:

"I'll say it, I was closest last night. After the power of the remains was affected by the prayer of the unknown eight-ring warlock, the coffin lid was blown away with me and my cat, and then I noticed that the roof of the warehouse disappeared. Fortunately, the coffin was full of white ash, and those flying ash affected my vision, I didn't see the full picture of the thing in the coffin."

"It is that your Academy deliberately filled it with a large amount of white ash, that is to affect the line of sight of the remains... what happened afterward?"

The female warlock wearing a dark blue long dress asked again.

"It sat up, yes. It grabbed the edge of the coffin and sat up, so the warehouse wall and the outside of the wall were affected. We were terrified at that time, if captured by the line of sight, we might also disappear."

Xia said, patting Mia's little head:

"But fortunately it lay back by itself. I don't know exactly what happened, at that time it seemed that someone passed by outside that warehouse."

"Yes, someone passed by, a man holding a long sword."

The doctor echoed, this was the excuse they gave after discussion.

"Is that so?"

The female warlock obviously didn't believe it much, but Xia said again:

"We will explain in detail in the report submitted later, but the point now is that everything is safe and sound, and the relic has been contained again."

"That's true, besides, you correspondence students of St. Byron's always have many secrets."

Ms. Eisberg nodded and asked again:

"What did that unknown eight-ring warlock say when he triggered the relic riot?"

Dorothy said:

"It was something like praising the non-existent nothingness."

Because she was worried about the coffin rioting again, she only said the first sentence.

The lady wearing a dark blue long dress frowned slightly: 【1

"This is actually different from what I thought. They probably didn't want to snatch this coffin, but rather, they intended for this coffin to lose control within Tobesk... You probably don't know what this actually is yet. The Angel-level relic 【Remains of the Nameless One】; there is indeed a corpse lying in the coffin, but that corpse possesses vitality and a small amount of intelligence. Everything gazed upon by its eyes will be sent into the void.

Therefore, only once the relic's power breaks through the containment measures would it cause large-scale changes in space... If they only wanted to snatch it, they would absolutely not deliberately let it lose control; this benefits no one... I will report this matter to Saint Byrons. Is this someone trying to frame Saint Byrons? Oh, this has nothing to do with you; you completed your mission very well."

Saying this, she waved her hand, and the black coffin wrapped in ice flew up. However, before she left, she turned her head to look at Xia De again:

"I heard from Miss Daniste, Mr. Han Mi Er Dun, you have something you want to say to us?"

She asked suddenly, and Xia De, whose thoughts were still immersed in the information about the relic, was startled:

"Yes, I wanted to..."

He wanted to ask if 【Omniscient Change · Space】 was in the other party's hands, but he certainly didn't want to directly seek out the leader of the 【Winter Anthem Troupe】 to ask; this would make his actions incredibly strange.

Seeing Xia De hesitate, the sorceress nodded:

"I need to take this coffin away as soon as possible. If you want to communicate with us, I will send someone to find you in a while."

Saying this, she nodded to the five people in turn, then jumped lightly from the edge of the deck onto the water surface, and subsequently stepped on the ice beneath her feet, taking the coffin with her and leaving toward the downstream of the river in the morning mist.

Xia De bent down to pick up the Holy Grail placed on the deck and put it away; the Doctor yawned:

"This night was truly long."

He waved his hand at the other four:

"It is already Friday morning; let's leave for now. When we meet tomorrow afternoon, I will distribute the gains from this time to you. I have a patient appointment at nine o'clock this morning, a patient with insomnia; I really hope he can be as tired as I am right now... I also have to return this ship in a while."

The ship was also prepared by the Doctor in advance; he had already anticipated the possibility of needing to transfer from the warehouse. Even if this ship were discovered, he had a third plan to execute; the Doctor fully understood that any accident was possible.

"It's truly interesting; in our previous group actions, it was always the Doctor who was unlucky. This time, the Doctor is actually unscathed."

Lu Weiya looked to have returned to her normal demeanor and said with a smile before they each departed.

The others also laughed, only the Doctor was in a contemplative state, looking at Xia De again:

"This shows that letting Xia De join was indeed correct. Next time, how about..."

"There shouldn't be a next time in the near future!"

Duo Luo Qian said immediately, looking at the city gradually waking from its slumber:

"This time was exciting enough."