Chapter 1674: The Obtained Ring

All the stairs leading to the upper floors had broken off, and more than half of the side of the first floor near the lake was flooded. The cracks in the load-bearing walls were as dense as if they had been scratched by Little Mia's claws, and all kinds of snakes, insects, rats, and ants had already made their home here.

Although Megan had investigated the location of the ring, she hadn't expected the condition of the manor to be this bad. Standing at the entrance of the manor house with Xia De, looking at the foyer, she hesitated for a moment and said to Xia De:

"Take my hand, I'll take you up."

She naturally hooked her hand into Xia De's:

"Although my power is still recovering, short-term flight is still possible."

"Let me do it."

Xia De closed his eyes, used the newly acquired 【Enhanced Spatial Perception】 to determine the terrain near the mansion, then took out the wind vane blue grass extract, dripped it on the tip of his tongue, and gripped Megan's hand tightly:

"Stand steady."

Taking a step forward, the figures of the two disappeared from where they were and appeared in the corridor on the third floor. The weight of the two and Mia pressed on the warped wooden floor, making a loud "creak~" sound, startling the nearby rats into the shadows formed by the sunlight shooting from the window at the end of the corridor, into the decayed and collapsed door panels.

"Spatial movement?"

Megan looked around in surprise:

"You're only at the Sixth Ring, and you can already take people for stable spatial movement?"

"Haven't you tried it before?"

"I have, a friend who has already passed away was also very good at spatial power. However, she was much higher in level than you, and she usually only relied on spatial power for long-distance teleportation."

She was likely talking about Miss Sylvia's teacher.

"Are you really not..."

Beautiful eyes looked at Xia De again, and Xia De answered this question again:

"Miss Pharmacist, I am really not a Chosen One, I am very sure of this point."

Stepping on the creaking floor, he came to the master bedroom, lifted the moldy bed, held down Little Mia who was hissing at the snakes, used fire to burn the snake nest under the mattress, and then lifted the floorboards, indeed finding a secret compartment under the floor.

"Smoother than I thought."

"What did you think you would encounter?"

The female sorcerer asked strangely:

"I did so much investigation in the early stages, it would be strange if it weren't smooth, right?"

"Because something of mine usually requires... not important."

Count Gaiman, who passed away fifty years ago, was very cautious. The things in the secret compartment were all placed in a metal box the size of two palms, so they were preserved relatively intact.

The box couldn't be opened because of corrosion, but in the face of power, these didn't matter. Xia De opened the box and saw the ring adorned with black and white gemstones at a glance. He handed the box containing other things to Megan for her to check, and then held the golden ring with the black and white gemstones against the light from the window, and it began to flicker with eerie light.

"Poet-level relic 【Ring of Moods】, white represents positive emotions, black represents negative emotions."

Xia De muttered to himself, rubbing the inside of the ring with his fingertips, and found the sentence Megan had mentioned before:

【The blending of joy and sorrow is the interpretation of wisdom within.】

After reciting it softly, he put the ring on his finger and couldn't help but smile. Although he had many relics in his hands, he particularly liked this kind of relic with a simple design that could be displayed together. Even if this relic didn't have much effect, he was very happy at this moment.

He tried to guide his own spirit, storing the joy of this moment in the white gemstone, and then realized that a more accurate way of saying it was "recording emotions," and he didn't lose a part of his emotions out of thin air because of this.

"It's a pity that I'm in a good mood now, otherwise I could try how it changes emotions."

Xia De thought in his heart, and then was pawed by the cat on his shoulder. Turning to look at the cat's amber eyes, after staring at each other for a while, Xia De took off the ring and shook it at it, and sure enough, he saw the cat's eyes moving with the ring:

"You really like it."

Saying this, he raised his hand and held Little Mia's tail. Usually, if he did this, even Xia De would be disliked by this cat until mealtime, but this time it was very well-behaved. It wasn't until Xia De put the ring on the cat's tail that the cat took its tail out of Xia De's hand and turned to look at its tail wagging back and forth.

"Putting a relic ring on a pet cat's tail won't make it turn into a cat girl, and it will only hurt your pet."

Megan on the side noticed the movement here and warned, then added:

"The Witch Emperors of the Fifth Era experimented, cat girls aren't produced this way, and healthy people shouldn't have ulterior motives for their pet cats."

"What kind of person do you take me for?"

Xia De, who was in a very good mood, asked with a smile, petting Little Mia's head a few times, and the cat also rubbed against his hand obediently.

Then, Xia De went to look at the box Megan had placed on the windowsill.

The only relic inside was the ring. Apart from that, the ordinary items included three rolls of banknotes—both Kesenlike crowns and Delarian pounds were there, three gemstones the size of pebbles—of quite good quality, some forged identity documents, an old-fashioned single-shot pistol, and a notebook the size of a palm.

Megan was flipping through the notebook:

"It seems that the things here were all prepared by Count Gaiman as a retreat for himself, but it's a pity he died before he could use them."

She flipped the notebook, whose handwriting was blurred due to dampness, back a few pages, and then raised an eyebrow in surprise:

"It records his 'adventure' experience, let me see... oh, what a cliché story, going fishing alone by boat on a rainy day, then fishing up strange things in the lake, and thus obtaining the opportunity to make a wish. What would he encounter? A relic? A demon? Or something more troublesome—like my ancestor?"

The female sorcerer made a small joke, and Xia De thought for a moment:

"Many stories have this kind of plot, but obviously he paid the price. I think dying from a fall from a horse shouldn't be that simple, and it's hard to say where his soul eventually went. It seems that although he had a relic in his hand, Count Gaiman was definitely not a Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi, otherwise he should know common sense—don't make wishes easily."

"Who knows?"

Megan didn't care about this, after all, that was fifty years ago:

"Let me see if it records what he encountered... No, what a pity."

Although she said so, she didn't feel sorry at all, but rather glad that she didn't have to be involved in other events because of this. Looking at the smile on Xia De's face again, she felt more and more that this trip this morning was really valuable.

"Let's go, since the key has been obtained, didn't you say you wanted to invite me to dinner at noon? Oh, sir, I don't often accept invitations from others, please cherish this opportunity... I see you aren't very familiar with the Green Lake area, where are you taking me?"

Saying this, she put the notebook back into the box, and then watched the box being turned into a toy by Xia De. She looked at Xia De with a smile, looking forward to what Xia De would do.

Xia De already had an idea:

"Let's go to your boat, I'll provide the food."

"You want to cook yourself?"

Megan was a little surprised, Xia De shook his head, just wanting to explain his expensive but impractical lazy sorcery, but his peripheral vision saw two figures from the window.

When he noticed the other party, the two brothers, each blind in one eye, also noticed the two standing at the window from afar on the path.

Xia De sighed and asked Megan suspiciously:

"Is the Mirror Association left with only these two people? How come we can run into them wherever we go?"

Originally, it was just a tease, but he didn't expect Megan to look at the black ring worn on her finger, and the black gemstone ring surface was flickering with ghostly light at this time. This was a relic, the first time Xia De had seen Megan wear it, but he hadn't asked much on the way here.

"It's not an accident, it's the entanglement of fate. The ring on my hand was lent to me by my 13th-Ring friend, although it's only Document-level, it can detect traces of fate. The family prophecy says that everyone will reunite, and this is the evidence."

Megan said, also sighing lightly, looking at her nephews standing on the path:

"Are you turning into a cat or am I turning into a cat? I hope to maintain their misunderstanding of your identity."

Xia De looked at Mia who was being held by him, this cat didn't know what was going to happen:

"I'll turn my cat into a toy, and then I'll turn into a cat. It's uncontrollable for you to turn into a cat with a potion. If the potion effect hasn't worn off when you want to turn back, it will be troublesome."

"That's fine."

Megan nodded, not saying that she, this potion master, actually had a way to end the potion effect early:

"Actually, it doesn't matter if your cat doesn't turn into a toy, I won't feel it's troublesome to hold two cats."

"But I will feel it's troublesome."

Xia De would never turn into a cat in front of Little Mia again.

So the two turned and left the window. When they came down from upstairs, Little Mia was turned into a toy, Xia De turned into a silver cat again, and his relics were temporarily kept by Megan.

When they came to the deformed door frame of the manor, the two brothers, each blind in one eye, had also arrived at the manor gate. Although they met at Rotten-Eye Barley's territory in the city during a heavy rain not long ago and the two sides were quite unfriendly, this time they didn't fight immediately because of this.

Megan, holding the silver cat, asked the question Xia De just asked:

"Is the Mirror Association left with only the Mirror-Hiding Person besides you two? How come we can run into you two wherever we go?"

And the two brothers also gave an answer similar to Megan's just now:

"For this point, we have to ask our ancestor Laplace Klein Howard. Aunt, and Uncle, I don't know what you are doing here?"

It seems they were indeed still misunderstanding the relationship between Xia De and Megan. ===== CHAPTER 1675 =====