Chapter 1742

The more he understood the stories that happened in the past life, and the clearer he became about the end of the world after the apocalypse arrived, the less the Outlander could accept the world becoming like this again.

He waited for the white fog to envelop him, then took a step forward, stepped out from the door, and returned to the dark, unlit entrance hall. Three seconds had passed; he had lost his clothes and shoes, and there was an extra playing card in his hand, but the good news was that the Tree Father had repaired all his injuries.

The small orange cat waiting for him on Xia De's coat stared at him with amber eyes wide in the darkness. The cat also felt Xia De's mental exhaustion, so it just gave a gentle "meow," jumped to a higher step, and waited for Xia De to go upstairs together.

"I have learned more information about the failure of Luvia in the past life. I cannot delay, nor can I allow any single failure, otherwise the situation will worsen bit by bit until, like in the past life, cultists actually dare to attack Tobesk. At the same time, I must unite everyone who can be united and unite all forces."

In the darkness, Xia De looked at the playing card in his hand again, looking at Mrs. Lemeier in the deep sea: "But apart from that information about the past life, it was not without gains."

【You mean this card?】

"No, I witnessed Iluna's Thirteen-Ring form. My Wonder 【Cinderella】, the girl to whom I can make a promise, can transform into the strongest form of them in my memory. I have memorized the Thirteen-Ring form that Iluna is destined to achieve."

He first went to the basement to tuck 【Shadow of the Deep Sea】 and 【Twin Lovers】 together into the "Feilianna Notebook." When he was ready to return to the bedroom to rest with Little Mia, Xia De, in the darkness, thought of a relatively boring question:

"Since these cards will definitely increase by one every month from now on, should I give them a name? To distinguish them from the Vientiane Cards and the Luo De Cards."

【How about 'Calamity Cards'?】 "A good name."

Thus, the types of playing cards Xia De needed to collect increased by one more.

Although his physical injuries were repaired by the Tree Father, the weakness of his soul and the lethargy of his spirit were not so easily cured. Even with a top-tier mental and soul restoration wonder like 【Moon Dream】, because the battle was truly intense, by the time Xia De fell asleep on Sunday night and opened his eyes again, it was already 8:30 AM on Monday.

When he woke up and saw Luvia and Iluna sitting on the chairs by the bed, he once thought he was still in a dream. Fortunately, "She" gently reminded Xia De to distinguish between reality and dreams, and Luvia's surprised voice also proved that this was not an illusion.

"You're awake. Don't worry about your cat; we've already prepared breakfast for it. Oh, I'll go to the kitchen and bring you breakfast; you don't need to get up."

As she said this, she stood up and left the bedroom. Xia De sat up from the bed and looked at Iluna blankly again. The seventeen-year-old girl explained with great concern:

"I'm leaving Tobesk this afternoon. Luvia had new gains, so she came here with me to tell you. We came at 7:30. When we opened the door and saw the newspaper still on the doormat, and Little Mia also darted down from upstairs, we knew something must have happened to you. But Luvia checked and said you were just too tired, so we didn't disturb you."

As for the cat, it was lying by Xia De's pillow at this time; it had probably been staying here ever since it ate breakfast. "I'm fine, just too tired."

He didn't explain what he had done, just sighed while holding his forehead, which made Iluna even more worried. Luvia soon returned with breakfast, but Xia De insisted on going to the dining room. He talked about the ghoul, Nicholas Green, that he had investigated yesterday, and also talked about his speculation on the relationship between the "Edwards Ascension Ritual," the thirteen keys, and the poem. Afterward, Xia De listened to the girls talk while eating breakfast. The new investigative gain came from Iluna:

"I saw part of the poem's content in advance and learned information related to the ritual of the Chosen of Space. The three requirements for the Chosen ritual: understand the power of the Ancient God, possess an artifact symbolizing the power of the Ancient God, and hold a specific ritual. We already know that this ritual includes 'Multiple-in-One,' and there is also a location requirement: it must be in a stable, special space."

"Xia De, you are better at space power than any of us; you should understand this sentence."

Luvia said. Xia De nodded. After waking up, his mental state had fully recovered, but he didn't intend to tell anyone about everything from last night:

"I learned it in class. A stable, special space means that as long as it is not the true material world, it's fine. But the space itself must have fixed rules; subspace seals won't work. I can think of, for example, those spaces left behind by Ancient Gods, the interior of the Unknown-level relic 【Boundary of Life and Death】, etc... The Words of Sublimation probably won't work; that's basically a bomb, not stable at all. However, some special Wonders supported by sufficiently powerful force, like the one I fully unfold..."

He tried to give his combined Wonder a unique name: "Wonder: Fairytale Town would work."

Iluna understood what he was saying:

"Can the island on the back of the central island of Green Lake, which you mentioned many times, count?" Xia De hesitated for a moment:

"It probably shouldn't count. The island on the back is a landscape reflected from the reverse side of the material world's space. Strictly speaking, that place is still the material world; it's just that a spatial anomaly appeared. I heard from Miss Danister that the space professors of the three major academies are all studying this special spatial phenomenon. Now it can be determined that it is not outside the material world... I don't know if Laplace Klein Howard knows the full content of the Chosen ritual."

Luvia nodded:

"But at least this is to our advantage. Xia De has already mastered the location of the 【Spatial Labyrinth】 in Green Lake City. As long as we kill that diviner and find the next candidate, at least we don't have to worry about the ritual location. Iluna, when you arrive in the Green Lake area, you must be careful. This time is different from the past. In the past, the Chosen and other enemies related to this would not take the initiative to attack you, but this time, Laplace Klein Howard might take the initiative to test other Chosen."

Iluna nodded, happy for Luvia's concern. And looking at Iluna's appearance at this time, Xia De really couldn't imagine what kind of things she had experienced to become the cold person he saw in his memory of the 【Past Life】 last night.

Iluna left in the afternoon, still taking the steam airship. She had to go to the Holy See for training first and would arrive in Green Lake around this weekend or early next week. Therefore, this was the farewell between Iluna and the two before she left. Xia De and Luvia both gave her a hug, and Xia De also made an appointment with Iluna to meet again at the Green Lake hotel. But what he didn't know was that after the two girls left St. Deran Square together, Luvia said something she hadn't said just now:

"The Society is summoning elite diviners from other branches in the Old Continent to go to the Green Lake area to help. It seems that the Society is really going to have a big move this time. I am qualified to sign up, and I am still in the qualification review stage. If the review passes, I will probably go to Green Lake in a week or two."

Iluna asked worriedly: "Not telling Xia De?"

"I'll tell him when the time comes." The purple-eyed girl shook her head:

"He always thinks I'm too fragile, but the matter of the Chosen has developed to this point; relying on him alone, the road will only become more and more difficult. I reached out to him last summer, and today, the relationship between the two of us is definitely not just love and bonds; we also have an ideal and goal to change this world that is about to change together. I will not let him walk alone."

Today is a brand new week. Last week, he took out the cat-shaped mask, a useless gift, from the gift box. This week, when he went to get the gift with full expectations, he saw Little Mia standing by the side with an expectant look again.

So he thought about it and put the cat into the box. Mia was quite happy about this. But soon Xia De hugged the cat out again, and then he saw, as expected, a string of irregular translucent stones strung together with a red rope on Little Mia's tail.

There were seven stones in total. Although they were irregular in shape, they felt very smooth to the touch. Each one was smaller than the beads on the pearl necklace worn by the girls. The stone looked like glass, but the feel was very different from glass.

Because there were fluctuations of spirit, this must be some kind of special material, but it's a pity that Xia De couldn't tell what it was.

It just so happened that he was going to find Sister Diefulin to ask about something in a while, so he brought it with him when he went out. As for Little Mia, the cat was still at home watching the house.

However, Xia De didn't go to Mid-Hill Fort immediately. Instead, he went out first and took a carriage to visit the Lemeier family, whom he hadn't seen for a long time. The family, who had obtained a relatively generous inheritance, had already moved out of the attic where they originally lived and moved to the North District of Tobesk, a neighborhood with a better living environment, where they rented a room on the third floor of an apartment with an independent bathroom and kitchen.

Mrs. Lemeier was quite surprised by Xia De, who came to visit with a bag of apples, but she still treated him warmly. Xia De claimed that he was here for a "commission follow-up visit." He looked at the home that was decorated very warmly, listened to Mrs. Lemeier talk about the improvement of the family's life, and then learned that she had never left the city in the past year:

"That's good, then I won't disturb you anymore."

After sitting for only ten minutes, Xia De got up and left. He said goodbye to the enthusiastic woman, put his hands in his pockets, clutching the 【Shadow of the Deep Sea】, and watched Mrs. Lemeier's waving figure from the carriage window.

【How do you feel?】

"No special feeling, I just did what I should have done."

After returning home, he finally went from the basement to the abandoned tower in the mountains of Mount Sikar. After coming down from the mountain, he quickly went to the ancient sacrificial site on the top of the mountains through the Snake Heart Hospital in Mid-Hill Fort. Sister Diefulin and Mother Cassandra's group had not yet set off, so Xia De could still find the nun.