Chapter 1882: Seaview Window

The shattered Astral Meteorite had mostly vanished, with only a small portion falling into the city. Although Miss Aurora had not specifically sought to collect them because she had to bring back the unconscious Miss Galina, Miss Sylvia on the third floor had managed to obtain some.

Those ores were sent to the first floor. The irregular stones indeed possessed a magnificent, starry color, very similar to the effect of Xia De's miracle 【Moon Library】.

This could be considered the first trophy of the night, yet for this trophy, the Green Lake region had truly paid a heavy sacrifice.

The Astral Meteorites did not come only once. Just ten minutes later, due to violent spatial fluctuations, a second wave of Astral Meteorites appeared again from the rainy night. This time, there were only seven, and because the Church was already prepared, they successfully intercepted all the meteorites attempting to land.

Even the traces of the Color from Space were observed in advance, and the remaining meteorite debris was directly and thoroughly evaporated in the air by large-scale divine arts rituals released by the Church. Fortunately, it was raining heavily tonight; otherwise, the anomalies in the sky would have required the newspapers to provide complicated explanations again.

The rumbling sounds were incessant, and the meteorites exploding in the air instantly bloomed with a ghostly blue light before completely disappearing.

The rain outside the window became increasingly violent, as if the sky and the sea had connected. In such a dark, deep night, even the sound of normal rain was truly terrifying to the heart.

The echoes of the second wave of Astral Meteorite explosions seemed not yet to have dissipated when a new situation appeared in the inn. Big Sister Sylvia hurriedly sent someone to deliver a message, asking Xia De to hurry downstairs to help:

"There's a problem on the eighth floor!"

"Luweiya, stay here with Big Sister Aurora!"

Xia De asked loudly, then spat a few times to clear the water from his mouth. He moved forward bit by bit, eventually having the other girls who were using their bodies to block the window move away, allowing himself to stand completely in front of the window and block the now glassless opening with his body. The massive and icy water flow made him almost lose his footing; the water directly drained his stamina, but fortunately, Xia De still had 【Night Watchman】.

Without needing anyone else to remind him, he discovered exactly what the problem was.

Ancient, dark, yet possessing vitality amidst the trembling. It was an incomprehensible behemoth, moving closer and closer to the window in the deep, dark seabed. Extraordinarys rarely suffer from megalophobia, but at that moment, Xia De could almost hear no one's breathing.

"I don't know what the situation is, but if we don't block this, the inn will be gone!"

Once this wooden board touched the window, strange spatial forces would attempt to decompose it. Unless one used power similar to a "Spatial Stabilization Halo," no physical object could block this.

Having witnessed countless monsters, the radiance of divinity and primordial fire shone outward from his soul, allowing the Outlander to recover his composure in just a few seconds. Holding his breath, he reached out to grab the wooden board to block the window, preventing the light from further attracting the thing outside that was drawing ever closer.

"Xia De!"

There were many hands available in the inn. The leaders of the Great Witches, those young or mature girls, took turns holding hammers and nails, laboriously fixing the wooden board to the wall. With Xia De blocking the front, the pressure on Big Sister Sylvia and the others eased slightly. She pressed tightly against Xia De's back, spreading her arms just like him. Feeling his slight trembling and the temperature of his body, for some reason, she actually felt a sense of peace.

Among the Witches of the Council, she was not the type of Witch known for physical strength. Although the increase in Extraordinary rank would produce a comprehensive improvement in physical fitness, unfortunately, she still belonged to the more traditional type of spellcaster, not like Big Sister Bernice, the Witch of the Earth, who possessed astonishing physical strength.

"Because..."

Instinctive fear and unspeakable trembling erupted in the face of that giant, intelligent eye that resembled a high mountain.

The rumbling sound of water resounded through the entire third floor again. Everyone who had subconsciously avoided looking at the deep-sea scene outside now looked at that window, unable to control themselves.

She warned herself in her heart, but her eyes still looked at Xia De's skin wrapped in his soaked shirt, and then she felt her own body temperature actually rise.

The eye was circular, with... blood... worms... white...

The liquid, whether lake water or seawater, had already spread to more than half of the corridor floor. Amidst the splashing sounds, Big Sister Sylvia, soaked to the bone, blocked the front of the window, with a large group of girls standing behind her in turn, resisting the impact of the water flow together.

The giant eye grew closer and closer. Until a shout from behind pulled the thoughts of everyone present back from that reality, which was even more terrifying than a nightmare—

"Praise the Chaos Witch! May the radiance of the Witch last forever!"

【Night Watchman】, after experiencing the Chosen of Knowledge and Wisdom event, possessed a series of special blessings. One of them was that when Xia De held it, his stamina could be endless. This, of course, had a limit; it didn't mean Xia De had become a perpetual motion machine, but fortunately, it was enough to deal with the current situation.

"Only wooden boards can seal this window; this is a Document-level relic!"

Xia De's pressure was also eased significantly, yet Big Sister Sylvia's soft body still leaned against him from behind. Xia De only assumed the young Great Witch was still exhausted and didn't pay much attention. Taking advantage of the fact that the water finally wouldn't pour into his mouth, he asked his question again:

But suddenly, the silhouette in the deep sea trembled. After the moment that left Xia De frozen, the eyelid represented by that silhouette opened. It was not the shape of any monster at all; that silhouette represented a giant white eye, with dark red bloodshot veins, an eye possessing wisdom and rationality, a white eye that could truly absorb reason and soul, slowly opened, gazing from outside the window into the room.

The Witch shouted amidst the splashing water, then picked up another wooden board and blocked it under the one Xia De was holding. The girls immediately took nails and swung hammers; the sound of each strike was easily drowned out by the sound of the water.

"Is this our bad luck, or did that Diviner make a move?"

Even he himself could not avoid imagining that behemoth in the deep sea, quietly approaching the only point of light. And that point of light, the size of a grain of rice, was precisely the window where the inn was located.

"Some window randomly connects to the ocean, and then a large amount of water pours into the building. Currently, there is no way to actively disperse this kind of abnormal spatial connection; one can only seal it and wait for the connection to disappear. Moreover, when sealing, one can only use wooden boards and nails; other methods will be erased by spatial forces."

The girls were very fast. The window, which was expected to be completely sealed with eighteen wooden boards, was already half-blocked in the blink of an eye. What was magical was that the gaps between the wooden boards, which surely would have leaked water, showed no traces of leakage at all when facing this kind of relic.

Xia De hurried over, and after the other girls cleared a space, he took over from Big Sister Sylvia, reaching out to press against the wooden board while facing the water that had soaked him through. He understood at once why only Big Sister Sylvia had reached out, and why, despite it being just a flow of water, so many people were needed to block it there.

"If it's just pouring seawater into the building through the window, how is this relic rated as 【Document-level】?"

Even without looking back, Big Sister Sylvia sensed Xia De's arrival. The Witch shouted, the icy water drilling into her clothes along her collar and cuffs, rapidly draining her body heat, but she still pressed her hands against the wooden board at the very front of the window, firmly fixing it to the window frame so the other girls could fix it there with nails.

"Document-level relic 【Seaview Window】, this is also a location-type relic."

Next, there was no need for Big Sister Sylvia to answer. Amidst a sudden, loud, rumbling crash, a giant, slimy tentacle with suction cups shattered those poor wooden boards from the deep sea outside the window, then instantly wrapped around the waists of Xia De and Big Sister Sylvia, who were pressed together. The giant force contracted violently, almost pulling Xia De and the Witch outside the window.

Fortunately, he was still prepared with "Lagley's Leap," and at the very last moment before being pulled out of the window, he disappeared from the window with Big Sister Sylvia. The tentacle also retracted outside the window, simultaneously taking away the last half-piece of wood hanging on the window.

"Oh, Emma, now is not the time..."

Saying this, Xia De took the longsword at his side, stepped forward, and disappeared directly, reappearing on the third floor.

In the unimaginable darkness, silhouettes corroded by even thicker darkness appeared bit by bit. The instinct of a sentient being resisted understanding and imagining the specific image represented by that giant silhouette. Strange patterns and designs following geometric laws gradually appeared in that lightless deep sea, appearing as densely packed piles due to being illuminated by the inn inside the window.

The inn's rooms were distributed on the left and right sides of the corridor, so the corridor only had windows at the ends. And now, that window at the far east end of the third floor was pouring a large amount of liquid into the corridor like a fountain.

They were trying to seal the window completely with wooden boards, but it was not going smoothly.

Her face was hidden behind Xia De, speaking as briefly as possible, while leaning her body against Xia De to resist the impact of the water flow. This seawater was not normal water; once it stuck to the body, stamina and even spirit would drain away rapidly and uncontrollably. Just before Xia De arrived, Big Sister Sylvia, who was blocking there, had almost been unable to hold on.

Xia De felt he couldn't think; his heartbeat and breathing stopped completely at that moment. His reason dropped rapidly along with their mutual gaze, which he couldn't move away from. Even in his most terrifying nightmares of the past, he had never imagined such a scene. ===== CHAPTER 1883 =====