Chapter 2004: 5180 Fifth Era

"The god this time is 【Giver of Dreams】?"

This Old God is not the "Dream God." He is usually called the "God of Wishes" and belongs to a relatively less famous Old God. Xia De knows him because the God of Wishes - 【Giver of Dreams】, the God of Toys - 【Creator of Innocence】, and the God of Fairy Tales - 【Fairy Tale Poet】 are all called "Guardians of Children."

These three are not very famous, and the information passed down in the Sixth Era is pitifully little. Xia De's relationship with the "Creator of Innocence" goes without saying, so he knows this not-very-famous god who is also related to "guarding children," but he doesn't know much specific information:

"At least this one is a benevolent god."

As for the two miracles given by the Tree Father, the former corresponds to the First-Ring Miracle - 【Echo】 Spirit Rune, which came from the mission in the original Hope Town; the latter corresponds to the Seventh-Ring Enlightenment - 【Flesh】 Spirit Rune, which is the Spirit Rune Xia De comprehended after copying the "Edwards Ascension Technique."

Since the two miracles haven't been obtained yet, he naturally doesn't know their specific effects. Therefore, although "Dragon Roar" sounds intimidating, there's no need to think too much about it now. Xia De just sighed that the Tree Father can indeed give any kind of miracle, and the two miracles this time seem to be offensive miracles.

"The time is 5180 Fifth Era. Is it only three years since I met Miss Violet and Miss Theresa in 5177? It seems the time I checked for the key in advance was correct. However, there doesn't seem to be any content related to cruise ships in the major events related to witches this year."

Unable to figure it out for the time being, and considering that this time it is related to a shipwreck, Xia De first activated the spell "Water Walking" in the white fog before taking a step forward.

The white fog dissipated, and the environment of the so-called "Sea of No Light" indeed had no light at all. Just as the darkness enveloped everything, Xia De indeed sensed that the water surface was beneath his feet. But before he could be happy about activating Water Walking in advance, he fell into the sea.

"Oh, this area prohibits powers like Water Walking!"

He had encountered areas that prohibited spatial powers or detection powers before, so although he fell into the water and was soaked, Xia De could understand the current situation.

The darkness around him became even deeper after entering the water. He wanted to float up, but felt his body was unusually heavy. Fortunately, this heaviness was different from the state when the Old God "Drowned of the Deep Sea" forced Xia De to enter the seabed. As the chill in the dark waters spread to his whole body, Xia De also poked his head out from under the water.

The boundless sea was surging, and the churning black seawater was as chilling as the skin of some giant beast. The pitch-black sky was like an abyss hanging upside down above his head, but the water surface that no light could illuminate was the area that could most easily cause instinctive fear.

There was really no light here. If he didn't have "Dark Vision," Xia De wouldn't even be able to see the waves constantly crashing.

Even with Dark Vision, he instinctively called out moonlight for illumination. But after chanting "Silver Moon," the light at his fingertips was as weak as a firefly, and could only slightly illuminate his palm:

"Is this what the Sea of No Light means?"

According to summarized experience, the Tree Father never directly sent Xia De to the people of the Fifth Era, and once he stayed at the initial position for too long, danger would come. Xia De falling into the sea and poking his head out to call out moonlight—this series of actions added up to only ten seconds or so, but the situation was already a bit wrong.

His perception, influenced by chaotic spirits and elements, clearly detected that in the water area where he couldn't observe how deep the bottom was, a behemoth that made even the current Xia De feel fear was rising rapidly, not knowing when it started.

The sense of crisis at that moment forced Xia De to disperse into red butterflies and arrive on the water surface. After the red butterflies reached a certain height from the sea surface, they were pressed back to the position close to the sea surface, but the ascent just now had allowed him to see the only point of light in the darkness.

The red butterflies quickly flew along the sea surface toward the only ray of light in the distance. Those translucent butterflies that could spontaneously emit warm red light were now not only unable to scatter red light points, but even their own light could barely be maintained, but fortunately, the appearance did not affect the spell effect.

The surging waves covered most of the sounds from the seabed, but the terrifying "Ang~" sound that appeared immediately after appeared directly in the "ears" of the red butterflies.

Just one cry scattered a quarter of the red butterflies, and then something that Xia De hadn't seen emerged from under the water and extinguished another quarter of the red butterflies.

By the time the remaining red butterflies approached that ray of light, the huge creature whose body was unknown under the water gradually disappeared. And the red butterflies also saw that the ray of light was a fire ignited on a huge floating board floating on the water surface.

The floating board looked like the wreckage of a ship, and some blurry figures surrounded the fire. Xia De clearly understood that these were the partners this time.

Clearly, the roar of the seabed behemoth just now was so shocking, but the people by the fire didn't seem to notice it at all. The surging seawater strangely only made the floating board sway slightly on the water surface, and the people swaying on the floating board didn't see a group of dim-colored red butterflies flying in the darkness.

Even when those butterflies fell at the edge of the floating board and Xia De, panting, emerged, the people by the fire still had no movement.

At this time, Xia De also noticed that four people wearing robes were curled up by the fire as if they were unconscious. He listened to everyone's heartbeat, confirmed that everyone was still alive, and after walking over, found that among the four unconscious people, three were witches. The unconscious person who was not a witch was also a woman.

The fire came from a fire basin, and what was being burned seemed not to be wood, but something like black coal.

"All mortals, no gods seen. This time, do I have to find the god first?"

Although it wasn't raining, the surrounding environment was unusually damp and cold. The sea area of no light seemed to be able to continuously absorb positive emotions in the heart. Even though he had just had breakfast with his cat and was in a good mood, Xia De had only been here for a few minutes, but his mood had already sunk:

"I don't know if Priest Ao Gu Si is in a similar situation."

The ladies covered their faces with warm blankets, so Xia De couldn't distinguish the characteristics of each person for the time being. He wanted to wake them up, so he took a bottle of No. 3 Holy Water purchased from the priest—the priest could now mass-produce it—and fed it to them one by one.

Xia De also had higher-quality holy water, but the Tree Father wouldn't let him bring it to the past era. But No. 3 Holy Water should be enough. Xia De helped them up in turn, and they still had instinctive reactions to swallow the liquid.

And through contact, Xia De also knew everyone's identity and level. Even, he felt that the bodies of these ladies were all a bit... fake. He could clearly feel that their souls were real, but there was definitely something wrong with their bodies.

He first rescued the only ordinary girl. She looked unusually young, seventeen or eighteen years old, just like Yin Luna and Ai Jie Li Na. Although the robe she was wearing was a bit old, the gorgeous dress half-dry under the robe looked like she was going to attend a banquet.

That dress wasn't dry yet, which could also explain that it shouldn't have been long since the "Radiant Messenger" cruise ship had an accident.

After drinking the holy water, she groaned, but couldn't wake up immediately. After all, she was just an ordinary person.

The second person Xia De rescued was a slightly older lady. She originally had black hair, but there were already some white hairs in it. Although she looked only thirty or forty years old from her appearance, her actual age should be quite old.

This oldest lady was also the strongest witch among the four. If Xia De's feeling was correct, she should be a Twelfth-level witch, and a top-tier Twelfth-level witch. This lady recovered extremely quickly. In fact, when Xia De tried to feed her holy water, she was already a bit awake in a daze, and even grabbed Xia De's wrist to prevent him from feeding her strange liquid. Xia De didn't know why the first thing every witch he met did was always to grab his wrist.

The third lady was slightly younger, about the same age as Miss Galina and Miss Aurora. The beautiful purple hair was clearly not natural. In this world with supernatural power, the hair color of normal people is only black, brown, red, gold, etc. But Xia De had seen Chloe's silver long hair, so it was not strange to see purple hair now.

This lady was a Tenth-level witch. After taking a small amount of holy water and waking up, she didn't ask about Xia De's identity, but instead pointed anxiously at the last young girl, clearly wanting Xia De to save her.

And when Xia De helped up the Eleventh-level girl and saw the familiar round-framed glasses and the hairstyle with golden long hair tied into more than ten braids, he was startled first and immediately recognized who it was:

"Really met an acquaintance? Miss Schluch Lake Theresa?"

Schluch Lake Theresa, the distant niece of Miss Violet, the Witch Emperor who sealed Mount Xikar in the future. They had met Xia De three years ago, in 5177 Fifth Era, at the Lost Lake in the Broken Islands, to explore the secret of eternal beauty. For Xia De, that was a matter of the winter of 1853 Sixth Era, when Margaret visited Tobesk.

Speaking of which, the location at that time was also outside the five main continents of east, west, south, north, and middle, which is very similar to now.

Now it is 5180 Fifth Era. Three years have passed, and the Tenth-level witch who was waiting to graduate has now been promoted to the Eleventh level. She doesn't look much different, and she doesn't have the high spirits she had when she appeared and assisted Xia De in response to the "Sublimation Language" in the Battle of Pantanal. Because of the cold, the golden-haired girl curled up into a ball, her face was blue, and her brows were tightly furrowed, not knowing what she dreamed of in her coma. ===== CHAPTER 2005 =====