Chapter 2006: Childhood Wishes

The fire leaped in the five pairs of eyes. The most critical guarantee for their survival here was the light in the fire basin, but at this moment, everyone felt a chill in their hearts.

"Of course it wasn't ignited by me."

Professor Evans shook her head hurriedly:

"I thought it was ignited by the girls who arrived earlier."

Miss Malone is an ordinary person, so this naturally has nothing to do with her. And Miss Theresa and Miss Maxim, who arrived first, also shook their heads:

"Not us, we were also attracted by the firelight. If there was no light here, the waves were so big, we wouldn't have noticed this floating board."

The purple-haired maid, Miss Maxim, although she had been shivering because of the cold, still provided further information:

"When we first arrived, I also tried to ignite more new flames before I fell into a coma, but this place completely suppressed fire and light."

Saying that, she opened her palms that had almost lost their blood color:

"Fire~"

Not even a spark appeared. Miss Theresa and Professor Evans also tried, and indeed nothing happened. They seemed to feel even colder. Miss Theresa was almost completely leaning on Xia De at this time. Xia De felt like he was leaning against a huge block of ice.

Miss Malone, although not a witch, had a box of half-wet matches on her. With the consent of the other four, she threw the matches directly into the fire basin, and then everyone saw that the matches and the paper box had no intention of being ignited at all.

Professor Evans flicked her finger, and the matchbox flew out again. The dried matchbox was intact.

"Silver Moon."

Xia De said softly, and light the size of a grain of rice appeared at his fingertips again. Except for the fire of unknown origin in front of him, this was the only light that everyone could "ignite" at the moment. They all looked at the ray of light, and the cold air they exhaled formed white frost in the air that was already unusually humid.

"We still have to find a way to leave here ourselves."

Xia De finally said to them, and the witches also agreed with Xia De's view. Professor Evans couldn't help but be curious and asked Xia De how he got in while shivering, but was brushed off by Xia De:

"I passed through a strange door, and then I fell into the sea."

This is not a lie.

Soaking in seawater will attract very dangerous things, and seawater will absorb spirit and physical strength. Flying to the sky will cause greater panic. The Twelfth-level Great Witch masters the way to open a portal, but just as Xia De thought, this area with chaotic time and space does not support opening a portal:

"Here, it's very similar to the Lost Lake."

Miss Theresa whispered in Xia De's ear while shivering. The breath touched Xia De's cheek, and Xia De even felt his skin was about to freeze. Their situation was very wrong. Even if it was very cold here, they shouldn't be so exaggerated.

Xia De gently held her in his arms, and the witch struggled symbolically, then threw herself into that heartwarming warmth.

"Has Miss Violet ever told you what the Lost Lake is?"

The girl wearing glasses felt the warmth of the embrace and shook her head gently:

"Aunt said it's not the time for me to know... She only said that it is a 'boundary'."

Professor Evans didn't know what she thought of, and her face became even uglier.

"I don't understand."

Miss Malone raised her trembling hand and said. Seeing that everyone else was looking at her, she pointed timidly at the floating board under her:

"Why can this wooden board float here?"

Xia De also recalled:

"When I swam over just now, I am very sure that I didn't see any other ship wreckage on the water surface, and I didn't even see any luggage or corpses floating."

Professor Evans also recalled:

"Just now, the four shipwreck survivors all mentioned that when the shipwreck happened, everything was sinking rapidly. This floating board shouldn't be the ship wreckage we thought."

"Speaking of which, where did the blankets you are wearing come from?"

Xia De asked again, so the ladies remembered that this was also what they found by the fire when they first arrived at the floating board.

There were four blankets in total, and it happened that there were four of them who came here, as if someone had prepared these for them specifically.

The ladies were silent for a while. Miss Theresa, who felt her soul warming up, remembered some things again:

"When we climbed here, I seemed to have touched some strange dents on the edge of the floating board, like characters or something, on... probably over here."

She pointed to the edge of the floating board. The surging seawater constantly rushed toward the floating board, so that except for the area where everyone was currently, other areas were all in a wet state.

"You guys rest for a while, I'll go over there and take a look."

Xia De said, not daring to stand up, he could only climb over. Miss Theresa grabbed Xia De's hem and followed behind him:

"I'll go with you, I remember the location."

She just didn't want to be far from that feeling of warmth.

The seawater constantly crashed, making it difficult for Xia De to see what was on the surface of the floating board. He could only rely on groping and the extremely weak light at his fingertips to identify the subtle changes in texture.

Miss Theresa grabbed Xia De's sleeve with one hand, and groped in the water with Xia De with the other. They had to be extra careful. The swaying of the floating board was quite serious at the edge, and no one wanted to fall into the water like this.

"My aunt and I have been trying to find you for the past few years."

In the wind and waves, the girl's voice beside him was a bit small. Xia De turned to look at her, and Miss Theresa's face was blushing slightly:

"Aunt is already preparing to be promoted to a demigod. She has seen her path to demigod. She said that maybe becoming a demigod would allow her to sense the time and space you are in, and maybe there could be records of you in the Witch Council... This time, is it still a three-time stay?"

"Yes, I will send you out safely before leaving."

The young girl nodded gently:

"If possible, Aunt would actually like to see you again."

Pulling Xia De's sleeve, she pursed her lips and asked in a lower voice:

"You haven't forgotten us either, have you?"

"Of course not."

The girl wearing glasses smiled, and then said happily:

"I found it! Here!"

Saying that, she pulled Xia De's hand and pressed it under the water, and Xia De also touched those strange carvings.

He used his fingers to let "Her" help record those patterns. After returning to the fire with Miss Theresa, he summoned the illusory bookshelf and took out books to imprint those symbols on them. Similarly, the bookshelf and books that should have had the color of the starry sea were also dimmed as if they had turned black.

Those symbols looked like shells. Xia De's Language Comprehension immediately played a role, and the knowledgeable professor of Zalas Academy of Literature also recognized this strange language:

"Mithraic?"

"You recognize it?"

Xia De asked in surprise. Miss "Adele Isabella" from the past let him use this language to ask questions to the 【Hope Diamond】. But the problem is, his Language Comprehension is to see the text and recognize the meaning and know the pronunciation, not to know the name of the language and master the knowledge.

It's not that he didn't seek help from Miss Danister, but even the librarian lady only heard of this language but couldn't speak it.

"Yes, Mithraic is an ancient language of the Second Era. I only mastered a few words. Give me some time, and I will translate them."

The professor said she was about to do it, but was stopped by Xia De:

"I will interpret them for you. I happen to know the words here. However, can you teach me this language comprehensively later, or at least help me translate a few sentences?"

Xia De suspected that the Tree Father sent him here specifically to learn Mithraic.

The text of the late Fifth Era is a compulsory course for St. Byrons, so Xia De had no major obstacles in communicating with the four ladies. And after Xia De simply translated the strange text, the meaning was roughly:

【Sea of No Light, Sea of No Dreams. Four treasures of childhood, calling for the gift of dreams.】

Miss Theresa, Miss Maxim, and Miss Malone didn't understand very well. Only Professor Evans was thoughtful. She asked Xia De while shivering:

"Is what is said here..."

"It should be."

In the firelight, Xia De already had a smile on his face. He was originally worried about how to complete the task:

"What is written here is the method to call the god."

"Which one?"

Miss Theresa asked with great awe.

"God of Wishes - Giver of Dreams."

As Xia De said the name of the Old God, the flames in the fire basin surged upward, allowing the firelight to illuminate a larger range. Light and shadow leaped on everyone's faces. Except for Miss Theresa, who was held in Xia De's arms, the eyebrows of the other three ladies were covered with frost at some point.

"So, what should we do?"

"Do you have any items related to your childhood wishes? We need four pieces to call that god. If I didn't understand wrong, then this floating board and this fire basin were left to us by that god. I think, if we want to leave here, we probably need the help of that god."

Xia De looked at them as he spoke. Everyone's luggage was lost in the sea, and it was lucky enough to survive that shipwreck.

But he believed that they must have items that met the requirements, because an outsider doesn't have any childhood in this world, and he couldn't take out "childhood wishes."

Sure enough, just as Xia De thought, the four ladies nodded one after another.

Miss Theresa curled up in Xia De's arms and took off her round-framed glasses:

"This was a birthday gift from my aunt when I was little. At that time, I was not a witch yet. Aunt was just visiting my house and wanted to pick a future apprentice when she knew I was having a birthday, so she gave this to me. From that time on, I wanted to become a witch like my aunt."

Speaking of which, when he saw Miss Theresa at the Lost Lake last time, she was wearing these glasses. She hadn't changed them for three years, so that was the reason. ===== CHAPTER 2007 =====