Chapter 2053

【Outsider, you have touched a "Miracle."】

While the voice in his ear reminded him, Xia De also saw clearly that it was a dragon scale. Judging from the color, it should have come from a gold dragon, and an incomparably powerful gold dragon at that. Just the appearance of a single dragon scale here had already caused the influence of dragon might to exceed that of the dragon nest Xia De had discovered.

Of course, the influence on Xia De was still not great.

He looked up and admired the beautiful scale, then noticed Miss Belindell beside him clutching her chest.

"What's wrong?"

He asked worriedly, and the blonde witch shook her head:

"It's nothing, I just felt a sudden palpitation, the same this afternoon. Actually, before setting out, my divination told me that I would encounter danger tonight, but would also gain unexpected results because of it. Don't worry, fate did not tell me of death... What a beautiful scale."

She reached out and took down the scale embedded in the rock wall. The scale from the powerful ancient dragon floated in her hand. The slightly glowing scale also illuminated her face. She wanted to talk to Xia De about the scale, but discovered that Xia De was looking down at the fragments of the seal slab:

"There is text on the back."

He bent down and pieced together the slab that had shattered into six pieces, and sure enough, saw text on the back. However, this time it was no longer ancient dragon runes, but the common language from the end of the Fifth Era. The translated meaning was roughly:

【Dragon of the broken shell, seven-colored dragon scale.】

Miss Belindell's eyes widened, and then she was preempted by Xia De:

"A fragment of the Poem Chapter?"

"Have you seen other fragments before?"

"I went to Green Lake with Miss Bernice and was fortunate enough to see one. However, since a fragment of the Poem Chapter has appeared..."

Xia De looked at the gold dragon scale:

"I had guesses when I encountered the Dragon Feast Sect, and now it seems it really is like this. Something big is really going to happen in Moon Bay City. However, how should this sentence be understood? Does it refer to the identity of the Chosen One, or the content of the Chosen One's ritual?"

He touched the 【Ring of Longevity】, took a deep breath, and reversed time, making the slab complete again, only it no longer had the power of the seal:

"Miss Belindell, this slab can be considered as something you and Miss Bernice found together. I will not participate in the interpretation of the Poem Chapter fragment, but this credit must include Miss Bernice's share."

"You really are loyal."

She said this deliberately, observing Xia De's expression while taking the slab, and then felt that her tone was not quite right. She quietly glanced at Xia De again, discovering that Xia De didn't care, but was carefully putting away that glove.

"Come to think of it, can you tell me what this glove is? I didn't feel too many traces of elements."

The witch asked again.

"A dragon-skin glove, made from the scales, skin, hair, and some knitting materials from when a Dragonborn molts... This is a gift from a Dragonborn girl, but she is not local, and it won't be related to the Moon Bay matter."

"A Dragonborn girl, huh."

Thinking of the "Butterfly" matter, Miss Belindell was not particularly surprised by this. She wanted to tease Xia De a few words, but was worried about revealing her own little thoughts:

"However, you doing these things—I mean, being friendly with girls... do Vanessa and Miss Lathers know?"

"I think they know."

Miss Belindell blinked:

"Oh, it seems the Golden Dawn Opera Troupe is even more complicated than I thought."

It is temporarily unclear whether the Witch Emperor who left that Poem Chapter fragment is also the person who left the gold dragon scale. But these can be studied slowly after returning; at least now they have obtained the key item.

After a brief check to confirm there were no other discoveries, the group returned the same way. At the same time, the witch also noticed that the roots of the giant tree above the hill had already wrapped around the area around the rock wall where the dragon scale was originally located, which is why it could be influenced to draw power. And now that the ancient dragon scale had been taken away, although the ancient tree above the hill would not wither, it had lost the possibility of growing taller in the future.

The middle-aged woman left in the cave certainly could not escape, so the nine-ringed maid lady brought her along as the group left. Miss Belindell was very curious about where she came from, and werewolves are really rare these days.

Leaving the cave from the side wall of the low hill, the moonlight in the woods made Xia De feel that his field of vision had opened up a lot. The stench inside the cave disappeared, and even the air became incomparably fresh. The silent woods were completely soundless, so much so that when invisible wind arrows shot from the woods, the sense of danger that appeared in his inspiration seemed so abrupt.

"Enemy attack!"

That wind arrow was definitely not a probe, but a fatal blow that had been lying in ambush for a long time, just waiting for the few people in the cave to appear.

Xia De and Miss Belindell were walking at the very front. The Great Witch of Fate's extremely strong sixth sense and "She" whispering in Xia De's ear made both of them perceive the crisis almost at the same time. The witch opened her mouth to cast a spell, but Xia De moved faster, reaching for the hilt of the sword at his waist, silently chanting in his heart:

"Heaton Seal!"

The spherical shield formed by the golden flowing light blocked the cave entrance. And at the moment the golden shield made contact with the wind arrow, with a "Clang~" sound, the flowing light overflowed, and the energy of the exploding wind arrow and the 【Heaton Seal】's successful counterattack rolled back, causing a sudden gale to swirl in the dark woods.

"There are three of them."

The witch, protected behind Xia De, was surprised that the move just now looked so much like the 【Sun Church】's Heaton Seal, but she still remembered what should be done at this time:

"One ten-ring, one nine-ring, one eight-ring."

"I'll block one, leave the rest to you."

As he spoke, Xia De stepped forward with the long sword in his hand, and then disappeared directly from where he stood... He had used spellcasting materials before encountering the werewolf. At a long distance, it was also difficult for him to judge the level of the attackers, so when using 【Lagley's Jump】, he directly chose the enemy who had just shot the wind arrow.

The field of vision in the dense forest was very small, and the sound of wind all around also greatly interfered with his hearing. When Xia De chased into the woods, the person who shot the arrow had already disappeared. He heard a rustling sound in the grass on the right and instinctively looked to the right, but the invisible wind arrow flew from his left hand side.

At this moment, far away from that Great Witch of Fate, Xia De didn't care about using what abilities. He slashed diagonally with his long sword, and then the brilliant arc-shaped moon blade collided with the wind arrow, and another storm was generated in the woods.

"At least nine-ring."

Xia De understood the level of his opponent, and continued to swing his sword forward while the surrounding grass and trees swayed and rustled. The long sword and the invisible weapon collided in the air, and sparks generated by metal collisions appeared one after another amidst the clanging sounds.

The opponent at this time was the person who shot the arrow just now. The other party's invisibility ability was extremely outstanding; even though he was right in front of Xia De, Xia De couldn't see a shadow of a person at all.

【Slash diagonally to the left, side-step to the right, swing sword to block, thrust forward.】

Fortunately, it didn't matter whether he could see or not. The cooperation between Xia De and the gentle "She" in his ear had long since become an instinctive reaction. Moreover, when at the mountain-top sacrificial site, Sister Devlin hadn't failed to train Xia De in the techniques of blindfolded sword fighting.

At the cave entrance behind him, the witch and the maids had also engaged with the other two opponents, but Xia De didn't care about the matter over there at all. He swung his sword at the air in front of him without distraction. The speed of his sword swings became faster and faster, and the moonlight attached to the sword body became brighter and brighter. Until the end, when Xia De once again parried the opponent's charged diagonal slash, taking advantage of the opponent's inability to counterattack, he swept his sword forward to create a moonlight sword mark with a radius of at least 10 meters. Only then did that nine-ring sorcerer, who was actually not skilled in cold weapon combat, finally hide back into the woods.

Xia De also disappeared from where he stood at the same time the opponent disappeared. The leaves that had been stirred up because of the battle only then slowly landed, and the trees slowly collapsed because of the sweep of the moonlight sword mark, stirring up fallen leaves and smoke in the woods again. There were sounds of other people fighting in the distance, but the woods were silent, and both sides in hiding were waiting for the other to reveal a flaw first.

This silence did not last long. At the same time that abrupt red butterflies suddenly appeared between the treetops, wind arrows appeared almost immediately to pierce the butterflies, but the next moment, moonlight arrows also shot toward the direction where the wind arrows appeared.

The silver arrows seemed not to have hit the target, because immediately afterward, another shadowless wind arrow passed through the treetops in the dark night, and immediately welcomed the counterattack of the silver arrows again.

No one could determine the true position of the other party. The two were like the most seasoned hunters in the forest, hiding in the woods, waiting to give a fatal blow while the other revealed a flaw. This time, this nameless nine-ring sorcerer was definitely not the most troublesome enemy Xia De had encountered, but the other party's caution could be praised among all the opponents he had ever had.

The other party seemed to have the ability to sense the wind. Xia De's slightly larger movements in the woods would be easily detected. In the battle under the hill not far behind him, the witch and her group seemed to have encountered some trouble. Xia De, unwilling to wait any longer, decided to take a slight risk.

At the same time that the arrows of both sides stopped again, he deliberately revealed a flaw in the woods. Then the wind arrow that directly locked onto his head appeared before his "eyes" almost in the next second. Such an attack would also expose the current position of that nine-ring sorcerer, but according to the experience of the previous two clashes, at this time, Xia De had no time to counterattack whether he was defending or dodging.

It's just that this time was different from just now:

"Adele's Time Stop!"

The pocket watch was pressed tightly against his body in his pocket, his eyes staring straight at the distorted air in front. The stopped wind had left a bloodstain on Xia De's face a moment ago, but the next moment the bloodstain wriggled and recovered. Xia De also stood in place, pulling open the "Trace of the Star" whose color had been barely hidden by the spell:

"Madman, do you want to die with me?"

The sorcerer in the woods jumped from the tree to escape in a hurry, but because he didn't expect the counterattack to come so fast, a small half of his arm still disappeared after the silver light trace swept past his side.