Chapter 2059

"Light will not melt light? Oh! I remember!"

The arrow he shot toward the top of the Belindell Clock Tower using 【Trace of the Star】 after the 【Dice Story Collection】 ended was what penetrated the light to kill the woman in the black dress who was casting the spell.

"So, can it be dispelled by light?"

Xia De understood Miss Isabella's meaning immediately, and the witch nodded:

"Yes, but it must be light with high mystery. For example, your moonlight, that kind of light is very pure. In my..."

She pursed her lips, because it involved the story that happened in her time, so she couldn't continue:

"I will teach you the method, using moonlight to harmonize and dispel alien light. But this will leave some sequelae, leading to not being able to cast spells too frequently for a long time. It doesn't matter for ordinary people, but it won't work for Ring Mages. If you want to avoid sequelae, besides you using light to dispel it, you also need pure extraordinary materials like 【Water of Moon Essence】, 【Fire of the Sun】, 【Light of Polar Day】 to assist in blending potions, and bury a pure relic related to 'light' of the Secret Keeper level into the place where her injury is most serious."

"Right shoulder."

Xia De said:

"【Water of Moon Essence】 is no problem, I have it myself, but what relic is needed?"

"The requirements for the relic are very harsh, and it cannot be too big. The only three relics I know that meet the conditions are the 【Mikhail's Light Spell Glove】 of the Zalas Spellcasting Academy, wearing the glove can obtain the qualification for spellcasting without materials for hundreds of sorceries; the 【Sun Crown】 of the Sun Church, which is a golden crown stained with blood, wearing the crown can transform into a giant of light; the 【Original Light】 of the Light Worshipper Training Society, it is said that the light originates from the First Era."

Miss Isabella said, seeing Xia De frown, she knew it was difficult for him to conveniently get any of them:

"If you can't get them, then relics not purely related to light are also okay, but at least they need to be of Sage level, and the relic needs to have a definite connection with light, preferably of the same nature as the auxiliary materials, to ensure that the human body will not be harmed... This method involves putting the relic into the human body. Although it was researched by the Truth Society, it is absolutely reliable."

It seems that in the time Miss Isabella experienced, the Truth Society finally became a force against doomsday.

Xia De then thought of a method:

"Although I can't get those three Secret Keeper-level relics, the Sage-level relic 【Source of Chaos】 is in my hands. Just right, that relic is related to moonlight and can be matched with 'Water of Moon Essence'."

"This is indeed possible, but is the Pearl of the Yellow Moon in your hands? Also right, this house is all yours..."

She muttered to herself, and also informed Xia De of the method of blending potions and performing "surgery":

"I don't know how serious the injury of the person you want to treat is, so it is uncertain how long that relic needs to stay in her body. If you really want to use that Pearl of the Yellow Moon to save her, you must be prepared for the relic not being able to be taken back for one or two months."

"It doesn't matter, saving people is urgent."

Xia De said. If Miss Belindell must rely on his relic to maintain her body normally, he wouldn't have to worry about her going to the Council to report him again:

"But is this really no problem? After all, it is burying a relic into the body."

"According to the method I said, there should be no problem. The possible negative impact is having strange dreams, but the person herself will also suddenly have talents she didn't have before because of the existence of the relic."

She explained the entire treatment process in more detail, and Xia De also remembered it carefully. At the same time, he also inquired about the source of this strange light, but this time Miss Isabella did not answer.

The speed at which his mental state deteriorated due to the injuries on his body was far faster than last time. After remembering those precautions, Xia De's complexion was already so pale that almost no blood color could be seen.

But he still insisted on taking out the daily necessities he could bring this time, and continued to tell the stories that happened in the "Present" Sixth Era that he hadn't finished telling last time. Even knowing that Miss Isabella could not give him any suggestions, he still hoped that this lady could know about the things in the "Present." At least in this lonely doomsday era without the concept of space-time, she could still retain hope for the future.

Miss Isabella probably also saw Xia De's thoughts, so she did not refuse his telling. So this time, he finally roughly finished telling all the stories that had happened so far, just that there were still a lot of details not filled in. He had the heart to talk about the things he encountered in the Moon Bay region, but his physical and mental state was no longer enough to let him continue.

"It doesn't matter, talk about it next time. I'll wait for you here to come again next time, I'll wait for you to continue telling your story."

Seeing that Xia De couldn't even open his eyes, she grabbed Xia De's hand, and Xia De nodded barely:

"Then see you next month, Miss Isabella."

He always felt that she would be very lonely here:

"Next time, do you need me to bring some books for you?"

He didn't want to write down his experiences, so he wouldn't write down his stories and bring them.

"Anything is fine, I'll always be waiting for you."

The witch suppressed the subtle emotions in her heart, waiting for another parting. Only then did Xia De take out the playing card from his pocket. It was time to leave.

He glanced at the familiar card back pattern on the back, then flipped it to the front. The top of the card was written in gilded Delarion language:

【Gravel Worm】

On the card face was a coffin half-buried in the sand dust of St. Deran Square. That coffin was tilted on the card face. There was no coffin lid, and the coffin was also filled with sand. In the sand lay Professor Drake's severely deformed corpse covered with worms. Even under the eyelids, one could see traces of worms. Xia De suspected that there were only worms left inside the corpse on the card face.

Below the front side were three sentences. Xia De read them out in a hoarse voice:

【Buried in the earth, a corpse that rose again due to the mutation of the earth.】

【The disaster of the filthy earth originates from Randall Valley.】

【Merging with the filthy earth is the last grace accepted by the living beings supported by the earth.】

After reading these sentences, two strange memories appeared in Xia De's head.

The first memory happened in a strange cemetery.

People he didn't know were crying. Old people, young people, and children sent off the person who went to another world together. Professor Drake's name was carved on the tombstone. That coffin that had appeared on the card face was put into the grave pit by the pallbearers. The relatives each sprinkled a handful of soil into the grave pit, and then the coffin was sealed into the earth.

Afterward, time passed quickly. The surrounding scenery changed constantly, and various figures flashed by quickly. The cemetery gradually became unmaintained and dilapidated. Until the flow of time was normal, and the soil in the cemetery that originally had a normal color had turned into filthy mud. With the shaking of the earth, a pair of rotten hands covered with worms and wrapped in mud stretched out from the mud behind the tombstone.

This memory ended here, but the meaning was very easy to understand:

"So that's how it is. Professor Drake passed away before the doomsday arrived, but the filthy earth caused his corpse to mutate, which led to the professor becoming like this... But to still have memories after death, could it be that the professor had some obsession, causing his soul not to be able to leave? That's right, that was the Sixth Era without me. Professor Drake probably didn't enter the Lake of Cherub again to see the Wisdom Angel, so he didn't get back the lost memory, and didn't figure out the reason for his physical disability."

The second memory clearly happened in the City of Spring - Randall Valley.

It's just that unlike the scenery of Randall Valley City in winter and spring that Xia De was familiar with, the picture in this memory was incomparably dim. The sky was even falling with large flakes of gray-black snow like ashes. The dilapidated city was like the City of End · Tobesk at this time, with broken walls and ruins everywhere.

The hunched "Professor Drake" wandered in the city unconsciously, and other things that could still be active in the memory picture were either existences similar to the professor, or those fallen earth-element giants.

The city was probably at the location of the "Church of the Forgotten." At this moment, a pitch-black stone giant tree stood there. And it wasn't until the professor's field of vision approached the "tree" that Xia De saw clearly that it was clearly a "fountain" turned from filthy black mud sprayed from deep underground.

A blurred figure stood on the top of the "tree," facing the sun that was gradually turning into a pitch-black color. When the sun completely turned into the appearance Xia De saw in the City of Doomsday, the world fell into darkness. Professor Drake's body fell to the ground and twitched constantly, and then turned into a huge gravel worm.

All the monsters in the city ruins mutated because of the arrival of this moment. The figure standing on the top of the tree also turned around and turned his back to the pitch-black sun flowing with fire lines, and Xia De saw that the figure was indeed the "Guardian of the Earth."

"That's not right. I clearly remember that at least in the last Past Life · Sixth Era, Luweiya chose to sacrifice Siris to protect the earth. I saw it when I traveled through time illegally in the Night Temple. How could the Guardian still become filthy?"

Doubts arose in his heart at the same time the memory ended, but immediately understood:

"Even if the Guardian successfully held the Chosen One's ritual because of Siris's sacrifice, the distortion of the earth still became more and more serious with the arrival of doomsday. In the end, they still didn't escape the outcome of being polluted."

The memory officially ended, and Xia De's field of vision returned to his home in the dilapidated Tobesk City. He looked down at Professor Drake, whose corpse was covered with worms on the playing card in his hand, and associated it with Mr. Bernhardt's ghost last time, understanding again that for everyone who had appeared in this world, the influence brought by the end of the world would not let them go because of death.

White fog had already appeared beside Xia De, which meant that another adventure had come to an end.