Chapter 2084: Miss Dannister's Help

【Outsider, you have returned to the present time.】

The gentle voice came from his ear. Stepping out of the white mist, Xia De returned to his warm and comfortable home.

The cat that turned back from a toy just shook its body violently, shook off the slightly wet fur, and then went to the table happily to wait for breakfast.

But Xia De didn't have the cat's strange ability. Fortunately, he had told the maid ladies about the trouble he might encounter in the past, so they had already prepared a change of clothes.

By the time Xia De finished packing and walked out of the bathroom, the red-haired Duchess also walked out of the bedroom. Mia's long-awaited breakfast finally began, and Miss Galina also listened to Xia De's account of what happened just now while eating breakfast lazily.

The twelfth-level Great Witch could be considered well-informed, and Xia De inevitably added many of his own subjective guesses when telling the story, so she understood what Xia De had guessed:

"This is really interesting. If so, isn't that Miss Elicetris... how are you going to verify it?"

"No need to verify, just let her remember it herself. She didn't just have amnesia. The content she described that sounded like an erotic novel seems more like a metaphor to me, similar to when Chloe mistakenly thought that a group of 13 people was climbing a snow mountain in the Silver Mountains."

Xia De was quite optimistic about this:

"Of course, in order to prevent my guess from being wrong, and to investigate the real reason for the sinking of the Light-Bringer, I still have to talk to Miss Elicetris carefully."

"So, you are going to spend more time in Moon Bay recently?"

The red-haired Witch looked at him with a teacup:

"By the way, I haven't asked you yet, how is your relationship with Bella? What interesting things have happened in the past half week? She hasn't mentioned you to Vanessa in the Council recently."

"Recently..."

The treatment by the creek in the hills in the middle of the night, the smooth shoulders, the tooth marks on the neck, these memories all came to mind. Seeing the look of Xia De falling into memories, the Duchess smiled satisfied:

"It seems that the progress is good, so I can rest assured."

"Did you misunderstand something?"

"My understanding is that you successfully made the Countess of Moon Bay feel good about you, isn't that so?"

She blinked as she spoke, and seeing Xia De's appearance of not knowing how to refute, she laughed even more happily.

After breakfast, Miss Galina left with the maids, and gave Xia De a very enthusiastic kiss when leaving to thank Xia De for his hospitality last night.

But Xia De didn't rush to set off for Moon Bay, but went to the St. Byron's library through a projection ritual at 8:30 in the morning.

He wrote a letter to meet Miss Dannister after returning home last night, and the library manager lady gave an answer quickly. When he saw her under the huge astrolabe above the library this morning, she was still sitting on the sofa in the open space as usual. The snack tray and tea set were neatly placed on the coffee table this time instead of being piled up with documents and books.

"What trouble did you encounter this time?"

The two elf girls who helped prepare the ritual left, and Dannister asked after putting down the teacup, even joking:

"It couldn't be that the girl from the Moon Creek clan caused trouble just half a week after arriving in Tobesk, right?"

"No, no, it's not about Emilia."

Xia De shook his head hurriedly, and followed the agreement not to reveal the matter of the curse letter:

"I have been active in Moon Bay on the West Coast for this period of time. Recently, I bumped into people from the 【Dragon Feast Sect】 and the 【Light-Bringer Seminar】. The latter used a strange light that could almost melt everything. I want to ask you to investigate."

He described that strange light and said the most important thing:

"I suspect that the Chosen One of 'Light' will appear in the Moon Bay area. There are more and more signs proving this."

"Oh? Light, dragon, justice..."

The red-haired sorceress looked thoughtful:

"This information is quite valuable, and the academy can prepare in advance."

She didn't doubt the accuracy of this information at all:

"As for that light, I will also start to investigate. St. Byron's doesn't have much intersection with the 【Light-Bringer Seminar】, and I don't know much about the situation of that thirteen-ring 'Light-Chaser'. In short, be careful when you act locally."

Xia De nodded, and then said the second thing:

"I have come into contact with a high-level Qi Shu recently, and I want to ask for your help."

The red-haired sorceress revealed an increasingly interested expression:

"What type of Qi Shu? I thought that no Qi Shu was difficult for you."

"Please don't say that... It's not a spell of the moonlight system, it's a time-based Qi Shu."

Xia De didn't want to reveal too much about Miss Adele Isabella, and didn't want to reveal the secret of her Qi Shu without permission, so he described it as simply as possible:

"This Qi Shu comes from a high-level Ringed Ringed Shushi, and it is a top-level time-based spell created after she integrated her skills. For some reason, this kind high-level Ringed Ringed Shushi taught this Qi Shu to me. I successfully held the ritual, but failed to use it successfully."

Dannister continued to ask with a smile:

"Another sorceress?"

"Hmm... yes."

"I'm actually not good at time-based power, but looking at you, I also know that you don't want too many people to know about this. Well, let me give you some advice, but you at least have to tell me what the effect of the Qi Shu is."

Xia De summarized:

"Rebounding attacks."

"Reflecting attacks with the power of time—that is indeed a remarkable piece of high-level sorcery. I really don't know where you keep meeting so many high-level sorceresses."

She looked up at the huge astrolabe above her head, watching the silver-blue radiance dissipate in it:

"Those Qi Shu spells that only the inventor can learn from ancient times to the present are actually not uncommon. Those unique abilities tailored for oneself, or skills mastered because of unrepeatable luck, are indeed only suitable for their creators. But every invented spell has reference value for others. Even if you can't learn it, you can gain power that belongs to you from it."

This point of view was also discussed by the long-haired Luweiya in a dream.

"Then what advice do you want to give me?"

Dannister pointed to the tray of snacks on the table with a smile. This time, a cream sandwich cookie flew towards Xia De with a "whoosh," and was then caught by Xia De subconsciously.

Because he was in a projection state and couldn't eat, he didn't taste it. Dannister asked:

"Why catch it instead of flicking it away?"

"Because this is a cookie, not an attack... You mean, if I can't master this Qi Shu comprehensively, I should start from some of its characteristics?"

Xia De understood immediately. He could do the time reversal himself, he could also understand the return of stars by looking at the stars, and it was even simpler to understand the feeling of rebounding attacks. He needed to start from these aspects separately, instead of trying to imitate comprehensively time and time again. In this way, even if he still couldn't learn it, he could at least master part of the power of the Qi Shu:

"Wait, the technique of borrowing force to fight force with a fishing rod that the god taught me just now, wouldn't it also be a hint for me?"

Dannister naturally didn't know what he thought of. She nodded with satisfaction:

"You really can understand."

She waved a red moonlight. This time Xia De didn't try to catch it, but raised his hands and rotated them in front of him. That moonlight was not powerful, almost equivalent to a simple light spell. And Xia De, combined with the experience of failing to cast the spell last time and the fishing technique learned from the Sea of No Light, finally reversed half of the red moonlight in the faint starlight color, and offset the other half of the red moonlight.

Light dust flew in front of him. Although this attack couldn't even be called an attack, Xia De also failed to exert his full power because he didn't leave the ground and was in a projection state. Therefore, this attempt was very successful. Xia De looked at his hands in surprise, and Dannister really only used a few words to find the direction for him.

"This Qi Shu is very unusual. I can't think of what the complete form will be for the time being, but I look forward to you showing me your new skills on a certain day in the future."

The red-haired sorceress said with a smile. Xia De thanked her immediately, but he did not stay long; after exchanging a few more words with Miss Danister, he ended the projection. Once his vision returned to his home, he stood up from his chair and picked up the cat that had been lying on his lap:

"If pure energy time reversal is this feeling, if it's a physical attack..."

He thought for a while, walked into the dining room and put the cat on the dining table:

"Come, pounce on me."

Although Little Mia might not understand human language, it at least understood Xia De's gesture of beckoning. So the cat ran a few steps happily, and then pounced on Xia De from the air. Xia De, who originally wanted to "flick" the cat away, reached out and caught it, scratched the cat's chin, and felt that he really couldn't use the cat to practice Qi Shu.

Today is Friday, and there are three things that need to be done. The most important one is the card game at the Moon Bay City Councilors' Club in the evening. Having promised Miss Belindell, Xia De naturally wouldn't be late. Of course, he couldn't forget that he had to meet the porter father and son at noon. They had clues about "Eternal Light," and the boy was involved in Miss Elicetris's mission.

But before that, taking advantage of the time in the morning, Xia De continued to visit the relatives of the coroner Ptolemy Albert. He gave three addresses, and Xia De had only visited one so far.

However, this Friday morning trip encountered two unexpected things. The first was that Xia De successfully brought the cat to Moon Bay. This cat would occasionally go out for a walk under Xia De's insistence; the other thing was that in the Moon Bay City in the Thunder Month, fine snow actually began to fall under the overcast sky this morning:

"Thunder Month is July, and it's actually snowing in July..." ===== CHAPTER 2085 =====