Chapter 2178

The slender fingers had clearly picked up a divination card, but were put back by Luvia. Behind her, the phantom of the long-haired Luvia appeared, and turned to look with the short-haired Luvia towards the direction where the Moon Bay area in the southwest was located.

Unlike any previous Sixth Era, this Sixth Era, because of Xia De, the "God-Awakener", standing at the very front, Luvia Anat had never attracted attention in any major events, and had not even appeared in front of the Orthodox Church. This led to the fact that the "Luvia Anat" of this Sixth Era did not attract anyone's attention, and therefore no one had ever tried to divine her in this Sixth Era.

And being divined after a long time also made the long-haired girl fall into memories of one story after another in the past. As for anti-divination, she was not worried at all. Unlike Xia De, an outsider who possessed natural anti-divination ability due to his special origin, Luvia Fiocchi Anat experienced one battle after another of blood and fire, and one test after another of life and death. The characteristics of anti-divination had long been engraved into her soul. Even if this Luvia did not inherit the many experiences and memories of the past, only anti-divination was an instinct that they could never lose.

Short-haired Luvia didn't know what appeared behind her, but she probably guessed who was divining her. After lightly raising her eyebrows to cover up her pause, she planned to make a small joke to respond to this impolite offense.

Subsequently, she continued to explain the future love fortune to the lady who came to divine her fortune in front of her:

"Yes, love will visit anyone who longs for their heart to be filled. I see your future, be careful of deception, but don't give up on sincerity."

As for the Belinder Manor in Moon Bay City, Xia De, who was following the maid who was leading the way to the basement, suddenly heard a muffled explosion that was not very loud.

He was shocked:

"Explosion? Enemy attack? No, is it Emilia messing up the alchemy experiment? No, that's the sound from upstairs!"

He took out the spellcasting materials, closed his eyes to perceive the space, and then stepped out, disappearing in the corridor and appearing directly in the study on the third floor.

He was originally prepared to face an attack, and his raised right hand was even ready to throw out moonlight, but what he saw was just the carpet scorched black by the exploding divination cards, as well as the at-a-loss Miss Matilda and the witch who acted as if nothing had happened here.

The beautiful Countess with a fat-red birthmark on her brow looked at Xia De for a moment, and facing Xia De's probing gaze, she finally said softly:

"Divination, very magical, right?"

The carpet with a hole blown open between the two was still smoking upwards, and even the floor under the carpet left scorched black traces. Seeing the witch holding the compass made by Luvia, Xia De, who was originally puzzled about what happened here, felt that he seemed to have guessed the truth.

He knew that for a professional diviner, casually divining another professional diviner was a very impolite behavior. Therefore, he didn't ask whether his guess was correct, but just exhorted softly:

"Still be careful, if the patrol police passing by outside the manor have very good ears and heard the explosion just now, we will be in trouble."

The Countess was just pretending to be calm just now, and hearing him say this, her ears immediately turned a bit red. She nodded gently and returned the compass to Xia De. After Xia De went out again, she turned her back to the door and covered her face, not even saying that when the divination cards exploded just now, she seemed to have seen eyes very similar to the purple eyes that often appeared in recent nightmares.

Miss Matilda pretended not to see anything, immediately walked out of the door to greet other maids to prepare for changing the carpet and cleaning, and made up her mind that she must never mention this matter again.

Xia De, who found this matter funny, also soon arrived at the alchemy workshop in the basement and met Emilia and the little unicorn Liana.

I don't know if it was the witch's preparation or Emilia's attentiveness, there was a soft cushion in the corner of the wall for the little unicorn to inhabit, and when it saw Xia De appear, especially since there was no cat this time, it stood up happily to welcome Xia De.

As for Emilia, the elf girl with pointed ears was standing in front of the experimental table on the east side, wearing a white robe, wearing corrosion-resistant and high-temperature dragon skin gloves, using test tube tongs to clamp a gray-green square metal sheet that seemed to be covered with fungal spots, and heating it on an alcohol lamp.

Turning around and seeing Xia De smiling and stroking the unicorn's fur, she called out in surprise, put the heated metal sheet into the metal tray on the table, covered the flame with the alcohol lamp cover, and then took off her gloves and greeted him:

"Good morning, Mr. Watson."

"Good morning, I came to see you. What are you doing? I remember St. Byrons doesn't have summer homework."

Emilia pulled over two chairs so that the two could sit down and said:

"Not homework, I am making an amulet..."

Actually, it was a gift for Xia De, but it hadn't been made yet, so she didn't mention this point.

"However, although there is no summer homework, in order to keep up with the courses after the autumn semester starts, you can't just play during the holidays."

She sat face-to-face with Xia De, and the little unicorn lay between the two. The elf girl's hands were placed on her knees, looking very ladylike:

"I originally planned to go deal with those things in the second half of the summer vacation after returning to school. Since there is time now, it is better to make some preparations first. The alchemy laboratory and potion workshop here are very good, even better than the laboratories opened by the academy to us middle-ring warlocks."

"But for a long-lived race like yours, is a year in the eyes of humans really the same as a year in your eyes? I hope you can spend this summer outside of school well, and there is no need to put so much pressure on yourself."

Xia De said, originally just to persuade her to relax a bit, but didn't expect the elf girl's eyes to flicker suddenly, showing a somewhat sad expression, which didn't quite match an elf of her age:

"In the ancient past, the age of elves was far longer than it is now. At least the bark documents from the end of the Fifth Era preserved by our clan wrote that elves at that time could generally live to be five hundred years old, and this was just the average age."

Xia De looked at her curiously. Although he had knowledge of the elf race, that was more about ancient elves. He had an understanding of modern elves, but not much:

"So what about now?"

"According to the academy's statistics, the natural age limit of modern ordinary elves is around 260 years old. And the regulation of the age of elf adulthood is still inherited from the past, so I have also heard about changing the age of adulthood. However, high elves like me..."

She pointed to herself, still a bit embarrassed:

"The high elves I mentioned refer to noble elves who have the talent to become priests. In the distant past, high elves like me were regarded as guardians chosen by the World Tree. But the elf World Tree has long since disappeared, and so-called high elves are just those with better talents and longer lives. Vitality overflows in my soul and body, I can probably live to be six hundred years old. If I break through the high ring before 100 years old, my maximum age may exceed 800 years."

"Ang~"

The little beast that radiated holy white light all over its body chirped softly. Emilia seemed to understand what it was saying, bent down and gently stroked its spine fur:

"Compared to me, most people around me will only occupy a certain period of time in my life, but will definitely leave earlier than me. And I will also watch one person after another pass by me, and only after familiar people die will I understand their interaction and feelings with me... I actually don't like discussing age with people very much."

The elf girl with pointed ears didn't look at Xia De at this time:

"There is still a living old elf grandmother in our clan who is 700 years old. She told me that our long life is destined to meet many people and then separate permanently, but in order not to leave too many regrets, sometimes we must think about the significance of certain stories and encounters to our lives in the short moments of life... I will cherish this summer, Xia De."

She lowered her head and finally said Xia De's name again:

"Cherish this summer you spend with me."

After saying this, she raised her head and looked at Xia De with red eyes. The outsider didn't know how he made the elf girl cry, she looked exceptionally sad. Subsequently, he realized belatedly that it was probably because he talked about the age problem, which made Emilia, who was already reluctant to let this pleasant summer end like this, want to grasp the time in her hands even more.

Actually, Xia De really wanted to tell her that the end of the world would definitely arrive within fifty years or even ten years. If they couldn't survive it, everyone would disappear, and then the maximum age limit would have no meaning at all. But in order not to make the elf girl even sadder, Xia De didn't say this, but leaned forward slightly, and then reached out to hug her.

He didn't have to say anything, just this hug made Emilia calm down. She closed her eyes to feel the temperature of this silent hug, while the little unicorn between the two looked at their actions with water-blue eyes full of curiosity, and then made a happy chirp again.

"I... I don't want to wait for this summer to end, wait for you to die in front of me, and then say, and then say..."

She ultimately didn't say the words in her heart, but also hugged Xia De. The two didn't speak for a long time, until Emilia took the initiative to push him away and stand up, then smoothed the wrinkles on her robe, and said to Xia De with a smile:

"Thank you for this summer you gave me."

"Summer is not over yet."

Xia De stood up:

"You still have many stories you haven't seen, Emilia. May you like the summer of 1854, may you like... the stories born because of me."