Chapter 2196

On the other side, after Xia De and Miss Bellinder arrived at the witch's alchemy workshop in the basement, Xia De saw the black dragon scale placed together with the gold dragon scale temporarily taken out from the divination cards.

"I have already placed the Gray-Headed Hawk's notebook in the Society. Megan and Audrey will help after they see it. I lied and claimed it was mine; once they see it, they can crack the cipher in a few minutes of spellcasting. You don't need to worry about this."

Miss Bellinder said, walking to the table and fiddling with it slightly. When the two dragon scales were placed at a relatively suitable distance and angle, a visible resonance occurred between them.

The vibrating scales floated into the air together, and streams of golden and black light constantly exchanged and communicated between them. And in the light screen composed of those light streams, Xia De actually saw some incomplete runes. Because the runes were too severely damaged, it took him a long while to identify them:

"Dragon runes; they really are ancient."

"Can you translate them?"

The Countess also looked up, but Xia De shook his head with regret:

"They are too severely damaged; being able to identify that these are all dragon runes is already quite a stretch. Although I recognize all the characters, just as I cannot interpret encrypted text, I cannot complete the missing runes."

"What's very magical is that I don't need to divine to know that your claim of being able to recognize all characters is definitely not a lie."

The beautiful Countess said, hugging him from behind. Xia De smiled, then reached out to touch the light screen, feeling the miracle elements enhancing each other within:

"In this way, the scales inherited by your seven families can resonate to reveal these runes. We only have two pieces now, so we can't see clearly. Does this mean we need to gather all seven pieces to get the complete rune information? Or perhaps with five or six pieces, we should be able to understand part of the content."

"I think so too."

The witch raised her eyebrows slightly, turned around to lean against the table, and looked at Xia De with one hand propped on the desktop:

"Each of these scales alone can allow a ring-sorcerer to obtain dragon power related to it. I even suspect that the information gathered after these seven dragon scales are united is information about that sword."

Such a possibility indeed exists, but it is still too early to say these things.

"The gold dragon scale belongs to Bellinder, and the black dragon one, according to the documents we obtained in the sewer secret room, should belong to the Black family. So, is there any news about the other five dragon scales?"

He asked again, and the Countess shook her head with regret:

"Not for the time being; it is still under investigation. However, regarding the Seven Great Families, I have one piece of good news and one piece of bad news here. Which one would you like to hear first?"

"The good news."

"Last week, at the banquet where the Seven Great Families gathered, everyone agreed to take out some of their family's confidential documents to share information. This work is progressing quite well now; I have already obtained some of the text, but it is still being analyzed."

"And the bad news?"

"The Church is also suspicious that we are hiding news about the Chosen One and the dragons. So the Dawn Church's Holy See sent a letter to Willandale, and the King of Willandale..."

She emphasized this honorific, so it was actually not respectful.

"His Majesty the King sent another letter to Moon Bay City, asking us to accept the Church's personnel to take a tour inside our respective ancestral homes. If this official document were brought to Moon Bay by Princess Margaret, and then that Princess mediated between the Church and us, it could probably be executed quite well. But the Dawn Church obviously doesn't want to waste time, so the official letter from Willandale was delivered to the City Council by an envoy this morning."

Xia De frowned:

"The Church wants to inspect this mansion? Then what about your laboratory? Are Emilia and Little Liana also going to leave temporarily?"

"No rush. I discussed it with Old Eddington and Old Hawthorne, and we will try our best to delay it. We'll drag it out until Princess Margaret visits Moon Bay. Since the Church wants to bypass the Royal Family and contact us directly, we will throw this difficult problem to that Princess to solve."

She curled her lips and smiled;

"I hope you won't feel sorry for that Highness."

"What are you saying."

The witch smiled and didn't answer, instead opening her arms to Xia De. Xia De then stepped forward, letting this beautiful blonde lady embrace him and give him a passionate kiss.

They didn't leave the manor that afternoon, but instead read the documents the witch had just obtained in the study together, and analyzed and marked the locations where abnormal phenomena had appeared on the Moon Bay city map.

Emilia was also in the study that afternoon, but she sat obediently on the sofa reading the novel in her hand. As for that piece of fabric, it had of course been taken off and carefully stored in her suitcase; the elf girl had already thought about how to amaze her friends after returning.

The little unicorn lay at Emilia's feet. Because the sun in Moon Bay City was obscured by black fog, Little Mia, who was taking a nap, was not on the windowsill but lying on the desk, which was the place closest to Xia De.

During the leisure time of sitting around the coffee table resting and drinking afternoon tea, Bella Bellinder looked at the handsome man beside her who was trying to soak biscuits in black tea to feed the cat, looked at the little unicorn that had curiously widened its eyes and poked its head out from under the coffee table, looked at the elf girl who was squinting her eyes because she had eaten delicious desserts, looked at the cute cat that was eager to try the biscuits, and looked at her own apprentice who was standing near the coffee table, bending over to put down the dinner plate. On this ordinary Thursday afternoon, she actually felt a long-lost happiness in life:

"Husband, wife, child, maid, two pets..."

She pursed her lips and watched this scene, then lowered her eyes, feeling a bit sad because she would never obtain the "happiness" she was thinking of at this moment.

"It seems that biscuits soaked in black tea aren't very tasty."

Seeing that the cat just sniffed and then dodged away, Xia De reached this conclusion, and based on the principle of not wasting, he ate the cream-filled biscuit himself. Seeing Miss Bellinder on the side with her head down and not speaking, he picked up another biscuit and waved it in front of her:

"The manor maid's craftsmanship is really good; why aren't you eating?"

The witch looked up at him:

"Will you feed me?"

Miss Matilda showed a smile, Emilia blinked and looked at the bold lady, and Xia De also smiled:

"Of course."

He brought the biscuit close to the witch's red lips, and the latter opened her mouth slightly to bite off a small piece. Just as she was about to chew, seeing that everyone was looking at her, she shyly turned her head slightly and raised her hand to cover her mouth.

"Perhaps this is also happiness."

She told herself softly, her covered mouth moving slightly a few times before she swallowed that mouthful of biscuit:

"Matilda, you sit down and eat with us too."

She said this, and the witch apprentice was a bit surprised, but she held the dinner plate and nodded with a smile:

"Yes, Miss."

She sat beside Emilia, her feet in black leather shoes placed next to the little unicorn's tail.

The leisurely afternoon tea time might just be an unimportant memory in life for Xia De, for Emilia, and even for Miss Matilda. But Bella Bellinder decided to remember this moment forever; this was her own little happiness.

Today is Thursday, and at 7:30 in the evening, Tifa and the others' train is about to depart. Xia De definitely has to go see them off. Therefore, he didn't eat at Bellinder Manor that evening, but before saying goodbye, the witch specifically went to the Society and then happily returned the Gray-Headed Hawk's notebook and a thick stack of letter paper to Xia De:

"The Megan sisters seemed to have gone to the Society this afternoon. Look, it's already translated."

Xia De, holding the cat, looked through it in surprise; the notebook was still the notebook, and the stack of letter paper contained the translated text.

"This is a huge help."

Xia De said, and the Countess hugged him before waving goodbye to him along with Emilia.

It was already 5:30 when he returned home. The location where Xia De appeared was the stair landing between the first and second floors, and the house was exceptionally lively at this time.

The maids on the second floor were preparing dinner. Dorothy was sitting on the sofa, holding Angelina's hand and giving instructions for going out; Xia De guessed that it should be Princess Lei Qianya. Miss Miss Jia Lin Na was sitting at the dining table with a tablecloth, and Luweiya was saying something to her, but Xia De remembered that his dining table didn't have a tablecloth.

Although in the past when Miss Miss Jia Lin Na or Princess Lei Qianya stayed overnight at Xia De's house, they would also bring their personal maids, the number of maids appearing in the house this time was exceptionally high. Or rather, ever since the Outsider owned this house, he didn't remember there ever being so many people in the house.

"Tifa is leading the team to Moon Bay this time, and I let her take 10 people. 7 high-ring and 3 mid-ring, all of them are experts in combat, potions, and alchemy."

Seeing Xia De appear at the door, the ladies in the house stood up to welcome him, and Miss Miss Jia Lin Na introduced the situation to him:

"The number is indeed not large, but the maids I left in Saladir County also have a 25-person squad that will rush to Moon Bay to join them."

As she spoke, she also raised her head slightly:

"But actually, Tifa alone is enough to represent me. Tifa is the most outstanding witch apprentice I have cultivated in this generation. The other apprentices, whether it's that Miss Swift of Grandma Cassandra or Xivi's niece, cannot compare to her. She is currently at the 8th Ring. If it weren't for the fact that there are no empty seats for witches, I wouldn't be surprised if she reached the 12th Tier within a year or two once she becomes a witch."

The black-haired maid in the kitchen pursed her lips and smiled, but unfortunately, the people in the living room couldn't see it.

Xia De then nodded:

"This is a rare long separation for you and her, right? Where is Tifa? In the kitchen?"

"She insisted on preparing dinner for me personally one last time before leaving."

Because Xia De's house was closer to the train station and his place was large enough, the final dinner before departure was arranged here. Including the head maid, the 10 maids, Dorothy, and Angelina, the girls who were about to head to Moon Bay all came here, and Xia De, Luweiya, and Miss Miss Jia Lin Na saw them off.