Chapter 2323: Whetstone and Copper Whistle

Dorothy didn't care that Xia De was saying things no one could understand. She picked up the gray "square stone":

"It's solid. Let me see what this is... It's actually this? Xia De, the friends you know are really generous.

Although it's a one-time relic, this is a genuine Sage-level relic. 【Gray Mountain Dwarf's Whetstone】. It is said that only eight have appeared so far, and this should be the ninth one discovered in history."

Miss Galina, who was checking the copper whistle, also looked over:

"Is it that relic? I remember its characteristic is to polish items with 'piercing' capabilities, such as knives, swords, spears, and daggers, endowing them with extremely powerful strength. For ordinary items and alchemical items, this enhancement is permanent, and it is even possible to directly upgrade them to relics."

Humans cannot artificially manufacture any items with whispers, and doing so obviously doesn't rely on humans, but on relics to manufacture relic derivatives.

"And for relics, it is to endow them with strength beyond their own for a short time. Although this item is Sage-level, it can even significantly enhance Angel-level relics. And the inscriptions on different whetstones represent different additional enhancement effects. Dorothy, see what is written on the back of this whetstone?"

Dorothy then flipped the stone over and signaled Xia De to look:

"I don't recognize the ancient language on it. Xia De, you translate it."

"Let me see... Cast Holy Cross, Dragon-Slaying Blade?"

The Duchess continued to explain:

"According to the characteristic experience summarized from the previous eight whetstones, the first half refers to what kind of items this whetstone is most effective at enhancing, and the second half is the effect of the special enhancement. Your translation is definitely correct, so the whetstone in Dorothy's hand can enhance weapons related to the 'Cross' to the greatest extent, and can endow them with special effects against 'Dragons'."

Dorothy, who was also familiar with the characteristics of this relic, summarized:

"Didn't you just find a cross sword? That is the Angel-level 【Angel's Right Arm】. Is this relic prepared specifically for that sword? Just by rubbing it three times, even if 【Angel's Right Arm】 is not Angel-level (Level 1) but Secret Keeper-level (Level 3), its power in a short time will be enough to far exceed your 【Night Watcher】."

"Hmm... I feel that this whetstone is not necessarily prepared for 【Angel's Right Arm】."

No matter how strong 【Angel's Right Arm】 is, it is unlikely to exert any outstanding effects against gods. After all, no matter how powerful a Sage-level whetstone is, it cannot make a sword have an "Unknowable-level" rating.

However, when Xia De took the heavy stone from Dorothy's hand, he had a guess about the use of this thing.

The stone was very cold, with words engraved on the back, and the front was the side used for polishing. If he threw it into a pile of ordinary stone bricks, its own primitive feeling would make it easy for people to recognize it.

The font engraved on the back was not only the "Cast Holy Cross, Dragon-Slaying Blade" in suspected ancient dwarf language that introduced the relic's characteristics, but below this line of text, there was another line of smaller text:

【Gray Mountain Dwarf Blacksmith Barrier items are cheap and good, bulk shopping has discounts.】

Xia De also translated this line for Galina and Dorothy, and they all laughed.

The "ruby" was a Philosopher's Stone, the "stone" was a whetstone, but the last blood-red copper whistle was not a relic; there were no whispers on it.

This was an alchemical item. The Duchess checked it slightly and understood what it was:

"This thing is not valuable, and it is very common. Large-scale ancient wars would prepare many for long-distance communication. After you blow it somewhere, the stone corresponding to this copper whistle will burst out a very sharp sound. Modern times are also commonly used for communication, but after all, it is an inexpensive prop, so the range of action cannot span the entire Old Continent... It's about the distance between the north and south of Tobesk."

"Xia De, are you going to use this whistle to summon the mermen of Coldwater Port?"

Dorothy asked with a smile. The fishy smell on that box, and the fact that Xia De came back from Coldwater Port, were telling them the possible origin of these things. Although she was only guessing, she guessed very accurately.

"Yes, these things indeed came from Coldwater Port.

I told you that the ocean gods and that god who devoured dragons were very unhappy because of the migration of the dragon race, and even a divine war broke out in the ancient Moon Bay area."

According to the sealed flesh and divinity of the nameless dragon that Xia De found, and the fact that the dragons eventually went overseas, it should be that the ocean gods won.

"The contradiction between the ocean gods and that god started from then on, so this time I was thinking, can those cultists also help in Moon Bay?"

Actually, he was thinking of finding those three Evil Gods to help. Xia De had just arrived in Coldwater Port today when he was immediately approached by a strange guy, and the things were all prepared. He didn't believe this was a mortal's means; the three Evil Gods must have been prepared long ago.

Of course, at least from these three items, their support was not as great as Xia De had imagined. If all three were willing to appear directly, things in Moon Bay would actually be much easier... Of course, Xia De would also worry about whether the three would be willing to leave here easily after the Battle of Moon Bay.

"If this whistle can summon an army of smelly mermen and cultists, Xia De, are you cooperating with the cult?"

Dorothy asked with some worry again. Xia De felt indifferent about this:

"When the final day comes, the power of sin is also power."

As for Miss Galina, she didn't care about Xia De cooperating with cultists. After all, the reputation of the 【Witch Council】 wasn't particularly positive before Xia De appeared. She just joked with a smile:

"Cooperating with cultists, in this way, you won't meet the requirements of this Chosen One. This is very unjust."

"But what is justice?"

The writer lady therefore had an idea:

"If justice is only based on whether the friends around you are cultists, then justice is too cheap... Of course, guys whose friends are cultists definitely have problems in general... This subject seems very interesting. And the bedtime story Xia De told us a few days ago, Mrs. Jude who sucks blood, Marquis Morsen and the Heart of the Horse... I have ideas again!"

She suddenly kissed Xia De on the side of his face, her emerald eyes shining as if sparkling. The blonde, green-eyed girl who was good at collecting materials had ideas again.

"The situation this time is really serious."

The Duchess didn't care about that kiss. She continued to look at the things on the table:

"Xia De, I know you are worried about the god's descent of that Evil God. So is it possible to prevent the god's descent in advance?"

"The Church and we will certainly do this, but Galina, let's recall carefully, how many times have we successfully prevented a god's descent since last year?"

The red-haired witch gave the answer without thinking:

"Of course, not even once."

After saying this, she shook her head helplessly.

And this time, Xia De still thought that the possibility of successfully preventing the god's descent was not great, or rather, very small, because he had already guessed the purpose of that Evil God's descent.

The nameless eldest son of the Ancient God tried to possess the power of his father by devouring the flesh and blood of homologous dragons. This was news Xia De knew when he obtained that drop of divinity (Chapter 2151).

And the Chosen One of Light was clearly the existence with the power most similar to that "Dragon of Radiant Light" in the era when the Ancient God left. Although the descent of gods requires people in the material world to prepare, the most critical thing is to look at the god's own will. And this time, His will to descend was stronger than any of the previous ones.

In short, the three items were put back into the briefcase with the fishy smell by Xia De, and then he sent them into the hidden space in the basement, ready to take them out when needed.

Among them, the "Philosopher's Stone" had the wonderful characteristic of mutual fusion. Two Philosopher's Stones would automatically become one after contact, but Xia De didn't have the idea of fusing this Philosopher's Stone with the one left over from before.

However, he took the opportunity to compare the quantity of the two Philosopher's Stones. Specifically, he took the previous Philosopher's Stone off the cross, held it and the one in the briefcase in his hands respectively, and found that the former was slightly more.

One very interesting characteristic of the "Philosopher's Stone" is that it cannot measure volume and mass through any instrument, and can only judge the approximate quantity through the human body's own perception.

If you use a balance to weigh it, the result of each weighing is absolutely different; if you use the water immersion method to measure the volume through a graduated cylinder, you will find that the volume of the stone itself fluctuates within a large range, and there is no stable average value.

This "uncertainty" characteristic is recorded in the knowledge of ancient alchemists. The small copper bell containing knowledge of the Philosopher's Stone that Xia De obtained from the "Black Fog Camp" also mentioned this point, so he had never used any unit to describe the Philosopher's Stone he possessed.

The most reliable way to measure "how much" the two Philosopher's Stones are is for Xia De to weigh them like this.

People believe that this precious crystallization of alchemy still has characteristics that have not yet been discovered. So when Xia De put away the two portions of the Philosopher's Stone, he was still wondering which ancient alchemist sage was able to be the first to manufacture this precious material.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you just now, there was an earthquake in Moon Bay last night."

When the witch left home at noon this day to visit Queen Diana at the Yodel Palace, she remembered to tell Xia De about this, but compared to other situations in Moon Bay, the earthquake could only be considered a relatively small matter.

And after sending Miss Galina away, Xia De asked Dorothy again:

"Although Luweiya and Priest Augustus are not in Tobesk, the study group still has to be held. Let's stay at home for a while, how about leaving at one o'clock in the afternoon? The exams just ended last week, I think there won't be any big things on the doctor's side." ===== CHAPTER 2324 =====