Chapter 2409: The Last Dragon Scale

After breakfast, the waiting continued. Yin Luna, who had attended the banquet last night and spent the night on the ship with Xia De and Luweiya, had to return to the church in the city first.

The chaos in the city had not subsided after daylight arrived; there were as many as eleven pillars of light erupting from the ground toward the sky, but there was still no sign of any God descending.

The battle in the outer sea was even more intense than in the city. According to the information passed on by the mermaid girls every twenty minutes, the sea surface in the storm zone outside Moon Bay Port had even been dyed a reddish-brown. The storm zone was rapidly approaching Moon Bay, and even on the "Radiant Messenger," one could clearly feel the undulations of the sea.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Galina from the Belindell Manor passed through a portal and sent a note to Xia De:

"A bat just threw this at the manor gate, I think this is for you."

The note was rolled up like a cigarette. After unfolding it, the content inside was very simple:

【Divination has results, the final clue is in the lair where the fourth child lived—for the "Despicable Outsider."】

"Despicable Outsider" was a nickname the Hou Jue of Morsen had given Xia De out of a perverse sense of humor when Xia De, Mr. Bernhardt, and Mr. Albert were horse racing. So this note came from Mr. Albert; it seemed that the divination assisted by the "Diamond of Hope" had indeed given him results.

"The fourth child's lair?"

Luweiya was by Xia De's side, her purple eyes narrowing slightly:

"The fourth child died at the end of the Fifth Era, where are we going to find it now..."

She and Xia De, who also raised an eyebrow, looked at each other; both knew they were thinking of the same place.

"Let's confirm one last time."

Xia De gave the last special coin, 【King's Egg】, to Luweiya. With the assistance of clues, even content that could not originally be divined could be divined at this moment.

Luweiya did not flip the coin in front of everyone but left for a while. Not long after she returned, there was an irrepressible smile on her face:

"It turns out the answer was at the starting point. Xia De, we were right, the fourth child's lair is that ancient dragon lair you pass by every time!"

Her voice was trembling slightly; clearly, the divination was not as easy as she had thought:

"Combining this divination, Bella's interpretation of the Eddington family's ancient books, and our research over the past week, that ancestor witch of the Eddington family was the only one who didn't take away a dragon scale! After the battle at the end of the Fifth Era that established Moon Bay's current layout, she left the dragon scale she had been allotted in the lair of that strange dragon, which is why I couldn't divine it at first."

"I searched that place carefully, there was nothing there."

Xia De asked. Luweiya's face turned a little pale, but she still smiled and held his hand:

"There is one most obvious place you didn't search carefully, which is the most conspicuous place. That dragon altar! The last dragon scale is right under that altar!"

Xia De stood up at once:

"I'll go now, throw the crystal shoe home, and rush back immediately after getting the dragon scale."

Seeing Xia De stand up, the others looked over. Luweiya briefly explained the situation, and the Countess handed him 【Night Watcher】:

"The situation in the city is very complicated now, be careful on your way."

"Don't worry."

As he spoke, he looked at the cat on the table. Little Mia seemed to realize that Xia De was leaving and meowed, wanting to go with him.

"Angelina."

Xia De said suddenly, and the little princess walked over immediately:

"I'm here, I'm here!"

"Help me look after this cat."

"Okay."

After saying that, he threw the crystal shoe and disappeared directly from the ship.

"Good morning~"

At No. 6 St. Deran Square, after greeting the maid who looked at him in surprise as he suddenly appeared, Xia De ran down the stairs quickly, and dozens of seconds later, he appeared in the dragon lair in the northern suburbs of Moon Bay:

"If I had known there was a problem here earlier..."

After arriving in front of the altar, the altar sensed Xia De's power. Even without Xia De touching it with Fiona's gloves, following a clear cracking sound, the small mud dragon crouching on the earth-colored dragon egg began to move.

The circular platform base radiated light upward, the egg slowly rose and floated, the brown mud on the eggshell peeled off inch by inch, and the mud layer on the mud dragon also peeled off.

Until the very end, the golden dragon egg flickering with golden light floated in the air on the golden platform, and the small golden dragon statue crouched on the dragon egg, eyes closed but still looking alive.

Xia De didn't care about the activated altar but bent down slightly, hugged the altar with both arms, and then took a deep breath—

"Hnnn—ah!"

The altar didn't move at all. Xia De let go, stood up, stretched his body, took off his coat, and activated 【Power of the Red Dragon】:

"Again!"

He bent down and hugged the altar. As his face gradually flushed red, the altar actually rose bit by bit. The altar's own intense miraculous elements hindered Xia De from sensing what was underneath it, but he had no time to think about these things at this moment; he hadn't encountered anything this heavy in a long time.

Compared to this thing, the weight of Dorothy and Galina stacked together was as light as a leaf.

【A very strange metaphor.】

"She" said with a smile in Xia De's ear, and at this moment, Xia De finally hugged the altar completely and moved it to the side before putting it down.

*Boom—* With a loud noise, Xia De felt the earth beneath his feet shake. The reason he didn't push or pull it directly to the side was the fear that pushing or pulling would damage whatever might be hidden underneath.

Holding his knees and panting heavily, Xia De looked at the position where the altar had just been. After placing such a heavy object there for years, it actually didn't leave many traces on the ground. And in that almost imperceptible depression, a silver box was tilted, revealing its corner.

He bent down and took out the palm-sized box, then was surprised to find that the box was made of mithril alloy:

"Although it's not pure mithril, there wouldn't be much mithril after refining, but it seems those seven witches really made a fortune in the dragon lair back then... The other spaces in the dragon lair were destroyed by them before they left, right?"

The admixture of mithril allowed the box to survive for thousands of years without rotting. After the lock clicked open, a folded letter and a small copper-red dragon scale lay inside the box.

Xia De closed his eyes and took a deep breath:

"Got it."

He touched the dragon scale to confirm it was the real thing. Then he looked at the folded letter. After opening it, the elegant handwriting was written in the common language of the end of the Fifth Era. Because he had studied it in St. Byrons' courses, Xia De could understand the content even without "Language Comprehension."

【To gain represents that one must lose; the starry sky has revealed the future to me. Future person who has come here to obtain the dragon scale, please protect Moon Bay and the people here. We once pulled out that sword together; please remember, rituals and power may not be important, what is important is your heart.】

"Diviners always like to say these things that sound very reasonable but are actually meaningless."

Because Luweiya and Miss Belindell were not there, Xia De dared to say this, but there was indeed no content on this note, at most it explained that the ancestor of the Eddington family was the lady who served as the diviner in the "seven-person witch squad."

He flipped the note to the back, and unexpectedly, there were two more lines of small text:

【I named Moon Bay myself; originally we wanted to name it "Sword Bay" to commemorate the sword we pulled out together.】

【However, the power of the Ancient God allowed me to glimpse fate in an instant; the name of the region comes not only from the shape of the coastline but also from the brilliant moonlight I saw rising from the pitch-black waters.】

"Hmm..."

Xia De still didn't feel she had said anything of value, so he just put the note away; after all, it could be considered an antique. But the ancestor witch of the Eddington family was definitely not a Thirteenth-Tier, let alone a demigod, so she was definitely not a Witch Emperor. Xia De didn't know if the 【Witch Council】 would be interested in the relics of an ordinary ancient witch.

For safety reasons, Xia De didn't bring all the dragon scales down from the "Radiant Messenger"; he didn't want the dragon scales to scatter all over the ground while fighting someone. Therefore, after finding the last dragon scale, he still had to return to the ship to know the information contained in the six dragon scales.

"Can this place become a venue for the Chosen One's ritual?"

Not in a hurry to leave, Xia De turned back to look at this dragon lair he had become very familiar with over the past two months.

【Outsider, there is no power or symbolism here.】

"She" said in a gentle voice, and Xia De sighed:

"It seems it can only be the 【Dragon-Feast Ritual Site】."

Just as he was about to turn and leave, he suddenly heard a loud boom from underground, and then the ground began to undulate like waves, causing even Xia De to almost fall.

Dust and stone chips fell from the stone wall above his head. The undulation of the ground lasted for at least twenty seconds before it ended. Xia De realized it was an earthquake:

"Such a strong earthquake? What happened again? Could it be that the God-Descending ritual has started?"

He didn't waste any more time, leaped forward, and turned into a swarm of red butterflies, flying toward the dragon lair exit at a higher place.

And behind Xia De, a crack appeared on the surface of the golden dragon egg that was quietly floating above the altar.

But that was all.

*Boom! *

The strongest earthquake Moon Bay City had experienced in a thousand years, accompanied by the twelfth pillar of light spraying white mist into the sky, appeared on this Sunday morning at nine-thirty.

In the Moon Bay City orphanage, the shaking building swayed violently like a block castle built by children. Priest Augustus, who was packing clothes with the last few children who hadn't been transferred on the first floor, stared wide-eyed at the huge crack that appeared on the wall, and then lunged toward the three children in front of him amidst the loud noise of the house collapsing.

The priest's vision went black, and he completely lost consciousness in the severe pain in the back of his head. **CHAPTER 2410**