Chapter 2472: Blessings of the Gods
While the three were looking at this place together, Xia De didn't forget to tell Miss Miss Feilian An Na and Fiona about the information given to him by the Tree Father regarding this place:
"In the hall, we will see the holy emblems of all the gods we have come into contact with. By touching these holy emblems, we can obtain different short-term blessing effects. Of course, the depth of the relationship with these gods will affect the strength of the blessing."
Therefore, the number and types of holy emblems Xia De, Miss Miss Feilian An Na, and Fiona saw were different.
This made this place more like an "exhibition hall" or "showroom" than a "hall." And for the Outlander with rich experience, the holy emblems he saw were naturally quite numerous.
All the evil gods he had come into contact with in the present world—【Blood Duke Lau Ai Er】, 【Lord of the Blood Feast】, 【God of the Deep Sea Drowning】, 【Lord of the Scarlet Spiral】, 【Fury Storm】, 【Stone Heart Demon】, 【Dragon-Eating Demon】—were all on the list;
The holy emblems of all the ancient gods he had met in the Fifth Era—【Innocent Creator】, 【Radiant Door】, 【Noisy Black Hunter/God of Gambling】, 【Gray-Robed Sage】, 【Uncertain Wise Man】, 【Winter Girl】, 【Thousand-Eyed Phantom Butterfly】, 【Veil of Eternal Night】, 【God of Travel】, 【Golden Master】, 【Giver of Dreams】, 【Lady of Mist】—were all displayed one by one.
And besides these, for some reason, the holy emblems of the ancient god 【Forgotten Old Man】 worshipped by Xi Li Si, the ancient god 【Twin Gods】 who had helped Hai Lun and Ge Lei Si, and the ancient god 【God of Love/Lock of Red Heart】 who was hostile to "Desire" also appeared here.
Although the patterns and light effects of these holy emblems were different, their volumes were roughly the same. And the only holy emblem that was larger than these and observed by Xia De was the golden sun-patterned holy emblem of the True God 【Lantern Old Man】.
The holy emblem of the True God radiated light, but this was the only one among the five True Gods that appeared. Xia De guessed this was because this 【God of Sun and Earth】 had participated in the banquet in the dense forest with him in the Randell River Valley.
In this way, a total of 23 holy emblems appeared.
What Xia De regretted very much was that he couldn't see the holy emblem of any ancient god here. He didn't know whether it was because the ancient god's holy emblem wouldn't appear here, or because he hadn't actually come into contact with these gods... Xia De tended to the former.
"However, it is really darkness accommodating the shadows of human nature, and light accommodating the power of the gods..."
Miss Miss Feilian An Na and Fiona both went to try to touch the holy emblems that only they could see. Xia De counted the number of holy emblems he could see, and then decided to try what kind of blessing this place could bring him.
The first one he chose was naturally the god he was most familiar with. And when Xia De's hand touched the holy emblem of the Blood God floating on the octagonal white stone pedestal, "she" said gently:
【Outlander, do you want to accept the blessing of the ancient god - Blood Duke Lau Ai Er?】
【Blood Blessing Effect: Transfiguration - Higher Blood Species.】
【Blessing Effective Time: 24 hours.】
"Just said, only one blessing can be accepted at the same time. So can I change the blessing at any time, or must the effective time of the previous blessing end before I can change to the next one?"
【You can change at any time.】
Xia De nodded. In his opinion, the "Blood Blessing" effect was very powerful. He had already seen how terrifying the so-called "Higher Blood Species" was compared to humans from Mr. Bernhardt and Mr. Albert.
The blessing effect was so useful; he thought this was because his connection with this evil god was too close.
"Don't rush to trigger the blessing effect. This is truly interesting. Let's try others... this one, the ancient god 【Radiant Door】 met in the Thousand Tree Forest."
The holy emblem itself was the pattern of a "door." This god was the first to tell the Outlander that "the Sixth Era is not the true Sixth Era." This mysterious ancient god also possessed the power of time and space.
"She" reminded softly:
【Outlander, do you want to accept the blessing of the ancient god - Radiant Door?】
【Door Blessing Effect: Enhance the effect of the spell "Key of the Door."】
【Blessing Effective Time: 24 hours.】
"Just enhance the spell? It seems my relationship with this ancient god is not very deep. Also, it was just one meeting. However, is it also 24 hours?"
He continued to pace, this time choosing the god he first came into contact with in this world:
"【Innocent Creator】."
【Outlander, do you want to accept the blessing of the ancient god - Innocent Creator?】
【Gift Blessing Effect: Magic 【Toy Making】 can be applied to living things, but the requirements are not met, and it is still impossible to carry toys with souls into special spaces.】
【Blessing Effective Time: 24 hours.】
"This..."
Xia De had been trying to find a way to break the restriction of his magic so that it didn't have to be applied to living things only after full trust. Now, with just this one blessing, his magic had a qualitative change.
But the problem was that although this enhanced his flashy means in battle, it still couldn't allow him to take the girls to the past eras.
"However, that god is really good to me."
Then he continued to try. The blessings of the 22 ancient gods had different effects, and the duration was 24 hours.
Most of the blessing effects were to improve abilities in certain aspects or enhance specific magic and spells. And the effects of a few blessings were very strange, so much so that Xia De thought he would probably never need them.
For example, the blessing effect of 【Twin Gods】 was to enhance the favor of "twin sisters" toward Xia De within 24 hours; and the blessing of 【Stone Heart Demon】 was that Xia De could turn the heart he touched with both hands into stone.
But the problem was that if Xia De wanted to kill someone, he could just crush the heart after touching it with both hands, so turning it into stone was really superfluous.
But since these blessings didn't require any price to obtain, and he only needed to enter here, Xia De certainly wouldn't complain.
And although some blessing effects didn't satisfy him very much now, if he could make these gods have more favor/disgust toward him in the future, the effects of these blessings would be improved.
Xia De left the blessing of the True God 【Lantern Old Man】 to the end to check, and sure enough, the blessing of the True God was different from that of the ancient gods:
【Outlander, do you want to accept the blessing of the True God - Lantern Old Man?】
【Blessing Effect of Sun and Earth: Expel evil when holding a lantern and the holy emblem of this god.】
【Blessing Effective Time: One week.】
"So the effective time of the True God's blessing is longer?"
It's just that he didn't have the blessings of the other four True Gods, so he wasn't sure if this guess was correct.
After looking through the contents of all the blessings, Xia De didn't choose to accept the blessing of this True God, but found the holy emblem of 【Innocent Creator】 again and obtained the blessing. The feeling of obtaining the blessing was very strange, like warm water pouring down from the top of his head.
Then he asked in his heart:
"According to convention, what is the hidden information I obtained in 【Holy White Hall】?"
【Sacrifice a drop of divinity to obtain the opportunity to touch the ancient god's holy emblem.】
【Sacrifice an ancient god's holy emblem containing power to obtain the opportunity to touch the ancient god's holy emblem related to it.】
Xia De frowned slightly, his eyes continuing to look at this holy white hall in the white mist:
"Containing power? It shouldn't mean containing divinity, otherwise it would overlap with the one above. So, does it mean powerful magic items that have been worshipped by believers for a long time?"
Xia De hadn't come into contact with many similar holy emblems so far. Mr. Bernhardt did take one out in Moon Bay, but obviously Xia De couldn't go and snatch that one.
However, if he paid attention later, it wasn't impossible to get other ancient gods' holy emblems:
"Just don't know if the effective time of those powerful ancient god blessings will become one month or even one year?"
Xia De didn't know how many gods Miss Miss Feilian An Na and Fiona had encountered, but obviously in the Fifth Era, the number of ancient gods was far greater than today, so they spent more time looking at this place.
However, Xia De didn't ask what the two ladies had obtained in this hall, and they certainly wouldn't ask Xia De this question.
It was only after the three returned to the attic from the hall that Xia De first proposed to try the brand-new improvement of his magic.
"Turn people into toys?"
Fiona asked curiously:
"Teacher Miss Feilian An Na is a demigod, you probably can't affect her, so let me try!"
The big-tailed dragon girl was very enthusiastic about this and helped Xia De move the spare curtain cloth in the house.
And when Xia De covered her with the curtain, Xia De frowned for the first time.
"Why, not enough spirit?"
Miss Miss Feilian An Na asked, pulling Fiona out from under the huge curtain:
"Fiona is a 13th-tier after all, and the dragon bloodline makes her exceptionally resistant to transfiguration. Why not try catching a few stray cats? When we went outside yesterday, I saw that there were quite a few stray cats in the city."
But in the end, the stray cats in the city didn't become Xia De's test subjects. This wasn't because Xia De was worried that bringing stray cats into the house would anger Little Mia, but because Yi Lu Na appeared at the door of No. 6 St. Deran Square this morning.
"Good morning, Xia De, I'm back! Good morning, Miss Miss Feilian An Na, Miss De La Ge!"
Yi Lu Na also set off from Moon Bay to return home on Saturday morning, but the Chosen One of Balance didn't need to take a train, but a steam airship. Plus, the weather in the entire western part of the Old Continent had been exceptionally good recently, so it only took her one day to return to the capital of the Northern Kingdom.
Yi Lu Na wanted to come over to tell Xia De that she was back. Seeing those two witches from the Fifth Era in Xia De's house, she still looked a bit restrained. Of course, she was very restrained in front of Miss Miss Feilian An Na.
After all, before she went to find the "Silver-Eyed One" for revenge and conduct the Chosen One ritual last summer, she had personally admitted to Xia De that she admired this lady very much. And now, Miss Miss Feilian An Na was right in front of her. ===== CHAPTER 2473 =====
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