Chapter 267: Toy Making

Of course, although the relics in the ruins could not be taken away, it was not that there were no other spoils.

On the Silver-Eyed One, besides the Keeper-level magic eye 【Greedy Silver】, there was also another relic. That was a blood-stained iron scissor, which should have been collected to synthesize items for 【Mercury Blood】. Actually, there should have been more relics around him, but the three could not find them no matter how they searched, and finally guessed that they had been absorbed by the tree that was burned to ash.

And on the vampire's incomplete corpse, two relics were also found. One of them was very familiar, 【Puppeteer's Script】, totaling five pages, the first two pages were blackened, and now there were still three pages left unused. The other one was a sharp tooth, directly embedded in the vampire's mouth; if it weren't for the hint from the woman in his heart, Xia De might have missed it.

The four relics of the Silver-Eyed One and the vampire, plus the 【God's Gift Box】 and the small mercury bottle in the underground warehouse, this adventure had a total harvest of 6 relics.

Besides the relics, Xia De himself advanced to the Second Circle and also obtained the whisper spirit rune - 【Toymaker】, two wonder arts 【Toy Making】 and 【Moonlight Greatsword】, and a drop of divinity. This harvest was truly huge.

Being with someone entangled by fate like a Chosen One was indeed very dangerous, but the harvest was also beyond the ordinary; at least Xia De had never had such a large harvest in one adventure.

This time, they were well-prepared and took huge risks to be enemies with a high-circle sorcerer; the reward obtained was already enough.

Besides these, there were also notebooks and letters on the Silver-Eyed One and the vampire; these were also the spoils of the three, and there was no reason to leave them to the church. It was just that the current environment was too dangerous, so it was better to wait until returning to the ground to appraise the relics and letters.

"But how are you going to move these two corpses away?"

Miss Anate was divining whether there would be any major danger when leaving, and Miss Beiyasi pointed to the two incomplete corpses on the ground. The Silver-Eyed One's corpse was something Xia De had promised to Miss Galina long ago, and the vampire itself was a member of the 【Blood Spirit School】. Although the corpse was severely damaged, perhaps the witches had means of mediumship, so he planned to take them away together:

"You aren't going to carry them away, are you?"

The young female sorcerer expressed feelings of disgust.

"Of course not carry them away; I find them disgusting too. Look, I just learned the wonder art 【Toy Making】."

Saying this, Xia De squatted down and fiddled with the corpses, letting the corpses be grouped together as much as possible. Subsequently, he took off his own coat. It had accompanied him through this journey, and this coat was already tattered, but it was just right as a casting material.

He shook the coat in his hand twice, and then suddenly threw it upward. It unfolded in the air, and after landing, it completely covered the Silver-Eyed One's corpse.

Xia De picked up the coat; there was no corpse under the coat anymore, but instead, there was a cloth doll in the shape of the Silver-Eyed One's corpse. The doll was curled up, and the posture was extremely bad:

"Look."

He picked up the cloth doll, and Iluna looked on with great curiosity:

"Can you turn dead objects into cloth dolls?"

"Not just dead objects, living things can also be turned, but they must completely trust me. Besides cloth dolls, they can also become wooden dolls or pottery dolls, but they can only become toys. Depending on the actual volume, there is an upper limit to the volume of change. For example, this corpse can only be shrunk to the size of two fingers. As for the degree of trust of living things... I must experiment to know."

Saying this, he used the coat in his hand to cover the vampire's disgusting remains again, turning it into a cloth doll, and continued to introduce:

"But this wonder art is ineffective against any relic, and the effect on casting materials is also very poor; otherwise, it would be too convenient."

Xia De said regretfully, looking at the pile of messy casting materials scattered beside the vampire doll:

"However, it can be used to appraise 【Relics】. Just throw a large piece of canvas over it; anything that doesn't turn into a toy definitely has a problem."

Because he had a map in his hand, it was easy for Xia De to lead the two girls to the secret room where the eighteen gold plates and religious classics were stored. There were other things here, such as the notebooks of the sect's past sorcerers, as well as the history of the sect. The three each chose a few books to take away, and Xia De even took away all the materials about the 【God's Gift Box】.

It was nerve-wracking when entering the ruins, but it was much easier when leaving. The labyrinth candle had been destroyed, so there was no need to break into the labyrinth again; the repaired mirror had no effect on the Second Circle Xia De this time, and he kicked it over; the Giant God Soldier called a gargoyle was still in a dormant state, and there was no need to offer eyes a second time.

Along the way, the three's mood was quite good, and when they lit the 【Podol Candle】 which only had one minute of usage time left, and the three crawled out from the passage dug by 【Mercury Blood】, seeing that the warehouse was still the same as before and no one had discovered the anomaly, their mood was even better.

They took away the small mercury bottle, burned the last section of the candle, and left the printing factory.

The city's night wind blew away the earthy smell and sultriness on the three. The moonlight and thin mist felt exceptionally intimate to them who had stayed underground for several hours.

They did not stop their steps but kept moving forward until they were far away from the block where the printing factory was located, and only then did they confirm that this adventure had truly ended.

Standing in the alley, the shadows swallowed the three, but at close range, relying on the moonlight, they could all see each other's faces:

"Thank you for everything you did for me tonight."

Miss Beiyasi said, hugging the two of them respectively. She subconsciously reached out and touched the eye patch on her left eye:

"I am going to the banquet side to find the captain and inform him about the existence of the second and third divine descent containers. The harvest tonight will be kept by you first, and we will divide it at Xia De's house tomorrow night."

"No problem."

Xia De and Miss Anate said. The reason they didn't follow her to the manor where the charity banquet was being held was that their identities were not suitable. Moreover, the church already had the overall situation under control; even if there were additional divine descent containers, as long as that banquet was destroyed, without the important ritual condition of the "Blood Banquet," divine descent was still impossible.

But they still couldn't relax their vigilance, which was why Iluna Beiyasi wanted to rush over as soon as possible.

"Then see you tomorrow night, Miss Anate, see you tomorrow night, Xia De."

She said softly, and then, on tiptoe, very naturally, kissed Xia De on the side of his face.

She stepped back, blushing a little, and looked at Xia De's blurry face in the shadows with a gentle smile:

"I didn't have any other meaning either."

Saying this, she turned and hurried away along the alley.

Xia De felt a sense of loss; this was the second time he had been kissed tonight. Miss Anate on the side patted him with a smile; the female diviner was in a very good mood now:

"What are you thinking about? We should go back and rest too."

Although the angel had healed everyone's pain except for the left eye, the exhaustion in their hearts still existed:

"That's good, see you tomorrow night. But these six relics..."

He said embarrassedly. Relics whose specific containment conditions were unknown were even more dangerous than steam bombs.

"【God's Gift Box】 is yours; you take it away yourself. The two magic eyes 【Greedy Silver】, the containment condition when not installed in the human body is regular contact with silver powder; you keep this one on behalf of us first. You also take the 【Puppeteer's Script】; after all, you are the only one who has touched this thing."

The female diviner said, considering for a moment:

"The other three relics whose names and uses are unknown will be kept by me temporarily. Helping Iluna Beiyasi, you can understand it as me completing an important fate node, so my divination ability has also improved."

She pointed to her purple eyes:

"After I go back, I will try my best to divine the information of the other three items. Although it might not be of much use, at least I can know the containment conditions."

"That's fine, but you must be careful."

Xia De said with some worry.

"It's you who should be careful. I am only one ritual away from advancing to the Fourth Circle, while you only have two circles, yet you are holding so many dangerous items."

In the darkness, those purple eyes looking at Xia De seemed to be glowing.

She suddenly approached Xia De, the two looking at each other at close range, and the woman asked in a low voice:

"Before we part, can you satisfy my curiosity and answer a question."

"Please ask."

Xia De was already prepared to be asked about secrets; they had seen the maze just now and must understand that the merman incident not long ago had something to do with him.

But Xia De guessed wrong.

"My kiss and Iluna's kiss, which one do you like more?"

A chuckle from "her" came to his ear, and her purple eyes, which were truly close at hand, seemed to be deeply branded into Xia De's heart. Looking at the beautiful girl before him laughing and talking, for some reason, Xia De felt his heart stop for a moment:

"You just want to ask this?"

He said in a low voice.

"Yes, you must answer."

The brown-haired girl's smile was very thick.

"Hmm..."

He thought for a while, and although he was a bit blushing, he still told the truth:

"Actually, I didn't feel much; after all, the time was too short."

The purple-eyed girl smiled, shook her head, and her short hair swayed with the movement of her head. She did not bring up this topic again, her eyes still carrying a smile, and her tone changed slightly:

"Xia De, are you willing, just like this adventure, to accompany me to witness the remaining twelve Chosen Ones?"

"Of course, I said it underground."

This answer was without hesitation. Although such adventures were dangerous, they were indeed necessary; he was still short 10 drops of divinity. If every adventure with a Chosen One afterward was as smooth as tonight, that would be great.

"Then from tonight on, the fates of the three of us are truly bound together. I hope we can walk together until the end."

The smile on Luweiya Anate's face was unexpectedly a bit sad. She didn't say anything else, and after saying goodnight to Xia De softly, she also turned and left the alley.

Xia De stood there, watching her back vanish into the thick fog of the night, and only then did he hold that cold gift box and walk out of the alley entrance.

"Luweiya Anate, what exactly has she experienced?"

He thought in his heart.

【Everyone has their own story.】

"Yes."

He thought of the two ghosts in the cemetery again:

"I also have my own story, as long as I don't regret it myself..."

Standing at the alley entrance, he took a deep breath, and the smell of burning exhaust gas surged into his lungs, along with the warm feeling unique to a summer night:

"No matter what, this night has finally ended."