Chapter 276: Shadows on the Wall

Lifting the lying Xia De and holding him in her arms, the brown-haired young lady very carefully introduced the water from the bottle into his mouth. Xia De still maintained his basic instincts at this time, carefully swallowing the liquid, but even until the entire bottle was empty, he did not wake up.

"Meow~"

The orange cat circled Xia De, meowed anxiously twice, and then jumped up, trying to use its claws to pull at his pocket.

Miss Beiya was stunned:

"You..."

She reacted immediately and took his pocket watch out of Xia De's pocket. After opening the watch cover, there was indeed the last piece of 【Ye Zi of Eternal Youth】 inside.

It was just that although he could still swallow liquids, it was still too difficult to make the current Xia De chew the leaf himself. And the characteristics of the 【Relic】 meant that the leaf could not be easily squeezed for juice by other means.

The young lady looked at Xia De with a flushed face, then looked at the cat watching anxiously there, and reached out to touch its head:

"Don't worry, I will save him."

A trembling hand covered her own intact left eye, and then, with a flushed face, she extended the leaf toward her own mouth...

Hurried footsteps came from downstairs again, and Yin Yi Yi Lu Na realized only then that she had forgotten to close the door.

Holding Xia De, she turned around, and the purple-eyed diviner appeared at the top of the stairs, panting heavily. She was in a hurry, and seeing Yin Yi Yi Lu Na kneeling there holding the unconscious Xia De in the room, with the cat crouching to the side, she was also stunned:

"Just now... the Evil God... so terrifying... my divination... the moon, and then I guessed if it was him... how is Xia De?"

"You were actually able to look at the night sky just now?"

Miss Beiya had originally thought that she was the only one who had witnessed that scene.

"My eyes are very special. Let's not talk about that anymore, how is Xia De?"

Miss An Na Te walked to Xia De's side and knelt down as well, looking at his face with great concern.

"I fed him a whole bottle of No. 1 Holy Water Essence, but he still hasn't woken up, so this."

The brown-haired young lady shook the leaf in her hand with a flushed face, and Miss An Na Te understood immediately. She hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice:

"Are you trying to... alright, will you do it or will I?"

"I'll do it!"

After saying that, she realized her voice was a bit high. Miss Beiya smiled embarrassedly and was just about to put the leaf into her own mouth when Xia De's hand suddenly lifted and grabbed her wrist, though his eyes still did not open:

"Don't... waste it, I only have one piece left, water..."

A hoarse voice spoke; the whole bottle of No. 1 Holy Water Essence just now had not been without effect.

"Water?"

Before Miss Beiya, who was holding the 【Ye Zi of Eternal Youth】, could react, Miss An Na Te got up, brought a teacup, and filled it with water:

"Xia De, don't move around, if it really doesn't work..."

The sound of bells and steam whistles appeared in this narrow space. In the Second-Ring Ringed Shushi's life ring, the silver of blasphemy representing 【Gluttony】 had an unusually dazzling spiritual light. Swallowing the second drop of divinity of the 【Lord of Blood Banquet】 in the god's posture did not grant Xia De new power; instead, the already existing 【Gluttony】 was further enhanced.

His hand was grabbed by Miss An Na Te and lifted, finally touching the water cup, and the silver light gushed out from the water cup almost in the next second.

Miss Beiya immediately held him and straightened him up, while Miss An Na Te carefully held the cup and fed the water to Xia De.

The light of the gas lamp in the living room flickered. In this eventful long night, on the second floor of No. 6 St. Deran Square, three people leaned against each other, their shadows entangled on the wall. The orange cat crouched to the side, meowing in a low voice, as if expecting Xia De to recover quickly.

"I don't quite understand, why did you return to an empty house instead of coming to find us?"

Miss Beiya lowered her head and asked softly.

"Because... I didn't know what would happen, and... it was not easy to have my own house, even if I die, I must... die here."

The shadows on the wall swayed, and the two ladies chuckled. Although Xia De was still in poor condition, saying such things meant there was no need to worry about him leaving.

"Then, the Blood Banquet... will that existence come to find you again?"

Miss An Na Te also asked. Miss Beiya held Xia De's head in her arms, while she held Xia De's hand. Xia De shook his head unconsciously, feeling as if he had touched something:

"No, we are even... the Ancient God is witness, He cannot use any means to..."

The voice was low, and Xia De fell asleep.

The light of the gas lamp was yellowish; in any case, this night had finally ended.

(Little Mia is running...)

When Xia De opened his eyes again, he saw the ceiling of his familiar bedroom. Sensing the time, it was 7:30 on Friday morning, only eight hours since he had fallen unconscious again after drinking water last night.

The movement of sitting up from the bed woke the cat lying beside the pillow. Sunlight shone through the gaps in the curtains, spilling onto the cat's back, making Mia's orange fur look as if it were glowing.

After continuous overcast rain, Tobeisk finally ushered in a sunny day.

"Speaking of which..."

He recalled the last part of the conversation last night, and when he looked at the cat meowing beside his hand, his brows furrowed tightly:

"Did I use a miracle yesterday to restore Mia from a doll... how did you change back?"

"Meow?"

The orange cat looked up at Xia De, its large amber eyes seeming to become even larger under the upward-looking movement.

"How did Mia change back?"

Although he didn't know, she should have seen it at the time.

【The radiance when divinity overflowed seems to have been absorbed by this cat.】

"Mia absorbed it?"

He picked up the coquettish cat, but the silly cat looked no different from before. He still could not sense any elements or spirits in Mia's body, which meant this was still an ordinary little kitten.

"Could it be that I was worried about dying while in a coma, causing Mia to permanently become a cloth doll, so I subconsciously guided the power to restore it to its original state?"

【Very likely.】

Putting the cat down and moving his body, he felt that his body had fully recovered. Clenching his palms, Xia De even felt that his body's strength and reaction speed were even more powerful than before.

【You burned a drop of divinity. Although the brilliance of that drop of divinity has gone, the power of the body's comprehensive immersion still caused changes in the body.】

"Burning divinity has such benefits?"

【If you hadn't obtained the second drop of divinity in time, you might have already died. If it weren't for the No. 1 Holy Water, you would probably have to lie in bed for half a year.】

"These are all things within expectations, I don't regret it at all, after all, everyone is alive now, and I didn't lose too much."

He was very satisfied with everything he had done last night. Although he lost the Magic Eye and 【Another Face】 for this, he saved everything and gained experience in fighting with gods. These losses were very worthwhile.

Probably hearing the sound of Xia De getting up, the bedroom door was opened, and Luweiya An Na Te pushed open the door:

"Oh, Xia De, good morning. You're awake? How do you feel?"

"Not bad. Good morning, Miss An Na Te."

Xia De moved his arms, stepped into his slippers, stood up, pulled open the curtains, and then took a deep breath, letting the bright sunlight shine on his face:

"Feels very good."

The cat held in one hand also meowed toward the sunlight.

"What about Miss Beiya?"

He turned and asked again. The purple-eyed diviner leaned against the door frame and shook her head:

"She was taken away by the church. She faced the Saint directly last night and used the power of the Chosen One, letting the church know that the identity of the first Chosen One had been confirmed, so it is impossible for the church not to question her. She will probably be back in the evening. At that time, you must explain to us what exactly happened last night."

Xia De was stunned for a moment, then realized that the purple-eyed diviner also knew what was going on with the white-robed god under the moonlight. His memory of the last part of the conversation last night was very blurry, only vaguely remembering that Miss An Na Te and Miss Beiya had both appeared here:

"You guessed it?"

"Yes."

She walked quickly into the room, and only then did Xia De see that she was wearing an apron. He had thought she wanted to ask more questions, but he didn't expect Miss An Na Te to gently hug him, though she let go quickly.

Purple eyes lifted, meeting Xia De's gaze:

"Are you... really only Second-Ring?"

"Of course, genuine and authentic."

"Then why can you carry the power of a god? I am really worried, worried that you..."

This question immediately made Xia De understand how she and Miss Beiya understood what happened last night. They did not think Xia De was a god, but rather that Xia De's body had become a god-descending vessel, carrying the power of a god. Combined with his use of the power of a Thirteen-Ring Ringed Shushi at the Lake View Manor, and combined with the fact that he did not die on the spot, they inferred again that he was Thirteen-Ring...

Xia De narrowed his eyes. To be honest, he did not want to expose his secrets either. Except for the identity of an outsider, the power of divinity was his deepest secret. Since Miss An Na Te and Miss Beiya thought this way, the church probably also thought that the "Masked Man under the Silver Moon," as a Thirteen-Ring Ringed Shushi, had summoned a god to defeat the 【Lord of Blood Banquet】. He did not need to refute this idea.

Letting himself become a "suspected Thirteen-Ring" was much better than letting himself become a "suspected god."

The life ring appeared behind him, which undoubtedly proved his identity.

"The power from last night, like the maze, came from the past. In the Sixth Era, except for the True Gods, there are no benevolent gods, but they existed in the past. I once met a god in the past. Last night, as a god-descending vessel, I summoned a god from the past."

This explanation was half-truth and half-falsehood, and given his current relationship with the two young ladies, telling them about his unusual time-travel journey wouldn't be a big deal.

"The time key, is it? I understand. You really didn't tell the truth about the first key, so Dorothy suddenly decided to become your teacher also because..."

Miss An Na Te nodded to show understanding, successfully guided by Xia De's words to the "correct" line of thinking. In any case, she would never have thought that the person in front of her was the god from last night.

A gentle smile appeared in her eyes, and then, very unexpectedly, the purple-eyed young lady stood on tiptoe and kissed Xia De on the cheek, saying softly:

"Thank you, Knight Hamilton of Lei Jiede, the nameless hero who saved Tobeisk. You have done so much, but you cannot let others know all this, and there will be no rewards, so all you can get is a young lady's kiss."

Xia De resisted the urge to ask her age, touched his cheek, and joked:

"No, I have already received rewards, many rewards. Ahem, then besides the kiss, does the hero and his cat have breakfast?"

Following at Xia De's feet, Mia the cat, hearing the keyword "breakfast," lifted its head very energetically and meowed as well.

"Of course, but there is no more goat milk. The whole city is under martial law today, and the Silver Parrot Delivery Company has been raided. I made some simple breakfast, I hope you like it... Xia De, do you rarely cook at home? I noticed that in your kitchen, you could almost starve a mouse to death."

Saying this, the two walked out of the bedroom. ===== CHAPTER 277 =====