Chapter 2767

The box had no lock, but it was locked using the methods of a Ringed Shushi. Although an ordinary person could not open it, after the sorceress cast a spell, the box popped open automatically, containing a folded letter and a ring.

She opened the letter first, and the handwriting on the letter immediately confirmed who the "Astrologer" really was:

【If the stars are not joking with me, then I am glad that seventy years later, someone can still follow the footprints of the moon like me. Unfortunately, the answer is not in Creekwood Town, nor in the Vesta Woodlands. Although there is a statue of the Moon Goddess here, it is not left for us.

The answer is probably further north. I don't know if I can find it, and I don't know if you can find it. Please use the ring to solve the curse here, so that this little girl won't have her home sealed by the church after she dies. After that, keep the ring as a gift, hoping it can also suppress your curse.】

The signature was—Astrologer Euclid, and the time was indeed 1750.

"He foresaw that you would come more than seventy years ago? Isn't his divination ability a bit too exaggerated?"

Xia De asked, and the sorceress shook her head:

"This astrologer could foresee a disaster like the 'Red Moon Mutation' (Chapter 2583) as early as 1750. What is there to be surprised about him foreseeing my arrival? Although I am a Thirteen-Ring, I don't think I compare to a disaster like the 'Red Moon Mutation'."

This letter was not a forgery; it was the same handwriting as the letter Xia De found in the wall of his home along with the 【Source of Chaos】, which said "The Chosen of the Moon will spend the night at No. 6 St. Deran Square."

"But don't think too highly of that astrologer either. You see, he obviously didn't know I came with you; he only saw me, not you. Don't underestimate diviners, but don't be too in awe of them either. These people..."

She didn't know what she was thinking, closed the letter, and picked up the ring in the box. This was a relic. It hadn't caused any trouble for so many years because the ring had been properly contained. A thin and short silver chain was wrapped around the ring's band, and that silver chain had elements of miracles.

As for the ring itself, looking at the style, it was clearly a woman's ring. The band of the ring was silver, and the setting was a very, very small gray gemstone, encircled by two small snakes, one black and one silver, biting each other's tails.

On the outside of the ring's band were very obvious ancient characters the size of rice grains. After translation, the meaning was roughly—

【The cycle of new and old is the answer to the change of destiny.】

Xia De felt this phrasing was quite familiar, and the librarian Miss directly recognized what it was:

"Secret Keeper-level relic 【Ouroboros Ring】, how did this thing end up here?"

Seeing that Xia De seemed not to know what this was, she explained:

"Although this relic is Secret Keeper-level, its effect is quite powerful: reversing the effects applied to the user. In other words, this is a very effective relic for expelling curses. Wearing it can even reflect non-strong spell attacks to a certain extent."

She checked it carefully and confirmed it was genuine:

"This relic hasn't appeared for hundreds of years. Countless people have tried to find it over the years, wanting to use it to expel some curses that are not powerful but very tricky. I didn't expect it to be in the hands of an ordinary person."

Xia De nodded in surprise. What he was thinking about at this moment was the matter of the "Mia Seven Rings." The previous seven rings each had effects, but each had drawbacks. The 【Transformation Ring】 could provide a second body, but required speaking and chanting;

The 【Fish-Training Ring】 could allow non-speaking creatures to speak, but the user could not be a creature like a cat that liked to eat fish;

The 【Vampire Species Ring】 could allow other races to become vampires, but would therefore cause the user to have a probability of contracting blood-thirst;

The 【Plague Doctor Ring】 could allow people to resist natural or supernatural diseases like blood-thirst, but if the user was not human, it would lead to a shortened lifespan;

The 【Longevity Magic Ring】 could extend a person's life, but unfortunately, it would severely erode emotions;

The 【Mood Ring】 could be used to store emotions to resist the erosion of the former, but this ring would lead to blindness;

The 【Crow's Eye】 was obtained from the "Crow's Nest" after defeating the demon in Moon Bay not long ago. It could allow the user to increase vision and offset the price of blindness, but the user would also be cursed and grow crow feathers.

Among the negative traits of the first seven rings, they were either "costs" or "diseases." Only "growing crow feathers" belonged to the most pure curse, which meant it could be offset by this 【Ouroboros Ring】.

"Then what is the negative trait of this ring? Can the negative trait be 'offset by converting to another body'?"

Xia De asked with great anticipation, and the sorceress naturally didn't know what he was looking forward to:

"Your statement is very strange, but you are probably going to be disappointed. The negative trait of this relic is unremarkable. See the two snakes biting each other's tails around the ring face?

This means cycling and connecting to each other. If you use this ring to offset a curse, the curse doesn't actually disappear, but turns into a materialized tail that appears behind you. At some point in time, the curse stored in the tail will erupt again, but it will soon turn back into a tail.

During this cycle, the potency of the curse will gradually weaken until it disappears completely after several cycles. Of course, some secret arts can also be used to achieve the effect of resolving the tail and the curse in advance by cutting off the tail."

"So the negative effect is growing a tail. This effect is not hard to accept."

Xia De said, thinking of Mia growing two tails, but then he asked:

"What if the object using the ring already has a tail?"

The black-haired sorceress subconsciously glanced behind Xia De:

"That's another situation. The curse will pour into the tail and exist there permanently, no longer erupting. The curse will no longer affect the main body, but soon the tail will fall off and turn into another you and try to kill you, so that it can be freed from the curse."

Xia De then imagined Mia losing her tail, as well as the situation of "Dark Mia" hunting down "Tail-less Mia," and then shook his head violently, feeling that this was too terrible.

"However, apart from offsetting curses, reflecting basic spells like fireballs doesn't have much of a negative effect. The Academy's containment records even say that this ring can reverse other effects, but no one has ever discovered how to do it..."

She suddenly raised her eyebrows and looked at Xia De:

"Guess whether this ring can help you go back? Reversing the effect of time exile?"

Xia De didn't give his opinion immediately, but thought for a while before saying:

"That's unlikely, right? This is just a Secret Keeper-level relic, and you yourself said that other effects about it were written in books, but we don't actually know how to do it. What's more, this is a relic sent by that astrologer for you to suppress the curse. If we really succeed, who knows if it will stay in the present or go directly to the future with me?"

The black-haired sorceress shook her head:

"But haven't I already postponed the curse until after my death? This relic is of little use to me now.

Alright, alright, let's go see how the story of the actress and the knight ends. Since we took someone else's things, we must help him solve the trouble. As for Astrologer Euclid... I was about to give up, I didn't expect there to be clues."

The two did not go out immediately, but went to Marisa's room on the second floor. Although they didn't find crow feathers as Xia De said, they found that girl's diary.

Unlike the outsider who doesn't like to keep a diary but still forces himself to make up some "nothing happened today" diary every day, the girl who was actively preparing for the music academy actually had the habit of keeping a diary.

And judging from the diary, starting three months ago, the girl would uncontrollably turn into a crow every evening, and then revert at a random time point between eight and twelve at night.

She was quite terrified and distressed about this, because she didn't know what had happened to her, so she didn't even dare to go to the church to seek help, fearing that she was possessed by a demon, and once discovered by the church, she would never be able to leave.

She fully expressed her fear in her diary, and she also mentioned her relationship with the knight Faris. She also loved the young man deeply, but because of her current situation, she no longer dared to contact him, fearing that she would implicate him, but she couldn't bear to say cruel words to completely break off the relationship with him.

Looking at the pain, entanglement, fear, and despair expressed by the girl in her diary, she was probably on the verge of collapse soon. Although it was clear what happened to her, Xia De still didn't understand how this curse appeared.

Marisa herself had written in her diary that she carefully recalled whether she had ever disrespected the gods or had contact with strange things, but she believed she had not.

"Why think so much? Since the church has already sent people, maybe the matter has already been cleared up. Let's go, let's go see the end of this story."

Because the two set off relatively late, when they arrived at the nameless small lake in the dense forest outside the city, it seemed that the most sentimental part had already ended.

Two Ringed Shushis of the church stood helplessly by the tree, watching the young man and woman by the lake hugging and crying.

Although the sunset had completely disappeared and night had fallen, it was not yet eight o'clock, but the young girl had completely reverted. However, traces of feathers appeared on her palms and face, and it was clear that there was a problem.

Xia De and Ms. Carter did not hide their footsteps, so the two Ringed Shushis, who were Five-Ring and Seven-Ring respectively, soon discovered them.

The arrival of strangers naturally made the Ringed Shushis very vigilant, but a look from the sorceress made them subconsciously take two steps back, and then they realized that this was not an opponent they could defeat.