Chapter 2772

Miss Dannister had worked hard to find her missing teacher for so many years, but when she finally encountered something left by her teacher, not only was she not mentioned at all, but she was even just asked to help pass a ring to someone else.

Her unhappiness could not be persuaded away, and even Xia De thought it was indeed a bit excessive that Miss Carter didn't say a word to Miss Dannister in the letter.

He did try to explain afterward that if Miss Carter said too much, it might cause some temporal paradoxes on certain levels, but clearly, the eighteen-year-old red-haired sorceress did not accept this explanation:

"The teacher likes you very much, right? After all, compared to me, you and she are both core spirit runes of the Silver Moon, and you are clearly more obedient and talented than I was when I was young."

"But..."

"It's very late, you and Miss Beias should go back first."

"I mean..."

"I'm going back to sleep too, don't bother me here."

She said angrily, and even Iluna, who was least familiar with her, could see that she was not angry at Xia De, but knew who she should be angry at yet was unable to vent it.

In short, in the end, Flora also let Xia De and Iluna go back first, and she would have a heart-to-heart talk with Miss Dannister. Seeing that it was really late and there were people waiting for them at home, the two had no choice but to leave first.

Because the method of "Cinderella" losing her crystal slipper to go home could not carry people, the two returned through the tree hole. It was already three-thirty in the morning when they arrived home. Luweiya was indeed not asleep, but was sitting on the sofa in front of the fireplace wearing a coat and reading a book.

The gas lamps in the living room were not turned on, and the cat was sleeping on the lap of the lonely purple-eyed girl.

After Xia De and Iluna went upstairs together, the cat, which had been awakened, rushed toward Xia De first, and Luweiya also stood up and walked toward them, opening her arms to embrace the two.

Iluna didn't leave tonight either, but slept in the guest room. Although Luweiya followed Xia De to the master bedroom, they didn't do anything that night; Luweiya gently held Xia De and they slept in each other's arms.

This sleep was quite comfortable; the Outlander indeed preferred to rest at home.

It was just that when Xia De woke up and found that it was already nine o'clock on Thursday morning, he felt that he seemed to have heard the sound of dice falling from the 【Fate Casino】 in his dream last night.

When he got up holding his head, he was still curious why Little Mia didn't come to wake him up this morning. Walking out of the bedroom, he saw that the cat was "wearing" the 【Ouroboros Ring】 with its tail, lying on the living room windowsill quite happily, basking in the sun while shaking the tail in front of itself.

Iluna seemed to have left, but Luweiya hadn't. Seeing Xia De wake up, she asked Xia De to eat breakfast after washing up:

"Breakfast wasn't made by me. Galina came by at eight o'clock, had Tifa and the others prepare breakfast for you, and then left. I haven't eaten yet either, just waiting for you. Tell me about what happened last night in a while.

Before Iluna left this morning, she said you encountered something very dangerous."

There wasn't much to say about the battle with the demon. What needed to be mentioned was just that it knew Xia De would arrive in advance, and even used a portal to call for help, so much so that Xia De almost didn't win.

And the focus was of course the giant pitch-black tree that appeared after the demon was resolved, Xia De entering the 【Fate Casino】 when returning from the past, the five chairs under the giant tree that he and the doctor saw after returning, and the branch he brought back.

As a diviner of the 【Prophet Association】, Luweiya understood the ins and outs of the matter when she heard "Ouroboros":

"Those people who crave a turning point in fate sometimes enter the casino shrouded in white fog directly in extreme despair, and then bet everything they have to seek a chance to turn things around—this is also recorded in the association. However, your experience was clearly because of that ring."

As she spoke, the purple-eyed girl at the dining table looked at the cat lying on the corner of the table looking at the ring on its tail. Little Mia had already eaten breakfast; now with the ring, it didn't even ask to share Xia De's breakfast.

"【Ouroboros Ring】 is considered a very famous relic. Its effect in terms of dispelling curses is the most outstanding among relics of the Keeper level and below. Some curses that even Raxia's Sage-level relic 【Saint's Curse-Breaking Stone】 cannot handle, this ring can."

After all, the former does not curb curses, but stores and transforms them, while the latter is comprehensive containment.

"But this relic alone shouldn't be enough to let you enter that casino. I guess the tree provided by Miss Carter, as well as the moon you symbolize, also played a role... In short, this is a miracle that cannot be replicated, and I also don't advocate obtaining opportunities by gambling. After all, even if you can win 99 times, the price is very high even if you lose once."

Xia De nodded while eating bread. Although he had good luck, he also deeply understood the truth Luweiya said:

"Then does the 【Prophet Association】 hold the portal to that casino?"

The purple eyes blinked mysteriously. She looked very beautiful like this:

"What do you think?"

"There should be, right?"

"I am not yet a high-level member of the association, but I guess there is one too, otherwise many things cannot be explained."

She stood up and brought over the meat porridge stewed in the pot. People in the north like this kind of meat porridge:

"Fate matters are not important for now; what we need to talk about is time. The evil thing transformed from the wreckage of the World Tree has been confirmed to exist for now, and it can take action with limitations.

And judging from those chairs, it should have four incredible helpers under it. A demon, a dragon beast, and two unknown guys. Although I don't know what that tree wants to do, it seems that before facing that tree, you at least have to defeat the remaining four enemies first.

As for that branch, didn't you say there was no power on it? Then take it to Amelia in the forest in a while and see what she says."

"Knowing that there are three opponents left is also good; this is better than three unknown strong enemies suddenly popping up when fighting that evil thing. The wreckage of the World Tree will certainly appear in the Chosen One ritual. I even suspect whether the ritual is related to it."

Xia De watched Luweiya finish serving him porridge with a spoon, thanked her, and tasted a mouthful:

"The craftsmanship is good."

"You praised the wrong person this time. I said, this was made by Tifa, it has nothing to do with me."

"I mean, after you served me porridge, it tasted even better."

"You, you~"

The purple-eyed girl shook her head pretending to be helpless, but in fact, there was a smile on the corner of her mouth:

"I am curious, if that black-haired maid were here, would you still say that."

Xia De didn't answer this question:

"Do you remember the evil thing I first encountered in that forest?"

"Paradox Worm."

Luweiya raised an eyebrow:

"You mean, among those four positions, one belongs to a powerful individual among the Paradox Worms?"

"I really hope it symbolizes a bug. If there is a position symbolizing the Paradox Worm species, then things will be troublesome."

Xia De reached out and touched the cat. The cat, which was focused on looking at its tail, meowed to express its protest:

"After you arrive at the Vesta woods, use the remaining two coins to do a divination. I will only be at ease after confirming what the enemy is.

However, I have another guess. Seven candidates are participating in the Time War, and five have been confirmed now. Is it possible that the remaining two are the things sitting on those chairs?"

Luweiya couldn't answer this question either. However, before Xia De sent her away downstairs this morning, she comforted Xia De with a slightly cold kiss:

"Don't worry too much. After solving the demon, you have no enemies to deal with for the time being. Patiently wait for the weekend. When everyone arrives, many problems that seem like problems now will no longer be problems."

After sending Luweiya away, Xia De was in no hurry to leave home. He went to the hidden space in the basement, preparing to open the package given by Sister Devlin that he had casually placed here when he returned last night to check it.

The cat that followed Xia De in didn't care about any package, but meowed at Xia De's rings.

Nowadays, Xia De had also saved up quite a bit of family wealth, and among the relics he possessed, the most abundant category was "rings." Counting the newly acquired 【Ouroboros Ring】, the rings Mia liked had already gathered "Mia's Eight Precepts."

And even with the influence of the Ancient God statue's power, storing these rings required considerable caution. At this time, after these rings were processed with their respective containment methods, they were placed in the same box, and the boxes were all placed in the cabinet Xia De had moved in.

Seeing that the cat was so excited, Xia De, who felt he had neglected it recently, really went to get those rings. In fact, what Xia De used most often were the 【Magic Ring of Longevity】 and 【Crow's Eye】, and other rings were used according to the situation.

"Can your short tail really afford eight rings now?"

Xia De even joked. After moving all the boxes out, he sat cross-legged on the clean floor, holding the well-behaved cat, and put the eight rings through the cat's tail one by one.

And in fact, the magical ability that this cat first displayed was indeed not spitting fire, but that its tail seemed to be able to be controlled by itself to change length.

The cat's tail, which didn't look long, really "accommodated" eight rings at the same time. And the eight rings were evenly distributed on the tail, and each ring would not touch the tail itself, but seemed to be suspended on the tail.

It seemed that this tail accommodated eight rings just right, but Xia De believed that even if there were a ninth or tenth ring later, the length of the cat's tail would still look very appropriate.

"Meow~"

The cat meowed gently, rubbed its furry face against the back of Xia De's hand, and then ran around on the ground shaking its tail. The rings, which should have been very heavy for it, seemed not to affect the flexibility of the cat's tail at all.

Even because the rings were always evenly distributed, there would be no clinking sounds of collision.