Chapter 2775

After the three passed through the smoke and dust of the explosion, what they saw was that there was an "magma lake" with a diameter of more than 20 meters in the forest. And after the elf girl, with a troubled face, mobilized the power of the forest to eliminate this magma lake, she found the fourth Paradox Worm shell at the bottom of the deep pit that kept turning raindrops into water mist.

"Don't use such flame spells in the forest!"

She said to Xia De with dissatisfaction, and only picked it up after cooling down the hot shell, and then threw Xia De a bottle of potion:

"The third bottle of Paradox Worm potion is done. Really, if you do this often, even if you have the blessing of natural affinity, the forest will hate you. Look at how many trees you eliminated?"

Even if she "lectured" people with one hand on her waist, she was not strict at all, but rather cute.

And after getting Xia De's guarantee, she greeted the yellow land-running bird that was taking shelter under the tree beside her and looked a bit scared at this time. After she rode the land-running bird, she was about to leave, but was called by Xia De:

"On the weekend or next Monday, Miss Amelia Sinod from the academy will come over. Do you mind meeting her?"

"I don't mind. Since she is your friend, why should I mind?"

The blonde girl with pointed ears said, sitting sideways on the land-running bird, holding its neck with her right hand, and holding an umbrella for it and herself with her left hand:

"Then goodbye. Don't forget to continue helping me find arrows; this is more important than anything."

Then the land-running bird carried her and disappeared into the forest as if fleeing.

When they left Sir Wayne's mansion just now, Miss Dannister had already cast "Water Avoidance Spell" for the three. Therefore, although it was still raining heavily at this time, they didn't hold umbrellas. When Xia De looked at the red-haired girl, she had already opened the bottle cap of the potion and drank the potion inside in one gulp.

"I have always thought that the potions of the elf race have characteristics. They are always able to blend the difficult-to-drink flavors very well."

While speaking, her fate ring emerged. The eighth-level fate ring quickly transformed into a ninth-level ring under the cover of the steam mist. Just as expected at the beginning, the first bottle of potion made her change from seventh-level to eighth-level, and the effects of the second and third bottles combined made her change from eighth-level to ninth-level.

Amelia herself also said that Paradox Worm potion could not thoroughly eradicate the time curse. The effects of the following potions would be worse than the previous one, but fortunately, there was still a long distance before complete failure.

"From mid-level to high-level is the second most important upgrade for a ring-warlock. The most important is of course from twelfth-level to thirteenth-level. You also know that every upgrade of a ring-warlock will lead to a comprehensive enhancement of the body and soul. The sublimation from mid-level to high-level is the most obvious. The difference between eighth-level and ninth-level is much larger than the difference between seventh-level and eighth-level."

The red-haired girl was talking about her feelings with Xia De in a good mood, and then found Xia De looking at her with slight surprise.

It was not until this moment that she seemed to notice and touched her face, and then summoned the rainwater that was finally no longer evaporated by the heat to form a water mirror in front of her.

In the mirror, the slightly green eighteen-year-old face was rapidly becoming mature, until it became her original appearance. But this "recovery" only lasted for a second, and the mature face began to reduce its age again, and finally stopped at the appearance of eighteen years old.

The red-haired girl touched her face, as if stunned, and didn't speak for a long time. Xia De didn't disturb her either, until she waved her hand to disperse the water mirror, Xia De said in the sound of rain:

"Now that it has recovered to the ninth level, after we go back, Flora will definitely be jealous of you."

But Dannister Gustav didn't pay attention to this topic, but was silent for a while before asking Xia De:

"If I say, when I saw my face in the mirror just now, I suddenly felt that maintaining eighteen years old forever is also good, would it make me seem... very hypocritical. Before this, I had been complaining to you about becoming eighteen years old."

Xia De knew her psychology very well:

"Craving youth is a thought everyone will have; this is very normal. And it seems that you can't recover for a while, so don't worry about this now."

The young and beautiful girl touched her face again. She had never cared about this problem before. But just now, when she really saw the eighteen-year-old face "aging," she had to admit that she was indeed very reluctant to part with her current appearance.

Youth is fleeting; not many people can accept the fact that they age in an instant. Especially, she now really possessed the characteristic of eternal eighteen years old. At a certain moment, she really thought that maybe it would be good to always maintain this appearance.

After sending the hypnotized Sir Wayne back to his residence, Miss Dannister cast a spell to modify his memory, making him think that he had been talking business with Xia De, but this meeting had no results.

Afterward, the two left here and rushed to the Hoy Manor located in the north of the city. The knight had already stated the location of that wooden trapdoor. Now as long as that door was recovered, this matter would finally come to an end.

However, the time was approaching noon, so they ate lunch in a hurry on the way. When eating, seeing that Miss Dannister's interest was still not high, Xia De tried to tell a few jokes, and then found that he had no talent in this area.

So the Outlander "shamelessly" plagiarized some classics from his hometown. Although this only made the girl purse her lips and show a slight smile, at least she looked much better in mood:

"Are you always so good at changing other people's emotions?"

"I'm just good at not making people so sad."

"You... then Xia De, can you answer me a question? Eighteen-year-old me and the real me, which one do you like more?"

The sound of rain outside the window was pattering, and the sound in the small tavern was not noisy. The sound of a wine glass being put down by the next table, *dong~*, seemed to turn into a bell, which meant this was a fatal question.

【Maybe you can say "I like both," and then express some positive views on her eighteen-year-old and real age respectively.】

"She" suggested with a smile, but Xia De didn't adopt it, instead putting down the knife and fork, putting his hands together on the table, and then turning to look at the rain scene outside the window as if thinking:

"If I tell the truth... I probably like the way you look when you appear in front of me more."

The voice beside his ear laughed lightly, and the sorceress across the table really laughed, and she really laughed very happily:

"Alright, I admit, Xia De, choosing you as my student is really one of the few most correct choices I have ever made."

After finishing the meal, the weather seemed to turn from cloudy to sunny like the mood of an eighteen-year-old girl. This heavy rain stopped without warning, and the sun even poked its head out from behind the clouds.

It was just that the action ended in an accident after all. When they could see the Hoy Manor from afar, the sky had already been reflected red by the fire. And when they got closer, the two saw that the entire manor was now swallowed by a sea of fire.

Several people suspected to be church ring-warlocks were trying to extinguish the fire, while the manor's servants, chefs, and maids gathered at a position far from the gate, worried. It was just that it seemed these mid-level warlocks were not going well in suppressing the flames.

"When I came here to attend that wedding banquet for the first time, I guessed whether this place would be swallowed by fire again like three hundred years ago. Look, my intuition is quite accurate."

Xia De said, blinked at the flames again, and then continued to say to the girl beside him:

"Demon flames. It seems that the demon should have left something for Director Condé, or the demon had other means."

"That demon didn't die?"

"No, it definitely died, there is no need to doubt this, it should just be some small tricks. I'll go into the manor first to determine the situation of the trapdoor. These flames can't hurt me. You wait for me here, and by the way, see what these church people want to do besides extinguishing the fire."

The red-haired girl hesitated before nodding, and didn't say she wanted to follow Xia De into the sea of fire:

"Then you have to be careful, after all, there is no teacher of mine here to save you again."

Although she clearly hadn't completely let go of what happened last night, at least she said this sentence with a smile, so the degree of teasing was greater than anger.

Xia De responded with a smile:

"Without Miss Carter to save me, isn't there Miss Gustav who can save me?"

An unhappy expression appeared on her face visibly, and Xia De then changed his words:

"I mean, isn't there a younger Miss Gustav who can save me?"

She then patted Xia De's arm lightly:

"Why don't you go quickly? If you don't go, the manor will be burned down."

"Got it, I'll be back soon."

This great fire with demon power did not have the power of a curse, it was just difficult to be extinguished, but even so, it still seriously hindered perception, so the church's ring-warlocks didn't discover a group of butterflies that were also fiery red flying into the fire from the side of the manor.

Compared to the flames actually used by that demon, the great fire burning in the manor at this time was not worth mentioning at all.

Xia De flew into the house from the back window on the first floor of the manor mansion, and then walked along the corridor toward the restaurant on the first floor in the surrounding fire, which was the place where the bodies of the Hoy family were discovered three hundred years ago.

The faces of those portraits on the walls had already turned into quite twisted and terrifying shapes in the fire, and the restaurant gate had predictably been burned and deformed in the fire, but it was still kicked open by Xia De.

The restaurant was connected to the kitchen located in the semi-basement, and that trapdoor was under the cabinet in the innermost storage room of the kitchen. Of course, every time Sir Wayne came to "move" those "treasures" in person, he took the tunnel leading to this place from outside the manor.

It was just that the tunnel was really too long, so it was not as convenient as breaking into the manor directly, so Xia De didn't choose that road.

The trapdoor was still here at this time, and the surrounding fire couldn't destroy it. It was just that what surprised Xia De very much was that the cabinet pressing on the trapdoor had been moved away at this time, but the trapdoor was still in a locked state. Judging from the traces around, it didn't look like someone had gone down and locked it again.