Chapter 2786: Longing and Worry

The outer side of the ship's hull presents a deeper color overall, and the dragon scale patterns that were only visible at close range are now completely clearly visible in the sun. The volume of the ship has expanded by about 1.5 times, and the growth of the internal space is about twice as much.

The huge blue dragon wings curled on both sides of the hull now have an extra layer of dark gold luster. And the original ship figurehead of Miss Eilisse has disappeared, replaced by a huge brass-colored giant cannon at the bow.

This is not a naval gun used by the army, but a top-level alchemical weapon manufactured by gathering the years of technical accumulation of the Aurora family, plus the technology Miss Eilisse brought from the Fifth Era, and finally even using precious metal materials stored in the 【Witch Council】.

It took nearly three months to complete the preliminary upgrade of the "Radiant Messenger." According to Miss Aurora, the birth of Miss Eilisse and the Radiant Messenger is an unrepeatable miracle, and the modification potential of this ship is almost infinite.

She still has many ideas that have not been realized. If it weren't for the need to participate in the big event in Vista Forest, according to her ideas, it would take at least until the end of this year's year-end festival to truly complete the first phase of the ship's upgrade.

But in Xia De's view, it was already good enough that it had been modified like this in just over two months. And at this time, in the deep autumn sun of the forest, he was standing on the deck, talking to Miss Eilisse, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

The blue-eyed ship girl had black hair and looked at Xia De with a smile. Her figure was second only to Tifa among all the girls Xia De knew, and she also had a gentle temperament that Tifa didn't have.

Not seen for a long time, Miss Eilisse herself didn't look much different. After Xia De gathered with everyone on the ship this morning and had lunch, he was talking to her here about the experience of upgrading the ship under the help of Miss Aurora in the past few months.

"I originally thought that the upgrade of this ship would also have an impact on your appearance."

Xia De leaned against the outer railing of the top deck of the big ship and said. The ship girl pointed to her most prominent part with a smile:

"You don't mean the bridge, do you?"

Seeing Xia De's face turn red, she added:

"This ship is not my body. You, who witnessed my 'birth' process on the Sea of No Light, know this best.

The Radiant Messenger is more like an 'accompanying armament' born with me. Its power enhancement can be fed back to me, but unfortunately, the current degree is not enough to support me in promoting from the 12th tier to the 13th tier."

"Take your time, don't worry. Look at the modern witches, most of them are trapped at the 11th tier. You are more special than them, not to mention you can also be considered a dragon, so the promotion matter..."

"Miss Dorothy Louisa seems to have something urgent to find you."

The blue-eyed girl suddenly said:

"And it looks very urgent."

Xia De, who returned to the cabin, soon met Dorothy in the banquet hall of the cabin. However, she just said:

"Lei Qianya is going to bring Angelina to find you. They have encountered troublesome things."

After finishing, she left quickly. After she walked far enough, with a piece of red butterflies appearing abruptly around, Lei Qianya, who had butterfly wings on her back and was holding Angelina in both hands, appeared. The two landed on their feet, and Xia De looked suspiciously at the cat squatting on Angelina's head.

Galina, who happened to be on the side, smiled and said:

"Good afternoon, Lei Qianya, Helen, Grace... Angelina, what are you doing with Little Mia on your head?"

Lei Qianya separated from the red butterfly sisters. Because Grace and Helen still had to bring Cassandra and the others over later, they said hello to Xia De and left. Anyway, intimacy was not bad for this moment.

And Lei Qianya said with a very bad expression:

"Xia De, try taking Little Mia off Angelina's head."

Actually, Xia De didn't need to do this, because seeing Xia De, the cat rushed down from Angelina's head immediately.

So in the eyes of Galina, Lei Qianya, and the maids including Tifa, Angelina almost disappeared on the spot immediately. Miss Eilisse had a perception of the interior of this ship that exceeded anyone else, so she still stared at Angelina's position, but in her eyes, Angelina was also slowly becoming transparent.

Xia De also looked at Angelina's position suspiciously while holding the cat:

"Did you find it? I now feel that Angelina's presence is disappearing, but the speed of disappearance is very slow. I didn't notice it just now when Little Mia was squatting on her head. Why does she have whisper elements on her?"

He was not able to see Angelina directly like Mia, but had to be "illuminated" by the cat before he could continue to see her. If she disappeared again and did not appear in front of Xia De with Mia, Xia De would not be able to observe Angelina's existence either.

"Actually, I can't see her at all anymore."

Galina said, and Lei Qianya nodded worriedly.

Xia De then reached out and held Angelina's hand. In his eyes, Angelina's disappearance trend stopped, and Miss Eilisse, Lei Qianya, and Galina also saw Angelina again just like just now.

The little princess held Xia De's hand tightly, fearing that she would be ignored again.

"That's right, it is indeed whisper elements. Angelina has encountered a relic."

Xia De judged, and holding Xia De's hand, finding that everyone could see herself as long as he didn't let go, the little princess was not so nervous anymore. She originally thought she would spend the rest of her life with a cat on her head, which she couldn't accept, but if it was holding Xia De's hand for a lifetime, Angelina thought this was actually not bad.

"Meow~"

The cat said she was thinking beautifully.

"Angelina, recall carefully, what was the last thing you touched before the problem occurred?"

Galina asked on the side according to experience. The little princess who was still having wild thoughts just now gave the answer immediately:

"After leaving Xia De with sister this morning, I went to the 'Black Raven Library' to buy a book, and then I kept reading in my study. It wasn't until noon when I wanted the maid to bring snacks that I found everyone was ignoring me."

Lei Qianya naturally brought that book, but she didn't find any problems after checking it just now. Xia De then asked Tifa to find Luvia, who was out investigating the forest situation with Vanessa, and then put the cat on Angelina's head to facilitate freeing his hands to check the book.

As a black market for selling knowledge, every book recovered and obtained through other channels by the "Black Raven Library" would be strictly checked before being sold. It is said that it has had a good reputation for so many years and has never made a big mistake in the quality of books.

And after checking carefully, Xia De even tried to interpret the patterns on the edges of the book as text, but didn't find any problems.

Galina also reached out and took the book to check, and also found nothing, but she made a suggestion:

"This book has a total of 21 pages. How about checking them separately after taking them apart? I'm just worried that others will encounter the problem Angelina encountered."

"21 pages?"

Xia De asked her suspiciously:

"Wait, in my view, this book has 22 pages."

The little princess, who was squatted on by the cat again, also nodded immediately... didn't nod for the safety of Little Mia, but she also remembered the page number of this book:

"I remember it is also 22 pages. I studied very seriously this morning and didn't slack off at all."

Saying that, she looked at her sister. Lei Qianya held her hand, feeling that she had indeed been too harsh on Angelina recently.

"Galina, check with me to see which page you can't see."

This work was very simple. Xia De and Galina described the content of the pages they saw separately for comparison. Of course, during this period, Xia De kept holding Galina's hand to prevent her from disappearing.

But the witch was willing to take such a risk. After all, no matter what, Angelina was also her grandniece.

Under such forced comparison, the problematic page was finally found. In fact, even Xia De's perception failed to detect the problem on that page, because before comparing the problem with Galina, his description was:

"On the front of this page, the circular ritual array occupies two-thirds of the page area, and the remaining one-third is the specific description of the ritual. This is arguing for enhancing the effect of the miracle 【Disordered Energy】, which requires drawing a ritual with one's own blood on the palm, and then pushing the palm forward to emit energy.

On the back of this page, it is a warning about enhancing the ritual effect. Disordered spirit and energy will also cause damage to the caster, so it requires extremely strong control to try the method on the previous page."

And after noticing the problem with that page, Xia De's description became:

"On the front of this page are two lines of text, and it looks like Angelina's handwriting. First line: 【I crave amazing wisdom】. Second line: 【I am afraid of being ignored by others】. Then there is Angelina's autograph."

The little princess with a cat squatting on her head blushed, and she immediately denied:

"I didn't write such things!"

However, she immediately remembered her wild thoughts when reading in the morning, such as "wanting to become smart and learn all miracles immediately" "worrying about being ignored by sister":

"Well... but I did think about similar things, I swear I just thought about it."

"It's probably related to this. Then Xia De, what is on the back?"

Galina asked again, and Xia De continued:

"There is no Angelina's handwriting on the back of this page. There are decorative patterns on the four sides of the back, and the word 'Contract' in an unknown language is written in the center. At the bottom of the page, there is a line of small print: 【Only by overcoming fear can you gain power】."

He took the book apart and took that page out separately. And after leaving the book, the whisper elements of the page were completely revealed.

Neither Princess Lei Qianya nor Xia De knew what kind of relic this was; judging solely by the concentration of the whispers element, the relic's danger level was at least Sage-level (Level 2).