Chapter 2928: Chapter Two Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy-Three: The Pink Coin

The pink-gold coin looked especially gorgeous and bizarre—this color scheme was the only thing Xia De could liken to children's toys. But the metallic texture of the coin could not be faked, and the coin's area was only slightly larger than a 1-penny piece.

On the side Xia De considered the obverse, there was a pattern of a long-haired woman with a bewitchingly seductive smile propping up her own cheek in profile, and the symbol of the numeral 1 was located between the woman's cheek and the crook of her arm.

On the side Xia De considered the reverse, there was a sentence composed of dense demonic script:

【Indulge the heart, accept desire, abandon oneself to pleasure, spring dreams leave no trace.】

This relic coin Xia De recognized—or rather, most circle sorcerers recognized it.

Document-grade relic 【Spring Dreams Leave No Trace】—the exact quantity of these coins is unknown, but people are quite certain they were originally demonic creations. Not, however, works of ancient evil spirit demons, but rather of heteromorphic biological demons. More precisely, succubi.

One drips one's own blood onto the coin, then places it upright beneath the bed; then when the user falls asleep in the bed, they will obtain a perfect spring dream.

After one night, the dreamer's spirit will be consumed by 70%; if an ordinary person uses it, their life force is drained and they age by a night. Therefore, for circle sorcerers, the cost of using this relic is not great, so there are indeed some people who will purchase these coins for pleasure.

But this relic must be stored with great care—as long as it is not stored in mercury, the coin will spontaneously amplify the lust of all living beings around it, and drag everyone who falls asleep nearby into the spring dream.

Its area of influence is extremely broad; in only about a week's time, it is enough to turn an entire community into a large den of fornication, and thereby summon a powerful succubus possessing the Whisper element. This is also the reason this relic is rated "Document-grade"—although the harm to circle sorcerers is not great, if something really goes wrong, it will give people a tremendous headache.

"Why would the children receive this kind of gift?"

The elf watching beside Xia De said with a smile, clearly also recognizing what it was. The academy's courses of course would not focus on introducing this sort of thing, but in private everyone always talked about relics with such unique functions.

"This... is hard to evaluate, but obtaining a relic for nothing is still very much worth being happy about."

Xia De said with a smile, and obtained mercury from the elf miss, temporarily containing the coin. As for this week's task, it of course corresponded to the gift, but it did not require Xia De to restrain desire—rather, it required Xia De to make his own bed before sleeping, and doing so twice within a week was enough.

Because of Amelia's return, Xia De wanted to invite the elf miss to dine together at an inn in the city, but the elf miss once again refused. Now that Miss Isabella could come at any moment, it was not convenient for Xia De to bring little Liana onto the ship, nor was it convenient to bring her into the city, so after obtaining the gift he drank another cup of tea with the elf miss, then left with little Mia.

But Xia De did not go directly into the city; instead he first ran to the shore of Lake Yuren to observe. Seeing that the flag hung on the Radiant Messenger, which was disguised as a small cruise ship, had not changed, he knew that lady had not yet come—if she had come, Miss Elaith would have changed the flag's color.

So he went straight back to the ship. Originally he had intended to take advantage of the time before lunch to ask about the results of recent divination, but no sooner had he boarded than he ran head-on into Vanessa, whose face was full of smiles.

The little witch, upon seeing Xia De, ran over with quick, small steps:

"Good news—the Chairwoman is not coming for now!"

Her face bore a smile visible to the naked eye—this kind of smile from the heart could not be faked.

"This... you lot wouldn't really have caused her trouble, would you?"

Xia De asked hesitantly. Siwei also came walking with a smile from behind Vanessa, and handed the letter in her hand to Xia De—it was clearly a letter from Adair Isabella to them.

"Although everyone has discussed this topic and prepared a plan, we haven't made a move yet. It wasn't us. Miss Daniste should also have received news from the academy by now—in the southern region of the Old Continent, near the Duchy of Lagsen where the Prophets' Association is located, a building has been discovered that is identical to the black above-ground mausoleum in White Ape Canyon."

"What? There's a rift there too? It's gone out of control too?"

"The building is intact; we don't know the situation inside for now."

Siwei shook her head:

"The good news is that it can be fully used as a reference, to prepare for repairing the building in White Ape Canyon in the future. The bad news is that although the building is intact, the strong traces of malicious elements it emits are clearly not in a normal contained state.

The Prophets' Association that discovered the place also cannot determine whether what is inside that building is a time rift or something else—after all, functionally speaking that kind of building can seal and contain many things. The Church is very worried that the situation from Sunday will reappear, which is why they sent a letter to the Parliament requesting assistance."

"Miss Isabella and Sister Sister Daifulin both went there?"

"No, Sister Sister Daifulin is still coming here. The Chairwoman went to find Chaos and the Moon, and the three of them are heading to the southern Old Continent. The Church side likewise does not want to weaken the manpower here in Vesta Forest, but I'm afraid today they will transfer one or two of the Thirteen Rings over there.

After all, although you are unwilling to discuss the situation on Sunday in detail with everyone, the Church can also see that it is absolutely not something that should appear at the current stage."

Xia De very much suspected that Adair of the past life was also because of this matter unable to appear in Vesta Forest in time, but it might also be other reasons—after all, without his Sixth Epoch, the pressure everyone faced would be enormous.

But regardless, for now there was no need to operate in the same region as the present-world Adair, which could be considered good news—good for everyone. So before Xia De had even opened his mouth, Miss Jia Lin Na directly arranged Miss Miss Difa and Matilda, along with the maids, to move Xia De's bedroom at the inn back onto the ship.

Lunch that day was of course also eaten on the ship. Including the misses at the inn, everyone gathered happily in the Radiant Messenger's banquet hall, the long table filled with people. Miss Orlanode commented:

"This reminds me of the academy banquets."

Seeing that everyone looked jubilant, Grandmother Cassandra had to remind the young misses:

"Xia De will meet Isabella sooner or later—if not this time, then next time."

Sylvia, who had talked with Xia De on the deck last night, then said with a smile:

"Grandmother, you need not worry about this matter—Xia De has his own ideas and arrangements."

"Speaking of which, what kind of lady is the current Chairwoman?"

Miss Orlanode, the only one who did not know Adair, asked. The red-haired girl sitting beside her first offered an evaluation from an outsider's perspective:

"Before Xia De appeared, she was considered the strongest female sorcerer in the material world."

"Addendum—because I often appear together with the witches, the Church seems to think I am female."

Xia De at the head seat said. To his left as usual was Luvia, and to his right was Miss Orlanode—whether from the standpoint of status or as a guest, she should sit here.

"Before Xia De appeared, the Witches' Parliament's reputation among outsiders was actually not high, but people all thought Miss Isabella was a decent person. Precisely because she was there, the Parliament did not completely become... a very bad shape."

Miss Daniste put it very tactfully. The evaluation Xia De had heard before was "the Witches' Parliament is composed of a group of crazy women."

Next came the Parliament's internal evaluation:

"In our view, the Chairwoman is conscientious and responsible, and takes very good care of us—she really treats us like sisters."

After lunch, Xia De found Luvia and took out the coin obtained that morning to request a divination:

"I need to know about Bennet. Since Amelia has come back, our progress must speed up too."

The purple-eyed diviner held her teacup and sat across the coffee table:

"【Spring Dreams Leave No Trace】~ this kind of coin is not easy to find. What exactly do you want divined?"

"Which member of the Bennet family was that masked person I encountered. If you can still divine, try to obtain information about the other party as much as possible."

So the coin was tossed high into the air, but unfortunately when it fell there was no change at all:

"The other party is a candidate, and is protected by another kind of power. If you can get a second coin, I can definitely give you the answer."

Luvia said, gripping the fallen coin. Xia De thought for a moment:

"Confirmed to be a candidate? Can you confirm the rank?"

"Consistent with your morning speculation—the Bennet family candidate is definitely not the First Candidate."

Now the unknown candidates were only the First and the Third, so the answer was very clear. Although the divination had not succeeded, obtaining this information also served to verify Xia De's guess:

"In that case, the seven candidates of the Time War—I more or less know them all now. But since we cannot divine information about the masked person... how about divining Albert Bennet? Perhaps that child is a lead."

But Luvia shook her head and objected to Xia De's opinion:

"Although we should be able to obtain other coins soon, we cannot squander any opportunity. Xia De, if you trust me, let me divine the news about Miss Winslette's uncle."

Before this, both Luvia and Bella had divined about this, but unfortunately saw nothing; however, Xia De had previously been reluctant to spend a special coin to seek the answer to this question.

Xia De was somewhat surprised:

"Of course I trust you, but are you sure you want to know the answer to this question? Although Flora's uncle is connected to the Time Transfer Station, finding him does not mean we can find the answer about the Time Transfer Station."

"This is a diviner's intuition. When I divined that person before, I had a strong premonition that this person's whereabouts are closely tied to the story of Vista Woodland. Bella had the same premonition when she divined. Xia De, the two of us haven't been busy for nothing lately."

Xia De made a "please" gesture. This time, the tossed coin finally showed rust at its highest point, and scattered into ashes as it fell.