Chapter 2987: Interlude in the Snowy Night

"Let's go, let's meet up with Vanessa and the others first."

Xia De tugged at the hands of the elf girls. Amelia naturally had no opinion, but the Great Elf let go of Xia De's hand, then stepped back a few steps with her hands behind her back and smiled:

"I said it, I will only help at the end."

"But it's not very convenient for you to leave the city and return to the ship now, right?"

Xia De asked, and the elf girl nodded with her hands behind her back:

"Counting the arrow from the Fisher family, you found five arrows for me, and I have one myself, which is six. Now that the Bennett family has completely vanished, I think I can go find the arrow from their family."

"What exactly is the function of those arrows? Do they really have special lethality against the Ancient One?"

Xia De asked again, and the elf girl pursed her lips and shook her head:

"It's another function. The era when the Tree Father made them, the Ancient One in the forest had not yet been born when the ancient gods had not yet left. These arrows were born for a more noble reason, although there is no way to completely... In short, I still hope to get more arrows, so at least I can..."

For a moment, a sad expression appeared on her face. She thought she was hiding it well, but Xia De still saw it.

Xia De wanted her to make things clear, but the elf girl shook her head slightly and dodged Xia De's hand reaching for her wrist very nimbly:

"The road tonight will still be long, remember to take good care of Amelia. Then I'll see you later... see you later."

After speaking, she walked into this chaotic long night without looking back. Xia De stared at her back, and the little elf asked in a low voice:

"Xia De, who exactly is she?"

"Did you really not recognize her?"

Amelia shook her head blankly. She felt that the number of times she shook her head tonight had already exceeded the number of times she shook her head in a week before:

"Very familiar, but I didn't recognize her for the time being. However, I can see that she has a very heavy heart, and... is she going to part ways with us after the Vesta Woodland matter? Xia De, can you keep her? I like her very much, and little Liana also likes her very much. I still want to ask her for advice on how to take care of the land-walking birds in the future."

After speaking, she yawned a little sleepily. She didn't feel uncomfortable when her spirit was extremely tense just now, but at this moment, she suddenly felt that she couldn't open her eyes.

Xia De clutched her hand:

"I will keep her, Amelia, I swear to you that I definitely will."

The witches of the 【Witch Council】 were very happy that they could enter the city to help the church. After all, the council had just given birth to a "thirteenth-tier" witch, and the thirteenth tier was still the strongest level of the current era.

Therefore, the church arranged for the witches to set up their camp in the city center and the Golden Music Hall on the commanding heights. That was also the general command post for the city defense battle tonight, and the witches were assigned all areas including the backstage of the two performance halls.

The Golden Music Hall had been transformed into a battle fortress in the true sense. Under the light of the side tower, even the bricks on the outer wall had the imprint of divine runes.

Xia De actually thought it would be better to place the general command post in a church in the city, but the five churches were currently acting as the most important five nodes of the defense ritual guarding the city. In order to prevent the entire battle command sequence from breaking down at the same time as one node was destroyed, the church finally chose this ancient building in the city center.

Vanessa, Xiwei, and the Megan sisters had already set up the council's base in advance, and Vanessa had also arranged for Xilisi to lead people to meet the returning Xia De and the elf on the west side of the Music Hall. Specifically, Xilisi was waiting for them in a tea shop on the street with two mid-tier girls.

After Xia De entered the tea shop with the sleeping Amelia on his back and confirmed each other's identities, Xilisi hugged Xia De excitedly:

"Is the progress going smoothly?"

"Bennett has lost to Amelia, although there were twists and turns in the middle... Amelia performed very well. However, she used Sublimation Language one after another, and even summoned the Sword of Light, now she needs to rest for a while."

Xilisi immediately looked at the underage little elf on Xia De's back with loving eyes. Most of the girls on the ship regarded Amelia as a little sister:

"Go to the church and meet up with everyone first. The situation is very complicated now, but Vanessa and the others are all safe and sound."

Xilisi held the permission to enter and exit the Music Hall at will, and when Xia De entered the Music Hall with the girls while carrying Amelia, he didn't cover up the little elf, so the news that the elf of St. Byron had returned was soon known to everyone.

Xia De's plan was also revealed to the church, so the church realized that Thomas Bennett had lost to the elf. So when Xia De met Xiwei, who was temporarily staying here and not going out to fight, in the Music Hall, the church had already sent someone to inquire about the news.

Xilisi was responsible for informing the church of the good news about Amelia, and the little elf was temporarily placed by Xia De on a chair in the front row of the performance hall, tilting her head and continuing to sleep. The maid brought a blanket and carefully covered her. Xia De hugged Xiwei on the stage, and then went around to the backstage with her. The maids were still preparing Amelia's bed, everyone prepared everything, but didn't expect that someone would need to sleep tonight.

"Amelia has won the qualification from the third candidate, but the process was tortuous."

He tried his best to tell the story of what happened just now simply. Xiwei didn't expect such a thing to happen, but in any case, she won:

"Now there is only the Paradox Bug Keeper representing 'earth', and the Clockmaker who has regained the qualification... I came back ten minutes ago, and Megan replaced me to cooperate with Vanessa to intercept those bugs above the city. According to the church's estimation, this can only be considered the first wave of the bug swarm's offensive. According to the spirit signal fed back from underground after the mineral vein explosion, the awakening of the bugs sleeping deep in the woodland should be carried out in batches."

"Can the battle line hold up for now?"

"Temporarily no problem."

The Great Witch nodded gently and continued to introduce:

"I'm sorry, we haven't found the trace of the Keeper yet. The church feels that the current stage is purely those bugs wearing down human fighting will, and I'm afraid the real big melee will not happen until late at night."

"Then what is the situation outside the city now? Can the contact inside and outside the city still be carried out?"

"Yes, I just sent the situation in the city to the ship before you entered the door."

"The Glorious Messenger has left from above Lake Yulun. The situation observed on the ship is more complicated than in the city, but the intensity of the battle has not reached the expected level. Currently, the academy professors remaining in the woodland are investigating the situation underground as much as possible. After all, those bugs will appear sooner or later. If they don't appear now, it means everyone will face bigger trouble in a while."

Except for the Paradox Bugs that had been expected, no other enemies had appeared near the city, but the reconnaissance rituals deployed in the forest area in advance had detected a large number of abnormal whisper element reactions. Everyone knew what this represented, but it was not yet certain when those relics controlled by Paradox Bugs would advance toward the city.

But in fact, none of the above were the most dangerous things. The biggest trouble now was the time crack:

"Probably not long after you entered the Time Transfer Station, a tree hole received by the Church of Nature was destroyed by itself. Just like what you said before, after the tree hole was destroyed, an unstable time crack was formed on the spot. The terrible thing that crawled out of that crack at that time almost wiped out a containment team of the Church of Nature."

Xiwei was quite worried about this:

"That tree hole was not destroyed by humans, it was more like it was at the time of damage. Now our tree holes have been temporarily transferred from the ship to the woodland to prevent accidents. However, besides the time cracks formed by tree holes, I don't know if you have noticed that there are more and more black cracks behind the white fog in the night sky, and the number of strange time cracks found in the forest is also increasing rapidly."

"It seems that it has really reached the point where it can't be supported."

Xia De said with pursed lips, and Xiwei nodded:

"The guardians of the earth can only go to the woodland to investigate the situation first. The guardians can rely on the power of the earth to temporarily seal some cracks that are not open. However, Sister Daifulin is still in the city. I don't know if you saw that 'fire meteor' just now, that is..."

The chandelier overhead shook, followed by the tremor of the earth. The sudden earthquake interrupted the witch's words, followed by the buzzing sound from deep underground, the gas lamps in the backstage corridor flickered twice, and then all went out.

Xia De raised his hand to lift the silver light ball, and the girls in the corridor and various rooms also used light spells of different colors. No one was too panicked.

About half a minute later, the extinguished gas lamps relit after several continuous flickers. It was just that when looking out the window, one could see that only the core city area and the east and north districts of the city had restored light.

Amelia was really exhausted. She fell asleep and didn't even wake up by the continuous earthquakes that happened later. Xiwei and Xia De looked at her in the makeup room, and after hearing that the girl had used Sublimation Language and the Sword of Light one after another, she also complained about Xia De a little. After the bed was arranged, she let Xilisi, who was responsible for logistics command here, carry Amelia to the small bed to rest.

"I want my unicorn pillow..."

The sleeping little elf also said in her sleep. Xiwei and Xia De watched Xilisi cover her with a quilt and leave people to take care of her, and then left the makeup room together. ===== CHAPTER 2988 =====

"I want my unicorn pillow..."

The sleeping little elf whispered in her sleep. Xi Wei and Xia De watched from the side as Siris tucked her in and left people to look after her, and only then did they leave the dressing room together.