Chapter 299: Out-of-Control Darkness

【Modern Girl · Flower Shop Girl】, suit Moon 7. When drawing this card, if the total number of cards held in hand is no more than two, then if the opponent holds a King or Wang Hou in this round, the King and Wang Hou are invalidated, treated as 0 points.

This card was a special card in the new card set launched last year. Xia De had only chatted about it with Baron Lavender and didn't expect to see it himself. Because of the development of the printing industry driven by the steam industry in recent years, the card faces of Rod cards were becoming more and more exquisite and beautiful. The card face of 【Modern Girl · Flower Shop Girl】, the girl holding a spray bottle and wearing an apron watering the plants in the flower pot in the flower shop, was very much in line with Xia De's aesthetic.

"But the luck of this card is based on the opponent's luck. It's a pity, I don't have such luck."

Xia De said very modestly, and then puzzled:

"Since this card cannot take effect for the time being, you don't have to turn over the cover card. Now, I know your hole card."

"What is the difference between drawing a special card and not turning it over, and not drawing it?"

The middle-aged man asked with his neck tilted. Xia De was stunned and didn't answer, and drew the second card with Mr. Walker.

Mr. Walker was Sun 9, and the total hand points were 16. Xia De was still flower, point 2, and the total hand points were 15.

"I'll continue."

"I'll continue too."

Mr. Walker was Sun 4, totaling 20 points, which made him smile. Xia De was Moon 5, also totaling 20 points, and he narrowed his eyes.

"How about it, Mr. Hamilton, do you want to continue?"

Mr. Walker asked. He didn't know Xia De's hole card, so he didn't know the current situation. But no matter what Xia De chose, Harry Walker probably wouldn't continue to draw, which meant that unless Xia De was crazy and continued to draw, this game would probably be a draw.

Xia De thought about it, glanced at Miss Louisa, and then said softly:

"Do you want to gamble on luck with me? A draw would be too boring."

He also turned over his hole card, which also showed 20 points, and looked at Mr. Walker:

"Both are 20 points, I think neither of us will choose to continue drawing. Then why don't we try our luck and draw one more card each? Although it is highly likely that both will bust, maybe someone can be lucky enough to draw 1 point."

Mr. Walker thought about it and felt that this was very fair:

"Of course, I wouldn't miss this kind of exciting gambling game. Then we agree, we must draw a card in the next round."

He reached out and lifted his fourth card, suit Star 3, undoubtedly busting:

"Oh, it really is like this."

The tone was quite regretful, and it seemed he was also looking forward to being favored by the God of Luck.

Xia De also reached out to draw a card, but didn't take the card from the top of the deck, but pressed it on top of the deck and lifted a corner. His plan was to take a look, then make a sighing expression, press the card down, and then draw 【Kasenrik Southern Folklore · Moon Dance Festival】.

Moon Dance Festival received the blessing of two ghosts. When the card was in the deck, as long as he wanted to draw it, he could draw it even if he had already seen the card. Relatively speaking, although 【Founding · Balance】 had a similar effect, it didn't even have to be in the deck; Xia De could draw it whenever he wanted.

When drawing 【Kasenrik Southern Folklore · Moon Dance Festival】, if he held a Moon suit card and the sum of points didn't exceed 7, then if he busted in this round, the total points would be adjusted to 1. Now Xia De only had one Moon 5, which just met the requirements.

Although this counted as cheating, he wasn't gambling money this time. Even if Mr. Walker lost, he wouldn't have too much loss. So Xia De followed the plan and lifted a corner, saw the suit and number, and sighed immediately.

The plan failed. He couldn't press the card down.

Xia De looked up at the middle-aged man who was playing cards with him, frowned and narrowed his eyes to lift the fourth card, and used a spell to control it to float in the air to show the other party, suit Moon 1, Xia De 21 points.

"There is actually such a thing?"

The middle-aged man was very puzzled and grabbed the card to look at it for a long time.

As for Xia De, he finally knew what kind of card game luck holding two founding series cards could bring.

Mr. Walker accepted the loss. Of course, it was also because the bet wasn't big. He accepted Miss Louisa's 13 pounds and handed over the rolled-up parchment.

Mentioning the information about the out-of-control Angel-level relic, although he showed reluctance, he still said the news:

"This Angel-level relic isn't a certain item, this time the relic is some kind of... event, do you understand?"

【Relics】 didn't necessarily exist as definite items; they could also be a piece of information, an event, or even something more difficult to describe in human language. Xia De heard about it when he met Doctor Shi Nai De for the second time, but it was the first time he knew information about 【Relics】 that weren't items.

"Event? What specifically is it?"

Miss Louisa asked, while Xia De stood on the side, looking at the corridor behind several people, preventing someone from suddenly appearing.

"My news isn't necessarily correct, you just listen to it as fresh news."

Mr. Walker said while counting money:

"The location is in a small town in the southeast of Tobesk City, but I can't say a more specific location. The form of expression is darkness, a piece of darkness covering the entire area. Outside the area covered by the darkness, that is, in the normal world, any information about the area covered by the darkness will disappear. At the same time, within the range covered by the darkness, difficult-to-describe creatures will appear continuously. Those creatures will gradually migrate out of the dark area and bring the darkness to a farther place."

Mr. Walker shrugged and stuffed the counted coins into his pocket:

"If left alone, sooner or later, the darkness brought by those monsters will swallow the whole world. Fortunately, the patrol team of the Orthodox Church discovered something wrong in time. To be precise, a plain appeared inexplicably on the map of Tobesk City, but the geographers of the church believe that there cannot be a plain in the southeast of Tobesk. Although even ring mages cannot observe that darkness, as long as they know the approximate range, the church used means and discovered clues. I don't know the specific name of the relic, nor do I know more detailed information about it, but at least that darkness has been controlled."

"Are you sure it has been controlled? Listening to your description, if this kind of thing gets out of control, we should still think about applying to the academy to leave this area."

Miss Louisa said.

"The news I heard is that it has been controlled, Louisa. You are also a local in Tobesk, so you should know how powerful 'Iron Right Hand' is. Although the Evil God incident a few days ago shows that the Orthodox Church isn't omnipotent, that was an Evil God after all, and it's different from this matter."

The middle-aged man waved to the two and intended to leave:

"Even if the sky of the material world collapses, there are the Orthodox Church and the academy to support it. Even if they can't hold on, there are rumors of 'God Summoner' or similar high-ring mages. We correspondence ring mages should still think about our studies. Although the exam week is over, it is only five months until the year-end exam in winter."

He passed Xia De and left here. Judging from the content of his complaints, the exam week of the three major arcane academies should be at the same time, and this gentleman's grades were obviously not ideal.

"Xia De, what do you think?"

Miss Louisa didn't pay attention to the departing Mr. Walker, but asked Xia De.

"If the sky collapses, I can't hold it up."

He said with a smile, and then spoke seriously:

"Although the church failed to successfully stop the God summoning ritual, if it's just an Angel-level relic, I think it should be no problem. A few days ago, I met President Stan of the Divination Association. That gentleman was requisitioned by the Orthodox Church some time ago to assist in dealing with relic runaways. Since he has returned, things should be resolved soon."

"I don't think the church can't control the relic runaway, I just feel that in the short month, so many things happened in the Tobesk area. I grew up in this city since I was a child, and I never felt that this city was so dangerous."

The blonde girl sighed.

The outsider didn't think these were brought about by his arrival. After all, when that darkness appeared, he hadn't come here yet.

Tonight was calm and quiet, just like what Priest Ao Gu Si said, ring mages wouldn't encounter out-of-control relics so easily, and the God descent incident scared the ring mages of the whole city, so they didn't encounter any strange people this night.

He spent a week at home without anything happening. If he encountered an accident just after leaving home, Xia De would really have to check carefully whether something was wrong with himself.

Xia De sat beside Miss Louisa, chatting with the voice in his heart about the story and singing of the opera performance, while talking to the blonde girl in a low voice about the situation of other correspondence ring mages in this city.

The opera ended at 9:30 PM. Tonight's "lesson" ended here. Xia De took a carriage to send Miss Louisa back to Quill Street in the university district where she lived.

Miss Louisa hoped that Xia De wouldn't forget that the real purpose of going out tonight was related to the study of 【Tree Kiss】, so she talked to him on the way about the content of the influence of "Enlightenment" elements on the ring mage's mind and spirit.

Later, they talked about Xia De's maze lock. Everyone was very tired tonight, and she didn't have a chance to contact the maze lock to gain enlightenment, but the writer Miss thought of another thing:

"Xia De, since you obtained the maze lock because you left traces in the past time, have you opened the second time key? Did you have any special experiences this time? Or is it the same as ordinary investigators?"

She finally asked this question. Xia De glanced at the city night view outside the window. Today was the first day the curfew was lifted, and there were many people drinking outside, and many people vomiting while holding the wall:

"Opened, it's the key for the 3002nd year of the Fifth Era."

Xia De said, guessing in his heart what the cat alone at home might be doing:

"I met Miss Mana Feilianna in the past time."

"Who? Hmm? Oh! I know."

The blonde girl sitting opposite Xia De whispered, covering her mouth. That exclamation just now was a bit too loud:

"Miss Feilianna... Xia De, don't talk to me about the things you experienced in the past. The mystery of time is too profound for me. I don't have the power of time, and listening to your experiences too much might lead to problems with myself."

In the world where mysticism exists, Xia De's unusual time travel experience itself could be counted as part of abnormal knowledge. Because of the fragility of the mortal Xia De, the Old God 【Innocent Creator】 couldn't reveal more secrets of eras and gods to him. And now, Xia De had better not tell others too much about his time travel experience, which was also considering the fragility of mortals.

"However, if you also want to influence the future from the past this time, so that you can have another 【Enlightenment】 spirit rune, you can tell me what you actually did afterwards."

Miss Louisa said.

"No, 【Enlightenment】 probably won't work this time. But if things go smoothly, I might have another 【Miracle】 spirit rune. Oh, and 【Youthful Leaf】, I still have to trouble you to keep a piece for me then."

There was no spirit rune in the Old God's reward, but once the God summoning ritual was successful, he might obtain power because of contacting the Old God 【Yaobian Door】.

The blonde girl showed a gentle smile:

"That would be really good. 【Miracle】 comes from the past, 【Enlightenment】 comes from our lessons... Are you preparing to advance from the Second Ring to the Third Ring in a month as well?"

Xia De shook his head:

"I don't have any reason to have to obtain power as soon as possible. Compared to advancing quickly, I want to make the foundation more solid."

"That's right, our road is still very long, so there's no need to walk so fast."

Xia De always felt that this sentence seemed to be strange. ===== CHAPTER 300 =====