Chapter 3027: Summoning of the Poetry Card

As for Little Mia, the cat didn't know how many times it had woken up during these twenty-plus hours.

Just because there was no sun, it didn't think about walking around. Xia De didn't forget to prepare cat food for it when he was "playing in the water" with Blaney, and Xia De had indeed never gone far, so for this cat, this was another idle day with nothing to do, it was just a pity there was no hot goat milk to drink.

"Meow~"

After being touched by Xia De, the cat called softly, and then continued to eat the midnight snack Xia De had just prepared for it.

"If the Battle of Vesta Forest has ended now, I would even be willing to squat by the bed and watch Luvia's sleeping face and Little Mia eating all the time."

He thought in his heart, and at the same time, the witch's arms circled from behind and hugged Xia De, and the yellow-haired witch pressed her face against his back and asked:

"Is Luvia still not awake?"

"Let her rest for a while longer. If she is still resting when the time comes, I will temporarily turn her into a toy and carry her with me."

After Blaney let go of him, Xia De turned to look at the hot spring behind the silver veil:

"Miss Danister also performed a time jump..." 【3

So they were not frolicking beside or above the red-haired girl while she sank to the bottom of the hot spring.

"You and Miss Helena Carter are both fine now, and my current state is also excellent. The only uncertainty now is whether Miss Danister can complete the ritual and return to the 13th ring after the 24-hour deadline ends."

The witch looked tenderly at his serious face; she just loved him like this:

"Xia De, don't worry about that. Even if the ritual is not yet complete, I can let her temporarily return to her peak state. I am a demigod now, a demigod of the moon. Even though I have only just entered the demigod realm, Teacher Feilianna taught me many things long ago."

Adele only ascended to demigodhood after the apocalypse and had no other demigods to teach her, so perhaps the ancient witch before him actually had stronger comprehensive strength. And considering that the demigod Adele could easily grant Xia De blessings and power, it was not very surprising that the current Blaney Orlanod, with the help of the "Moon Sanctuary," could guide Miss Danister under the Yellow Moon.

"Then I'll leave it to you."

Looking at her radiant cheeks, Xia De wanted to kiss her again, but suddenly remembered he had forgotten an important matter:

"This is for you."

His finger, burning with silver Secret Fire, pointed directly at the center of Blaney's brow. When the finger moved away, a pure silver moon mark remained on the witch's forehead.

"What is this? I can feel the moon."

She summoned a water mirror and looked at the mark with satisfaction. The pattern matched her temperament perfectly, and the symbol formed by the Secret Fire allowed her to perceive once more what kind of power existed within Xia De's soul:

"It's beautiful, thank you, Xia De. I heard Chloe mention it last time..."

Because all external attacks vanished upon touching the divine light around him. This wasn't even the power of time; others didn't know what this Ancient Tree had done, but only Xia De could see it—that was the afterglow of divinity.

She shook her head with a smile:

"I mean, I have to leave after the war, and I don't know how long it will be until we meet again. Xia De, I will always be thinking of you, thinking of you and me tonight."

The tall witch kissed him gently on the face:

"If there really wasn't such a lack of time right now, I would really want to embrace you for a while longer... I really want to feel the heat of your soul again. When you see that bright yellow moon, remember to miss me too."

"I will, Blaney. Sooner or later, we will live in the same time and space."

He reached out to embrace her again, but she dodged him:

"Alright, alright, let's get to business. Aren't we still missing one person? Since the time is almost up, let's pull her in."

She pursed her lips and said embarrassedly:

"Also, do I need to apologize for tearing your coat just now? I'm not the kind of girl who is rude to her lover, it was just that at the time..."

The items in the coat torn by the witch had already been retrieved by Xia De. The Angel-level relic 【Poetry Cards】 was the same size as Luo De cards, only the card back did not feature the sun, moon, and stars pattern of Luo De cards, but rather a design with a long sword, staff, longbow, and dagger occupying each corner, with a bard's lute pattern in the center.

The front of the card featured a blurry mist, and behind the mist was an even blurrier figure, so blurry that even the gender was indistinguishable. Directly below the front, there was a string of flowery letters written in ink sprinkled with gold powder—

【Legendary objects, for those who sing of them.】

To use this Angel-level relic, three requirements had to be met.

First and most importantly, one must know as much as possible about the deeds and life of the hero one wishes to summon. This was no problem for Xia De; the red-haired girl had told Xia De many, many things about her teacher.

Secondly, one needs an item related to that poetic hero. This was also no problem; Xia De not only had Miss Helena Carter's notebook, but even her hair.

Finally, there is the relic's incantation. After activating the cards, the incantation seen varies depending on the summon target. For example, when Xia De tried to summon Miss Feilianna in the council last time, the sentence he recited was strongly related to her—though Adele appeared instead.

And in order to allow Xia De to summon her projection as perfectly as possible, that 13th-ring sorceress also gave Xia De the corresponding ritual and the sentences that needed to be inserted when reciting the incantation.

Although he now had the mermaid's method, Luvia's divination, and the few suggestions given by the ancient witch to allow the projection to transform into a physical body, Xia De still prepared a simple ritual according to the method given by the black-haired lady.

Afterwards, he stood by the hot spring facing the steaming water, holding the Poetry Cards in his left hand and the Staff of Yggdrasil in his right, while Miss Orlanod stood not far behind him, watching Luvia and the cat.

However, what Xia De was doing at this moment was not channeling his own spirit to activate the power of the cards in his hand, but rather discarding the distracting thoughts in his heart—the distracting thoughts about this hot spring. He felt that he would never be able to forget this night for the rest of his life.

And after confirming that he was ready, Xia De coughed gently twice and recited the incantation displayed on the cards along with the sentences given by the black-haired lady:

【Body entrusted to my command,

Life attached to your sword.

Hero sung of in poetry,

Respond to my summons.

I am already missing the dance that crossed time,

I am already missing the idle chatter during the torrential rain of the scorching summer.

Oh, keeper of the library of the past,

Lady who still guides me across two generations,

Declare at this moment,

Please respond to my call once more,

May the silver moon shine,

May the sea of stars never dry,

May I hold your hand once more,

May you manifest before my eyes once more.】

Blaney behind him clearly felt that these words were a bit strange, but she had just received benefits and felt that she was ahead of any witch or sorceress Xia De had ever known, so she only found the other person's thoughts amusing.

As Xia De's voice fell, he tossed the glowing card in his left hand in front of him, and after spinning the 【Staff of Yggdrasil】 once with his right hand, he let the head of the staff point directly at the card rotating in front of him:

"Helena Carter, former librarian of St. Byrons Comprehensive Academy, Moon Sorceress!"

In an instant, a gentle breeze blew all the curtains surrounding the hot spring outward, and in that wind, the 【Poetry Cards】 completely turned into white light. That white light grew larger and larger above the hot spring until it turned into the black-haired sorceress standing up with her head lowered, holding the hem of her skirt.

After slowly rising while stepping on the water, she looked up, her rose-red eyes full of smiles as she looked at Xia De:

"I thought it would be a battlefield right now."

She then nodded gently to Blaney behind Xia De, intending to see clearly who was lying on the bed, but suddenly looked at the yellow-haired witch again in surprise:

"You..."

Because they had once worked together so closely that their powers had almost merged, and everyone was a lady who used the power of the moon, even in a projection state, she sensed that the witch had become very different from when they last met.

It wasn't just that she had become more beautiful, more intellectual, and more mature; originally, although the witch was stronger than her, that strength had a visible limit, but now, the black-haired sorceress could no longer understand at all just how strong this first-generation librarian of the Academy had become.

"Yes, I ascended to demigodhood, about... twenty hours ago."

Blaney admitted with a smile, her eyes looking at Xia De's back:

"It was Xia De who helped me, and afterwards he kept helping me consolidate my realm. So although I have only just entered the demigod realm, my power is already very stable."

Xia De pretended not to understand that the witch behind him was teasing him:

"Good evening, Miss Helena Carter. The situation is a bit complicated now; in fact, this is still considered a battlefield, it's just that there is a temporary truce midway. Wait a moment, I have a way to temporarily turn you into a physical entity."

He took out the small bottle of pink perfume he had prepared long ago. He had already drunk all the pink essence when using the low-ring Sublimation Words under the tree earlier, and now, twenty hours later, it had been filled with essence again.

This, of course, had to do with the witch smiling reservedly behind him.

He shook it gently, letting the glowing liquid inside ripple. Then Xia De took out the pink crystal that "Desire" had given to Amelia. Even though this crystal was much larger than the mouth of the perfume bottle, it melted directly into it as soon as it touched the opening.

The glowing pink essence changed color immediately, and after waiting a few seconds, it completely turned into a bright gold that made one feel very happy just by looking at it.

Xia De didn't know why the pink crystal turned into this color when it entered the pink essence. But he didn't forget the final step; he took out the 【Ring of Metamorphosis】 he had specially brought out, which immediately attracted the cat's gaze.

However, before the cat could run over, Xia De controlled all the bright golden liquid in the perfume bottle to float out, forming a glowing water ball in his palm, and finally dropped the ring into it.

The runes on the ring then all lit up, as if someone had actively activated its gender-transforming properties. But the ring was not being worn by anyone at the moment, and Xia De, who was closest to it, of course did not suddenly turn into a woman.

A few dozen seconds later, the bright golden liquid turned transparent, and the liquid no longer possessed any whisper elements. Xia De took out the ring, then blew a breath, turning the transparent liquid into ice cubes and putting them away to prevent any other accidents.

He handed the ring, whose runes were still glowing, to the lady who was still standing on the hot spring water:

"【Ring of Metamorphosis】, although its original property is to transform gender, specific methods can also allow it to transform between virtual and real. Using the power of this hot spring, it can grant you a physical body."