Chapter 3098: Burning Fuse

"The material of my life ring has also started to change... Emilia's turned into emerald green, the doctor's is flowing obsidian, so now it's the era of 'only by changing the material of the life ring can one be qualified to participate in battle'?"

He laughed in his heart, saying words only he could understand. He raised his hand to touch his right ear and left ear respectively. After confirming that the ear stud was not on his ears, he looked down at his own shadow on the ground with a feeling in his heart.

The shadow was formed by moonlight. There was no problem with the black shadow itself, but the right ear position of the shadow clearly had silver light. Or rather, the shadow of Xia De was wearing 【Moon Tears】 on its right ear.

"This... is fine, it's better than me wearing it myself."

He sighed slightly:

"It's very beautiful, right?"

No one paid attention to him.

"Okay, what improvement did I get?"

【Outsider, you have absorbed the spiritual rhyme of the Moon Ancient God.】

【Spell - Moon Fire, sublimated into Miracle - Moon Fire. In addition to the original traits, you can attack by radiating moon fire. This attack cannot be completely defended by any means. Corresponds to 【Silver Moon】 spirit rune.】

【Outsider, the fragment of the original moon has merged into your soul. Your constant blessing · Blessing of the Living Moon, has obtained a brand-new trait: you have immortality under the moon; your total amount of spirit and recovery speed have been improved.】

That is to say, although 【Moon Tears】 was not worn on Xia De's ears, he still obtained the corresponding traits.

"Can this 'under the moon' be triggered by my 'Shadow of the Moon'?"

【Yes, but divine power ignores immortality.】

So Xia De thought this trait was very useless at first. When not facing gods, because he had "false immortality," he didn't think he would be killed in one blow; when facing gods, this immortality had no effect.

"So 【Moon Tears】 is now completely merged with me, and can't be taken out in the future?"

He asked again, and this time it was an affirmative answer:

【Yes, the fragment of the original moon has become a part of your soul. However, you can freely control whether the Moon Tears in the shadow appear.】

Xia De looked down at his shadow again, and soon found a way to make the ear stud on the shadow's ear disappear. At this time, the traits given by 【Moon Tears】 were still there, and the "Moon Fire" that had been sublimated hadn't changed.

Xia De then understood the significance of 【Moon Tears】 to himself, and thought of his moon fire again, so he tried to raise his right index finger and point forward—

Silver light burst from his fingertips, flying straight forward from the side of the cliff, leaving a bright silver line that lasted for a long time in the night sky.

"Moon Fire finally has attack power. Besides 【Moonlight Slash】 and 【Moonlight Wheel】, I have a third means of attack in the moonlight series."

The power of this move could be tested later. At this moment, he faced the river valley scenery under the long night and sighed again, and finally asked in his heart:

"How should I choose my high-ring sublimation language?"

"She" smiled gently:

【Next, fate will give the answer.】

After entering Tuesday, the temperature in Tuobeisike dropped even more severely. When Xia De went out to get milk on Tuesday morning and almost slipped on the steps at the door, and then found that the steam pipe on his outer wall had actually frozen and cracked, he realized how much colder this November was than last year.

Afterwards, Xia De consulted his next-door neighbor about the steam pipe maintenance management regulations, and then sent a maintenance application form to the steam company belonging to Saint Deran Square. The reply didn't take too long, but the reply said to let Xia De wait for at least two weeks.

But this matter was actually solved this week, because when the maids came to No. 6 Saint Deran Square to replenish ingredients on Wednesday morning, they found the icicles hanging on the outer wall, so the steam company sent people to repair it at noon that day.

That pot-bellied manager even came to the door in person. When the workers were stepping on ladders to work on the outer wall, he, who was obviously in winter, was sweating profusely, wiping his sweat while expressing his apologies to Xia De, and tried to leave a check as an apology.

Xia De of course didn't keep that check, but he kindly asked the workers to help check the pipes of the old Smith couple next door, and received freshly baked cookies from the neighbor the next day.

And the gift for this week that Xia De only remembered on Tuesday was no longer the surprise like 【Youth Everlasting Leaf】 last week. Xia De didn't even know who to give a plain white silk scarf to. The girls bought private items themselves and wouldn't use such things of unknown origin.

So Xia De tried to tie the silk scarf to Little Mia's tail, which caused the cat to hide from Xia De for a whole day on Tuesday. It wasn't until dinner time when Xia De called it to go out to eat that it stepped down the stairs with a reserved cat step.

"However, the task for this week is to wipe the dining table myself, so I must at least eat at home one day this week."

After the adventure, this winter, Xia De found that he suddenly became idle.

He looked forward to sharing his improvement with Dannister, but that only took a morning for testing and training;

He looked forward to Tuobeisike snowing. The city snow scene was a bit different from the woodland, but unfortunately, the snowflakes were like the lover of the knight who traveled far in the story, and they were late to arrive;

He looked forward to a client coming to the door to tell him some magical or ordinary stories, but unfortunately, this dry and cold winter made even those who went out to have affairs less.

So the detective at home spent his whole day reading and studying, occasionally running to Vista Woodland to visit Flora and the others who were dealing with the aftermath.

It was Thursday morning when Xia De read the newspaper, and he really saw the aftermath of what Margaret said, "The father will attribute the death of the illegitimate daughter to the assassination of MI6."

The truth of the accident that year was no longer known to anyone with the death of the two suspects. Even if Xia De ran to ask Priest Ao Gu Si to help communicate with the souls of the MI6 agent and the Gray Glove agent, the answers obtained could not convince everyone.

Almost all mainstream newspapers in Karsenrik uniformly condemned the Delarian Kingdom on Thursday morning, condemning the northern spies for the planned, shameless, and immoral assassination of members of the Anjou royal family.

The news report posted relevant evidence and a complete investigation report, some of which came directly from the internal declassification of the Gray Gloves and the private diaries of the dead agents.

The Anjou royal family did not make a public statement on this matter in the newspaper, but since the newspapers had such unified publication, there must be the royal family's instruction. Xia De guessed that "Lion Ryan" probably wanted to let public opinion ferment for a few more days, and then use the surging public opinion to conduct a public condemnation of the North and the Cavendish family.

The food problem since this winter had triggered many problems in both countries, and this "death of the royal illegitimate daughter" would probably become a very dangerous signal.

Newspapers in Delarian of course wouldn't reprint the news of "death of the illegitimate daughter." MI6 should have received the news in advance, and there was no report or public response from the North in the domestic newspapers for the time being.

The newspaper in Xia De's hand was bought in Vista City this morning before he and Grace and Helen returned home from the Moon Sanctuary.

He watched the reports in the newspaper with relish. Grace sat beside him, and the little spoon blew on the rice porridge in the spoon, then sent it to Xia De's mouth:

"Sir~"

The girl in the white gauze skirt had a tone that didn't let Xia De refuse, so Xia De had to open his mouth and drink the food handed by Grace:

"Since the spring of this year, the newspapers have been predicting that the war would start this winter. Although the small-scale friction on the north-south border hasn't stopped since autumn, I thought this winter could barely be supported. Now it seems that Karsenrik Kingdom has stood on the moral high ground, and they have a legitimate reason to declare war."

Although no one knew whether this reason was true or false, as long as people who were already dissatisfied with life believed it was true, then the damn foreigners were the culprits.

"Sir, war is the most important component of civilization. Although it is cruel to say so, war is also pushing civilization forward."

Grace, who was older than all the people in the neighborhood combined, said this time, sent the spoon to her own mouth, and then reached out to take the fragrant bread in the basket, tore it into two halves, and the orange jam filling in the middle immediately flowed out:

"Sir, do you want to stop this war?"

"War is not the purpose; war is just the result. Even if I stop the result, other terrible things will happen. The contradiction between Karsenrik and Delarian has continued from the end of the last comprehensive war between the two countries to today.

Unless I have mastered the ability to hypnotize the whole world, the war will break out sooner or later. The struggle for the border line, the opening of the Pantanal trade route, the distribution of interests in the New World, the jurisdiction and trade rights of the outer islands, the competition between the two countries' commerce, not to mention the national hatred and family grudges continued from the last war."

Xia De shivered:

"So Miss Bettany's death is just a convenient excuse to start a war... If they fight, let them fight. Only by fighting can there be an opportunity to completely resolve the contradictions, and only by fighting can there be an opportunity to let the Old Continent unite."

The Outsider hated war, but he also believed that no matter what direction fate pointed out for humanity, this war that was about to happen between 1854 and 1855 was inevitable.

Countless inevitabilities would piece together into accidents. Before the Outsider appeared, there were already too many inevitabilities.

He reached out to take the bread handed by Grace, but shivered again, and the bread almost hit Little Mia's back.

So Grace was a bit unhappy, lifted the tablecloth covering her lap, and rubbed her little leather shoe against her sister's arm:

"Helen, can you be more focused? I'm chatting with Sir, you must be doing it on purpose."