Chapter 3111

Xia De didn't know about the conversation in Willandale. He didn't feel very regretful that the Princess didn't send out that 'gift'. After all, yesterday was the funeral of Margaret's sister, so it was indeed not suitable to do that kind of thing.

As for throwing the crystal shoe and returning home, after Xia De saw the cat running downstairs to welcome him, the second person he saw was not Luweiya, but Miss Jia Lin Na, who was sitting on the sofa on the second floor with an unhappy face.

The maids were busy in the house. Tifa happened to be bending down to put the tea tray on the coffee table. Hearing Xia De's footsteps upstairs, she turned her head and smiled at him appearing at the door.

And after Xia De also sat on the sofa, the red-haired witch immediately leaned over and sniffed, her golden eyes staring at his eyes:

"The taste of a young witch is good, right?"

"Sylvia told you? Wait a minute, I just parted with her thirty seconds ago, how could she possibly arrive faster than me?"

Xia De was very surprised. Miss Jia Lin Na hummed, her finger pointing at his chest:

"Of course Luweiya told me when eating breakfast this morning. Although I already knew Sylvia guessed it, seeing my little cookie being bitten by someone else, I'm just unhappy."

She obviously wanted Xia De to coax her gently, but Xia De first protested:

"Can you not call me little cookie?"

"Then what should I call you? Big sausage?"

A 'bang~' sound of a heavy object falling came from the kitchen. It seemed that the dinner plate in Xia De's house was broken. The cat, who was frightened, jumped from his lap into Xia De's arms, and Miss Jia Lin Na looked at the kitchen direction very unhappily, then signaled Tifa to go and scold them.

"You'd better call me little cookie."

Before a worse nickname was used, Xia De chose to compromise. However, Miss Jia Lin Na didn't really want to call him that:

"My knight, you are not a cookie, you are my... lover."

She snatched the position in Xia De's arms from Little Mia:

"You now know eight witches, counting Sylvia, you have already succeeded with four. I want to see the remaining four..."

"Three, don't count Grandma Cassandra."

"Yes, yes, there are three left. Bella, Xiwei, and our owl. I want to see who will be the next one."

After speaking, she stood up and reached out to pull Xia De up:

"Go, go to the bedroom with me. The perfume smell of Sylvia on you is too strong. To prevent you from being poisoned, I'll help you suppress it."

"It's daytime now."

"Xia De, are you someone who cares about daytime or nighttime?"

Miss Jia Lin Na came to visit because the major human trafficking case some time ago had come to an end, and she was finally able to be a little more relaxed.

And ever since she was urgently recalled from Saladir County, she hadn't been intimate with Xia De much, so she brought the maids to visit No. 6 St. Deran Square this Friday morning.

"I didn't come to find you just for this matter, there's also the matter of expanding the space in your house."

At lunch, the red-haired witch was still defending herself. If she wasn't only wearing a nightgown at this time, and even her hair was wet, her words would be more convincing.

Except for some strange items passed down from ancient times, the only way to expand space stably in the material world is relics. But anyone with a bit of sanity wouldn't choose to let relics affect their house, and since this is the city center, methods with too violent element fluctuations cannot be used, so there aren't many means left.

"I said in the woodland that finding a way to create a permanent passage connecting this house to my manor is the simplest and safest method. But since Vanessa and the others said I was engaging in favoritism, I had to think of other ways."

She sat opposite Xia De and cut the steak, saying to Xia De. Exercise was too intense in the morning, so naturally, she had to eat some meat to replenish energy:

"Later, Xiwei said that she heard the mermaids talk about a conch house technology. Keeping conch in a fish tank and placing it at home, the conch can have a huge space. In this way, although the house itself is not big enough, some people can move into the conch to live."

"As a result, Flora suggested that Xiwei be the first to move into the fish tank. She was going to live in the bedroom of the house, so this method was also rejected."

"After I defeated the dead apostle Bronte in the woodland, I also got a coffin with a certain space inside. Everyone obviously wouldn't want to live in that."

Xia De nodded. He knew that his house was a bit strange, and he wasn't sure if ordinary means could affect the interior space of the house. Originally, the third room could be expanded on the third floor, thanks to the power of the Space Chosen Ones:

"So what is the plan you finally came up with? Did you finally return to relics?"

"Yes, but to be precise, it's a relic derivative, and the impact is minimized as much as possible. There are currently three plans to choose from, you make the final decision."

She signaled Tifa to bring the document bag. While the maid placed the documents in front of Xia De's plate and rubbed Xia De's leg with her leg, Miss Jia Lin Na explained simply:

"First, the Sage-level relic 【Flesh Decoration Team】. This is a relic that exists in a group way, similar to the Sage-level relic 【Dark Moon Circus】 you encountered in Green Lake."

"The number of members of the 【Flesh Decoration Team】 is not fixed when it appears. Generally, it fluctuates between 4 and 28. Among them, there must be special individuals who call themselves 'Captain Matthews', 'Accountant Smith', and 'Designer Johnson'. By paying the flesh and blood of any animal or human body, you can let them renovate the house. The renovated house is generally regarded as a derivative of the relic."

"Spatial alienation, house living, overall relocation are all possible, and adding special abilities to the building is a small matter."

"But houses renovated by them will have phenomena of blood seeping from walls, floors, and ceilings, and there is a probability of being invaded by unique purgatory creatures called 'Blood Demons' every year. Giving precious flesh and blood to the decoration team can slightly offset this negative characteristic, but it is said that this will make the house have a bloody smell that cannot be dispelled."

She saw Xia De stretching his neck to read those materials:

"The Council has mastered the method of safely summoning the 【Flesh Decoration Team】. If you agree, we can let them start work immediately."

"What about other plans? Are there any that won't affect the environment?"

"Yes, the second plan, the Secret Keeper-level relic 【Corridor Curse】. This is a phenomenon-type relic, usually appearing in locations that can form a 'corridor' structure. The curse causes spatial circulation phenomena in the location."

"Spatial circulation is of course a big problem, but the appearance of this phenomenon also means that a certain floor of this house has been infinitely copied. But as long as the number of spatial circulations is controlled and the curse is stripped away, making spatial circulation a simple abnormal phenomenon unrelated to whispering elements, this method can be considered safe."

"Hmm..."

Xia De looked at the accidents recorded in the materials about 【Corridor Curse】. The lightest accident is of course personnel disappearance, and the most serious accident is that spatial circulation appeared with some inexplicable paradoxes, thereby tearing a piece from the space of the material world, making it permanently annihilated.

"What about the third one?"

Xia De continued to ask. The Duchess wiped the corner of her mouth elegantly with a handkerchief, but Little Mia was eating happily. The maids began to withdraw the plates and serve the dessert after the meal. Miss Jia Lin Na sighed slightly:

"Yes, the third method is provided by Xilis. It is a unique relic 【Core of the Old Days】 mastered by the Forgotten. This relic has no collection records in other forces, and the Forgotten believe it can be regarded as Angel-level."

"Burying the 'core' into the mind of an individual, then the individual's memories of childhood or familiar scenes will be embodied in reality along with dreams -"

"Do you miss the tree-lined path you walked in childhood, do you remember the long road you walked under the shade of trees on the dam on a hot summer day, do you still remember the street scene of the old street in the small town of your hometown at dusk?"

The Duchess shook her head:

"Anyway, I don't have these experiences, these are all what Xilis said. In short, 【Core of the Old Days】 will embody these types of scenes, and it doesn't occupy real space. Xilis said they are phantoms existing in the past, thoughts, but they can indeed be lived in. Thus, relic derivatives are born, and new 'Cores of the Old Days' can be harvested from them."

"If you really have such deep feelings for the corridors and stairs of this house, perhaps you can use 【Core of the Old Days】."

"Angel-level... then what is the negative effect?"

Xia De also wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and stopped eating. The Duchess sighed slightly:

"Yes, after all, it's Angel-level - if your longing is too deep, at the moment you confuse reality with the past, just for a moment, everything in the real world around the 'core' will be dragged into your 'Dream of the Old Days'. Xilis said that once this kind of accident happens, it cannot be recovered."

"Everything will melt into your memories in your melancholy nostalgia for the old days, until you, as the carrier of memories, also become part of that unforgettable memory, merging into the dusk, the small town, or the shade of trees on a hot summer day."

"That dream of the old days will be embodied at this time, attached to the back of the material world in the form of abnormal space, waiting for others to enter like a trap."

"This... Xilis and the others actually have this kind of dangerous relic? Alright, this plan is actually not particularly good either."

Xia De said, and Miss Jia Lin Na wasn't surprised by this answer:

"Relics mostly have various negative effects. If you use ritual spellcasting, the fluctuations of elements and spirit are hard to hide from the reconnaissance rituals arranged by the Sect in the city. Digging the basement downward, everyone probably wouldn't want to run to a place with poor lighting to live; building a tower upward, Tobesk has regulations that the highest floor of the building cannot be higher than the top of the side tower of the Yodel Palace."

Xia De said very apologetically:

"It's my request that's too much. I'll consider the relic matter again, or should I ask Luweiya to divine it?"

(End of chapter)