Chapter 3148

Preparing gifts for the witch apprentices was not difficult. To ensure the basic principle that "the apprentice's gift cannot be better than the teacher's" and "regardless of the relationship, it's best not to have any differences," the gifts for the five girls present were all combs for combing hair.

This looked indeed very thoughtless and inexpensive, but those combs were handmade, not products produced by a factory. Although they were not made by Xia De himself, their raw materials were the sturdiest spines of pure-blooded dragons.

When Xia De was troubled about what gifts to give and the girls all refused to answer, he specifically went to find his friends from all over the place for help. The raw materials for the combs, that is, the batch of dragon skeletons that were quite old, were provided by Mr. Albert of Moon Bay, and he also helped make the combs after charging a labor fee.

To make it seem more novel, Xia De also asked this Chosen of Light to engrave runes and build rituals inside the dragon skeletons when making the combs, so that they could emit a faint light in the dark, and finally, he specifically asked Mr. Albert to engrave each girl's name on the combs.

Xia De remembered that when he used silver moonlight to outline the six names in the air at that time, the vampire coroner clearly looked at him with strange eyes before nodding:

"I knew it, there is no such thing as a perfect saint in this world."

Of course, including the comb not yet given to Margaret, the designs of the six combs were all different, which could show more thoughtfulness. Although Mr. Albert was quite "disdainful" of Xia De's behavior, when helping to make the combs, he still added some rituals Xia De did not ask for. According to him, using these combs to comb hair could promote blood circulation and make the hair quality better.

The witch apprentices all accepted the gift. When Miss Hayley Aurora, who was not very familiar with Xia De, accepted the gift with some embarrassment, she also whispered that the gift she prepared for Xia De was simpler by comparison, but Xia De did not mind.

Dorothy's gift was two stories of "Crystal Light" that Xia De re-copied onto tree bark. The bark was expensive special oak bark purchased from the 【Hermit of the Woods】. Carrying this kind of bark on one's body could make oneself luckier.

Grace and Helen had actually said that Xia De did not need to specifically prepare their Year-End Festival gifts. The sisters had spent thousands of Year-End Festivals, and their only requirement for the holiday was to hope to spend it with their sister and Xia De.

But although they said so, Xia De still prepared two new dresses for the sisters. They were still one black and one white. Although the dresses were not made by Xia De himself, at least they were chosen by him personally after spending his detective work rewards.

Grace and Helen expressed their love for the gifts with a shared kiss.

After dinner, Emilia turned back into the appearance of a little elf. She lived in the side bedroom of Room 2. Three small beds were prepared in that room, allowing the three girls, including Agerina who had not yet arrived and Iluna who had already arrived, to live together.

The little elf had originally said that with the "Tree Staff," she did not want a Year-End Festival gift, but just like Flora, Grace, and Helen who said they did not want gifts but Xia De prepared them anyway, Emilia's Year-End Festival gift was a thick notebook for learning Ancient Elvish—

Although she became the Chosen of Time, unfortunately, the inherited power and knowledge did not include knowledge related to Ancient Elvish. After all, the Tree Father's believers were not only elves, and elves did not only believe in the God of Time.

"Xia De, why do I feel like you are bullying me?"

Because the elf girl with pointed ears had studied too hard some time ago, she now felt uncomfortable seeing the notebook full of words. While saying this, she opened the notebook and saw a love poem on the first page, so she immediately looked up at Xia De, then lowered her head to look at the opened page again, confirming that although the text on it was written in Ancient Elvish, the content was entirely sentences expressing feelings written by Xia De himself—Xia De had not just been studying this month.

The tips of Emilia's ears were red:

"The gift I gave you is not as thoughtful as this... I'll give you this instead, a photo of me and little Liana. People say that seeing a unicorn will bring good luck, so you can see the unicorn often."

She did not explain why she carried this kind of photo with her.

Iluna was holding back laughter on the side, and then saw Xia De walking toward her with another gift box. So the eighteen-year-old girl restrained herself from showing her anticipation, and the gift Xia De gave Iluna was a short dagger he called the "Moonlight Dagger."

The dagger was cast from silver moonlight, but unlike the ring Vanessa often wore on her hand, this dagger was not solidified by "Galina's Ice Curse." After all, the dagger was a weapon for combat, so it certainly had to be sturdier.

Xia De's "Adele's Time Stasis: Crystal Form" could only pause the time of one item at a time, so after he went to the Night Temple to take the moonlight and integrated it into "Moonlight Water" and fixed it into the shape of a dagger, he first froze it with the ice power given by Chloe, and then asked Dorothy to turn the ice crystal into eternity using the spell "Crystal Touch."

"You are always facing various battles, and you like to be empty-handed, at most using the 'Sunlight Gun.' Carry this dagger with you; maybe it will come in handy at some point."

It could be seen that Iluna also liked this gift quite a bit.

Xia De certainly would not forget Miss Ilessa, who lived with Xivi. The ship girl herself had accumulated quite a bit of wealth. Choosing a suitable gift for her was also a difficult problem. Finally, Xia De found a suitable gift in the black market in the dock area of Coldwater Port one week before the Year-End Festival.

Keeper-level relic - 【Love of the Ocean】, shaped like a silver anchor-shaped pendant, about half the size of a palm. As long as it exists on a ship, the probability of the ship encountering bad weather such as storms while sailing in the ocean will become very low.

Although the relic also had the negative effect of making the ship's wooden planks more prone to rot, this did not have much impact on a special ship like the "Radiant Messenger."

By the way, Xia De felt that the runes engraved on the surface of this relic were very interesting—【Favor of the Sea, Disgust of the Sea.】

The ship girl accepted the gift very generously. She simply wove a scarf for Xia De as a gift because she thought everyone would prepare gifts for Xia De, and she was not missing her share.

However, when stuffing the dark blue scarf to Xia De, she also invited Xia De to inspect her bridge as the "Captain." The so-called "bridge" was the protruding part on the main body of a ship, and Xia De confirmed again that the ship girl had a bridge second only to Tifa's.

"Then what have you prepared for me?"

After Xia De entered the door, Danist asked with a smile:

"You won't really give me that 【Flower of Immortality】 in the end, right? If you are really troubled by gifts, then giving me that is also fine."

"If I say, I want to use my good grades in the exam this year as a gift for you, will you be angry?"

Xia De asked jokingly. The red-haired girl shook her head, first confirming that there was no owl eavesdropping or peeking in the living room outside the bedroom door behind Xia De, and then kissed him:

"Not angry, this gift is quite good, at least it shows that I am very competent as your teacher."

"But given our relationship, this kind of gift is still a bit too thin. I found that most of you around me lack nothing, and in the end, I want to give you this."

The red-haired girl untied the ribbon, unwrapped the colored paper, and after opening the small wooden box, saw the leaf lying inside:

"【Ye Zi of Eternal Youth】?"

"Congratulations to you both."

And in the memory of the "Past Life," the pregnancy of Miss Brown happened before the Battle of Moon Bay. Although in this Sixth Era, the pregnancy still happened, at least this time she and the child in her womb would not be sacrificed by cultists.

【Going home now? Not going to see the mermaid?】

The only acquaintances in Vista Forest that needed to be visited were the "Hermit Group in the Forest," but Xia De felt that he didn't need to go in person. It would be fine to let the girls staying at the "Moon Sanctuary" help deliver the gifts, so Xia De prepared to go straight home after leaving Moon Bay.

"See the mermaid? Am I crazy?"

Xia De responded in his heart, but still stood on the street and looked towards the northwest of Moon Bay.

Beneath the mansion of the Earl of Dalmanin was the location of that "mermaid." Unless he had obtained the power to resist it from the Council controlled by the chaotic Great Witch, Xia De would not take the initiative to look for it.

As for vampires like Marquis Morsen, Captain Rudolf, Lady Jude, and Miss Rice, who had given Xia De great help in the Moon Bay incident, he also didn't need to visit them in person. However, when he walked out of the basement at home, Xia De remembered that he should also write a letter to Professor Drake, who had moved from Huntington to Wilndale.

"With this, after visiting Professor Manning tomorrow, and then visiting Last Edward after Megan and Audrey arrive, there shouldn't be anything left before the Year-End Festival."

Among the eight Great Witches, besides Miss Jia Lin Na who was already in Tobesk, Megan, Fuluola, Xiwei, and Miss Beiya would come here for the holiday.

Xia De originally thought that the witches would arrive tomorrow or even the day after tomorrow, but after he returned home from the basement in the evening, just as he walked into the first floor, he saw Tifa with Miss Bell and several other artist assistants, who were settling their luggage on the first floor.

The pale-faced girl was originally standing at the door of the first-floor bedroom, and when she turned her head inadvertently, she saw Xia De.

At this moment, the sound of the cat flying downstairs also appeared. The black-haired head maid, who knew this was Xia De returning, walked out of the first-floor bedroom:

"Miss Winster has arrived and is talking to the Young Lady upstairs."

Tifa said, knowing very well what Xia De wanted to know:

"Miss Winster and her party arrived about an hour ago. The Young Lady arranged to set off for her manor for dinner in half an hour. Your clothes for going out are already prepared in the second-floor bedroom. Do you need to change now?"

Fuluola's early arrival was not very surprising. After all, if you count carefully, her work was similar to Dorothy's, and the disposable time was quite a lot.

This could also be considered "Miss Owl's" first formal visit to No. 6 St. Deran Square. Although Xia De didn't hear her first evaluation of this house, he heard Fuluola commenting on the oil painting hanging in the living room when he went upstairs.

She was of course not commenting on "Dance Across Time," but that mermaid oil painting Xia De brought back from Green Lake:

"This painting is suitable to hang with my oil paintings. I admit that the other party's artistic level is not inferior to mine.