Chapter 3150

There weren't many creative command cards in Megan and Audrey's homemade "King's Game," and the most excessive one was just asking Xia De to help Luweiya knead her shoulders. They didn't "monopolize" Xia De the whole time; after happily playing a few rounds with Xia De, they left together with Luweiya, and then Vanessa brought Xilisi and came over with Fulora:

"Xia De, have you ever played a multiplayer chess game?"

The chessboard was placed on the water surface, and after it took twenty minutes to finish a game, Xilisi, as the final winner, could order any other participant in the game to do anything according to the rules everyone had discussed before the game.

So, amidst Vanessa's egging on, she had Xia De kiss her forehead. Although they had kissed in private more than once, doing so while wearing only a bathrobe in front of so many people still made the blonde girl quite shy.

And when Yiluna, Aimiliya, and Ajielina came over together, the young girls wanted to play riddles with Xia De.

This was also a quite classic game, so even Princess Lei Qianya and Duoluoxi, who hadn't left, were invited to join the game. Everyone took turns posing riddles, and whoever guessed the most correctly in the end would win.

The three girls had obviously seen Xilisi "fully" utilize the winner's privilege just now, so they were all holding back their energy, wanting to win as well. This led to some problems; for example, when Ajielina faced Princess Lei Qianya's riddle, she almost said something she shouldn't have.

It was Princess Lei Qianya's turn to pose a question:

"Listen carefully—what kind of activity can simultaneously satisfy the four conditions of eating, drinking, playing, and having fun?"

Ajielina also pinned her long hair behind her head; after revealing her whole face like this, Xia De found that her face shape was still relatively similar to Queen Diana's.

And the little princess only thought for a moment before her face flushed red; she looked at the part of Xia De that was underwater with some disbelief, and after only a moment of hesitation, she was about to blurt out the answer:

"Oral..."

"It's a banquet! It's attending a banquet, eating, drinking, playing Luo De cards, dancing!"

Miss Yilaise, who was watching the young girls play the game, hurriedly shouted loudly, drowning out the word Ajielina was trying to say, while Miss Haili Afuluola beside her tried hard to hold back her laughter.

"Miss Yilaise, you spoke even though you weren't participating in the game; this is against the rules."

Duoluoxi said with a smile, while Yiluna was puzzled that this could even count as a riddle, and because the pointed-eared elf was closest to Ajielina, she unfortunately heard exactly what she had said. At this moment, those pointed ears were already bright red, and her emerald eyes looked at her good friend with an incredible expression.

Ajielina then slowly let herself sink until her mouth and nose were completely submerged under the water surface, leaving only her two eyes still above the water. The warm pool water pressed down on her face, which was red enough to explode; facing her sister's scrutinizing gaze, Ajielina rarely began to self-examine:

"Have I really been reading those books too much... Wait, why does it feel like my sister is doing this on purpose?"

"World-Shocking Wisdom" played a role again; this special state would probably follow Ajielina for a long time.

In the subsequent games, Ajielina missed many opportunities because she was worried about being "calculated" again, and the riddle game was finally won by the highly competitive Yiluna. However, she was too embarrassed to let Xia De kiss her in front of so many people in the end; after Luweiya provided a suggestion, she and Xia De drank a glass of red wine amidst the egging on of others—drinking from interlocked arms.

Next, Xia De played a real round of Luo De cards with Xiwei, Miss Beier, and Tifa, chatting with Grace and Helen about the Sikar Mountain incident while playing cards.

Dannister still didn't know from Xia De's perspective what had happened on Sikar Mountain back then, so she also watched the girls and Xia De play cards, listening to the conversation between Xia De and the two sisters, and finally summarized it:

"So in the autumn of 1853, when you were only a Third-Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi, you first ran into Death, defeated the first candidate of the Chosen of Death located on home turf head-on, and after Miss Jia Lin Na and Luweiya rescued you, you ran to the lake at the foot of Sikar Mountain and had a head-on confrontation with the God of Vampires who had just descended."

"You won the divine war and were rescued by Sister Daifulin, and incidentally defeated the undead chimera evil creature born on the 'edge of life and death' on the mountaintop from a distance, and finally rescued the thousands of souls trapped on the edge of life and death."

"Although a lot of details are missing, the general process is like this."

"So, it makes perfect sense that no one suspected you were the God-Awakener at that time."

Dannister covered her forehead; at this time, Princess Lei Qianya and Duoluoxi had already left Xia De's side, so she sat down on Xia De's right—Xia De's left was Silvia.

Xia De reached out to embrace her, and she only had a slightly red face; when she leaned gently on Xia De's shoulder, she noticed that the hand of the young black-haired witch on Xia De's other side seemed a bit restless. She was a bit shy, but didn't say anything more, just thinking if she could have known Xia De's secret earlier, would she not have had to wait until this autumn to confirm her relationship with Xia De.

In the first half of the hot spring soak, everyone still had the heart to play various games, but when the night grew deeper, the girls all quieted down, enjoying the fleeting leisure of the year-end season together.

Margarete asked about Xia De's arrangements and plans after the festival; in fact, she was still thinking about when Xia De would visit Willondale City again. And Xia De originally didn't intend to reveal his plans after the New Year to make everyone worry, but since everyone was there, and Margarete had already asked, he spoke up:

"After the festival and exams are over, I plan to go to the vicinity of the Lagson Principality in the south of the Old Continent."

"What are you going there for?"

Beier asked curiously, placing the wine glass in her hand on the edge of the pool, and the others also looked at Xia De. Xia De's back leaned against the edge of the pool, slightly raising his head to look at the night sky above the hot spring:

"There are two things. The first is that Sister Daifulin said that among the remaining sparks of the First Fire, one is in the Star Fall Bay area on the southeast coast of the Old Continent, which belongs to the Lagson Principality;"

"The second thing... I received information that the appearance of the Chosen of Fate is related to the Unknown-level relic 【Seat of Fate】, and the Prophet Association has already confirmed that the relic is near the black building that you, Megan, and Miss Isabella dealt with."

"The Lagson Principality is on the east side of that black containment building."

Megan said softly, and Xia De nodded:

"So I'll set off after the exams, and as for the means of getting there, I'll consider it."

Silvia could directly open a portal to the Star Fall Bay-Fatumonster Island, but traveling from Willondale City, where Silvia was, to Xia De's side also took more than half an hour; Xia De couldn't let Silvia come over every time, or he couldn't arrive in Willondale first every time.

Therefore, he would probably still need to use the White Stone Crystal when the time came.

"Is it starting again so soon? Although it's been almost two months since the Battle of the Woodland ended, I still feel that you haven't rested for too long, Xia De."

Miss Jia Lin Na said to Xia De, and Xia De shook his head, asking the girls in the pool:

"This rest time has been long enough, and it's time for me to move around. But speaking of which, who among you knows the Lagson Principality best?"

"My main impression of that place is that the headquarters of the Prophet Association is in that principality... and the Lagson Principality is the one that has the best relationship with the Archipelago Kingdom-Kelageli in the west of the Old Continent among the many countries of the Old Continent."

"It can't be called the best relationship; it's just that three generations ago, the sister of the King of the Archipelago Kingdom married the younger brother of the Grand Duke of Lagson, so the two sides could be considered to have some kinship. Therefore, when ships flying the Lagson Principality flag travel back and forth to the Old Continent, they are rarely harassed by the pirates on those islands, which is why people say the Lagson Principality has a good relationship with the pirates."

Countess Beier corrected, while Xiwei added:

"Our family has a very good relationship with the Grand Duke of Lagson, and more than half of the large ships in the principality come from our family's shipyards. Xia De, you need to pay attention to one thing: although the headquarters of the Prophet Association is in the principality, the association doesn't participate much in secular politics."

"Currently, the principality has two centers: the capital—【Lomari City】 and the Time Wheel City on Fatumonster Island in the bay—【Fatumonster City】. Lomari City, located on the coast, is famous for producing high-end textiles in addition to Luo De cards and prophets; people often say that the continuous textile factories in Lomari City swallow up one-third of the female workers in the entire city."

"Fatumonster City is famous for the watchmaking industry, and there are many craftsmen there. The city is located on the south side of the island, occupying only a small part of the island's area, and that island is much larger than Green Island. And in the foothills of the snow-capped mountains that occupy most of the island's area, many tribal people who retain relatively traditional habits still live."

Xia De nodded and noted these down, while Dannister spoke of her own understanding:

"The Prophet Association has a relatively open attitude toward non-church sorcerers, so the number of sorcerers in the entire Lagson Principality is not small. I visited the Prophet Association headquarters many years ago and was deeply impressed by the prosperous trade situation in the sorcerer black market in Lomari City."

"Both Lomari City and Fatumonster City have relatively large churches of the Five Gods, and the three major academies as well as other relatively neutral sorcerer organizations also have branch institutions there in a semi-public form. The number of correspondence groups of St. Byrons in those two cities is three times that of Tobesk."

"Because of the existence of prophets, the local residents' acceptance of supernatural power is generally relatively high; of course, it is limited to prophecy and divination."

Xia De then asked Margarete:

"I heard that the Grand Duke of Lagson has no blood relationship with the Anru royal family. During the unification war of Karsenrik, why didn't your ancestors think of annexing the principality?"

(End of chapter)