Chapter 3209: The Demonic Sword's Properties

He had thought tonight's matter would become another unsolved mystery, but after Luvia lightly furrowed her brow, she gently tapped her left palm with her right fist:

"So that's how it is. It seems those cultists already know about the Chosen ceremony!"

"Luvia, what do you know?"

Everyone looked at her, so the purple-eyed young lady explained:

"Around the year-end festival I heard a lot of news from the Association. Let me explain things one by one. Xia De said that cultist mentioned a spinning wheel — the Association actually knew about this before the year-end festival. The cultists who worship the evil god 【Mr. Misfortune】 obtained a powerful Angel-level Fate-type relic last year — 【Prophecy Spinning Wheel】.

"The linen woven through this spinning wheel bears the clearest guidance of fate. As long as you write what you wish to know on the raw materials prepared for weaving, there's a high probability of getting an answer. It can even, through certain methods, cause that spinning wheel to actively weave and interfere with the course of fate."

Princess Lei Lei Qianya understood:

"So the 【Fate-Weaving Spider Silk】 they seized tonight—"

"Yes, special raw materials should make that Angel-level relic's properties manifest even more strongly. 【Fate-Weaving Spider Silk】 clearly fits that relic's characteristics very well."

The purple eyes narrowed slightly:

"I have acquaintances at the Prophets Association headquarters too. Regarding the verse fragments about the Chosen of Fate, it's not a big secret at Association headquarters. After all, before Yi Lu Na appeared, no one expected the epic of the 'Whispering Verses' to occur in our era.

"One of the fragments reads thus — the spinning wheel weaves the story, the script directs destiny, the mirror chooses the future. The Association's prophets interpret this as referring to three top-tier relics that manipulate fate being related to the Chosen of Fate. The spinning wheel among them is most likely the 【Prophecy Spinning Wheel】."

"This script wouldn't happen to be the 【Puppeteer's Script】, would it?"

Jia Lin Na asked suspiciously, while Xia De inquired further:

"But I recall you saying that the complete script is the Angel-level relic, but it's now been split into separate pages. Separate pages can only be considered Sage-level. At that time, after helping Yi Lu Na complete the Chosen ceremony, we obtained three blank pages — weren't they distributed to you in the end? (Chapter 283)"

Luvia nodded:

"The complete 【Puppeteer's Script】 should have always been in the hands of the 【Blood Spirit School】; otherwise there's no explaining how they can always produce blank pages. As for the final mirror, the Association is only suspecting a few relics right now, but hasn't reached a definite conclusion."

"The Chosen ceremony is related to these three relics? Could it be that these three relics are needed to direct a grand drama on that remote island?"

Ajielina exercised her imagination and guessed:

"Look, a mysterious demonic sword has already appeared on the island — very much in the style of a legendary tale beginning. And that Miss Reinhart, a young lady from the island who, after being away from home for a long time, returns because of her hometown's peculiar ceremony."

The little princess's reading volume paid off at this moment. Princess Lei Lei Qianya smiled and looked at her younger sister, but did not "reproach" her:

"Dorothy asked me to say she also thinks there's this possibility. Then whoever holds these three relics is a candidate?"

Jia Lin Na opposed this idea:

"There are only three candidates — that's rather too few. I know when it was Yi Lu Na, there was only her alone. The candidates for the Dark Chosen weren't numerous either, but in recent times, candidates have always exceeded three. Think of the Holy Sword bearers at Moon Bay, think of the Battle of Time in the woodlands."

She then asked Luvia:

"What are your thoughts?"

Luvia's purple eyes gleamed with ghostly light. She didn't answer the question, but instead asked Xia De:

"Assuming Ajielina's guess is correct, then Xia De, what conditions must a grand drama meet before it can begin?"

Xia De answered without hesitation:

"A script, actors, and an audience."

Luvia nodded. In those beautiful purple eyes, it seemed as if light truly floated:

"Although I'm sorry to Silvia, the 'Spatial Maze' on Fatumoenst Island must be found within this week. Xia De, I've recently found a way to obtain spatial-related spirit runes.

"Starting next week, I'll make time to go to the island and look around with you. It seems a giant spider web has already been spread across that island, but you're completely unaware of it. The story of fate has begun. As a professional licensed diviner, I can't just stay home all the time."

Although Luvia was also at Saint Delan Square No. 6 tonight, due to feeling "unwell," she did not appear by Xia De's side that evening. After washing up, the duke and princess of the Cavendish family were led by the hand by Xia De to the bedroom. The two sisters, who had many conflicts in the past, had long since reconciled their relationship. Especially on nights like this, the two "sisters" were very good at cooperating together.

Especially when Princess Lei Lei Qianya mischievously called Jia Lin Na "elder sister," Xia De could clearly feel Jia Lin Na becoming more excited. Of course, afterward Princess Lei Lei Qianya felt she'd been taken advantage of:

"Dorothy and I came first — we're the elder sisters. In fact, Dorothy and I were the first to meet Xia De, earlier than Luvia and earlier than you."

And at midnight in dreams, when the red-haired Cavendish young ladies on both sides had fallen into deep sleep, Xia De stared at the ceiling and, unusually, suffered some insomnia. Ajielina's guess was still being mulled over repeatedly. If fate truly required directing a drama to complete the epic, then was this the method for the princess and the writer to escape destiny?

【If this is true, you should be happy. Why the insomnia?】

"She" asked gently, like the moonlight outside the window.

"Because I've known for a very long time that fate should absolutely never be toyed with or manipulated."

【You fear it, and thus compromise with fate?】

"No, didn't that person in the casino say it? There's never some great hand pulling strings behind the scenes. I believe my own choices can create fate. But those things destined to happen, arising from necessity... If fate is truly a double-edged sword, it hurt Dorothy and Princess Lei Lei Qianya — shouldn't it compensate them for something?"

The outsider, who was very good at consoling himself, figured it out at once:

"Forget it, I'll just sleep. I have to go to Moon Bay first thing tomorrow morning."

"She" smiled gently. That laughter accompanied Xia De into the silver moon dream illuminated by moonlight. The lamb-like Princess Lei Lei Qianya drew closer to Xia De again. Although dissatisfied with the twenty-one-day interval, she and Dorothy were actually quite content with the current situation.

(Little Xiao Miya running.)

Early Thursday morning, before even eating breakfast, at exactly seven o'clock, Xia De appeared at the morgue at the end of Spider Alley in Moon Bay's lower city district. He had originally planned to wait at the door if Mr. Albert hadn't arrived at work yet, but unexpectedly the vampire coroner was already working there bright and early.

"Mr. Albert, you don't really live here, do you?"

"Although my living habits differ from normal people, I'm not so far gone as to live in a morgue."

The vampire said, removing his gloves and leading Xia De toward the office. He seemed to be in a good mood early in the morning:

"I had some work left unfinished last night. I planned to come do some things first and then go to the Spider Inn for breakfast later, but I didn't expect you to show up. But your coming is good timing. Bernhardt heard it was you looking for information and very actively went to find the containment file for that demonic sword.

"Last night a little bat brought those messages over. I figured you'd definitely come today."

Information about Angel-level relics definitely couldn't be sent by mail — once the information leaked, the consequences would be very troublesome. Mr. Bernhardt, far away in Wien Dale, had considered coming in person to deliver the intelligence orally, but on one hand that would take time, and on the other he worried about getting involved in trouble — there had already been many precedents: Middelburg, Huntington City, Moon Bay, for instance.

So the intelligence was sent using a unique vampire secret technique.

"This."

In the coroner's office, Mr. Albert bent down and pulled open the cabinet on the lower right side of the desk, handing Xia De a glass jar containing a small red bat. Although the bat's color was unusual, in every other respect it looked completely normal, and at that moment it was still crashing about inside the jar, seemingly very eager for freedom.

Transmitting information through this bat secret technique is a power exclusive to high-ranking vampires — even ordinary vampires are excluded. However, both Mr. Bernhardt and Mr. Albert believed Xia De could also access this secret technique.

Facts proved their thinking correct. When Xia De activated 【Blood Echo】 and looked at the little bat, what he saw in his eyes was no longer a bat, but letters packed densely together:

【Angel-level relic — Sword Brood Nest. A metallic lifeform created by a mad alchemist of the Second Epoch, which became a relic in the Third Epoch.

Relic properties —

Autonomous Consciousness: The relic possesses a complete autonomous consciousness, and will actively devour the holder's consciousness and take control of them;

Biological Properties: The relic should be regarded as a living organism. This metallic lifeform does not need to feed, but after absorbing large quantities of fresh blood, its power will be greatly enhanced;

Proliferation Properties: Upon contact with the blood of a lifeform of a specific constitution, it will gradually transform them into a metallic lifeform until they become a brand-new demonic sword. This process is reversible before a complete "Gelmora Alchemical Rune Array" appears on the surface of the lifeform being transformed; for the specific method of reversal, see Appendix 1 of the file;

Hive-Mother Properties: After the relic proliferates, all demonic swords share the same hive-mother consciousness, and each demonic sword is the relic's main body; until all known demonic swords have been contained, the relic cannot be considered contained; the maximum number of demonic swords in existence is 13. Through the clan's secret arts, the current number of demonic swords in existence can be ascertained; for the specific method, see Appendix 2 of the file;

Power Resonance: All demonic swords can sense the location and status of other demonic swords. When multiple demonic swords appear together, their power will be enhanced through resonance; when all 13 demonic swords are present, the limit of their power approaches that of an Unknown-class relic;

Demonic Sword Swordsmanship: Omitted】