Chapter 3214

The waiting process was very boring, especially since Xia De was underwater with dim light, and he couldn't even make eye contact with others.

He opened his eyes and "sat" in the water, looking at the surroundings. The dim environment easily made messy thoughts surge up. Although his own ember light slightly illuminated the surroundings, in the silence, such subtle little light made it easier for people to let their imagination run wild:

"Little Mia and Miss Reinhardt's temperament are really very similar. I don't know if she drinks the 【Cat in the Bottle】 magic potion... Is Miss Larson abducted by her from the extreme north? Miss Larson can't be the cousin of that Miss Aisha Aisberg..."

To prevent himself from thinking too much, Xia De simply closed his eyes and waited quietly for the end of the purification.

"It's really slow."

After closing his eyes, his hearing became more sensitive. At first, he could only hear the very slight gurgling sound of the spring, but as time passed, other sounds also entered his ears.

Xia De didn't know whether those noises were auditory hallucinations or illusions. He pretended that nothing had happened and waited with his eyes closed, motionless, ignoring the "distracting thoughts" that were getting louder and louder. But even if he imagined the scene of Little Mia running in his heart to make time pass faster, it would be best if it could jump to the next plot like a dividing line in a knight novel, but those sounds that did not belong to the spring became clearer and clearer, until Xia De actually heard complete, understandable sentences:

"Miss Annette, do you really want to enter here?"

"What?"

The surprised Xia De opened his eyes immediately, and those noises disappeared immediately. He looked left and right and closed his eyes again, and the sound appeared again.

Clearly, he could still see the earthy yellow aura and the rope around his waist when his eyes were open, but at this time, when he closed his eyes and let his perception go, he couldn't feel the effect of the Holy Grail and the rope tied to his waist.

He kept his eyes closed and looked up "to see." Bright light appeared above the spring. There was indeed only Xia De in the spring, but he clearly "saw" two people standing outside the spring.

"Of course I want to go into the water. Isn't that why we came here? Oh, Claire, you wouldn't still not trust me, would you? Heh, don't forget, only I have a way to treat your grandfather's injuries—you wouldn't want Elder Harald to really turn into a magic sword, would you?"

This tone was obviously not the "Annette" Xia De knew. After opening his eyes, the sound disappeared again, and there was no one by the spring. Miss Reinhardt and Miss Larson stood further away.

"What exactly is the situation?"

He couldn't figure it out, so he closed his eyes again and continued to listen to that conversation that didn't belong to this time and space.

"No, please save him, I trust you... Please be careful, I don't know how deep this spring is, you must pay attention when you dive."

It sounds like they came here, it seems not to purify pollution.

"So you Fatum people have lived here since the last era, and you have never thought that there is something deep in this spring, right?"

This time it was Luweiya's voice. Although the sound was a bit distorted through the water, Xia De had already confirmed that he hadn't heard it wrong.

"Miss Annette, we don't have your divination skills. Besides, we have no intention of changing anything on the Holy Mountain. We respect this place."

Although he couldn't see this scene by the spring, Xia De could fully imagine the mocking expression on the long-haired Luweiya's face:

"The conservatism of the Fatum people and the arrogance of the witches, you have both of these shortcomings perfectly, which makes you look... cuter than the cat I raise."

"Oh, please don't touch my face!"

Xia De heard the tone of grief and indignation, and then it was Luweiya's laughter. It was reasonable that she, with long hair, was considered a villain by Adele:

"Tsk tsk, more and more like a cat. Well, let's not say so much. I'll go get that thing now. 【Puppeteer's Script】, 【Prophecy Spinning Wheel】, and 【Crossroads Kaleidoscope】 are having a big battle of fate. In the situation where the three relics and the controllers can't control the main line of fate, we still have time to make other arrangements, and the key to entering the game is not to stir up fate, but to understand one's own identity.

Why don't they understand that manipulating fate is equivalent to falling into the trap of fate. They think they are the directors of this story, but from the moment they actively intervene, they have also become one of the stage actors. Angel-level relics are not the strongest; perhaps there are others holding the unknowable 【Fate Pedestal】, 【History of Years】, and 【Ouroboros Eye】 arranging their fate at a higher narrative level."

The purple eyes were probably staring at the water surface talking at this moment, because Xia De, who was looking up, had almost seen that touch of purple.

"Miss Annette, aren't we actors in the complicated story on this island at this moment? You said before that this island is a stage."

This was Miss Reinhardt's voice, very cautious, as if afraid of angering the other object speaking.

Long-haired Luweiya sighed softly, and it took a few seconds before she spoke:

"You are indeed an actor. After all, you were born here. When you, as the most talented Fatum priest, received that letter to return here in a dramatic way, you had already entered the game as a 'character.' But before I have done anything, I am temporarily just a 【viewer】 who appreciates this grand performance. For this drama, this identity is the best."

"The chess player outside the chess game is actually just a part of the game. The person standing next to the chessboard is the one who can truly understand everything."

Xia De, who had his eyes closed in the water, felt that he was listening to something extraordinary. He really hoped that this conversation could continue to deepen, preferably directly discussing who the candidate for the chosen one of fate was, and being able to talk about what the ritual of the chosen one of fate was.

But it was a pity that the topic did not continue, but fortunately the sound did not disappear:

"Claire, oh Claire, you should be glad that the battle intensity in the story of fate is not high, and I need the local forces of the Fatum people and the All-Souls Festival in 1859 to be held normally, otherwise I wouldn't be talking to you about these things here calmly. Obey me, and I will give you the reward you deserve."

Miss Reinhardt was obviously speaking while enduring fear:

"I know what you did before."

"Then you should understand even more what my promise means. Our ally, the thirteen-ring 'Nun of Mad Fire' Daifulin, will soon return from the New Continent. At that time, just watch her melt the entire snow mountain."

"What are you going to do! This Holy Mountain..."

"Hides many secrets. If the snow is not melted, some things will never be clear. For example, what is hidden in this cold spring."

"You, you... blaspheming the Holy Mountain, everyone else on this island will die because of this—you will be punished!"

The long-haired girl smiled:

"The retribution I have suffered is already enough. You don't know the story I have experienced, but I believe that everything I have done is correct, even if I have become a bad person in your eyes... Claire Reinhardt, if fate is really fair, then after I finally unload my heavy burden, you can share the treasures I possess. Will you be satisfied then?

I don't need people's gratitude; I know it myself, and that's enough."

Xia De, who was listening to these words, had a very complicated mood. He was not sighing that fate was indeed fulfilled, but sighing that long-haired Luweiya had walked such a long way before meeting himself. He really wanted to hug that girl now. Including Adele, although people in the past all thought Luweiya was a bad person, or at least not a good person, Xia De still loved that long-haired girl.

He had not experienced right and wrong; he just knew that he came because of her:

"Fate... Luweiya, since you know that the snow mountain is the stage of fate, how can you say such things under this stage?"

"Miss Annette, I will confirm one last time, taking away that thing under the water really won't affect this spring, right?"

Miss Reinhardt's voice sounded again, and the long-haired girl was obviously a bit impatient:

"No, that piece of skin at the bottom of the spring just happened to come here along the mountain crack. You Fatum people really don't know what this snow mountain means. The source of the spring is more complicated than you think, but everything will wait until I come back.

Reinhardt, you are really useless. If you could have the power of the twelfth tier, where would I need to go into the water myself? 'Punishing Thunder' Iluna Beias is so much younger than you, and now she is already thirteen rings."

The long-haired girl obviously didn't think about taking off her clothes and jumping down. After all, she just wanted to dive into the bottom and didn't have the need to touch the spring and then cast the spell like Xia De.

Xia De was still closing his eyes and looking up at this moment, so he "saw" the blurry long-haired figure entering the water. The picture was so blurry, which also made him confirm that he did not "illegally" travel through time like he did in the Randall Valley. The current situation was just that time and space intersected here for some reason, which allowed him to "see" that touch of time and space that had already disappeared.

But clearly it was just Xia De seeing a remnant of the past, but after the blurry long-haired figure entered the water, Xia De clearly saw that figure suddenly look down. So, the purple eyes directly met his closed eyes across time and space—

"Who is there! Adele, you are peeping at me again!"

After an angry scolding, from a distance of five meters away, long-haired Luweiya raised her right hand into a knife and slashed down:

"【Magic - Shattering Space-Time - Moonlight Slash!】"

It was not silver, red, or yellow moonlight. The moonlight made of the deepest black slashed towards Xia De's raised head. Even though he had never seen it, Xia De still understood that it was the last touch of moonlight before the end:

"You don't have to be so ruthless every time—Night Curtain Seal!"

(End of chapter)