Chapter 3266: Atonement

Sister Daifulin raised her head, and the mithril eye mask faced Xia De's eyes. Xia De could see Sister Daifulin's complete face at this moment. So white, so fragile, so beautiful...

Still expressionless and still cold in tone:

"I don't want to understand this point only after a bigger gap appears between us, so please accept my apology. From now on, please feel free to obtain the power of any fire. Your increase in power is my wish."

Xia De pursed his lips and looked at her, and the pale Sister Daifulin also maintained the action of raising her head.

For a long time, Xia De thought about what to say:

"I admit that I was indeed considering you before, so I was not so active in obtaining the power of the nuns of the past era. But I want to emphasize one point—I don't care what the fire has given you, I will not treat you as a tool to improve power. In my eyes, you are... Sister Daifulin, the unique Sister Daifulin."

The nun's lips moved, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she said nothing, just lowered her head.

"Letting you take over the fire back then was my own forcing. On the top of Mount Sikar, after you resisted the bloodthirsty god."

"But I have accepted it now, and this power is really easy to use. I should thank you for your decision on the top of Mount Sikar back then, although it was indeed a bit despicable... ahem, I mean, I have already fallen in love with this warm flame. Along the way, this flame has helped me a lot, and I can't live without you anymore."

The dim underground sacrificial site fell into silence after Xia De's words fell. At this moment, it seemed that the falling of a needle would cause a huge sound. The two didn't speak, although Sister Daifulin had lowered her head again, Xia De believed that she had been looking at him.

The silence was broken by Sister Daifulin herself:

"So, even if I have committed such a sin, are you still willing to accept my fire? Xia De."

"I don't admit the first half of the sentence, but of course I will continue to touch the fire."

Xia De showed a smile. In his opinion, this itself was a small matter. Even if he encounters the need for the power of ancient nuns again later, he is confident that he can handle the relationship with Sister Daifulin well. Now that the nun herself took the initiative to talk about this topic, solving this matter this time can also avoid trouble in the future:

"Even if I don't have fire now, I will still help you collect the flames of the First Flame. As for the power of the ancient nuns, if there is really a need later, I will still take the initiative to tell you before learning, instead of just wanting everything casually.

You might have misunderstood before. I didn't accept the power of other nuns casually, not because I was worried that you would be angry, but because I wanted to show my care for you. This is not a big deal, you don't need to be so serious."

"She" in his ear continued to smile, and didn't know what she was laughing at.

Sister Daifulin nodded gently:

"Thank you for your generosity..."

"Please don't thank me again."

"But the great sin of jealousy I committed before will not disappear because of today's conversation... Please give me punishment."

She looked serious.

"This is unnecessary, right? I said this is not a big deal, and I fully understand your thoughts."

"Then punishment, even if it is the same as what you did to the witches, is fine."

So the next second, some crazy pictures flooded into Xia De's head. The outsider was startled by his own imagination and hurriedly shook his head to dispel the picture:

"Ahem, Sister, such words cannot be said casually. I am not opposed, no, I am not accepting either. I... punishment is completely unnecessary, really unnecessary."

He was really frightened. If other girls said this, or even witches who don't have the most intimate relationship with him yet said this, he would only think this is flirting, but Sister Daifulin is clearly serious.

The speaking speed is slow like prayer:

"If you are unwilling to let the sinner bitten by the sin of jealousy suffer punishment... then please allow me to atone for my sins by the ancient rituals of the order."

She said she was going to use the ritual of the 【Spirit Cultivation Order】 to punish herself. Although Xia De is not clear about what that specifically is, he still remembers that the 【Spirit Cultivation Order】 is a type of ascetic order. The outsider can completely imagine what the style of their punishment is:

"No, please don't do this."

He immediately shook his head again. At this moment, he knew that Sister Daifulin's attitude was firm, so he took the initiative to propose:

"The secret method of sensing the First Flame given to me by Sister Beren has been broken in the current era. Now I will teach this secret method to you again."

"Hero who bears the fire..."

Xia De didn't care what she wanted to say this time. After grabbing Sister Daifulin's hand, he pressed her hand towards her own chest. This is actually not what Sister Beren did at the time, but it doesn't matter.

Of course, Xia De had been held by Sister Daifulin to do similar actions before, such as when Sister Daifulin gave him that warm flame forty minutes ago. But the feeling this time was different from the last time, and so... Sister Daifulin obviously left here while he was away to change some clothes.

Sister Daifulin's body trembled obviously, but the next second the flame ignited from the palms of the two people holding hands.

While the crimson cracks spread from the palm to Xia De's entire right arm, it also ignited the left chest of Sister Daifulin, and then extended to her whole body.

Xia De tried his best not to let that strange touch interfere with his concentration. He closed his eyes, learned to perceive the jumping of the First Flame himself like Sister Beren more than an hour ago—this must be distinguished from the heartbeat of the nun sensed by the right hand, and then magnified this perception and passed it to Sister Daifulin's hand.

The fire shared by Sister Beren already explained how this inheritance should be taught to others, so Xia De performed it very smoothly. Just because of his bold move, when the "pulse" of the First Flame rhythmically moved in the palms of the two, Xia De didn't know why he felt as if he had grabbed Sister Daifulin's heart.

The body of the First Flame is in Sister Daifulin's body, so of course there will be no accidents in the process of Xia De sharing the secret method. When the flames gradually contracted and only little sparks remained on the hands of the two, Xia De opened his mouth again:

"Just treat this as punishment... this is enough."

Sister Daifulin didn't speak. She let go of Xia De's hand, but before Xia De's hand was withdrawn, she pressed his hand back onto the back of his hand, making his right hand stick directly to her robe.

Xia De was even willing to swear by Little Mia that the action of kneading bread he accidentally made afterwards was completely an instinctive reaction of his hand without going through his brain.

So silence descended again. After a long silence, Xia De, who was tightening his face, withdrew his right hand and said goodbye to Sister Daifulin, and said that if there was news about the demon recently, he would come to her for help. Sister Daifulin said goodbye to him with her head slightly lowered, but before Xia De was about to leave the dim underground sacrificial site, he stopped at the elevator of the sacrificial site:

"It's too dark here."

He said this:

"Put some candles in the cracks of the bricks, on the stone steps, and by the walls, or light some oil lamps. Although there is no need to completely illuminate this place, it is still too dark to have only flames in the center."

"Okay."

The nun said softly, so Xia De left by elevator amidst the rumbling sound. As for afterwards, he stood at the entrance of the sacrificial site and raised his right hand just now to look at the sun, that was the outsider's own business.

【How do you feel?】

"Sister's personality is really different from other girls."

【You know what I'm asking.】

"She" was gentler than the sun at this moment, and Xia De answered until he threw the crystal shoe:

"Ajelina is indeed the youngest."

There was no delay for too long on the sacrificial site side. Considering that he had to pick up Amelia in the afternoon, Xia De did not set off for the snowy mountain this morning, but sorted out his textbooks for the new semester at home. After all, even if the doctor didn't remind him, Xia De knew that the summer exam week would be around the corner.

There was still plenty of time. Before lunch, he went to the Dawn Church again and found Priest Augustus. After talking to the old priest in his underground magic potion workshop about the 【Tomb King】 and "Tombstone Wasteland," the priest really knew some things.

"That place itself is a big coffin. Those who go in are dead people, and they lie in it forever and can't walk out. This description should be quite appropriate."

The priest, who was biting an unlit pipe and testing the current temperature of the high-temperature calcination furnace, said. The instrument he used was a gas thermometer, which judged the temperature based on the volume change of colored gas caused by the ambient temperature. This set of instruments was much larger than the calcination equipment itself, but the good news was that this test equipment did not need to use a steam power source.

"The old god 【Tomb King】 did obtain the power to control that wasteland in the era after the ancient gods left. If you hadn't already known the relevant secrets of this old god, I couldn't say these words—gold bracelet. The gold bracelet once worn on the right wrist of the ancient god 【Ancient Death God】 appeared on the wrist of the Tomb King after the mythical era ended."

The Giant King only said that the "Ancient God Artifact" was a gold product, but he didn't expect the old priest to be so precise about which one it was.

While talking to Xia De, he cast a spell to summon cold mist, quickly cooling the metal that had reached the optimal heating temperature, and threw it to Xia De:

"Help me test its strength, try to deform it with force."

This is an alloy. Xia De doesn't know its specific composition, but this bright silver metal is quite light. He tried to exert force slowly first, and found that its strength was indeed very high. Then he increased the force, so Xia De easily made finger marks on the metal surface.

Priest Augustus was quite surprised:

"Has your strength improved again? This Angel Type I alloy has very strong resistance to pure physical strength. I originally thought about letting you use that special flame to help shape it."

Xia De smiled and bent his right arm:

"I came into contact with descendants of ancient Titans during a time adventure, so I had some gains."

The priest was amazed at this, and then kept Xia De as a useful strong laborer to handle this batch of metal. "Angel Alloy" is similar to the "Holy Metal" currently produced by the Five Gods Church, and both can cause powerful killing effects on specific types of enemies.