Chapter 3268: Miraculous Divination

"Why are you staring at me in a daze?"

The beautiful witch asked with a tease. Xia De stood with her, looking out the glass door of the courtyard at the sun setting:

"Since coming to this island, it seems like I'm busy doing all kinds of things every day. It's really rare to be so leisurely like this. I'm thinking, if I really came here as an ordinary tourist, waking up from the Fish Spear Hotel listening to the sound of the waves, and then traveling around the island with a backpack, what kind of story would happen?"

Claire Reinhardt, holding a wine glass, smiled:

"In that case, you wouldn't have the chance to stand here and chat with me."

Xia De shook his head:

"Then imagine such a scene: I'm carrying a double-shoulder backpack, teasing the cat on my shoulder, walking on a small path in the snow mountain. After climbing the cliff against the wind with difficulty, I raise my hand to block the sun, but in the direction of the rising sun, I see a girl with platinum long hair standing alone on the high place of the snow mountain, looking at the sky with her hands behind her back."

Before she could express her opinion, Xia De continued:

"Or, I'm holding the smoked fish I just bought and walking in the bustling crowd of the small town. Occasionally looking up at the high place, I see you standing by the railing of the long bridge outside the Snow Mountain Hall, holding your face as if you are bored waiting for someone. So you see the person holding the paper bag in the crowd, and I see you tilting your head under the blue sky."

He summarized:

"According to the diviners, if your meeting with me is part of some fate, then even if the reason for my landing on the island was not for that demon, you and I would always meet."

He even joked:

"And with your appearance, it's hard for me not to take the initiative to notice you."

Claire Reinhardt felt that some emotion in her heart was about to be unable to be suppressed:

"Now I finally believe that you are really a travel writer."

Actually not, the Outsider is just a detective, and he happens to be quite eloquent.

"But thinking about it carefully, if I hadn't met you on this island, I'm afraid I would have met with misfortune several times. You are always able to save me at the most critical moment."

Xia De pointed out:

"When you encountered danger several times, I felt that the spirit near the snow mountain had abnormal changes. Even if I didn't appear, you probably wouldn't have met with misfortune directly. This snow mountain will protect you. And after surviving a danger, I think the council would send a Great Witch to help you, instead of just letting Flora come to see your situation quietly."

She held the wine glass with one hand and flicked the hanging hair by her side with the other:

"I've only known you for a week or so, but during this time, there were so many things that it felt like several months had passed, and all this is just the opening of another story."

She asked softly:

"I've asked this question before, but now I want to ask it again: Mysterious Mr. John Watson, why did you stay to help me? Is it just because I took the initiative to hire you? With your skills, many things you can actually do on your own, instead of coming to me every day."

Xia De answered:

"At first it was indeed because of your hiring, but now there is a new reason: I feel that you might encounter danger later, and at that time I still need to take action to help you."

They both laughed. The witch flicked her hair and signaled Xia De to clink glasses with her:

"Then if you can successfully deal with that ancient evil spirit on the island, will you leave here immediately afterward?"

"No."

Two high-footed glass cups clinked together, but neither of them looked at the wine glass:

"I will stay until all the problems here are solved."

"I might not be able to afford such a long reward. You said you were very expensive."

When she looked at Xia De, her eyes were shining, and she was expecting some kind of answer.

"No expensive reward is needed. All I need is a 'thank you'."

"Is that all? Why not..."

The cup was not brought to her mouth, and she leaned slightly toward Xia De. The guilt in the heart of the wicked Outsider almost reached its peak at this moment. And just when he was about to break the agreement with the girls and decided to reveal some things, the girl in front of him didn't kiss him, but stuffed a yellow gemstone into his hand:

"Then add this to the reward."

She happily saw the embarrassed and surprised expression on Xia De's face:

"I possess the unique technology of imprinting secret arts and spells into gemstones. This gemstone has a clone of mine, a sun-attribute clone. This is one of the most powerful gemstones I can make at present. After activation, it can let my clone help you fight. I think this should be enough to hire you for another period of time."

"Yes, yes."

She nodded with a smile and stuffed her wine glass to Xia De:

"That's good. You keep this, I'll go to the kitchen to ask if today's dinner is ready."

Saying that, she turned to go to the kitchen of the Snow Mountain Hall, but turned around at this moment and kissed Xia De on the side of his face.

Xia De couldn't stop her because he was holding wine glasses in both hands. So the witch with platinum hair said with her hands behind her back:

"This counts as a gift outside the reward. Seeing your expression just now, I knew that something was not my own wishful thinking. It's not unrequited love, that's good. I was just afraid of this."

"I..."

"I know you still have other secrets in your heart, but I also believe that you will tell me sooner or later. Flora, Vanessa, and Sylvia seem to have a feeling of wanting to see my joke, but I

She smiled gracefully as she walked toward the kitchen, leaving only Xia De, holding two wine glasses, watching her back.

Turning the initiative into passivity, she proved to Xia De that the Great Witches of the Sixth Era still had plenty of tricks up their sleeves.

Danister required Emilia to return before eight o'clock in the evening, so Emilia naturally wanted to stay on the island for dinner. Although the Jibei also had many glaciers and snow-capped mountains, the scenery of Fatumunster Island was still quite different from the Great Ice Sheet of the Jibei.

Emilia liked it here, and while waiting to finish her meal, she even told Xia De that she wanted to bring Little Liana here to take a look as well.

"Who is Little Liana?"

Miss Larsen, who had been with the elf girl all afternoon, asked curiously, and Emilia immediately perked up:

"She is my friend, a young unicorn. We share the same birthday, and we've known each other since we were little! She is very, very, very cute and obedient, and she has experienced many adventures with me. We have faced many powerful enemies together. Although she's been a bit unhappy lately because I asked her to lose weight, she is still a very cute child."

A unicorn's lifespan is even longer than that of a modern elf, so Little Liana, who shares the same birthday, is still young, and even without time travel, Emilia is only three years away from adulthood.

"A young unicorn..."

Miss Larsen showed an envious expression; that kind of cute creature indeed had an extraordinary attraction for everyone.

After having dinner in the Snow Mountain Hall and saying goodbye to the injured unicorn Ellie, Emilia left with Xia De. However, it was still early, so she wasn't in a hurry to return to the Academy and planned to stay at Xia De's house for a while longer.

But when the two arrived home, they found the lights were on, and upon reaching the second floor, they discovered the house was very lively tonight. Luweiya, Miss Jia Lin Na, and Dorothy were all there, and the presence of the maids made the otherwise quiet night warm and busy.

Emilia looked around, and only after confirming she didn't see her princess friend did she feel relieved. She politely greeted the ladies and was then called by Luweiya to sit beside her.

When Xia De came out after changing his clothes in the bedroom, they on the sofa were listening to the little elf recount the situation of the injured snow mountain unicorn. During the examination and treatment, Emilia collected some of unicorn Ellie's hair, wanting to take it back to let the unicorn population at Saint Byron's distinguish her scent and try to find her herd.

"Since Emilia is here too, why don't I divine the unicorn's origin? We might discover something."

Luweiya proposed her suggestion. She still used her most proficient card divination method. After using the Shoumiren-level relic 【Mercury Echo】 obtained from the group mission to hold the divination cards, the accuracy of those cards improved further.

The black "frogs" slowed their pace of approach in the abundant life aura. After the group, who were constantly washed by the spring water above their heads, continued to set off, they only followed the team in groups. Until the living people left this wetland area, they hid back into the tombstones and the white mist, and fell into silence again as the white mist drifted away.

"Since you discovered the unicorn, you go first."

Xia De flipped over the upright "Ice and Snow" from the center of the first deck of cards.

"Next is Emilia. Please, Chosen of Time, look toward the past time and give the second clue."

Luweiya said as if chanting, and Emilia flipped over the second card from the top of the second deck, the reversed "Time."

The divination lady nodded gently and then looked at Dorothy. The writer lady also smiled and reached out her hand:

"Next, as the Chosen of Space, I will provide the final conclusion, right?"

She snapped her fingers, and the last card of the third deck was directly transformed onto the tabletop. The card face showed a figure crossing a ravine. This card is usually called "Trial," representing the meaning of "bold attempts, uncertain experiments, and crazy adventures."

Luweiya then summarized:

"So that unicorn comes from a place related to ice and snow; it said so itself. The reason for its sudden appearance involves some kind of bold adventure, but it is also related to time... Since there has never been a legend of unicorns on Fatumunster Island, could it have come across time and space?"

?? PS: A trial run of the second version of "Luweiya." Do you feel this card fits the divination lady's temperament?

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