Chapter 3281: Impossibility and Snake

The sound of the handgun fragments jumping on the rocks was soon drowned out by the sound of the tide again. And the glowing snake skin floating above the right shoulder of Mr. Mortis, Miss Reinhardt, and Emilia dissipated its light and fell

Even though she had just exceeded her limits and over-cast spells, she felt no discomfort at all at this moment. Yet, while the excitement in her heart continued unabated, she thought of another matter:

"Hmm... will the church recognize that it was me who cast the spell? Did I ruin Xia De's plan?"

She did not rendezvous with Xia De and the witch, but instead took Miss Larson, who still hadn't figured out the situation, to find the hidden unicorn Ellie again, and then had it carry the two of them back to the Snow Mountain Hall.

As for the shore, the three parties had not moved since the battle ended, but it was mostly the people from the 【Clown Troupe】 and the Dawn Sect who were sizing up Xia De and the lady beside him.

Xia De wanted to know about Emilia's situation more at this moment, so he took the "Clown Card" out of his pocket. Although the distance was far, the "Clowns" all saw the appearance of the card and all stepped back to show their stance.

This card was actually really this useful.

Xia De then took another look at the church's team, and then, in front of everyone, reached out and beckoned, causing the "ear pendant" beside the horse to fly into his hand. After a flash of silver flame, the ear pendant had already turned into fragments that had lost their luster.

Before figuring out the situation tonight, he did not intend to communicate with the church. He then picked up three of the larger fragments of the pistol and, under the gaze of the Dawn Sect group, first examined the woman's corpse before leaving the place with Miss Reinhardt.

And the church's squad just watched them leave.

By the time Xia De and the witch returned to the town, Emilia and Miss Larson had already been back for half an hour. The incident at the coast did not have much impact, so the Fatu people did not know what had happened tonight. When Emilia saw Xia De, she lowered her head, looking as if she had done something wrong, because she felt that her rash exposure of her identity might have affected Xia De's actions.

But Xia De did not think so. After seeing Emilia, he breathed a slight sigh of relief and then smiled and praised:

"The over-limit spellcasting just now was quite good. If you hadn't appeared, the situation at that time would have been terrible."

The pointed-eared elf immediately raised her head, first confirming that Xia De was truly praising her, and then smiled and said:

"I didn't know what the situation was at the time either, but I just felt that casting the spell like that would definitely succeed. It was like... it's hard to describe, but there was a feeling that everything would go as one wished. If only I had this feeling during exams."

"So the two people standing on the reef just now were really Emilia and Stella?"

Unlike the happy Emilia, the witch who returned with Xia De now had too many doubts. She asked the apprentice who was still brushing the unicorn. The white-haired girl glanced at Xia De before nodding gently; she still didn't know what the situation was tonight.

"So, Emilia is a Time-class Ringed Shushi?"

The witch asked again, and Emilia could nod confidently this time:

"I am a High Elf of the Moon Creek Clan! Our family is rumored to be descendants of the World Tree priests. Many of my relatives have awakened the talent for time."

Because Claire Reinhardt had not participated in the Battle of the Woodlands, she had not yet connected the "fragile and innocent" elf in front of her to the female elf rumored to have presented a crown to the "God-Awakener" in the Vista Woodlands.

She just couldn't believe that the young elf was actually so powerful, and that she could be invited by Xia De to the island to treat a unicorn—Teacher Xia De must have a lot of influence.

"That piece of snakeskin..."

She asked hesitantly again. She had actually already discussed this with Xia De on the road. After Emilia saw Xia De nod slightly, she took out the snakeskin:

"I don't know how it appeared beside me either. I shouldn't have something like this on me."

This was also the truth.

Tonight's events seemed complicated, but Xia De had already sorted out the general situation. Originally, it was just the 【Clown Troupe】 joining forces with the 【Dawn Sect】 to try to capture the Countess Waldeck, who had come from the Old Continent and was attempting to spread corruption.

The deceased Baron Jensen had nothing to do with this; he only died because he took out an unloaded pistol while trying to woo a girl. The pistol was later stolen by Countess Waldeck, an ordinary person who mistook it for a relic.

Xia De did not see this process, but it was highly probable that she borrowed the charm ability of those two ear pendants.

"The rest of the matter was that during the battle on the coast, the Countess first used the ear pendants with corrupting power to turn that unlucky horse into a monster, and then accidentally triggered the power of that gun."

"So what exactly was that gun?"

In the unicorn's nest, Emilia raised her hand to ask, and the witch asked her in disbelief:

"You don't know? Didn't your snakeskin show this part of the content?"

The little elf blinked. She hated snakes, and after returning, she had been worried about whether she had done something wrong tonight, so of course, she hadn't looked at the snakeskin.

Now that the black snake had perished, the information about the "snake" had disappeared again, so Miss Reinhardt repeated what she had seen, and Emilia suddenly realized:

"That was a Calamity of Fate! So, the manifestation of a Calamity of Fate is that 'impossible things' happen?"

The witch, who had fully read the information on the snakeskin, understood more deeply:

"And one must perfectly realize that this is not an impossibility caused by technology or supernatural power, and one must expose this impossibility, only then will the impossibility turn into an 'Infinite Snake'. The police did not realize this 【impossibility】; they were suspecting other criminal means, and some thought of Ringed Shushi.

Only Countess Waldeck said the condition of the gun at that time herself."

The characteristic of the "Infinite Snake" seemed to be "infinite evolution," but in Xia De's view, it was more like gaining this possibility by coming into contact with various "possibilities." Xia De had seen how troublesome that snake was tonight; if Emilia hadn't arrived in time, the snake would likely have escaped.

"When it was first born, its intelligence shouldn't have been this strong. It was only after absorbing that mass of flesh and molting that it possessed such high intelligence. If we encounter this thing again in the future, the best way is actually to endow it with a certain power from the beginning, and then kill it with the same power while bearing the resistance."

Xia De made a summary of this, and the 【Dawn Sect】 team that witnessed all this tonight would definitely take the news back. Past experience proved that the various "calamities" erupting in the current era were not appearing for the first time. In history, there must have been things like the "Infinite Snake" that one didn't know how to classify, so the church should be able to find countermeasures from past documents very soon.

"What happened to that gun afterwards?"

Miss Larson asked. Although she was beside Emilia just now, she did not have the keen eyesight of a pure-blooded elf.

"It was shattered directly by Emilia's time power. I brought back three fragments, and left the rest to the church and the 【Clown Troupe】. Someone in the 【Clown Troupe】 also possesses a snakeskin, and I will contact that person soon."

As he spoke, he took a handkerchief out of his pocket; what the handkerchief wrapped were the three pistol fragments. These metal fragments looked completely like ordinary items. Xia De handed one of them to Miss Reinhardt to give to the Council.

He planned to give one of the remaining two to Luweiya for research, and one to Danister.

"What about that Countess Waldeck?"

Emilia thought of another member in tonight's story again, and Xia De shook his head:

"After she released that snake, she was immediately bitten by it. After the battle ended, her corpse was still in the original place, but the cause of death was not toxins; she clearly died of a mental breakdown. The corpse was taken away by the church, and later we can only try to use spiritism to see what she saw before she died.

But the information about this person will be handled low-key; she was involved with... that which cannot be mentioned casually."

"Also, when I was close to the corpse just now, I noticed that the wound where she was bitten by the snake looked very much like the symbol of the 【Ouroboros】."

Miss Reinhardt added, looking worried:

"That was indeed a Calamity of Fate. Calamities often appear first at the location where the Chosen One is born, and once they appear, they will become more and more frequent. I'm afraid more 'impossibilities' will appear on this island, and then more snakes..."

She suddenly looked at Emilia:

"Although the origin of your snakeskin is unknown, could you be the Chosen One of Fate?"

The pointed-eared elf shook her head quite quickly:

"Impossible, absolutely impossible."

"Why?"

"Because... the clan performed divination for my birth. I am an elf of time and trees, and will not be tainted by other powers."

She found a reason for herself:

"By the way, my current role is an 'important supporting character', not an important role like a protagonist candidate. I am very marginalized."

Thus, the witch, whose role positioning was only a "minor supporting character" and even less important than the little elf, immediately felt as if she had suffered a mental trauma:

"You are an important supporting character... I am only... this is not important. Three snakeskins appeared. It seems that two people possessing snakeskins must bump into the snake at the same time to possess the power not to be absorbed of 'possibilities' by the snake, and defeating the snake will yield benefits. Is this a feedback from fate... I'm afraid the church has also started searching for such strange items recently."

She sighed in annoyance, and then looked at Xia De:

"I wanted to ask on the way back. Your attack didn't seem to let that snake possess other powers. And you don't have a snakeskin either. How do you explain this?"

She was not pressing Xia De, but just voicing her doubts while feeling annoyed. Xia De did not want to mention Luweiya's matter, so he used another reason:

"A professional diviner has divined my fate. My fate is very special. Perhaps, even that snake could not obtain any possibilities from me."

The witch accepted this explanation very easily; she was now completely clear that any strange thing happening to this man was possible.

Emilia finally took out her snakeskin and reopened it, then discovered that new content that wasn't there before had appeared on it. Seeing that no one was looking at her, she poked Xia De beside her and then stuffed the snakeskin to him.

She really hated snakes.

The brand-new content had indeed appeared, but it wasn't that Emilia had directly changed from an 【Important Supporting Character】 to a 【Protagonist Candidate】 by eliminating this "Infinite Snake," but rather that a small paragraph had been added to the original content:

【You, who stepped onto the Snow Mountain Island, caught a glimpse of the Snake of Possibility in the long river of time and successfully eliminated it. At this time, you do not yet know the meaning of this, but fate is always fair. At the end of this story that does not belong to you, you will receive a gift because of this.】

?? PS: Full information of Emilia's snakeskin:

? 【Name: Emilia Synode】

? 【Level: Ringed Shushi (Ninth Ring)】

? 【Fortune: ↑↑↑】

? 【Story Role: Important Supporting Character】

? 【Personal Story Mainline: In order to save the injured unicorn, on the eve of your coronation, you bid farewell to your teacher and friends, and went from the Far North to a remote small island in the south. Filthy power is tainting the pure white radiance, but in order to help those pure souls, you, who have just finished a great adventure, are willing to step into the vortex of fate once again.

? You, who stepped onto the Snow Mountain Island, caught a glimpse of the Snake of Possibility in the long river of time and successfully eliminated it. At this time, you do not yet know the meaning of this, but fate is always fair. At the end of this story that does not belong to you, you will receive a gift.

? Although this time it is no longer your story, as a protagonist of another story, you will surely bring more surprises of fate to this ongoing story.】

? (End of chapter)