Chapter 3302: The Last Medal

The location of the second medal was slightly further, almost in the corner of the northwest of the castle. The door of the room was hidden, not by miracles or secret methods, but because the patterns of the door and the ice surface of the wall were continuous. If it was not carefully observed, it was difficult to find that the wall could be pushed open.

And after the door was pushed open, the coldness in the room made all three of them shiver:

"This is too exaggerated, right?"

Two-thirds of the area in the room was filled with ice water, like a bath. The liquid in the bath was clear and transparent, and the visual depth was about four or five meters:

"Where is the bath so deep, and is the floor really five meters thick?"

The second medal lay at the bottom of the center of the bath. To liven up the atmosphere, Xia De even told a joke:

"This time it shouldn't be letting us drink all the water here, right?"

Reinhardt tried to bend down and probe her fingers into the water. Although the fingers successfully entered the water, they also froze quickly.

She quickly grabbed Xia De's hand to warm herself:

"I feel like a part of my soul is about to be frozen. Although this is not as cold as the ones we drank just now, if I really enter the water with my whole body, it will definitely be more serious than the problem just now."

So the Chain of Sin protruded from Xia De's sleeve and entered the water. As a result, the chain also frosted after entering the water, thereby freezing the spirit used to control the chain, and the chain could not touch the bottom of the pool.

Then the silver long whip transformed by 【Moonlight Greatsword】, and even ordinary ropes and iron chains encountered similar problems. It seemed that only the human body was allowed to enter the water here.

The means of controlling water flow could not be carried out here either, and space movement could not select the space in the water. Time was not very abundant, and someone must go into the water.

"I'll go."

The girl with platinum hair had already made a decision. Although she was very unwilling to separate just after reuniting, there was no other way. Someone needed to make a sacrifice here:

"Miss Sabeier's power is too weak, and you still need to keep some power to prepare to deal with the demon. And once you go into the water, I don't have the ability to keep Miss Sabeier from freezing.

My swimming technique is quite good. Before I completely lose consciousness, it should be enough to touch that medal."

Her eyes shone slightly:

"Now is the so-called necessary sacrifice. After a while, you just leave my ice sculpture in the water. We will meet again after the matter is over. Don't worry about me, after the heart is frozen, there is no perception of the outside world. For me, this is just closing my eyes."

For Claire Reinhardt's statement at this time, Miss Sabeier was still a bit moved. Although she was not loyal, her character in other aspects was still very noble.

So the witch turned around and was about to jump into the pool after speaking, but was grabbed back by Xia De after a jump in the air.

He frowned and said:

"Wait, I won't give up on Miss Sabeier, do you think I will give up on you? Don't be so impulsive, Claire, I didn't say there was no other way. This time is different from just now. Since the body can enter the water, there are many ways."

This was the second time Xia De called her name, and this time it was clearly different from the first time at the murder scene.

The excitement in her heart even made her hair shine slightly at this moment, but Claire didn't understand:

"What other way... Do you also think Miss Sabeier hid her means?"

The girl with a tear mole on the side didn't know whether she should laugh or want to be angry, but Xia De laughed:

"Although it requires the body to enter the water, it doesn't require the whole body to enter the water."

He closed his eyes, and his body turned into a group of pure silver light. In the light, Xia De became smaller and smaller, until he shrank into a small group and was held in Miss Sabeier's arms.

The light dissipated, and the silver Xia De cat was reflected in the eyes of the girls. Although this place was still dangerous, although they were still facing problems that were difficult to solve, the girls still groaned in a low voice:

"Truly cute."

Two hands reached toward the cat together, but were patted away by the cat Xia De, who stood up in Miss Sabeier's arms. Before Claire could suggest "I want to hug too," the cat said:

"You are always like this... This is my method."

As he said this, the cat's body continued to grow larger in Miss Sabeier's arms, until the girl could no longer hold the cat and put it on the ice floor at her feet, but still grabbed the cat Xia De's claws.

When the miracle 【Body of Courage】 stopped, even if the cat Xia De lay on the floor by the bath, the fur on its back had already reached the ceiling. Standing in front of it, the two sorceresses didn't even look as big as its open eyes.

"Although it looks fat like this, it is still a beautiful cat."

Claire praised in a low voice, and then noticed that the cat's head was facing the door, and its tail was facing the "bath" direction. So the cat Xia De flicked its tail, and the silver tail successfully entered the water.

The cat took a light breath to express its perception of the cold stimulation, and then the tail swam in the bottom of the bath water like a swimming snake, until it successfully touched the medal.

Theoretically speaking, a cat's tail cannot hold things. Even a cat like Little Mia has never performed using its tail to get food. But Xia De cat was a product of transformation after all, and its tail seemed to have stickiness, so it stuck to the medal, and then brought the medal back to the shore.

At this time, the entire cat tail was almost stiff and had no feeling. After throwing the medal to Claire, Xia De quickly lifted the transformation and returned to human form.

The curious Claire wanted to observe which part of the human body the tail corresponded to, and wanted to see which part of him was still freezing now, but Xia De was normal all over, just trembling when speaking:

"The first time was drinking water, the second time was entering the water, and I don't know what to do next time. Oh~ I start to miss the fireplace at home."

The second medal was recovered. Because Claire was concerned about Xia De's situation, she handed it directly to Miss Sabeier:

"Continue divination, where is the last medal? Xia... Mr. Watson, I will support you, but the transformation just now was very powerful."

The yellow-haired girl was also worried:

"Do you want to rest for a while."

"There are twenty minutes left, and we have to go back to see that maid. Keep walking, I can still hold on."

They were worried but couldn't persuade Xia De, so they had to continue "divination" for the last medal.

Miss Sabeier walked quickly and led the team to continue walking in the corridors on the third floor. This time it took longer. When they stopped, the three returned to the stairs where they started.

The maid was naturally still waiting for the group here, and the ice hourglass placed on the stair railing beside her had leaked three-quarters of the ice powder, but she was not surprised to see another witch in the team.

The sorceress who was responsible for leading the way patted her forehead with her empty left hand:

"Well, I should have thought of it, it's the most classic puzzle again—the third medal, on you?"

The maid laughed:

"Yes, it's here with me. Your actions are very fast. I originally planned to tell you the clues one by one when you couldn't find the clues and asked me. The last medal is here."

She "untied" the upper buttons of the maid dress wrapping her body in front of the three people, exposing the curve of her neck and the crystal-clear ice body, and finally pointed to the center of her open chest:

"Here."

Although her body was made of ice, it was not completely transparent originally. At this moment, the position pointed by her finger was becoming transparent, so that the three people could see the medal in the body:

"The two medals just now were just imitations I made myself, but this medal was left by the true owner of this palace. Since the Fifth Era, it has been locked in my body. It has no power, and getting it doesn't mean anything, but to me, it is the most precious thing here."

She looked up at Xia De:

"If you want to take it out, you need to open the lock set by the master. Otherwise, even if you crush me inch by inch, you won't be able to get it. Even I don't know the key to the lock, but I think you know it, guest."

Claire and Miss Sabeier both looked at Xia De, and Xia De frowned slightly.

He first thought of the "Witch Echo" he came into contact with in the snow mountain auditorium not long ago, but then thought that Chloe didn't necessarily know whether he found that echo first or came to the castle first.

So he started to recall what happened when the two met for the last time. At that time, Xia De crossed time and space through the ferry of "Black Sand Wharf" and met Chloe's camp by the Ice Lake.

The two did many things at that time... many things, and Chloe even shared the miracle 【Chloe's Ice Echo】 with Xia De at the cost of permanently abandoning part of her power.

He tried hard to recall whether they said anything of commemorative significance at that time, or sentences worth remembering. But he thought for a long time and couldn't think of it, so he could only guess whether it was "I didn't forget you," Chloe's real name, his own real name, "Long time no see," or something like that.

【I don't think it's these.】

"She" smiled gently and finally gave a reminder:

【What they crave is sometimes very simple—like a kiss. Everything just now is a hint, only a kiss can melt ice and snow. Don't forget that when you parted for the first time in the Silver Mountains, what you left behind was a kiss.】

Xia De didn't doubt "her" speculation, but...

He looked at the position where the medal was hidden, and then looked at the two ladies who were also thinking:

"This is not good, right?"

"Time is running out."

The maid maintained the action of grabbing the two sides of the front of the dress and opening it, and reminded while looking at the ice hourglass on the side. Xia De really wanted to let the two ladies turn around first, but realized that at such a close distance, it didn't matter whether they turned around or not.

Finally, he looked at the ice hourglass again, thinking that next time he sees Chloe, he must remind her not to set this kind of "lock" again:

"I think I found a way."

(End of chapter) ***