Chapter 3304: Thirty Seconds

The suggestions of the three girls were actually quite good, but Xia De knew that what he wanted was not these. He shook his head and reached out toward the library in front of him.

Thin steam mist appeared behind him. The life ring did not appear completely, only the two spirit runes 【Bai Yin Moon】 and 【Water of Wisdom】 were revealed:

"Miracle - 【Moonlight Library】 - Library Retrieval."

This miracle can retrieve books through vague keywords in scenes such as libraries and studies. Xia De didn't know what keywords would be if Chloe left him a book, so this retrieval only used the four vague words "Moonlight", "Ice", "Chloe", and "Xia De".

The miracle started smoothly. In an instant, the entire library shook, and every book seemed to want to jump out of the bookshelf, but every book stopped on the bookshelf.

It was not that there was no target selected, Xia De had already quite clearly sensed that he had found that "book", but the castle's power was forbidding Xia De from obtaining it this way.

So he frowned and continued to output spirit to strengthen the miracle effect. He rarely did this when using this miracle, so he didn't expect that as the two spirit runes behind him bloomed with brighter colors, illusory translucent starlight bookshelves appeared layer by layer beside him.

It was as if this ice-made library overlapped with that moonlight library in the void at this moment. The ladies looked at the abnormalities around them in surprise. Emilia saw the moonlight as ancient as the World Tree in her eyes, Claire saw the gentle moonlight corresponding to the sun power she mastered, and what Miss Sabeier saw was an ancient and sacred place, which actually only showed a corner of itself because of a mortal's spellcasting.

When the expanded library in the starry sea included half of the area of this ice library, Xia De finally felt that the "book" moved.

Although the consumption of spirit along the way was already quite a lot, he still accelerated the output of spirit. So in the unicorn's dissatisfied cry, a figure quickly swept past it, which gave it a fright. The maid who was originally standing behind the four people bumped into Xia De's arms, and after a moment of awkward silence, she blinked at him:

"Guest, are you sure you want to choose this book?"

I don't know why, but at this moment, Xia De seemed to be able to see Chloe from a thousand years ago standing in this library, smiling and preparing this joke.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute! I didn't understand, are you actually a book?"

Claire pushed the maid away with some dissatisfaction. The maid didn't resist, left Xia De's arms lightly, nodded but shook her head:

"I am part of this castle. Theoretically, everything here is me, and I am everything here. Can this be understood? Guest, are you sure you want to choose this book?"

She pointed to her own, and the three ladies looked at Xia De. Even if they didn't know the relationship between Xia De and the owner of this castle, the girls realized that the situation at this time was unusual.

Xia De looked around and found that Chloe didn't jump out from the corner before nodding:

"Yes, I choose this book, please tell me, how should I read you?"

"This is my honor."

The ice maid still maintained a smile, but shook her head gently:

"I think this can be discussed later. You have already obtained the most precious treasure of this castle. Now the trial state is lifted, your enemy will arrive in ten seconds."

Everyone turned around to look at the corridor together. Emilia and Claire's life rings were all summoned at this moment, but instead, Xia De and Miss Sabeier, who did not summon their life rings, stood in front of them.

Seeing that the maid didn't help at all, Xia De took them and walked quickly to the corridor:

"The terrace on the third floor can directly leave the castle, return to the third floor first."

Everyone was very fast when sprinting in a straight line in the corridor, but when seeing the stairs, Miss Sabeier still reminded:

"Seven seconds left."

"You go first, I'm at the end."

Xia De stood at the stairs without moving, watching Emilia, Claire, the unicorn, and Miss Sabeier pass by his side. Even when Miss Sabeier passed by his side, he reminded her at a fast speed:

"If there is any physical discomfort after going outside in a while, you must immediately come to my side."

The sorceress still wanted to say something, but the deep darkness had already appeared in the depths of the corridor at this moment. Xia De pushed her to let her go quickly, counting five numbers in his heart. When the darkness truly came to his face, he slapped forward fiercely: 【330

"Thunderclap Wave!"

Amidst a thunderous roar, the expanding ripples of lightning struck directly into that darkness filled with intense malice, but at the same time, the hand wearing a gauntlet that reached out from the darkness collided with Xia De's palm.

The abundant force sent him flying backward along the stairs, but this was exactly his goal.

Borrowing the demon's immense strength, he went from the fourth-floor stairwell to the stair landing below in one go. Before the darkness could spread down from the fourth floor, he stuck to the wall as if his back were adsorbed onto an ice surface, looked up, and swung another palm at the stairs above:

"Thunderclap Wave!"

This time he used almost all his strength, and the darkness retreated in the face of the expanding silver lightning ripples, but this also revealed the black figure that had been hiding in that darkness just moments before.

It was still in the same state as when it appeared last Sunday; even in the bright daylight, Xia De still could not see its face clearly.

One was at the top of the stairs and the other at the bottom; without a standoff, both sides moved almost simultaneously. The demon slashed down with the magic sword it held, while Xia De slashed upward with silver moonlight.

Black and silver collided; the moonlight was shattered directly by that sword light, but the sword mark immediately collided with the golden light of the 【Heaton Seal】. The brilliant golden shield exploded, and then the black sword mark passed through the fluttering red butterflies and branded itself deeply into the ice of the wall.

Xia De, clearly feeling that the opponent was stronger than last week, immediately continued down the stairs, but the demon was faster. It wrapped itself in darkness and malice, caught up to Xia De, and was then directly rammed by the ice-blue girl.

With a "Boom~" sound, Claire's clone self-destructed in front of the demon, and the scattered ice crystals formed an ice wall in the stairwell, temporarily blocking the demon.

But the obstruction brought by the clone's explosion and the ice wall lasted only a second, yet this time was enough for Xia De to leave the stairs and reach the third floor of the castle.

The black smoke turned into by the demon passed through the sky full of ice crystal fragments, chasing Xia De and Claire, but after Emilia, who was at the balcony entrance, struck the ground with her tree staff with a light "Dong~" sound, dense emerald branches suddenly grew from both sides of the stairwell, forming a tree wall that blocked the demon once again.

This tree wall slowed the demon's pursuit again, and after it broke through the tree wall, Emilia, who was casting spells in front of the balcony, was already scooped up into Xia De's arms as he sprinted over, and he rushed toward the balcony.

The unicorn Ellie and Miss Sabeier were both waiting for the three on the balcony. After the three passed through the balcony entrance, the pure white holy beast raised its horn toward the black smoke that was already quite close with an "Ang~" sound.

But unfortunately, the unicorn, which had just reached adulthood and was in an injured state, did not cause much damage to the demon, but at least it delayed the demon's advance again. In the time the unicorn bought, it leaped backward violently and jumped directly off the balcony with Xia De, Emilia, Miss Sabeier, and Claire.

Crack!

The surfaces of countless ice sculptures inside and outside the castle showed cracks at this moment.

As the four were in freefall in the air, the darkness surging from the balcony wanted to grab the group before they landed, but at this moment, Miss Sabeier, who had turned to look upward in the air, was already prepared to cast a spell. After a silver clock face flashed across her pale golden eyes, the black smoke actually retreated upward by two meters vaguely, before it resumed its pursuit.

She made the demon backtrack by less than a second.

"Hold on for thirty seconds; thirty seconds is enough for a High-Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi to thaw out, recover combat power, and come out to help!"

Xia De shouted loudly. After landing lightly, he threw Emilia toward the unicorn, then reached out to wrap his arms around the waists of Claire and Miss Sabeier:

"False Immortality."

After casting the spell, he threw them aside as well. The 【Hunter's Seal】 and the black ring made by the doctor flew out and were worn on his left and right hands respectively. He touched his waist, inserted a rune paper scroll into the muzzle of the 【Sure-Hit Pistol】, and then jumped upward to face the darkness flowing down from the third-floor balcony like a waterfall. At this moment, he could no longer care about hiding, and his whole body transformed into a bright moonlight cross:

"Moonlight Slash!"

The gorgeous moonlight collided with that black mist in the air in front of the castle, and then the large moonlight cross disintegrated directly in the air. Xia De, falling with a crash, was hurriedly caught by the two ladies, and then the shields they both raised simultaneously met the sky full of arrows coming from above.

Although Xia De's physical fitness was strong, it was still somewhat naive to rely purely on his body to collide with the magic sword in the demon's hand.

Moreover, the weapon in the demon's hand was far more than just the magic sword, Sword-Progeny Hive; at this moment, the sky full of arrows was clearly also the power of some kind of relic.

"Twenty more seconds!"

A gradually reviving aura had already appeared inside the castle, and even at the entrance of the canyon where the sky was covered by an ice sheet, several familiar figures had already appeared and were flying toward this side. Although the church team that followed Xia De and the others was frozen, it looked like Danister and the other witches had stopped at the canyon entrance.

With a "Hum~" sound, the arrow rain of an unknown relic broke through the shields of Claire and Miss Sabeier, and the ink-colored sword mark of the magic sword followed closely, sweeping toward the three people at the lower position.

"Ang~"

Emilia, riding the unicorn, appeared in front of that sword mark as if teleporting. There was a firm look in the elf's eyes, and although the unicorn Ellie was afraid, it was also infected by the bravery of its human companions and did not retreat.

On the Keeper-level relic 【Lana's Star Ring Protection】 gifted by the Fatu people, three consecutive small yellow stars turned into light spots and disappeared out of thin air, and the three-layered shield activated, blocking the demon's strike for one second.

(End of chapter)