Chapter 3315: Broken Sword and Strengthening

"The ranking of candidates is of course not changing at all times. Fate, although inconstant, also has traces to follow. Remember the content on the snake skin?"

Luvia pressed her side face against Xia De's back. Someone felt the temperature of the soul this afternoon, but she was more greedy for the temperature at this moment:

"Once someone participates in a key scene on the stage, his or her role will become more important, and the corresponding candidate ranking will also become more important."

"My guess is that the number of candidates this time is still fixed, but only candidates who have obtained snake skins can be identified as candidates by my eyes, and I need to observe at all times to know the changes in ranking."

"Now that witch apprentice is ranked third, which is actually quite remarkable. After all, the major events she has personally participated in since landing on the island are only this one so far."

Because Luvia was hugging him from behind, Xia De was temporarily unable to change into home pajamas:

"Then Emilia and Claire..."

"Definitely not, I am very sure about this point."

She said, and then...

"Luvia, is it my illusion, or did you really lick my back just now?"

"It was Little Mia."

"Meow?"

"But I can see Little Mia is still standing on my shirt."

The girl whose face was blushing didn't know why she did this just now. She defended herself softly:

"Now you mind? After the lights went out in this room, you let us... at that time, why didn't you mind?"

"Well... I haven't washed up after being out all day."

So Luvia was finally willing to let go of him and let him change into pajamas.

It was the sixteenth day of the first month, and winter was far from over. There was centralized heating in the house. When Xia De sat on the sofa in front of the fireplace holding Little Mia, he felt incomparable comfort. After all, it was too cold this afternoon.

Piping hot black tea had been prepared. Luvia sat beside Xia De, and Dorothy and Galina sat opposite each other on the short sofa. He had already talked about the things that happened in the castle in the Snow Mountain Hall, but except for the inexplicably missing Ms. Sabel, there were actually quite a few problems left.

As for Ms. Sabel, as long as the other party was not a strange person like Ms. Miss Pawo of the 【Truth Society】, it would be fine.

And the remaining problems were actually all quite headache-inducing:

"No, not the demon. The demon was hurt like this today, even if it didn't run away after staying on the island, it couldn't cause any big trouble by itself. It no longer belongs to a big trouble for us."

Xia De would take the opportunity of the group meeting tomorrow afternoon to notify the doctor about this, hoping that the doctor would go to the island to solve the trouble as soon as possible.

"Then what did the demon originally want to do on the island?"

Galina grasped the point, Xia De shook his head:

"I think I'm afraid I can only ask the ice maid lady in Chloe's castle. There are too many things in that castle that haven't been figured out, why Chloe left the castle, and what that maid knows. And the unicorn Ai Li, what is the reason for its appearance."

Dorothy asked curiously:

"Are you sure that is the castle of the Ice Witch Emperor?"

"Very sure."

Luvia then laughed:

"Witch Emperor Violet sent you a ship, maybe Chloe didn't want to be outdone, so she wanted to send you a castle."

"What are you saying, they wouldn't compare like this, and they are several thousand years apart."

Xia De sighed, missing Chloe a bit. After all, he could see Violet's puppet next week, but he didn't know when he would meet Chloe next time.

Galina suddenly showed a smile, kicked off her left shoe with her right foot, and kicked Xia De's leg gently:

"Speaking of which, I still don't know, to what extent has your relationship with that Witch Emperor who lived in the early Fifth Era developed?"

The scene by the ice lake and in the tent jumped into Xia De's head, his face turned red:

"This is privacy, I won't talk nonsense without Chloe's permission."

The duchess then said this:

"Even for us, is it privacy? I think everyone is a family, although she is much stronger than us, but Xia De, I know you wouldn't define family status based on level, right?"

But Xia De still shook his head. Finally, Luvia spoke:

"Galina's question, although it does involve privacy, we need to infer Chloe's intention based on the changes in your relationship. Xia De, I understand your respect for us, so you don't have to tell the details, just say some simple descriptions."

But Xia De couldn't even say simple descriptions. Dorothy then tentatively asked:

"Kissing, right?"

"More intimate than that."

Galina thought:

"Could it be the last step, our knight has actually eaten the cold little snack."

Xia De pursed his lips and shook his head again. However, he didn't let them continue guessing, but tilted his head slightly and whispered a few words into Luvia's ear nearby. The fortune teller lady blushed immediately:

"Oh, Xia De, you actually..."

She patted Xia De lightly to express her indignation. Seeing Galina and Dorothy looking at her, Luvia didn't know how to describe it:

"It's, it's just..."

She still didn't say it in the end, but the witch and the writer lady had already understood through her stammering appearance. After all, everyone was family, and many things had been done with Xia De.

"Xia De is really too much."

Galina also said so, while Dorothy listened to the voice of Lei Lei Qianya in her ear, but didn't want to tell everyone what Lei Lei Qianya said.

The maid ladies eavesdropping in the kitchen were communicating with eyes and mouth shapes, guessing what Xia De had done. Some girls really guessed it right.

Xia De used petting the cat to cover up his embarrassment:

"In short, I will visit that castle again next week, and I don't have to worry about the church going there before me. Emilia said, without Ai Li leading the way, no one can find that place.

There is also the magic sword matter. When I came back from the academy just now, Danister originally wanted to give me the sword hilt and the remaining sword body of the broken sword, but I only brought back the fragments of the sword body and put them in the gift box in the basement. That last sword hilt was temporarily placed in the academy.

I told Danister and Emilia in the academy that the sword is only in a successfully contained state, but not in a completely damaged state."

The girls were all a bit surprised:

"But after the sword snapped, didn't the soul inside also dissipate? It didn't die? Could it be that the soul is just sleeping?"

"I'll explain how I judged it first: I didn't just obtain the whisper spirit rune in that spirit light this afternoon, I also obtained a lot of alchemy knowledge about that sword. Although this is not enough for me to know how to make similar metal life forms, relying on those knowledge, I can barely check the remains of 【Sword-Inheritor Nest】."

Xia De said:

"The nest consciousness of the magic sword must be dead. The element reaction at that time was so intense, I even obtained a spirit rune because of this, these are not fake. But after checking the sword hilt part, I determined that although the soul of the metal life form dissipated, the 'body' of the magic sword itself, which is the last two sword hilts, are only seriously injured. So after an unknown amount of time, the two sword hilts will regenerate a new soul."

He paused, letting everyone think carefully:

"The above content is all my own point of view. Whether it is correct or not, it still needs to be studied and discussed by the professors of the Library Management Academy. But my guess shouldn't be wrong: Sword-Inheritor Nest is dead, but the remaining two sword hilts both have the possibility of giving birth to a new metal life soul, which can be called 【Sword-Inheritor Nest · Second Generation】.

It's just that the damage status of the two sword hilts is different, so the born souls will definitely have differences, which means, if this magic sword recovers, it will possess two nest consciousness cores. Although the upper limit of the magic sword only existing thirteen will definitely not be broken, two nest consciousness cores, whether it will make it stronger or lead to them fighting each other, this is very hard to say.

The academy and the church that contained the other sword hilt will probably conduct joint testing and containment preparations. This will be a big topic. I don't intend to hold that sword hilt myself, this thing is really too dangerous, it's better to leave it in the academy."

"Angel-level relics are really hard to eliminate. But fortunately, even if it can recover, it needs a very, very long time. At least for the next few hundred years, we don't have to worry about that thing anymore, right?"

Dorothy asked, Xia De nodded:

"Yes. That was the bad news, but there is also good news. The magic sword's broken sword body metal no longer belongs to part of the magic sword now, they are just strange alloys containing whispering elements. So except for leaving two samples for Danister, I brought back the other fragments, intending to study a bit whether 【Earth Furnace】 in the basement can be used to strengthen 【The Night Watcher】."

The girls didn't expect this possibility, but thinking about it carefully, those metal fragments themselves came from an angel-level longsword. Now that they have shed the magic sword attribute and only retained the purest elements, maybe they are really suitable for strengthening The Night Watcher.

"Anyway, I have a lot of earth aura from traversing the earth, it's just that whether the strengthening of the relic is feasible still needs to be verified. If 【The Night Watcher】 can be strengthened this time, I don't expect it to turn into an unknowable-level at once, but it's enough if it becomes stronger."

Xia De was very looking forward to this, Galina praised:

"You always have ideas different from others, just like the idea of containing the magic sword this time, you didn't let anyone guess your plan before you acted."

"This is thanks to the friends who helped seal the magic sword's soul, of course, luck is also very important. If the demon hadn't corrupted the soul of the other sword itself, that sword would probably have actively avoided it at that time... This is really fate."

Seemingly a coincidence, but everything had traces to follow before it happened.