Chapter 3380: Midnight Elk Club

When Xia De appeared, the flaxen-haired girl was looking at the design drawing in her hand with a distressed face. She really didn't understand these things:

"Good morning, Xia De, Miss Anate.

The night before yesterday, there was an abnormal vibration in the 'Edge of Life and Death' under the Xikaer Mountains. Although the seal left on the top of the mountain is still there, Miss White and Miss Black still wanted to go and check, so Grandma asked me to come here temporarily to help Miss Xiweiya."

"Xiweiya, I think you should also consider recruiting apprentices."

Luweiya said this after greeting them. The black-haired space archmage glanced at Xia De:

"Isn't my apprentice right here? Hmph~ Unless someone more excellent than Xia De appears, it's hard for me to be interested in recruiting apprentices."

"Your Speaker, Adele Isabella, for the sake of the council's inheritance, probably won't agree, right?"

Luweiya asked again, and Xiweiya didn't care at all:

"Anyway, there are Megan and Audrey in front. Let them find apprentices first."

Winnie, the maid in the ice and snow castle, also provided necessary support and help for building the teleportation portal. Their progress was fast; now the drawings had been drawn, and the project would be finished within this week.

Bidding farewell to the girls busy in the tower, Xia De, Luweiya, and Amiliya came all the way to Kaier-Tode Town. Claire had already met Luweiya last week. Seeing her again at this time, although she was a bit reserved, she still chatted with Luweiya for a few sentences.

Upon learning that Luweiya intended to go to "Shadow of Hemu" to take a look, she even asked Luweiya if she needed other guides to lead the way, but Luweiya refused:

"Having Amiliya and Aili is enough. If we come down the mountain early, I might go to the ice and snow castle to talk to that maid."

After speaking, she looked at Miss Larson again:

"When today's business is finished, I want to talk to you. Candidates for the Chosen One should all have some peculiar talents. You might not have noticed this yourself yet, so I will talk to you about things later."

The white-haired girl naturally wouldn't refuse. Afterwards, hearing that Xia De was going into the city, Claire mentioned that a small cargo boat was about to depart for the Shi Lun City pier, and Xia De could take the boat together.

She sent Xia De to the town pier alone, but of course, she actually wanted to chat with Xia De:

"That Miss Anate... gives me a very strange feeling."

"Luweiya is kind-hearted, helpful, and doesn't mind you appearing by my side."

Xia De expressed this, but Claire didn't mean this. What she wanted to express wasn't even the sense of oppression that other witches thought Luweiya had. The platinum-haired girl thought for a moment and expressed her view:

"Actually, I had this feeling when we first met, but I didn't chat with her alone last week... I feel like I have seen that Miss Anate somewhere before, and we could become very good friends."

Then she saw Xia De looking at her with a look of surprise, as if he had seen a little white rabbit wanting to be friends with a big bad wolf.

"What kind of look is that?"

"Nothing, but you can indeed chat with Luweiya more. Although she and I are both nine-ringers and don't have such powerful strength as you, she is more powerful than me in some aspects."

"My strength is not more powerful than yours."

The witch patted Xia De's arm and then took the initiative to hold his hand. People were coming and going in the town on Thursday morning, and most of the people here knew Claire, so a blush appeared on her face unconsciously.

She sent Xia De to the small boat preparing to enter the city to deliver goods, and then stood on the shore waving goodbye to the departing boat. Xia De also stood on the deck of the cargo ship waving to her, and then watched Claire, the town, and the snow mountain get further and further away.

【What are you thinking of?】

"In that dream two days ago where I saw Miss Bister, did I see long-haired Luweiya crying while holding Claire's corpse?"

The meeting place with Major Lade today was still the "Drowned Ghost Tavern", but unlike yesterday, the Major arrived early today. When Xia De saw him, he was flipping through the newspaper in his hand.

Hearing the sound of someone pulling out a chair across the table, Major Lade put down the newspaper and then showed a big smile to Xia De:

"Long time no see, my old friend—this sentence should have been said yesterday."

"It doesn't matter, but is that steam engine okay? If it is really investigated, we can consider using my agent identity to cover it up."

Major Lade shook his head immediately:

"Of course it's no problem. Since it can operate normally, not many people will care how it got better. Only when the superiors are satisfied can we who do things sleep well. However, this tavern is actually called Drowned Ghost. I was really shocked when I heard it for the first time."

There was no official business to talk about today, and the two were finally able to catch up properly.

Originally, they intended to chat while playing cards at the banquet last week, but were disturbed by the "Empty Gun Murder Case". Today, both of them specially cleared their schedules. Major Lade wanted to see the "Founding" series of cards that Xia De had added, and Xia De also wanted to hear his Navy Major friend talk about the customs of the Archipelago Kingdom.

Although the atmosphere of the tavern was very good, Major Lade was now an officer after all, and they might talk about some things that were inconvenient for others to know, so after meeting in the tavern and exchanging a few pleasantries, Major Lade got up and took Xia De to the club:

"This is a club specially arranged by the Principality for the Delarian representatives in Shi Lun City. You know, although there is a private space on the ship, our big shots still like to stay in a stable place."

Xia De liked the name of this club called "Midnight Elk". This place was originally a club serving the nobles of Shi Lun City, so although it was still a "country place", the interior decoration was quite satisfactory.

Now the guards at the entrance of the club had been replaced by Delarian naval soldiers, and Major Lade was allowed to enter without even showing his identity proof.

He had a separate room here, but neither of them liked playing cards in the room. And after all, this place was close to Kasenrike. When the fleet was conducting confidential training for middle and high-ranking officers before entering Star Fall Bay, Major Lade knew to avoid talking in the rooms on the shore:

"Let's go to the top floor; that place is absolutely suitable for playing cards."

This was a club near the north of Shi Lun City, and the building was three stories high. After coming to the top floor through the stairs, what they saw was blue sky and white clouds like an oil painting, and the snow-capped mountains in the distance.

Because there were no taller buildings nearby, standing on the roof was like standing directly in front of a "snow mountain oil painting".

The club also renovated the roof, paved the ground with tiles, and placed carpets on the tiles. A round table, a parasol, and chairs were placed separately on each carpet, and there was an observation deck at the edge of the roof, where one could overlook the snow mountain or the pier.

Of course, because it was winter and the sun was not very poisonous, the parasols had been removed.

The space was open, and every table was far apart, which ensured privacy, and the open space ensured that there was no hiding place for eavesdroppers.

And even if one didn't want to talk about things here, it was quite good to come here to see the scenery. The service attitude of this club was indeed worthy of their nice name.

The first round of official closed-door meetings between the two countries had just ended, and now the representatives were making private arrangements and contacts. Therefore, although it was Thursday morning, there were quite a few people drinking tea or chatting and playing cards on the club rooftop, at least one-third of whom were wearing officer uniforms.

Major Lade and Xia De found an empty table and sat down. While waiting for the waiter to serve tea, the Major turned to look at the snow mountain:

"Although I have been to many places in the army before, it was only after seeing the archipelago, the bay, and the snow mountain that I felt that the path I walked in the first half of my life was really too little.

Now that I think about it, it was really meeting you that completely changed my life and destiny. Otherwise, I wouldn't be sitting here seeing such scenery, and would most likely be huddled in a cheap apartment in the North District of Tobesk, not yet awake from a hangover."

"Even if you praise me, I won't show mercy when playing cards later."

Xia De said with a smile, and also turned to look at the towering Fatumunster Snow Mountain:

"I have also been to many places, but the scenery here is indeed very unusual. Although I still don't recommend you get close to this mountain, there are still many interesting places on the island."

The waiter soon brought tea, and the two exchanged decks to see what kind of special cards the other had added in the nearly a year since they last met.

Major Lade was puzzled as to why Xia De wrote his real name lightly with a pencil under every special card, but he was naturally more concerned about those special cards. When they parted at Green Lake last time, Xia De hadn't even gotten 【Founding·Space】, but now 【Founding·Light】 and 【Founding·Time】 had even reached his hands.

"You still have Creation, Sun, Chaos, and Fate left to get. Otherwise, you would be the first Luo De card player in history to collect the 【Founding】 series of special cards."

The Colonel summarized for Xia De while looking at the cards:

"But among these four cards, isn't the whereabouts of one of them very clear?"

He pointed to the northwest, which was the location of the Prophet Society's headquarters on the coast. At that time, both "Knowledge" and "Fate" were in the hands of the society. Xia De relied on a "Sage's Glow Stone" to exchange for the right to "possess 【Founding·Knowledge】 before death", but such a good thing could not be encountered a second time:

"【Founding·Fate】 is the property of the inventor of Luo De cards, that former president Mr. Luo De, and is the most precious collection in the Prophet Society. How could the society give it to me?"

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