Chapter 3389: Luring Enemy Skull

"The power of enlightenment elements?"

Xia De subconsciously looked at the sea level, and for some reason, thought of the ancestor of Megan and Audrey, the traitor of the Prophecy Society, Laplace Howard, who said "Rhode cards weave the context of civilization and protect the world in the form of enlightenment elements."

Civilization itself is a kind of most powerful force.

Xia De was hearing Shive's story for the first time, and then he realized that he had known Shive for so long, and he seemed to have never taken the initiative to understand her past.

The boat girl reminded Xia De that he should pay attention to the mood changes of this Light Great Witch recently, so he continued to row and ask:

"Then will you fear the ocean because of this? I think you know the horror of the ocean better than anyone else."

Shive shook her head gently, continuing to chat with Xia De while enjoying the coastal scenery:

"Of course not, I am the Light Great Witch, I am light itself. I will shine on everything, even the deepest abyss of the deep sea, until my form moves toward extinction."

The last half sentence was like chanting. Xia De didn't remind her that this kind of statement was very unlucky, but said with a smile:

"Yes, light is courage, and Miss Miss Feilian also taught me this."

Shive, who had beautiful wavy long hair, said with a smile:

"Starting to miss that Miss Miss Feilian?"

Xia De looked at her:

"No, I mean, your attitude toward the future is very similar to Teacher Miss Feilian."

Shive was immediately embarrassed. Xia De compared her to that famous semi-god witch, which in her opinion was really not enough to be praised.

After the small boat bypassed a piece of black reef, it finally saw a completely smooth cliff wall that was almost ninety degrees vertical by the sea. Below the cliff wall was a reef protruding toward the sea, and that potion laboratory was here.

"This terrain, why is it so like the one below the 'Darmanin Earl's Mansion' where that mermaid hid?"

Xia De muttered in his heart, and after docking the small boat, he went to the reef with Shive, who was lifting her skirt.

He took out the parchment scroll given by Elder Harald before departure, cleared his throat, and recited that long string of incantations in the local dialect. Nothing happened during this period, but afterward, Xia De took out a dead mouse in Shive's "Eww~" sound, and then threw it forward fiercely.

The dead mouse successfully hit the smooth rock wall, because Xia De used too much force, it even exploded into a mass of black blood. But that mass of black quickly expanded along the rock wall, like an eraser erasing some kind of camouflage, revealing the windows and doors that had originally existed on the rock wall.

"Why is it a dead mouse?"

Shive asked, and Xia De explained:

"Many of the traditional secret arts of the Fatum people involve life and sacrifice. Actually, you don't need to use mice; rabbits, seagulls, and squirrels also work, but mice are the easiest to catch."

This hidden reef laboratory had been abandoned for more than two hundred years, but when Xia De pushed open the stone door, the interior looked as if it was still being used today.

It was just that most of the equipment and raw materials inside were taken away by the Fatum people two hundred years ago, so Xia De wouldn't find anything of value.

Although the laboratory area was not large, it was divided into three floors inside the wind-eroded sea cliff, and each floor had different secret rooms and hidden compartments. So Xia De searched with Shive while chatting, and confirmed an hour later that there was really nothing here.

The second location to go to was the cave mentioned in the young priest's diary. The other party discovered the cave that would be submerged during high tide and reappear during low tide when he was in his teens, and used it as his secret base.

They were still sailing around the island, but when they arrived at the location marked on the map, Xia De found something wrong:

"My spatial perception did indeed find that underwater cave, but isn't this too deep?"

He repeatedly confirmed the information given by Elder Harald, and Shive reminded:

"You are looking at hydrological records from more than two hundred years ago after all. Isn't it normal for the cave to be completely submerged now?"

It was like the "hidden space" where the underwater cave in Cold Water Port was located, which should also be submerged like this. But Xia De appeared directly inside the cave in Cold Water Port, so he could explore upward. But now on the sea surface, entering an underwater cave where a ring warlock might have set traps, the risk was still very high.

"Look, it's good that I came with you."

Shive said and stood up:

"I dare to bet that among the same level, I am the great witch most skilled in underwater combat and exploration. You point the way, and I will take you there."

She said and jumped from the boat toward the sea surface. Xia De clearly saw her legs wrapped in the long skirt glowing in the air, until she turned into a fish tail when entering the water surface.

"Mermaid?"

"Just transformation magic. Is it strange that I can also use transformation magic? I said long ago that my relationship with the mermaid race is very good. You can obtain the cat form by raising a cat, so of course I can also transform into them by the secret arts of the mermaids. They originally had the ability to transform into humans, and what I did was just reverse spellcasting.

Of course, my transformation magic attainments are not as good as Flora's, I only know how to transform into mermaids."

Shive in the water smiled, stretched out her hand and pulled lightly, and pulled Xia De into the water.

Underwater breathing was automatically activated. Xia De pointed the way with spatial perception, and Shive, whose senses were sharper in the water, held his hand and swam below. Xia De fell slightly behind, so he could look sideways at the connection between the fish tail and the human body that was almost right next to his face, thinking about what the situation here would be.

Then Shive seemed to know what Xia De was thinking, and exerted force with her right hand to pull him to a position parallel to her:

"What were you looking at just now?"

It was very magical that her voice was very clear when speaking in the water, and Xia De had to use telepathy to communicate most clearly:

"I was indeed thinking about impolite things in my heart, but I swear I didn't see anything."

Shive smiled, and pulled Xia De to swim toward the entrance of the cave.

The entrance to the underwater cave was not narrow, and it was just right for two people to swim side by side. Swimming upward about thirty meters, the water above their heads gradually disappeared, and the two entered the underwater cave explored by Xia De's spatial perception.

Silver moonlight emerged from his palm, and then dancing light balls illuminated the surroundings. The typical coastal natural cave also had nothing worth noting.

Moving forward along the not-so-straight cave, in the most spacious place in the depths of the cave, they saw traces of people living there:

"Elder Harald clearly said that when the cave was explored for the last time five years after the young priest left, all the man-made items here were cleared."

But now, not only was there a rusted iron frame bed and a stone cabinet that had collapsed in half in the cave, but even a rusted kerosene lantern was placed in the recess of the wall.

Feeling that he might have really found a major clue, Xia De immediately searched, while Shive looked around:

"When I was a child, I also had such a secret base in my hometown. Although it was also a cave, it was just a cave with a more hidden location on the beach, not as safe as here." 【338

"What do you do in your secret base? Or is it just to hide away for some peace and quiet?"

Xia De asked, and Xi Wei revealed a nostalgic expression:

"At first it was to hide away for peace and quiet, but later my mermaid friends would visit me in the cave to talk and chat with me. Mermaids, like elves, are also a long-lived race; those girls who were more than ten years older than me were actually about the same age as I was at the time.

We would use seashells as teacups, seaweed as tea leaves, and sometimes we would even hang kelp on our bodies to use as silk ribbons."

She revealed a smile and did not feel that this was shameful, so the Outlander also recalled his own childhood in his hometown, and then felt that there was nothing worth recalling about that either:

"So now you are already a grown woman, and they are still mermaids who haven't reached adulthood?"

"Yes, I went to visit them before the Year-End Festival, and at that time, it felt like those happy days were just yesterday."

Then she watched as Xia De moved away that rusty iron-frame bed and frowned as he looked at the wet mud underneath:

"Feilianna's Witch Light."

The golden radiance melted that mud, and then "Fossil to Mud" penetrated the rock layers further below. Soon, a "brand new" looking metal box was fished out by Xia De, and after opening it, inside the box was a skull.

"Oh, you really found it!"

That skull seemed alive; after being illuminated by the moonlight, or more accurately, after being stared at by Xia De and Xi Wei, its mouth suddenly began to move:

"My lady, you are so beautiful, how come you didn't snatch it first from your colleagues..."

Xia De slapped the very top of that skull with a *thwack*, and the "talking" skull immediately quieted down.

Xi Wei had just been reminiscing about the past with a look of nostalgia, but at this moment the expression on her face changed instantly, and the corner of her mouth even twitched:

"Is this the relic you were looking for?"

Xia De nodded:

"Yes, a Document-level relic, the 【Lure Skull】. After throwing this skull down, even if a powerful enemy is pursuing you, that enemy will definitely subconsciously be attracted by this skull and briefly shift their attack target. This effect is extremely outstanding against targets with lower intelligence, and even the effect on intelligent life forms like humans is not bad.

However, slapping the top of the skull can make it temporarily lose its effect. The Fatu people have also had a long history of possessing this relic; they generally only use it when dealing with dangerous sea beasts."

"It sounds like this relic is indeed very useful, but is the characteristic of this thing exerted through its language?"

Xi Wei still disliked this thing somewhat; although she knew that she had indeed arrived several steps too late, she was naturally unhappy about being pointed out to her face.

(End of chapter)