Chapter 3447: Red Butterfly
Document-level Relic 【Dragon Blood Treasure Coin】, a cursed coin rumored to be stained with dragon blood. It is said that these coins all come from unknown ancient dragon treasures, so one can detect dragon treasures nearby by relying on this treasure coin.
Xia De once obtained this kind of coin when he was adventuring in Moon Bay last year, but even with so many traces of dragons in Moon Bay, this coin failed to help him find any dragon treasures.
So the legend was probably just a legend.
Because he still had to return to the White River Valley Vineyard to return the horse, it was already 4:00 PM when Xia De arrived at Mibao. Setting the last stop here was naturally to spend more time with Grace and Helen. Xia De always felt that he owed them a lot.
Miss Swift was currently helping to build a teleportation gate on Schluch Lake, so there was no figure of the flaxen-haired girl in the Cassandra Auction House. Cassandra asked about her apprentice's situation and asked Xia De to help bring some luggage to Miss Swift when he left:
"The climate in Mibao is pleasant all year round, not as cold as Claire's hometown."
Grace and Helen were not at the Cassandra Auction House today. When Xia De saw them, they were watching a pair of twin sisters being born to a poor woman at the local Snake Heart Hospital.
The thick walls of the delivery room became transparent under their hands. Xia De did not disturb the sisters who were watching the delivery room intently, but stood quietly behind them and witnessed the birth of two brand-new lives with them.
"At the moment they were born into this poor family, the hardship and difficulty of their lives were already destined. When the doctor cut the umbilical cord for them, I already saw them worrying about their livelihood and working hard for poverty all their lives."
Grace looked up at Xia De and tugged at his sleeve:
"So, sir, since they are destined to be unhappy all their lives, why were they born?"
"Because no one can see all the fate of the future. Their birth is a brand-new possibility for everyone. Perhaps in more than ten years, one of the sisters will live a decent life, thereby changing the fate of the whole family; perhaps the girl who grows up will join the army and save a key person who can influence the situation of the Old Continent on the battlefield; perhaps, one of them will give birth to a brand-new life in the future that will be a writer who can be written into history."
Xia De also looked at the delivery room on the other side of the transparent wall. The pregnant woman smiled weakly after giving birth to two girls, tilting her head to look at the children who had been placed in the cradle:
"Life is a brand-new possibility, Grace, Helen, just like you met me, and I met you, the future is something no one can say for sure."
Xia De used the rest of the day to date the sisters. The three of them visited the newborns at the 【Snake Heart Hospital】 together, and the Red Butterfly sisters offered blessings to the twins. They did not have the power to change the fate of mortals, but they could bless the twins so that they could always support each other on the road ahead.
Afterwards, the sisters accompanied Xia De to learn 【Demon Pact of the Sword】 on Mount Sikar, and the weapon Xia De bound was naturally his 【Night Watcher】:
"Sword, come!"
He stood on the hillside and raised his hand, and the silver sword flew out of the woods with a swish and was held by him, which startled Little Mia. At this moment, Xia De's face was filled with a heartfelt smile, and Grace and Helen looked at him and smiled happily.
During the subsequent dinner time, Xia De took the girls back home and enjoyed a romantic candlelight dinner at home. After dinner, Little Mia could finally stay at home, and the three of them came to the Moon Sanctuary in the Vista Forest together. When Grace and Helen, each wrapped in a towel, also soaked into the hot spring with silver light, Xia De said with a smile again:
"You see, you can even enter this hot spring safely. Whether you are still Relics, it is really hard to say in my opinion."
The bath towel was definitely not black, so Grace and Helen were both wrapped in white bath towels. And without the color of the skirt as a condition for distinction, the difficulty of wanting to distinguish the sisters was only simpler than distinguishing the difference between Megan and Audrey.
Helen leaned on Xia De's left side, looking up at the starry sky and the moon high above the sparse dead branches of the hot spring:
"Sir, once you become a Relic, there is no way back, and only you will completely ignore our Relic identity. Looking at the situation of the pseudo-humans this time, people's views on humanoid Relics have really not changed at all for thousands of years.
However, this view is correct. If one cannot distinguish the difference between humanoid Relics and real intelligent life, the human civilization of the Third Era would have been cut off."
"What are you talking about? You are not the same as pseudo-humans."
Xia De corrected. He hadn't come here to soak in the hot spring to relax for a long time, and he was in a good mood at the moment:
"You are just little butterflies teased by fate, and pseudo-humans really hold malice toward flesh-and-blood life. The difference between you and pseudo-humans is bigger than the difference between Little Mia and other cats."
Grace and Helen showed gentle smiles. Grace, as the elder sister, said:
"Sir, we actually don't care what others think, as long as you don't mind our Relic identity."
She and Helen were on the left and right sides of Xia De respectively. At this moment, the sisters each stretched out a hand, interlaced their fingers in front of Xia De, and then kissed Xia De on the cheek on the left and right respectively:
"Relic - Red Butterfly Twins, give you a curse."
【Outlander, you have touched a "Whisper."】
While "She" in his ears reminded him softly, butterfly patterns appeared on the kiss marks on Xia De's cheeks, but the patterns soon merged into his flesh and finally dissipated into nothingness. Grace, Xia De, and Helen became a whole at this moment, so the curse of the Angel-level Relic 【Red Butterfly Twins】 was completely imposed on Xia De.
The content of the "curse" was that once Xia De encountered forced spatial movement, his body would directly disintegrate into a pile of blood-colored red butterflies. This was death for ordinary people, but for Xia De, it was just a change in form.
"Relics and the power of Relics are also contradictory. We are more proficient in spatial power than the 【House of Pseudo-Humans】, so as long as our curse continues on you, sir, they will not be able to grab you again."
Grace explained. The white bath towels were floating in the water at this moment. The black-haired, blue-eyed girls looked at Xia De, just like the silver moon looking at them from the starry sky.
In short, with the "curse" given by Grace and Helen, Luweiya and the others no longer stopped Xia De from going to the snowy mountain, but urged him to be careful.
Thursday was the opening day of the All Souls Festival for the Fatu people. Xia De wanted to invite Luweiya to go to the island for a stroll early in the morning—when he went home late last night after playing with the butterflies, Luweiya had already fallen asleep on the third floor.
But the purple-eyed girl refused Xia De:
"During the All Souls Festival, the tides of spirits and elements on Schluch Lake will become chaotic, and this phenomenon will be more obvious at night than during the day. Only at such times is it easier to find those abnormal existences. I have already thought about it, and I will go to the island to find you after work tonight, and try to see if I can directly find the traces of the Pilgrims of Fate."
As for the matter of the 【House of Pseudo-Humans】, Luweiya was no longer worried. The "Visceral Tracing" Miracle for finding pseudo-humans shared by Mr. Albert could be learned by Matilda and the others, and Xia De now knew that he had to take unicorns to break into the 【House of Pseudo-Humans】. As long as he found the snake fang, this matter could be considered over.
It just so happened that Xia De brought back two 【Dragon Blood Treasure Coins】 from Huntington yesterday, so before going to work on Thursday morning, Luweiya threw out one of them, trying to find out what to sacrifice to obtain the snake fang that symbolized the "only solution of fate."
The coin scattered into fly ash in the morning light, and Luweiya was not surprised by the result she obtained:
"It turns out that such a sacrifice must be completed during the All Souls Festival—first, you need to find a stone in the shape of a snake fang by the bonfire at the pier tonight, stab it into the heart of any candidate, and after it is stained with the candidate's heart blood, wrap the blood-stained stone with the other party's snake skin, and soak it in the lower spring, middle spring, or upper spring for 24 hours, then you can go to the Shadow of Helm to complete the sacrifice."
This divination did not seem to bring her much mental burden; perhaps this question was very simple:
"By the way, each candidate can only obtain one snake fang in this way. If you don't go through my divination, but really find a way on your own, you have to go to a village in the west of Schluch Lake, where snake-skin documents related to this ritual are still preserved.
Of course, the ritual will not mention the candidates. This is the method of casting snake-fang weapons passed down by them."
"In that case, I will go to Miss Larson for help."
"Decide this yourself. In short, although the snake fang is one-time use, its power to fix fate is truly terrifying, so unless necessary, don't let others know this secret."
Luweiya said, picked up her handbag, and went downstairs. After kissing Xia De goodbye at the entrance hall, she walked toward Silver Cross Avenue.
Early this morning, just as he arrived under Silvia's high tower, Xia De felt the subtle difference between the snowy mountain environment and the past.
He stood on the stone steps under the tower and waved his right hand slowly, as if catching something invisible in the air.
Silvia stood at the door of the high tower with a smile, looking at him, and then asked:
"Good morning, Xia De, you feel it too, right? Spirits and elements seem to be completely active. Generally speaking, places where Miracle elements are active are related to the True Gods, profanity is related to Evil Gods, enlightenment is divided into many situations, and whispers are signs of the appearance of Relics.
And today's Schluch Lake, all four elements have become active. I heard Claire say that this is just the beginning of this phenomenon. As the All Souls Festival progresses, the activity of the four elements will become more and more obvious." ===== CHAPTER 3448 =====
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