Chapter 3479: Unicorn Knight

"Please rest assured, in order to invite you to visit again, we have not made things difficult for your friend."

The mimic in the guise of a manservant said, signaling Xia De to look inside the 【House of Mimics】.

Originally, behind it was a foyer connected to a corridor. At this moment, the corridor began to shorten at a speed visible to the naked eye, bringing the room at the end of the corridor closer and closer to the foyer. At the same time, the door at the end of the corridor opened silently, and behind the door was a room very similar to the "unicorn's nest" in the Snow Mountain Hall.

Little Liana was lying in the center of the room as if asleep. Xia De blinked and saw the unicorn mark on the little unicorn's head. That mark was the same as the one on Aili's head beside him. It seemed Little Liana was indeed temporarily safe:

"Let it leave the 【House of Mimics】, and I will go in immediately."

Xia De said, but the mimic in the guise of a manservant shook its head:

"I know how powerful you are. Entering the core room last time and still being able to leave was completely beyond our expectations. I will not let it leave; you need to come in and find it yourself."

The door to the room where Little Liana was held closed, the corridor behind the foyer re-extended, and the room disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The mimic did not want to give Xia De a chance to stall for time. It said straightforwardly:

"I know you want to banish us from the material world again, so why don't we play a game?"

It pointed behind itself:

"Your unicorn friend is currently resting in the depths of the 【House of Mimics】, and what you need to do is find it. If you find it, you win."

Xia De frowned:

"If you want me to return to that core room again, you could actually just open an entrance... Or is it that you don't actually have full control over the 【House of Mimics】? The location of that core room cannot be changed, and I must walk there myself?"

The mimic did not answer; it made an inviting gesture again:

"Now, either enter here or say goodbye to your friend forever. God-Caller, since the end of the Mythological Era, you are not the first guest invited into the 【House of Mimics】, but you are the only guest who has accepted our invitation twice."

Xia De took a step forward with Aili:

"I am curious, after witnessing my power, what confidence do you have to keep me here this time?"

The mimic then asked:

"God-Caller, can you still use the power of that Old God who has already departed this time?"

Its body disappeared into the shadow behind the door, and Xia De took Aili through the door of the 【House of Mimics】. The door closed behind them, and then, various sounds from inside the quiet building came all at once.

On both sides of the long, narrow corridor connecting the foyer were doors. The sounds of couples arguing, children crying, stir-frying in the kitchen, and family dogs barking came from them and mixed together, as if this were a cheap rental apartment in the slums of the Lower City.

Xia De turned and remounted Aili's back. On the way here, he had already used Moon Fire to simply treat Aili's wounds. The terrifying-looking wounds were actually just simple external injuries. Aili, as an adult unicorn, had a much stronger recovery ability than Little Liana. Emilia even said that Aili was the unicorn with the strongest recovery ability she had ever seen.

This was probably the reason why it could become the only successful "test subject."

"Let's go. I don't know where Little Liana is either, so you decide where we should go."

Xia De leaned over and whispered in Aili's ear. The intelligent holy beast, of course, understood what Xia De meant. After being frozen for countless years before opening its eyes again, and being driven out of its "homeland" by demons for many years before finally finding friends and reclaiming its homeland, now that a younger member of its own kind had been captured by a relic and it was once again powerless, even needing its master to risk danger to help it, the pure white unicorn actually had its own emotions, and it was clearly quite unhappy now.

"Ang~"

It raised its head and cried, and the unicorn horn on its head emitted pure white radiance. Then, after confirming that Xia De was seated firmly, Aili lowered its head and rammed fiercely toward the wall to the side. With a booming sound, it smashed directly through the brick wall covered with red wallpaper and entered the room.

This was the periphery of the 【House of Mimics】, and the exterior of the wall looked no different from an ordinary building. But when Aili smashed through the wall, Xia De discovered a layer of blood-red "film" like capillaries, which was not easily noticeable, sandwiched in the middle of the wall.

Smashing through a wall with a unicorn's power was not a difficult task at all. But when Aili's horn touched that layer of blood-red "film," it clearly paused for a moment, and only after the pure white luster dissolved that blood-vessel-like film did it continue forward.

The dust from the collapsed wall had not yet settled when two intersecting silver moonbeams split the bodies of the two mimics in the guise of a couple in the room. Fireballs incinerated their bodies. Aili cried out and wanted to charge forward again, but Xia De stopped it:

"Wait a moment."

He turned on Aili's back and looked behind him. The wall was emitting a faint blood-red light, trying to heal, but the white light left on the wall by Aili's horn was preventing the blood-red light from taking effect. The information provided by Miss Kearns, the witch hunter from the early Fifth Era, was correct; the unicorn's horn did indeed restrain the walls of the 【House of Mimics】.

Inside the relic, on the periphery, Aili's power could not only break through walls but also maintain the gaps in the walls for a period of time.

"Moon Fire."

Pure silver flames were thrown by Xia De toward the gap. Then, Moon Fire and Aili's power fused perfectly, clinging to the edge of the gap, constantly dissolving the power trying to heal the wall.

In this way, the existence time of the gap could become longer, and because of the existence of Moon Fire, the relic's power was greatly suppressed, making it difficult for the position of that wall to be easily changed.

"Then let's move forward. No need to stop again. You just need to charge forward, and I will take care of everything else."

"Ang~"

The pure white holy beast cried out again, lowered its head, took a step back, and then rammed fiercely toward the wall ahead.

It almost turned into a white shadow with Xia De, lowering its head and ramming into whatever was in front regardless of what it was. Layer after layer of walls were smashed through under Aili's horn, and Aili's power seemed to be gradually releasing.

At first, after it hit a wall, Xia De would still feel himself vibrate, and he could take the opportunity to release Moon Fire to make it remain at the edge of the gap in the wall. But soon, for Aili, the walls were like encountering butter with flames; they were easily separated just by being touched. If Xia De's reaction speed hadn't been astonishing, he wouldn't even have had the chance to release Moon Fire.

After being fed apples for more than half a month and Emilia's exclusive nutritious meals, Aili's physical state had actually recovered to its peak. Under its seemingly thin body, the muscles were fully bulging. While charging forward in a state of rage, the bricks of the walls, the furniture in the rooms, and even the mimics blocking the way were all turned into fragments in front of the holy beast.

And during Aili's high-speed movement, the moonlight and fireballs that Xia De kept throwing out eliminated all the mimics he could see along the way one by one.

Booming sounds kept ringing inside the 【House of Mimics】. Because of the extremely fast speed, in the third minute after Xia De and Aili entered the 【House of Mimics】, they successfully broke through the periphery and entered a deeper position of the 【House of Mimics】.

At this time, faint blood-red light had emerged in the surrounding space, constantly grinding against the pure white light emitted from Aili's body. The exterior of the walls was no longer just simple bricks and stones; blood-flesh tissues like lichens and moss began to appear on the walls. And when Aili smashed through the walls, the blood-flesh film sandwiched in the middle of the walls also became thicker.

If it was just like capillaries at first, by now that layer of blood-flesh film was already similar to fascia.

And looking back, the walls smashed through in the three minutes just now had not recovered at all, so Xia De could even look through those holes clinging with silver flames and see the position where they started.

The two second-stage mimics with fly wings in the room had already been burned to ashes in the corner, and Aili stopped at this time. Xia De originally thought it was tired, or that the surrounding environment had begun to affect it, but the unicorn just made a sniffing action—this action reminded Xia De of Little Mia—and then turned its direction and rammed toward the wall in the right corner again.

After the wall was pierced, they entered a brand-new corridor, and then Aili continued to ram forward without changing direction. The blood-red color around became thicker and thicker as it flew forward rapidly, so in addition to its own power, the advantage of being a "Witch Council Registered Unicorn" was also brought into play.

When the blood-red color dissolved the white light around it and was about to touch its body, Aili, who was charging forward, cried out again. Then, the witch power familiar to Xia De erupted from Aili, and the chaotic colors directly distorted the surrounding blood-red light. Then, holy white light emerged again, and as Aili opened its mouth and spat, the pure white light directly exploded the wall forward.

"Huh? Aili can also spit energy?"

While Xia De was surprised, Aili sniffed the surroundings again, then adjusted the direction of advance and passed through the wall that had just been exploded by it.

They entered a corridor that Xia De was very familiar with. The floor of the corridor was covered with a red carpet, but there was not a single door on the walls on both sides. And at the end of this corridor, which was about twenty meters long, was a curve turning to the right.

Aili looked like it wanted to charge forward along the corridor, but at this moment, the rumbling sound of water came from the corner of the corridor, and then surging blood water gushed out from the bend at the end of the corridor ahead, and then quickly surged toward them.

Last time, because he didn't know what the situation inside the 【House of Mimics】 was, Xia De hid in other rooms to avoid the blood water, but this time he would not be forced back easily again:

"Freeze Ray!" ===== CHAPTER 3480 =====