Chapter 3562: Council Forging Area

This case was really full of twists and turns, and the council's punishment and subsequent rewards were indeed reasonable under that era's background.

"Although the record didn't mention destiny, do you think the Witch Council at that time knew the truth about those arcs?"

Xia De asked, Miss Jia Lin Na shook her head:

"It wasn't written in the case file, and I don't know either. Although the case file didn't write how to strip the arc from the holder's body, it said that the final usage method was no longer embedding them into flesh and blood, but making them into weapons. According to our current understanding, those are blades forged by destiny.

This batch of weapons definitely didn't circulate in the council, and as for the method of forging weapons, at least I don't have it here."

Dorothy put forward an idea:

"If the Ring of Destiny can be made into blades of destiny by some means, then we can also try to keep the ring in the Starfall Beast instead of just killing that ring beast... Is the method in the hands of the great witch of creation?"

This was another witch Xia De hadn't come into contact with.

"It's more likely to be with Vanessa. Vanessa is in charge of the furnace and provides weapon forging and maintenance services; creation is actually more about healing and recuperation.

It might be because of the development of modern steam industry that you linked creation with metal. But in fact, before this era, creation was more related to flesh and blood, and breeding."

Miss Jia Lin Na corrected, Xia De looked at the direction of the curtain, the night was already very deep:

"Vanessa and Xiris set off from the Randell River Valley to the west towards the seaside, and then sailed along the southern coastline of the Old Continent to Fatumunster Island. Counting the time, they should arrive tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

Dorothy was still holding the teacup:

"After the thirteen-stage great witch arrives on that island, she will deal with the Starfall Beast, right? The 【Tyranny Club】 has already started to act, and more people will soon realize that thing."

Xia De nodded:

"Today is Monday, so if there are no accidents, let's do it before the end of Friday. This time I am not very concerned about the cultists, but curious about what the Diviner Association is preparing."

The house was not boring on nights when Luweiya was away. Miss Jia Lin Na claimed that she had once been a cute princess like Ajielina, and tonight she let Xia De address her with titles like "Princess":

"Call me Princess Miss Jia Lin Na... oh, this title is really nostalgic."

Princess Lei Qianya expressed her disdain for this, because she was the real princess.

However, Miss Jia Lin Na didn't care about these. She probably had long planned to do this kind of thing on Ajelina's birthday, and had her maids prepare a princess dress for her in advance, and showed it to Xia De after makeup:

"How is it? I haven't worn this style of clothes for a long time. It's really nostalgic for my appearance when I was in my teens... So Ajelina is really lucky to have met you at sixteen."

She prepared this dress, and it was obvious at a glance that it was expensive, but Miss Jia Lin Na still invited Xia De to treat it as a disposable item, and she was even a bit excited:

"Try it, when choosing the color, I even specially prepared white, which symbolizes purity and flawlessness."

Xia De felt a bit guilty about this, and as for whether it was guilt towards Ajelina or guilt for destroying the dress, it was hard to say.

"But weren't you having a great time last night?"

On the breakfast table on Tuesday morning, when Miss Jia Lin Na was unwilling to get up in the bedroom, Dorothy asked Xia De with a smile like this:

"Sometimes you also behave a bit rudely... but... we don't hate this."

In the laughter of "She," Xia De touched Little Mia slightly awkwardly, and then saw Tifa arranging for the maids to make breakfast, and taking people out of the bedroom to clean up the "remains" of that gorgeous white princess dress.

"Actually, I can reverse time and repair it."

Xia De said, so Tifa and the maids stopped in the living room, and the black-haired maid chief asked slightly hesitantly:

"But if so... will those whites stained on it also be reversed back?"

Dorothy finally couldn't help laughing. The professional maid ladies, although most of them had normal expressions, also had a few who were holding back laughter.

Tifa was definitely doing it on purpose.

After breakfast, Xia De went to the southern island again, but he didn't go to the town first, but set off from Victoria Street in Time Wheel City to the pier, first to check the situation of the sealed black arc.

The arc had no problems. Instead, Xia De saw Vanessa talking to Xivi in the cabin where the arc was stored. The witch of the earth did not come here in the identity of an opera troupe this time, so she would live on the Shining Messenger during this period, and the time was very abundant.

After seeing Xia De, Vanessa immediately gave Xia De a big hug for the reunion, and took the opportunity to whisper in his ear:

"Go to your house tonight."

It seems that she couldn't suppress her longing for Xia De.

Vanessa, Xiris, and the sorceresses of the opera troupe had just arrived not long ago. After eating breakfast on the ship, they came to check the "arc," and then immediately ran into Xia De.

Xia De happened to want to ask her about things, so he told Vanessa and Xivi about the clues in the case file provided by Miss Jia Lin Na last night.

Xivi had no impression of this, and Vanessa recalled it carefully:

"The era of cold weapons has long passed, and spell-casting catalysts are no longer the mainstream of supernatural beings. In fact, my understanding of the forging area of the council's furnace is not particularly deep. After all, no witch will come to me to customize weapons in this era, and I haven't systematically learned forging and metallurgy."

"But the matter you mentioned... seems to have some impression, but I'm not sure."

She was about to enter the council to search, and Xivi pulled Xia De's hand to signal him to follow:

"At such an early time, it's unlikely that the Speaker will appear in the council. Let's take Xia De to the council together. Xia De doesn't seem to have seen the forging area of the council either."

So the three entered the old passage from the corridor of the cabin together, entered the white mist behind the door from the passage, and finally the witch's gold jewelry dispelled the mist, revealing the council round table illuminated by the light of heaven.

During this period, Xivi had been holding Xia De's hand. Xia De remembered that when he first entered the 【Witch Council】, it was led by Xivi. That was still the end of the summer of 1853.

And when he subconsciously looked at this witch with brown big wavy long hair, the latter also happened to see him, and both of them saw from each other's eyes that the other also thought of what they were thinking at this moment.

On the surface, the 【Witch Council】 is a space located at the bottom of the light of heaven surrounded by layers of steps, but there are actually many hidden areas here. According to Megan's statement when she took Xia De to the library last time, each area is connected to at least two other hidden areas, but a long time ago, a certain Speaker of the council sealed the passages between these interconnected areas.

Vanessa didn't notice the eye contact between Xia De and Xivi. She walked behind her chair and touched the symbol representing "Earth," and then raised her gold ring again towards the steps behind the back of the chair.

The relic emitted a soft golden light. In that light, the originally hard stone steps appeared like ripples like phantoms, and soon revealed a square hole.

"Hidden wall ahead."

Every time he saw this kind of scene, Xia De would always think like this in his heart. And this time, behind the hidden wall was not a passage going inward, but steps going downward.

The steps were thirteen levels as expected, and in the area at the bottom of the steps, the furnace emitted crimson flames, making the temperature in this area significantly higher than the area by the council round table.

"I rarely come here either. You see, this is basically a blacksmith shop. It is said that the ancient earth witch imprisoned female giants here to forge weapons for witches, but now I can't do this. Giants are endangered alien species."

Vanessa, who was leading the way, introduced. When Xia De went to observe the furnace, the various smelting tools with obvious element traces hanging on the stone wall, and wanted to try the temperature of the furnace but was pulled by Xivi, Vanessa walked alone to the stone box in the corner to search for records.

That box obviously has space power, and the volume of the contents is much larger than the volume shown on the outside of the box.

When Xia De asked Xivi "Will this fire not go out," "Who lit the fire," "Is this a special property of fire," "Can items like hammer heads on the anvil be brought out of the council," Vanessa had already found the information in her memory:

"Look at it yourself. The last time I turned to this information was when the moon asked me to send the information here to the library for backup. At that time, I was still active on the stage."

The slightly old parchment scroll was tied with a ribbon. Except for the ink being a bit faded, this parchment was well preserved, and the handwriting on it looked like it was written with a goose feather pen, and the letters belonged to the early Fifth Era. This time point

The parchment also did not explicitly mention terms like "Ring of Fate" or "Curved Arc of Fate." In fact, this scroll of parchment was more like the notes of a certain generation of Great Witch, but the knowledge on it was indeed useful to Xia De—

【Fate can be forged. I really didn't expect this box to contain such techniques. The Witch Council of the Third Era had already mastered the means to forge fate into weapons. It seems that a part of the raw material for the famous 【Night Watcher】 was fragments of fate, which is why most of the masters of that sword became heroes.】

"Hmm?"

Xia De raised an eyebrow. He hadn't looked closely at that sword since the "Manual of Fate" allowed him to see "solidified fate." But thinking about it carefully, it seemed normal for 【Night Watcher】 to contain fate; "fate" was a frequently appearing term in the legends and stories related to that sword.