Chapter 3573

【Spring of 2358, Fifth Era, followed the track of destiny to this island, wanting to complete the pilgrimage of destiny. Luck is not good, stayed for two months with no harvest, guessed that the end of the pilgrimage is not above but below, so entered the underground of the island until finding this place.

This place is very strange, dare not continue forward. Communicated with the locals and learned some ancient secrets. Contacted the church to ask the god how to deal with it. The oracle required to build a shrine here and leave a gold coin for worship.

Witches of later generations, remember that you cannot move forward. The oracle says—the old god buried destiny here, waiting for the final drama to open. At the end of the story, there will be a card game on this island, and the keeper of the seal waits for the arrival of the protagonists. Unfortunately, I can't see it.】

Xia De blinked after reading:

"In the Seven-Act Story, that card game is really the final act? But the keeper of the seal... is there a keeper here?"

Claire nodded:

"Yes, isn't it this snowy mountain?"

Flora and Xia De also didn't understand:

"I heard you say that this snowy mountain has spirituality and can respond to your prayers and worship, but the Fatumunster snowy mountain should not have a personified consciousness, right? How are the candidates going to play cards with the mountain?"

"This is unknown. Maybe when the ritual reaches the end, some means reserved by the old god will make the snowy mountain appear in a materialized image."

Claire was quite looking forward to this:

"Let's not tell grandfather and the others first, we must scare them when the time comes."

In this way, Xia De could also understand that the card game act might be related to 【Creation · Destiny】 mentioned by the 【Prophet Society】. In most card games involving supernatural factors, the Universal Cards can play quite magical roles.

However, although the handwriting on the silk was restored a little by Xia De, he no longer had enough Moon Ash to restore the shrine here.

Of course, even if it was restored, it would be useless. The shrine built by the oracle of the old god was to strengthen the seal, but now the church of the old god has long disappeared, the god has also left, and the shrine has no effect.

"The demon appearing here is definitely not a coincidence. Is it also looking for this shrine? Is it for that coin or for this silk?"

Flora guessed again, but whether it was the coin or the content on the silk, it should have nothing to do with that demon. As for the fact that it clearly found the approximate location but didn't take these things away, Claire seriously suspected that the other party couldn't perceive this shrine ruin at all:

"Even if the shrine has been damaged, the power of the water vein still exists, and it cannot break through this power."

"I have a guess."

When the three floated up from underwater, Xia De looked at the direction where the demon disappeared just now:

"Assuming the demon is really cooperating with Mr. Snake, then what it seeks must be that weapon. It already knows that the weapon was hidden in the snowy mountain by the witches of the Fifth Era, so is it possible that Mr. Snake is constantly providing it with the locations where the witches of the Fifth Era once buried things?

Except for not being the place the demon is looking for, this place is perfectly in line with the demon's needs."

"That snake, doesn't it know where the 'weapon' is?"

"Maybe it knows, maybe it doesn't, but for it, letting the demon run more locations that strengthen the seal is definitely not a bad thing."

In short, although the snake fang was not found, the hint initially given by the 【Prophet Society】 was indeed very correct. There was indeed a major discovery here.

None of the three were willing to stay here, so they planned to leave since there was nothing wrong.

First, they returned to the underground passage from the underground water vein, and then went all the way up at a very fast speed until they returned to the hidden cave at the foot of the mountain. Because they walked through the wall directly when entering, the brick wall that had been blocking here for unknown ages remained unchanged.

Claire looked back before leaving completely, feeling that her hometown was becoming more and more strange.

(Little Mia is running...)

Wednesday, night, 10:30.

The light sprinkled by the March illuminated the Randall River Valley forest. On the side wall of the cliff of the Nameless Mountain, Vanessa stood by the stone pillar of the last arch of the Night Temple, looking at Xia De in the center of the Sun, Moon, and Stars ritual array at the end of the temple, holding the black arc high in his right hand.

This place is very special to Vanessa Benanice. She dedicated the "Moonlight Dance" to Xia De here, broke through the final relationship, and also successfully became the first Thirteenth Tier among a group of sisters.

Although her eyes were still looking at Xia De, she was thinking about the situation that night:

"I was really bold at that time... Thanks to Xilis."

The moonlight seemed to be projected onto the ritual array at Xia De's feet. He closed his eyes and let the silver flames rise under the moon, and then his right hand suddenly exerted force and gripped—

Click!

Vanessa, who came back to her senses, saw the black arc shattered in the moon fire. After the arc shattered, dots of black light fell downwards. Part of it turned into 1 black coin and fell at Xia De's feet with a clatter, and part of it attached to Xia De, who seemed to be glowing at this moment.

His whole body seemed to be ignited with black flames, but the phantom of the black flame quickly disappeared under the moonlight. Xia De opened his eyes and looked at his hands, and said to Vanessa who accompanied him quite incredibly:

"You might not believe it, but after shattering this arc, I feel that the upper limit of my spirit, mental power, vitality, and the strength of miracle spells have all increased, and the power related to 【End】 【Error】 has been greatly enhanced—although I don't have the latter. The key is that this arc can actually reduce the spirit required for me to use the maze."

"The improvement of various basic values and the reduction of the spirit used for the maze seem to be the common power of all kinds of arcs, and the enhancement of specific aspects depends on the nature of the arc. But what is the principle of this? What does my maze have to do with destiny? Why is only this miracle specially strengthened?"

Vanessa smiled gently:

"Although I am not a sorcerer who is proficient in enlightenment like a writer, I know that destiny is most obviously reflected in fairy tales. Maybe this has something to do with your maze being related to fairy tales, but is this enhancement permanent?"

"No, only for three days. If you use perception to contact me now, you should be able to 'see' the black arc light on me. After this arc light disappears, this power will be gone... but it just happens to cover the time we deal with the Falling Star Beast. If I am lucky, I can even take this power to the Fifth Era."

Xia De was quite happy about this, and he found another way to eliminate the Infinite Snake. And this method, although the most troublesome, also yielded the most benefits.

He bent down to pick up the black coin on the ground. The number on it was "6," which was even larger than the number on the gold coin Xia De obtained when he twisted little Belen's destiny:

"Ordinary elimination of the Infinite Snake gives a black six-sided dice, so using the method of shattering the arc is equivalent to maximizing the points of the dice?"

But Vanessa still didn't understand one point:

"Isn't it said that when shattering an arc or ring, the soul will suffer the impact of the Ring Beast? I saw you receive the favor of destiny, but I didn't see you being attacked."

Xia De then looked up at the moon in the sky:

"When the arc was shattered in the moon fire, I did notice a black snake pouncing on me, but it was dissolved by the moonlight before it even touched me. Looking at it this way, after destiny is shattered, the final power of the Infinite Snake actually doesn't count for anything."

"But I see this as the moon god's partiality to you. Others shouldn't have this treatment."

Seeing that the matter was over, she walked towards Xia De:

"Afterwards, you can cooperate more with the church to deal with the Infinite Snake. Even if it's not for points, it's a good thing that the arc can strengthen your power."

She stood at the position where she held the "Sacrificial Ritual" with Xia De and kissed him. Although she had already stayed overnight at Xia De's house yesterday, it is well known that witches are people who don't know how to be satisfied.

Since the snake fang was not found on Wednesday, Xia De continued his search on Thursday. After all, there were three clues provided by the Prophet Society. Even if he couldn't find it in the end, he could go to the society to ask for an explanation.

Iluna had set off on a steam airship at dawn on Thursday, and Luweiya should have arrived in Lomari City on Thursday or was about to leave from there. Xia De missed the purple-eyed girl.

The chaos of the Prophet Society had also subsided. Although Xia De knew the "benefits" of the broken arc, he also missed the snake in the society's library, but that snake was too powerful, and the society didn't dare to keep it at all, directly letting the prophets holding snake skins completely eliminate it.

Xia De's side had Stella, Claire, Emilia, Ajelina, and Dorothy holding snake skins, and he also had a blank snake skin in his hand. The Prophet Society would only have more, not less.

This morning, he rode Ellie to the society-marked seaside cave alone and returned empty-handed. Bella had also arrived and was asking Matilda about their recent situation on the ship. In this way, except for Grandmother Cassandra who would not arrive until next week and Galina and Sylvia who had their own things and had not set off yet, six of the nine Great Witches Xia De knew had already arrived.

The ship girl looked very happy. Compared to the empty cabin, she still liked the liveliness on the ship.

"Of course, this way I can also see more interesting stories between Xia De and the witches."

This was her own thought and would not be spoken out.

With the help of Bella, a professional diviner, many things would be very convenient next. She knew that she was going to set off tomorrow to deal with the "Falling Star Beast," and then used the Sage-level relic 【Strange Painting Divination Cards】 she held to divine for Xia De which of the remaining two clues could find the snake fang.

There was only an arrow pointing forward on the card surface turned over, and Xia De didn't understand what this meant. The Countess then explained:

"You see, this arrow points to the southeast, so you should look for clues to the southeast."