Chapter 3614: Snake Creates Infinite Snakes

"Great-aunt, don't complain about these things early in the morning. Oh, two seconds ago, Mother whispered to Father at the dinner table that you brought breakfast to Xia De here. It seems she really has identified this person."

Princess Lei Qianya said suddenly, and Miss Jia Lin Na laughed immediately:

"Of course, I have identified Xia De."

She leaned her head affectionately on Xia De's shoulder and let Xia De feed her. Princess Lei Qianya curled her lips, swapped souls back with Dorothy, and each enjoyed their own breakfast.

In fact, Xia De becoming Miss Jia Lin Na's future husband was the best choice in the eyes of the royal family. With Miss Jia Lin Na's status, the royal family would certainly not want to gain political benefits through her marriage—that would only find themselves an elder with a higher generation to influence the kingdom's politics.

And Xia De, who had no father or mother, no family relations, and not even a few friends, marrying Miss Jia Lin Na meant that no domestic political family would benefit from it. This marriage would not have any impact on the existing political landscape, and would not even have much impact in the future.

This was the situation Larus III wanted. Xia De's status could even increase the royal family's favor in the hearts of the people. After all, before 1853, he was really just a poor boy without a father or mother.

And not giving Xia De a higher title outside of the "Knight" title was also for this reason. Letting Xia De marry the Duchess as a Knight, and then giving him various titles after marriage, was the best choice.

Miss Jia Lin Na was indeed very busy. After breakfast, she left in a hurry with Difa and the others, not even waiting for Xia De to get this week's gift.

Two weeks ago it was that gold coin, last week it was Mr. Charnem Luo De's manuscript, so Xia De was particularly looking forward to this week's gift:

"Dorothy, do you think I will directly touch out a Ring of Fate?"

He asked this while touching Little Mia, trying to gain luck.

The writer lady smiled:

"People who usually say this never get luck."

And this week's gift was indeed not a ring or an arc. This week's gift was exceptionally large. It was a piece of ore, and a very familiar ore:

"Isn't this the ore with star power in that underwater passage?"

Although this was a very precious mineral, it was still different from what Xia De wanted. He already had the pure "star fragments" that turned into after the death of the Star-Falling Beast, and didn't really need this kind of "low-quality" ore.

"Then this week's task, won't it be to let you go mining?"

The writer lady asked again, and Xia De shook his head immediately:

"The task is to let me pick up a few good-looking stones on the road and bring them home. This is indeed something children would do... I remember there are many beautiful pebbles on the beach of Fatumunster Island. How about buying a fish tank and raising a few fish at home, and laying the pebbles at the bottom of the fish tank."

"Meow~"

The cat immediately stretched out its claws to rub Xia De's sleeve. This wasn't because it wanted to eat fish, but because it didn't agree to the appearance of a third permanent resident in the house.

After saying goodbye to Dorothy, Xia De went to Fatumunster Island again. Last night's blizzard was indeed still continuing. When Xia De arrived in the town, the townspeople had obviously given up on completely clearing the snow on the road.

They were now just clearing the snow on the roof and opening a small path wide enough for one person to walk. The town was visibly depressed. In such bad weather, not to mention going to sea or up the mountain, even going out in the town was difficult.

So most of the townspeople were spending such winter time at home, but Xia De still couldn't be idle.

"The snow is really heavy. Bella and the maid in the castle have similar sayings. This snow will last at least until Wednesday. I only remember it snowing this heavily once when I was a child, but I was very excited then, feeling like I could have a snowball fight."

After Xia De arrived at the Snow Mountain Hall, Claire said while patting the falling snow on his shoulders. Xia De still remembered the words of the Apostle of Desire last night, so he asked:

"From midnight yesterday until now, didn't anything happen in the town?"

"No, everything is fine. But did Miss Jia Lin Na tell you? This snow has affected the middle and eastern parts of the entire Old Continent's southern coast. Cassandra's train was delayed, so they won't arrive until after Tuesday afternoon."

"Miss Jia Lin Na didn't say these things, she has been very busy lately. Where is Bella? I have a letter for her here."

The witches on the ship also had their own things to do. After Xia De gave the letter to Bella on the ship, Megan and Vanessa took Xia De to see the sand table of Fatumunster Island they had made after surveying the island's terrain recently.

The sand table not only restored the terrain of the island and the snow mountain, but even marked the direction of the underground river. It's just that they were forbidden by Xia De from entering the underground area, so they could only use secret arts to perceive the direction of the water veins on the surface, and the marking of the underground river was not necessarily completely accurate.

After other witches arrived locally, the work of the girls under Xi Wei became easier.

In the past few days, on the one hand, she arranged for the maintenance of the visiting ships of the two countries to prevent this heavy snow from causing damage to the ships, and on the other hand, she arranged for the mermaids who came with her to explore the seabed of the Star-Falling Bay.

Although the actual location of the Star-Falling Beast was in the Astral Fragment, from the space of the material world, the location of the Astral Fragment actually overlapped with the space at the bottom of the seabed.

Xi Wei let the mermaid girls collect some ore samples from the seabed and observe whether the seabed biological community would change after the defeat of the Star-Falling Beast, so as to make early preparations for the future battle of the Chosen One of the Moon.

Of course, this morning, in addition to chatting with the girls in various areas of the ship and consulting about the "Blessing of Chaos," Xia De spent more time asking the witches what the best choice would be if he wanted to forge the Ring of Fate into a "weapon":

"I plan to use the star fragments after the death of the Star-Falling Beast as a carrier, so should I make it into a long sword, ring, necklace, shield, or something else?"

Among the six Great Witches currently arriving on the island, Xi Wei, Vanessa, and Megan had the best alchemy skills. They each gave different suggestions, but the final result Xia De adopted was "Wait until Cassandra arrives, then go ask her. The old lady is the Great Witch with the best alchemy skills."

Flora was not on the ship for the whole morning, and it was not until lunch time that she and Miss Bell returned through the wind and snow outside.

At that time, everyone was discussing Stella's use of that 【Frost Mourning】. Seeing the artist lady's brows tightly furrowed, they knew that something had happened in the city again.

"There are corpses that died of mental exhaustion again. The Church, the Clown Troupe, and the Prophet Association's Ring Warlocks have all gone. The corpses died the day before yesterday, and because they were buried by snow, they were not discovered until this morning."

"This time, traces of the power of the unknowable relic 【Desire】 were found on the corpses, and the most serious problem is that all the ordinary people who had contact with those corpses have shown physical mutations."

Hearing that there was residual power of the "Mermaid," Xia De asked:

"What kind of mutation? Grew extra hands and feet?"

Megan looked at Xia De, but Flora shook her head:

"No, it's a snake-man mutation. Everyone's mutation situation is different. The most serious one has legs completely stuck together. This is different from the situation of Little Belen you mentioned. The diviners of the Prophet Association did not find any problems with the fate of those mutants. They really just mutated because they came into contact with that corpse."

"Does this count as a curse?"

Vanessa asked, but Flora shook her head again with a serious expression:

"The prophets believe it is a plague, a plague originating from these corpses that died of mental exhaustion. The first few corpses have already been contained, and people who have been in contact with the corpses are also being screened."

The Church believes that this is a plague of extraordinary nature produced by the combination of Mr. Snake's power and the power of that terrifying unknowable relic. The best situation at present is that the woman who can extract mental power has only killed people on this island."

"If she has left Fatumunster Island, things will become quite troublesome."

Although Flora had already stated the matter very seriously, the actual situation was much more serious than the news she brought.

At 2:00 PM, Xia De was listening to Stella carefully playing that instrument in the banquet hall of the Snow Mountain Hall. 【Frost Mourning】 could change the weather on a large scale and bring wind and snow, but there was no need for more wind and snow now, so Stella had to carefully control its power when practicing.

At this time, Elder Harald and Elder Vilda walked in with worry. The hats and shoulders of the two old men were dyed silvery white, and they told Xia De bad news:

"Just received notice, the whole island is under martial law, and residents are not allowed to go out. They must stay at home until the martial law is lifted, or at least not leave the street or village where they live. We are arranging manpower to notify every village now. It seems something big has happened."

"Why martial law?"

"The nominal reason given by the city is that the weather is bad, and the snowfall will continue for the next two days, but it shouldn't be that simple. The people from the Church should come to explain to us soon. I don't know what it is this time."

And arriving earlier than the people from the Church was Mr. Mortis.

He came through the snow and met Xia De in the Snow Mountain Hall, and informed Xia De of the situation currently known by the 【Clown Troupe】:

"The victims infected with the extraordinary plague not only showed snake-man mutations, but the Prophet Association, after obtaining some human tissues for research, believes that every one of those plague infected people has the potential to become an Infinite Snake."

Xia De confirmed that he hadn't heard wrong before asking:

"Man-made Infinite Snakes, I mean snake-made Infinite Snakes?"

Mr. Mortis held his mask in his hand, his expression quite ugly:

"At present, it seems there is only the potential for mutation, and there will not be a large-scale mutation of Infinite Snakes. The research of the prophets is still continuing. According to the conclusions obtained so far, it seems that Mr. Snake stripped away a part of his own characteristics and fused it with the power of that thing, which allowed that woman who extracts mental power to possess such powerful infectivity."

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