Chapter 3616: Desire

The black dragon beast Claire mentioned was one of the four guardians of the World Tree wreckage. Later, its heart was used by Xia De in the Dragon Feast ritual, and Xia De gained the ability to breathe and fly through this.

The witches didn't feel it was wrong for Xia De to seek help from Laplace Howard, so Bella asked:

"Xia De, are you going to row your little boat to see him?"

Xia De shook his head:

"Rowing into there can only send the soul away. If you want to communicate with the departed soul in a true sense, you still have to take the formal route."

The formal route refers to offering a Heart of the Living Dead at the 【Soul Cemetery】. Xia De didn't have this for the time being, but very luckily, during the mission of 【Tombstone Wasteland】, Xia De looked for Iluna, wanting to purchase a Heart of the Living Dead through the Church's route.

As a result, Iluna hadn't given an answer yet, and Xia De and Stella got a Heart of the Living Dead in the incident of Mrs. Otto, who was waiting for her husband, and used it in the temple of the wasteland.

But the Church did indeed find a Heart of the Living Dead later. It's just that because Iluna didn't need it for the time being, that heart should still be stored in the warehouse.

It just so happened that Iluna was coming over tomorrow, so Xia De wrote another letter to her, asking her to get that heart. It's just that the heart definitely wasn't on Fatumunster Island now, so Xia De didn't know when he could get it.

In addition to the matter of the snake-man, Xia De could also ask Laplace Howard about the Ring of Fate. He definitely knew a lot of information that Xia De didn't know.

"However, will the ancestor honestly answer your questions?"

Audrey asked this at the dinner table again. Xia De thought this was a small problem. He had too much experience in prying information out of other people's mouths:

"Howard and I can have a chat. He and I don't have a fundamental conflict. At the end of the Battle of Green Lake, he also admitted himself that he lost."

Xia De put down the fork in his hand, and Winnie behind him immediately handed him a napkin to wipe his mouth. Although he was invited by Xia De, she still insisted that she was just a maid, so she had been standing behind Xia De. Xia De felt that Matilda seemed unhappy because of this.

"As long as it is power that can be utilized, we must use it. During the Battle of Moon Bay, didn't I get the help of the Chosen One of Darkness, Ivan Darkness, whom I killed?"

Xia De said this, and Vanessa said with some worry:

"Don't repeat what you did in Moon Bay, don't make everyone so worried."

Everything went very smoothly. When he woke up on Tuesday morning and saw snowflakes falling in Tobesk outside the window, Xia De was still telling Dorothy that he was a bit worried that Speaker Isabella would suspect the purpose of the two witch jewelry pieces.

But when he arrived at Fatumunster Island, which was still in blizzard weather, Iluna was already on the ship looking at the two rings glowing with dark golden light.

"Good morning, Xia De~ I gave the Heart of the Living Dead you wanted to Miss Yi Le Se. She said it was put in the ship's cold storage."

"Good morning, Iluna, did you get this material so quickly?"

"After all, it was what I wanted, so the Holy See had people send it overnight."

Iluna looked in a very good mood today. In the blizzard weather, her dress was not very thick. The warmth of the brown long skirt was very suspicious:

"I have new news here. Another batch of plague patients with signs of snake-man mutation was discovered on the island last night. At the same time, two corpses that died of mental exhaustion were discovered in the lower city and by the sea of the City of Time.

The benefit of the bad weather is that not many people have come into contact with these two corpses, but the appearance of more and more patients on the island who have never been in contact with corpses has made the Church doubt whether the plague's transmission method is really just direct contact. The Star-Falling Beast matter just ended, and things are really one after another."

"This is also the norm for the story of the Chosen One."

Xia De said and simply checked the two rings. There were indeed quite obvious traces of the power of the Old God on them:

"Did Miss Isabella suspect your purpose?"

He asked Xi Wei, who was talking to Iluna just now. The witch shook her head gently:

"When the Speaker heard that there was something on this island that needed the power of the Parliament, she didn't ask anything and directly opened the vote. I always feel that since the story of fate began, the Speaker's personality has changed a lot... Does it have anything to do with the things on this island?"

Iluna had also finished breakfast at the church. Without delay, Xia De set off with her directly. The destination was the coast in the west of the island, which was also the most desolate place on the entire island.

He didn't let Miss Yi Le Se send them over, but summoned a small boat, and then rowed the boat in the blizzard to carry Iluna around the island.

However, the wind and snow didn't have much impact on Xia De, because Iluna, who was sitting at the bow of the boat, summoned a ball of light, and then didn't know what kind of miracle she used. When that ball of light was suspended at the bow of the boat, the small boat couldn't feel the wind and snow at all.

"Since that woman in the city has the power of a mermaid, is that mermaid really cooperating with Mr. Snake?"

After Iluna cast the spell, she sat on one side of the small boat and asked Xia De at the stern. Xia De was also not sure:

"If it's true, I don't see any benefit to it. What it likes is to corrupt humans subtly and seduce the desires in people's hearts. Like now, directly giving people extraordinary charm and then letting the other party kill people by relying on extraordinary charm is completely not its style of doing things."

"Anyway, regardless of whether it is cooperating with Mr. Snake, it is our enemy."

Iluna hated "Desire" very much, and the reason was very simple. After all, when the other party first saw her in the Pantanal Swamp, she said she was "too simple" (Chapter 1112).

On the way, Xia De and Iluna chatted about her residence and daily food on Fatumunster Island. Time always passed quickly when chatting, and the small boat soon arrived in the west of the island.

However, Xia De didn't summon at the seaside. He stopped the small boat in the middle of the sea, then spat out cold air to freeze all the seawater around the small boat, and only then came to the edge of the ice with Iluna.

The light summoned by Iluna still dispelled the wind and snow around, and Xia De confirmed:

"The ring is already worn on the hand, right?"

"Yes."

"That's good, I'm starting."

He liquefied the pink desire crystal and put it into a perfume bottle, then threw the bottle into the water. Plop~ The bottle didn't drift away with the water flow, but sank under the water with bubbles gurgling.

Xia De took a few steps back away from the edge of the ice and stood with Iluna.

The wind and snow became even more violent than just now. Except for the slightly warmer area illuminated by the sunlight, the range outside the ice seemed to be completely covered by the curtain made of snowflakes in the eyes of Xia De and Iluna.

And in the howling wind, nothing happened at first, but soon they heard someone humming an ancient tune. The singing was ethereal and distant, making people think of the vast snow mountain and the lonely traveler riding a horse in the snow.

And in that increasingly clear singing, Iluna looked down at her feet seriously, only to see a huge black shadow emerging from under the ice at their feet at this time, and then the shadow quickly passed under the ice layer, making the ice and the small boat shake violently.

Xia De and Iluna both stood still, and the familiar laughter appeared in the wind and snow at this moment.

The wind and the humming seemed to be cooperating with each other, like the accompaniment when an important character appears on the opera stage. It was just that when the woman's speaking voice appeared, the humming stopped:

"I knew it, even if you keep hiding from me, you will definitely summon me actively in the end."

The hoarse voice carried some resentment and some teasing. Outside the ice in front of the two, a wet, beautiful head slowly emerged from the cold seawater. The skin, as smooth as silk, had water droplets flowing down. The black hair was scattered behind the head, and only a few broken hairs were stuck to the side of the cheek.

The purple eyes were curved because of the smile on the face. This face with a birthmark between the eyebrows, a tear mole at the corner of the eye, long black hair, and purple eyes, this time Xia De actually saw the shadow of Claire in it again.

Clearly, it was snowing heavily all around, but its appearance didn't seem abrupt, but instead made Xia De and Iluna subconsciously feel that the other party should appear in such a scene.

The beautiful head slowly approached the ice, but stopped at a distance of only five meters from the edge of the ice just right before Xia De opened his mouth:

"Long time no see, interesting soul. Look, this time it's you who actively called me again."

"You sent someone to Tobesk to find me. Can this be counted as me being active?"

Xia De asked, trying his best to remain calm under the gaze of the other party's hoarse voice and beautiful purple eyes. The power of the ring on his hand only allowed him not to be affected and corrupted by the other party's power, not to cut off any thoughts and distractions. That was the role of Mia's ninth ring 【Ice Heart Walker's Ring】, and to prevent "Desire" from directly destroying that relic, Xia De didn't bring it.

"I just gave you a suggestion, it was you who made the decision yourself. And didn't you find that I respect you very much? Specifically sending someone to notify you at the banquet where you were enjoying yourself, instead of letting someone come to the door at night when you were hugging a beautiful girl to sleep. Isn't this very good?"

That face, which in Iluna's eyes was more beautiful than any witch, smiled and talked to Xia De. Iluna admitted that the hoarse voice was very pleasant, but she didn't want to watch Xia De keep talking to the other party:

"You must have your own purpose in contacting Xia De. Now that we are here, can you say what you want to do?" ===== CHAPTER 3617 =====

"You must have your own motives for contacting Xia De. Now that we are here, can you tell us what you want to do?"