Chapter 3732

Neither side was willing to release the list of participants in that gunfight, and each side had two sailors killed. In addition to these four deceased, a merchant from Luomari City who happened to be on the pier at the time was also killed by a stray bullet, and the merchant's nationality was the Principality of Lagson.

Xia De didn't even need to think to know how much of a headache this matter would cause the Grand Duke of Lagson. He only heard about it that afternoon after assisting in dealing with the two "Before the End" landscapes that had appeared on the island, but he currently had no good way to handle it.

Dealing with "Before the End" required spatial power; this time, Dorothy came to help, while Ellie and Little Liana acted as mounts.

Seeing that the little unicorns didn't seem to have had enough fun yet, Xia De brought them back to the ship. When he sat down with Dorothy in the banquet hall, the little unicorns were still following behind Xia De, and the cat was lying on top of Ellie's head.

"Xia De, what method have you prepared to counter 'Before the End'? Can we only rely on the Chosen of Destiny?"

Dorothy asked this question again.

"The Chosen of Destiny are probably powerless against this as well, but I do indeed have a way."

He thought of his encounter in the fog on Monday with that barefoot, brown-skinned lady, who had reminded him how to deal with those encroaching landscapes:

"Currently, I only have a preliminary idea, and it has to do with a new Misuo."

"Snow White?"

Dorothy asked, waving her right hand in the air, and a poisoned apple fell into her hand. This was a miracle similar to 【Divine Berry Art】; although the apple created was poisonous, the strength of the poison could be controlled at will, so the apple Dorothy created was perfectly edible.

Ellie, watching from the side, was stunned; her deep blue eyes looked at Dorothy and then at the apple, and then she rushed over and fiercely rubbed her cheek against Dorothy's right hand.

"Don't be so excited, this apple can be for you... Ellie, what's wrong?"

Dorothy asked with a smile, and Xia De understood as soon as he saw it:

"She has taken a fancy to the miracle you just used to create the apple. Ellie probably also knows that she has a unique talent for establishing connections with others and then gaining their power; she wants to obtain the talent to create apples from you."

Because Ellie's head was no longer steady, Little Mia jumped onto Xia De's lap with great disdain. Dorothy split the apple in two and gave it to Ellie and Little Liana, then smilingly promised Ellie that she would visit her often recently.

The conversation continued, and Xia De nodded:

"Yes, Snow White. Although the spirit rune has already been obtained, the Misuo is only in a semi-formed state. When I first used this power in the God's Inn, I used the fairy tale world to erode the 'Kingdom' controlled by the witch, so the characteristics of the Misuo should be related to this."

"Eroding the world?"

"It shouldn't be that powerful, but the meaning is already very close."

Xia De said, summoning his destiny ring, and then attempted to activate the 【Snow White】 spirit rune. But just as he said, the Misuo had not yet formed, and Dorothy only saw a pure white light. She reached out, trying to catch those rays of light, and then exclaimed admiringly:

"I can feel from this light that this Misuo originates from your innocent character; once it takes shape, it will surely be your strongest Misuo to date."

Ellie, on the side, naturally also saw that flash of white light; those pure white rays were extremely similar to the light on the unicorns. She felt she understood something from the light, but unfortunately, the current conditions were not sufficient, so Ellie just kept this flash of light in her heart and continued to think about how to master the ability to create apples autonomously.

The gunfight on the pier made Xia De think of his old friend, Major Lades, again. After returning to his cabin on the ship from the banquet hall, Xia De picked up his pen to write the letter he was preparing to send to the Major.

As he was writing down the meeting place and time, Luweiya, who was preparing to return to the city hotel with Xia De in a while, frowned:

"Xia De, what's wrong with you?"

She noticed that Xia De had suddenly frozen. Xia De shuddered violently and then looked at his two hands:

"Just now, I had a strange feeling. Luweiya, try to see if you can imagine this scene—the background behind me turns pure black, and then a white light pierces through my head at a certain angle to the horizontal."

He was trying to describe the feeling of a "flash of inspiration," but Luweiya understood it as:

"Are you saying you were attacked by a miracle?"

"No, no, that's not it."

He temporarily put down the pen in his hand and explained to Luweiya, who had walked over:

"Just now, when I put pen to paper to write the meeting time and place with Major Lades, I suddenly had a premonition—the moment I meet Major Lades will definitely be when the Seventh Act officially begins.

The Major is not a participant in the Seventh Act; I just mean that I will step onto the stage of the Seventh Act because of meeting him, and encounter the other four card players who also happened to appear there for different reasons."

Luweiya then reached out and placed her hand on Xia De's forehead, then asked:

"That Major Lades, he is the friend you mentioned whose destiny you changed, right?"

"Yes."

The purple light in Luweiya's eyes seemed to brighten. After tossing two ordinary coins for divination, she pondered for a moment:

"You changed his destiny, so your perception of his destiny is stronger than others. Yes, the higher the level of a Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi, the stronger their inspiration usually is; you just touched a corner of destiny, which is rare.

This situation is also rare for prophets; it seems that possessing a Ring of Destiny can also enhance one's talent in destiny."

She looked at the letter Xia De had already written more than half of; because it was just an ordinary invitation, Xia De hadn't written it very formally:

"No matter what time and place you write now, will it lead to the Seventh Act happening when you meet?"

Xia De immediately shook his head:

"Of course not."

"Then what about adjusting the range?"

"Luweiya, I just suddenly felt a flash of inspiration, not that I can really clearly interpret destiny."

As he spoke, he summoned the "Destiny Handbook," and sure enough, a new piece of information appeared on it:

【You have touched destiny and know the vague time and place for the opening of the Seventh Act of the destiny story.】

【In the story of the Seventh Act, fortune rises slightly.】

"Specifically, the Drowned Ghost Tavern where I originally chose to meet Major Lades—this location absolutely cannot be changed."

Xia De said. That tavern was located at the pier of Time Wheel City, and the owner, who suffered from hereditary heart disease, was related to the 【Drowned Ones Sect】:

"As for the time, I vaguely feel that as long as it is Friday night, it will work. As long as I meet Lades before dawn, the specific time will not affect the result."

"It's Wednesday afternoon now; is the time that tight? Ms. White said that the Seventh Act will immediately enter the final act of destiny after it ends; there really isn't much time left for us."

Luweiya pondered:

"If your inspiration is correct, the final battle of destiny will definitely break out on Friday night."

"If it can end in one night, we might still make it to the group study session on Saturday afternoon."

Xia De made a small joke, but Luweiya didn't think the joke was very funny:

"Must you finish this letter now?"

Xia De had to emphasize it again:

"I just had a wonderful flash of inspiration, not that I really understood destiny. I don't know if not sending this letter immediately will affect what happens next."

Luweiya then reached out to her waist and took out three coins of different sizes.

These were three relic coins that the witches had brought from out of town this morning while Xia De was still at the Yodel Palace. The blue one was the Poet-level 【Coin of Wisdom】, and the gray-white one was the Poet-level 【King's Egg】; Xia De had already come into contact with these two coins long ago.

As for the last gold coin, the one Luweiya had been playing with in her hand all afternoon, it had quite a background—

The Sage-level relic 【Sage Token】. One side of the coin had a pattern of the sun and moon intertwined, and the other side had the number "1" surrounded by an Ouroboros and branches.

The characteristics of this gold coin were quite powerful; using it could force a life with a supernatural level to advance by one level and minimally fulfill the requirements needed for promotion. Although it couldn't achieve a promotion from the 12th Ring to the 13th Ring, let alone allow a mortal to touch the supernatural, everyone knew the value of this coin.

The 【Sage Token】 was a relic that had been recorded in countless documents since the First Era, and its origin was quite clear; it was a special divine magic item forged by the Ancient God 【Silver Moon Sage】 to reward believers.

In the current Sixth Era, after this relic was used, it could complete the missing spirit runes of a Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi, allowing them to directly enter the next level. Although the completed spirit runes were often quite poor and it was highly probable that they wouldn't give the Ring Mages the sublimation language spirit runes they wanted, for Ring Mages who originally had no talent to continue advancing, this was still a treasure.

Sage-level relics had no fixed price, and this 【Sage Token】 absolutely had no market reference price. Neither the Five Gods Church nor the three major academies would let such a coin circulate; this was a treasure capable of triggering a war among Ring Mages.

The negative characteristics of the coin manifested different effects for the supernatural systems of different eras. For the Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi system, according to the records of the Witch Council, once a Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi who used this relic to advance killed someone, there was a probability that the other party would be regarded as a "suicide," thereby triggering a suicide reversal.

So this relic being classified as Sage-level was absolutely correct.

There was a clear inscription on the coin—【The Sage does not give gifts; the Sage gives the opportunity to pay the price】.

And the source of this relic was Feilian. The girls under the Owl Miss discovered a new ruin during their stay in the Vesta Woodland—this was very common in that woodland. And while investigating the ruins, one of them discovered a secret box locked with a rune lock.

Xia De had encountered too many rune locks after the Year-End Festival, and Megan and the others had accumulated enough experience in picking locks. Therefore, when facing this simplified version of a rune lock, Megan only took three days to open the secret box, and this coin was one of the gains.

To be honest, even in Luweiya's view, she didn't want to easily use such a valuable coin for divination, but rather preferred to keep it. Any 11th-Ring witch follower promoting to the 12th Ring was quite valuable to the current "Hamilton Family Force."

However, fortunately, there were two other coins obtained through other channels this time, and Luweiya consumed the 【King's Egg】 this time.