Chapter 384: Feilian's Notebook

After the sigh, Xia De officially began to count all his gains after the second key disappeared.

Apart from the unexpectedly obtained 【Tree's Kiss】 spirit rune and the confusing truth about the time key. Miss Feilian also said that if she could remember Xia De, she would leave a gift for him.

It was a pity that Xia De had been enrolled for a month and a half and hadn't discovered anything. Perhaps Miss Feilian had forgotten him, or perhaps that gift was in the castle of Saint Byrons, and he needed to truly reach the Academy to receive the gift from that charming lady.

However, Miss Feilian's notebook was successfully brought to the current time by Xia De. Although the pages had yellowed somewhat after coming from the past to the present, it didn't affect reading. Xia De stood by the window flipping through the notebook, and then unexpectedly discovered that small portions of blank space had actually appeared on it. The notebook, which had been carefully filled by the witch, would intermittently have blank paragraphs, but they probably only accounted for one-tenth of the total.

"Speaking of which, this is the first time I've obtained a large amount of knowledge from the past."

Although the Father of Infinite Trees had gone far away, Xia De could truly feel His existence every moment.

He lowered his head and looked at the remaining leaf. Since the previous one contained the miracle 【Space Stabilization Halo】, this leaf must represent 【The Truth of a Period of History (Witch War at the End of the Fifth Era)】.

Xia De thought for a moment, closed his left eye, and placed the leaf before his right eye.

The cat raised its head and looked at him curiously.

Xia De saw some floating light and shadows, and then saw a long, narrow brick corridor.

The ground was paved with white ash, and two women wearing gorgeous long dresses were walking along the corridor one after the other. This place was exceptionally dilapidated, like an ancient ruin that had experienced long years.

At the end of the corridor was a very familiar white fog door, and the women walked in together.

Behind the door was shrouded in white fog. The two women stood together, one displaying a ring on her right hand, and one holding a golden button.

As the two ornaments radiated soft white light, the white fog was gradually dispelled.

This looked like a sacrificial site, and also like a conference hall. A huge gray-white stone round table was placed in the clearing, surrounded by thirteen stone back chairs.

And around the circular clearing, dilapidated stone steps went up level by level, until the view was blocked by white fog at the highest point.

The two women took their seats. Xia De's field of vision was always behind them, so he couldn't see their faces clearly at all.

"The Fifth Era should be over."

One of the voices said, and the language used was naturally not the Delarion common language.

"Yes, witches are the product of failure. It's time to start the next era."

The other voice said.

"But the other eleven will not agree."

"They have betrayed their promises, abandoned the council, and forgotten what mission they actually shoulder... Now there are only two of us with voting rights, and that is enough."

"Do we really have to do this?"

The tone was very anxious.

"Yes, if we drag it out any longer, the problems faced by the people of the Sixth Era will be even greater. For the future of this world, it is time to end it."

After a moment of silence, the two said together:

"In the name of the Witch Council, the thirteenth session of voting begins. Thirteen people are expected to attend, two are actually present, and two have voting rights, meeting the minimum requirements. Open the 3419th meeting vote of the Witch Council. The content of the vote is: do you agree that the participants borrow the power of the council to forcibly end the Fifth Era in the form of a Witch War."

"The Sixth Seat agrees."

"The Thirteenth Seat agrees."

"Two valid votes, zero invalid votes. Among them, two votes in favor, zero against. The resolution is passed."

Some firelight shot out from under the round table, igniting the two women on the old stone back chairs. But not only were they not injured, but with their intense breathing movements, they looked even more powerful.

Xia De put down the leaf, and all the images ended. He tried to look again, but he couldn't see the repeated images just now.

His frown deepened even more:

"So, there really is a space left by an ancient god called the 【Witch Council】... The Witch War was started by two witches to end the Fifth Era... Since the 【Witch Council】 has been passed down, the current witches very likely still control that space."

Holding the two 【Youth Eternal Ye Zi】 in his left hand, he patted the cat standing on the windowsill with his right hand. Xia De was stunned, looking at the halo of the gas streetlight outside the window. That halo was ambiguous and blurry, illuminating his side profile, but it couldn't illuminate the confusion in his heart:

"The unknown things have increased again."

His mood was not good. Of course, this was not just because of the final farewell to the two witches who had been very kind to him.

It seemed that every time he went to the past to witness history, he would discover more unknowns after returning.

The grandfather clock in the corner ticked away:

"So, is it the Sixth Era now or not... Speaking of which, it's Monday again. This week, what will the gift box give me?"

(Little Mia is running...)

"So, is it the Sixth Era now or not?"

This was the first sentence Xia De said when he saw Dorothy at his door on Monday morning.

He had some dark circles under his eyes, his face was pale, his lips were chapped, his hair was messy, and his eyes were even a bit dull.

The female writer, who was excitedly holding the "Steam Bird Daily," stood at Xia De's door and nodded hesitantly:

"Of course it is... Xia De, didn't you say you only went to the past for three seconds? Could it be that this time's time key made you experience more time, to the point where you can't distinguish the current time?"

She looked worriedly at Xia De's terrible image at this moment. The blonde girl wearing small black leather shoes walked into the door, her long golden hair sweeping across Xia De's shoulder. She pursed her lips and asked:

"Then let's test it. Xia De, what did you do yesterday before we parted?"

Xia De rubbed his face, barely managing to return to normal. While closing the door, he recalled:

"We had dinner together, and I mixed some expensive cod liver oil into Little Mia's cat food, using food to make the cat forget about taking a bath at noon."

"Meow~"

The orange cat, which was waiting for Xia De to go upstairs on the stairs, heard its name and immediately looked up and meowed. The action of raising its head made the fur on its fluffy chest face the morning sunlight shooting in through the gap in the door that hadn't been completely closed.

It was very lively outside the door. On Monday morning, thin fog floated in St. Theresa Square, and gentlemen wearing boots were rushing to work.

"Then that's correct. Of course, it is the Sixth Era, General Calendar 1853. Xia De, what on earth is wrong with you? Losing a correct sense of time is also a manifestation of a ring warlock losing control, especially since you also possess the power of time."

Speaking of this, Dorothy was even more worried.

"No, it's not losing control, just curiosity."

Xia De shook his head. He didn't intend to tell Dorothy the information he learned from the god, because that was meaningless and would easily drag Dorothy into strange things instead.

"Then why does your spirit look bad?"

She asked again.

"I read books until very late last night. I went to sleep at two o'clock and was woken up by Mia at seven... I plan to make an interesting alchemical item recently."

Xia De yawned, thinking of the notebook now placed on the dining table. Although one-tenth of the content was missing, the rest was still very valuable.

Miss Feilian patiently and carefully wrote down her adventure experiences, the ways to obtain power, her understanding of supernatural beings, strange and interesting rumors, as well as the formulas for some potions and alchemical items in dense, small characters.

Currently, Xia De had heard of all the materials for only one alchemical item, which meant he could make it. Miss Feilian didn't write the name of the item, but the only function was very clear—detecting witches.

After the alchemical item was made, as long as it was hung around the neck like a pendant, within a range of half a mile (about 804m) from a witch, the pendant would automatically become hot. And the more witches there were, and the stronger they were, the more obvious the heat would be.

This detection range was much farther than the witches' detection of Xia De, which was very helpful for Xia De to stay away from those troublesome women.

Of course, apart from the knowledge itself, the notebook was also a very valuable antique.

Although it was just ordinary paper, there was Miss Feilian's own handwriting on the pages, which was considered a very remarkable item for Saint Byrons Comprehensive Academy. If Xia De was willing to sell it, he guessed the Academy could even offer a five-figure or even six-figure gold pound price.

But Xia De wouldn't sell it. He would treasure it forever as a memory of the two witches who helped him.

Today, according to the agreement, Xia De was to go to Lengshuigang again to see Princess Princess Lei Qianya, and Dorothy came to help Xia De take care of the cat again, taking the opportunity to flip through the remaining detective records.

In this morning's "Steam Bird Daily," there was the first small story of Dorothy's serialized detective novel "Hamilton Detective Stories," titled "Expired Murder." Because it was the first issue, it occupied a large space, allowing her to publish more content.

Among them, the appearance of "Detective Hamilton" was a relatively important content, which would relate to whether the subsequent stories could be connected.

The main distribution area of "Steam Bird Daily" was the central region of Delarion centered on Tobesk, but it could also be found in large cities such as Lengshuigang.

If Dorothy's story could succeed, it would mean that her career had stepped onto a higher level, which was much more meaningful than the Kingdom Literature Award that 35 people won together.

Leading Dorothy upstairs, Xia De also shared his experience from early this morning. The blonde girl didn't want to hear the whole process, so Xia De only talked about the story of "The Tree's Kiss" and the connection between it and the god-summoning ritual.

"Miss Feilian."

When Xia De showed the notebook and described the story of the Academy's founder, an envious expression appeared on Dorothy's face.

It was only when talking about the Ancient God—Father of Infinite Trees and the Old God—Door of Radiance that she couldn't support it anymore, shaking her head and letting Xia De not continue.

Xia De then summoned his life ring. Now, the second spirit rune of the second ring—【Tree's Kiss】—was flickering with golden spiritual light. After 【Greed】, Xia De had once again obtained a rune associated with the name of a fairy tale, only this time, the story was not one he had told. ===== CHAPTER 385 =====