Chapter 4016: The

When Xia De leaned on the bookshelf at the edge of the self-study area and looked at the unicorn girls, Emilia appeared behind Xia De and whispered to Xia De:

"Ali is very strict with them, and they study very seriously. Sometimes I see them holding books and reading for a whole morning."

Xia De counted the number of unicorn girls present:

"The number of unicorns who have mastered human transformation is growing too fast, right?"

"The professors said this is Ali's unique destiny connection talent and the joint effect of the unicorn population."

Emilia looked at those girls who were mostly shorter than Ajia:

"Now that these little guys have become humans, it's much easier to take care of them, and my workload has been reduced a lot... Xia De, has the situation in Arcadia not deteriorated drastically yet? No, I don't hope the situation deteriorates, just... do you still need me to go there?"

She just came back from there this week, clearly missing the new adventure again. Emilia is not that she doesn't like the academy, she is just addicted to the continuous adventures for more than a year.

"You don't need them for the time being, but Ajia will probably go there next Tuesday to live as a local witch apprentice for a period of time."

"That's great."

The elf girl with pointed ears sighed, and then pulled Xia De's hand to the bookshelf in a hidden place in the library, blushing and pointing at herself, carefully enjoying the sweet taste of love.

After wasting some time in the academy, when Xia De arrived in Arcadia, it was already ten o'clock in the morning. The handover of the Blue Ink Library will not be until next week, so Xia De still cannot walk through the front door today.

Through the perception of the moon seal, Megan has left the local area, so Xia De went directly to the Fragrant Mansion. The person who opened the door for him on the first floor was Miss Lorin, who smiled and said:

"Welcome back."

This was clearly the welcome word that Vigo had instructed in advance, but today seeing Vigo was not in the study or the bedroom, but in the magic potion laboratory in the basement of the Fragrant Mansion.

Vigo was processing a batch of magic potion materials here to make those unique perfumes. Glass perfume bottles were filled on the table, and various floral scents were mixed together. The temperature in the enclosed underground space was higher than on the ground, and the laboratory was illuminated by cool-colored light sources.

But in order to prevent external smells from interfering with the production of perfume, Xia De did not enter, but waited at the door.

Hearing that Xia De had arrived, Vigo coughed gently and left the laboratory, welcoming him with a hug in the basement corridor:

"Welcome back."

She also said this, and then kissed him on the side of the face:

"I didn't see you all day yesterday, I was really worried that you wouldn't come again today. After all, I don't know where to find you, cough, cough."

She looked at Xia De, and Xia De thought that Ajia would come next week. He would absolutely not pretend not to know Ajia; that would be a pure deception to Vigo:

"At some point next week, I will tell you who I am, definitely not later than the time when the girl from afar arrives."

A smile appeared on Vigo's face:

"Let me confirm, today is Sunday, so 'next week' refers to the week where tomorrow is, right?"

"Yes, Vigo, I hope you won't... blame me when the time comes."

"What are you saying? You helped me so much, how could I blame you?"

Regardless, at least compared to when Xia De brought the news of the skin-object on Friday night, Vigo's emotions had clearly returned to normal. She entrusted the work in the magic potion laboratory to the girls under her command, and then returned to the ground with Xia De.

After sitting on the sofa, Xia De first handed the amulet made by Priest Augustus to Vigo. Because he didn't need it himself, he gave her the two extra amulets:

"Keep one, and find a chance to trade one to the church. Later next week, I can get new amulets, and then I will distribute them to Miss McDonald and Miss Lorin and the others."

Vigo did not express her gratitude in words, but kissed Xia De on the side of the face again. Afterward, she and Xia De talked about what happened here on Saturday when Xia De was not local.

First is Adele Isabella's "Kill Order"—

"The Speaker is preparing to issue an order to the council during the meeting on Sunday night. Next, we will treat the 【Holy Child Alliance】 as a hostile organization, and as long as we encounter them, we must confront them, with the goal of completely eliminating the 'Holy Mother Holding the Baby' of the 【Holy Child Alliance】."

Vigo said, this is not because Adele thinks what the 【Holy Child Alliance】 is doing is too blasphemous, but because of that sentence from the "Holy Mother Holding the Baby" on Friday night—

【Could it be that this is because you cannot give birth to a child?】

Not all witches particularly care about this matter, but not caring does not mean others can mention it at will.

Whether that "Holy Mother" holding a baby knew on Friday night that the group belonged to the 【Witch Council】, and whether she knew the characteristics of witches, Adele did not know, but she and Megan, Bella, and Vigo were truly angry.

"Few people dare to provoke us with this matter. If it were the Fifth Era, that 'Holy Mother' would probably have her soul extracted to make a candle, lit, and tortured for a hundred years."

Vigo also said angrily, and then asked Xia De embarrassedly:

"The witch you know also told you, right—we cannot breed offspring."

Golden eyes stared at Xia De. The implied meaning of this sentence is naturally that she has some thoughts about Xia De.

Xia De knew Vigo's heart, and he gave a positive answer:

"It doesn't matter, I don't care about this matter."

Vigo also heard Xia De's implied meaning, and a smile bloomed on her pale face. Even facing the next topic, she no longer showed fragility:

"Yesterday, the Great Witch of Destiny divined the matter of my mother. Although life and death are not yet determined, she confirmed that the... sister divided into four does exist. The divination pointed out that to find one of the four parts, one needs to seek help from an alchemist. Mother has some secret laboratories locally, and a part of the sister is in one of the laboratories."

Adele of the past also mentioned that Ms. Lemei had many secret laboratories in the Arcadia region, where one could even find clues related to the 【Emerald Tablet】.

"Then next, you still want to continue contacting the 【Emerald Alchemy Association】, right? Didn't the council say they would send you extra help?"

From the current situation, Vigo alone is indeed unable to deal with the current situation in the Arcadia region.

Vigo sighed and said quite regretfully:

"Yesterday, the Speaker mentioned this matter. Although I said that from the current situation, all parties are still acting covertly, and our council doesn't need to send other Great Witches to support me, the Speaker clearly didn't agree with my opinion."

"Then who is coming?"

"It hasn't been decided yet. After that young girl arrives at my place next week, starting from the weekend or the week after, other witches will come to help me."

She thought of Bella being very active in saying that although Moon Bay affairs are busy, she can temporarily pull away, but Vigo did not tell Xia De about this:

"In short, the time alone with you is running out."

Xia De comforted:

"Think on the bright side, what if the witch sent to the local area is the witch I know?"

Vigo felt she would be even more disappointed.

Bella has been divining on Saturday, and Adele was searching for traces of the 【Holy Child Alliance】 in the city yesterday. Unfortunately, that group of people avoided the thirteen-ring Great Witch who was furious, otherwise Adele could have killed the "Holy Mother" again.

The information of the 【Holy Child Alliance】 has now been shared with almost all organizations in the city. Adele is really angry this time. She even promised Vigo that if Vigo could investigate more clues about this organization, she could reward Vigo according to the highest task difficulty.

As for Megan, who also spent Saturday in Arcadia, she has been studying the "Safe Aggregation" in the basement.

This thing is also a machine activated by the "Twisted Life Fire Seed." Megan had heard Xia De talk about this before, but this was her first time in personal contact.

Megan inherited part of the research materials and results of Laplace Howard. Although she is not the kind of crazy human experiment scholar, she has some insights into researching life forms.

Vigo did not know what Megan did to that "Safe Aggregation," but Megan did leave a research report on "Mechanical Life Forms" before leaving.

She did not explore the "Twisted Life Fire Seed," but studied the various life indicators and behavioral characteristics of this metal life form, determining the mode of action and weaknesses of active machinery.

For example, since the other party is a life form, it will definitely show characteristics belonging to life forms. The "reproduction" ability of active machinery no longer needs to be verified. Ancient supernatural beings named it "Metal Plague," which has already explained the problem very well.

And another characteristic of life is that it needs to ingest energy from the outside to continue to be active. Megan's research shows that active machinery equipped with life due to fire seeds also has such characteristics.

But active machinery does not supplement its own consumption through kerosene or coal gas. Megan found that they can spontaneously absorb all energy around them, which includes life force, as well as natural energy represented by solar energy, geothermal energy, elemental energy, etc.

Megan's conclusion is that the danger of this mechanical life is not only reflected in its rapid proliferation ability, but its characteristic of absorbing all energy to feed itself and make itself stronger is itself damaging the whole world.

Once these seemingly "weak" mechanical life forms cannot be controlled in time, after they accumulate to a sufficient scale, wherever the "Mechanical Army" passes, only pieces of scorched wasteland will be left.

PS: Spring Festival additional update 2/10. ===== CHAPTER 4017 =====