Chapter 4018: Past Commission

The sunlight outside the window made everything in the room have shadows, and Vigo at this time tore her own shadow and part of the sunlight, and then used the alchemy method to knead the two conflicting energies together to construct a long sword.

The power of chaos interferes with sunlight and shadow, allowing two incompatible forces to mix, and then forcibly transforms the energy into a physical entity with the power of creation. Because Vigo used more shadow power than sunlight in this spellcasting process, the sword looked black.

This is actually an application of energy entity materialization. Vigo held the sword and coughed a few times, then handed it to Xia De:

"You take a look at this."

The shadow power shaping the long sword was wriggling, and the energy of sunlight was evenly mixed with it but not manifested. Xia De felt that he was not holding a weapon, but some kind of biological living body, but he did not feel any form of life force in it.

Xia De then tried to swing the long sword twice. This weapon had almost no weight, and using it was like extending a part of his body outward. It has three attributes of shadow, light, and chaos at the same time. In Xia De's view, once it hits a life form, it will likely give the other party a very strong dark shadow attribute and light attribute mixed damage, and this damage will be greatly strengthened by the unstable chaotic power.

"It looks like a flesh-and-blood living body, it looks like metal, and it also looks like energy."

Xia De evaluated it like this, Vigo nodded, and waved to let more shadows and sunlight aggregate. This time she chose to fuse more sunlight, and finally formed a glowing shield:

"This is not summoning a spiritual weapon, it is more like manufacturing a physical entity through alchemy.

If used to create weapons, the weapon will have two opposing attributes, thereby possessing extremely powerful destructive power and attribute damage; when this power of creation is used to create defensive entities, because chaos forcibly kneads two opposing attributes, the defensive entity does not have any weak attributes, plus the strengthening of the shield from the power of creation derived from the 【Emerald Tablet】, the Speaker said that even she cannot break this kind of shield with simple attacks."

The shield floated toward Xia De, and Xia De used "Red Moon·Moonlight Slash" and "Shadow Ball" to attack it, and indeed found that the defensive power of this strange shield was very outstanding.

"Except for light and shadow, opposing forces like water and fire can also be used by me to cast 【Chaos Crawl】. This miracle combines the power of 'Chaos' and 'Creation,' and the future development potential is very great."

Vigo was a little proud:

"I have a feeling that if I can know more sentences on the 【Emerald Tablet】, even without truly obtaining that relic, I can be promoted to the twelfth rank, perhaps the thirteenth rank is also possible."

"In the process of searching for your mother and sister, we can pay attention to relevant information. Currently, it is not certain whether your mother really obtained the 【Emerald Tablet】."

"Maybe she really obtained it. She came from the 【Truth Society】, and then abandoned the 【Truth Society】 to stay in the 【Emerald Alchemy Association】 to do research. For her own academic achievements, she even conducted terrifying experiments to give birth to a child.

Such a person, how could she be so easily affected by the relic and die? She must have found something she could never discard, so she accidentally received a strong influence from the whisper elements. Otherwise, it is hard for me to imagine that someone like her would also make a mistake."

"Vigo~"

Xia De hugged her:

"Our understanding of your mother is still not comprehensive, you don't have to say such things."

"You are so gentle, who can refuse you?"

Vigo also hugged Xia De, resting her head on his shoulder:

"This is really good."

At lunch time this day, the huge round table in the restaurant of the Fragrant Mansion was filled with all kinds of delicacies. Of course, the more eye-catching ones were the girls standing by the chairs waiting for Vigo to take her seat around the round table.

Unlike the followers of other witches who generally call their witches "Miss," the followers of Vigo mostly call her "Master," from which one can also see that Vigo has means in managing people.

Except for Miss McDonald, the girls who appeared in the restaurant at noon today all have high-ring levels. Xia De counted roughly, and there were 17 people in total. Considering that this is only the followers currently in the Arcadia region, Vigo's power is much larger than Xia De thought.

"You should have all heard about this gentleman's matter recently."

Vigo drank blood brew in advance to make herself look energetic. She very formally introduced Xia De to the girls under her command. After explaining the help Xia De has provided her so far, she held Xia De's hand and interlaced her fingers with him, and then urged these high-ring girls:

"From now on, you can regard this gentleman as the second master of this house, do you understand?"

"Yes, master."

"Vigo, no need for this."

"It doesn't matter, this is the only reward I can give you for now."

The witch said in a low voice, and then opened her mouth to say to everyone:

"Don't stand, everyone sit down. My apprentice-in-waiting will arrive locally next week, and maybe I will find you again then. Arcadia is not peaceful recently, you should also pay attention to safety when acting outside. You are all good girls under my command, I don't want to lose any of you."

Two chairs were placed at the head of the huge round table, and Vigo asked Xia De to sit with her, and showed sufficient intimacy during the lunch.

Vigo was very satisfied with this meal, and taking this opportunity, it can be considered as officially letting Xia De contact the most important members of her power. Vigo plans to let Xia De truly become "one of us" as much as possible before Galina's grandniece arrives next week. Now is just the first step of her plan, and she has planned many actions next.

After lunch, Xia De went to the Mechanical Tower to find Mr. Finch after explaining the demon-related matters to the girls, wanting to inquire about Mr. Bernhardt's recent situation.

Since the blood-sucking species hunt that started this Monday, three "life distortion bodies" have been found and defeated. These distortion bodies mostly hide in the deepest parts of the sewers and are very good at using their indefinite bodies to shuttle between narrow pipes.

Mr. Bernhardt and other high-level blood-sucking species have been shuttling through those smelly pipes day and night to capture three individuals. Now those captured individuals have been temporarily sealed by them, and Mr. Bernhardt is trying to find the real mastermind behind the scenes through them.

As for the spies that might exist in the blood-sucking species investigation team, that blood-sucking species viscount has also discovered it.

However, he also discovered that the other party has the support of a certain blood-sucking species elder in Willendale, so because he is worried that there are also accomplices of those "wild blood-sucking species" in Willendale, he did not act rashly for the time being, but informed the people who can be trusted in Willendale, intending to wait for the blood-sucking species in the capital to dig out the supporters behind the scenes before cleaning up the untrustworthy people in the team.

On this Sunday afternoon, Xia De did not see Mr. Bernhardt. The other party is probably still busy in the sewers of the outer city, and they have already discovered a suspected laboratory of the 【Blood Spirit School】.

However, Xia De met Mr. Finch and Mr. Munoz in the Mechanical Tower. The two old gentlemen were also not idle this week. The major event in the Holy See of the 【Creation Church】 affected everyone living in this city.

And in addition to providing information about Mr. Bernhardt, Mr. Finch mentioned another thing Xia De mentioned not long ago:

"A few days ago, you brought a photo for me to identify. At that time, I just said I had seen it many years ago. Later, I asked Munoz, and he had a deep impression of the person in the photo."

The face in the photo Xia De took out earlier belonged to that skin-object. What his original name was is no longer known, but during the period when Vigo's mother used it, the name was always "Nikola Lemei."

Xia De looked at old Mr. Munoz curiously, and the latter explained:

"I belong to the 【Apuna Library】. Twenty years ago, when my hair was not yet white, I worked in the black market of the Candle Keep Association for a period of time, responsible for managing book sales and knowledge exchange business.

I received this person at that time. He should be an alchemist. In addition to purchasing some ancient alchemy manuscripts, I remember very clearly that he also bought a Keeper-level relic. Because that relic involved some troublesome matters, I personally took him to pick up the goods, so I saw that face at that time.

He also entrusted me to purchase 【Philosopher's Stone】 for a long time, and later sent letters several times to inquire about the commission, but where is the 【Philosopher's Stone】 easily obtained."

Xia De then asked:

"Mr. Munoz, disclosing the privacy of business partners should be a violation, right?"

The old gentleman shook his head:

"Strictly speaking, that doesn't count as the organization's business, it counts as me earning extra money... We don't talk about this topic. In short, since Finch is willing to guarantee for you, saying that you are engaged in a just cause, then I will reveal some information.

The Keeper-level relic he bought from me back then was 【Eye of Mercy】. That is a magic eye, a very easy-to-use healing relic. The target watched by the magic eye can get life force supplementation from the magic eye holder. Yes, damage the holder's life force to heal the watched target."

"So, that magic eye can control life force in one direction?"

"You can understand it this way. I haven't used it, just read part of the information. Back then, it was parasitic on an ordinary person. That ordinary person wanted to use the magic eye to treat his seriously ill daughter, but it led to a bigger tragedy.

The relic went out of control, his daughter turned into a flesh-and-blood distorted monster because of the riot of life force, and he himself became an undead, but he could absorb the life force of others by touching them, and then use the magic eye to give that life force to his daughter.

I went to contain that magic eye with the person in the photo, and after the event, I got a considerable amount of crowns, and that person was very rich."

"Is that so..."

Xia De guessed that Ms. Lemei might want to study the way of controlling life force through that relic. And the time when that transaction was reached was 1827, which was three years before Vigo was born, and at this time Vigo's father had just met her mother, and the two had not officially determined the relationship.

PS: Spring Festival additional update 4/10. ===== CHAPTER 4019 =====