Chapter 4056: Blood-Red Rainy Day

I don't know when the City Hall will be reopened, and Angelina and Catherine and the others will definitely come here before dusk, so maybe it will be Xia De who meets up with Catherine and the others first.

However, Xia De had nothing urgent to do, so after eating lunch with Miss MacDonald, he continued to stay at the Fragrant Mansion. The information about the murder and disappearance cases surrounding local big nobles that Xia De proposed to investigate last week had also been collected by Wei Ge, so this afternoon, Xia De and Miss MacDonald analyzed those intelligence together.

After all, this was related to demons.

The tall girl was very satisfied with such an afternoon, but the rain outside the window became heavier and heavier. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the sound of rain hitting the glass even made people feel a little annoyed.

Miss Luo Lin wanted to pull the curtains of the study and then turn on the gas lamp in the room, but when she reached the window, she looked at the direction of Gray Rock Pass in surprise:

"The sky in the distance..."

"Has turned red."

Xia De's voice behind her startled Miss Luo Lin. Miss Luo Lin stepped aside, letting Xia De see the red rain clouds spreading from the direction of Gray Rock Pass.

After opening the window, Xia De even saw bloodstains in the rain. Miss MacDonald reached her hand out of the window to touch the rain silk, and actually sensed slight Whispering elements from it:

"Relic?"

"Yes, Relic."

Xia De's eyes could vaguely see the inverted blood-red city from the blood-red rain clouds in the distance:

"False Humans... but what are they doing?"

He had already informed the girls of the Fragrant Mansion about the appearance of "False Humans" just now, so he explained simply at this moment:

"The Mimics' collective consciousness combined with the Whispering Elements to give birth to the Misuo 【Flesh City】, which possesses 'Unknown-level' potential. It seems 【Mimic's Home】 has deployed this Misuo again. I'm afraid something has broken into that building, forcing the Mimics to counterattack."

He said and took out the crystal shoe from his pocket:

"The ones clashing with the False Humans might be the Skin Artisan of the Skin Object Hall, but they started fighting so quickly? I don't know the specific situation yet. I will go to the direction of Gray Rock Pass to see the situation now."

Miss MacDonald said hurriedly:

"There are still several high-Ring followers in the Fragrant Mansion now, let us go with you."

Xia De shook his head:

"Leave people here to pass the message to Wei Ge, and don't forget that the girl from afar is coming soon. I will set off by myself first. If it is really two Relics clashing, no matter which side is defeated, it has value to me."

"Miss MacDonald, Miss Luo Lin, you..."

He stopped his words and looked out the window again. Miss Luo Lin and Miss MacDonald looked over with his gaze, only to see bright red light pillars rushing into the clouds from the distance, and then the dark clouds behind the sky expanded with blood light at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The rain outside the window had completely turned blood-red. It was still daytime at this moment, and the sun behind the dark clouds seemed to have turned into a blood sun. Looking out from the Fragrant Mansion located at a high place, the entire city was shrouded in a red light.

"I will set off first. If you want to take people over, you must be very cautious."

Xia De exhorted again, and only then threw the crystal shoe to return home. Little Mia was following Xia De in the form of a doll at this time. Xia De thought there was no one at home at first, but after returning home, he actually saw Ellie and Winnie on the second floor.

They were in the kitchen now. Ellie was standing with her hands behind her back and her head down, being lectured by the ice maid. Hearing Xia De's footsteps, the short unicorn girl immediately cast a look for help toward the door, and Xia De asked:

"What's wrong?"

"When Emilia was taking care of the unicorns in Saint Byron, she left a box of pod candies in the unicorn habitat. That group of unicorn girls knew how to eat pod candies, so they wanted to blow bubbles."

Winnie looked at Ellie with a cold face:

"I originally thought Ellie was very mature, but I didn't expect that she would also play with those candies with them."

"By the time Emilia found them, the pod candies had stuck to the fur of more than one unicorn cub that came to join in the fun. Now Saint Byron is still studying how to clear that kind of sticky candy without harming the fur of those holy beasts."

Although Ellie likes to pretend to be an adult in front of the unicorns in the college, she is actually just a little unicorn who has just reached adulthood. And because she was frozen in an ice block for too many years, she is actually not as mature as she appears.

"These are all small things, and it's my fault for not explaining to Emilia the consequences of that kind of candy sticking to the hair."

Xia De said so, deciding to "save" Ellie:

"【Mimic's Home】 has appeared in the Arcadia region. They don't know what they're fighting, but they are currently releasing a Misuo. Ellie, you remember the Mimics, right? Come with me to Arcadia. You must have been to the Blue Ink Library when you and Emilia went to support the Holy See."

The white-haired girl nodded immediately:

"Yes! Touched the statue! Help Xia De! Set off!"

Actually, she just wanted to avoid being lectured by Winnie. Although Winnie saw Ellie's little thoughts, she did not stop her:

"Ellie, perform well. This time if you help, I won't talk about the pod candy incident."

"Yes!"

The unicorn girl immediately straightened her chest. Chloe was not there, and Winnie was her direct superior and guardian, so Ellie was actually a little afraid of this cold maid.

Winnie shook her head helplessly and said to Xia De:

"I will go with you."

"Of course, then let's set off."

"Blood rain" is an extremely ominous sign in any city, so on this Wednesday afternoon with blood rain, there was almost no one on the city streets.

After seeing the scene outside at the entrance of the Blue Ink Library, Ellie not only didn't worry but was eager to try. After Winnie looked at her, Ellie transformed into her true form in pure white light.

"With the Whispering Elements so intense right now, there's no need to worry about being discovered by the Church's investigative rituals."

Winnie said, signaling that Xia De could set off. Xia De hesitated for a moment before mounting the unicorn. Then, Winnie transformed into frost that wrapped around his arm, and she cast a spell so that the blood rain would not stain Xia De or Ellie.

"Neigh~"

Ellie rushed out of the library, sprinted a few steps on the downward-sloping street, and then flew straight toward the blood-colored sky.

By this time, five minutes had passed since the clouds turned red. Even if the Church's reaction was slow, it couldn't possibly be later than Xia De's arrival at the scene.

Xia De had originally thought he would see the Church's Thirteen-Ring mages already besieging 【Mimic's Home】 upon his arrival, but as Ellie flew rapidly over the desolate area between the city and Gray Rock Pass, the unicorn girl spoke in human language:

"Where, are we going?"

The flesh-and-blood city was already reflected in the clouds in the sky, but this did not mean the location of the main body of 【Mimic's Home】 had been exposed. Based on the fluctuations of the elements, it could only be roughly inferred that the building was located around Gray Rock Pass, but the detailed location still required careful searching.

Xia De had just wanted to say he could try to sense it, but the little unicorn flying along said again:

"It feels, like it's this way!"

Back when she hadn't yet become a Chosen, she had been able to rely on luck to find little Liana, who had been captured, inside 【Mimic's Home】.

Now that she had become a Chosen of Destiny, and the relic 【Mimic's Home】 was the catalyst for her first transformation into human form, she definitely had a strong destiny connection with Ellie. Therefore, Ellie guessed the true location of the relic's main body at this moment based on intuition.

The unicorn passed over the Gray Rock Pass fortress, followed the Thernier River—which looked like it was about to turn into a river of blood under the red sky—downstream toward the southwest, and stopped about 3 miles away from the Gray Rock Pass fortress.

This place was far from any human settlements, and both sides of the river were wilderness and mountains. On the south bank of the river, however, stood a long-abandoned black stone tower.

The tower didn't look very tall, and its surface was covered with ivy and vines. Ellie said very affirmatively:

"It's right here!"

She carried Xia De down. In fact, Xia De had already sensed through the Mimic mother fluid he had absorbed that this stone tower was the disguised "Mimic's Home."

At this moment, there wasn't a single trace of battle around the stone tower. It stood quietly in the blood rain, almost blending into the nearby mountains and forests, so Xia De didn't know what the situation was inside the relic right now.

"Do we need to break in?"

The situation was somewhat different from what he had imagined, so after Xia De jumped off Ellie's back, Winnie stood by his side and asked softly.

Even though Xia De had closed the "door" and absorbed a large amount of mother fluid, 【Mimic's Home】 was still a genuine Sage-level or even Angel-level relic, so Xia De shook his head cautiously:

"Even with you two following, I won't go in unless it's a last resort. The Mimics have a grudge against me."

Ellie maintained her unicorn form, rubbed against Xia De behind him, and eagerly wanted to show Xia De the new skills she had learned after attending school.

However, although he wouldn't break in, this didn't mean Xia De would do nothing. Since the relic's main body was standing here and wouldn't leave, this was the best target:

"Qi-Art: Moonlight Slash."

He raised his right arm high in the blood rain to summon the silver moonlight. After charging for a sufficiently long time, he suddenly slashed forward with the brilliant silver moonbeams.

Boom!

Amidst the loud noise, the black tower trembled. Slanted cracks appeared on the outside of the black tower, and inside the cracks, scarlet flesh squirmed, attempting to repair the building's walls.

"This kind of bizarre vitality..."

Xia De said softly, not continuing to attack the walls. Because as the walls automatically repaired themselves, a familiar man's face emerged from the crack, and then half of his body poked out from the outer wall of the black tower.