Chapter 426: Sunrise at Cold Water Harbor

Ignoring the terrifying scene created by the "God-Caller of Tobesk" behind her, the sea breeze messed up the witch's brown long hair. Miss Aurora, who was chasing the enemy on the sea, even had the heart to recall the strange man in the temple who was unwilling to catch up.

She vaguely guessed that it was the God-Caller of Tobesk. Now that she thought about it, that person's abrupt appearance in the temple didn't seem to be because of the fish-men, nor because of the Chosen One, but because of the temple itself.

The 13th-level Ringed Shushi, who should have been seriously injured after summoning the god in Tobesk and would not be able to recover for decades, had stayed alone in the temple for less than five minutes and actually restored such terrifying power. This meant many things:

"In the fish-man's temple, is there something else? Just now, he actually wanted all of us to leave... How despicable."

Just before she could figure it out, Darkness in front suddenly turned his head. On the sea between the two, a curtain wall made of darkness appeared out of thin air. The running witch pointed her finger, and the light broke through that layer of darkness with difficulty.

But she didn't expect that behind the darkness, Darkness actually abandoned the small boat and used the transfer in the dark vortex to jump to the high sky above the witch's head.

It was hard to say whether this inspiration was obtained from Xia De just now.

Darkness's right hand expanded rapidly. The brand-new power he mastered when facing life and death in the temple was skillfully used by him. Black pus flowed from his palm, making half of his body become thick and strange.

That giant right hand, which seemed to be flowing with pus, accompanied Darkness falling from the sky and struck Miss Aurora's head. Because she didn't expect the opponent to dare to fight back, the witch could only raise her hand to block in a hurry.

The strange right hand carried the astonishing power that could easily dismantle the temple, pressing the witch from the water surface into the water. The mermaids around screamed and fled in all directions. Darkness still wanted to continue attacking the witch, but suddenly saw a figure like a swimming fish swimming rapidly from the direction of the fallen temple.

"What is this again?"

Without thinking, the middle-aged man who had experienced too many things today didn't even confirm who was coming, so he jumped into the black vortex beside him, then jumped out from the vortex above his small boat, and drove it toward the farther coast. The brown-haired witch, who was pressed into the sea by the huge force, kept sinking in the sea.

Although she had only been in contact with Darkness for less than three seconds, the disgusting black pus on his right hand actually stained the witch's arm and spread to her whole body like a spider web.

She could feel how terrifying this materialized viscous darkness was; that thing was actually absorbing her negative emotions, gradually becoming stronger, and wanting to kill her by this.

"A demon that absorbs negative emotions, combined with the power of darkness, is actually so troublesome. Human pus, such a terrifying thing actually still exists in the Sixth Era, so not killing him rashly was indeed correct."

Choking on a few mouthfuls of water, the witch wanted to fight with that mass of pus in the sea. But she didn't expect that following the sound coming from the water, her somewhat cold right hand was suddenly held by a strange and warm hand. Miss Aurora spat out a string of bubbles from her mouth, representing that she wanted to say something.

Her gaze passed through the brown long hair scattered in the water, and her golden eyes saw Xia De's blurred figure in the sea. Because of 【Underwater Breathing】, Xia De's voice could reach the witch's ears normally:

"Please close your eyes."

She closed her eyes following Xia De's instructions, and then heard a soft sigh in the water:

"Silver Moon."

The light refracted through the turbid seawater did not hurt her eyes too much. And when Xivi Aurora opened her eyes again, the strange black pus had actually disappeared.

Xia De held her hand and led her toward the sea surface in front.

The witch, who had never had such an experience, didn't know what to say for a while.

The two emerged from the rainy sea surface one after another. The witch was soaked all over, her hair sticking to the side of her face, and her clothes sticking to her skin. Only then did she see Xia De looking like he was about to die, almost unable to open his eyes.

He had changed his clothes in the sea just now to cover the traces of the temple battle, and then inserted the fishing rod into the seabed to prevent the witch from seeing the clues. Therefore, as the ten minutes of divine overflow came to an end, the vast power gathered in his soul, and he could close his eyes and faint at any time.

"Hamilton? Why are you here?"

The witch also saw that Xia De's mental state was wrong. Xia De resisted his sleepiness and shook his head:

"Good morning, Miss Aurora. I found the pearl I wanted from the fish-men, and then I was accidentally rolled here by the sea waves. Oh, did you see that scene just now? It was really exaggerated... Look, Darkness ran away."

The two looked at Darkness's back moving away together. The witch shot a ray of light toward that direction casually, but it was immediately swallowed by the darkness:

"The Chosen One is too troublesome."

She complained dissatisfiedly, and then looked at her right hand tightly held by Xia De.

"Ha~"

He yawned, his eyes uncontrollably wanting to close. He missed his warm bed very much, and his swaying appearance looked like he could no longer control his body:

"Let me try... Miss Aurora, I am seriously injured and might faint in a while. Please take me to Her Highness Lei Qianya. Please tell her that I will probably wake up after sleeping for more than ten hours."

Unlike the first time, this time he learned to control his power and knew how to use the radiance of divine overflow, so he did not exhaust his power completely.

"What are you going to do?"

As the witch spoke, she saw Xia De actually "crawl" onto the sea surface from the water with funny movements. He stood carefully on the surging faded tide. Under the gaze of the beautiful mermaid girls who swam back and curiously poked their heads out, the outsider raised his arms high toward the sun in the east, his eyes widened suddenly, and he shouted loudly:

"Praise the sun! Praise the Old Man of the Lantern!"

After speaking, the sleepy Xia De yawned again and took out the brooch with the holy emblem of the Sun God from his pocket.

His boots stepped on the sea surface, his squatting body tilted slightly to the right rear, and at the same time, golden thunder jumped on the surface of the holy emblem held in his right hand.

Xia De stood up suddenly and made a throwing motion forward. The thunder in his hand gathered into a golden long spear in his palm at this moment, then left his palm and tore through the air, leaving a bright light mark above the sea surface and leaving jumping golden electric arcs on the water surface.

His eyes opened again at this moment as if returning to the light, and Xia De finally said the sentence he had wanted to say for a long time after seeing this scene:

"Sunlight Spear!"

The astonishing heat made the mermaids shrink back under the sea surface again, which made them look even more timid than Little Mia.

And that golden thunder actually easily broke through the three-layer dark area that appeared behind Darkness on the sea surface far away, hitting the middle-aged man's back squarely.

"Ah!"

Ivan Darkness screamed while trembling all over, falling from the small boat into the ocean, and even the boots on his right foot fell on the boat because of the friction. Although he had suffered a lot of injuries in the pursuit with the witch just now, the damage brought by this blow seemed to be particularly serious.

After all, he didn't scream just now.

The "Balanced" Chosen One, Yin Yi Yi Lu Na Beiya, said that the Chosen One can better fight against the Chosen One. Although this holy emblem containing Yin Yi Yi Lu Na's strongest power could not kill the first candidate for "Darkness", Ivan Darkness, this kind of injury was probably also difficult to heal with that strange dark talent.

"Hamilton, are you a believer of the Old Man of the Lantern?"

Xivi Aurora asked curiously, looking at Xia De's back, and then was surprised to see the young detective fall backward, the whole person falling onto the water surface, and then sinking.

The witch hurriedly dived into the water, grabbed his hand and pulled him up, so that the outsider would not drown here. Looking at Xia De's face again, he was breathing evenly, his eyes closed tightly. Compared to being in a coma, he looked more like he was asleep.

Xivi Aurora inexplicably felt that this scene was very funny.

The sea breeze blew, and the fishy smell on the sea surface gradually dissipated. The dazzling sunlight shone on the sea surface from above, and the sparkling waves made it impossible for people to see that just a few dozen minutes ago, this place still looked like a doomsday scene.

That sunlight also shone on Xia De's handsome face. The witch looked down at the man's face, and for some reason, she felt her face heating up and her heartbeat suddenly speeding up:

"Although the gap is large, you are much more charming than that God-Caller."

Laughing at herself, she looked up and ordered the mermaid girls who had gathered around and were curiously discussing Xia De to go and recover the small boat and the boots on the boat, and to look for Darkness who had fallen into the sea.

She didn't hold much hope for this, so she didn't bother to participate in the search, but swam toward the seaside holding Xia De personally before the church discovered the situation here, muttering in her mouth:

"Daring to enter the sea to save me, providing effective information about the Chosen One, and being able to cause effective damage with alchemical items from who knows where... Galina, where on earth did you find this man... um..."

She suddenly stopped swimming and looked around vigilantly. After reprimanding the young mermaid girl who was slacking off nearby and confirming that no one was watching here, she reached her hand holding Xia De downward and inserted it into the seawater.

Soon, a blush rose on the witch's face, but this looked like the traces left by the morning sun on her face.

She squinted slightly and looked toward the direction of the sunrise at Cold Water Harbor against the sun. The city was waking up. For ordinary people who didn't know the truth, this would be an ordinary morning in the Steam Era. And further away, that direction was also the direction of Tobesk.

Behind her, the mermaids and the church were clearing out the remaining fish-men, and the church and police on the shore were probably also carrying out the final cleanup work.

The sun had risen, and today seemed to be a good day.

"Galina, where on earth did you find this man?" ===== CHAPTER 427 =====