Chapter 616: Fruit Wine

"What are you thinking about?"

Miss Miss Jia Lin Na, sitting across the table in a gorgeous red dress, noticed Xia De was distracted and asked with a smile. The restaurant waiters pushed a cart over, but the maids did not allow them to approach the table, preferring to serve them themselves; after all, witches were quite averse to men.

"I'm thinking about some strange things."

Xia De said, a box of eyeshadow in an oval enamel case sitting beside him, along with the cat. The abnormal eye effects caused by the Star Fall Whale blood had long since vanished, and this eyeshadow was not meant to change his eye color, but to make his face look slightly different. People who knew him well could recognize him at a glance, but strangers would find it difficult to connect the two.

She knew Xia De would be adventuring in Midhillburg next, which was why she had brought out this "cosmetic" that only witches could use.

"Miss Miss Jia Lin Na, do you know about the Primordial Angel?"

The Primordial Angel was called "Jia Kaier" by "Her," but this was spoken in that ancient, unknown language; Xia De couldn't even transliterate it, as the name itself contained power. This angel was related to Priest Ao Gu Si's secret, and although Xia De would not leak the priest's secrets to others, he was very interested in this angel.

"The Primordial Angel? That is the first angel created by the Ancient Gods at the beginning of the world's creation. Also known as the Death Angel or the Angel of Death. I remember reading some materials; in the early Sixth Era, there were organizations in Midhillburg that worshipped this angel, but I don't know about now."

The witch asked curiously:

"Xia De, could it be that you encountered power related to this Primordial Angel in that city? The Council's records state that this angel's power is extremely formidable."

"No, no, I just saw this title while looking up information on Midhillburg recently."

Xia De shook his head, knowing the Witch Council didn't have much information either, so he changed the subject:

"Want to see my new spell?"

He smiled and said to the black-haired maid:

"Please help me have the restaurant send over an empty wine bottle; it must have held wine before."

"Pour this out."

Miss Miss Jia Lin Na pointed to the bottle of red wine breathing at the table's edge, and before Xia De could object, Difa actually poured the wine into the ice bucket.

"Hmm..."

Xia De had always opposed such wasteful behavior, but since Miss Miss Jia Lin Na had money, he couldn't say much.

Taking the dark wine bottle handed to him by Difa, Xia De cradled the bottom with his right hand and the neck with his left, aiming it at the center of the table, at the plate of fruit likely meant for decoration.

It contained apples, grapes, pears, and two cherries... there had actually been three a moment ago, but Xia De had fed the other one to Xiao Miya.

With his left hand, he slightly rotated the bottleneck, and amidst the intense interest of Miss Miss Jia Lin Na and the surprised gazes of the surrounding maids, those fruits actually turned into bright red liquid and flew into the bottle.

The speed was extremely fast; once all the fruit had vanished, Xia De immediately took the cork and sealed the bottle. He stood the bottle up and shook it gently, and blood-colored halos flashed across the glass.

"Done."

Xia De handed the bottle to Difa, who pulled the cork and poured some for both Xia De and Miss Miss Jia Lin Na. The red liquid looked crystal clear, completely free of impurities, and in a static state, it was more beautiful than any ruby.

"Smells quite good."

The red-haired Duchess swirled her glass, sniffed gently, and then looked at Xia De with a smile:

"Your ability to brew wine is truly impressive, but can fruit wine really be made with so many mixed fruits?"

"You can taste it."

Xia De ignored the cat, which was scratching at him wanting a taste, and took a light sip of the blood-red fruit wine in his glass—the wine produced by this ability could only be blood-red.

The taste of the mixed fruit wine was unexpectedly excellent, but Xia De was no professional sommelier, so he couldn't say exactly how good it was.

"Oh, this taste... it reminds me of that first-class batch from the Luo Saier Winery in 1752, and that bottle of Fleming century-old cellar reserve I received for my sixteenth birthday coming-of-age ceremony."

Miss Miss Jia Lin Na did not skimp on her praise, which was something Xia De could have predicted; after all, that God of Blood basically had "I have great taste" written all over Her face.

Miss Jia Lin Na Cavendish gave Xia De a rare, sweet smile:

"Knight, where did this spell come from?"

"Obtained from that entity who hosted the wine party."

The key itself had been given by Miss Miss Jia Lin Na, so Xia De didn't hide it, but he didn't go into too much detail either; after all, the spell of this blood brew was truly terrifying.

"You really are always full of surprises. I think even if those Witch Emperors saw you, they probably wouldn't kill you easily, but would instead imprison you in a room deep within their palace."

She swirled her glass gently, letting the wine, which was turning a deep red, ripple within:

"This wine is truly excellent. Knight, as a reward for providing such fine wine, I allow you to propose one reasonable condition to me. Yes, anything."

Her golden eyes watched Xia De with a smile, and Xia De thought for a moment:

"If it's convenient, please help me find another type of special blood; that's been giving me the biggest headache lately."

"That request is truly unromantic."

She said with a hint of feigned reproach. Difa, standing to the side, revealed a faint smile, and the surrounding maids all pretended not to hear.

Xia De held his wine glass in one hand and stroked the cat under his other hand, saying jokingly:

"I did think about tasting this fine wine from your lips, but our relationship doesn't seem to have reached that point yet, and besides, it's not very hygienic."

"Oh, is that so?"

The red-haired witch raised an eyebrow and handed the glass in her hand to Difa beside her.

The black-haired girl, wearing a heavy maid's dress, bowed slightly and took the glass. Three maids walked to Xia De's side and stood in a row to block any other potential lines of sight.

Difa stood straight at the table, narrowed her eyes, tilted her head back slightly, and opened her red lips to take a small sip, but no swallowing motion appeared in her throat. A blush appeared on both her cheeks; she held the glass, smiled at Xia De, and then placed the glass on the table.

Under her master's gaze, Difa walked toward Xia De with the wine in her mouth, arriving between Xia De and the three maids blocking the view.

The red-haired witch watched the two of them with a smile, while Difa looked down at the seated Xia De; in those brown-leaning-to-black eyes, besides shyness, there was also a strange sense of amusement.

In short, this dinner was quite interesting.

(Little Xiao Miya is running...)

It wasn't until he got up on Tuesday morning and went downstairs in his slippers to get the newspaper that Xia De realized he hadn't taken a gift from the 【God's Gift Box】 this week.

So, before breakfast, he moved the box from the basement to the second floor, and only after carefully washing his hands did he cautiously reach into the box.

Completely as expected, this week's gift was also an ordinary item. But this time, the gift finally had some value; it was a brand-new, very sharp-looking short dagger, which Xia De pulled out while it was still in its sheath.

Black coarse rope was woven around the hilt for a non-slip grip, and the blade seemed to have just been maintained; he could even smell the oil.

This was undoubtedly a delicate weapon that could truly be used to hurt people, making it very practical for Xia De, but as a gift for a "child," it seemed somewhat inappropriate. But then Xia De thought that perhaps in the eyes of that god, there might be children who liked to exercise from a young age and would enjoy such a delicate weapon.

"This week's task is... to use this knife to practice 100 slashes for three consecutive days?"

Xia De turned the very sharp knife into a toy using a napkin at hand and tossed it onto the table:

"It seems the era when the god made the gift box was truly full of martial spirit."

Because Priest Ao Gu Si had already been rescued, Dorothy and Doctor Shi Nai De did not come to 6 St. Deran Plaza again. But Lu Lu Weiya still needed to install her set of complex stargazing instruments on the third floor, which almost turned the purple-eyed girl into a mechanic. Fortunately, due to the overtime during the "Great City Player 1853" period in previous weeks, she could take a few days off recently, so she had time to come to Xia De's place.

It was just that she had to return to the Society for office hours after lunch, but the distance between the two was not far.

Not long after breakfast, Lu Lu Weiya arrived. After Xia De asked her to look after Xiao Miya, who didn't want to go to Midhillburg to see the mountains with him, he handed her the new special currency he had bought from the Ring Mage black market in Midhillburg, the 【Standing Coin】. ===== CHAPTER 617 =====