Chapter 771: Cat and Sun

Miss Samuel spread a blanket by the bonfire. After Xia De carefully laid Miss Olandonode down, he inquired about the stone platform with five grooves that had appeared here.

"Yes, this is the altar sealing the 【Nameless Sacrificial Book】. After you left, Blainie and I thought of a way to move it here."

The stone altar was about half a person high, and its shape was somewhat like the courtyard fountain Xia De had seen at Miss Miss Jia Lin Na's manor.

Around the circular altar were five grooves distributed at equal distances, and in the center of the altar was a raised square stone block. The 【Nameless Sacrificial Book】 should be inside it.

Miss Samuel handed the bottle containing the fire seed to Xia De, and then reached into her robe to hand him the relic 【Corpse of the Sun Worm】, which looked like she really treated this thing as a hot water bag.

But Xia De did not immediately take the five items he had prepared, but found Little Mia's doll from his pocket, and then restored it to a real cat with a handkerchief:

"Meow!"

The cat squatting in Xia De's palm looked up, bathed in the firelight, made a gentle call, and then curiously widened its amber eyes to look around.

This made Xia De breathe a sigh of relief. He took the risk of bringing Little Mia into the land of death. Although Mia was in toy form, Xia De had always been worried that this cat would be affected. Now it seemed that his worry was unnecessary.

Carefully placing Mia on the ground, this timid cat really didn't dare to run around, but lay beside Xia De's leg, observing everything around it somewhat timidly.

Miss Samuel was also mentally healed by the appearance of this cute little creature, smiling and saying softly:

"Is this a pet cat you keep? Most witches in the society keep pets, but we prefer magical creatures that can be used as combat pets, or birds like owls that can deliver letters. However, this cat is so cute, it is definitely more popular than those practical pets."

She reached out and wanted to stroke Mia, but was dodged by the somewhat frightened orange cat.

"It's not my cat yet, but I am trying to make it my own."

Xia De said with a smile. Seeing Little Mia, his heavy mood also felt a little better.

Little Mia, the orange cat who was less than a year old so far, was usually very afraid of strange environments, but afterward, it would show the curiosity of a cat. After discovering that the only stranger here was the woman wearing glasses, it shifted its attention to the two items in front of Xia De, namely the 【Corpse of the Sun Worm】 and the glass bottle containing the fire seed.

It stretched out its claws wanting to grab them, but was mistaken by Xia De as wanting to touch the bonfire, so he hurriedly held the cat with one hand.

"Miss Samuel, do you think there is a problem with this cat?"

Amidst "her" laughter, Xia De asked this question again.

The witch of Zaras chuckled:

"Why, do you also think, like a small number of witches in our era, that your pet cat will turn into a beautiful girl one day? This kind of thinking is not okay. Without potions or special relics, a cat is just a cat."

Although she asked like this, she still adjusted her breathing state, and then gently sprinkled some gray light spots on the cat held by Xia De. The light spots also touched Xia De's arm, but because they were not physical, there was no tactile sensation.

"A completely normal pet cat."

"That's good. Let's get back to business. We need five items. I collected some after I left."

He began to take things out of his pocket:

"This one is absolutely fine."

The sun holy emblem brooch made by Yin Yi Yi Lu Na was placed together with the two items prepared by the witches.

"Then these five, we can try them one by one."

The five items were the "parchment branded with sun runes" purchased from Mr. Edmond, the "antique badge that can slightly enhance the power of the sun," the "heating pebble" gifted by Miss Miss Jia Lin Na, the "broken sword suspected to be a sun knight's sword," and the "ruby with natural sun pattern flaws" obtained from Old John.

Among them, the ruby was the most expensive, and Miss Miss Jia Lin Na did not charge Xia De for the two items.

He didn't have much time and didn't delay any longer. He took these items and walked to the altar. Miss Samuel, although in poor condition, still tried hard to stand up and followed behind Xia De.

Xia De first put the bottle containing the fire seed and the relic into two of the grooves of the altar. As the items were put in, dense warm yellow lines spread from the circular groove toward the square stone box in the center of the altar. Looking closely, it was actually two-fifths of the sun pattern lines.

"Meow!"

Mia looked exceptionally excited and wanted to break free from Xia De's arms, but Xia De held it very tightly.

"Look, Blainie and I thought correctly."

Miss Samuel said.

"Then..."

The brooch made by Yin Yi Yi Lu Na was put into the third groove, and denser lines crawled all over the surface of the stone altar in front of Xia De. Xia De's guess was also correct:

"Then it's five choose two. I hope my luck isn't that bad."

Xia De said softly. First, he stuffed the ruby into the groove, but it had no effect. Afterward, the heating pebble and the broken sword also had no effect.

He immediately became nervous, and the witch behind him was the same.

"Miss Samuel, you put them in next. I think my luck might be a bit bad."

"What kind of ridiculous superstition is this?"

The witch asked, but still picked up the parchment produced in the New Continent of the Sixth Era and placed it in the groove. Warm yellow lines slowly spread from around the groove toward the center of the altar, making the sun patterns on the surface more obvious.

"Look, your luck is indeed better."

Xia De breathed a sigh of relief, and the witch then picked up the last badge and put it into the last groove. Both of them stared at it, but there was no effect. Even though neither of them spoke for a full ten seconds, there was still no phenomenon.

"Fortunately, there is a backup plan. Xia De, call out that god. With my power, form a book."

Miss Samuel stumbled and wanted to sit back by the bonfire. Xia De was worried she would fall, so he hurriedly reached out to support her, which also gave Little Mia a chance to jump out of Xia De's arms.

"Miss Samuel, we can try to think of other ways. If the last wish is consumed here, how will you leave the Dead Silent Valley?"

He supported the high-level witch who looked weak and powerless. The scholar from the Zaras Society said helplessly and softly:

"But do we have any other way? If we can't open the seal and can't get the 【Nameless Sacrificial Book】, the god will not allow us to make a wish to leave."

"Let's think of other ways. Perhaps you have other..."

The erupting warm yellow light appeared behind Xia De. The light even instantly suppressed the light of the bonfire. Warm, sacred, Xia De couldn't find a more accurate word to describe the light behind him, but he really felt that for a moment, what was behind him was the sun.

Turning to look, the complete sun pattern had appeared on the surface of the altar. As the light subsided, cracks appeared on the surface of the stone box in the center of the altar. Finally, the square stone box cracked completely, revealing the stone slab inside.

Without needing to look closely, one could see that on the last groove, Little Mia was squatting quietly, with its back to Xia De and the witch, looking at the stone slab in the center of the altar.

Xia De couldn't see the front of this cat, only its back fur, and the short tail hanging down from the edge of the altar.

"This..."

Before Xia De could approach again, Mia ran toward the stone slab with its short legs. It twitched its nose to sniff, then lifted its leg and stepped on it, and finally sat down. Xia De was very familiar with this posture; every time it intended to sleep, it used this posture to lie down.

"What is going on? How could my cat..."

Xia De couldn't understand at all, looking at the cat in surprise. Afterward, he looked at Miss Samuel, who asked softly:

"Has this cat shown any supernatural power?"

Xia De thought for a while:

"Except for being exceptionally smart, it has nothing special."

Except for absorbing a trace of divinity, but the divinity Xia De used at that time came from the 【Lord of the Blood Feast】, and that god had nothing to do with the "sun." Even, the divinity Xia De had absorbed so far did not have a single drop related to the sun.

"Has it shown any abnormalities? For example, occasionally disappearing for a period of time, or using potions related to the sun?"

Miss Samuel asked again.

"At least during the time I adopted it, it didn't. This cat is even a bit timid and very unwilling to go out with me. As for before I adopted it, its owner, Miss Mia San Gao De, was an ordinary girl who returned to the countryside to inherit her ancestor's legacy."

Miss Samuel nodded:

"Then there is only one possibility..."

Xia De looked at her expectantly.

"This cat of yours has a special bloodline, a bloodline related to the sun, and the bloodline is very noble."

Xia De was very disappointed. Miss Miss Jia Lin Na had said this conclusion, and even Luweiya had said it. They all thought Mia's high intelligence stemmed from some special bloodline of an unknown ancestor. Perhaps its paternal and maternal lines had not expressed this special feature, but in Mia's generation, the bloodline suddenly became dominant.

This was not impossible; the Sakes Higher Medical College had corresponding research.

【So, why did you expect that this cat had other special features?】

The voice in his ear also sounded at this time. Xia De couldn't give an answer, so he didn't answer:

"I'll investigate the cat's matter slowly later. Let's hand this over to that gray-robed old sage as soon as possible."

Xia De said, reaching out and wanting to hold Mia down from the stone slab, and then take the stone slab. But unexpectedly, the cat rarely resisted Xia De, lying dead on the stone slab and unwilling to move at all, which made Xia De think of the scene of a hen brooding he had seen in the countryside of Midhillburg.

For a long time, Little Mia finally stood up reluctantly, swept the surface of the stone slab with its tail, and then jumped into Xia De's hands. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but Xia De thought that the orange part of the cat's fur became more lustrous than before.

Xia De reached out and pinched the cat in his arms, first pinching the ears, then the belly, then the claws, then the tail, and then got a claw from Mia. He hoped that he could pinch out some new clues about the cat from Mia, but Mia probably didn't have the characteristic of dropping a small note when pinched.

Reaching out to take the stone slab, the altar collapsed immediately. The stone material turned into a pile of dust, and the three items originally in the grooves, except for the relic 【Corpse of the Sun Worm】, all turned into dust.

Xia De lost the brooch made by Yin Yi Yi Lu Na again. *** **CHAPTER 772: Sun and Moon**