Chapter 855: Moon, Lock, and Snake

Feisu Chinese.

Because of the Pantanal Voodoo Society poisoning the Earl a few days ago, there were church Ring Mages present at this banquet, so even though Xia De had heard the news about the Truth Society and the cultists a few hours ago, he was not particularly worried.

He calculated the time and prepared to go to the manor's courtyard at 9 o'clock to return the pair of earrings in his hand to Princess Margaret. It just so happened that Mr. Bernhardt had nothing to do, so he planned to go with Xia De. After all, leaving the banquet hall alone was a bit conspicuous.

Although it was an indoor banquet tonight due to the weather, there were actually some people in groups of three or five in the courtyard holding wine glasses to "admire the moon." Of course, whether they would have secret talks or deep exchanges between young people while admiring the moon, it was hard to say.

Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt talked and laughed as they came to the courtyard. Both of them looked up at the moon at the same time, and then showed smiles in unison. Xia De bathed in the moonlight and felt refreshed, while the blood-kin bathed in the moonlight and felt that the fatigue brought by the noisy banquet was swept away.

Behind them was the somewhat blurry music. Coming to the quiet courtyard, it felt like coming to another world. Seeing that the Princess's maid hadn't arrived yet, Xia De invited Mr. Bernhardt to walk around, and Mr. Bernhardt was naturally happy to have a moment of peace.

In such early winter, most of the plants in the courtyard had withered except for a few evergreens, but in the hands of the royal family's outstanding gardeners, the quiet moonlit courtyard was still so beautiful. Looking at the courtyard of the large manor, Xia De inevitably recalled the first large banquet he attended after coming to this world, which was the Lake View Manor banquet.

He heard many things and met many people at that banquet, until the end of the banquet, when he kicked that kick under the moon. Thinking about it now, that experience was still so incredible.

"Once winter comes, the weather at night in Huntington is better than in summer."

Mr. Bernhardt on the side said, and walked with Xia De to the knight fountain in the courtyard. The water splashed, and in this quiet night, it added a bit of loneliness.

"Yes, I didn't expect to see such a beautiful starry sky and moon from the city."

Both of them had extraordinary arts related to the "moon," so once the topic was opened, they could find a lot of things to talk about.

For example, the "Moonlight Slash" that Xia De mastered is a relatively basic moonlight series extraordinary art. Not only the silver moon, but the yellow moon and red moon can also be used. It's just that corresponding to the three moons, the silver moon's Moonlight Slash tends to oppose evil and has "holy" attributes; the red moon's Moonlight Slash tends to destroy flesh and blood and has a very strong effect on the destruction of the body; while the yellow moon's Moonlight Slash does not have prominent attribute characteristics, which makes the purest destruction effect of spirit and energy play out more thoroughly.

Mr. Bernhardt is a seven-ring mage, and his experience has been a great inspiration to Xia De. And Xia De mastered the "Silver Moon" and "Yellow Moon" that Mr. Bernhardt did not master, so his experience was also of great value to the blood-kin.

When sharing the experience of "Moonlight Slash," Xia De naturally mentioned the three-form changes he made to this extraordinary art, which is the most basic slash, the slash that leaves a cross light arc in the air with slow casting speed but extremely strong power, and the slash after clapping his hands together and quickly casting to pull out the light arc.

"You are really too talented for the moon."

Mr. Bernhardt said sincerely:

"Now that you have the power of the yellow moon and the silver moon, if you get the red moon again, perhaps all your moon extraordinary arts will have a qualitative change."

In fact, Xia De's four-ring already has the "Red Moon" spirit rune, which is the power of blasphemy. But in order to save the twin red butterflies, the red moon is temporarily in a sealed state, and he has not found a suitable way to restore the power of this spirit rune.

"For 'Moonlight Slash', I don't have your talent to develop so many forms."

Mr. Bernhardt said softly, looked left and right, and confirmed that there were no young men and women having an affair in the bushes nearby:

"My family, oh, not the Bernhardt family, but the blood-kin clan, we have more usage techniques for this ability."

Ring Mages have never been an extraordinary profession that works behind closed doors. A long time ago, Priest Ao Gu Si said that Ring Mages are actually more like scholars. Sometimes other people's notebooks are more useful than studying hard for a month:

"Moonlight Slash can not only be cast with hands, theoretically speaking, as long as it is a part of one's own body, any part can be cast."

Saying that, the gentleman kicked forward gently, and Xia De saw a scarlet light blade sweep along the ground. Because he deliberately controlled his strength, the light mark disappeared when it touched the fountain base.

"I have also tried doing this."

Xia De nodded. The kick he made under the moon was an application of using 【Moonlight Slash】 with his feet:

"But except for hands and feet, it is difficult to cast with other parts. I can only do this for now..."

After speaking, he opened his mouth, his tongue flicked gently, and a small silver light mark flew out. Xia De had never shown this move to anyone after learning it, because it had no practicality, the power was too weak, and it was too shameful.

Mr. Bernhardt didn't feel anything wrong; they were purely academic discussions:

"Yes, this is really difficult. Our race has the talent to transform into bats, so in bat form, we use wings to cast. As for using the tongue like you, some people have tried it, but the power is very poor. After all, the tongue itself is not an organ with attack power."

After speaking, he laughed again:

"It just so happens that there is time today, I will show you a special 【Moonlight Slash】 technique, which is developed by the clan from the blood-kin talent."

The two walked from the path in the center of the courtyard to the path in the courtyard. After confirming that the distance from the mansion was far enough—

"Hah!"

Mr. Bernhardt clenched his fists under the moon, and his arms were raised high to the upper left and upper right respectively:

"Ha!"

His arms retracted, keeping his fists clenched and crossed in front of his chest:

"Moonlight Slash!"

With a low shout, this middle-aged blood-kin actually turned into a bright red arc and rushed forward, but didn't hit any target, and then changed back panting.

He panted heavily and explained to Xia De:

"In our race's inherited extraordinary art, there is a 'Blood Blade Avatar' related to the 【Blood】 spirit rune, which uses one's own blood to slash the opponent. The form change of 【Moonlight Slash】 uses a similar principle to let oneself turn into moonlight to attack the enemy. But the weakness is also obvious."

Mr. Bernhardt looked very exhausted:

"You can see from my appearance that the consumption of this move is high. In addition, if the Moonlight Slash is interrupted by the enemy during the attack, the body will suffer considerable damage. Moreover, this form change is essentially just an application form of the extraordinary art, without a specific learning method, and can only be felt by oneself. This requires not only a high affinity for the moon, but also an affinity for light itself. Below the high ring, very few people can master it directly."

Speaking of this, Mr. Bernhardt was a little proud, and Xia De also praised sincerely:

"It is indeed very powerful. This can be said to be the final form change that exhausts the 【Moonlight Slash】 extraordinary art."

【Moonlight Slash】 is only an extraordinary art that can be learned at a low ring. After Xia De developed three forms, he understood that the changes of the extraordinary art had reached the limit. He planned to develop the last form for this extraordinary art in the last ring of the low four rings. After advancing to the middle ring, he could seek other moonlight attack extraordinary arts.

The two didn't go far, but continued to chat at a position where they could see the mansion. But before Princess Margaret appeared, a light suddenly flashed in the garden behind the manor. The light was unusually conspicuous in the middle of the night. Not only Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt saw it, but as long as anyone in the manor looked out the window, they would definitely see it.

"Light spell?"

Mr. Bernhardt hesitated:

"Using a light spell here, aren't you afraid of attracting the church's Ring Mages?"

"Maybe it's to attract the church's Ring Mages, and those Ring Mages have to split some people to check the situation."

The well-informed Xia De said in a low voice. The two were quiet for a while and looked at the back of the mansion together, but there was no other movement for a long time. So, Xia De looked at the entrance of the mansion not far away:

"Why hasn't Princess Margaret's maid come yet?"

"I have a bad feeling."

Mr. Bernhardt said with some worry, and then suggested:

"Let's go back and see the situation. Whatever that was just now, it must be related to Ring Mages. Maybe that group of lunatics from the Truth Society really dares to take action here."

Xia De also agreed with his view, and the two walked back to the entrance of the mansion quickly, but Xia De pushed the door, but couldn't push it open:

"Hmm?"

He felt like he was trying to push a mountain.

Mr. Bernhardt came over to help when he saw this, but also couldn't push the door open. And listening carefully to the sound inside the door, the music was normal, and the conversation and laughter didn't sound like they were faked, because they clearly heard the two people at the door arguing about navigation:

"Someone locked the door?"

Mr. Bernhardt said suspiciously. Xia De reached out and tried to open the door with 【Key of the Door】. This extraordinary art did work, but the process of picking the lock was like arm-wrestling with a dragon. He could open the door, but he had to concentrate and use the extraordinary art with full attention:

"Mr. Bernhardt, wait a moment, I'm picking the lock."

"The banquet is still going on normally. This 'lock' is obviously the power of a Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi. The person who set this lock just doesn't want people outside to enter in a short time, and doesn't want to attract more people's attention. The Five Gods Church provides direct protection to the royal family. The Truth Society shouldn't directly attack Princess Margaret. What are they doing?"

Mr. Bernhardt analyzed. After waiting for nearly five minutes, Xia De finally opened the lock. After pushing open the golden door, the two flashed in quickly. The ball was still going on as usual, the elegantly dressed gentlemen and beautiful ladies were still dancing and having fun, the melodious music was so relaxing, and the two gentlemen arguing about navigation at the door just looked at them, and it seemed that no one realized that something unusual was happening.

But Princess Margaret had disappeared in a corner of the sofa in the banquet hall. After inquiring a little, I learned that someone had called her away not long ago, but when asked who called the Princess away, those ordinary people couldn't say clearly.

"Sure enough, something happened."

Xia De said nervously to Mr. Bernhardt in a low voice:

"I'll go find that witch. With her, there will be no problem."

Mr. Bernhardt nodded, but didn't want to act with Xia De:

"I'll go find my clansmen and ask what happened just now. You and that lady come to find me in a while, maybe you already know where the Princess went."

So the two acted separately. Xia De left the banquet hall while preparing the casting materials, and wanted to find Miss Sylvia along the left corridor. But after turning the corner of the corridor, he saw a tall man standing in the center of the corridor on the empty corridor, as if waiting for Xia De deliberately.

Xia De didn't see him at the banquet just now, because this person had a dark green vertical line on each side of his cheeks extending from his cheeks downward. His skin was a bit dark, and his eyes were deeply sunken into his eye sockets, obviously waiting for Xia De:

"Did you open the 'lock' from the outside?"

The strange man used Karsinrik with a heavy accent, and his gray eyes looked at Xia De:

"Sir, whoever you are, tonight's business has nothing to do with you. If you can pretend you don't know about this, I'm willing to pay 100 crowns."

Xia De was also looking at him. The other party was a low-ring mage, should be a three-ring, so the "lock" just now was not set by him:

"Pantanal Voodoo Society?"

He asked hesitantly, not expecting the man to nod:

"Yes, sir from Deraerion. But this matter has nothing to do with the Voodoo Society. We are just hired by others to do some things."

"Who hired you?"

Xia De asked again, but the man just shook his head:

"Do you think I will tell you?"

"I just don't understand, the Truth Society has always looked down on you country bumpkins, why would they be willing to hire you?"

Xia De was just testing, not expecting the strong man's face to change:

"It seems that you are really here to protect Margaret Anjou. Don't worry, neither we nor the Truth Society dare to touch members of the royal family. We are just looking for an item."

"Why tell me this?"

"If I can't stop you, at least ensure that this action will not cause the Inquisition of the Five Gods Church to be dispatched."

He reached into his pocket and looked at Xia De deeply, as if making some kind of decision:

"I pursue the way of the wild, and my perception of power is very keen. I can feel how terrible you are. Even if you are not a high ring, you are definitely not inferior to a high-ring mage. I can't stop you, but don't think about passing easily. Those professors who claim to be civilized people gave us very valuable knowledge, and we will also do our best to help them."

Saying that, he took out something like snake skin from his pocket. The rich whisper elements immediately vented in all directions, and Xia De heard the "hissing" roar in his ears.

"Relic?"

Xia De was startled and slashed a moonlight with his hand. The three-ring mage didn't dodge at all. While the moonlight accurately split him almost from the waist, he swallowed the snake skin into his stomach:

"This is the document-level relic 【Undead Snake Skin】. Praise Pantanal! Praise the Undead Snake! So, please go to die!"

The last few words completely turned into a strange language like a snake, but it was still translated by Xia De.

Blood sprayed from the man's waist. He had fallen to the ground because of serious injury, his whole body was trembling, and he was about to die.

But Xia De retreated constantly with a changed face. As the snake skin was swallowed into the man's stomach, the gas lamps in the whole corridor became dim rapidly. The whisper elements became more obvious and clear, and a crack split on the top of the man's "corpse". In Xia De's surprised eyes, a black snake as thick as a man's waist, with scarlet eyes and mucus all over its body, crawled out of the corpse.

"Hiss~"

The scarlet tongue flicked out from the snake's mouth, and the mucus flowed on the surface of the snake's body, gradually letting Xia De see the snake skin pattern like a tapeworm.

Its body was bigger and longer than the corpse behind it. It turned around and swallowed the human corpse, and then crawled toward Xia De, leaving wet traces on the carpet while crawling. Even though he had seen many snakes in the Xikar Mountains in autumn, Xia De still felt a chill when stared at by this thing.

"He swallowed the relic? The relic is out of control?"

This reminded Xia De of the Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi who turned into a merman because of the merman scales being out of control.

【Not out of control, swallowing that piece of snake skin should be the trigger method for the relic's characteristics.】

"It's really disgusting."

His right hand pulled the moonlight greatsword from the air and rushed toward the snake. The giant python, which was huge and slow, also rushed toward Xia De, bent its body to accumulate strength, and shot toward Xia De like a flying arrow in the increasingly dim corridor.

Its speed was extremely fast, but it didn't hit Xia De in the end, but passed through a large group of red butterflies.

While the giant python landed, the butterfly group gathered again. Xia De, holding the "Moonlight Greatsword," turned and slashed, the greatsword slashed toward the snake head, but the greatsword with holy silver light actually passed through the snake's body and slashed on the floor.

"Illusion?"

It was not an illusion, because the giant python flicked its tail, and the giant force whipped Xia De's waist. Xia De originally thought that this sword would at least seriously injure the opponent, but didn't expect his attack to miss at all, so he was whipped to the wall by that tail like a ball hit by a club.

"Hiss hiss hiss~"

The light in the corridor continued to weaken, and darkness was coming. The pitch-black giant python turned around, its tail supported its body, its snake mouth opened to reveal sharp teeth, and its scarlet eyes looked at Xia De who was getting up, as if wanting to bite off Xia De's head in one bite.

The coming of darkness made this snake more powerful, and at the same time, the darkness was like thick liquid, making Xia De feel that his movements were becoming slower and slower. But it bit forward, but it didn't hit Xia De, but hit the wall heavily, breaking through the wall and entering the empty room on the other side.

And Xia De, who used 【Lagley's Jump】 to transfer, appeared in the distance of the dark corridor.

The giant snake swam out from the hole in the wall, flicking its tongue to observe Xia De, obviously planning a fatal blow. And the obvious sound just now didn't attract anyone's attention. It seems that this action was really trying every means not to attract attention.

Xia De relied on dark vision, stared at the giant snake that was almost integrated with the darkness in the almost pitch-black environment, and asked in his heart:

"Why can't I attack it, but it can attack me?" ===== CHAPTER 856 =====