Chapter 955: Snowy Winter Day

"How does the consumption feel?"

Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya, who was squinting, asked by the wall. Xia De, who was maintaining the spellcasting posture, answered:

"The consumption is not very large, at least not large in the case of not being attacked."

The "Divinity Yu Hui" state enhances all of Xia De's strange techniques and spells. The enhancement to 【Xi Dun Seal】 is not that the originally immovable strange technique can move, but that the shield whose protection volume was originally fixed can be expanded larger.

【Xi Dun Seal】 does not limit how many people the user protects besides themselves, but the volume of the shield called out by the seal itself is a fixed value. Basically, it is very difficult to fully protect two adults hugging each other. But for Xia De, he can achieve the expansion of the shield volume by paying extra spirit. This expansion also has an upper limit, but it is more than enough to protect two Xia Des standing side by side.

Therefore, the enhancement of "Divinity Yu Hui" to the strange technique 【Xi Dun Seal】 makes the value of the strange technique greater. When Xia De demonstrated the strange technique, he had already made the volume of the golden shield exceed the scale recorded in the records, but Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya seemed not to see this strange change and continued to say to Xia De:

"Next, try the defensive strength. Don't worry, I will control the intensity well."

She was very enthusiastic about this kind of test.

Next, she respectively used pebbles thrown lightly, little Mia walking slowly, Xia De's revolver, pebbles thrown with all her might, fireballs summoned by the spell 【Manipulate Fire】, the document-level relic 【Anesthesia Pocket Watch】 carried by the witch, and the strange technique 【Space Cutting】 to test the strength of the seal.

Firearms could not break the golden shield at all, only causing some ripples on the surface;

The cat walking slowly toward Xia De scratched the shield a few times with its claws and failed to pass through;

Pebbles thrown lightly were about the same as hitting the wall, and pebbles thrown with all their might shattered into powder when contacting the shield because of the strength of the pebbles themselves;

The anesthesia needle fired by the relic 【Anesthesia Pocket Watch】 perished together with Xia De's shield, but this relic itself was not known for its attack power;

The fireball with controlled output by the witch had the best effect. If Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya hadn't stopped in time, not only would Xia De have almost been blown away, but his basement would probably have had an extra deep pit;

As for 【Space Cutting】, 【Xi Dun Seal】 had no defensive effect against space power. Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya, who was good at space power, had expected this, so the power of the strange technique 【Space Cutting】 only cut Xia De's coat under her precise control, leaving no marks on his skin.

As for the second effect of 【Xi Dun Seal】, which was to release the spellcasting at the moment the attack touched the shield, the broken shield would cause more powerful explosive damage to the enemy. Xia De did not try this effect. One was because the timing was difficult to grasp and he needed a lot of practice, and the other was because he was worried that the so-called "explosive damage" would directly blow up his basement.

Although he cleared out the space, there were still compartments for storing magic potion snow piles in the basement, as well as his simple magic potion alchemy workshop. He didn't want to damage his house for the sake of practicing strange techniques. Miss Jia Lin Na's manor had plenty of space for him to practice, and if it really didn't work, he could also go to Cold Water Port to find trouble with the fish people.

"In short, except for not being able to move when casting the spell, this is almost a perfect strange technique."

When walking out of the basement, Xia De praised Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya while holding the cat. The young Great Witch chuckled:

"This is the signature strange technique of the Sun Church, passed down for I don't know how many ages. However, you must not be discovered by the church when using it. Under normal circumstances, this strange technique will not flow out. After all, the core material for learning it is that piece of parchment you burned at the end of the ritual, and the Sun Church has a number for every piece of parchment."

Of course, the witch did not ask Xia De where he got the parchment recording the ritual data. But Xia De always felt that Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya had already guessed the truth, just didn't say it out.

Just like the first visit last week, Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya did not leave Saint De Lan Square this night. She discussed the thesis that had been given to the Old God by Xia De with Xia De until late at night. Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya even planned to publish that thesis and let Xia De be the first author.

And besides discussing the thesis, when she learned that Xia De was preparing for the year-end exam week recently, she also enthusiastically helped Xia De answer some academic questions and helped Xia De analyze the Ringed Shushi system he had built so far.

Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya believed that although Xia De's low Four-Ring structure was not centered on a certain spiritual rune, at least the learning of strange techniques was comprehensive enough, and he had also found his own fighting style. For 【Space Stability Halo】 and 【Laglai's Leap】, she also gave Xia De more suggestions for application, and even suggested that Xia De try to practice carrying living beings for 【Laglai's Leap】.

"This strange technique is not allowed to carry other individuals, but just like you expanded the range of the strange technique, when you can use your own power to change the strange technique, you will find that the defects of some strange techniques can actually be avoided.

The spell 【Blood Echo】 sublimating into the strange technique 【Blood Echo】 is the manifestation of artificially changing the spellcasting effect. However, I don't recommend you try carrying people directly. Perhaps you can try starting from ants. I will give you some suggestions for spellcasting and tell you a kind of auxiliary magic potion. Even if you can't carry living beings to jump when you are in the Four-Ring, you should be able to learn this technique when you enter the Middle Ring."

Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya still seemed not to have given up on cultivating Xia De as her apprentice, but she did not take the initiative to mention this point, but enthusiastically gave Xia De any help he needed.

Xia De would never accept other people's favors for nothing, but Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya just smiled and indicated that she could accept a breakfast from Xia De as thanks tomorrow morning. Xia De had the heart to let Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya choose an ornament from the jewelry box, but he didn't do so in the end because it would make him look too utilitarian.

So before the end of this night, Xia De took the initiative to talk to the witch about his adventure in Huntington City. He did not mention the angel, only saying that he found the "Goddess of the Lake," and then talked about 【Aiken Aola's Arrow of Knowledge】 as a second thing unrelated to this:

"I snatched it from the 【Pan Ta Na Er Voodoo Society】 and tried to shoot it. But those Ringed Shushi ran too fast, I just pulled the bow and didn't find a chance to shoot the arrow. That feeling was really terrible, just like... thousands of little Mias crawling on my body."

【Didn't you say thousands this afternoon?】

"I can understand this feeling. Forcibly terminating after accumulating power, if it is not using a relic but using a strange technique, I am afraid it will be very harmful to the body."

The witch on the sofa late at night looked at the young Outsider and suddenly grabbed his wrist:

"Um, what's wrong?"

Xia De asked, and Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya shook her head with a smile:

"Nothing, just aroused interest by your story."

In short, the young Great Witch seemed to have become completely familiar with Xia De's personality. When seeing Miss Xi Er Lu Weiya off at the door after breakfast on Wednesday morning, the Outsider had to admit that the wisdom and talent of the Great Witches were truly amazing.

Since 【Phantom Thief Jack】 still hadn't been caught, Xia De brought little Mia along when he went to Mi De Xi Er Bao this day.

Walking out of the abandoned tower on Xi Ka Er Mountain, facing the cold winter wind like a knife in the mountains, he was surprised to see the forest covered by white snow, and saw snowflakes falling from the sky, dyeing the whole mountain white.

"Mi De Xi Er Bao is also snowing! Oh, this snow has already covered the ground."

Not only was Xi Ka Er Mountain covered by heavy snow, but after going down the mountain, he found that the urban area of Mi De Xi Er Bao had also turned into a silver-clad appearance. Xia De inquired from a newspaper-selling boy wearing an old cotton-padded jacket and learned that this was not the first snow this week.

The falling snow put silver clothes on the city and truly heralded the arrival of winter.

Xia De first went to the Blind Home on Lu Fu Lane to deliver a letter to Sister Sister Daifulin, and then went to Ka Shan De La Auction House to wait for the sister's news.

Snow would not affect the business of the auction house. People were still coming and going on Saint Ka La Avenue in the city center, and the gentlemen entering and leaving the auction house were also in an endless stream. When Xia De got off the carriage, someone was melting snow at the door. People in this era certainly wouldn't extravagantly use salt to accelerate the melting of snow, and the auction house didn't try to use pure manpower to shovel ice and snow.

The strong servant pushed a small-power steam engine to the door, connected it to the indoor pipeline, swept the hot steam generated by the steam engine toward the ground, and used tools to quickly clean up the accumulated snow that had already melted on the ground before the water liquefied by the hot steam cooled down and froze.

Probably only a rich person like Grandma Ka Shan De La could use such an extravagant way to clear snow. But the people passing by seemed to be accustomed to this scene. Only a few people looked around like Xia De, watching the black smoke emitted by the steam engine drifting toward the sky in the snow.

The spraying of hot steam made the temperature at the door of the auction house higher than the surroundings, but what was truly warm was the inside of the auction house. After Xia De, wearing a thick overcoat, walked in, he even felt a bit hot. The heating of Ka Shan De La Auction House was definitely not the standard of the city's unified heating.

On this snowy day, the owners of the auction house were all here. Xia De first saw Miss Li Ta Si Wei Fu Te, a witch apprentice with beautiful flaxen hair who hurried down from upstairs after hearing he had arrived, and then saw Helen and Grace participating in the auction on the second floor.

It was Grandma Ka Shan De La who didn't appear until noon when it was almost time to eat. The time had come to the end of 1853. Although the old witch didn't have to check the accounts herself, she also had to personally meet the representatives sent by the auction house's branches in various parts of the Old Continent. This was one of the most important tasks of the year.

At noon, the blind sister also came through the heavy snow. The six people ate lunch together. During the meal, Xia De heard that Sister Sister Daifulin's "Snake Heart Hospital" was being established in an orderly manner in the big cities around the Pan Ta Na Er Great Swamp with the help of Ka Shan De La Auction House.

Relying on the already existing Snake Heart Hospital, Sister Sister Daifulin planned to expand the power of the 【Spirit Cultivation Sect】 to the entire area around the Great Swamp. Therefore, not only the Red Wine City Huntington City, but even more cities including the kingdom's capital Wei Lun Dai Er were the next key development targets of the 【Snake Heart Hospital】.

Since the end of the Battle of Mi De Xi Er Bao, the Mountain City had restored its past peace and tranquility. After passing the dangerous and turbulent autumn, the city in winter returned to the order dominated by ordinary people.

Snow was falling outside the window, and the atmosphere in the restaurant on the third floor was harmonious. Sister Sister Daifulin mentioned the strange dark clouds that appeared in Huntington City yesterday, but no one could explain this. The old witch heard about the things in To Bei Si Ke, so she also inquired about the progress of finding the fourth chosen one from Xia De.

Seeing that the first snowfall of this year had already fallen, the twin girls asked Xia De together if they could visit No. 6 Saint De Lan Square today.

Whether it was Grace in the white dress or Helen in the black dress, the two fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls were quite excited. But Xia De told them with regret:

"I'm sorry, girls. Something will happen in the block where I live tonight. A human-shaped relic has invaded there and is trying to steal the property of me and my neighbors. I cannot involve you in this matter. If you want to visit my home, in fact, girls, as long as it is not today, it is fine."

Helen, wearing a black dress, glanced at her sister. There were different expressions on the two identical exquisite faces. Grace seemed to accept Xia De's statement, while Helen asked curiously:

"Sir, what level of relic is it?"

"Sage-level relic 【Phantom Thief Jack】."

"Oh, that's just Sage-level, sir, we can help guard the door."

Grace pulled Xia De's sleeve and said. Grandma Ka Shan De La watched this scene with a smile.

"No, no, girls, your injuries haven't healed yet, and 【Phantom Thief Jack】 becomes stronger when encountering the strong. I know you are more powerful than it, but you are not in your peak state yet. If I let you help me guard the door, it's hard to imagine what will happen by then."

Xia De explained patiently. Although Grace pretended not to care, she still sighed lightly, and Helen looked unhappy. But there was no way. Xia De really didn't want the Red Butterfly Twins, who had finally gained freedom and a peaceful life, to be involved in disputes because of him again. ===== CHAPTER 956 =====