Chapter 2821: Eighteen-year-old worries and foreigners’ words
When the three of them passed through the smoke and dust of the explosion, what they saw was a “magma lake” with a diameter of more than 20 meters in the forest. And after the elf girl mobilized the power of the forest to eliminate the magma lake with a troubled look, she found the fourth Paradox Bug shell at the bottom of the pit where raindrops were constantly turning into mist.
“Don’t use such fire spells in the forest!”
She said to Shade very dissatisfied. She cooled down the hot insect shell before picking it up, and then threw a bottle of magic potion to Shade:
“The third bottle of paradox insect potion is ready. Really, if you do this often, even if you have the blessing of nature affinity, the forest will hate you. Look how many trees you have destroyed?”
Even if she pinches the waist with one hand to “teach” someone, she is not harsh at all, but rather cute.
After receiving Shade’s assurance, she took shelter under a nearby tree. At this time, the yellow chocobo, which looked a little frightened, came over. After she mounted the chocobo, she was about to leave, but was stopped by Shade:
“On the weekend or next Monday, Miss Emilia Siam Nord from the college will come over. Would you mind meeting her?”
“I don’t mind. Since I am your friend, why should I mind?”
The blonde girl with pointed ears said, sitting sideways on the chocobo, holding its neck with her right hand, and holding an umbrella for it and herself with her left hand:
“Goodbye then, don’t forget to continue to help me find arrows, this is more important than anything else.”
Then the chocobo carried her and disappeared into the forest as if it was running away.
When they left Sir Wayne’s mansion just now, Miss Danister had already cast a “water-avoiding spell” on the three of them. So although it was still raining heavily, they didn’t hold an umbrella. When Shade looked at the red-haired girl, she had already opened the cork of the potion bottle and drank the potion in one gulp.
“I have always thought that the elves’ potions are very special. They can always mix unpleasant tastes into delicious ones.”
As she spoke, her life ring emerged. The eight-ring life ring quickly turned into a nine-ring one under the cover of the steam mist. Just as expected, the first bottle of magic potion changed her from the seventh ring back to the eighth ring, and the combined effects of the second and third bottles of potion changed her from the eighth ring to the ninth ring.
Emilia herself said that the Paradox Bug potion cannot completely eradicate the time curse. The next potions will only become less effective one after another, but fortunately there is still a long way to go before they become completely ineffective.
“The middle to high level is the second most important upgrade for a ring warlock. The most important one is of course the twelfth to thirteenth ring. You also know that every upgrade of a ring warlock will lead to a comprehensive enhancement of the body and soul. The middle ring The difference between the eighth ring and the ninth ring is much greater than the difference between the seventh ring and the eighth ring.”
The red-haired girl was in a good mood and talking about her feelings with Shade, and then she found that Shade was looking at her in slight surprise.
It was only then that she touched her face as if aware of it, and then attracted the rainwater that was no longer evaporated by the heat to form a water mirror in front of her.
In the mirror, the slightly youthful eighteen-year-old face was rapidly maturing until it turned into her original appearance. But this “recovery” only lasted for a second, and the mature face began to lose age again, and finally stopped at the age of eighteen.
The red-haired girl touched her face, as if she was stunned and didn’t speak for a long time. Shade didn’t bother her. It wasn’t until she waved her hand to disperse the water mirror that Shade said in the sound of rain:
“Now that it has returned to nine rings, Flora will definitely be jealous of you when we go back.”
But Daniste Gustave did not respond to this topic, but remained silent for a while before asking Shade:
“If I were to say that when I saw my face in the mirror just now, I suddenly felt that I had remained eighteen years old, would it appear that I was very hypocritical? Before that, I had always been looking to You are complaining about me turning eighteen.”
Shad knows her psychology very well:
“The desire for youth is something that everyone has. It is normal. And it seems that you will not be able to recover for a while, so don’t worry about it now.”
The young and beautiful girl touched her face again. She had never cared about this problem before. But when she really saw her eighteen-year-old face “aging” just now, she had to admit that she really couldn’t bear to see her current appearance.
Youth is fleeting, and not many people can accept the fact that they grow old in an instant. In particular, she now really has the characteristics of being eighteen years old forever. At a certain moment, she really thought that maybe it would be good to stay like this forever.
After returning the hypnotized Sir Wayne to his residence, Miss Danister cast a spell to modify his memory, making him think that he had been discussing business with Shade, but this meeting had no results.
Then the two left here and rushed to Hoy Manor in the north of the city. Jazz has already told the location of the wooden trap door. Now as long as the door is recovered, the matter will finally come to an end.
But it was almost noon, so they had a quick lunch on the way. Seeing that Miss Danister was still not in high spirits during the meal, Shade tried to tell a few jokes, but then realized that he had no talent in this area.
So the outsiders “shamelessly” plagiarized some classics from their hometown. Although this only made the girl purse her lips and smile slightly, at least she seemed to be in a much better mood:
“Are you always so good at changing other people’s emotions?”
“I’m just good at not making people sad.”
“Xia De, can you answer a question for me? Which one do you prefer, the eighteen-year-old me or the real me?”
The rain pattered outside the window, and the voice in the tavern was not noisy. The sound of the wine glass being put down by the next table seemed to turn into the sound of a bell, which meant that this was a fatal problem.
[Perhaps you can say “I like them both”, and then express some positive opinions about her eighteen years old and her real age. 】
“She” suggested with a smile, but Shade did not adopt it. Instead, he put down the knife and fork, folded his hands together and placed them on the table, then turned to look at the rainy scene outside the window as if thinking:
“To be honest, I probably prefer the way you look when you appear in front of me.”
The voice in my ear smiled lightly, and the sorceress across the table also really laughed. She really laughed very happily:
“Okay, I admit, Shade, choosing you to be my student is really one of the few correct choices I have ever made.”
After dinner, the weather turned from cloudy to sunny like an eighteen-year-old girl’s mood. The heavy rain stopped without warning, and the sun even peeked out from behind the clouds.
But the operation ended up with an accident. When the Hoy Manor could be seen from a distance, the sky was already reflected in red by the fire. When they got closer, they saw that the entire manor was now engulfed in a sea of fire.
Several people suspected to be Church Ring Warlocks were trying to extinguish the fire, while the servants, chefs and maids of the manor gathered far away from the gate and were worried. However, it seemed that these Middle Ring Warlocks were not suppressing the flames smoothly.
“When I first came here to attend the wedding banquet, I guessed whether this place would be engulfed by fire again like three hundred years ago. You see, my intuition was quite accurate.”
Xia De said, blinked at the flames again, and then continued to say to the girl beside him:
“Devil’s flame. It seems that the demon should have left something for Director Kant, or the demon has other methods.”
“The devil is not dead?”
“No, he must be dead. There’s no doubt about that. It’s probably just a little trick. I’ll go to the manor first to confirm the trap door. These flames can’t hurt me yet. You wait for me here and take a look. What else do these people in the church want to do besides put out fires?”
The red-haired girl hesitated before nodding, and did not say that she wanted to follow Shade into the sea of fire:
“Then you have to be careful. After all, there is no teacher here to save you.”
Although she obviously has not completely let go of what happened last night, she at least said this with a smile, so she was more teasing than angry.
Xia De responded with a smile:
“If Ms. Carter didn’t save me, wouldn’t there be Ms. Gustav who could save me?”
A visibly unhappy expression appeared on her face, so Shade changed her words:
“I mean, isn’t there a younger Miss Gustav who can save me?”
She then gently patted Sha De’s arm:
“Why don’t you go quickly? If you don’t go to the manor, it will be burned down.”
“Got it, I’ll be back soon.”
This fire with demonic power does not have the power to curse, but it is difficult to extinguish. However, even so, it still seriously hinders perception, so the church’s ring warlocks did not find a group of butterflies with the same red color coming from the manor. Flying sideways into the fire.
Compared to the flames actually used by the demon, the fire that ignited in the manor at this time was nothing worth mentioning.
Shad flew into the house through the rear window on the first floor of the manor house, and then walked along the corridor to the dining room on the first floor amid the surrounding fire, which is where the bodies of the Hoy family were found three hundred years ago. .
The faces in the portraits on the walls had become quite distorted and terrifying in the fire. As expected, the door of the restaurant had been burned and deformed in the fire, but it was still kicked open by Shade.
The dining room is connected to the kitchen located semi-underground, and the trap door is under the cabinet in the innermost storage room of the kitchen. Of course, every time Sir Wayne personally came to “carry” those “treasures”, he would take the tunnel leading here outside the manor.
It’s just that the tunnel is too long, and it would be more convenient to break into the manor directly, so Shade did not choose that route.
The trap door is still here, and the surrounding fire cannot destroy it. But what surprised Shade was that the cabinet pressing on the trap door had been moved away, but the trap door was still locked. Judging from the traces around it, it didn’t look like someone had gone down. Locked again.