"Although this matter is over, I don't think that the failure of the Scarlet Esoteric Cult was due to insufficient preparation."
Xia De said suddenly.
"What is that for?"
asked the witch who was continuing to eat.
"They chose the wrong time. If it hadn't been chosen during Darkness's stay in Coldwater Harbor, and if it hadn't been chosen after the Tobesk incident, the church and academy would definitely not have invested so much power to deal with them."
Shad replied, peeling the flesh of the fish from the skeleton on the plate with a knife.
The witch thought for a while:
"But no matter what, this time the Church representing the positive image still won... Just like in Tobesk, and the God-caller is already qualified to become the protagonist in the story after thousands of years. Legendary characters...presumably will also be printed on the Rhodes card."
Compared with the reputation that troubles him, Xia De is quite looking forward to the fact that he may become the face of the Rhodes card. .
After dinner, neither Shad nor Miss Aurora went to the banquet. Driven by curiosity, Xia De finally followed the witch to the beach behind the manor to see the mermaid.
Miss Aurora's personal maids, carrying golden candlesticks, followed Xia De and the hostess of the manor through the garden to the beach. Then, in the moonlight, the young girls took off their shoes and went into the water in two vertical rows that stretched from the water to the shore of the sand.
Miss Aurora led Xia De to stand at the end of the long line of maids, watching the flickering candlelight go deep into the sea. The sea breeze blew the skirts and long hair of the maids, and also caused the flame of the candle to drag a short line from the wick to the shore. This scene under the moon looks quite miraculous.
The witch took off the small conch pendant hanging from her chest, bent down and dipped into the sea water under her feet, the pendant wriggled and grew bigger. As the witch blew the conch, the long and ethereal sound of the conch spread from the shore to the bottom of the sea.
That sound made Xia De seem to hear the waves of the deep sea, and feel the sea water infiltrating his skin. After Miss Aurora chased Darkness and jumped into the hole under the temple, Shad heard this sound.
There are male mermaids, but the number is very small. And because of the witch's curse, Miss Aurora is more willing to get close to the female mermaid girls.
They are also creatures with high intelligence, but unless special potions or spells, thaumaturgy or even relics are used, individuals of the mermaid race cannot turn their tails into beautiful long legs like in the story.
Therefore, under the harbor behind the Aurora Manor, there is a temporary residence specially built for them. And as Miss Aurora blew the conch, the mermaids on the bottom of the sea gradually moved to the surface of the water, and then emerged in the shallow sea.
Following the guidance of the candlelight of that game, they got closer and closer to the shallows, but in order not to run aground, they could only swim at the end of the light. Miss Aurora also took off her high heels and walked into the water. Xia De looked down into the moonlight, her feet stepped into the relatively clear water, and then realized that it was impolite.
So Xia De also followed and walked into the shallow road between the two rows of maids.
Because of the population culture and living habits, mermaids are very timid, which is similar to Little Mia. At first, even if Miss Aurora was around, they were reluctant to get close to Xia De, but after gradually trusting Xia De, they dared to swim to the shallows to say hello to him.
Most of them knew the Common Tongue of Delarion, but enjoyed talking to each other in racial prophecies. Of course, Xia De also understood this language that was very similar to the murloc language, and heard the mermaid girls praise him for his good looks, good smell, and beautiful moonlight on his fingertips.
Miss Aurora and the mermaids thought that Xia De couldn't understand these words, but Xia De actually understood them, and in this case, they couldn't say that they understood them.
These creatures living in the water like to use shells and aquatic plants as clothes, so after getting closer to them, Xia De even had to move the silver moonlight from his fingertips to prevent seeing things he shouldn't see.
Although this is not the first time Xia De has come into contact with heterogeneous creatures in this world, the contact with strange intelligent races still makes him feel very novel.
The main purpose of Xia Delai to see the mermaid is not only to satisfy his own curiosity, but also to inquire about things related to [desire]. It might not be a coincidence that the intelligent 0-level relic looks like a mermaid. There might be clues to the ancient alien race.
"The mermaid race used to be a symbol of desire. It was rumored by sailors that they would use their singing to lead the big ship into the center of the storm, or deviate from a safe route."
In the mermaid race, there is no news about that relic. On the contrary, after Xia De slightly mentioned the symbolization of mermaids in occultism, Miss Aurora gave some explanations.
"Perhaps [Desire] resembles a mermaid's appearance, which is caused by such rumors. People's ideas and culture are also affecting [Desire], which claims to be born in desire."
This was Shad's idea.
Although there was indeed a mermaid girl who was very interested in Xia De, Xia De did not stay in Lengshuigang for long. After seeing the mermaid, he talked with the witch about the follow-up of the shadow of Lengshuigang, and then left.
Instead of going home immediately, he swam in the sea for a full hour, avoiding the patrol boats of the church, and relying on the strong memory of the voice in his heart, he found the [Soul Fishing Rod] stuck in the seabed under the bay of Lengshuigang . Then he swam to the cave under the cliff, and returned to his home by hiding the wall.
Xia De, who was dripping with water, returned from the basement to the first floor. Although it was only a day away from home, Xia De breathed the atmosphere of home, and really missed his house very much.
Probably the sound of his walking alarmed the people upstairs. Before Shade approached the stairs and turned on the gas lamp in the hall, he heard loud and fast footsteps coming from upstairs and getting closer.
"Shad!"
First, the Mia cat rushed over, but it wasn't talking. The blonde girl behind the cat almost rushed over directly.
She opened her arms, not caring that Xia De was soaked, and hugged him. Before he could react, she kissed his lips.
"Woo~"
Xia De made such a sound with his nose, and the cat waiting for him to hug under his feet supported his body with two short legs, and grabbed Xia De's trousers with his front paws. After waiting for a long time, he didn't see Xia De bend down, so he recovered Cheng landed on all fours, looked up dissatisfied, and then showed a curious look in his big amber eyes.
When he was finally let go by Dorothy, he breathed heavily and looked at the girl in front of him in astonishment:
"Wait, are you Dorothy, or Rezia?"
"Is this question important?"
The blond girl blushed and wiped her mouth, and Shad noticed that she had put on light makeup and even put on lipstick on purpose.
"Of course it's important, I at least need to know who...whose soul is kissing me.
She laughed, and looked at Xia De closely with her green eyes:
"Then just pretend it's the two of us kissing you at the same time. Shade, thank you for saving Rezia Cavendish, and the princess didn't even have time to say goodbye to you. This kiss is a thank you and an apology... ...Also, in the future, we should do less dangerous things."
"At the same time? Can you still think so?"
Xia De asked back in astonishment.
Dorothy didn't care what Xia De thought, she hugged Xia De firmly and wanted to kiss him again, but Xia De pushed him away. He looked at the blonde girl in his arms seriously:
"Before that, you need to know one more thing. The relic [the scale of the drowned murloc] that belonged to the two of us was destroyed by me."
Dorothy looked at Shad in astonishment:
"Now? At this time? Shade Hamilton, you actually want to tell me this?"
"I want to make up for your loss."
"You... then take this as compensation."
Then he kissed him again, pressing the back of his head so hard that Xia De even thought his lips were going to be broken.
There are no gas lamps on the first floor of No. 6 Place Saint-Andrés, only the light from the gas street lamps outside the window, allowing them to stand in the block-shaped light above the floor extending from the window, and let the shadows of embracing elongate to the wall.
The carriage passed by the window, making a rhythmic sound of rolling the road, and the moment it passed the window, the shadow swayed on the wall. The moonlight was beautiful, but Miya meowed in dissatisfaction. It had been waiting for a long time, and Xia De hadn't come to hug it yet.
The girl's kiss didn't know how long it lasted before it ended. She looked at Xia De with a reddish face, and Xia De also looked at her. Although Xia De, who was still under the influence of that piece of [desire for flesh and blood], thought of more things, he still had reason, so he turned the messy thoughts that appeared because of this kiss into reality.
The two talked until ten o'clock that night. We talked about Xia De's experience in Coldwater Harbor, about Xia De's use of the power of the thirteen-ring warlock that he used in Lakeview Manor again, and even talked about Xia De's meeting with the mermaid just now.
Dorothy laughed and complained that Shade smelled fishy even after taking a bath, and then jokingly called him "the mermaid angler of Coldwater Harbor".
And until he sent the blonde girl to the carriage at the intersection of Saint Teresa Square, Xia De was still not sure whether it was Dorothy Louisa or Rezia Cavendish who was talking to him tonight. Although she had touched her ears, it might have been faked. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com
[Outsider, I'm a little surprised that you didn't keep her at home overnight. 】
"Why do you want to stay?"
With his hands in his pockets, Xia De stood under the yellowish streetlight and watched the carriage drive towards the university area.
【With her mood tonight, she will not refuse your invitation. 】
"Since when are you going to have an opinion on my life?"
Xia De said with a smile, turned around and walked across the quiet square to the door, and kicked away the stones at his feet. The orange cat, Mia, poked her head behind the half-open door, worried about Xia De going out at night, but it didn't dare to run into the night by itself.
"I know if I invite, she'll probably stay."
He said in his heart.
[So, why not? 】
"You also said that it was because of her mood tonight. I would not be such a person."
[Then I understand. 】
She chuckled in his ear.
Xia De also smiled, walked into the door and held the door handle from the inside to close the door. But he turned around suddenly, and looked at the moon above the Saint Teresa Square outside the door.
The silver moon tonight is so bright.
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