"I don't know what the situation is with the Heart of the Earth right now. But judging from the Guardian's statement last night, the problem has reached a very serious level."
Shad said.
"The local church is also preparing a large-scale divine ritual, hoping to use the rituals of the Church of the Sun to appease the earth, but it is hard to say how effective it will be."
Luvia said, letting go of Shade's hand, and picked up the oranges from the fruit bowl on the bedside cabinet:
"Don't run around these few days. Yin Luna will probably be here tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Let her do her work then."
"Actually, there isn't much that needs to be done."
Shade shook his head:
"I will discuss the Oxenfort business with Margaret at noon, and then go back to Tobesk to pick up a commissioned weapon. If the time is right, we can deal with the demon this week. If there are other circumstances, it will be delayed until next week."
"The association's weather forecast shows that the first Randall flowers will bloom next week."
Luvia said, holding the orange slices to Shade's mouth.
In fact, this Saturday is the first day of March, so although this winter seems very long and cold, spring has arrived as scheduled just like in previous years.
"The temperature has indeed been rising in the past few days. When I went outside the city to look for the old captain last Sunday, I felt that the snow outside the city had begun to melt."
Shad said:
"I'm still missing the sapphire earrings that Oxenfurt asked me to find. I'm also still missing the last of the four gems needed to open the Butterfly Cemetery. Now, there are only these two things left. The story of Randall Valley is finally coming to an end."
He stretched out on the bed, and then was "reprimanded" by Luvia for letting the quilt slide off his body. The purple-eyed girl tucked in the quilt for Shade:
"In a few days, I will also be able to get one or two special coins from the association. So, do you need to use your two coins first to divine the two items you are looking for?"
"Let's keep it for now and wait until Yin Luna comes. Well, use this one to divine whether there is a location required for the ceremony of the chosen one of the earth. If there is a need, it would be best if we can divine where it is this time."
Shade was wearing pajamas at the moment, and his belongings were placed on the small cabinet on the other side. So he reached out and took the wishing coin, and Luvia took it and tossed it gently:
“We’ve used this before.”
She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and tossed the coin high into the air.
The metal coin was spinning and rising in the air. When it reached the top, rust appeared on its surface. It rusted rapidly as it fell. Before it hit the ground, it completely turned into dust and disappeared.
Luvia opened her eyes, and a trace of purple light flashed across her pupils:
"There is a result. If you want to purify the earth while holding the ceremony of the Chosen One, then you need to perform the ceremony in a location that is directly connected to the heart of the earth. Otherwise, even if you perform the feast of the Mother Earth perfectly, the effect will be poor."
"In the Night Temple?"
Xia De immediately thought of that location. After all, the cemetery below was the entrance.
“That’s just one of the options.”
Luvia immediately shook her head:
"That location is indeed possible, but what I mean is that it is also possible to hold a ceremony in the Crazy Land, and the most serious Crazy Land. You have also tried to jump into the source of the black mud. The Heart of the Earth is at the source of the black mud. These are your own conclusions."
Xia De nodded to show his understanding:
“It’s hard to imagine having a grand banquet sitting in the black mud, though.”
"There's nothing we can do about it. If we don't get close to the distortion and madness, we won't be able to solve the problem. Oh, actually there is another requirement for holding this ceremony, but it's not really a requirement: there must be a long table."
Seeing Xia De looking at her curiously, Luvia smiled and said:
"This is a banquet imitating God. Can it still be considered a banquet without a table?"
"That's right, so do we need a special long table, or will anything be fine?"
"A stone one will do. There is no requirement for that. Also, the divination just now was too simple, so the special coin has some effect. I divined that the ceremony will be held, and I am afraid it will be just as you said, and we need to invite other people."
She looked at Shade:
"And it is very likely that other guests with the 'Power of the Earth' will need to be invited to join us."
"In addition to the guardians, you, me, Miss Benannis, Miss Lasers, and I know that the Orthodox Church also has several ring sorcerers who control the power of the earth. Together, we should be able to gather seven or eight people."
Shad counted them one by one, and then thought of the barefoot ascetic he met in the grove last night.
"At the moment, we don't have enough coins. I won't try to divine the specific characteristics and number of the invitees for now. I'll go back to the association this afternoon to get some information. This time, we don't know anything about the fragments of the poem that the three academies have."
Luvia said, and stuffed another orange into Shade's mouth:
"Okay, okay, you should have a good rest. Why are you talking to me about these things again?"
"I feel pretty good now."
Shad insisted:
"When I woke up just now, I did feel something was wrong with my whole body, even my heart rate was a little fast, but now I'm completely fine."
Luvia wiped her dirty hands from peeling oranges with a handkerchief, turned her head to look at the closed door, and said with a smile:
"Let me make sure."
Then he reached his hand into the quilt, quickly took it out, and wiped it with the handkerchief again:
“It’s healthy indeed.”
"Um... ... "
"Since you still want to talk to me, let's talk about witches. Aurora of the twelfth level, Carina of the twelfth level, Benannis of the eleventh level, and Sylvia who is at the tenth level but will be promoted to the eleventh level soon. Although Carina has not arrived yet, it can be expected that four of the thirteen great witches will come. Although the tenth-level Cassandra you mentioned will not come, her apprentice will most likely come. In this way, more than one-third of the witches in the Witch Council have been tricked by you."
She said with a smile.
“That’s a weird statement.”
Xia De muttered, while the girl with purple eyes continued to fantasize:
"We currently have enough mobility and intelligence, but we don't have enough high-end combat personnel. Now we have five great witches and Sister Davelin, which fills the gap. I really hope that you can get to know other great witches as soon as possible and strive to make the Witch Council our own force as soon as possible, so that it will be much easier to act."
"You are not making fun of me, are you?"
"What are you mocking?"
Luvia shook her head:
"From the initial summer night god descent in Tobesk, the event that affected a city became an event that affected a small area, and then an event that affected a certain area of the Old Continent, until now it has the potential to directly affect the entire world. Shade, although our actions are fast, they are not fast enough. Therefore, we still need help from other forces. Sometimes, I really hope that this is still the Witch Era. In that case, maybe by the end of this year, the whole world will help us wholeheartedly and without asking for anything in return."
“Haha~”
Xia De laughed dryly, but still felt that she was just mocking him.
In this way, Luvia stayed with Shade in the room for the entire morning. During this time, except for the maid coming to bring hot tea and replace the snacks and fruits, the witches did not come to disturb them.
At 11:30 in the afternoon, Miss Lathers knocked on the door and came in, asking the two to go to the restaurant for lunch. They asked the maid to leave first, and then insisted on helping Shade change his clothes.
Luvia probably thought that Shade was still very weak, and actually wanted to find a wheelchair to push him into the restaurant, but was sternly rejected by Shade.
At the lunch table, the three witches sat down with Shade, Miss Lathers, Luvia, and Margaret who had just arrived. The owner of the manor, Miss Benannis, sat at the main seat, Shade was on her left, and Her Royal Highness the Princess was at the farthest seat. The manor hadn't been so lively for a long time, which made Miss Benannis very happy.
Margaret was even happier. Although she was assigned the farthest seat, she was still very excited to have lunch with the three witches. Of course, she did not forget to care about Shade's health.
The lunch was quite sumptuous, but the ladies all felt that Shade shouldn't eat so much after "recovering from a serious illness", so they strictly controlled his food intake. As for the dessert after the meal, Shade was worried about the ladies whose average waist circumference was less than 1.7 meters. He also tasted a blue crystal rose petal-shaped dessert, which was really made of rose petals and tasted slightly sweet. Shade was very sorry that Mia couldn't taste it at this time.
After lunch, he did not leave immediately, but had a secret talk with Margaret. Her Royal Highness the Princess told Shade the good news:
"Most of Stone Osenfurt's current business is in Carsenrick. The ones in Delarion are only a small part and we don't need to worry about them at all. I told my father that this guy has been very close to Brother William recently, and then I found out his business records through Gray Gloves."
Her Royal Highness smiled:
"The dangerous goods and contraband he smuggled for Brother William involved many bigwigs in the capital, Willendel, which made my father very angry. I won't describe to you what he smuggled. Apart from the fact that human trafficking has not been found yet, contraband drugs are just ordinary business for him.
The smuggling charge alone is enough to put Oxenfort in jail until he is eighty years old. However, my father will not tell Brother William about this for the time being, but when we finish the Randall Valley business and return to Willendel..."
It was no longer news that Stone Oxenfurt was involved in smuggling, and even the locals in the Randall Valley knew something about it. Nothing had happened in the past because he had arranged for the big shots in Willendel.
But unfortunately, he just couldn't take care of Margaret.