"Can it be repaired?"
Shad asked worriedly. Sister Defulin seemed to bite her lip, but because she turned her face to the side and the lights in the Forgotten Church were dim, Shad could not see clearly.
Yes, bit my lip.
"She" whispered in Shad's ear, which aroused Shad's endless imagination.
"It can be repaired. The cult has retained the method to repair it, and the most important primordial fire is also in the hands of the cult. But I need to collect materials."
"In that case, here's what you have."
Shade nodded, then rummaged in his pocket and found a small piece of shiny metal.
This was the mithril block he found when he was searching for the "Gem of the Four Seasons" in the underground secret room at the Granger family's old cemetery. At the time, Shad was thinking that this piece of metal would be enough to pay for his tuition until graduation.
"Patch it up with this."
Without further ado, he stuffed the small piece of mithril into the nun's slightly burned hand. The cat lying on Shade's knees had no interest in inedible metals, so it didn't mind Shade giving away things from home.
Seeing that the nun was a little hesitant, Xia De asked again:
"Is this not enough?"
Although the broken part was not large, cracks appeared on the entire "crown". Moreover, repairing such a high-level divine item was not a simple matter of melting the metal and filling it up, so it was normal to use a lot of materials.
Sister Defulin understood what Shade meant and wanted to refuse Shade's kindness, but Shade had already stuffed the entire mithril cube into her hands. To be honest, he was a little reluctant, but he also knew the significance of the eye mask to the nun:
"Don't be polite to me. This eye patch is so beautiful. It's a pity to leave scars on it. Besides, Sister, you don't want to be seen wearing a damaged eye patch every day, right?"
Xia De said, then felt that his wording was a bit strange, so he changed his words:
"You said you are the fire-bearing nun, and I am the hero you chose to bear the fire. Then I hope you will pay attention to your appearance and not appear in front of me wearing an ugly eye patch. Can you accept this?"
Hearing what Shade said, Sister Defulin turned her head more obviously, and even leaned sideways and lowered her head slightly, pulling up the collar of her robe, as if she wanted to cover the side of her face. This didn't look like Shade was giving her a gift, but rather like Shade was bullying her.
The second statement is even more extreme.
she said softly in Shade's ear.
But Sister Defulyn accepted the gift anyway.
We had originally agreed to meet at this church at 5 o'clock, but now the time had come and Yin Luna had not yet arrived. So seeing that there was still time, Xia De changed the increasingly bad topic and took out the small stone mirror again:
"And this, this mirror is the remains of the Stone Mirror Demon - Goethe. Oh, and the oil lamp, I put it in the basement, I'll get it later, the lamp contains a sage-level relic - the Eternal Fire. Sister, you know more about fire than I do, I think you must know what this is."
He gave the mirror to the nun as well, then stood up and went back to the basement to take out the flame from the oil lamp.
Compared with the peculiar appearance of the Primordial Fire, with a round flame center and a slender flame tail dragging upward, the Eternal Fire looks very ordinary.
In front of Shade, Sister Develyn sat there, holding the flame with both hands. Then, she lowered her head slightly, as if to "splash" the flame on her face, but in fact, her pretty face did not touch the flame, but her palms slowly closed until the flame was completely wrapped in her palms.
Fire, blazing flames shot out from between the nun's fingers, and soon the flames enveloped the nun's hands. Shad even saw that the burn marks on the back of her hands had become more serious.
But the nun did not ask Shade to help, but silently embraced the flame. After five minutes, the violent flames gradually subsided. When the nun opened her palms again, only the thin flames that burned silently were left.
So, when Yin Luna, who was late, stepped onto the steps at the church entrance, she saw at a glance that in front of the pulpit of the ancient church, Sister Defulin was holding her hands together and raising them forward and bending slightly, while Xia De was kneeling on one knee in front of her, stretching out his right hand to touch the nun's palm.
The old church and dim light made the scene seem even more solemn and sacred. Yin Luna subconsciously stopped, but she reacted immediately, coughed to indicate that she was there, and then walked into the church.
At this time, Shade had touched the blazing First Flame again. A new power appeared because the flame and firewood were thrown into the fire. Of course, because the quality of the firewood this time was far inferior to the "Evil of the Pantanal", the First Flame only gave Shade minor abilities such as flame strengthening.
"Good afternoon, Yin Luna."
Standing up and patting the dirt off his knees, Xia Decai greeted Yin Luna and praised her:
"The power of the earth you used on Saturday was really powerful."
Yin Luna controlled her smile and said modestly:
"It's nothing, actually. It just consumes a lot of spirits, relies on the power of the earth, and throws the flames of the sun. However, this magic consumes a lot of energy, and the range attack does not distinguish between enemies and friends. It is almost impossible to use it in an urban environment."
“That’s pretty impressive too.”
Xia De praised again, and Yin Luna nodded, a little embarrassed:
"How are you doing?"
"It's completely fine, otherwise Luvia wouldn't have let me out so easily."
Xia De smiled and then asked:
"Speaking of which, did the church find out why the 'Blood Weeper' Hermons came to this place this time? In the end, they didn't catch him. The appearance of him and his Blood Spirit School this time is really confusing. I don't think they came here just to help the cultists. They are not so kind."
"Oh, this investigation has come out, thanks to Sister Defulin."
Yin Luna said, and then motioned for the two of them to go to the basement together:
"Based on the testimony of the Blood Spirit School's ring sorcerer we captured, and the clues found by Sister Defulin during the battle with Hermons, the church concluded that the Blood Spirit School came to this place this time to obtain first-hand materials on 'transformation of non-life into life'."
"You mean those stone men? Wait a minute, doesn't the Blood Spirit School pursue 'golden blood' anymore, give up the supremacy of flesh and blood, and instead pursue turning stones into humans?"
Xia De was very curious, but Yin Luna didn't understand it very well:
"This requires further investigation, but it is certain that this is related to the door to the birthing room that they found. Perhaps they have discovered the limits of flesh and blood, so they don't plan to be human anymore."
The seventeen-year-old girl made a little joke, and Sister Devereine added:
“When I fought Helmons, I felt that a small part of his body was not a normal human being.”
"Stone?"
Xia De asked curiously:
"He doesn't have a heart of stone, does he?"
The nun immediately shook her head:
"It's not stone, it's machinery. I cut off one of his hands, and the bones in that arm were replaced by a brass metal structure. In addition, there should be other complex machinery in his body."
Xia De frowned, but he didn't have enough clues, so he couldn't guess what the Blood Spirit School was going to do. But this time, the Blood Spirit School should have gotten the information they wanted. Maybe the next time he sees the thirteenth ring warlock who is very good at escaping, he will really "behave like a bad person".
The three of them passed the statue of the ancient god in the basement and entered the secret passage under the Temple of Night together. Then they entered the Butterfly Cemetery and walked towards the depths along the tomb corridor.
The exchanges along the way also allowed Xia De to learn about the current communication between the "Chosen Ones of the Earth" and the Orthodox Church.
Simply put, the guardians and the church made an agreement that when the earth is devastated and the world is facing an existential crisis, he will definitely appear to help, but other than that, don't expect him to appear at any time.
It's not that the "Guardian" doesn't like the church, but he is very clear about his responsibilities. Moreover, compared to the church, the guardians obviously pay more attention to Shade.
The Five Gods Church wanted to communicate further with the guardian, but unfortunately they could not contact the guardian at all. The location of the "Heart of the Earth" could not be reached by normal means, and the only known way was not something Shade had thought of sharing with others.
He didn't want anyone to step into Mr. Lyman's grave casually, after all, that was the resting place of his friend.
Although the "fragments of the Heart of the Earth" are given to the guardians during the ceremony of the chosen one as a symbol of the power of the ancient gods, now that the earth is purified, it is no longer necessary to be "heavy enough" to enter the Heart of the Earth.
In the culvert at the end of the underground tomb, the ground was no longer a dark quagmire, but a bottomless pit that seemed to be connected to the abyss. The three of them jumped down one after another, and after a not-so-long fall, they arrived at the magma lake at the center of the earth.
Compared to the last time I came here, nothing seems to have changed here, except that there is no more black mud falling on the dark rocks in the center above the lava lake.
It was only when the three of them walked along the narrow stone path from the edge of the lava lake to the center of the lake that they discovered that there were two slanted cracks running through the huge dark rock.
The guardian knelt on one knee in front of an irregular, slender stone pillar standing in the middle of the lake island. When he noticed the arrival of the three people, he first gave Sister Defulin the power to step into the "Heart of the Earth" at will, and then stood up to greet them.
"What are these cracks?"
Shad asked.
"Scars of the Earth."
The Guardian's answer was brief.