"To be honest, Miss Aurora, I thought you would be the kind of person who would hate to kill me."
Xia De stretched out his hand, and the witch hesitated for a moment before holding it, sighing softly:
"Why would I kill you? What good would it do me? However, this is the first time I've shaken hands with a man since I became an adult."
The witch's hands were very soft, so Shade asked:
"How do my hands feel?"
"Your hands are rough. Although they are recovering, I can feel that you probably did heavy work in the past."
She withdrew her hand and waved at the top of Shade's head. A small black spider jumped from Shade's hair into her palm, then crawled onto his face, turning into an imperceptible beauty mark under his eye.
"So this spider is yours? Did you really smell the scent of the ocean on me just now?"
"Of course, but it's not just because you've been to the seaside, but also because you smell like merfolk. I originally thought that you had fought merfolk before coming to Princess Leicia."
The witch said.
"The smell of mermaids? I haven't met any merpeople. Oh, I see."
After thinking about it, Xia De realized that it was because he still had the scales of the drowned mermaid on his body. In this way, the original owner of the scales was really the family of the evil god Scarlet Spiral Lord in the previous era.
The witch nodded:
"It's good that you understand. Remember to return the ring to me after this is over. Also, the underground cult has the strongest Six Rings. I think as long as you don't provoke it, you will have no problem escaping alive."
Thus, Shade ended his first meeting with the second witch he met in the Sixth Era.
Knowing that Darkness was most likely going to Tobesk, Shade had no interest in helping the witch find him. After parting with the witch at the door of the room, Shade found Resia again. The princess was very worried about Shade, but did not ask about the identity of Xiwei Aurora.
"I'm going to the wine cellar underground. Leicia, remember to bring your fishing rod with you. If you really encounter any problems, you must go to Miss Aurora for help even if your identity as a ring wizard is exposed."
"But compared to the witch, I hope you can be by my side when the day breaks."
The princess said softly.
"Of course, I came to Lengshui Port to help you. How could I forget this purpose?"
He replied, and Leicia thought about it and gave Shade a hug:
"I don't know what you're going to do, but be careful."
Then she handed Shad a steam bomb. Shad was surprised for a moment, then put it away carefully.
There is still one hour until sunrise.
The Ringwitch team of the Church of Nature was waiting on the second floor to attack again before dawn. Although Shade could not learn from them about the situation in the wine cellar, Miss Aurora directly told Shade that there were three Ringwitch and a dozen fishmen underground.
Xia De's original plan was to use illusion to enter the wine cellar and steal the text materials if he had the chance. However, the wine cellar of Aurora Manor actually had a secret passage connected to the gardener's hut in the garden.
That secret passage was built when the Aurora family owned this place, and even the fish people didn't know about it.
So Shade jumped out of the third-floor window into the rainy garden and found the locked gardener's hut in the rain. After opening the door, he found that it was actually a utility room, with shelves of metal tools on all four walls and even a steam engine in the corner.
I pushed open the box in the corner and knocked on the floor a few times to find the trap door. After pulling it open with great effort, the dark hole seemed to lead directly to the abyss underground.
But by shining the light from my fingertips, I could see that it was only three meters deep.
Unlike the underground ruins of Tobesk, this secret passage seemed to be used only for emergency shelter, so it was very narrow. Shade even had to lower his head to pass through, as the height of the secret passage was only about 1.7 meters.
On the way down, we only came to a fork, one path went forward and the other led to a storage room where food and water were stored.
So Xia De walked along the straight road forward, and soon he arrived at the end of the secret passage.
While lighting up the front in the darkness, Xia De was still thinking that if he also had a manor, he would definitely have to build a complex secret passage. After all, the space was so large, it would be a pity not to build a secret passage.
According to Ms. Aurora, the secret passage leads to the inner mezzanine of the wall in the wine cellar, where new wine is stored for aging.
Therefore, when Xia De pushed open the secret door as carefully as possible and climbed out, he could only see rows of wine barrels in front of him, but no trace of the fishman.
Using magic carefully, the silver mist flowed forward silently along the ground. After coming out of the inner mezzanine of the wine cellar, I finally saw three burly men dressed as sailors, holding guns and guarding the entrance of the wine cellar. The common feature of the three men was that they looked ugly.
In addition to them, Shade also saw a tall and thin man standing in the shadows. This man was a ring sorcerer, who almost blended into the shadows. If it weren't for the voice in his ear reminding Shade, Shade wouldn't even notice him.
In order to avoid being discovered by the ring wizard, Shade carefully controlled the illusion mist to only exist in the area around him. But illusion is not invisibility, even if it can achieve a similar effect, it will be easily discovered by the ring wizard with sensitive senses.
He could only bend over and stick to the wall, letting the rows of wine cabinets block his way. It took him a full ten minutes to circle around the edge of the shelf and get away from the entrance of the wine cellar.
The entire wine cellar was dark, and it seemed that there was no one else except the four people at the door. So Shade used the spell Blood Echo, and sure enough, in the battle with the Orthodox Church team just now, the injured companions of the fishmen left bloodstains on the ground during the transfer process.
Although the naked eye could not capture it, Shade, whose right eye was bloodshot due to the Blood Echo, was able to follow the red halos that were like signposts in the darkness, all the way to the end of the wine cellar and discovered the hole in the wall.
There should have been space behind that wall, but it was temporarily sealed by a brick wall before it was sold to the Aurora family. When it was opened again tonight, the fishmen smashed the wall open as if with a sledgehammer, and the bricks and stones on the ground were not even cleared away.
A cold, damp and fishy wind blew from behind the hole in the wall. At the same time, faint candlelight and a strange blue light could be seen in the darkness, and whispers of indecipherable content could be heard.
"There's wind... Is there another exit behind the wall?"
This is what surprised Xia De the most.