Holding Xia De, who was lying down, in her arms, the brown-haired girl carefully poured the water from the bottle into his mouth.
Xia De still maintained his basic instincts at this time, carefully swallowing the liquid, but even after the entire bottle was empty, he did not wake up.
"Meow~"
Mia circled Xia De, meowing anxiously twice, then jumped up and tried to pull at his pocket with her paws.
Bei Ya Si was stunned:
"You—"
She immediately reacted and took his pocket watch from Xia De's pocket.
After opening the watch cover, there was indeed the last youth everlasting leaf inside.
However, although he could still swallow liquid, it was too difficult for the current Xia De to chew the leaf himself.
And the nature of the relic meant that the leaf could not be easily squeezed for juice by other means.
The young girl looked at Xia De with a blush, then at the anxiously watching Mia, and reached out to stroke her head:
"Don't worry, I'll save him."
Her trembling hand covered her intact left eye, then, blushing, she brought the leaf to her mouth.
Urgent footsteps came from downstairs again, and Iluna only then realized she had forgotten to close the door.
Holding Xia De, she turned around, and the purple-eyed Diviner appeared at the stairwell, panting heavily.
She was in a hurry, and when she saw Iluna kneeling there in the room, holding the unconscious Xia De, with Mia squatting beside her, she was also stunned:
"Just now the evil god was so terrifying... my divination... the moon... and then I guessed if it was him... How is Xia De?"
"Just now you could look at the night sky?"
Bei Ya Si originally thought she was the only one who witnessed that scene.
"My eyes are very special, don't say so much, how is Xia De?"
Annette walked over to Xia De and knelt down, looking at his face with great concern.
"I fed him a whole bottle of No. 1 holy water concentrate, but he still didn't wake up, so this..."
The brown-haired girl blushed and shook the leaf in her hand, and Annette immediately understood, hesitating for a moment before asking in a low voice:
"Are you trying to... well, you or me?"
"Me!"
Only after speaking did she realize her voice was a bit loud, and Bei Ya Si smiled apologetically, just as she was about to put the leaf into her mouth, Xia De's hand suddenly lifted, grabbing her wrist, though his eyes still hadn't opened:
"Don't waste it, I only have one left, water..."
His hoarse voice spoke, the whole bottle of No. 1 holy water concentrate just now was not without effect.
"Water?"
Before Bei Ya Si, who was holding the youth everlasting leaf, could react, Annette got up and brought a teacup filled with water:
"Xia De, don't move around, if it really doesn't work..."
Bell chimes and whistles appeared in this narrow space, and in the Second-Circle Arcanist's Destiny Ring, the blasphemy silver representing Gluttony had an abnormally dazzling spiritual light.
Devouring the second drop of divinity of the Blood Feast Lord in the form of a god did not give Xia De new power; instead, the already existing Gluttony was further enhanced.
His hand was lifted by Annette, finally touching the water cup, and silver light almost immediately gushed out from the water cup.
Bei Ya Si immediately held him and helped him upright, while Annette carefully held the cup and fed the water to Xia De.
The gas lamp in the living room flickered, and in this eventful long night, on the second floor of Saint Delan Square Six, three people leaned together, their shadows intertwined on the wall.
The orange Mia squatted beside them, meowing softly, as if expecting Xia De to recover quickly.
"I don't quite understand, why did you return to an empty house instead of coming to find us?"
Bei Ya Si asked softly, looking down.
"Because I didn't know what would happen, and it's not easy to have my own house, even if I die, I want to die here."
The shadows on the wall swayed, and the two ladies chuckled.
Although Xia De was still not in good shape, saying such words meant there was no need to worry about him leaving.
"Then, will that Blood Feast existence come looking for you again?"
Annette also asked, as Bei Ya Si held Xia De's head in her arms, and she held Xia De's hand.
Xia De unconsciously shook his head, feeling as if he had touched something:
"No, we're even. The Old God witnessed it, He cannot use any means to..."
His voice was low, and Xia De fell asleep.
The gas lamp's light was dim yellow, and no matter what, this night had finally ended.
(Mia running)
When Xia De opened his eyes again, he saw his familiar bedroom ceiling.
He sensed the time; it was Friday morning, 7:30, only eight hours since he had fallen unconscious again after drinking water last night.
The action of sitting up from the bed woke Mia, who was lying by the pillow.
Sunlight filtered through the gap in the curtains, shining on Mia's back, making her orange fur seem to glow.
After continuous gloomy rain, Tobesk finally welcomed a sunny day.
"Speaking of which..."
He recalled the last part of the conversation from last night, and when he looked at Mia meowing by his hand, his brows furrowed tightly:
"Did I use Miracle yesterday to restore Mia from a doll? How did you change back?"
"Meow?"
Mia looked up at Xia De, her large amber eyes seeming to grow even larger when looking up.
"How did Mia change back?"
Although he didn't know, she certainly should have seen it.
The divine radiance when divinity overflowed seemed to have been absorbed by Mia.
"Mia absorbed it?"
He picked up the fawning Mia, but the silly Mia looked no different from usual.
He still couldn't sense any elements or spirit within Mia, which meant she was still an ordinary kitten.
"Could it be that in my unconscious state, I was worried about dying and Mia permanently becoming a cloth doll, so I subconsciously guided the power to restore her to her original state?"
It's very possible.
Putting Mia down and moving, he then felt that his body had completely recovered.
Clenching his fists, Xia De even felt that his physical strength and reflexes were stronger than ever before.
You burned a drop of divinity; although the radiance of that drop of divinity has long since departed, the power of **complete immersion** still caused changes in your body.
"Burning divinity has this kind of benefit?"
If you hadn't obtained the second drop of divinity in time, you might have died.
If it weren't for the No. 1 holy water, you'd probably be bedridden for half a year.
"These were all expected things; I don't regret it at all, after all, everyone is alive now, and I haven't lost too much."
He was very satisfied with everything he did last night; although he lost his demon eye and another face for it, he saved everything, gained experience fighting a god, and these losses were very worthwhile.
Probably hearing Xia De getting up, the bedroom door opened, and Luvia Annett pushed it open:
"Oh, Xia De, good morning. You're awake? How do you feel?"
"Not bad. Good morning, Annette."
Xia De moved his arms, stood up in his slippers, pulled open the curtains, then took a deep breath, letting the bright sunlight shine on his face:
"I feel very good."
Mia, held in one arm, also let out a meow towards the sunlight.
"Where's Bei Ya Si?"
He turned and asked again, and the purple-eyed Diviner leaned against the doorframe, shaking her head:
"The Church called her away. She faced a Saint directly last night and used The Chosen's power, which made the Church aware of the confirmation of the first Chosen's identity, so the Church couldn't not question her.
She'll probably be back tonight, and then, you'll have to explain to us exactly what happened last night."
Xia De was stunned for a moment, then realized that the purple-eyed Diviner also knew about the white-robed god under the moonlight.
His memory of the last part of last night's conversation was very vague, only vaguely remembering that Annette and Bei Ya Si had both appeared there:
"You guessed it?"
"Yes."
She quickly walked two steps into the room, and Xia De then saw her wearing an apron.
He thought she wanted to ask more questions, but unexpectedly, Annette gently hugged him, but quickly let go.
Her purple eyes lifted, meeting Xia De's gaze:
"Are you really just a Second-Circle Arcanist?"
"Of course, genuine."
"Then why can you bear the power of a god? I'm really worried, worried that you..."
This question immediately made Xia De understand how she and Bei Ya Si had interpreted last night's events.
They didn't believe Xia De was a god, but rather that Xia De's body had become a divine vessel, bearing the power of a god.
Combined with his use of the Thirteen Ring Sorcerer's power at Lakeview Manor, and the fact that he didn't die on the spot, they therefore deduced again that he was a Thirteen Ring Sorcerer...
Xia De narrowed his eyes; honestly, he didn't want to expose his secret.
Aside from being an Outsider, the power of divinity was his deepest secret.
Now that Annette and Bei Ya Si thought this way, the Church probably also believed that The Masked Man Under the Silver Moon, as a Thirteen Ring Sorcerer, summoned a god to defeat the Blood Feast Lord, and he didn't need to refute this idea.
Making himself "suspected of being a Thirteen Ring Sorcerer" was much better than making himself "suspected of being a god."
His Destiny Ring appeared behind him, unequivocally proving his identity...
"That power last night, like a Mystic Lock, came from the past.
In the sixth epoch, there were no true gods other than the true gods, but they existed in the past; I once met a god in the past.
Last night, as a divine vessel, I summoned the god of the past."
This explanation was half-true, and given his current relationship with the two girls, telling them about his unusual time travel journey was nothing.
"A time key, right? I understand, you really didn't tell the truth about the first key, so Dorothy suddenly decided to be your teacher also because..."
Annette nodded in understanding, successfully guided by Xia De's words to the "correct" line of thought.
No matter what, she couldn't have imagined that the person in front of her was the god from last night.
A gentle smile appeared in her eyes, and then, very unexpectedly, the purple-eyed girl stood on tiptoe and kissed Xia De's cheek, whispering:
"Thank you, Sir Hamilton of Leijiede, the unsung hero who saved Tobesk.
You've done so much, but you can't let others know about it all, and there will be no reward, so all you can get is a maiden's kiss."
Xia De suppressed the urge to ask her age, and touching the side of his face, he joked:
"No, I've already received rewards, many rewards.
Cough cough, so besides the kiss, do the hero and his Mia have breakfast?"
Mia, who was following at Xia De's feet and heard the keyword "breakfast," immediately perked up and meowed.
"Of course, but there's no more goat milk.
The whole city is under martial law today, and the Silver Parrot Delivery Company was raided.
I made some simple breakfast, I hope you like it... Xia De, do you rarely cook at home? I noticed your kitchen is practically starving rats."
As she spoke, the two walked out of the bedroom.
