Dinner was prepared by the witch's chef, using the bear Xia De had hunted in Sicar Mountain, and even Mia got some. There were no other incidents during the relic transaction that night.
The doctor's influence was indeed greater. Mr. Neil Young, the head of the Letter-based Ring術士 group from Zaras Academy in Tobesk, who looked to be in his thirties, was a very talkative person and had clearly thought through the details of the transaction.
After a simple negotiation, Xia De ultimately received 102 pounds in compensation, completing the transaction for the 【Corpse Mirror】 and the 【traveler's travel door】.
To bring the heavy door with a metal base home, Xia De had to rent a carriage at a high price. The doctor drove the carriage to Saint Delan Square No. 6, then called Luvia, who was stargazing on the third floor, to help carry the door upstairs.
Given the door's purpose, Xia De did not put it in the basement. Instead, he placed it in the temporarily vacant Room No. 2 on the second floor. This increased the number of special "doors" in Xia De's house to three. Although the 【traveler's travel door】 could not be compared to the two doors in the basement, at least this door could be used by everyone.
To celebrate acquiring this door and ensure it didn't become just a decoration, Xia De invited Luvia, who slept on the first floor, to experience its function early on Tuesday.
The purple-eyed girl had not been feeling well since last week due to special physiological reasons, but upon hearing she could visit Middlesburg, she readily agreed to Xia De's suggestion at the dinner table.
So, after breakfast, Xia De first took the key from the 【traveler's travel door】 and headed to Middlesburg. After jumping from the basement to the first floor of the abandoned tower, he exited the tower, went around to its back, and arrived at a cliff overlooking half of Middlesburg.
He took out the key, turned it two times clockwise and two times counter-clockwise, and as the door appeared, the brown-haired girl cautiously peeked out, then stepped through the doorframe.
She took a deep breath, savoring the fresh mountain air, then stood shoulder to shoulder with Xia De in the woods, gazing at Middlesburg City spread out below and extending into the distance:
"Is this it? I haven't left Tobesk in a long time. The air in these mountains is really nice."
Or rather, the air in Tobesk was very poor.
"Can you sense anything here?"
Xia De asked curiously, as Luvia, being a Diviner, had very strong intuition.
"It's a hard feeling to describe, specifically..."
She didn't continue because Xia De suddenly frowned:
"Luvia, please wait, something on me is vibrating. There's a demon nearby... No, the pendant on my chest should be warm. It's something in my pocket that's vibrating."
He reached into his pocket, and the vibrating object was surprisingly the red blood money. Xia De immediately looked around:
"blood money resonance! There's other blood money nearby! But how could this be? What's going on? Every time I come to Middlesburg, I stand here and look at the City, but why only this time... And I've appeared in this City so many times, never encountering blood money resonance. How is it that as soon as you, Luvia, appear, this situation immediately happens?"
Luvia smiled without speaking. They waited for a while and found that the Vibration frequency of the blood money had not changed, which meant that another 【pirate's blood money】 nearby had not moved from its position.
"What's going on now? It suddenly appeared and then stopped moving."
"Xia De, my time is up."
The purple-eyed girl reminded him:
"Iluna said that the recent earthquake caused the evil spirits near Sicar Mountain to become significantly stronger, and at the same time, the probability of relics appearing increased. The 【pirate's blood money】 itself doesn't move. Perhaps something else brought it here, just like the pirate ship you encountered in Coldwater Port."
"I understand. You should leave first, time is running out."
Luvia nodded and stepped through the threshold again. Xia De picked up the fallen key and returned home through the hidden wall in the abandoned tower's basement, inserting the key that couldn't be away from the lock for too long.
"I need to investigate the matter of the other blood money."
Luvia didn't try to stop Xia De, as this was something that had to be done:
"You just need to investigate what's going on there. If you can't handle it, aren't there helpers in the City down the mountain? Those witches."
Xia De nodded, still unable to figure out how the blood money suddenly appeared on the mountain:
"I have my sword with me, and I'll be going down the mountain later to have Grandma Cassandra appraise a relic, so could you please take care of Mia for me today?"
"I won't be stargazing here tonight, but I will come to feed the cat for you in the evening."
The purple-eyed girl said:
"Iluna should arrive in Middlesburg today. You can go with her to find that blood money."
"I understand."
Xia De kissed her on the face:
"Then, wish me luck."
Still wrapped in a bedsheet, the sharp silver sword, Xia De once again went from the basement to Middlesburg. After exiting the hidden space affected by the ancient god's power, the blood money immediately vibrated again.
Currently, this blood money is in an unactivated state. Its Vibration indicates that the other blood money's location should be quite close to here.
"What could it be?"
Relying on the strength of the Vibration frequency, he tracked the blood money's whereabouts in the mountain forest. In fact, the destination was not far from the abandoned tower. Xia De only walked for less than twenty minutes in the direction of the mountain before he saw a clearing and the large mansion on it in the dense forest with falling leaves.
【Outsider, you have touched the whisper.】
The building was enclosed by an iron fence with black spikes at the top. Inside the fence was a three-story building with white walls, its area about five or six times that of Saint Delan Square No. 6. From the gate of the fence, a small path paved with gravel connected to the distant forest, seemingly in the direction of the main road leading into the mountain.
"A location-type relic?"
Having just seen the Sicar Mountain sandbox in Red Water Camp, Xia De was certain that there shouldn't be such a large mansion, resembling a noble's vacation home, in this vicinity.
He stood in the forest, not daring to approach, but instead chose to walk around this flat forest clearing in the dense woods. He found stables, a well, and a small flower garden behind the mansion within the fence. This somewhat old-looking building had no particularly abnormal features from its exterior.
And when Xia De circled to the forest near the gravel path, a strong urge actually tried to force him to step out of the forest and onto that path. Fortunately, this urge, though similar to wanting to straighten a crooked book in a neatly arranged stack, was not unbearable.
He stood there in the forest, squinting at the fence gate. The black fence gate was twisted with intricate ironwork at the frame, making it look like entangled vines.
And at the very top of the fence gate, the dark metal twisted together to form a string of letters resembling black snakes:
"Sin Mansion? This kind of writing..."
He patted his head, staring at those letters actually made him a little dizzy:
"Alright, it's indeed a location-type relic."
Xia De noted the location and then went down the mountain. Just as Luvia said, he had no reason to go in alone right now.
