novelonline Chapter 3426 Midnight Elk Club
Chapter 3426 Midnight Elk Club
Chapter 3426 Midnight Elk Club
When Xia De appeared, the flaxen-haired girl was looking at the design drawing in her hand with a distressed look on her face. She really didn't understand these things:
"Good morning, Shad, Miss Annette.
The night before yesterday, there was an abnormal vibration in the 'edge of life and death' under Mount Xikar. Although the seal left on the top of the mountain is still there, Miss White and Miss Black still want to check it out, so my mother-in-law asked me to come here temporarily to help Miss Sylvia. "
"Sylvia, I think you should consider recruiting an apprentice."
Luvia said this after greeting them. The black-haired space witch glanced at Shade:
"Isn't my apprentice here? Humph~ Unless someone better than Shade appears, it will be difficult for me to be interested in recruiting an apprentice."
"I'm afraid your Speaker, Adele Isabella, will not agree for the sake of the parliament's inheritance?"
Luvia asked again, but Sylvia didn't care at all:
"Anyway, we still have Megan and Audrey in front of us. Let them find an apprentice first."
Winnie, the maid in the ice castle, also provided necessary support and help in building the portal. Their progress was very fast, and now the blueprints had been drawn, and the project would be completed within this week.
After bidding farewell to the busy girls in the tower, Shad, Luvia and Emilia came to the town of Kell-Todd. Claire had met Luvia last week, and although she was a little nervous when they met again, she still chatted with Luvia for a few words.
When she learned that Luvia was planning to visit "The Shadow of Hem", she even asked Luvia if she needed another guide to lead the way, but Luvia refused:
"It's good to have Emilia and Ellie. If we go down the mountain early, I might have to go to the ice castle and talk to the maid."
After that, she looked at Miss Larson again:
"I want to talk to you after today's work is done. The candidates for the Chosen One should all have some peculiar talents, and you may not be able to realize this yourself, so I will talk to you about what will happen next."
The white-haired girl naturally would not refuse. Later, when she heard that Shade was going into the city, Claire mentioned that there was a small cargo boat at the dock that was about to depart for the Wheel of Time City Dock, and Shade could take the boat with them.
She sent Shade to the town's dock alone, but of course she wanted to have a chat with Shade:
"That Miss Annatte gives me a very strange feeling."
"Luvia is kind and helpful, and she doesn't mind you being around me."
Shade then said, but Claire didn't want to say that. She didn't even want to express that Luvia was oppressive, as other witches thought. The platinum-haired girl thought about it and expressed her opinion:
"In fact, I had this feeling when we first met, but I didn't talk to her alone last week. I feel like I have seen Miss Annat somewhere before, and we can become very good friends."
Then she saw Xia De looking at her with surprise, as if she saw the little white rabbit wanting to be friends with the big bad wolf.
"What's that look in your eyes?"
"Nothing, but you can indeed talk to Luvia more. Although she is also a nine-ring like me, and not as powerful as you, she is better than me in some aspects."
"My power is no greater than yours."
The witch patted Shade's arm, then took his hand. On Thursday morning, the town was crowded with people, and most of the people here knew Claire, so a blush appeared on her face unconsciously.
She sent Shad to the small boat that was going to deliver goods to the city, and then stood on the shore and waved goodbye to the boat that left. Shad also waved to her from the deck of the cargo ship, and then watched Claire, the town and the snow-capped mountains become farther and farther away.
What do you think?
"In the dream I had the day before yesterday about Miss Bister, did I see long-haired Luvia crying while holding Claire's body?"
The meeting place with Major Rades today was still the "Drowned Man Tavern", but unlike yesterday, the major arrived early today. When Shad saw him, he was flipping through the newspaper in his hand.
Hearing the sound of someone pulling out a chair across the table, Major Rades put down the newspaper and smiled broadly at Shade:
"Long time no see, my old friend - I should have said this yesterday."
"It's okay, but is the steam engine okay? If you are really investigated, you can consider using my identity as an agent to cover it up."
Major Rades immediately shook his head:
"Of course, no problem. Since it can function normally, few people will care how good it is. Only when the superiors are satisfied can we, the people who do the work, sleep well. But this tavern is called the Drowned Ghost. I was really shocked when I first heard about it."
There was no business to discuss today, so the two were finally able to catch up on the past.
They had planned to chat while playing cards at the banquet last week, but the "blank shot murder case" interrupted their interest. They had made time this morning. Major Rades wanted to see the extra "founding" series cards that Shade had produced, and Shade also wanted to hear his friend, the lieutenant commander, talk about the customs and practices of the Kingdom of the Islands.
Although the atmosphere in the tavern was very good, Major Rades was now an officer after all, and they might be talking about things that were inconvenient for others to know, so after they met in the tavern, they exchanged a few pleasantries first, and then Major Rades got up and took Shade to the club:
"This is a club that the Principality specially arranged in the Wheel of Time City for the representatives of Delarion. You know, although there are private spaces on the ship, our bigwigs still like to stay in a stable place."
Shade liked the name of this club called "Midnight Elk". It was originally a club serving the nobles of the Wheel of Time City. Therefore, although it was still a "countryside place", the interior decoration was very satisfactory.
Now the guards at the entrance of the club have been replaced by navy soldiers from Delarion, and Major Rades was allowed in without even showing his identification.
He has a private room here, but neither of them likes playing cards in the room. And this place is close to Carsenrick after all. When the fleet conducted confidentiality training for middle and senior officers before entering the Falling Star Bay, Major Rades knew to avoid talking in the room on the shore:
"Let's go to the top floor, it's definitely a good place to play cards."
This is a club near the northern part of Kalachakra City. The building is three stories high. When you go up the stairs to the top floor, you can see the blue sky and white clouds like an oil painting, as well as the snow-capped mountains in the distance.
Because there are no taller buildings nearby, standing on the roof is like standing directly in front of the "snow mountain oil painting".
The club also renovated the roof, laying tiles on the floor and placing carpets on the tiles. A round table, parasol and chairs are placed on each carpet. There is also an observation deck on the edge of the roof, where you can look out over the snow-capped mountains or the pier.
Of course, because it is winter and the sun is not very strong, the parasols have been removed.
The space is open and each table is far apart, which ensures privacy, while the open space ensures that there is no hiding place for eavesdroppers.
And even if you don't want to talk about things here, it's nice to come here and see the scenery. The service attitude of this club is really worthy of their nice name.
The first round of official closed-door meetings between the two countries had just ended, and now the representatives were making private arrangements and contacts. Therefore, although it was Thursday morning, there were many people drinking tea or chatting and playing cards on the rooftop of the club, and at least one-third of them were wearing military uniforms.
Major Rades and Shade found an empty table and sat down. While waiting for the waiter to serve tea, the major turned his head and looked at the snow-capped mountains:
“Although I had been to many places in the Army before, it was only after seeing the archipelago, the bay, and the snow-capped mountains that I realized I had traveled too little in the first half of my life.
Now that I think about it, it was really because of meeting you that my life and destiny were completely changed. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be sitting here looking at this scenery. I’m probably huddled in a cheap apartment in the northern part of Tobesk because I’m still hungover.”
"Even if you praise me, I won't show mercy when we play cards later."
Xia De said with a smile, and turned to look at the towering Fatumonster Snow Mountain:
"I've been to many places, but the scenery here is really special. Although I still don't recommend you get close to this mountain, there are still many interesting places on the island."
The waiter brought tea quickly, and the two exchanged decks to see what special cards the other person had added to his or her deck after not seeing each other for nearly a year.
Although Major Rades was puzzled by the fact that Shade had written his real name in pencil under each special card, he was more concerned about the special cards. When they parted at Green Lake last time, Shade hadn't even gotten [Origin·Space], but now [Origin·Light] and [Origin·Time] were already in his hands.
"You still have Creation, Sun, Chaos, and Destiny to obtain. Otherwise, you will be the first Rhodes player in history to collect all the special cards in the [Founding] series."
The colonel looked at the cards and helped Shade summarize:
"But among these four cards, isn't there one whose whereabouts is clear?"
He pointed to the northwest, where the Prophet Association's headquarters was located on the coast. In the past, "knowledge" and "fate" were in the hands of the Association, and Shade relied on a piece of "Wise Pyroxene" to exchange for the power of "possessing [Original Knowledge] before death", but such a good thing would never happen again:
"[Founding Destiny] is the inventor of the Rhodes card. It belongs to the former president, Mr. Rhodes. It is the most precious collection in the Prophet Association. How could the Association give it to me?"