novelonline Chapter 4145 Blessings, Fog, and Ship
Chapter 4145 Blessings, Fog, and Ship
Chapter 4145 Blessings, Fog, and Ship
"I think you're not saying the scenery outside the window is nice, but rather that the scenery inside the window is nice."
Vanessa said jokingly, and Viggo didn't deny it, but she still reminded her:
“In previous years, I would occasionally take the maids on a spring outing.”
Vanessa was very surprised:
"How come I remember that your favorite thing to do every spring was to sunbathe on the terrace outside your study? Is that considered a spring outing?"
“Vanessa, you don’t understand me. I also love nature, but I just haven’t met anyone I can go out with before.”
As the witches talked, Shad drew his longsword from its sheath. He hadn't officially used this weapon since arriving in Arcadia.
"But where could that ship be?"
Looking out the window, Iluna asked:
"As far as I can tell, everything around me is normal. There aren't many boats on the lake bigger than ours, and I haven't detected any obvious whispering elements."
"I didn't find any particularly unusual ships either."
Shad said:
"But there's no rush, this morning has only just begun. Vige, have the girl navigating the boat proceed with the planned sightseeing tour around the lake. For now, there's nothing to do but wait."
The maids brought a full set of spring outing gear, and soon the coffee table was filled with black tea, snacks, and fruit. Shad was quite suspicious that Mia had come along because she knew there would be food.
Xia De didn't expect that this intrusion into the [Leatherworks Guild] would be like entering the [House of the Pseudo-Humans], where he would have to fight his way through. Instead, he thought that this experience might be similar to when he entered the [Mansion of Sin] in Xikar Mountain.
But this time, with so many companions by his side, Xia De wasn't nervous or worried at all. In fact, he was even more looking forward to returning to the [Stained Blood Factory].
While waiting for the external changes to occur on the ship, Shad did not forget to have Winnie cast a blessing on him. He needed Winnie's power to suppress the "Withering Crystals" so that he could mix them into the "Forge of Life".
When Shad made this request to Winnie in the cabin, a blush rose on the girl's delicate cheeks.
"Is it here?"
"Yes, after all, I'm not sure if I need to open that door inside the [Leather Goods Hall]."
"I thought it would be somewhere deserted~"
The maid complained softly, then asked Iluna to move aside and sat down next to Shad. The sofa felt slightly sunken, and the surrounding air seemed to have grown much colder.
Winnie looked at Shad with her beautiful eyes, hesitated for a moment, then wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him.
Everyone was watching them. It wasn't the first time Shad and Winnie had kissed, but this time he clearly felt a chill, though cold, that wasn't biting, spreading throughout his body with the kiss.
His body temperature continued to drop from normal levels, and then, like Winnie, his body began to emit a faint mist of cold air. The "Primal Fire" within him wanted to react, but Shad immediately suppressed the flames' "counterattack" and focused entirely on experiencing the chill.
[Outsider, you have received a temporary blessing from ice and snow: your next use of a frost-based ability will be imbued with power from the individual "Winnie".]
"When the elemental spirits in fairy tales bestow blessings, they often do so in the form of a kiss, right?"
The maid, having released Shad, said softly, "This is indeed a common trope, but usually, tongues aren't involved in such scenes."
"You've become weak."
Shad reached out and hugged Winnie, who suddenly covered her forehead. She smiled and shook her head.
"It's okay, you just need to rest for a while, it's not a permanent wear and tear."
Vanessa, who was standing nearby, then said:
"You two are really interesting. Who but Shad could withstand the kind of power Winnie just displayed?"
She picked up the teacup, which was now covered in frost:
"Let Winnie rest for a bit, but Shad, your body temperature is recovering very quickly."
"The primordial fire protected him."
Sister Daphne suddenly spoke, and Shad nodded. Winnie tried to stand up to give the seat next to Shad back to Iluna, but Iluna immediately pushed her back down. The eighteen-year-old girl was very understanding.
"You should rest for a bit. It doesn't matter where I sit."
As for Vige, she seemed lost in thought, but she was actually wondering how many people on the ship had never kissed Shad.
The black tea and snacks were delicious, and the view outside the window was also quite nice. Since today's event was just a prelude to the opening of the expo, there were no balloons or cannons, but the occasional whistles of steamships outside the window created a very atmospheric ambiance.
Everyone chatted happily, and even Sister Daphne picked up a cup of black tea. Having eaten her fill, Mia, as usual, lay down on Shad's lap and fell asleep. Even after she woke up, the crew continued to while away the springtime.
It was already 10 a.m., and the park was becoming increasingly crowded, with more boats floating on the artificial lake than before. Viggo was chatting with Iluna, asking her about when she first met Shad, when at that moment, Shad, Iluna, Vanessa, and Sister Daphne all looked in the same direction.
"It's here!"
A fairly clear whispering element appeared out of thin air not far from the ship. Although it wasn't particularly strong, the fluctuations of this element, which appeared out of thin air, were still detected by the few people with strong senses.
Miss McDonald saw Shad's gesture, got up, went to the window, glanced outside, and then lowered her voice to say:
"It is a steam-powered ship for exhibition purposes."
Xia De and the girls sitting there did not move. Instead, they waited until their yacht adjusted its course before they could see the unusual ship directly from the window.
It was a yacht at least twice the size of the one Vigo had rented, its hull painted with a glossy finish and adorned with gleaming brass ornaments, the words "Exhibition Exhibit" engraved on the hull. The slender funnel emitted almost no smoke, the underwater propeller made it glide silently, and there was even a rather professional-looking Rhodes card game table set up on the deck.
This is a "silent steam yacht" to be exhibited at this expo. Its advanced feature is that it is very quiet when running.
"This should be it."
"Shad said softly, then instructed the girl navigating the boat to move closer to the yacht. He used "Powerful Spatial Awareness" to try and examine the ship's interior, and unsurprisingly found it to be a chaotic mess, the space as complex as a bedsheet torn apart by Xiaomia's claws."
Winnie had already stood up, so Shad took the hands of Iluna and Viggo beside him:
"We'll activate the illusion in a moment, and I'll take you two aboard first to check the situation. If you don't see the danger signal I give, Sister Vanessa, then you can follow."
Shad said, and everyone nodded in understanding. The maximum distance of "Lagray's Jump" has now been extended to 200 meters, but Shad still wants to wait until he gets closer and can get a better feel for the ship before taking action.
In the extremely rare event that the ship was a relic vessel that suddenly appeared and had nothing to do with the [Leather Goods Guild], things could get really bad if we boarded the wrong ship.
However, things didn't go as everyone expected. As the yacht drew closer to the vessel with the whispering motif, Vige suddenly reached into the pocket of her dress:
"Wait a minute, what is this?"
She removed Nicolas Flamel's leather garment. Shad and the others sensed nothing amiss, but Viggo said:
"This leather item is glowing."
"Is there?"
Iluna asked suspiciously, then guessed:
"Is this a signal that only you can see?"
At that moment, the voice of the girl steering the boat could be heard from outside the cabin:
"Master, it's foggy outside, and this fog seems strange."
But looking out the window, the scenery outside was clearly a bright and sunny spring day. Realizing that the Leather Goods Guild had also made preparations, Shad got up and left the cabin with everyone. At this moment, the yacht had already sailed into the thick fog.
The fog didn't completely obscure the view; the spring scenery of Oakham Park could still be vaguely seen beyond the fog. However, the scenery looked quite distant; in Shad's perception, it was like seeing the park's reflection in a mirror, and the yacht's location was clearly no longer on that lake.
"This is where?"
Vigo asked, puzzled, while Iluna seemed to have a guess:
"Could this be the [Leather Goods Guild]? We've already entered? Shad said the guild has three floors, so we should have reached the outer perimeter by now."
"But shouldn't a guild hall be a building?"
Wei Ge asked in surprise, but then immediately realized that no one had ever told her what the inside of the [Leatherworks Guild] was like. It was common for the interior of such location-based relics to be variable.
"Well, it's called a clubhouse, but what turns out to be a lake isn't entirely incomprehensible. At least everyone's come in, which should be considered good news."
Something's coming.
Sister Daphne's voice was soft. The yacht had stopped, and ahead of it, another small boat was getting closer. The boat had initially been just a blurry shadow, but it stopped when the people on deck could make out its indistinct shape.
At this time, the two boats were about fifteen meters apart. The small boat opposite was about the same size as Xia De's small wooden boat. A figure was standing at the stern, but his appearance was not clear.
But the figure's voice came through very clearly:
"Only invited guests are allowed to enter the guild hall. The token has been presented. Descendant of 'Redstone Duchess,' please leave your companions for now, board my small boat, and follow me into the guild hall."
Vige's mother's codename in the [Truth Society] was "Duchess," and in the [Emerald Alchemy Association] it was "Redstone." The combination of these two codenames had a strange charm.