“This is a Miracle I created based on the fairy tale 'match girl'. The casting material is a story I copied myself. This is my greatest achievement as a low-level Ring術士 to date.”
While Xia De was surprised, Miss Louisa explained her Miracle.
The figure summoned by the Miracle, at the moment, tremblingly lit a match and then extended her short arm to hold it in the air. Under the faint light of this match, the black “cat mud” that was illuminated actually let out a shriek.
“To deal with a semi-real, semi-illusory monster, you must use methods of the same nature.”
Miss Louisa said with a hint of pride.
The match girl's figure continued to hold up the match under Xia De's astonished gaze, and hundreds of eyes in the black cat mud simultaneously shed tears of blood. Subsequently, the room's temperature plummeted again. At the same time, because the curtains were already drawn, the dim vision became even darker, and the match's light was suppressed.
“Detective, use a Light Spell. My Miracle can deal with it, so it wants to extinguish the match. Now you use a Light Spell to prevent it from simultaneously suppressing two light sources from a Ring術士! This thing looks weaker than I thought.”
“No problem.”
Xia De temporarily put aside his doubts, then raised his right hand, and a silver light slowly appeared on his fingertips. He shouted:
“Moonlight!”
The rotation of the Destiny Ring in his soul drove the spirit to affect reality in the form of a Miracle. The silver light on his fingertips burst forth, and the reduced visibility in the room indeed improved. But the silver light on his fingertips did not stop; instead, like the sun, it completely erupted.
“Its power was originally… Did you forget that it is in 'Divine Radiance' state now?”
The Miracle itself does not harm its user, so Xia De's eyes were not harmed.
But the silver light, as bright as the sun, completely engulfed the entire room. Xia De saw the flame in the match girl's hand, along with this Moonlight, envelop the black nightmare. He heard screams from above, like millions of cats venting their dying hatred together, but then he felt someone pulling his sleeve.
The holy silver light seemed to evaporate the entire room. When the silver Moonlight completely extinguished, the cat mud above disappeared. The bedroom instantly transformed from a gloomy alley into a warm church hall, filled with warm and holy air.
He looked at the person pulling his sleeve and heard Miss Louisa's complaints, as she covered her eyes:
“Oh, my eyes! Detective, you call this a Light Spell?”
The last time he used the Moonlight's “Light Spell” was to suppress darkness during a relic out of control situation. Xia De had mistakenly underestimated the power of the Light Spell.
But fortunately, it was a very nice Summer day, and the bedroom curtains were tightly closed; otherwise, the silver light that just erupted would definitely have attracted the attention of pedestrians on the street. But Miss Louisa, who was almost right next to Xia De, was not doing well. Being exposed to the strong light at close range for the moment, she temporarily lost her vision.
But instead of letting Xia De attend to her first, she asked nervously:
“Is the nightmare still there?”
“I don't think so.”
Xia De looked around the room and felt a sense of sacredness like a church. But as the Moonlight disappeared, this feeling also diminished. But it was clear that the nightmare caused by the out-of-control relic had disappeared:
“Your match girl and my Light Spell seem to have dispelled it. Oh, Miss Louisa, are you alright? Do you need help with treatment? I'm really sorry, I...”
He temporarily ignored Professor Manning on the ground. He reached out to help the blonde Writer sit down on a chair in front of the desk. Although she was a Four-Ring Warlock, she couldn't move normally without relying on her eyes.
“The doctor said this is your Light Spell? Oh, no, this can definitely be called an Exorcism Spell. I should have thought of it earlier; this light can even suppress an out-of-control relic, so there's no way it's a normal Light Spell.”
“We'll talk about the Miracle later, Miss Louisa, can you see my fingers now?”
If the Writer was only temporarily blind, it would be fine, but if her vision was permanently damaged due to what just happened, it would be troublesome. He wiggled two fingers in front of Miss Louisa, but she didn't react.
“Let me treat you first.”
“But your 【Cindy's Silver Moon Gift】 can only be used at night, can't it?”
“I learned a new Miracle, please wait a moment.”
He took out a small bottle from his pocket. After shaking it slightly, water droplets immediately condensed on the bottle wall. Then he used the Miracle 【Gluttony's Feast】 to process these water droplets, and finally, he had Miss Louisa tilt her head up and open her eyes:
“If I didn't know you, I'd suspect you're trying to do something bad.”
The blonde Writer teased, then raised her head and felt the water droplets fall into her eyes. She instinctively closed her eyes, letting the warm liquid soak her eyelids, and then opened her eyes, only to find that her vision had completely recovered. Even the slight myopia she had developed from staying up late writing books seemed to have disappeared.
Xia De still wanted to continue dripping water, but Miss Louisa raised her hand to stop him:
“No need, my eyes are completely fine.”
Saying that, she stood up and, at a very close distance, blinked her emerald eyes at Xia De. The color in her eyes represented the vibrancy of her vision. Xia De's face flushed from Miss Louisa's sudden closeness. He took a step back, then lowered his head and put away the small bottle emitting silver light:
“It's a new Miracle I learned. I didn't expect the effect to be so good.”
Seeing Xia De like this, the Writer smiled but didn't tease him. Instead, she instructed:
“This way, you also have healing abilities during the day, which is really good. But don't put it away yet, Professor Manning is still waiting for you to save him.”
After the out-of-control Document-level relic 【dream pen of joy】 was resolved by Xia De's “Light Spell” and Miss Louisa's “match girl,” the room completely returned to normal. However, Professor Manning, who was curled up on the carpet, had shriveled like a deflated balloon, lying there 奄奄一息, looking as if he had aged ten years in an instant and was on the verge of death.
He had too much life force drained when the materialized nightmare constructed the illusion.
Although Professor Manning was not like Miss Louisa's deceased friend, who used the dream pen multiple times and was deeply immersed in it, an out-of-control relic was much more terrifying than simply using a relic.
Fortunately, he still had a breath left. Therefore, after confirming that Miss Louisa was truly fine, Xia De first used 【False Immortality】 on the Professor, then pulled out the steel pen stuck in his wrist, and again used 【Gluttony's Feast】 to process water for treatment.
In the treatment of external injuries, the Miracle developed by 【gluttony】 is very effective, but physical depletion does not seem to be considered an injury. So Xia De, just to give it a try, after the wound on his wrist healed, helped the unconscious Professor sit up to prevent him from choking, and then carefully fed him some water emitting silver light.
His shriveled body actually improved. 【Gluttony's Feast】 was even more useful than Xia De had imagined.