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"Who are you? What dagger?"

Pei Xiang showed a panicked and defensive expression.She stood up abruptly and backed away, ignoring the overturned chair, and quickly approached Archbishop Douglas with a few steps.

The sea witch in a gray cloak raised her hat, and stared coldly at Pei Xiang and everything in the room with her long, dark, narrow eyes.

When her cold eyes fell on the bright scepter in the archbishop's hand, the corners of her mouth pulled suddenly, and two hoarse sneers escaped from her throat.

"Oh, look what I found, what a... big surprise! It seems that I can not only get my dagger back today, but also settle old scores."

Pei Xiang's heart skipped a beat, and he realized that it must be a coincidence that this lady appeared here.She probably followed the breath on the dagger all the way to find it, just in time for her to have lunch with the archbishop.

——Is this a narrow road to the enemy?

The sea witch's eyes slowly turned around on Douglas who was in a trance, her brows were slightly frowned.

Pei Xiang stomped his feet, as if he was worried that the uninvited guest would hurt the archbishop, and hurriedly stepped forward, slightly sideways to block between Douglas and the sea witch, and stretched out his arms to grab the archbishop's scepter of light.

Seeing Pei Xiang's movement, the sea witch raised her hand without thinking, and blocked Pei Xiang's chance to touch the scepter of light in the blink of an eye.

"Little girl, if you act rashly again, I will let the poisonous snake tighten your neck and let the devil scorpion bite your heart."

Pei Xiang's face turned pale, and she asked angrily while protecting the archbishop and retreating:

"Who the hell are you? You broke into other people's residences uninvited, and you are so vicious and arrogant. You, you are provoking the Holy See, you are provoking the dignity of the Bole country! You will definitely get the most severe punishment."

The sea witch ignored the bravado of a little girl. She kept frowning to observe the reaction of Archbishop Douglas, and found that the old guy hadn't responded from the beginning to the end, and had been sitting on the chair in a trance. Obviously, he The reaction was irrational.

Aware of this abnormality, the sea witch turned her attention back to Pei Xiang again. This time, there was something more meaningful in her eyes.

With a slight wave of her hand, the sea witch took the wine glass used by Douglas into her palm in front of Pei Xiang, and covered the glass wall with a detection spell.

"Huh? That's interesting... You even gave the archbishop of Bolai Kingdom real medicine... Little girl, you don't have to act in front of me, you don't have any good intentions for this old guy."

"What real potion? I don't understand what you're talking about."

"Are you sure you want to continue pretending? In a while, this old guy will wake up. Guess, will I tell him the truth about this glass of wine?"

These words made the panicked and nervous expression on Pei Xiang's face slowly fade away. She sighed and walked away from Douglas decisively, no longer pretending to be someone from the same camp as Archbishop Douglas.

The sea witch sneered, and broke the wine glass into pieces.

Pei Xiang blinked, and concealed the black key she had just sneaked from Douglas indiscriminately. At the same time, she asked Esfar in her heart, is this sea witch Alice the witch?

Esfar gave an affirmative answer.

At this time, Witch Alice wrapped in a gray cloak began to walk around the house.I don't know when, there are several black and fat sea snakes and dense seabed poisonous insects around her feet. These "pets", which are not easy to mess with at first glance, are all staring at Pei Xiang, as if as long as she moves a little There is a movement, and the attack will follow.

"Little girl, I know the dagger is with you, and you are reluctant to return the treasure to its original owner," the witch Alice walked up to Douglas after inspecting the room, and said in a rambling voice, "However, since you give this old For the sake of drinking the real potion, I allow you to have it for a while, um, just for a while. When I finish interrogating the archbishop of the Burleigh Kingdom, you will not be able to take possession of my treasure."

After saying this, the witch Alice recited a vaguely pronounced spell, and erected a transparent soundproof barrier between her and Pei Xiang, which not only facilitated her to monitor Pei Xiang's movements, but also facilitated her to take the real Douglas of Pharmacy asked.

While the witch Alice was in a hurry to deal with the matter of the archbishop, Pei Xiang continued to ask Esfar through the contract while observing the retreat route:

"She should have come to retrieve the dagger. Do you need me to return the dagger to her? Will it affect your return to the abyss without the dagger?"

Esfar said quietly: "The dagger will not affect my return to the abyss, nor will it affect the location where I will appear next time, because I have a contract with you, which is equivalent to having a guide sign, and I can always find you But once I lose the dagger, when I leave the elf's body and return to the abyss, you and I can no longer communicate."

Hearing this, Pei Xiang's eyes flashed with regret, but she was willing to respect Asfar's opinion, so she asked again:

"Maybe it's good to leave the dagger beside the witch Alice, so that you can communicate with her conveniently. I don't know much about the sea clan, the seal, and what happened in the previous 1000 years, and there is nothing I can do about it." Help you too much."

Listening to Pei Xiang's rational analysis, Esfar was silent for a moment.Now he was a little confused about Pei Xiang's true attitude, so he tentatively said:

"You lack a powerful magic weapon by your side. If you hand over the dagger to Alice, you will inevitably feel constrained when you fight in the future."

Pei Xiang nodded in agreement and said with emotion:

"With my current ability, it should be difficult to find a magic weapon that is more powerful than that dagger, right? I remember you mentioned before that the main material for refining the dagger is the horn bone of the witch Alice, which once contained her magic weapon. Half of the original magic power, which shows the preciousness of this dagger.

"What's more, for me, the loss of the dagger is not only the loss of a weapon, but also the loss of the precious opportunity to communicate with you at any time. To be honest, Esfar, I really want to be selfish. Return the dagger to the witch Alice, anyway, the way for me to get the dagger is aboveboard."

"Then keep the dagger by your side." Esfar spoke a little faster and immediately suggested.

Pei Xiang was a little moved, she bit her lip, and asked hesitantly:

"Then you and the witch Alice... well, I almost forgot, you can show up and talk to her now, you don't have to wait until you return to the abyss."

Esfar suddenly chuckled, he floated out from the neckline of Pei Xiang's thin linen coat, sat on her shoulder again, and then said through the contract:

"Amy, I don't want Alice to know that I left the abyss for the time being, so let her treat me as your contract elf Cui Cui. As for whether to keep this dagger... It's up to you. I just Noticed that you took the opportunity of pretending to care about Douglas and secretly took his black key. So, are you going to lure Alice to the white building with the high-level magic circle engraved on it?"

"Well, I'm just in case," Pei Xiang knew that his small actions could deceive the witch Alice, but he couldn't hide it from Esfar, so he simply admitted, "Who knows if the sea witch will be moody and will kill people at will? What? Although she has a close relationship with you, I always have to be on guard, and I can't let my guard down just because I'm a friend of a friend. "

Esfar raised his eyebrows slightly, agreeing:

"You are right, my friend. So, did you actually intend to keep the dagger from the beginning?"

Pei Xiang shook his head quickly: "Absolutely not, well, at least not from the very beginning. But when it was, it was going to be a little later, yes, a little later."

"Amy, there's nothing wrong with wanting to keep the dagger," Esfar laughed. "The dagger was originally obtained by the little mermaid's sisters with their hair, and then it was given to you. It was Alice who didn't Sincerely traded, you actually plan to forcibly ask for the exchanged things back again."

Pei Xiang deeply agrees, and feels that Esfar's angle of analysis is particularly fair and objective.

"Esfar, you said it to my heart, I really think so. Alas, the suggestion I made earlier - to return the dagger, in the final analysis is to fulfill the friendship between you and me. But , if you don't want to have too much contact and communication with the witch Alice, then I definitely can't condone her fraudulent transactions, and I will do my best to protect my property."

Esfar smiled.

He thought about it, and said frankly to Pei Xiang:

"I haven't mentioned it before. In fact, I don't trust Alice very much now. The details of what happened back then are somewhat unclear, and Alice's role in it is very subtle. Of course, from you and me Judging from the facts that have been investigated before, Alice was probably completely deceived by He Qiu, who disguised himself as a woman, and thus provided him with some convenient opportunities to carry out his schemes."

Pei Xiang's eyes widened in surprise: "What opportunity?"

"Give He Qiu the opportunity to sneak into the palace and walk into the room where the medicine is stored unimpeded, and then replace the potion I used for healing. Of course, until all the facts are fully investigated, I still don't know whether Alice really went from head to head. He was kept in the dark until the end, but was gradually persuaded by He Qiu, and finally thought of betrayal.

"In the past 1000 years, with Alice's fierce and domineering personality, she did not come to the country of Burai to take revenge on those who deceived her. Instead, she quietly hid in the deep sea and became a sea witch. I also have a lot of puzzles about the dagger that can connect to the seal of the abyss. I don't know what she wants to do, and I don't know if her intention is completely harmless."

Hearing this, Pei Xiang was a little lost in thought.She had never sensed Esfar's hatred and doubts towards Witch Alice from Esfar's emotions before, so she thought that he completely trusted the other party, and she also thought that he knew the ins and outs of the year and Witch Alice's innocence.Unexpectedly, it turned out that he had always been suspicious.

"It turns out that your impression of the events of the past has always been on the betrayal of the witch Alice... But when you mentioned her, you didn't have many intense or negative emotions in your emotions."

Esfar pondered for a moment, and slowly explained:

"There is nothing worthy of resentment and excitement. If she really betrayed me at that time, she can just get revenge in the future. There is no need to waste too much emotion on the betrayer.

"But to be honest, based on what I know about Alice, the possibility of her actively betraying her is unlikely. Coupled with your previous investigations, I can tentatively deduce that she should have been calculated and deceived by He Qiu. But no matter what Whatever the truth, I won't trust her like I used to."

Pei Xiang couldn't help frowning. When Esfar said this, his tone was always calm and indifferent, but when the word "trust" was mentioned, she always felt that there was a sense of melancholy in his heart. Feelings.

"At that time, what happened?"

Esfar glanced at the witch Alice and Douglas inside the magic soundproof barrier, knowing that the conversation between the two was about to end, so he simply flew to Pei Xiang's forehead, and stretched out his thumb to touch her brow.

In an instant, a memory from a thousand years ago appeared in Pei Xiang's mind through the contract between the two, allowing her to understand some past events in a very short period of time.

——*——*——*——

The radiant witch Alice was wearing a bright blue jellyfish mermaid dress, and looked at Esfar who had returned from victory with reverence: "Your Majesty, do you want to reward those human women from the mainland?"

"Well, this award will be honored at the celebration banquet. You can discuss it with Heinsey and the others and arrange it in advance."

"Your Majesty, I heard that you personally refined the mermaid blood transformation potion, and you want to give those human women mermaid blood?"

"Indeed," the black-haired sea clan lord took out seven bottles of healing potions of different colors from the tall sea wood shell cabinet while talking to the witch Alice, "do you have any different proposals, Alice ?”

"I……"

Witch Alice's voice paused slightly, she looked solemnly at the healing potion that Esfar had picked out, and there was a touch of concern and embarrassment between her brows:

"Your Majesty, is your injury so serious this time? You actually need to take these seven potions at the same time."

Esfar let out a somewhat casual "hmm", erased the magic pattern seal on the crystal bottle at will, and then drank all the potions in one go.

Immediately, there was a look of pain in Asfar's eyes, but he quickly suppressed it.

These potions are healing medicines and heart-breaking poisons. While healing the damage caused by the abyss giant monster and the abyss devil energy, they are also tormenting this mighty monarch.

Seeing Esfar's pain and suffering, Alice immediately forgot the previous topic, and as soon as her tone changed, she couldn't help complaining:

"I heard from Lila Hart that this time, Your Majesty is the one who rushed to the front alone, and the soldiers who followed you didn't do much. Now they are alive and kicking to accept everyone's congratulations, but Your Majesty has to endure the pain and pain." The torment of poison."

Esfar heard the concern of his fellow clan, and his expression was slightly warm, so he explained a few more words:

"I need to hone my skills and increase my strength in various dangers. The abyss giants are good opponents. Alice, although I have suffered some injuries this time, it is nothing serious, because even if my strength is halved, the ocean And there is no opponent on land that can defeat me."

Witch Alice couldn't help but sighed, but didn't dare to persuade her.

Esfar had silently endured the pain caused by the healing potion at this time, so he turned and walked towards the door:

"Alice, you have taken good care of this potion storage room, unlike Lila Hart who is always careless and forgets to replenish the missing potions in time, I am very happy."

"This is what I should do, Your Majesty. I am very grateful for your trust in me, and thank you for granting me the right to come and go here freely."

The witch Alice followed Asfar out of the storage room, and took out a conch key embedded with a dark purple magic core from the space pendant she carried.

She shook the key towards the door of the storage room, and golden magic patterns flashed in the water immediately, and then, clumps of tall red corals and colorful seaweeds grew in the open space there, instantly turning the key to the storage room. The entire potions storeroom was covered up.

Esfar waited for Alice for a while, and at the same time ordered:

"Alice, we are of the same family. You can find some of the potions you need for advanced cultivation here. I give you this key to allow you to freely use the potions you need. I hope you can become Be stronger, don't prematurely sleep in the bottom of the sea."

The witch Alice nodded gratefully, and quickly ensured that she must practice seriously and not waste the opportunity that Asfar gave her.

Esfar didn't say anything more, he shook the scepter in his hand slightly, and prepared to open a temporary space channel to another practice site.

However, before Asfar left, the witch Alice still expressed her initial thoughts.

"Your Majesty, it's like this. During your expedition, I met a human girl. I want her to stay with me at the bottom of the sea, is that okay?"

Esfar said indifferently: "As long as she doesn't harm the Sea Clan, she can live in your palace forever."

"However, she is a human being after all, and cannot live on the bottom of the sea for a long time," the witch Alice carefully glanced at Esfar's cold and indifferent face, and said quickly, "Can you please give her a change of bloodline?" Is it the potion? It’s like giving those human women.”

Esfar shook his head and refused very simply:

"I'm afraid it won't work, Alice. I won't refine the blood-transforming potions again until I recover from my injuries. And the potions I refined before are limited in quantity, which can just be distributed to those human women who have made contributions. , turning them into mermaids with a lifespan of 300 years."

Hearing this answer, the witch Alice's eyes showed obvious disappointment, but she didn't say anything more, just smiled helplessly, and sent Asfar away respectfully.

A few days later, it was the day of the celebration banquet.

Before attending the banquet, Esfar came to the place where the potion was stored again, ready to take the healing potion.

He skillfully took out seven bottles of different kinds of healing potions, and then drank them all, but this time the feeling of pain after taking the medicine was particularly strong.

Asfar, who was clutching his chest, couldn't help coughing twice, and then his expression changed dramatically.He suddenly raised his hand to grab some empty space in the room, and pulled out an invisible human man from the empty space at once.

.At the same time, a conch key inlaid with a dark purple magic core fell out of the frightened man's hand, and fell to the ground with a "ding dong".

"It's you who changed the medicine?" Asfar's face was stern, and his whole body was full of pressure.

The human man was intimidated by the unrestrained coercion of the Sea Clan Lord, and nodded subconsciously, with no sense of resistance at all.

"Where's Alice?"

"She is waiting for me outside." The man said truthfully.

At this time, Esfar's eyes were bleeding, and the breath around him was strong and weak, and the horns on his head were slowly revealed and tended to leave.

Taking a deep breath, Esfar held back his killing intent and threw the human man to the ground, leaving him unconscious with his head bleeding.

"Lilahart!" Asfar crushed a gemstone on the scepter and shouted.

"Yes, Your Majesty." A phantom appeared in front of Esfar, behind the phantom was a splendid banquet hall and melodious music.

"The sea area where the Sea Palace is located will be closed immediately. I will fall into a deep sleep and preserve the strength of the Sea Clan until I return."

"His Majesty……"

However, without waiting for his confidant Lilahardt to answer, Esfar waved away the phantom, and then, the lord of the Sea Clan disappeared into the room.