novelonline Chapter 2552 The Witch and the Owl
Chapter 2552 The Witch and the Owl
Chapter 2552 The Witch and the Owl
"What a ruthless person."
Time was still suspended. The broken leg lost its vitality in mid-air and remained still. Shade raised his hand to control a drop of blood and then performed his magic:
"Blood Echo!"
More than ten seconds later, Shade jumped down from the roof and blocked the man with the burnt face on the "Golden Music Avenue" where pedestrians were still.
This was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties, shorter than Shade, of medium build, and with ragged clothes that made it hard to tell where he came from. His right leg had recovered, but when Shade saw him in the sunlight, he felt more and more that he was not human.
This does not refer to the other person's appearance, but to the other person's mental state. The hideous face and the crazy expression all indicate that this is a madman. The traces of chaotic elements represent that the ring warlock is out of control. Shade does not know what he has experienced in the past, but he just hopes that the missing Miss Danister will not become like this.
Everyone on the street was frozen in still time and space. Shade wanted to talk to him. Theoretically, a fifth-ring sorcerer like him should not be able to master this level of time magic.
But the moment he saw Shade again, the stranger launched another brazen attack. He said nothing, his body, which was accelerated by time, left an afterimage in the air, and the next second he appeared directly in front of Shade, grabbing Shade's heart with his right hand again.
Xia De's reaction could not keep up with such a fast speed, but the hardened right hand still could not grab Xia De's heart directly despite the speed, but only left deep fingerprints on Xia De's chest.
Shade wanted to fight back, so he stretched out his hand and punched forward, but the stranger, who was still in the process of time acceleration, left a shadow and flew away quickly. But when he approached Shade again with the advantage of speed, Shade had already drawn out the Moonlight Greatsword and stabbed it under his feet:
"Hedon Seal!"
The man who was rushing at him collided head-on with the golden shield that was emitting flowing light. After a loud bang, he failed to break through the defense. But then the sound of bang, bang, bang came from all directions one after another, and ripples spread on the shield. The enemy in the accelerated state relied on the speed advantage to attack the shield from different directions at the same time.
After a loud bang, the shield was actively detonated by Xia De, and the exploding golden light waves rushed in all directions, causing the man with the burnt face to fly backwards.
He rolled on the ground, and after confirming that he could not beat Shade, he turned around and tried to escape. But this time he fell after taking just two steps, and his accelerated body slid forward along the road like a bullet.
When his body finally stopped, the strange man looked down in shock at his abdomen, which was pierced by a big hole in the blood-red light, and then took his last breath.
Grace and Helen, holding hands, were standing on the roof of the Accordion Hotel, looking down. A buzzing background sounded, time flowed normally, and pedestrians on the street continued this ordinary afternoon.
As for Xia De and the corpse, they had disappeared here.
"When did you recover?"
"When you leave here, sir."
In the broom closet, Helen answered Shad's question:
"Although my sister and I don't have the gift of time, we do have resistance. It just takes time to recover. Any life that has experienced a long time will have resistance to time, just like people who live on ice fields all year round are very resistant to freezing, and people who live in the desert can endure the scorching sun."
After saying that, he looked at the body lying next to the cupboard:
"We were worried that he would run away, and we didn't know what other tricks he had, so we just killed him."
"It doesn't matter. It's not easy to catch someone with this kind of time ability. We let him out at some unknown time. We can't let him leave like this."
Xia De was very sure that he did not know this stranger. He must be really crazy, otherwise he would not attack them directly:
"If we let this out-of-control ring mage, especially one who controls the power of time, escape, that would be a real big trouble."
Grace didn't really care about killing people, she just didn't want to leave a bad impression on Shade:
"His strong time talent should also be related to time travel. But he should not be a candidate for the Chosen One, otherwise he would not die so easily."
Xia De nodded, threw out a piece of canvas and turned the corpse into a toy and put it away, without paying too much attention:
"He's dead, he was the first to attack, we were acting in self-defense. But the soul of a ring sorcerer that is out of control is useless even if we channel it."
As he said this, he squatted down in front of the cupboard again. At this time, the cupboard door had closed automatically. After Xia De opened it, it became a normal cupboard again.
So he followed the same steps again, but this time Shade did not use the black time key, but the normal time key -
With a click, the key turned.
“She” gently reminded:
[Stranger, you opened a "twisted tree hole." ]
[Tips from the Father of Infinite Tree:]
[Use the "Key of Yggdrasil" to open the door here, and it will connect to a random time point where a "time traveler" exists. ]
[Using the normal time key to open the door, it will connect to the following three times: 1698 of the sixth era of the present world; 1763 of the sixth era of the present world; 1834 of the sixth era of the present world. ]
[Note, except for you, any life that uses this channel will be cursed by time. ]
[Note: You can enter the past twenty minutes through this abnormal channel. After the time is up, you must return through this channel.]
[Note: After using the key to open the door twice, the passage will completely collapse.]
Xia De held the key handle and listened carefully to these reminders:
"What happened when I used the Key of Yggdrasil just now?"
[The Infinite Tree Father will not give a separate reminder of that special key. That key should not exist. ]
However, this at least proves that the "Time Tree Hole" recorded in the literature does exist. It's just that what Shade encountered this time seemed different from what he thought. The name "Twisted Tree Hole" itself represents that this is abnormal.
Although the method to open this door is similar to the method to open other spaces left by the ancient gods, it is more like a one-time door, and it is an abnormal door that appears due to the abnormal influence of the world itself.
"So, could the disaster of time be this kind of time door with abnormal properties? If you use the time key to open it, it will connect to a fixed time. If you don't use the key, the abnormal properties will appear randomly."
But regardless, the path through the past has been revealed.
Shad did not act immediately, but discussed with Grace and Helen again and decided to try to open the door to the winter of 1763 this time.
"But sir, if there really was a ring wizard from the present time who appeared 91 years ago, then why didn't he or she leave any information? Did the church block the news of the 'time traveler', or is there another hidden secret?"
Helen asked questions, but no one could answer them. Fortunately, these questions could be solved after the missing person was found.
"We only have two chances, but I feel that there is a high probability that we can find the person directly this time. After all, the fortune teller saw snow in his divination this morning. You wait here for me, I will be back soon."
The two sisters did not stop Shad from taking the risk, but took Shad's hand. Helen in the black dress bit Shad's right index finger, and when the blood oozed out, the two sisters bit their own index fingers and stuck together with Shad.
The blood of the three people blended together:
"Even if you don't come back, we will definitely be able to find you!"
Grace and Helen kissed Shad's cheeks as a blessing. Shad smiled and waved goodbye to them, then pinched the key handle and opened the cupboard door.
There was still no white fog behind the door. The three of them looked down and saw that the originally normal internal space of the cabinet was now filled with books.
"Ok?"
Grace and Helen watched as Shad beside them disappeared without them knowing when, and when Shad opened the cabinet, he also found that Grace and Helen beside him had disappeared.
At this moment, the surroundings suddenly became brighter, and the sunlight poured into this classically decorated aristocratic study from the window. Xia De was standing on the red carpet in the study, with a cabinet in front of him that served as a bookcase.
The cabinet still looked new, the upper glass window was polished to a shine, and the pattern on the lower door panel had not been worn off. It was not at all the shabby look of a broom closet a hundred years later, it was a very high-end piece of furniture.
"Now time."
[The sixth era of the present world, the winter of the Common Calendar year 1763, the 12th day of the month of Dormancy, : p.m.]
There was no one else in the study except Shade, and it was neatly arranged. The whole room was covered with red carpets, and the walls were covered with golden wallpaper and hung with portraits of nobles.
The imposing solid wood desk was placed in front of the three large windows on the east side. When Shade looked out the window, he saw the courtyard of this unknown mansion covered with white snow. It was still snowing outside, but not heavily:
"This must be the snow that Luvia saw when she was divining the water."
It was winter, but the fireplace in the study was not lit. In fact, there was no sign of recent use. But Shade was not in a hurry to look for clues, because when he realized that he had come to the past a hundred years ago, he clearly felt that the badge on his chest suddenly became hot.
"what?"
He had thought that he would meet a witch, but he had never thought that he would meet a witch a hundred years ago. The hotness of the badge clearly showed that the witch was already in front of him:
"Except for Grandma Cassandra, the witches of this generation were not witches a hundred years ago, right?"
In surprise, his eyes immediately turned to the only living thing here besides himself, which was the fat, round-faced owl standing on the windowsill behind the desk.
(End of this chapter)