novelonline Chapter 2585 Dominance
Chapter 2585 Dominance
Chapter 2585 Dominance
She was not injured. After she stood firm under the tree, she saw Shade remove the Night Seal and make a white hook to her. Then Danister Gustav picked up the falling green leaves and threw them at Shade:
"Thaumatology - Scarlet Moon Pulse!"
The leaf was dyed red the moment it left the fingertips, and then the bright red veins broke away from the rotten leaf, and in the next second it turned into a huge spider web-like red monster that was large enough to cover the entire open space.
Dozens of leaf veins shot towards Shade like tentacles, but Shade simply waved his hand behind him:
"Fireball!"
Dozens of orange-red fireballs instantly raised the temperature around the open space. Fireballs appeared out of thin air and bombarded the giant leaf vein net. The sorceress behind the monster was about to continue casting a spell, but she felt a hand pressing on her shoulder from behind:
"Miss Danister, for the sake of your health, please don't overdo the magic like this."
"I haven't lost yet!"
She turned around and looked at her student behind her. The moment their eyes met—
Click!
Shade held the pocket watch in his hand, and the sorceress in front of him was frozen in still time.
The monster transformed from the uncontrolled leaf veins was quickly burned to ashes by the flames with the power of the First Fire. Xia De stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the frozen expression of the girl in front of him, and then put his hand on her forehead:
"Luvia's time curse prevents her from being affected by any time force, whether it is benign or malicious. But Miss Danister and Miss Winslet are more easily affected by forces such as time suspension. Will the curse weaken the resistance to time?"
He sighed, and snapped his fingers after making sure the flames were out. The girl's eyes, which had been frozen, started moving again. She was confused and dazed for a moment, not understanding how Shade suddenly appeared in front of her from behind, and why her magic had failed. Then she shook her head dejectedly:
"I should have thought of it earlier. You have mastered the magic of time and space. Even I am no match for you."
"You are only at the seventh ring now, and you cannot cast spells at full power in order to cultivate your soul. It is normal that you cannot beat me. I cannot be regarded as a normal eighth ring."
Xia De comforted him, and the latter looked up at him and whispered after a long while:
"Sorry, Shad, I was just too excited."
"I think it also has something to do with your current state, but since I won, you have to listen to me before we return to the city today."
He emphasized, and the red-haired girl nodded slightly:
"Okay, I'll do whatever you say, but..."
"I will help you search for clues about your teacher. I will just stop you at the appropriate time to prevent you from doing anything impulsive."
"Shad, you're so nice."
Outsiders find this statement strange.
Because of the "Strong Spatial Perception", it was not difficult to find the abandoned logging site according to the map. The path leading to the logging site had long been abandoned. When Shade and Miss Danister parted the grass and saw the yard of the logging site covered with weeds, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.
The sorceress quickly walked past Shade and came to the yard. She shook her fingers, and several red moon blades flew out and accurately cut off the poisonous snakes lurking in the grass.
She looked around, at the wooden houses and the wooden sheds that were originally used to store wood, and finally at Shade:
"The hermits didn't seem to say which room the lady lived in three years ago."
"Look around. We can't stay in the woods overnight, or the guy in the hotel will get worried. Leave before six, there are still three hours."
"Ok."
The long time has been enough for the forest to erase all traces of human activities. Small trees have grown in the courtyards surrounded by houses and sheds for drying wood, and wild grasses and flowers with vigorous vitality have sprouted from the cracks in the wooden floors of the houses where the lumberjacks rest.
The scale of this lumberyard was not large, so it was not difficult to check. Shade followed Miss Danister and opened the doors one after another in a clockwise direction. When they opened the fourth door, they both frowned at the empty scene inside.
After all, even though the wooden houses just now had sparse flowers and plants and intact roofs, there was no shortage of feces and food residues left by wild animals that invaded through the windows, while the house in front of him was really too clean.
"It should be here. I know that the teacher has mastered a magic called 'Clean Residence'. This magic can keep a certain area clean, inhibit the growth of weeds and wild flowers, and drive away common animals. It is an essential spell for maintaining the library. If it is the teacher who casts the spell, it is normal for the effect to last for three years. She is also a thirteenth ring."
She couldn't wait to go in and check, while Xia De stood at the door and looked around:
"But if your teacher really came here, she should also have the time curse. Have you noticed anything abnormal about her?"
The red-haired girl shook her head:
"No, I don't have your keen perception of the time curse. Before this incident, I didn't even know if the time curse really existed."
She stretched out her hand and cast a spell to check the wall, while Shade turned around and looked at the overgrown courtyard. The stable had completely collapsed, but the stone mill in the corner of the stable supported a corner of the rotten wooden pillar.
There was originally a fence next to the stable to prevent animals from breaking in, but just now Shade saw that the wooden fence had already broken and was lying in the weeds.
Continuing to move the line of sight clockwise, a well appeared in the field of vision, but because the woodcutters had left, the well was covered by a thick stone slab. The dense shadows of the trees covered the bluestone slab. When Xia De looked at the well mouth, the female ghost with half of her head exposed from under the stone slab was also looking at him. After looking at Xia De, she hurriedly submerged her spirit under the stone slab again.
"The hermits said this place was abandoned because it was haunted, right?"
Xia De asked, and the young girl in the wooden house behind him answered:
"Yes, and the hermits said they have solved the evil spirits here. Besides, even if they haven't solved it, if the teacher really lived here, the evil spirits would have been solved by her, right? Why do you ask this question?"
"Because I saw a ghost."
Two chains rustled out of his sleeves like long snakes, drilling through the stone slabs at the wellhead with a sonic boom. When Miss Danister walked to the door in confusion, Shade had already skillfully manipulated one of the chains through the "living rope trick" and pulled up the ghost that had escaped to the bottom of the well.
The ghost looked like a woman in her twenties. She grabbed the weeds at the edge of the well with both hands in fear, but was still pulled to the front of the wooden house by the chain wrapped around her right leg.
Her spirit was rapidly dissipating in the sunlight, so Shade swung it hard and flung the soul directly into the house.
"Ah, what are you going to do?"
The chains loosened, and the soul immediately tried to escape through the wall, but Miss Danister stretched out her hand and pointed, and complex red runes immediately covered the surface of the spirit.
So she, who was originally able to pass through walls, bumped into the wooden wall with a bang, then squatted down with her head covered.
"It's not an evil spirit. It just hasn't left because it still has an obsession."
The sorceress said that although the power was lost, the experience was still there:
"This is not the evil spirit from ten years ago. Judging from her appearance, she has been dead for two years at most. She must have appeared here after the lady left three years ago."
The ghost of the young girl who covered her forehead stood up against the wall and trembled as she looked at the two people in front of her. Her soul was almost not distorted, so it was definitely not an evil spirit.
"Found it. Another chain found a skeleton in the mud at the bottom of the well."
Xia De said again, and the soul said in horror:
"No, no! Please don't touch my body."
Shad and Miss Danister looked at each other, and the meaning in their eyes was the same - "You come or I come." But because Shad was a student, Shad finally played the villain:
"We are not bad people. What should we call you?"
The chains that held her in trembled beneath her feet, and the trembling soul answered:
"Ashley Bettany."
"Hello, Miss Bettany."
He smiled, and then found that the smile that used to win people's favor quickly didn't seem to work this time:
"Why are you here?"
"Because my body is here, don't touch my body, okay? I don't want to leave yet. I like this place."
She said pitifully that one cannot tell the hair color from a pure white soul, so she must have been very beautiful when she was alive.
"Then let me change the question. How long have you been here?"
Shade asked again, and the soul shook its head;
"I don't know. I'm not always awake and my memory is fuzzy sometimes."
This shows that the obsession is not very deep. Even if you ignore it, it will disappear in a few years.
"We came to you to find out something."
He glanced at Miss Danister, who then removed the red moon runes on her soul. She then drilled out of the wooden wall behind her. Shade stood still. After a few seconds, the cautious soul drilled back, but only half of its face was exposed in the wooden house:
"Well, go ahead and ask. What do you want to know?"
There was no need for her to be so cautious, as Shad's second chain was still at the bottom of the well, next to her body, and she couldn't escape even if she wanted to.
"Ms. Bettany, have you been at this lumberyard?"
“I go for a walk in the woods occasionally, but not far.”
"So is there anything unusual in this lumberyard? I mean, anything unusual besides you."
Shad pointed outside and the ghost Ashley Bettany pursed her lips and said nothing.
This situation was something Shade was very familiar with, so when the stranger, who was very familiar with the process, was about to speak, Miss Danister on the side spoke first and said bluntly:
"Don't ever tell us that we have to help you with something before you tell us about the situation here.
Listen, this nice-looking gentleman next to me might be willing to help you, but I don't have the patience. Now answer the question, you don't want to know what I would do! "
(End of this chapter)