novelonline Chapter 2685 Bronte's Story
Chapter 2685 Bronte's Story
Chapter 2685 Bronte's Story
The lady continued to answer expressionlessly:
"My son sent us here. Theodore didn't want us to leave. He couldn't let us escape death like him, so he trapped our souls here. I am in the chapel of the cemetery, his father is in the tomb on the left side of the underground cemetery, and his sister is under the tree behind the west wall of the cemetery.
In the future, Theodore's wife, possible children, and other brothers will also appear here after they die. Young man, it's not that I don't want to leave here, I just can't leave."
Xia De pressed the cat's head on his chest. He clearly felt that she wanted to speak and comment on this matter.
"So besides your son, who else has traveled through time?"
After all, the paradox worm has not been found yet. This question is very important, but this time the lady shook her head:
"I don't know. I was already dead when Theodore traveled through time. Everything I just mentioned to you was what he told me when he came to see me."
Shade frowned slightly:
"Then do you know how he traveled through time?"
"Tree hole."
The lady said this term accurately, but she then shut up and remained silent for a moment before continuing:
"I don't know how much you know about this. The legend of the Time Tree Hole has existed in Ximu Town since ancient times. I am the daughter of a noble family who married from another place. I am not born here. My husband didn't talk to me much when he was alive.
I just know that the Bronte family knew about the existence of the tree hole a long time ago. Although not every generation of Bronte would use the tree hole, my husband must have told the family secret to Theodore, which is probably how he can travel through time. "
Xia De had guessed from the beginning that the ancient families in the Ximu Town era knew the secret of the "tree hole", and here he got another confirmation. However, he didn't have time to deal with the more ancient things for the time being, and now he had to deal with the things in front of him first:
"Is that tree hole passed down from your family?"
If this is true, then the origin of the book that first appeared in the hands of Baron Cumming's mother, who was also Cumming's lover, is also questionable.
"I don't know. My husband and I rarely talk about time."
"And what was the mysterious being in the woods that your son saw, the one that doomed him to death?"
The lady still couldn't give an answer:
"I didn't know. When he found the mysterious being in the forest, I was already seriously ill and bedridden. When he came back, I had already died.
People living in Ximu Town all know that there are many mysterious things hidden and sleeping in this forest. Most of the surnames who have lived here for a long time know some of the secrets. Maybe he found something from the materials left by his ancestors in the family collection, or maybe it was just the desire for immortality that made him glimpse the darkness in the forest. "
Then Shade asked her some questions, such as the identities of the members of the Bronte family and whether there were any other abnormalities in the Bronte family. The lady was willing to answer all of them, and she only wanted Shade to do one thing, which was to save York Bronte from "immortality":
"Young man, please kill my son and free us. His existence has become a curse. I can clearly feel that he is rejected by all souls."
The curse here refers to the nature of the existence of "Dead Apostles" itself, not the time curse. Therefore, Shade still wants to find out what the other party's time curse is, but unfortunately the lady really doesn't know.
After confirming that there were no clues here, Shade temporarily left the small hall with the cat and returned to the outside world shrouded in fog. Half of the time for this time travel had passed, and they had to speed up the progress.
"Did you notice the timing?"
The cat on the chest reminded:
“The correct sequence is: Theodore Bronte knew of his destined death, then he traveled through time to escape death and became a Dead Apostle and was cursed by time. So his being cursed and becoming a Dead Apostle happened almost at the same time.
According to the rules of time travel, the stronger you are, the stronger the time curse you will receive. Although the curse on Theodore Bronte, a Dead Apostle, may not be stronger than ours, it is definitely not a trivial matter such as death by touching gold. "
Xia De once again looked at the grave where the coffin was buried:
"And he was still a three-ring sorcerer from 1821 to 1854. There's something wrong with that. My friend told me about the Dead Apostles. They directly changed the essence of life. Even if he was not a very talented sorcerer, he couldn't have failed to reach the middle ring after becoming a Dead Apostle."
"So the curse means that your level is limited? You can never break through the third ring?"
"The noble lady just now didn't know whether her son was a transcendent or not. There is still some time left. Let's move quickly and ask other people. Aren't his sister and father here too?"
Just like the noble lady who had completely turned into a vengeful spirit, the old baron and the woman in her thirties had also turned into terrifying vengeful spirits because their spirits had been on the brink of life and death for a long time.
The old baron's spirit in the underground tomb mutated and merged with a corpse, becoming a mutant corpse ghost that could achieve full body etherealization. It fought with Shade in the narrow tomb and broke away from him with one blow, relying on its ability to pass through walls to escape, and even wanted other undead wandering in the tomb to attack Shade.
Shade was in a hurry and had no time to tangle with him. He relied on his strong body to break through the earth walls and chased after him. Then he destroyed the corpse ghost's body with a lightning spear. After purifying it with moonlight, he wanted to ask the same question as before, but the witch gave a bad answer:
"No, he has been dead for longer than that noble lady. His soul is completely lost. It is impossible to even extract his memories."
Fortunately, Theodore Bronte's sister died the shortest time. When Shade found her in the woods outside the cemetery, the young woman's soul rushed over with a shovel. The ghosts of this family all have more powerful power than ordinary souls. The special thing about this ghost is not the shovel in her hand, but her ability to conjure up exploding apples.
But the vengeful spirit is still a vengeful spirit. After being successfully subdued by Shade and restored to normal by the witch, she also provided important information to the two:
"Yes, my brother is a ring wizard. That happened two years before my mother died. In order to treat my mother who was seriously ill, he gradually changed his research from medicine to mysticism. And one day he suddenly told me that he heard another voice of his own in his ear."
The soul of Anna Brontë stood quietly under the tree. She died at the age of 31 and unmarried, which was a completely tragic life in this era and in 1854:
"Theodore likes to communicate with me very much. I know a lot about him. After hearing the voice in his ear, he spent a lot of money to buy a potion to make himself a ring wizard. But he said that the potion he bought had side effects, and he would never be able to touch a higher power in his life."
This is the shortcoming of the irregular employment of a ring sorcerer. The ritual methods mastered by the Five Gods Church and the three major academies are the formal ways to get a job.
"Two years later, my mother also died of illness, and my health also deteriorated. At my mother's funeral, Theodore told me that he had achieved immortality, and he promised to make me the same.
I turned him down, and Theodore was already in a very bad mental state.”
"After he achieved so-called immortality, did you notice any differences between him and before? For example, details of his life."
Shade asked, and the girl's soul answered after digging out her dormant memories:
"He developed a taste for raw meat."
But this is also a manifestation of humans transforming into Dead Apostles, not a time curse.
"After my mother died, a series of disappearances occurred in the town, but the missing people were all from outside the town, and the town couldn't find the murderer. I always suspected that he was the one who did it, but I was seriously ill in bed at the time and couldn't investigate."
This is probably the crime of Theodore Bronte killing people and sucking their life force. Father Augustus said that the Dead Apostles prefer humans and highly intelligent alien creatures to plants and ordinary animals.
"Except for this year, he frequently appeared in this strange world of the dead and chatted with me, my mother, and my father. Even though we were no longer able to respond to him, he still came to visit us frequently after we lost our minds. I originally thought he was missing his family, but now I think about it... he just seems to like the environment here very much."
But this is not right. Although "Dead Apostles" sound like immortal undead creatures, undead creatures are normally produced by "death", while "Dead Apostles" are neither alive nor dead. They are definitely not undead, and it is even more impossible for them to like "the edge of life and death".
Therefore, "liking to stay on the edge of life and death" is not a quality that Theodore Bronte should possess.
A smile appeared on Shade's lips. He felt that he had grasped the point. The cat in his arms also realized this, but she thought of more things:
"How did your brother find this place? Your family cemetery is also here. Could it be that your ancestors knew about the existence of the edge of life and death?"
The girl's soul was not surprised by the cat's speech, and her emotions remained indifferent:
"At least before my parents died, none of us knew about the existence of such a place. It was also after my mother died that Theodore often came here. I originally thought he was here to mourn his parents, but only after my mother died did I find out that he had been coming in and out of this place frequently since her death."
"Before your mother died, did anything like the resurrection of the dead happen in your family cemetery?"
Xia De asked again, and the soul shook his head. This is very interesting. The edge of life and death overlaps with this area, and this place happens to be a cemetery, but there has not been a single resurrection of the dead. This can only mean that this world actually opened up a gap after their mother died.