novelonline Chapter 2710: World Tree Remains
Chapter 2710: World Tree Remains
Chapter 2710: World Tree Remains
"From the clothing and the order of memory, the person who was killed should be Theodore Bronte's wife."
Miss Bell said quietly.
After killing his wife, the owner of memory cast a spell to retain the soul of the grieving woman, and took a carriage to the family cemetery, sending her to the "edge of life and death".
He did not follow in, but stood alone in the empty cemetery and talked to himself:
"This is all for your own good. Death is for rebirth. Sooner or later, I will bring you all back to life and give you eternal life like me. Don't let go of what I have already obtained, whether it is my life or yours.
Why does the curse of time require me to be exposed to high concentrations of death power on a regular basis? This will greatly consume the vitality I absorb, making my consumption even greater. So, is this time urging me to kill?
So that's it. If I want to live longer, I have to make others lose their life span, so everyone's time is still conserved. That's right!"
The picture ended, and another series of incoherent pictures flashed by.
The witch sighed softly:
"He is indeed crazy."
At this point, the secrets of Bronte's initial contact with the tree hole, his discovery of the coffin and contact with the "Mourner", and the time curse he carried have all been revealed. Shade thought that there would be nothing important in the scattered scenes afterwards, but he didn't expect that the quickly flashing scenes would freeze again, but this time the scenes were quite strange.
"Is this a dream?"
The owner of the memory was walking through the dim woods at night, but the surrounding scenery was extremely unstable. Dynamic dark blocks of color kept reorganizing at the edge of the field of vision, and the clearest part in the center of the picture seemed to be covered with a gray filter.
Bronte stumbled as he walked, and the strange forest seemed to make way for him. Bronte in the dream probably didn't realize that he was dreaming, but just kept walking forward. Just when Shad was curious about what memorable thing he dreamed about, the road in the forest came to an end under the night sky.
At the end of the road, as Bronte raised her head in her dream, she saw a huge black tree that seemed to connect the sky and the earth.
"Moonlight Slash!"
The black branches that emerged from the picture clung to the wall of Room 317, and it seemed that they covered the entire ceiling and wall in just a moment. To Miss Bell, time seemed to be discontinuous, because the growth of those branches did not show a process.
The moonlight accurately hit the ritual base for reading soul memories, and even if the ritual was destroyed, it only interrupted the scene in Bronte's dream, but those dense branches still grew in the room.
The intermittent and incoherent time completely destroyed the stability of time in the room. In Miss Bell's eyes, everything around her became extremely strange because of the stop, speed up, and slowdown of time. As the fog in the narrow space of time poured into the room, the bodies of the witch and the red-haired girl became blurred at the same time.
"Damn, what is this?!"
"Meow!"
"Hold my hand!"
"Miss, you speak too fast and I can't hear you clearly!"
The chaotic room was in a mess for a moment. The cat made threatening noises at the surroundings, and the small flames that spewed out of its mouth actually slowed down the growth of the black branches.
But no one noticed it for the time being. Miss Bell had already squatted down with her head covered in pain, while Shade reached out and held the hands of the two ladies at the same time. Then he found that his hands also began to become transparent. Fortunately, this was not his first time entering the Vestal Forest.
"The return of time! Come back to me!"
He pushed forward with all his strength, and the two ladies staggered forward a step before their bodies became solid again. And Shade quickly summoned the [Staff of Yggdrasil], and then slammed the long staff on the ground:
"The stability principle of the ancient elves!"
After a thud, the emerald green light and the surrounding fog created resistance. Because the memory of the giant black tree had disappeared, the power that destroyed the stability of time had no source. As Shade output his spirit with a slightly ferocious expression, the gray fog and those threatening branches continued to shrink in the emerald green light.
He held the middle of the staff with both hands, unable to let go, but still shouted for help:
"No, give me my perfume!"
The two ladies reached out to him at the same time, and their hands touched on Shade's chest. The witch subconsciously retracted her hands, which led to the red-haired girl taking out the small bottle of perfume.
The cork was pulled out, and Shade took a deep breath, and the glowing pink liquid gathered into a stream and flowed into his mouth. He had been using essence frequently recently, and now there was only a layer of liquid left at the bottom of the bottle. If it weren't for Margaret's "practice" this morning, there wouldn't be a drop left at this moment.
But at least these remaining essences still replenished enough spirit for him. As his eyes emitted a faint pink light, the emerald green light emitting from the top of the long staff became stronger and stronger, squeezing the living space of the mist and those black branches.
Finally, before Shade was almost exhausted, the fog and branches all disappeared into the void.
"hu~hu~"
Shade panted and knelt on one knee, holding the staff. The cat cried worriedly. Miss Danister walked quickly to the cloakroom to check the wardrobe she had stored there. Miss Winslet went to help her apprentice, but she did not forget to ask Shade:
"How are you doing?"
"It's okay, it's okay, just let me catch my breath. How is Miss Bell?"
Even Mia was fine, but the young witch apprentice was seriously traumatized by the series of time anomalies. When she opened her eyes and woke up, she saw the three people in the room gathered around her.
She thought confusedly for a while before she remembered what had just happened. Her lips, moistened by the holy water, moved a few times, and then she whispered:
"That big tree, Miss, that big black tree that grew out of Bronte's dream, it's an evil thing, it's an ancient relic, it's the source of the instability of time in Vista Forest, it's..."
Her body twitched unnaturally. Miss Winslet wanted her to shut up and rest, but the witch apprentice, whose face became increasingly pale, still told the truth of what she saw when her spirit was almost crushed:
"I saw a vision, a great tree that collapsed and ended in ancient times, and its debris was scattered to all corners of the material world. The debris of the tree, the debris of the tree, it was in the Vista Grove. Yes, the debris of the tree, the Cursed Tree"
Black dead branches grew out of her mouth, but were immediately destroyed by the witch. Flora Winslet covered her mouth, and then used healing magic with Shade and Miss Danister.
The power of the sun, the silver moon, the red moon and nature enveloped her. The exhausted girl gradually fell into a deep sleep and her face calmed down.
Although the Council failed to provide more help, at least it provided enough potions and alchemical materials. They also gave Miss Bell a calming potion. After Shade confirmed that she was in better condition, the other girls went upstairs and took Miss Bell away to take care of her. The witch herself looked very unhappy:
"Is Charlotte telling the truth or not? The tree that York Bronte dreamed of."
"Could it be the teacher?"
The red-haired girl immediately asked Xia De, and Xia De immediately shook his head:
"Of course not. Miss Bell said it was a remnant from ancient times. And Ms. Carter's death was less than half a century ago, so it is unlikely that she would have a lasting impact on Creekwood and Vista Woods."
He motioned the two nervous ladies to relax and pulled them to sit down:
"I'm actually more curious about why Bronte dreamed of this?"
The three of them went to look at the soul core that had been recovered by Shade. The frozen soul was originally pure white, but now it was stained with dark lines. The witch had determined that it could no longer be viewed in any memory:
"If Charlotte wasn't crazy just now, then in addition to the countless paradox bugs, there are actually remains of the World Tree in Vista Forest? No, I feel scared just thinking about this possibility."
She pursed her lips in worry, but Shade didn't feel too surprised. Since it was already known that the material of the [Staff of Yggdrasil] was the dead world tree, then Luvia in her past life must have come into contact with the remains of the world tree.
And if we were to ask which of the thirteen chosen ones’ stories is most likely to have wreckage, it would definitely be now.
"But if it is really the remains of the World Tree, what happened just now?"
The red-haired girl asked in confusion:
"We didn't even see the real body directly, but through the memory of the soul, we saw what appeared in his dream. I only saw the outline of the black tree, and I still feel very uncomfortable mentally. I didn't have this feeling when I saw the paradox worm."
"If it is indeed the remains of the so-called World Tree, then that piece of debris probably turned into an evil object in an unknown ancient time."
This was worse than Shad had imagined. He had originally thought that the final opponent this time would be something like the "Paradox Worm King", or a monster whose body and soul had been completely mutated due to frequent time travel.
The three of them were silent, each thinking about different things. Finally, Miss Winslet spoke first:
"Whatever is in the Vista Forest, at least this time, we seem to have found the source of the local anomaly. The disaster of time first arose here, and it has been explained.
And we will face what comes next together, right? Now I understand why the Five Gods Church, the three major colleges, and our parliament were so cautious and did not send a large force directly to the local area.
I guess, even if they don’t know about the tree, they should have their own guesses.”
(End of this chapter)