novelonline Chapter 2842 Bait Plan
Chapter 2842 Bait Plan
Chapter 2842 Bait Plan
"Emilia performed very well. She had been fighting the opponent for quite a while before Flora and I found her. We may have underestimated you before."
Shade was not stingy with his praise for the elf, while Emilia shook her head rather embarrassedly.
"The Tree Hole Association has dispatched its elite troops this time, probably hoping to complete the assassination unexpectedly. Emilia did a good job, and the Watchmaker underestimated the enemy."
This was Vanessa's own judgment, but she was somewhat proud of it:
"She just happened to run into me. I bet that except for the Speaker, no one in the entire parliament can stop the 'watchmaker'. And those high-level sorcerers of the Tree Hole Association, my previous thoughts were indeed correct. Gravity is one of the nemesis of 'accelerated time'."
The stranger wanted to popularize the theory of gravitational time dilation that he had learned, that is, the greater the distortion rate of space-time caused by gravity, the slower time passes. But after thinking about it, it seemed to be a simple "gravity causes time to slow down, thus causing the effect of the 'Speed Spell' to become worse", so he did not discuss this matter at an inappropriate time:
"I feel very strange about the halfling killer Emilia encountered. Nowadays, most halflings live together with the three major colleges. There are no independent tribes anymore, and there are no famous ring sorcerers. But the guy just now was obviously a high-ring sorcerer, and he is proficient in the power of time and space. I feel that he is not from our time.
But on the way back just now, I swallowed a beacon acorn and didn't find the time traveler. "
"So the other party's time travel is legal? That halfling is the helper that the 'watchmaker' called from the unknown time and space in the past?"
Flora asked. She sat on the couch with Miss Danister, Shad and Vanessa sat opposite, and Emilia sat on the chair brought by Miss Bell.
"I feel so."
The elf girl raised her right hand and said, she was very sure of this:
"When I saw that halfling, I instinctively felt that he was a helper called in during the Time War."
Then he hesitated and added:
"I have a vague feeling that the other party seems to be from the Fourth Age."
That was an era older than the Witch Era, and was called the "Age of Chaos and Darkness" by people today. Shade's knowledge of that era was limited to books, not textbooks, but the ancient books treasured in the library of the [Spiritual Cult].
The mainstream system in the Third Age was the Witch Hunter, in the Fifth Age it was the Witch, and now it is the Ringwitch, while in the Fourth Age it is the "Mystic". People in that era generally used powers that were considered very evil and strange by the Ringwitch, and the witches in the Fifth Age called their spells "Mystic", which was also related to the era before them.
"Shad, how strong do you think that halfling is?"
The red-haired girl asked Xia De, and Xia De thought about it carefully:
"The opponent didn't fight me for too long, and he is very good at hiding his aura, so we can only judge that he is roughly at our high level. According to Emilia, he is proficient in the power of time, space and shadow. If he comes to assassinate Emilia again, it will be difficult for us to stop him in the first place.
Besides, we still don’t know how they found Emilia. She just arrived here yesterday afternoon, which was too quick to be exposed.”
"It is impossible for our followers to leak secrets. The witches can guarantee the absolute loyalty of their followers, so the other party is most likely relying on the power of divination."
Vanessa speculated, and Flora agreed with this speculation. The red-haired girl said to Shade:
"In any case, we can't let Emilia encounter an accident before she can use her qualifications. Since they were able to find Emilia today, this incident can happen a second time. Shade, is there any way to solve it? Let Miss Anat tell fortunes for her."
"Okay, I. No, Luvia is not in a good mental state right now and needs to rest. But we don't just have one fortune teller."
Shade turned to Emilia and asked:
"Amelia, would you mind going to Moon Bay?"
The "space maze" of Moon Bay is located in the dragon's nest near the "St. George Stone Bridge" outside the city. Emilia also recorded the coordinates there in the summer, but this time Shad did not go to Moon Bay through there. Instead, he took Emilia back to the "Glorious Messenger" and asked Miss Elither to drive a boat with a boat full of people to Moon Bay Port.
"Is this why you showed up in Moon Bay?"
The afternoon wind blew from the sea to the port, and the weather in Yuewan City was very good today. After the "dragon disaster" in the summer, this city of wealth temporarily returned to peace.
Thanks to the strong support of the Angevin royal family, the post-disaster reconstruction work in Yuewan went smoothly. The docks and ports are the most important areas in Yuewan, so they recovered the fastest. Now standing on the deck, there is almost no trace of the disaster.
Thousands of sails stood upright on the sea surface of the harbor, and porters and sailors were busy working on the dock. The countess, who had heard the news, met Shade on the deck of the "Glorious Messenger" with her head maid, Miss Matilda.
Both the master and the servant have beautiful golden hair. The Countess, who has not yet been able to go to Vestal Forest, has not seen Shade for several months.
"I thought you came here just to see me."
The golden eyes spoke with a smile, and the beautiful birthmark between the eyebrows was still so eye-catching:
"But what happened to Luvia? Why did she come to me for divination?"
She waved her hand and asked Shad to take her to see Emilia. When Shad turned around, he looked at Matilda. The young blonde maid winked at him. For some reason, Shad thought of Tifa's "teaching" in the summer.
He felt guilty for his thoughts, but then he saw the maid lick her lips, and he no longer felt guilty.
Emilia was now waiting in the cabin for the Countess to arrive, but Miss Belindel greeted the witches on the ship before going to find her.
However, the countess was not used to being disturbed when she was fortune-telling, so even Shade was "driven" out this time. She only allowed Matilda and her two nine-ring maids to follow her into the room.
Shade had no choice but to wait for them in the cabin corridor. Ajelina, who was carrying a cat, was also there at this time. She asked Shade worriedly:
"I heard someone wants to assassinate Emilia, right?"
"Yes, it should be for the qualification of being chosen. We still don't know how the other party tracked down Emilia."
Shade explained it to her and assured her that Emilia would be fine:
"We are just in Moon Bay, so let Miss Belindel check on you later. Although Luvia's divination skills are very powerful, she is not as knowledgeable as the witches. Maybe Miss Belindel can help you."
But Ajelina was still very worried about her friends. When she followed Shad and her sister to other cities in the past, she only felt that the dangers and battles were for others.
It was not until this brief visit to Vista Forest that she realized how close those things were to her. After all, in her opinion, Shade was almost omnipotent and could solve any danger, but Emilia was as fragile as herself.
The Countess's divination did not take too long. After the door opened, she gave Shade the answer directly:
"Hunters will use some special methods to mark their prey, and Emilia is marked now. This is not the magic I am familiar with, but anyway, as long as the mark is not removed, the person who released the mark can find her again.
But the other party can't always sense the mark. I just helped Emilia block the spy from fate. The other party will definitely not be able to find Emilia before ten o'clock tomorrow morning."
"But how did he mark Emilia? After she came to Vista Glade, she never left our side."
Xia De asked, and the witch with a beautiful birthmark on her forehead could only give a guess:
"Either the other party already knew Emilia's identity, or they used a very high-end relic to assist. But the greater possibility is that the other party paid a huge price and directly locked onto Emilia's existence. This is not an ordinary method. Although I can find a way to help Emilia remove the mark, it will take at least a week to prepare."
"So she'll be attacked again tomorrow morning?"
Bella Belindel then smiled and said:
“I am now a twelfth-level witch of fate. Believe in my ability. Although it takes time to remove the mark, I can share the mark with others. In this way, they will not know where the real Emilia is, right?”
Xia De immediately asked:
"My idea is that if we can use this opportunity to lure the other party out and completely destroy him, that would be great. Miss Belindel, can your method make the other party completely mistake me or Vanessa for Emilia?"
The Countess shook her head.
"Sharing a mark can only confuse people to a certain extent, but the opponent's tracking skills are so powerful. If you want to completely turn Emilia into two or three, you'd better ask Flora for help."
"Flora? Why?"
"Her Transfiguration can transform her into someone else. She transformed into Emilia's appearance, and with the mark I shared with her, there should be no problem. Why are you so surprised? She must have said that she can also transform into someone else, right?"
More than a month ago, when Shad heard Carina talk about Flora for the first time, the Duke did mention that Flora could transform into the appearance of other humans (Chapter 2555), but Shad had never seen Flora do that, and she usually only transformed into animals, so Shad subconsciously ignored the fact that she had such an ability.