novelonline Chapter 2943 The Powerful Owl
Chapter 2943 The Powerful Owl
Chapter 2943 The Powerful Owl
That afternoon, feeling that he had rested enough, Shade originally wanted to go to the underground of the abandoned mine. He had first seen the "guardian" there in order to track down the so-called "mithril vein", and he wanted to confirm whether he could find the trace of that special bug again in this way.
But there are always more changes than arrangements. Just after lunch, news came from the city that an entire street in the old town of Vista City suddenly disappeared in the thick fog, and then it became another street that seemed to have been replaced from the past time and space.
This kind of thing would not be considered a big deal in today's Vista Woods, but after investigation, there were no signs of any relics or other forces involved in this accident.
In other words, this is the first completely naturally occurring large-scale time anomaly accident that has occurred within the urban area. This is a very important and bad signal, indicating that local problems are imminent.
The witches' investigation also encountered some minor troubles. When Vanessa led the team to explore the mineral veins in the woods that afternoon, two girls from the Central Ring in the team disappeared inexplicably.
The witches searched for half an afternoon before they found them near the blocked forest area of the Love Lake. But the two girls from the Golden Dawn Opera Troupe only thought they were separated from the team for five minutes, and they didn't even realize that they were "missing".
And Xia De, who was almost called out to find someone, was busy dealing with Flora's affairs this afternoon.
Since returning from death last night, the chubby, round-faced owl has fallen into a strange state of "hibernation".
Because Grandma Cassandra said that she was fine, and believed that her soul power increased too quickly and the owl's body could not bear it and fell into a protective hibernation, so Shad went to Moon Bay with peace of mind in the morning.
But in the afternoon, Flora still hadn't woken up, so at the suggestion of the knowledgeable Miss Danister, Shad took her deep into the woods, and found the temple of the old god [Lord of Beasts] that the academy had discovered a few days ago in the depths of the dense forest.
Although this god passed away in the Fifth Age, it is hard to say whether he is an evil god or not. He is the protector of wild beasts and the epitome of wildness. In the werewolf tribe, except for the werewolves who believe in the moon, represented by Miss Bister, most other werewolves actually believe in this god.
This old god had no good reputation in the Fifth Age, but his followers did not appear in the local area during the Vestal Forest incident. However, this did not prevent Shade, Dorothy and Miss Danister from performing a ceremony to appease the soul of the owl wrapped in a blanket according to the ancient ritual recorded in the book.
"Meow~"
The cat walked around the owl in the blanket, and Shad really thought it regarded Flora as a fellow owl. But if this happened, the cat would probably be very disappointed when Flora's time curse was lifted.
"Oh, it feels like I slept for quite some time, I hope I didn't miss anything important."
When Owl opened her eyes and subconsciously changed back to human form, she had returned to her room on the cruise ship. She felt very good, and even for a moment she thought she had returned to her peak state. But after careful consideration, she realized that she was only very close to the eleventh level in human form, and was still a small step away from the true eleventh level before the curse.
But this has already shown that the feeling of being partially freed from the shackles of the "time curse" in death yesterday was not an illusion. She accepted death in death, so the strength of the soul and the blessing of death also partially freed her from the effect of the curse.
Turning around, Flora saw a beautiful girl with brown hair sitting at the table holding a book.
"Megan? How did you get here? Did I sleep for a long time?"
The wise twin witches immediately stood up in panic and said excitedly:
"Flora, you woke up. I mean, you finally woke up! After so many years, we all had given up."
"what?"
"But you woke up at the right time. Xia De is having a wedding today, and we have reserved a concierge seat for you. Hurry up and change your clothes and come with me!"
Flora, who had just woken up, felt dizzy:
"What? Sorry, a wedding? With who? Shade and you?"
Then another pair of arms stretched out from behind Megan's neck and crossed in front of Megan's chest. Audrey's head then stretched out from behind Megan's head with a malicious smile on her face:
"We don't know who he's marrying yet, but it's definitely not you."
"what!"
The screams probably meant that Flora had recovered well, while Megan and Audrey, who had frightened Miss Owl, were scolded for a long time by Grandma Cassandra.
"We just wanted to play a little joke on Flora~"
Of course, Flora did not fall into a coma until the time when Shad was about to get married. In fact, when she woke up, it was still Thursday, not even dinner time.
Megan and Audrey also arrived at Vista Grove that afternoon. The two sisters, along with their followers, drove a cruise ship belonging to Paradise Island Pharmaceuticals along the Aronson River, and then parked the cruise ship next to the disguised Shining Messenger.
As soon as the twin witches got on board, they came to Flora's room and greeted Shade who was guarding there. It was during the brief few minutes when Shade went to the bathroom that Miss Owl woke up, which led to Megan and Audrey's "little joke".
Mother-in-law Cassandra then examined Flora's body again and concluded that the time curse on Flora had been greatly reduced - although she was still an owl, she had become a more powerful owl.
After complaining a little about Megan and Audrey, Flora also summed up what she had gained from her short journey into death last night:
“Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new journey. Some people are waiting, while others are moving forward with their heads held high. Death is not completely cold and without temperature, but like a small spark in the burnt charcoal. I used to be afraid of that coldness, but now I am willing to try to accept that cold but gentle temperature, just like the moon in the underworld.”
In short, just as Shade had guessed, Flora herself had a hunch that as long as she completely got rid of the shackles of the time curse, she would be able to step onto the twelfth level immediately. Although this was already the standard level of the great witches who had seen Shade in the parliament today - minus the oldest and the youngest (Vanessa didn't count), the Great Witch of Death had only caught up with everyone else, but she was still happy about it.
In addition to weakening the curse, she actually gained something else. The gift from Jindel and the little dragon before they left increased the upper limit of Shade's spirit, but Flora gained a new transformation form, which is Transfiguration-Dragon.
"With the Unicorn Transformation and the Dragon Transformation combined, I can now truly be called a master of Transfiguration!"
However, she did not immediately try to transform into a dragon. Granny Cassandra thought that she should try to avoid switching between forms other than human-owl recently to prevent accidents from happening to her fragile ordinary owl body. Of course, it was not that she could not use Transfiguration at all, but she just couldn't do it too often.
After sorting out her own affairs, when Flora woke up and tried to understand the situation outside, she actually felt like she had been sleeping for many years. Because in just one day, the accidents in Vista Forest were more than those in the original week.
"Did something happen? Did the departure of the dragon beast cause the deterioration of the time order, or was it a symbolic event that the watchmaker defeated a candidate?"
But Shad thought that these two things were only the last piece of dessert that crushed Mia. The matter of Vista Forest had been fermenting for such a long time, and the balance that had been maintained with great effort was finally going to be broken.
Starting from this afternoon, with Vista Woodland as the center, time-related accidents of varying sizes have occurred all over the material world. It seems that within just one day, "streets have been replaced with their past appearances", "disappeared people from hundreds of years ago suddenly appear", and even "new grain in the granary has become old grain" have become commonplace in various places.
"Wait, the last thing seems to be a means of corruption, right?"
That night, during the meeting in the banquet hall of the Radiant Messenger, Bella frowned and asked Xivi, who was standing in front of the blackboard. The Great Witch of Light nodded and erased the words she had just written.
The intelligence from other places was gathered together by witch followers from all over the place and handed over to her. After all, although Xivi was no longer the highest-ranking one among the eight great witches currently gathered, she was still the witch with the highest seat for the time being - the third seat.
"In short, the density of accidents is now above average."
Because this was Flora's first time participating in such a big event, Xiwei added:
"The so-called average value refers to the statistics of the seven major events before the disaster broke out, which was then summarized and weighted averaged according to the order in which the events occurred. The accident density data from all over the world has now exceeded the warning line we set, which can basically be regarded as the initial signal that a major disaster is about to break out."
In addition to the ladies of the Witch Council, there were other people present, such as Miss Danister. The red-haired girl agreed with this simple statistical method, and she also brought news from the academy:
"The church is asking about Emilia's whereabouts. After their candidate lost, Emilia is the only one left in our camp out of the seven candidates. Of course, there are only five people actually participating in the Time War, but this is still not good news."
(End of this chapter)