novelonline Chapter 3026: Sword Dance Spirit (Seeking Follow-up Reading)
Chapter 3026: Sword Dance Spirit (Seeking Follow-up Reading)
Chapter 3026: Sword Dance Spirit (Seeking Follow-up Reading)
Just like a mirror being shattered by a stone, the real space shattered around the two people, and then reorganized into a time transit station in the darkness.
Shad and Emilia drew their swords at the same time, the blood and green light reflected their serious faces. They went down the stairs to the first floor, where Thomas Bennet was waiting for them.
The innkeeper did not wear the relic mask this time. He stood behind the counter and nodded to the two of them as if he was welcoming guests, with not much expression on his face.
The life ring had already appeared behind him, but it was not the original level but the current eleventh level. The life ring was still made of brass, but densely packed tree roots were entangled on it, leaving only gaps where the spirit runes were imprinted to allow the spirit light to radiate, making his life ring look like it had grown larger out of thin air.
Emilia took a step forward on her own initiative, and the eight emerald jade life rings behind her also appeared.
Although the two had heard of each other for a long time, this was actually the first time Thomas Bennett saw Emilia, and if nothing unexpected happened, it would probably be the last time. He looked at the young girl inquiringly, and then sighed softly:
"The description of the ancients is indeed correct. The second candidate is a pure-blooded elf. Although I have seen many things in my life, this is the first time I have actually seen an elf."
Seeing that the other party had no intention of taking action immediately, Xia De asked:
"The life ring represents the power of the soul, so do you really want to give up being a human being?"
Thomas Bennet shook his head and came out from behind the counter:
"Do you know the story of our family? We have received the grace of the tree. My most distant ancestor received the power of the ancients under the tree, and the mark of time and the tree has been left in our blood.
I am still very self-aware. If I don't use the power of the ancients, I am destined to die. But if I can really stop you, I may have a very long way to go in the future."
He raised his right hand and held it upright, and the emerald green lines woven into leaf patterns:
"In the name of Yggdrasil, elf, this is our battle of time."
The door on the first floor opened with a bang, but behind it was not thick darkness, but the dark street scene in front of the Accordion Hotel.
There, time was also frozen in an instant. Thomas Bennet made a please gesture and walked out directly.
Emilia wanted to follow him out, but she heard a telepathic message from Shade:
"Something is wrong. Last time he said he wanted to be free and then search for a way to resurrect his wife in the endless river of time. Why is he so resigned to his fate now?"
Emilia reluctantly answered in Shade’s mind:
"Did the tree force him? He shouldn't be able to resist, right?"
The scene of the "Time Transfer Station" was now expanded to areas outside the first floor of the hotel, or perhaps the original "transit station" was not just on the first floor of the hotel, it was just not open before.
After going outside, there was no star or moon above my head, only darkness. There was no light in the city as far as I could see. At that moment, the city seemed to be dead.
"Strictly speaking, this place is indeed not real in terms of space. Vista Forest exists based on the remains of the World Tree in terms of time and space, and this place can actually be considered the interior of the World Tree's remains, located in a space opposite to reality."
Standing on the street facing the two people walking out of the door, Thomas Bennet seemed to have something extra in the darkness behind him.
Xia De tried hard to look, and found that it was a grave with a cross tombstone, but when he looked more carefully, there were clearly more graves densely packed behind the grave.
The dead silence of the city made Thomas Bennett's voice particularly loud. Emilia also saw the grave behind him clearly, so she couldn't help asking:
"You clearly used the power of the tree, but in the end you wanted to summon the dead?"
"Undead?"
The middle-aged businessman shook his head slightly. From the densely packed graves behind him, rotten corpses crawled out one after another. Xia De could feel that there was a soul in each corpse.
The corpses were wearing rags from different eras, their backs were hunched, and some even had a small part of their leg bones missing. Different life rings appeared from the backs of the corpses, the highest level was eleven rings, and the lowest level was three rings.
Because they are no longer alive, the life rings of these corpses are not made entirely of brass. However, each life ring is wrapped with tree roots, just like Thomas Bennett, and Thomas Bennett also gave the answer:
"These are my ancestors. They are the ones who have been operating the time transfer stations in the Hunter's Lodge, Bennett Village, Creekwood Town, and Vista City that once stood in this darkness since the 507th year of the Sixth Era."
"So, those of you who have served the tree your entire lives, in fact, even your souls cannot leave after you die? Are you afraid that someone will communicate with them and learn the secret of the transfer station?"
Shade asked, but Thomas Bennett did not answer the question, but said to him calmly:
"Your opponent is my ancestor, and my opponent is your elf. Godcaller, even if you want to kill me right now, don't violate the rules of the Time War. Go, the whole city is your battlefield, and this street is where I will have a decisive battle with this elf."
He held the lantern in his right hand and the black wood he used last time in his left hand. However, this time the wood did not turn into a crossbow, but into a black cane. Although Emilia still looked very nervous, she nodded to Shade gently. She had to fight this battle by herself.
Shad then leaped lightly into the air - after learning to fly, the "frog leap" completely lost its value. And the corpses that crawled out of the graves behind Bennett were either flying, jumping, clinging to the wall like spiders, transforming into animals, or simply running fast on their legs, all scattered throughout the dark city.
Looking down at the silent Vesta City from high above, Shade raised the staff in his hand:
"It's still too dark here—moonlight!"
Then, just like a silver sun blooming above the city, the dazzling and pure moonlight illuminated every corner of the city. Emilia held the Ocarina of Time and could even see the details of every pore on Thomas Bennett's face twenty meters away under the moonlight. She knew that this was the greatest help Shade could provide her within the rules.
"Then it's finally started."
The elf whispered to herself in her heart, the gentleness of the moonlight let her know that Shade was by her side, and the future elven queen then swung her sword forward. As the silver moonlight dragon roared and flew over her head, the two people confronting each other under the moonlight also entered a state of accelerated time at the same time.
[Ocarina of Time] The sword emits streams of light as it is swung. The two of them come into close contact. Emilia jumps into the enemy's attack range with light steps. The blade collides with the cane. The long sword leaves a green afterimage with every dance, like a meteor blooming in the dark night.
The gorgeous elven sword dance originated from the heritage of the ancient elves. Her movements were already as fast as lightning in the accelerated time state. Now she was attacking with the posture of sword dance. The afterimage even made countless frozen postures of the elves appear around Thomas Bennett.
The sword dance was as smooth as water. Not only did the blade strike the cane, but even the tip of the sword could hit the time barrier created by the lantern light in every rotation. Ripples echoed in the light around Thomas Bennett. Although his cane danced like the wind, it was clear that his level of cold weapon combat was not as good as that of the elves with a legitimate heritage.
Then suddenly the lantern in his hand flickered, and the rapid slowdown of time in the airtight light area made Emilia's figure, which had almost turned into a ball of light, become clear again. The elf's short boots stepped on the ground, his figure suddenly stopped, and the [Ocarina of Time] in his hand suddenly stabbed forward.
Time slowed down, and the stabbing sword seemed to sink into the mud, but then the sword tore through the sticky time and space like a sharp emerald light. At the same time, Emilia suddenly injected power into the sword, and the sword body emitted a distant flute sound, and the rhythm of time was redirected.
A dark time crack opened behind Thomas Bennett who was casting the spell silently, and then dry vines emerged from the crack. These vines that lost their vitality due to suppressing the doomsday cracks now have the ability to suppress time anomalies.
The vines tried to entangle Emilia like the chains of time, so Emilia lightly leaped up, her body as swift as a swallow, and she tapped the vines with her toes, then spun her whole body like a dancer and leaped high into the sky.
The elf recalled the powerful Fifth Era dragon maids who spread their wings and flew to the sea one after another, just to compete to see who could catch more fish at one time. The hunting techniques that the red dragon Fiona Drago described with a smile were mastered by her at this moment, so she slashed down with a sword, and the whole elf also pounced down like a giant dragon.
The spiritual light emanating from the sword was like the crescent moon that cuts through the night sky at this moment. The light of the sword dance made the afterimage of the [Ocarina of Time] in his hand like a blooming lotus, attacking the man holding the lantern in a spiral force.
Thomas Bennett felt like he was really facing a giant dragon, but he was not panicked. The eleventh ring warlock urged the life ring to continue to release magic. When he raised the lantern above his head, in the strong firelight, even Emilia was frozen in the air for a full second.
All the brilliant auras caused by the sword dance were frozen like the light and shadow in a photo. When Emilia came to her senses, Thomas Bennett had already avoided the center of the sword storm, and then his body merged into the light and shadow of the lantern and disappeared.