novelonline Chapter 3379: Experiment of Freezing Time
Chapter 3379: Experiment of Freezing Time
Chapter 3379: Experiment of Freezing Time
"The task is to read the newspaper for two consecutive days, which is easy."
Shad smiled as he spoke, and Luvia knew at a glance that Shad thought that "good luck" was ended by "bad luck", so "good luck" would come again soon.
The girls went to work. Before leaving for the snowy mountains, Shade went to the academy and told Danister to pick up Emilia to go to the island tomorrow:
"Let Emilia concentrate on preparing for her coronation ceremony. We can't always take up her time."
Needless to say, Shad could imagine the pointy-eared girl's lost look, but he really didn't want to keep delaying Emilia's classes and homework.
Considering that if there was time today, they would go to the spring mentioned by the elders, Shade took Mia to Fatumonster Island. Claire knew that Shade was going to the Ice Castle again today, so she did not wait for him in the Snow Mountain Hall.
Shad said hello to Elder Harald, and then went into the snowy mountains with Ellie.
Shade couldn't understand the unicorn's words, but the unicorn could understand Shade. Just like last week, it took Shade to wander around in the cedar forest, and at ten o'clock in the morning, it took him to find the cave on the rock wall. After passing through the cave, they entered the unobservable part of the snow mountain again.
The location of the cave exit this time was a little different from the last time. Shad didn't recognize the location until he saw the narrow canyon entrance.
After entering the canyon, he unexpectedly discovered that although the huge ice sheet covering the sky of the canyon had several large holes hit last Friday, the ice sheet is now intact.
The sunlight was scattered into colorful rays towards the canyon under the ice cap, making the castle complex at the end of the canyon even more beautiful. In front of the castle, there were still densely packed ice sculptures, but this time they were really just ice sculptures.
Ellie knew that the demon had been driven away, so she was more lively this time when she "went home" than last time. After entering the canyon, she left Shad behind and ran happily in the snow in front of the castle.
Xia De really hoped that Mia could be as lively as this, but unfortunately the cat barked a few times at Ellie threateningly before going up the mountain, and then went straight into his pocket. It was unwilling to run around in the snow.
As Shade walked through the canyon towards the castle, he did not forget to look at the sky in front of the castle. The dark iron-colored spiritual light had disappeared, and although if one carefully felt it, one could still detect very faint whispering elements scattered around the canyon, this level of whispering elements was already quite slight.
It seems that the castle maid has successfully dealt with that big trouble.
When Shade arrived in front of the castle, Ellie had already rushed into the castle. And the ice maid that Shade had just thought of was already standing at the top of the steps in front of the castle gate waiting for him.
She was dressed the same as she had been the week before, and she bowed in greeting as Shade came up the stairs:
"Please come with me."
Last time, we went straight through the gate, but today the castle was still closed. After going through the ice layer directly like last time, the temperature inside the castle was actually about the same as outside, and it was not as cold as when Shade and Miss Sabel came last Friday.
I guess the low temperatures they experienced in the castle last Friday were also part of the test.
The maid led Shad all the way to the fourth floor, and the last room they entered was the reception room where Emilia and Ellie had waited for him to complete the test last time.
The maid asked Shad to wait for a moment while she went to prepare tea. When she came back five minutes later, Ellie had already come into the room and was lying obediently beside Shad's legs on the sofa, eating an apple.
"Is it my imagination? The kid looks a little fatter than he was half a week ago."
The maid asked as she placed the tray on the coffee table. Ellie ignored her and Shade wanted to laugh.
"Ally was already somewhat malnourished, and is still relatively thin. Although this looks like black tea, I want to confirm, is this really black tea?"
He pointed to the coffee table, and the maid said respectfully:
"Yes, this is the black tea specially prepared for you. It was left by His Majesty before he left."
"So let's not beat around the bush - where's Chloe?"
Xia De picked up the teacup. The maid did not sit down, but stood across from the tea table. It was as if Xia De was interrogating her:
"To you, His Majesty is certainly in the past. I know what you are guessing, but I'm sorry, His Majesty is not here."
The taste of the black tea was unexpectedly good, and Xia De was not disappointed:
"So can you tell me now? Why did Chloe leave this castle on this island? I have come into contact with the echoes left by Chloe on the snowy mountain, and I know that she already knew that I would appear on this island in the Sixth Era."
But the maid shook her head slightly:
“This one.”
"Excuse me for interrupting. Sorry, I forgot to ask you - what is your name? What should I call you from now on?"
Xia De asked again at this time, and the ice maid showed some surprise on her face, but soon her expression turned into a smile:
"You can call me 'Winnie'. I am not a pure elemental life, but a combination of the castle's consciousness and elemental life."
"Winnie" is a very common name.
"Please sit down and talk. I'm not used to people standing and talking to me."
Shade made another request, but just like Tifa, a professional maid would refuse even the excessive opinions of her master:
"I want to correct you on one thing. Although His Majesty guessed that you might appear on this island, this castle was not specially prepared for you. If His Majesty wanted to leave you something and you were sure to receive it, then you should have received many gifts from His Majesty long ago.
Time has its own rules. Things that are specially left for you may not stay. "
Shade also understood this truth, otherwise Miss Violet and Theresa, who lived at the end of the Fifth Era, would not have sent only Miss Eliza.
"So what is this place?"
"This is just one of your majesty's laboratories. Although it looks like a castle, it is actually far from the castle that the demigod witches actually live in."
"laboratory?"
Shade glanced at Ellie who was chewing an apple:
"Can you tell me what experiments Chloe is doing?"
"Of course. Your Majesty wants to study the power of freezing living things and freezing their time as well. In this way, when the freeze is lifted, no matter how much time has passed in the outside world, it will only be a moment for the frozen object. This is actually a time jump.
This research was carried out simultaneously in multiple laboratories, starting with plants, then expanding to small animals such as ants, and finally medium-sized animals such as goats, until it involved alien life with extraordinary powers. "
She stood across from the coffee table and introduced Xia De in an elegant manner:
"I have not been to other laboratories of His Majesty, but in the heyday of this laboratory, ice crystals of all sizes almost filled all floors except the fifth floor, and the experimental records were piled up in the study room you visited last time.
This castle can ensure that ordinary people will not be in danger of death if they are frozen for fifty years, which is also based on the research results of this experiment. "
Although the maid was only introducing the research content, Shade had already thought of Chloe's purpose. She wanted to use this method of freezing her own time to allow her to come to the Sixth Era.
"So Chloe made it?"
The maid shook her head regretfully:
"The experimental results are not ideal. For ordinary life, even if the body can be frozen in time, the soul of a mortal without extraordinary powers will still decay in the scour of time. And for life with extraordinary powers, freezing its time is even more difficult.
Before this laboratory was abandoned, after testing time acceleration, His Majesty was ultimately only able to stably freeze the time of a living being for 500 years, and it could only be used once on the same life. "
"So what's going on with Ellie?"
The unicorn, who was happily eating an apple, heard his name being called. He raised his head and looked at Shade with his blue eyes. Seeing that Shade was fine, he continued to eat the apple with concentration.
Shad felt that his recent weight gain was mainly due to these apples rather than Emilia's supplements.
"You must have prepared potions and tried to make alchemical tools. Sometimes, in a flash of inspiration, fate will generously open its skirt to you and allow you to complete a task that you would not have been able to complete otherwise.
Ellie was in this situation. Perhaps His Majesty had good luck, or perhaps Ellie had some unique qualities that could not be replicated. Most of the unicorns that were tested with her were forced to recover from their frozen state after the time was accelerated by about 300 years, otherwise their souls would be damaged.
Only Ellie's time was frozen successfully for more than 500 years. His Majesty then confirmed that her frozen state could last until the Sixth Era, so he left her deep in the castle as the only achievement here."
She looked at Ellie with some pity:
"This child is blessed by fate. Although I don't know the results of similar experiments conducted by your majesty's other laboratories, this is probably the only result. Unfortunately, this result cannot be replicated and promoted, so this result is of no value to your majesty."
Shade reached out and gently touched Ellie's back, and then touched Mia, who huddled in his arms because she was too cold. He didn't understand Chloe's research, but he could imagine that the short silver-haired girl who lived in the early Fifth Era was trying various things in order to be able to live with him.
He sighed softly, thinking about hugging Chloe the next time he saw her, and then asked:
"But why doesn't Ellie remember this?"
The maid's answer was still fluent:
"Although it is a miracle that she managed to be frozen in time and come to the present era, miracles also come with a price. At present, it seems that her memories before being frozen are just vague. This price is really insignificant. In my opinion, it is not even a price."
As she spoke, she and Shade watched Ellie eat. After a pause of more than ten seconds, she spoke again:
“Your Majesty, although I didn’t expect you to arrive here, since fate has led you to meet Ellie, and Ellie has brought you here, then please take care of it in the future, or let it live with the modern unicorn population.
This child was separated from all his relatives and friends because of his majesty's experiment. The miraculous fate was a double-edged sword for him, and his mission had already ended. Of course, the most important thing is that there is no apple tree in this castle. "