Chapter 2553 The Witch and the Owl

Chapter 2552 The Witch and the Owl

"What a ruthless man."

Time was still suspended. The broken leg lost its activity in the air and stopped there. Shade raised his hand to control a drop of blood and then performed his magic:

"Blood Echo!"

More than ten seconds later, Shade jumped down from the roof and blocked the man with a burnt face on the "Golden Music Avenue" where pedestrians were still.

This was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties. He was shorter than Shade, of medium build, and his clothes were tattered and his origin could not be seen. His right leg had returned to normal at this time, but when he saw him in the sun, Shade felt more and more that he was not human.

This did not refer to the other person's appearance, but to the other person's mental state. The hideous face and the crazy expression all showed that this was a madman. The traces of chaotic elements represented that the ring warlock was out of control. Shade didn't know what he had experienced in the past, but just hoped that the missing Miss Danister would not become like this.

Everyone on the street was frozen in the stilled time and space. Shade wanted to talk to him. Theoretically, a five-ring warlock like him should not master this level of time magic.

But the moment he saw Shade again, the stranger launched an attack again. He didn't say anything. His body, which was accelerated by time, left an afterimage in the air. The next second, he appeared directly in front of Shade, and his right hand grabbed Shade's heart again.

Shade's reaction did not keep up with such a fast speed, but the hardened right hand still failed to grab Shade's heart directly under the blessing of speed, but only left a deep fingerprint on Shade's chest.

Shade, who wanted to fight back, stretched out his hand and punched forward, but the stranger, who was still in time acceleration, left an afterimage again and flew away quickly. But when he approached Shade again with the advantage of speed, Shade had already drawn out the moonlight sword and stabbed it under his feet:

"Xiton Seal!"

The man who rushed over at high speed collided head-on with the golden shield that was emitting flowing light. After a bang, he failed to break through the defense. But then, bang~bang~bang~sounds came from all directions, and ripples spread on the shield. The enemies in the accelerated state seemed to attack the shield from different directions at the same time with the speed advantage.

After a bang~, the shield was actively detonated by Shade, and the bursting golden light waves rushed to the surroundings, causing the man with the burnt face to fly backwards.

He rolled on the ground, and after confirming that he could not beat Shade, he turned around and wanted to escape far away. But this time he fell down just after taking two steps, and his accelerated body slid forward along the road like a bullet.

When his body finally stopped, the strange man looked down in astonishment at his abdomen, which was pierced by a big hole in the blood-red light, and then took his last breath.

Grace and Helen, holding hands, were standing on the roof of the Accordion Hotel and looking down. The buzzing background sounded, time flowed normally, and the pedestrians on the street continued this ordinary afternoon.

As for Shade and the corpse, they had disappeared here.

"When did you recover?"

"When you left here, sir."

In the broom room, Helen answered Shade's question:

"Although my sister and I don't have the gift of time, we still have resistance, but we need time to recover. Any life that has experienced a long time will have resistance to time, just like people who live in the ice field all year round are very resistant to freezing, and people who live in the desert can endure the scorching sun."

After saying that, he looked at the body lying next to the cupboard:

"We were worried that he would run away, and we didn't know what other tricks he had, so we just killed him."

"It doesn't matter. It's not easy to catch someone with this kind of time ability. We let him out at some unknown time, and we can't let him leave like this."

Shade was very sure that he didn't know this stranger. The other party was probably really crazy, otherwise Nor would they attack them directly:

"If such an out-of-control ring wizard, especially one who controls the power of time, escapes, that would be a real big trouble."

Grace didn't really care about killing people, but she didn't want to leave a bad impression on Shade:

"His strong time talent should also be related to time travel. But he shouldn't be a candidate for the Chosen One, otherwise he wouldn't die so easily."

Shade nodded, threw out a piece of canvas to turn the corpse into a toy and put it away, and didn't care too much:

"It's dead, he was the first to attack, we are justified. But the soul of such an out-of-control ring wizard is useless even if it is communicated."

Said squatting in front of the cabinet again, the cabinet door had closed automatically at this time, and after Shade opened it, it was a normal cabinet again.

So he followed the steps just now and did it again, but this time Shade didn't use the black time key, but the normal time key---

The key turned with a click.

"She" reminded softly:

[Stranger, you opened a "twisted tree hole". 】

【Tips from the Father of the Infinite Tree:】

【Use the "Key of Yggdrasil" to open the door here, and it will connect to a random time point where a "time traveler" exists. 】

【Use the normal time key to open the door, and it will connect to the following three times: 1698 of the Sixth Era of the Present World; 1763 of the Sixth Era of the Present World; 1814 of the Sixth Era of the Present World. 】

【Note that any life other than you who uses this channel will be cursed by time. 】

[Note, you can enter the past through the abnormal channel here for 20 minutes, and you must return through this channel after the time is up. ]

[Note, after using the key to open the door here twice, the channel will completely collapse. ]

Shad grabbed the key handle and listened carefully to these reminders:

"What happened when I used the Key of Yggdrasil just now?"

[The Father of Infinite Trees will not give a separate prompt for that special key, and that key should not exist. ]

However, this at least proves that the "Time Tree Hole" recorded in the literature is real, but what I encountered this time seems to be different from what Shad thought. The name "Twisted Tree Hole" itself represents this abnormality.

Although the method of opening here is similar to the method of opening other spaces left by the ancient gods, it is more like a one-time door, and it is an abnormal door that appears due to the abnormal influence of the world itself.

"So, the disaster of time, is it this kind of time door with abnormal properties? Using the time key to open it connects to a fixed time, and when the key is not used, the abnormal properties appear randomly."

But in any case, the path through the past has appeared.

Shade did not start immediately, but discussed with Grace and Helen again, and decided to try to open the door to the winter of 1763 this time.

"But sir, if there really was a ring wizard at the current time point who appeared 91 years ago, why didn't he or she leave any information? Did the church block the news of the "time traveler", or is there something else hidden?"

Helen asked the question, but no one could answer it. Fortunately, these problems can be solved after the missing person is found.

"We only have two chances, but I feel that this time there is a high probability that we can find the person directly, after all, the fortune teller saw snow in the divination this morning. You wait for me here, I will be back soon."

The two sisters did not stop Shade from taking risks, but pulled Shade's hand. Helen in a black dress bit Shade's right index finger, and when the blood seeped out, the two sisters bit their own index fingers and stuck to Shade.

The blood of the three people blended together:

"Even if you don't come back, we will definitely be able to find you back!"

Grace and Helen kissed Xia De's face as a blessing. Xia De smiled and waved goodbye to them, then pinched the key handle to open the door of the cabinet-

There was still no white fog behind the door. The three looked down and saw that the normal internal space of the cabinet was now filled with books.

"Huh?"

Grace and Helen looked at Xia De who had disappeared at some point, and Xia De, who opened the cabinet, also found that Grace and Helen had disappeared.

At this time, the surroundings suddenly brightened, and the sunlight sprinkled into this classically decorated aristocratic study from the window. Xia De was standing on the red carpet in the study at this moment, with a cabinet in front of him that served as a bookcase.

The cabinet looked very new at this time, the upper glass window was polished, and the pattern on the lower door panel was not worn off. It did not look at all like the desolate appearance of the broom room a hundred years later. It was a very high-end piece of furniture.

"Now the time."

[The sixth era of the present world, the winter of the Common Calendar 1763, the 12th day of the Sleeping Month, 2:30 p.m.]

There was no one else in the study except Shade, and it was neatly tidied. The whole room was covered with red carpets, and the walls with golden wallpaper were hung with portraits of nobles.

The magnificent solid wood desk was placed in front of the three large windows on the east side, and when Shade looked out the window, he saw the snow covering the courtyard of this unknown mansion. It was still snowing outside, but not heavily:

"The snow that Luvia saw during the water divination should be this."

It was obviously winter, but the fireplace in the study was not lit. In fact, there was no sign of recent use here. But Shade was not in a hurry to find clues, because when he realized that he had come to the past a hundred years ago, he clearly felt that the badge hanging on his chest suddenly became hot.

"What?"

He thought he would meet a witch, but he never thought he would meet a witch at a time point a hundred years ago. The badge was so hot that it was clear that the witch was already in front of him:

"Except for Grandma Cassandra, the witches of this generation were not witches a hundred years ago, right?"

Surprised, his eyes immediately turned to the only living thing besides himself, the fat, round-faced owl standing on the windowsill behind the desk.