Whispering Verse

"Have you been promoted to demigod? Apart from those means of giving up your independence and mortal identity, are you the first demigod in the Sixth Era?"

Shade looked at her in surprise, but Miss Isabella didn't want to talk about this topic:

"The Doomsday Era no longer belongs to the Sixth Age. In short, you are not yet able to glimpse the fundamental power of time. Even things like 'Adele's Time Stop' is just a small branch of the time-stop thaumaturgy. This time , I want to teach you about the thaumaturgy derived from the power of 'returning to the past'."

"Is this also a thaumaturgy you created yourself?"

Shade asked, and the witch nodded slightly, but showed no complacency at all. The wind and sand blew her long golden hair, and the moles at the corners of her eyes showed her youthfulness:

"Yes, and the creation of this thaumaturgy is related to the previous great witch of the moon. She once watched the stars transfer with me, and talked with me about the return of the sun and the moon. I understood the meaning of return on the plain under the stars. , thus creating this thaumaturgy - Adele's principle of regression."

The name sounded very recognizable, and Shade was once again worried that even if he learned it, he would not dare to use it in front of the witches.

Miss Isabella naturally didn't know Shade's worries:

"The thaumaturgy I created is very special. All you need to perform the ritual is the time talent. But to really learn it, you need to explore it step by step. It can be used only if the ritual is successful. [Adele's Regression Principle] Although Not the most powerful thaumaturgy I have mastered, but the thaumaturgy I am most proud of. Now I will teach it to you. I will not ask you to call me teacher. I just hope that after my time goes to annihilation, As a lonely person, I can still do something for this world."

Seeing Xia De nodding solemnly, she suddenly laughed again:

"Don't be so nervous. I'm just optimistic about you. Besides, you may not really be able to learn it. This is a thaumaturgy that I tailor-made for myself. It is even mixed with some elements of the witch's secret technique. Although the middle ring can Learn, but the difficulty will not be lower than the moves of the demigods and witches. No one has successfully learned it so far. I will teach it to you. More importantly, I hope you can understand the meaning of time more deeply and create your own the power of."

She put her hand on Shade's shoulder:

"Now, Shade Hamilton, go meet this powerful enemy. I will demonstrate the new thaumaturgy for you at the appropriate time, and then you will hold the ceremony and practice on your own after you return to reality."

"Okay, Miss Isabella. Also, just call me Shade."

As he said this, the witch nodded slightly, and then stood by the wall and watched the key turn into a ball of light and flip in front of Shade, and as he walked forward, it turned into the pitch-black [Yuktrashil] rod].

Shade came to the center of the square. The strong wind was blowing the yellow sand, and the dim sky was infinitely desolate. This time, there was no need to wait. In just a moment, Shade saw a hunchbacked humanoid creature jumping from a high place on the ruins of the building on the other side of the square facing No. 6, as if jumping into the water. After entering the ground of the square, it moved quickly towards Shade next to the remains of the fountain statue, as if swimming, and drew a clear uplift mark on the ground of the square buried by the yellow sand.

Even though he hadn't met this enemy yet, Shade immediately understood the truth about his opponent:

"This time it's the power of the earth!"

The bulge drew an arc and kept approaching Shade. Shade did not dodge but watched it come to his feet. When the positions of the two sides coincided, and the withered yellow hands with fine roots stretched out from under his feet, Shade had already held the [Stand of Yggdrasil] in both hands and stabbed downwards fiercely:

"Thunder gun!"

Silver-white thunder followed the bottom of the long staff into the earth, but then the jumping thunder spread to the surrounding ground and was easily resolved. This is an attack that uses the power of the earth to be dispersed and directed into the ground. Ms. Benanis once said that she can use similar thaumaturgy while standing on the earth.

Only this time, this method was used by the enemy. Shade's failure to counterattack meant that the hand stretched out from the ground grabbed his ankle. Then the fine tentacles on the hands immediately penetrated into his body along the pores, and the flexible body like a loach under the ground also came out as the hands clung to Shade's legs.

The next second, the humanoid creature underground "slid" out of the ground. It hugged Shade's waist with both hands and jumped up. Its head, which seemed to be wrapped in a layer of soil, was behind Shade, and it opened its mouth and bit him directly. neck.

With a bang, Sha De's body exploded into a group of red butterflies in the yellow sand. When the bent monster covered in mud landed lightly on the ground, the red butterflies regrouped not far away and formed Sha De.

He frowned slightly and looked at the thing that jumped up and then jumped into the soil again as if it were jumping into water. Although the other person's face was severely deformed and his body was so deformed that it was impossible to see his original appearance, Shade could still barely recognize who it was. After all, he only lived in this world for one year and didn't know many people:

"Professor Drake?"

This is an old professor that Shade met while searching for the "Lady of the Lake" in Huntington, the city of red wine. The professor had wanted to find the "Lady of the Lake" from a long time ago, but when he actually found it, he was afraid of wisdom. Due to the supernatural power, he voluntarily gave up his memory, and as a result, his legs were disabled and he has been sitting in a wheelchair.

Later, after Shade found the "Lady of the Lake", he took the professor to see the wise angels "Cherubim" again, so the professor finally let go of the past knot and admitted that he chose to stay away because of his respect for wisdom. At the end of the Huntington story, Professor Drake chooses to move to Willondale to live with his son, where his two sons and a daughter all live.

Although the professor did not know Schade's true identity, he mailed gifts and greeting cards to the White River Valley Vineyard at the end of the year, and mentioned Schade many times in letters to his old friend Professor Manning.

The professor said, "We live on a peaceful island called ignorance, surrounded by an endless black ocean, and we should not have set sail. The dark grave is right in front of us. I would like to sleep here and listen to the wind and waves." , Xia De still remembers it vividly.

Shade had never seen the professor stand up from the wheelchair, and he didn't know how the old professor, who had always lived in Huntington City and later moved to Willendale, could be related to the disaster on the earth.

It's just that now is not the time to think about this. The monster that has re-entered the ground is approaching Shade as if it is swimming in the mud. Its speed is very fast, at least much faster than Shade moving on the ground.

In just a few seconds, it caught up with Shade again. Just like before, he stretched out his hand from the soil and grabbed Shade's ankle. Then his whole body "slid" out of the ground and quickly clung to Shade's body.

It's just that this time, Shade couldn't escape with the "Red Butterfly Incarnation". There seemed to be a huge gravitational force on the ground, making it impossible for him to easily escape from the ground. Fortunately, Shade didn't plan to escape this time. When the evil thing grabbed him, the two dark chains that slipped out of his cuffs also tied the monster to Shade himself.

Although the soul of Mr. Bernhardt, who was half-dead last time, is completely unaffected by the "chains of sin", Professor Drake, who has spent his life seeking knowledge, is obviously still affected by the power of sin.

It's just that the [Sin Chain] with six kinds of runes still couldn't completely lock it, and the evil thing tied to Shade's back tried hard to break free of the chain. Amidst the clattering of chains, Shade simply lay down on the ground in order to prevent attacks from behind. Then, they were tied together and began to roll and fight at close range.

"Um"

Of course, the witch on the edge of the square could see this scene covered by the yellow sand, but this kind of dishonorable battle was something that the witch would never have imagined.

While rolling, the evil thing wanted to drag Shade into the ground, but Shade's weight seemed to it to be heavier than a mountain. So the two rolled around for half a minute. As Shade released the chain and tied one end of it to his wrist and the other to the other's ankle, so that it could no longer be easily buried, they separated slightly, and then rushed towards each other with fists raised.

What followed was a competition purely based on strength. The sound of fists breaking through the air and the sound of the square ground breaking due to the pressure were even more harsh and sharp than the sound of wind.

Although Miss Isabella still thinks that such a battle is very dishonorable, she also has to admit that the pure physical strength displayed by Shade and the evil thing at this moment is definitely not something that ordinary high-level warlocks dare to face.

Although it was not as exaggerated as "breaking the space with one punch", the power of the two punches while standing on the ground against the wind and sand was stronger than the last. Shade has never felt that he can exert his power so freely to this point. Standing on the earth, the earth is the source of his power.

Although the monster in front of him becomes stronger and stronger as long as it comes into contact with the earth, this time Shade even has the power to be more intimate with the earth than it does. The "filthy earth origin" that has become a part of him is still subtly affecting his body and soul to this day. Facing similar enemies in this state, Shade can truly understand what kind of abilities he has.

In the past, every time he entered the past life, he was always suppressed by various strange doomsday evil things, but this time Shade steadily gained the upper hand. The two sides exchanged fists, and even though Shade's fists and arms were the first to show cracks and wounds, he was still unafraid as if he couldn't feel it at all.

The clothes on the upper body gradually fell into pieces due to the trembling of the muscles and the shaking when unloading the force. The ground under the two people's feet even formed two huge depressions due to the shattering. Finally, after Shade's bloody fist punched forward again and collided with the evil thing's right fist——

Click!

The evil thing's right arm shattered into powder, and when Shade's fist further penetrated its right chest, fine cracks instantly spread throughout the evil thing's body.