Whispering Verse

Chapter 2786 Iluna of the Fifth Era

Although there is only one reward this time, this one reward is enough for Shade. As for the "Lord of Black Robe" mentioned in the extra test, Shade is not unaware of it. This is the god with the title of "God of Teachers and Inheritors".

This god is not powerful. He is the protector of knowledge inheritors, but his faith is widely spread. If we look at the relationship between the old gods and the ancient gods, he is undoubtedly closely related to the ancient god of knowledge and wisdom [Secret Mentor].

"The guardian of the gray robe is the guardian of the library and belongs to the moon system; the guardian of the black robe is the guardian of the teacher and belongs to the knowledge system."

Although Shade has heard of this god, he does not know much about him. He can only be sure that this is a good god.

"Then let's see what will happen this time."

Thinking in his heart, he took a step forward in the thick fog with a little expectation. Then the fog spread to both sides, revealing the black world as expected.

Xia De took a step forward and stepped on the water, then he fell directly into the extremely cold water with a splash:

"There is something wrong with this water, walking on the water is prohibited here!"

When the boat lifted Xia De up, the first thing he noticed was not the towering 100-meter-high rock walls on both sides of the wide river, but the ashes that kept falling from the valley.

All the lighting here comes from these ashes falling from the sky. They are scattered like snowflakes, and the brightness is almost the same as fireflies. But once the ashes fall into the water, they will immediately merge with the black river water and no longer glow.

Looking up into the sky, the source of the ashes could not be seen at all, and the surrounding rock walls were completely black like the river water, and the ashes that fell on them would also lose their luminous colors:

"This does not look like the ashes produced by burning objects, but rather like petrified powder."

When Shade appeared, he was facing the upstream of the water flow. There was nothing in the water. On the contrary, tables, chairs, benches, broken plaster statues, building debris and other debris were coming towards him along the water flow. After hitting Shade's boat, they continued to drift towards the invisible downstream of the river valley.

Just as Shade was trying to observe the debris floating in the water, an abnormal sound appeared under the water surface. A shadow deeper than the darkness flashed under the water, and it looked like some kind of giant snake, so Shade immediately manipulated the boat to sail upstream.

Tree Father always liked to put Shade in a relatively dangerous place at the beginning of the time adventure, and he was used to it. Therefore, Xia De did not want to explore what was lurking under the water. He stood at the stern holding the oar, ready to prevent something from suddenly emerging from the water, but the giant underwater did not stick its head out, but hit the bottom of the boat.

The violent shaking almost caused the boat to capsize, so Xia De hurriedly inserted the oar into the water to stabilize the balance. When the oar entered the water, it emitted a faint golden light, forcing the underwater shadow to temporarily leave the boat.

But the crisis was not over, because the water was still shaking violently. More and more slender shadows also appeared densely around the boat at this time. Fortunately, the destination was not far away. Xia De controlled the boat while stirring the water with the oar.

After the boat drove rapidly for three minutes, Xia De realized that the valley had reached the end of the upper reaches with the help of the glowing ashes in the air.

The end of the valley is the source of this wide river. From the gap in the fence of the castle building standing high on the cliff, the turbulent water formed a waterfall and poured down, carrying many debris with it, thus forming a big river.

The castle was at least a hundred meters higher than the river below, and the scene was spectacular under the light of the sky full of ashes. But the water flow did not make a rumbling sound when it fell below. Only when Shade's boat approached did he hear a sound that was not deafening.

His small wooden boat did not have the ability to go up along the waterfall, but fortunately there was a small dock that had been flooded at the bottom of the valley below the waterfall. The dock was connected to the stone steps on the side of the cliff of the valley, and this stone step was almost parallel to the water flow of the waterfall.

Therefore, Shade abandoned the boat and quickly climbed the stone steps. After realizing that the transformation was not prohibited here, the red butterfly flew up almost close to the steps.

When he finally arrived at the castle on the cliff of the river valley, he found that the place where the water rushed out was the gate of the castle, and the stone steps connected to what seemed to be a small side door.

The water flow fell from the higher void to the center of the castle, and then broke through the gate and continued to fall into the river valley below. This caused the castle to be almost a vast ocean. Although the high floors of several high-rise buildings could be seen above the water with the help of the lighting of the ashes, there was no doubt that it had suffered serious damage.

The white ashes were more dense in the high castle, and the bleak and weird feeling brought by it was more serious.

"Is this the so-called 'Strange Tree Academy'?"

The side door where Xia De was located was at a higher terrain and was not submerged by the water flow, but as long as he walked a few steps inside, it would be a submerged area again.

Xia De then looked again and saw from a distance that the bottom of the tallest spire-style building in the distance seemed to have light. When he took a boat over, he found that it was not a tower, but a huge five-story building with a spire on top.

If this castle was really a school, then judging from the architectural style, it should be an important functional building such as a library or teaching building.

Only the first and second floors of the building have been flooded, and the third floor is also in danger. After Shade maneuvered the boat and continued to approach, he saw the light of the bonfire appearing on the fourth floor.

The walls are dilapidated and only the windows are left with their frames. The bright side of the bonfire faced the huge gap in the wall. The gap seemed to have been forcibly knocked out by an external force, so Shade, who came by boat, turned into a swarm of butterflies and flew from the water to the fourth floor.

The fluttering red butterflies indeed attracted the attention of everyone around the campfire. There were four companions this time, and they were all women. But when Shade walked out of the red light and saw the appearance of the youngest among them, he rarely showed complete surprise.

Because the eighteen-year-old girl has long brown hair, eyes with heterochromatic pupils, and a tough but beautiful face. Although the robe seems inappropriate for her, her youthful beauty can still be seen.

"Iluna? No, you are Iluna's ancestor? Wait, is your ancestor's bloodline so powerful? He actually looks exactly like you after an era?"

But obviously this is not the ancestor of the Bayas family, this is the Iluna that Shade is most familiar with. The evidence is that after Iluna, who was originally mentally exhausted, saw Shade flying up from the gap in the wall, she immediately stood up in shock:

"Shadow!"

She wanted to leave the bonfire and walk towards Shade, but was immediately stopped by the other three girls by the fire. They are all witches, they all look too young, and they all wear robes similar to the ones Iluna wears.

Although it was the first time for Shade to see this kind of brown robe with a hood, he guessed that it was the uniform of this college.

"Beas, wake up. Have you forgotten where this place is? How can you be sure this is the person you know? And this is a man. Can't you say this is a man?"

The one holding Iluna's shoulders was the eldest witch among the four, but she looked to be about the same age as Flora. At the same time, she and Iluna were also the only two humans among the four people present.

The other two girls stood up by the fire. One had dragon wings stretched out behind her. Judging from the shape of her forehead corners and the appearance of her wings, she should be a pure-blood green dragon, or a dragon-born witch with more than 80% dragon-born blood. ;

Another girl who seems to be introverted is a werewolf. Of course, there is no moon in this weird place, but she still shows her racial characteristics to protect herself from danger, namely furry ears, tail and extremely dangerous claws.

Shade had seen werewolves when he was in Moon Bay, but compared to the elderly Mrs. Frost in Moon Bay, the young werewolf lady obviously had no deterrent effect.

The dragonborn witch and the werewolf looked equally tired. They didn't speak, but they obviously didn't trust Shade either.

Iluna maintained basic caution. Although she was generally sure that this was Shad, she still stopped and observed Shad carefully:

"There may indeed be a monster here with mind-reading and mimicry abilities. The one over there looks like Shad. You have to prove that you are the Shad I know. I will believe you if you take little Mia out."

This is a big problem. The cat won't be born until the next era:

"Iluna, this is my first time here. It's impossible for me to take risks with little Mia. Ask some other questions. Don't we have many secrets in common?"

Shade then said that he also agreed to be more cautious, and he also wanted to judge whether Iluna was true through her questions.

"Be careful, I think he's trying to charm you."

The human witch with black hair warned, while looking at Shade's defensive actions with a stern look, she reminded again:

"And don't forget what's hidden in this academy. The weird beings here have more or less omniscient abilities. Bayas, don't ask ordinary questions. Think carefully about what you should ask."

Although Iluna wanted to take the opportunity to ask Shade "the eye color of the girl you love most", she felt that it would make her look despicable. So after thinking about it, she finally said:

"Listen, my question is:

If you encounter a three-way intersection in the wilderness at night, with a terrifying demon spirit on one side, a man-eating giant on the other, and a "mourning bird" with puzzles ready to embarrass you directly in front of you, then when you can't retreat, What would you do? "