Whispering Verse

Chapter 2948 The evil thing of time-the cursed tree

The dilapidated home became clear as the "curtain" slowly opened. Even though it was the seventh time he had set foot here, Shade still could not fully adapt to the environment here.

He held his forehead and stood there for a while, then looked up and sighed. Looking at the sofa covered with white cloth, Shade didn't know whether he should be looking forward to it or melancholy, thinking that he would sit here and hold Adele's hand to say goodbye every time before leaving.

Just like facing a wonderful story, I look forward to the next reading experience, but also regret the emptiness that will inevitably occur after the reading is over.

The door, which was stuck in the door frame due to severe deformation, was pushed open by Shade. The wind and sand that hit his face made him squint his eyes.

The dim yellow sky remained unchanged from before, and Shade even suspected that he came here at exactly the same time every time. But thinking that even the concept of time does not exist here, he did not explore this meaningless topic.

Glancing at the black sun dripping with fire lines on the horizon, Shade took out Adele's pocket watch:

"Adele Isabella."

He pronounced the name with a fairly standard pronunciation, and when he looked down at his feet, the string of white runes on the rolling gravel square floor tiles was indeed glowing slightly.

It's just that this time is different from the past. In the past, when the name was read out, the translucent lady always lifted up her skirt and stood up, but this time no figure appeared in the light.

Shade waited in surprise for a while, then cleared his throat and read it again:

"Adele Isabella!"

The string of runes was still glowing, but still no familiar figure appeared. Shade then closed his eyes and tried to sense the fire mark left on Adele's forehead when he left last time. The fire mark still existed, but the specific location could not be determined due to the chaos of time and space, but this at least showed that Adele was still there. Still alive:

"Is this what happened?"

He was not in the mood to fight against any strong enemy now. He was worried about the lady living here alone. He shouted again to the glowing runes on the ground:

"Adele! Isabella!"

I don't know if it was because the loud voice really worked, but anyway, the light emitted by the runes was chaotic for a moment, and then Adele's shadow appeared.

She didn't stand up slowly while holding up her skirt and her body became solid. She looked completely transparent:

"I'm in some trouble!"

There was a panic expression on her face, and she disappeared immediately. And no matter how loudly Shade called again, the blond lady did not appear again.

[Outlander, you have felt the call, will you answer the call? 】

Fortunately, "she" suddenly asked during Shade's anxious attempt, and Shade immediately asked:

"What call? Can't I leave Saint Teresa Square?"

[Whether the projection counts as leaving Saint Teresa Square is hard to say. 】

“Answer the call.”

Then his vision immediately went dark, as if someone was grabbing his arm and flying high into the sky. But soon the field of vision was restored again, and Adele immediately fell into Shade's arms. At their feet, the name "Shade Suellen Hamilton" was shining with silvery white light.

There was still a dim yellow sky above the head, but the surrounding area was no longer the half-collapsed square that Shade was familiar with. This seems to be a huge circular pit. The area of ​​the pit itself is no less than that of the square we just left. The surface of the pit wall is made of black soil and unknown black roots dancing like tentacles.

The ground at the bottom of the pit at your feet is made up of black rectangular bricks. A large number of bones are piled in every corner of the pit. On the edge of the pit, there are altars and altars of different styles. A variety of common and uncommon religious ornaments and ritual objects decorate them.

Most of the yellow sand that fell from the sky strangely disappeared before falling to the bottom of the pit, so the masonry on the ground under the pit was only covered with a thin layer of yellow sand.

At this time, Shade was hugging Adele and standing on the edge of one side of the pit. In the center of the pit, a big black tree with a canopy that covered half of the sky aimed at Adele and whipped dozens of people into her back. A black tree vine.

There was no green on the crown of that tree, and skeletons were hanging from the dry branches. Its roots have not penetrated into the soil at all. Those strangely shaped roots are covered with dense white vesicles, making the roots thicker. And if Shade saw it correctly, those vesicles are clearly wrapped in

"Huh? Not a Paradox Bug?"

He jumped up with Adele in his arms, using "Raglai's Jump" to avoid the lashing tree vines, so the tree vines shattered the altar behind them with a loud noise, and then A large crater was left in the solid side wall of the pit.

"The evil thing of the doomsday - the cursed tree!"

The pale girl in his arms was explaining to Shade:

"This is one of the most dangerous evil things after the end of the world. No one knows the origin of this thing.

It existed before the end of the world. At first, people noticed it because of its powerful time curse power, but soon people discovered that those 'cursed people' who were tortured by the time curse for various reasons could pass through the time curse. He repented and committed suicide under this strange big tree and gained complete liberation. This is the supreme happiness in the doomsday era.

The corpses on the trunk of the tree and the corpses in the vesicles on the roots are the remains of the cursed ones. But gradually, the tree absorbed more and more of the curse of time.”

Adele was unable to continue speaking, because a white light that was almost thicker than the tree trunk shot from the tree canopy to the two people in the air. Shade summoned the "Night Seal" to block it, but his instinctive sense of crisis made him dodge at the last moment.

Then the crystal white light penetrated the ink-colored shield, and the two immediately fell from the air. When Adele helped Shade up in the dust, she suddenly found that his entire left arm had turned into a crystal with colorful light.

Adele, with messy hair, was about to cry, but the layer of crystals faded at a speed visible to the naked eye. This was not difficult for Shade. In the story, he turned into a crystal, but in the end he turned back - this is a story recorded in the bark of the World Tree, which is recognized by the world.

"Before I figured out what moderation is, I will probably always have a high resistance to this eternal crystal."

Shade said, holding Adele and rolling to the side, avoiding the black rays that swept across. Shade didn't know what the ray was this time, but it seemed to be no longer the power of time and tree, but the power of death.

Although Shade dodged in a very embarrassing way, he finally managed to dodge it. Adele, curled up in his arms, continued:

"This tree originally had a very powerful time curse, but for some reason it would not actively hurt people. But in the era after the end of the world, it absorbed too many time curses that did not belong to it, and as a result, it became a terrible evil that combined the curse tree, death resentment, and unstable time power.

Although there are many similar evils in this era, this one is the most special, and it should not even be put together with other time curse trees."

"Was the place where this tree was first discovered in Karas Mountain?"

Shade asked while slashing a ray of moonlight in front of him. Adele was puzzled by this question, but she didn't know the answer either.

Although Shade felt that he knew the origin of this tree, and the familiarity was really hard to ignore, it was not the time to exchange information.

Shade felt that he would definitely not win this time. Without the orderly environment similar to the "arena" created by the Tree Father like St. Teresa's Square, he, with the eighth ring, was far from being a match for these terrible evil creatures in the doomsday.

Because his senses were not complete in the projection state, he could not fully feel the horror outside the "City of Doomsday", but this did not prevent him from knowing how powerful this "Cursed Tree" was. Just now, the tree's casual attack directly broke the "Night Seal", and Shade knew that he should leave now:

"Fortunately, I learned to fly recently."

The moonlight slashed on the trunk of the tree, and not even a white mark was left. While Shade held Adele and flew into the air, hundreds of vines stretched toward the sky, and then collided head-on with the "Chaos Residue" thrown by Shade.

The effect of the holy silver moonlight on the tree was not obvious, but the power that the nun realized from death was particularly effective. The explosion under his feet effectively formed an obstacle. While the vines were blocked by the flames, Shade hugged the blonde lady and wanted to rush out of the hole of the deep pit directly, but was stopped by Adele who saw his thoughts:

"Don't go up! The location of the hole is a disordered time flow. Once we go in, we can go anywhere."

If she hadn't been unable to get out, she wouldn't have been injured like this even if she couldn't beat the tree:

"This deep pit is an underground tomb church where people spontaneously worship the tree. There should be a secret passage leading to the outside world. In a while..."

"Disordered time flow, huh? It doesn't matter. I just learned a new trick recently."

As Shade said this, he touched his pocket, and was surprised to find that the small bottle of perfume in his pocket was gone.

[When did you hear that the projection state can also project relics? ]

"She" asked with a smile, and Adele knew what Shade was going to do by looking at his movements. The demigod witch, who had recovered a little, didn't say anything, but hugged his neck and kissed him.

This was not a simple kiss, and it was not suitable to hug and kiss when running for life. Just like how Adele had once given Shade new strength with just a kiss, Shade also felt the surging spirit entering his body during this kiss.

The vines that had escaped the flames continued to chase upwards, and at this moment they met the crystal light.