Whispering Verse

Chapter 2992 The Man Who Matures

Among the core spiritual runes of "Moon Spellcaster", there is the same [Silver Moon] spiritual rune as Shade, and when the gray-green light spread to her life ring, a new spiritual rune of blasphemy [Decline] appeared, and at the same time The miraculous spirit rune she had mastered - [Life] actively flashed with an even more dazzling aura.

Her long black hair was flowing behind her as her whole body glowed. Shade felt that she was really communicating with the tree at this moment, and this process lasted for a long, long time.

At the same time, the gray-green light rising from the contact point between the tree trunk and the palm also began to spread towards the entire tree trunk.

Downward, it lit up the roots of the tree underground. The spiritual light penetrated the soil and allowed Shade to clearly see the distribution of the roots of this giant tree underground. The spreading area of ​​the roots was even larger than the tree crown;

upwards, it lit up the canopy above their heads, and the gray-green light flowed farther along each branch of the branches, until the tops of their heads turned into a sea of ​​gray-green light dotted with stars, like a starry sky.

The only ones that were not lit up were the "corpses". Of course, Shade was glad that they did not shine.

In the end, the light even spread to Shade through the hands they held. But there is no time curse on Shade, and he doesn’t have a deep relationship with this tree, so——

[Outlander, you have encountered the curse of "The Curse of the Big Tree". 】

"What?"

[Because of its "natural affinity" characteristics, it is automatically exempted from all effects of the curse. 】

The night rain got heavier and heavier, and at 7:10 that evening, the lady who had closed her eyes finally opened them again. When her hand left the tree trunk, the light above her head and below her feet also disappeared little by little.

She turned her head and met Shade's gaze:

"No problem, as long as you find this tree again in 1854, it will give you Anthony Winslet. But in this way, you will get Anthony Winslet whose time curse still exists."

"This is a trivial matter. It's easy to talk about as long as the person is still alive. What is the content of his time curse?"

"Can't have sex with women."

Xia De was stunned for a moment:

"That's it. I remember that the content of the time curse is related to the purpose of traveling through time and its own characteristics. Didn't Flora's uncle travel through time to find his childhood friends? How could it be that his uncle is?"

Nearly two hours of communicating with this tree certainly gave her more than just the power and the promise of the tree. Shade guessed that the tree shared more secrets about the Cursed Tree with her, but there was no need for them to stay in the rain.

Shade transformed into a cat again, and was carried by the sorceress and flew back to the city. She also has a place to live in the city, but it is not the Accordion Hotel, but a three-story apartment in the old town in the north of the city.

The apartment was a little shabby, but when he sat on the sofa in the dry living room listening to the sound of rain and watching the gas lights lighting up the surroundings, Shade felt that the place was still very warm.

"I saw something."

The black-haired lady who prepared tea for him said softly, her eyes looking at the void in front of her:

"That tree has absorbed the power of the Time Curse, and eventually it will become nourishment for the Paradox Worm. Countless insect eggs will cling to the tree after it reaches its limit, and then drain it completely."

"And that tree can re-extract the curses of the cursed?"

"No, the cursed tree does not have the possibility of being reused. Paradox insects themselves are evil things that eat the world tree, and the trees they eat have absolutely no chance of survival. There will be new ones at that time The cursed tree appeared and I saw the memory of that tree’s life.”

Seeing Shade's worried expression while holding the teacup, she smiled softly and shook her head:

"I know what you are worried about. It's not what you think. This kind of evil thing was not born from a cursed person like me. Otherwise, you have to gamble and see how long it will take for a similar curse to appear.

They were deliberately cultivated, so they could shoulder the responsibility of absorbing curses and raising bugs. Their bloodline has been cultivated since before they were born, and even from the time of their ancestors, the power has been preparing for their birth. Only in this way can all processes be guaranteed to be absolutely error-free. "

"I was really worried just now. Someone deliberately trained you to become a cursed tree."

Shade said worriedly while holding the teacup. The sorceress smiled softly:

"Xia De, in your eyes, are the thirteen-ring warlocks of our era so weak? Don't worry, the memory in that tree has told me that every tree will work for three hundred years, and every tree All will be cultivated from his family.

His ancestors and descendants will always select someone to become a new tree every three hundred years. Yes, your guess was correct this time. "

She whispered the final answer:

"Bennet.

The tree we see is what you call the ancestor of the Bennet family more than two hundred years ago, and now its three hundred years have come to an end. According to its calculations, it will be eaten by paradox insects in about thirty to forty years, and by then, some of its surviving descendants will become new big trees. "

"Who is it?"

Shade asked, and this question was also answered:

"For a mortal's body and soul to turn into the 'Curse Eclipse Tree', it not only requires the power of an ancient person, but also requires enough contact with the time curse. The masked man in the time transfer station is the next 'Curse Eclipse Tree' Big tree'.

This requires a ritual, and the ritual materials are the bones of the previous ‘masked men’ in the past three hundred years, that is, Bennet’s ancestors. When the chosen candidate completes the ritual with the bones under the old tree, he will be able to sublime from human form into evil being. "

Shade leaned back slightly on the back of the sofa. The cheap furniture was not very comfortable, but what he cared about at this time was the truth he learned. Slight heat wafted out of the tea cup in his hand, and he seemed to see the reincarnation of the past thousand years in the smoke:

"So, the Bennet family not only has to inquire about the news in the city for the ancient man, but also runs a time transfer station to cultivate paradox insects. They even have to sacrifice one person every three hundred years to become an evil object to absorb the curse. This family really It’s being exploited from head to toe.”

Helena Carter nodded slightly;

"And every owner of the time transfer station is the head of the family and the person who knows the family secrets best. The secrets of the Bennet family will not be told to all family members. They actually lived in Ximu Town before it appeared. local.

Initially he was a hunter hunting in the forest, and then he became a farmer in a small village. In the Ximu Town era, he became an aristocrat from ordinary townspeople, and in the current Vista City era, he is a famous local businessman. "

"So, the masked man of my time was actually Thomas Bennet?"

"Yes, I saw in my memory the Anthony Winslet you were looking for. After seeing the tree, he was hung up by the vines on the tree. Then a young man appeared and took away Winslet's body. Bug, that person looks like this.”

The sorceress touched it casually, and the illusion created the appearance of a person, which was indeed the young Thomas Bennet. Calculating the time, in 1821, he should have just taken over the work of the transfer station, or he might just be helping his father run errands.

This answer was something that Shade had guessed a long time ago, but now that he had the final proof, he could make plans later:

"So about the time transfer station, is there any information in the memory of that tree? I know it is a tree hole, so what is that tree?"

But this time the sorceress shook her head:

"It has been rooted there for more than two hundred years. Time has worn away emotions, and curses have worn away memories. Most of its remaining memories are related to the family and the tree itself. As for the time transfer station, the memory fragments it retains are only some time travels. The stories of time. For love, for relatives, and for feelings that cannot be let go, those stories are very complicated, and most people who go to the transit station want to regain something.

You told me that the Masked Man is very strong in the Time Relay. If you want to defeat him, fight outside the Time Relay. "

In addition to the information she gained from the tree's numb soul, she shared more information with Shade about the Cursed Tree itself. The power of the tree, the characteristics of the tree, the biological characteristics of the tree, and the possible direction of mutation of the tree are very similar to the knowledge shared by Adele, but in the end, the power of these trees that have been carefully cultivated since the ancestors' time is still inferior. The tree that Shade saw at the end of the world.

The conversation in the apartment continued late into the night as the night grew darker. Shade even thought about whether to stay and rest tonight before leaving tomorrow, but when the midnight bell came from the direction of the golden music hall that is still under construction, the sorceress took the initiative to "drive away" him:

"Don't stay in this era for too long, go back."

She took out a notebook from her pocket and cut off a finger-length piece of hair from the ends. The black hair was tied with a red string and then clamped in a notebook and handed to Shade. This was the method used to call her projection in 1854.

Although she is not a witch, the hair of an ordinary ring warlock still has important symbolic meaning.

"I'm waiting for you to call me, Shade."

Shade looked at her across the coffee table. He actually had a lot to say, but with the notebook and the lock of hair, he found that he couldn't say anything.

She knew her future and her ending, and he promised her not to change what was bound to happen. Her story with him had ended in 1821, but had not yet begun in 1854.

The time transfer station must not continue to exist, and Shade can use the power of the twisted tree hole as long as he can. Therefore, although the separation at this time can lead to the next projection of reunion, the real contact is likely to be only this last time.