Miss Bell, who looked extremely pale early in the morning, followed Flora's instructions. After the girls dispersed, Shade and Miss Danister also walked into the bedroom of the suite.
There is a very fresh floral scent in Vanessa's bedroom, but because it is only a temporary residence, the furnishings of this room are the same as those of Shade's room next door.
At this time, the curtains in the room were tightly closed, blocking the somewhat gloomy morning from outside. Luvia and Sylvia were standing on the left and right beside the bed, while Vanessa hid herself under the quilt.
But seeing Shade coming over, the black-haired young witch took the initiative to lift the quilt.
Vanessa in the quilt wanted to fight her but obviously failed, so Shade and Miss Denister saw the man wearing an ill-fitting nightgown who looked to be over 1.5 meters tall with long hair reaching his waist, but no matter
The blonde girl, whose height, figure and appearance had all shrunk severely, looked at Shade with tears in her eyes.
But just looking at each other, she buried her head under the pillow like an ostrich:
"Shade, don't look at me!"
Then he pulled the quilt that Sylvia had lifted and let the quilt cover him and the pillow.
"this"
"Are you also reduced in age like me?"
The red-haired girl was quite interested in this, but Shade immediately shook his head:
"It's definitely not a time curse, I'm sure of that. And although she looks smaller, Vanessa is still thirteen rings now."
"I have not traveled through time! I have also used the 'Proof of Time' ritual!"
The muffled voice in the quilt also agreed with Shade, so she didn't speak in a shrill voice just now, but her voice really changed. The grown-up Fanny could still be seen on the face that was too young just now
Sarah's peerless charm, she was probably not even sixteen years old at this time.
"My power has not declined, nor has I been cursed, but I have become so much younger all of a sudden. Why does this kind of good thing always happen to other people around me?"
Miss Owl was still complaining quietly from the side, while Sylvia smiled and made no comment.
Luvia also smiled, but she did not forget to remind:
"There seems to be an element of whispering, but our perception is not very sure."
She motioned to Shade to investigate for himself. Shade didn't care about anything else at the moment and directly put his hand into the quilt. Fortunately, Vanessa did not resist, but took the initiative to hold him with her little hand.
After waiting for a while:
"Yes, the whisper element. Vanessa, where were you in the woods yesterday?"
It was still too early at this time, and the witches on the Radiant Messenger had not gotten up. Miss Bell first went to the ship to find Miss Eleser, and then went to find Xi Wei, Granny Cassandra and Carina one by one.
Fortunately, everything is fine with them.
In other words, except for Vanessa, everyone in the Vesta area who belongs to the "Shadow-Witch Force" is normal.
The Witch of the Earth obviously couldn't accept her own changes for a while. However, after everyone's comfort, she still described what happened to her intermittently:
"At least when I was resting last night, I didn't feel anything strange about my body at all. Because I knew that this city was unsafe and something could happen at any time, I slept very lightly. I felt it when I turned over in a daze this morning.
The skirt on my body was too loose, and then I noticed something was wrong."
She sat on the bed covered with a quilt, still wearing the overly loose nightgown. After all, even Shade didn't have clothes suitable for her current figure:
"The other person I didn't realize anything happened last night, but she reminded me that I had a dream last night, and it happened when I was thirteen or fourteen years old."
Vanessa, who is 1.5 meters tall, sniffed, her long golden hair draped over her shoulders and piled together on the sheets, making her look like a princess in a fairy tale:
"That is definitely not normal. I have never dreamed about what happened at that time in all these years. My girlhood was mediocre, and it should not have happened to me last night."
"A dream? But I still can't tell what it means."
Luvia shook her head and then made a suggestion:
"Although you are completely normal in other aspects except that your body has become too young, this is definitely not a good thing. Why not go to your parliament and ask sisters Megan and Audrey.
Although Miss Denist and Granny Cassandra can't tell what's wrong with you, Edwards is the great witch of knowledge and wisdom, and they have the most knowledge about relics."
"No, I don't want more people to know about my current situation!"
Vanessa shook her head vigorously. Strangely enough, although her body had shrunk to the size of a fifteen or sixteen year old, her long hair had not changed at all.
"I understand how you feel."
Miss Owl then echoed:
"When Danister and I were cursed at first, we didn't want more people to know."
The red-haired girl was rejoicing at this time. Although she had become smaller, she was at least eighteen years old.
Facts have proved that what happened to Vanessa is not an exception. Miss Danister received urgent news from the woods at seven o'clock in the morning, and the church also shared it with the witches during breakfast time around eight o'clock.
the latest information.
This "age anomaly" phenomenon also appears in the ring magician groups of churches and colleges, but the number is very small and they all have common characteristics:
"The victims this time are all thirteenth-ring warlocks and twelve-ring warlocks. Except for the paladin from the past, all the thirteenth-ring warlocks in the Vesta Grove have abnormal ages.
, yes, all.”
"It seems that Hermons the Bloodweeper is here too."
Shade mentioned in passing, but Miss Denister asked him not to interrupt:
"Only a very small part of the Twelve Rings have problems. All the victims have experienced age regression just like Miss Vanessa Benanis. There are no cases of abnormal age growth, and the ages after regression are all distributed in the
Between the ages of ten and sixteen, I haven't seen any regularity yet.
In addition, except for the physical changes caused by age changes, the ring warlocks affected this time are also normal in other aspects."
Miss Denister sat on the sofa and summarized the current situation to everyone. The Thirteen Rings of the church and college discovered the problem around six o'clock this morning, which was consistent with Vanessa.
As the Thirteenth Ring of St. Byrons, the "Red Moon Witch" should naturally be affected, and Miss Danister's response this morning was "I am sixteen years old now":
"The Blade of the Sky is not affected, probably because he, as a person summoned by the War of Time, is protected from such time effects by the power of the Tree Father. Those very few twelve rings that are affected
The warlocks are all those who have been promoted to the twelfth ring many years ago and are only one chance away from being promoted to the thirteenth ring."
The twelfth-level great witch Xiwei didn't know whether she should be happy or unhappy at this time.
"So, it is basically certain that this attack is targeting ring warlocks of a specific level. Fortunately for us, the church is in chaos. Even if the power is not affected, this time it is still all thirteen ring warlocks in the area.
Influenced by relics.”
"Then what kind of relic is it?"
Shade asked her, but couldn't get an answer.
In the currently known records, there has never been such a time relic specifically for thirteen-ring warlocks. Considering that the last [Dream Tree] also had time characteristics due to sleeping insects, there is a high probability that this time
A relic that is still irrelevant to time is given new power.
The church and the academy are looking for relics that also have the characteristics of "affecting a specific level" and "dream", but because this relic may belong to any dangerous level, or may even be just a derivative of the relic, it is quite difficult to find it.
Therefore, although Vanessa wanted to change back immediately, and even wanted Shade to use the Mystery Lock used in the Battle of Moon Bay to accelerate time and return her directly to her original age, her thoughts were only thoughts after all:
"This is just regressing the age, not keeping it constant. So thinking on the bright side, even if the matter cannot be solved, in three years I will be a real eighteen-year-old young girl. I still have to wait three years."
She said and looked at Shade rather sadly. Only Luvia and Dorothy present knew what she meant - Carina was still bedridden.
"When the witches examined Vanessa just now, they didn't say that she was no longer a pure girl."
When everyone was comforting Vanessa, Luvia whispered to Shade from the side. Shade looked at her in surprise:
"Even if she is still pure now, I still can't do it to her. She is only fifteen years old."
The fortune teller girl slapped him angrily:
"What are you thinking about? I mean, she also meets the requirements of the devil summoning ritual now, doesn't she? A pure girl under the age of 25."
Although once the "Watcher" or the black dragon "Kingsley" appears, the high-level warlocks must attack together as children, at least the human power of the Vesta Grove has not been damaged due to this relic accident.
Therefore, Shade's plan continued on this Monday, except that it was no longer Vanessa but Sivi who led the team to find the dragon beast's lair in the woods. And Vanessa was finally invited by Luvia to participate in the summer party.
Germany's "Devil Calling" ritual.
The four "pure girls under the age of 25" required for this ceremony include, in addition to Vanessa, Miss Swift, Little Miss Aurora and Miss Bell. The three witch apprentices are all of the right age.
However, although he did not need the help of Siris of Tobesk, Shade still asked Lesia to write her a letter to inform her of what was going on here. Although Vanessa became fifteen years old, she could still take care of herself, but Shade hoped that
Vanessa was really devastated when Sirius was able to come visit her.
PS: Pictures in this chapter "Vanessa-16-year-old version" "Vanessa Benanis"