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 covered his forehead and stood there for a while, then looked up and sighed. Looking at the sofa covered with white cloth, he thought that every time before leaving, he would sit here and hold Adele's hand to say goodbye.
I don’t know whether I should be looking forward to it or feeling melancholy.
Just like facing a wonderful story, I am looking forward to the next reading experience, but also regretting the emptiness that will inevitably occur after the reading is over.
The door was stuck in the door frame due to severe deformation. Shade pushed it open with force. The wind and sand that hit his face made him couldn't help but squint his eyes.
The dim yellow sky was unchanged from before. Shade even suspected that every time he came here, it was exactly the same time. But thinking that even the concept of time did not exist here, he did not explore this meaningless thing.
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 gravel-rolled 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 no familiar figure appeared. Shade then closed his eyes to sense the fire mark left on Adele's forehead when he left last time. The fire mark still existed, just because of the confusion of time and space.
The specific location cannot be determined, but this at least shows that Adele is 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 luminous runes on the ground:
"Adele! Isabella!"
I don't know if it's because the loud voice really works, but anyway, the light emitted by the runes was chaotic for a moment, and soon 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 her figure disappeared immediately. And no matter how loudly Shade called again, the blond lady did not appear again.
【Outlander, have you felt the call, have you answered the call?】
Fortunately, "she" suddenly asked during Xia De's anxious attempt, and Xia De 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 pulling his arm and flying high into the sky. But soon his vision was restored again, and Adele immediately fell into Shade's arms, and at their feet, "Shade
Suellen Hamilton's name is shining with silvery white light.
There is still a dim yellow sky above the head, but the surrounding area is no longer the half-collapsed square that Shade is familiar with. It seems to be a huge circular pit. The area of the pit itself is not inferior to that of the square that he just left.
The surface of the 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 pieces of black rectangular bricks. A large number of bones are piled up 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 items 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 hit Adele with dozens of blows on the back.
A black tree vine.
There was no green on the crown of the tree, and skeletons were hanging from the dry branches. Its roots did not penetrate into the soil at all, and those weird-shaped roots were covered with dense white vesicles that made the roots turn into green.
were even thicker, and if Shade saw it correctly, those vesicles were clearly wrapped in
"Huh? Not a Paradox Bug?"
He jumped up with Adele in his arms and used "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 on 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 it.
He repented and committed suicide under this weird 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 left by the cursed ones. But gradually, this big tree absorbed more and more time curses."
Adele could not continue, because a white light that was almost thicker than the tree trunk shot from the tree crown to the two people in the air. Shade summoned the "Night Seal" to block it, but his instinctive sense of crisis made him
At the last moment, he still made a dodge move.
So the crystal white light penetrated the ink-colored shield, and the two people immediately fell from the air. When Adele helped Shade stand up in the dust, she was shocked to find that his entire left arm turned into a colorful light.
crystal shape.
Adele, who had messy hair, was about to cry immediately, but the layer of crystals faded at a speed visible to the naked eye. This was not difficult for Shade. In the story, his whole person turned into crystals, but in the end he still
Changed back - this is a story recorded in the bark of the World Tree, and it has been recognized by the world.
"Before I figured out what moderation was, I would probably always have a high resistance to this eternal crystal."
As he spoke, Shade held Adele and rolled to the side, avoiding the sweeping black ray. Shade didn't know what the ray was this time, but it seemed that it was no longer the power of time and trees, but the power of time and trees.
The power of death.
Although he was hiding in a very embarrassed manner, Shade finally managed to escape, and Adele, who was 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 itself, and turned into a cursed tree.
A terrible evil that combines death resentment and unstable time power.
Although there are many similar evil things in this era, only this one is the most special, and it should not even be put together with other time-cursed trees."
“Was it Mount Karas where the tree was first found?”
Shade asked while slashing a beam 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 hard to ignore, now was not the time to exchange information.
Shade felt that he would definitely not be able to win this time. Without the "arena"-like orderly environment created by the tree father like St. Teresa Square, he with the eighth ring was far from a match for these terrible evil things that existed in the apocalypse.
.
In the projection state, because his senses are incomplete, he cannot fully feel the horror outside the "City of Doomsday", but this does not prevent him from knowing how powerful this "cursed tree" is. The tree just now
A casual blow directly destroyed the "Night Seal", and Shade knew that he should leave now:
"Fortunately, I learned to fly recently."
The cut moonlight struck the trunk of the tree, leaving not even a single white mark. As Shade held Adele in his arms and jumped into the air, hundreds of vines stretched upward, and then collided head-on.
Got into the "Chaos Residue" thrown by Shade.
The moonlight of the holy silver had no obvious effect on the tree, but the power that the nun realized from her death was particularly effective. The explosion under her feet effectively formed an obstacle. While the tree vines were blocked by the flames, Shade
Holding the blonde lady in his arms, he wanted to rush out of the pit, but was stopped by Adele who saw what he was thinking:
"Don't go up! The location of the cave entrance is a turbulent time flow. Once we enter, we can go anywhere."
If it weren't for the fact that she couldn't get out, she wouldn't have been injured like this even if she couldn't hit the tree:
"This deep pit is a catacomb church where people spontaneously worship the tree. There should be a secret passage to the outside world here, for a while."
"Is the time flow disordered? It doesn't matter. I just learned a new method recently."
As he spoke, Shade went to touch his pocket, and was surprised to find that the small bottle of essence in his pocket was missing.
[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 just by looking at Shade's movements. The demigod witch who had recovered a little did not speak anymore, but hugged his neck and kissed him.
This is not a simple kiss, and it is not the right time to kiss now when you are running for your life. Just like Adele once gave Sha De new strength with just one kiss, Sha De also felt the surging spirit coming in this kiss.
in one's own body.
The vines that escaped the flames continued to pursue upwards, and at this moment they encountered the crystal light.