【Outlander, you have stepped into the "corridor of time".】
[Message from the ancient god "Father of the Infinite Tree":]
[Spring of Fifth Age 5177, Broken Islands, Lost Lake.]
[Event: The Witch Pursuing Eternal Beauty.]
【Duration thirty minutes (1/3).】
"The Broken Islands? After five continents in the east, west, south, north, and middle, this time, it actually reached the sea?"
Shade thought with some surprise.
【You have obtained additional information.】
[The figure of the father of the infinite tree is watching you.]
[The ancient god of time gives you a test.]
【Help mortals visit gods and learn the secrets of eternal beauty.】
[The Father of the Infinite Tree will give you rewards: Ritual-Water of Moonlight, Ritual-Fire of the Sun.]
"The reward this time is two rituals?"
Although he was a little surprised, past experience has proven that any reward given by the father of the infinite tree is very useful to Shade, so even though it is a ritual, he is also very happy:
"This time, the ancient god of time has given me the knowledge of the moon and the sun. I don't know what will happen next time."
The familiar white mist around him had been there more than once, so Xia De didn't think too much about it and took a step forward with excitement.
The white mist retreated silently to both sides, as if the curtain had been opened. What was shown to Shade in front of him was the large lake at night and the mist hovering over the lake.
"It's night again?"
But if you look carefully at the night sky, the stars are covered by fog, and even the moon becomes extremely hazy.
In front of you is the silent lake in the night. In the center of the lake, you can vaguely see the island in the middle of the lake that is obscured by the fog. Looking back, you can see the low bushes and lush forests. However, there are also some bushes and forests.
Abnormal mist, this mist was not particularly humid, but after inhaling it into his lungs, Shade felt his head was a little foggy.
[There are ingredients in the fog that inhibit brain activity.]
"Is this mist a sedative?"
【A tranquilizer with extraordinary power.】
The night was very dark, and no one could be seen around. Although we were deep in a dense forest, we couldn't hear any insects. On the contrary, strange rustling sounds were coming from the bushes behind us.
, and quickly approached Shade who was standing on the shore. Shade was not interested in knowing what it was, so he walked towards the lake:
"Walking on water."
This is a spell learned after absorbing the divinity hidden in the golden pearl of the [Lord of the Scarlet Spiral]. Shade borrowed its power when he fought Joey Barton in death.
He successfully raised his feet to step on the surface of Lost Lake and stood steadily on the lake. But the next moment, the extreme chill surged from the soles of his shoes to his feet, and instantly spread to his whole body. Shade froze there.
, only the breath exhaled subconsciously remains.
The temperature here is obviously close to midsummer, but the breath I exhale is white and cold.
Not only was his body frozen by the coldness coming from the water, but his soul also felt stagnant. And as time went by, the coldness actually got stronger and stronger, giving Shade the feeling that he was about to be assimilated by the lake water.
a feeling of:
"Sure enough, Lost Lake is as unsafe as places like Hope Town and the Dreadfort."
The initial fire burning in his body was trying its best to resist the strange cold air. The frozen Shade reluctantly lifted his legs and ran towards the island in the middle of the lake. Every step he took left a thin piece of ice in the shape of a footprint on the lake.
, and the closer we get to the island in the middle of the lake, the more unbearable the chill becomes:
"Raglai's Leap!"
Because I had prepared the casting materials in advance, I used thaumaturgy directly at this moment. But Shade failed, and the power of space movement was actually prohibited in this area:
"Become a red butterfly!"
The whole person scattered into a group of red butterflies in the mist on the lake. The butterflies emitted a red light and spread red light spots flying above the water. Of course they would not touch the water. But the surrounding mist was not only a powerful sedative.
, Shade, who transformed into a red butterfly, felt that his consciousness was assimilating with the red butterflies in the thick fog in just ten seconds, so he had no choice but to transform back into human form again.
I hurriedly ran forward a few steps, but felt the chill was unbearable, so I turned into a swarm of butterflies again.
As Shade got closer to the island in the middle of the lake, he saw light in the mist. There was a cluster of bonfires on the shore of the island in the middle of the lake that were not particularly conspicuous, and the people around the bonfire also noticed a group of red lights.
The butterflies were flying towards them, and then they saw the group of red butterflies turning into a tall figure in the fog, and the figure quickly turned into red butterflies:
"Someone is here again, help her."
This is the language of the late Fifth Era. Shade has studied it in his textbooks, but he is not particularly proficient in it.
The clear woman's voice fell, and a flying snake shot towards Shade from the shore of the island in the middle of the lake, but Shade soon realized that it was a hemp rope. The flight of the hemp rope completely violated the basic rules of physics.
There was no tendency to fall. Unfortunately, after it flew less than half the distance, it suddenly fell to the water surface as if it was pulled by an invisible force.
"Chains of Sin!"
Shade waved his hand forward, and the chains flying out of his sleeves also flew into the fog like flying snakes.
Just like the hemp rope, the chain was pressed towards the water not long after it flew out. But fortunately, the [Sin Chain] imprisoned all power, and the invisible force was also slightly affected, allowing the end of the chain to barely touch.
The end of the twine.
The witch who manipulated the rope on the shore of the island in the middle of the lake seemed to also understand the spell of "Live Rope Trick". The chain and the front end of the hemp rope were tightly tied together in a dazzling way, and then a huge force came, and the rope and chain
At the same time, he tensed up, and Shade's feet instantly jumped into the air, and was actually dragged directly to the shore by the force.
"Oh~"
He staggered from the water to the shore, knelt down by the bonfire, and stretched out his hands shivering to keep warm. If the rope didn't appear, he really felt that he would be assimilated into water by the cold.
That feeling even made him almost touch the edge of the spiritual rune [Water].
"man?"
While the pale Shade was warming himself, a voice beside him said, but then another voice retorted:
"Your Majesty, this must not be a man, otherwise how could the effect of the curse not appear?"
"But it looks like he is really a man. Miss Teresa, Serkses should have taught you not to be fooled by common sense... although the current situation is indeed very strange."
The first voice that appeared said, this voice also said that he wanted to help Shade.
The witch known as "Your Majesty" softly asked Shade, whose heart was still beating violently, as if she was afraid that her voice would scare him:
"Sir, since we rescued you, could you introduce yourself?"
"Sorry, I... take a rest. What is under Lost Lake? In addition to the cold, I can sense something more terrifying."
After he finished speaking, he realized that the two witches around him probably couldn't understand what he said, but he didn't expect the second voice, the lady known as "Miss Teresa" to answer:
"There are more than one things under the Lost Lake. As long as they don't touch the water, they won't wake up. You are so brave, you actually dare to walk through the water."
"If there was no other way, I wouldn't want to."
Shade's body temperature gradually returned to normal. He tried to stand up while holding on to the ground, while looking at his surroundings.
This is indeed the edge of the island in the middle of the lake. The island itself is not big and is covered with low shrubs. Even with the fog, you can almost see the whole thing at a glance.
In the center of the island was a dilapidated tower, an obsidian building that looked even more abrupt in the dark night. Shade just glanced at it, then immediately looked away, and then breathed heavily again.
A great existence, one that is even more "huge" than this island, this lake, and this overseas jungle, is in the tower. It is a real god. He can definitely detect a few people by the lake, but he cannot
He has no ill intentions towards them, so he should be a kind god.
Looking at the witches around him, Shade was very surprised that there were not only two witches around the campfire, but eight ladies.
However, except for two of them, the other six people were all dressed in black and white maid uniforms.
They lowered their heads and were doing their own thing, either maintaining the bonfire, using their power to disperse the white mist, or arranging rituals to warn against danger.
The two witches who were not wearing maid skirts, that is, the two ladies who were talking to Shade, looked at Shade warily.
The witch known as "Your Majesty" stood closest to Shade. Shade knew just by looking at it that she was another thirteenth-level witch.
She wore a purple robe, with long wavy hair hanging down her back to her waist. She wore three gemstone alchemy rings on each hand, and a pointed hat set with white, black and pink diamonds on her head.
Her eyes were brown, and there were dots of light in them. Seeing her beautiful face, Xia De was stunned for a moment, but immediately adjusted his expression and said very respectfully:
"Thank you for saving me. I think if I were a second later, I might really be lost in the lake."
"Although your strength is not strong, you are really brave. We just used a special way to open the door directly to the island in the middle of the Lost Lake. In so many years, you should be the first one who dares to walk out of the water.
people."
The tall lady wearing a pointed hat said, looking at him curiously:
"These maids are all my servants."
She introduced that the weakest among the maids was at least level 6, and the two strongest among them were at level 10. Although the maids were all doing their own things, Shade could feel that they were secretly looking at him.
This was the time when he met the most people during his adventures in the past.
"This one is Miss Theresa Schultz, a tenth-year student at Sussex Medical School, and also my distant niece."
She pointed to the young girl next to her, who looked nothing like the witch who spoke. She wore a pair of round-rimmed glasses, her long blond hair was tied into more than ten braids, and she was examining the man in front of her.
After introducing the people here, the thirteenth-level witch known as "Your Majesty" asked Shade again. Although there was a gentle smile on her face, there was no smile in her eyes at all:
"So sir, who are you?"
"I am a traveler from a foreign land."
Shade said, patting the dirt on his clothes when he knelt down in front of the bonfire, then looked at the witch and asked softly:
"May I ask you are......"
The big witch raised the corners of her mouth and narrowed her eyes slightly:
"Although I don't know your gender, since you use extraordinary power, you don't even know me?"
"you are......"
Shade pretended to think, and then suddenly realized:
"The ruler of Witton?!"
"Yes."
The witch wearing a pointed hat and all the clothes and accessories on her body reacted with spirits and elements and said softly: