After meeting the familiar unicorns, the elf lady took Shade and continued walking towards the east. She seemed to be in a good mood. When walking beside the unicorn with her hands behind her back, Shade even saw her occasionally jumping a few steps.
There are low woodlands nearby, and beyond the woodlands are plain pastures used for grazing unicorns. Farther away are the shadows of snow-capped mountains lying low in the night.
The two of them didn't go far when they saw a simple wooden watchtower on the outskirts of the forest:
"This is the tower we use for observation when we usually do ecological research on heterogeneous organisms."
Emilia explained, and she flew up on her unicorn, while Shade climbed up the ladder with his cat.
The view at the top is quite wide, but Shade still hasn't observed any spatial anomalies.
"This passage is quite old. I don't know what era it is from, but it is definitely not the Sixth Age. This is probably the last time I will take this road, but since the past things will not be investigated, I think it is also good.
result, so you don’t have to apologize to me.”
The elf girl said, patting the little beast beside her:
"The entrance is hidden and can only be found at night. Moreover, I have only found that the female unicorn's horn can reveal the entrance. I was also chasing Liana one time and found her coming
I didn’t know about this entrance until I got here. I’ve always suspected that the rumors about unicorns in the Randall Valley were spread because they escaped.”
The young unicorn was able to understand Emilia's gestures, so it lowered its head and shouted "high", and then its golden horn began to shine brighter.
Shade thought for a moment:
"If I remember correctly, the horn of a unicorn has a very strong effect of breaking illusions, purifying, and opening seals. And the females in the unicorn population have stronger power than the males."
"Yes."
The elf girl nodded, while Shade was thinking about how he would get a unicorn and bring it to the Eternal Night City in the fifth era. But if you think about it carefully, after the unicorn dies, the body must be left by St. Byrons.
Maybe Miss Danist can get him one.
But in the end, this rescue adventure was not the mission of the tree father, so even if the road in front of him really existed in the Eternal Night City in the fifth era and he could still find it, could he reach the third place with such a powerful item?
In the fifth era, it is still a big problem.
The next moment, these thoughts were completely unimportant. Because Shade saw the little beast shake its neck slightly, and then at the top of the watchtower, the glowing horn seemed to lift up the invisible things in the air.
curtain.
【Not an invisible curtain.】
"She" reminded gently.
It was indeed not an invisible curtain, it was lifted up by the golden horn. What Shade had not noticed before was actually the night itself. Its horn lifted up the curtain of the night.
"Um?"
While Shade was surprised that the shape and color of the curtain looked very familiar, Emilia said quite proudly:
"After Liana led me to discover this passage, I also checked a lot of information in the academy. In fact, there are many secret ways to leave the academy without permission, but I bet that in our current era, I am the first
The only one who discovered this path!"
She raised her chest slightly and raised her head.
"So has anyone discovered this before?"
Shade asked curiously, and the elf girl nodded:
"There are some things left by students in the past era inside the passage. One of the notebooks written in 351 of the Sixth Era mentioned that two conditions are needed to open and use this passage: first, it is enough to lift the curtain.
A tool, which requires a horn similar to that of a female unicorn, or at least a sage-level sword relic. Secondly, it must possess one of the [Space] and [Night] spirit runes."
The elf girl in front of her had the space spirit rune, and she asked Shade to help her go to Coldwater Port to purchase materials for the space ritual.
"According to the information left by predecessors, the formation of this passage must have a lot to do with [dark night]. Therefore, this place can only be used at night. The usage time varies in different seasons. I usually only use it after it is completely dark.
Will come."
The elf was still talking, but Shade had already stretched out his hand and touched the "night curtain" opened by the unicorn's glowing horn.
[Yes, that’s the one. According to your timeline, about half an hour ago, this curtain was wrapped around Fiona Drago’s waist when you were packing your luggage. 】
"She" directly gave the answer that Shade wanted to know, and Shade took a deep breath. From this point of view, his idea was correct:
"Let's go, Miss Daniste is still waiting for us on the other side. Speaking of which, is the road inside very long?"
Shade asked curiously. He remembered using this curtain. It was obvious that after passing through it, he would reach his destination. There was no passage for storing notes or the like.
"It's not long. It can be completed in a minute or two. However."
Emilia warned again:
"There are some parts of this passage that have been eroded by the power of the night. Even the most powerful individual in Liana's population cannot come into contact with that kind of night, otherwise they will be assimilated by the night. So, you must follow me closely for a while. This
It’s no joke, it’s really dangerous.”
"Meow?"
Little Mia, who was squatting on the unicorn's head, screamed.
The unicorn lifted the curtain and walked in first, as if it had disappeared into thin air. Then came Emilia, and finally Shade.
After passing through the curtain, it turned out that he did not reach the Randall River Valley directly. Shade originally thought that he would see a scenery similar to Eternal Night City, but he was completely wrong.
The ground under your feet was covered with white ash, leaving clear footprints of elves, Shad and unicorns. A long and narrow ancient masonry corridor extended from your feet to a place that could not be seen in the distance. Dim lights were inserted on the walls.
Torches illuminate this ancient ruins that have gone through a long period of time.
But even those torches couldn't illuminate the large black areas in the corridor.
Those are the colors of night. Far from destroying the integrity of the corridor, they add a strange and confusing atmosphere to the already ancient corridor.
The night has eroded this corridor, but these nights are not evenly distributed. The closer you get to the end of St. Byrons, the more the erosion area is, and looking towards the distance, the black areas are obviously decreasing, which seems like someone
Black paint was splattered from the entrance to St. Byron's.
"That passage in front of the Witch Council?"
Shade was shocked, and then realized that although they were not exactly the same, the architectural style, atmosphere and even the appearance of torches and bricks were very similar. In other words, the singing talent in front of the Witch Council
The arrival passage and the corridor in front of us are like corridors in different locations in a large ruins.
Of course, Emilia didn't know what Shade was thinking, she was still talking to herself:
"It's going well. Let's keep moving forward. I don't like this place very much. It feels very dangerous to me. Let's not stop here."
Shade nodded in shock, but he had more and more questions in his mind. He hugged the cat that jumped over the unicorn's head, followed Emilia, and moved forward carefully in the corridor.
With.
Although the night had eroded part of the corridor, there was still enough space to continue moving forward. Miss Elf meant to go forward directly, but Shade suddenly stopped her.
They were now at a quarter of the passage, near a relatively large night shadow. After Shade stopped the elf girl, with her shocked eyes, he walked directly into the dark area with the cat in his arms.
.
But Shade did not disappear. His body and Mia's body radiated light together. And in the light of the sun and moon, these sourceless nights actually gradually faded away.
"How can it be?"
The young elf girl could not understand the scene she saw, and Shade, who had been in close contact with the night, was completely sure that although the danger level and traces of miraculous elements in these nights were far weaker than those in Eternal Night City,
The source of these powers is definitely Eternal Night City.
In other words, in the last era, when he escaped with Fiona, he most likely used this passage.
"Emilia, you really helped me a lot."
As he continued to walk forward, Shade did not forget to thank the elf girl again. The latter was still in shock. After shaking his head to express that it was okay, he asked curiously:
"There are only two of us here, Lianna and your cat, so can you tell me why you want to know about this passage?"
She blinked and looked at Shade. Although she lost her "secret passage" tonight, such a "big adventure" was actually not bad. Compared with the comfortable student life of St. Byrons, even if there was no fighting tonight,
But just participating in things outside of school is interesting enough:
"If it's a secret, you don't have to tell it."
She didn't forget to add.
"It's not a secret, it's really to help a friend."
"A very important friend?"
The elf girl asked again, Shade nodded, and heard "her" laughter again.
"Why are you laughing? Am I right?"
Shade asked in his heart, "she" did not answer immediately, because Shade felt something moving in his pocket.
"Mia!"
His first reaction was that the cat's tail was rubbing against Mia again, but after warning Mia in a low voice, he looked down and saw the cat staring up at him with big innocent eyes.
"Not you? Then what is moving in my pocket?"
So he signaled Amelia to stop again, and then under the latter's curious gaze, he took out a small glass bottle with an oak stopper from his pocket. And in the bottle, there was a piece of golden material that kept hitting the wall of the bottle.
