"My son sent us here. Theodore didn't want us to leave. He couldn't let us escape death like him, so he trapped our souls here. I'm in the chapel of the cemetery
, his father is in the left tomb of the underground cemetery, and his sister is under the tree behind the west wall of the cemetery.
Theodore's future wife, possible children, and other brothers should also appear here after their deaths. Young man, it's not that I don't want to leave here, I just can't leave."
Shade pressed the cat's head on his chest. He clearly felt that she wanted to speak and comment on this matter.
"Then besides your son, who else has traveled through time?"
After all, the Paradox Bug has not been found yet. This question is very important, but this time the lady shook her head:
"I don't know. I was already dead when Theodore traveled through time. All the things I mentioned to you just now were what he said himself when he came to find me."
Shade frowned slightly:
"Then do you know how he traveled through time?"
"Tree Hole."
The noble lady said the term accurately, but she immediately shut up and continued after a moment of silence:
"I don't know how much you know about this. There has been a legend about the Time Tree Cave in Ximu Town since ancient times. I am the daughter of a noble family who married from a foreign country. I was not born here. My husband did not talk to me about it when he was alive.
Been to too many things.
I just know that the Brontë family has known about the existence of tree holes from a long time ago. Although not every generation of Brontës will use tree holes, my husband must have told Theodore the family secret. This is probably
That's how he can travel through time."
That the ancient families in the Ximu Town era knew the secret of the "Tree Hole" was something that Shade had guessed from the beginning, and it was confirmed again here. It's just that he didn't have time to deal with the more ancient things for the time being, and he still
Let’s deal with the immediate matters first:
"Is that tree hole passed down from your family?"
If this is indeed the case, then the origin of the book that first appeared in the hands of Baron Cumming's mother, the lover of young Cumming, is also worthy of doubt.
"I don't know, my husband rarely talks to me about time."
"Then what was the mysterious being in the forest that your son saw, the one who gave him his destined death?"
The lady still couldn't give an answer:
"I didn't know that when he found that mysterious being in the forest, I was already seriously ill and bedridden. When he came back, I was already dead.
People living in Ximu Town all know that there are many mysterious things hidden and sleeping in this woodland. Most of the surnames who have lived here for a long time know some of the secrets. Maybe they found it from the information left by their ancestors in the family collection.
Something, or maybe it was just the desire for immortality that made him glimpse the darkness in the forest."
Next, Shade asked her some questions, such as the identities of the Bronte family members, and whether there were any other abnormalities in the Bronte family. The lady was willing to answer all of them, and there was only one thing she wanted Shade to do.
thing, which is to rescue York Bronte from "immortality":
"Young man, please kill my son and free us. His current existence has become a curse. I can clearly feel that he is rejected by all souls."
The curse here refers to the nature of the existence of the "Dead Apostle" itself, not the time curse. Therefore, Shade also wants to find out what the other party's time curse is, but unfortunately the lady really doesn't know.
After confirming that there were no clues here, Shade and the cat temporarily left the small auditorium and returned to the foggy outside world. Half of the time traveling this time had passed, and they had to speed up the progress.
"Did you notice the timing?"
The cat on the chest reminded:
"The correct sequence is: Theodore Brontë knew his destined death, and then he traveled through time to escape death and became a Death Apostle and was cursed by time. So he was cursed and he became a Death Apostle, which happened almost at the same time.
things.
According to the rules of time travel, the more powerful you are, the stronger the time curse you receive. As a Dead Apostle, Theodore Brontë’s curse may not be stronger than ours, but it definitely does not mean that you will die if you touch gold.
Little things."
Shade looked at the grave pit where the coffin was buried again:
"Furthermore, he was still a three-ringed sorcerer from 1821 to 1854. There is something wrong with this matter. When my friend told me about the Death Apostles, he said that the Death Apostles directly changed the nature of life. Even if he originally
Ring warlocks are not very talented, and it is impossible for them not to be able to reach the middle ring even after becoming a Death Apostle."
"So the content of the curse is that the level is limited? You can never break through the third ring?"
"The lady just now didn't know if her son was a transcendent. There is still some time left, so let's move quickly and ask other people. Aren't his sister and father here too?"
Just like the noble lady who has completely transformed into a wraith, the old baron and the woman in her thirties have also turned into terrifying wraiths because their spirits have been on the verge of life and death for a long time.
Among them, the spirit body of the old baron in the underground tomb mutated and merged with a corpse, transforming into a mutated ghoul that could realize the whole body inanimate. After fighting with Shade in the narrow tomb, it broke away with one blow and relied on
Able to walk through walls, he escaped all the way, and even wanted the other undead wandering in the tomb to attack Shade.
Shade, who was in a hurry, had no time to fight with him. He relied on the strength of his body to smash through the earth walls and chased after him. Then he destroyed the body of the ghoul with a thunder gun and purified it with moonlight.
I wanted to ask like before, but the witch gave a terrible answer:
"No, he has been dead longer than that lady. His soul has been completely lost. He can't even extract his memory."
But fortunately, Theodore Bronte's sister died in the shortest time. When Shade found her in the woods outside the cemetery, the young woman's soul rushed over with a shovel. The family turned into a resentment.
Spirits have more power than ordinary souls. The special thing about this resentful spirit is not the shovel in her hand, but her ability to conjure exploding apples.
But the wraith is still a wraith. After being successfully subdued by Shade and restored to normal by the witch, she also provided important information to the two of them:
"Yes, my brother is a ring magician. That happened two years before my mother died. In order to treat her seriously ill mother, he gradually changed from medical research to occult research. And one day he suddenly
Tell me that he heard another voice of his own in his ears."
The soul of Anna Bronte stood quietly under the tree. She was 31 years old and unmarried when she died. This was a completely tragic life in this era and in 1854:
"Theodore likes to communicate with me very much. I know a lot about him. After he heard the voice in his ear, he spent a lot of money to buy a potion to become a ring magician. But he said he bought
The medicine has side effects, and I will never be able to touch a higher power in my life."
This is the shortcoming of irregular employment as a ring warlock. The ritual methods mastered by the Five Gods Church and the three major academies are the formal way of employment.
"Two years later, my mother also passed away due to illness, and my physical condition also deteriorated. When holding my mother's funeral, Theodore told me that he had achieved immortality, and he promised that I would be like him.
I rejected him, and Theodore’s mental state at that time was already very wrong.”
"After he achieved so-called immortality, did you notice any difference between him and before? For example, the details of his life."
Shade asked, and the girl's soul answered after digging out the sleeping memories:
"He took to eating raw meat."
But this is also a manifestation of human beings transforming into Death Apostles, not a time curse.
"After my mother died, a series of consecutive disappearances occurred in the town, but the missing people were all outsiders, and the murderer could not be found in the town. I always suspected that he was responsible, but I was already seriously ill in bed at that time and could not
investigation."
This is probably Theodore Bronte's crime of killing people and sucking life force. Priest August said that the Dead Apostles prefer humans and highly intelligent alien creatures to plants and ordinary animals.
"Except for this year, he frequently appears in this weird world of the dead and chats with me, my mother, and my father. Even if we can no longer respond to him, he still comes to visit us frequently after we lose our minds. I
I originally thought he was missing his family, but now that I think about it, he seems to just like the environment here."
But this is wrong. Although "Dead Apostles" sound like immortal undead creatures, undead creatures are things that are produced normally due to "death", and "Dead Apostles" are neither alive nor dead. They are definitely not undead.
It's even less likely to like "The Edge of Life and Death".
Therefore, "liking to stay on the edge of life and death" is not the nature that Theodore Brontë should have.
A smile appeared on Shade's lips. He felt that he had grasped the key point. The cat in his arms also realized this, but she thought of more things:
"How did your brother discover this place? Your family cemetery is also here. Could it be said that your ancestors knew about the existence of the edge of life and death?"
The girl's soul was not startled by the cat speaking, and her emotional expression remained indifferent:
"At least before our parents died, none of us knew the existence of this kind of place. That was also what happened after my mother died. Theodore often came here. I originally thought he came here to mourn his parents. It was only after his death that I found out that my mother had died.
Since then, he has been coming in and out frequently."
"Before your mother died, did anything similar to the resurrection of the dead occur in your family cemetery?"
Shade asked again, and the soul shook its head. This is very interesting. The edge of life and death coincides with this area, and this happens to be a cemetery, but there is no resurrection of the undead. This can only mean that this world is actually in their mother.