The corridor is not filled with indescribable strange creatures, nor is it a terrifying evil spirit with a transparent body, or even anything whose form can be seen.
There was nothing in the candlelit hallway.
And deep in the corridor where the fire was completely extinguished, the wall exuded a dim light, which was almost connected to the darkness, flickering at a frequency similar to the beating of a heart.
Just looking at those dim lights for a moment, Shade really felt that he heard the sound of a huge heart beating. At this moment, his body and soul were completely frozen in time and space, and he vaguely understood something.
What he looked at was the Dreadfort, and nothing had been chasing him from the beginning. The thing that exuded fear and seemed to drive away any outsiders was the Dreadfort itself.
Those deep dim lights represent the Dreadfort itself. And the so-called "Dreadfort" itself actually has consciousness. It is a living thing.
The fear that exceeded the limit made Shade almost completely unconscious in an instant. The impact of fear even made him feel that he was about to fall into a deep sleep from which he would never wake up.
"No, am I afraid of fear?"
Under the trees in the Forest of Thousand Trees, after the gods temporarily left, memories of facing the boundless terror and darkness side by side with the two witches flooded into his mind. This fear seemed to inspire some kind of power latent in the soul, which has never been there.
The [Tree Kiss] spiritual rune associated with any thaumaturgy trembles slightly in the soul.
This moment was close to a fragile moment of complete emotional collapse. The primitive fear that the body fell into and the awakening of the soul from courage formed a distinct sense of dislocation, which made Shade clearly feel the strangeness of his soul for the first time.
Not only were two drops of divinity protecting him in his soul, but he also felt that there seemed to be something warm but a little cold hugging him from behind.
"That is"
Even though his body and soul froze when he faced the source of fear in the Dreadfort, his impulse and desire miraculously made him turn his head.
In front of you is the Dreadfort, but when you turn around, what you see is endless white mist. In the glowing white mist, there is a giant tree whose full view cannot be seen even if you look up.
The tree seemed to connect heaven and earth, and seemed to support heaven and earth. It had a well-developed root system, a lush crown, and the tree patterns on the transparent trunk seemed to record the story of the entire civilization.
Looking at the tree, a warm feeling washed over his body and soul, allowing him to quickly wake up from the negative state of seeing the source of fear. But at the same time, the most authentic soul feeling he felt at the moment when his soul was on the edge of breaking also
It disappeared.
The transparent crown of the tree swayed gently in the white mist. Shade stretched out his hand with a sense of loss and took two green leaves that were swirling and falling.
"What I felt just now was you?"
he asked softly.
The white mist around him shrank towards the door of the door-shaped pendant that appeared at his feet at an unknown time. The scene of the open space in the center of the dark cornfield slowly emerged as the white mist disappeared, and darkness was encroaching on the space around Shade's body.
When he received no response, he sighed and wanted to bend down to pick up the [Twenty-sided Dice of Destiny]. After all, the battle with that powerful demon was not over yet.
But unexpectedly, before the surrounding white mist completely disappeared, a demon holding a black fire human bone rushed up, as if it was impatient to let Shade sleep here forever.
【Outlander, you have returned to the present time.】
[Message from the ancient god "Father of the Infinite Tree":]
"Aren't you willing to answer my question?"
Shade kept bending down to pick it up, preparing to stand up and throw the dice. Because after the dice was thrown, it must be twenty o'clock.
【Infinite time will protect you.】
The demon that enveloped the darkness and suppressed the light of the silver moon on Shade finally came before him.
At this time, the last few wisps of white mist around Sha De have not completely disappeared, and the appearance of the devil seems to have disturbed something. Behind Sha De, the shadow of a giant tree that originally disappeared as the white mist disappeared, seemed to run through the sky and the earth.
It actually reappeared at this moment.
Thick mist surged out from behind Sha De in an instant, as if he had returned to the [Time Corridor] again. But the target of the white mist was not Sha De. As the giant branch behind him swayed, the white mist surged out.
The fog swooped forward, swallowing the demon in front of Shade, and then quietly disappeared from the surroundings.
The disappearance of the white mist allowed darkness to return, but there were no demons around, and there were no traces left.
"What does it mean?"
Shade held the entry dice and straightened up, looking at the metal door pendant at his feet. It had returned to normal.
【Infinite time will protect you.】
She repeated this sentence, and Shade nodded thoughtfully:
"So, every time I complete the task of a key and return from the past time, if I want to attack me at this moment, I will be counterattacked by the remaining power of the [Father of the Infinite Tree]?"
But this seems to be useless at all. Not only does this kind of treatment only occur every time the key is completed, but also not every fool will attack Shade at such a time.
"But in short, it is a good thing to deal with the enemy."
He bent down to pick up his own relics and spell-casting materials from the ground, and then looked at the two leaves held in his hands.
After thinking for a moment, I casually covered one piece on my right eye.
The veins on the leaves flashed with golden aura. The aura gradually gathered and entered Shade's right eye, and a new power poured into Shade's soul.
"Breath of Time?"
It took him at least half a minute to take off the blade in his hand, and the voice in his heart was already prompting specific information about the thaumaturgy.
[Breath of Time] is a thaumaturgy corresponding to the [Time and Space] spiritual rune. This is an active release thaumaturgy that requires casting materials.
There are two thaumaturgy effects, corresponding to the actions of "exhale" and "suck" respectively. When Shade uses thaumaturgy and performs "suck", he can restore an old object to its appearance in an earlier time.
Shade took out his pocket watch that had been damaged by water in Coldwater Harbor, summoned the life ring behind him and activated the thaumaturgy. As he took a deep breath, some gray air flow split into two streams from the pocket watch and entered his body.
Nose. The pocket watch with some rust marks on the surface peeled off, and the hands started to rotate again.
"Ordinary items, with my second-level spirit, can be restored to the state they were in three months ago at most. It is ineffective on relics, but effective on living creatures and other special items, because what I interfere with is not the item itself, but time, but the spirit consumption
More."
Of course, Shade's interference with the pocket watch only brought him back to the moment when he jumped off the ship with Lesia. He could not waste all his soul just to test thaumaturgy.
When Shade uses magic and performs the "call" action, the target item can be quickly corroded by time. This does not bring the time point of the item to the future, but allows it to naturally corrupt. If you use magic
During the operation, if the target is in the air, it will be quickly oxidized, and if it is in the wind, it will be quickly eroded.
Although no more souls are wasted trying, it is easier to accelerate the target's time than to restore it. If the restoration of ordinary items currently takes up to three months, then the acceleration can reach up to one year. Of course, corrupting the target can also affect living things.
It can be used with objects and some special items, but the corresponding difficulty level will be more.
The most critical information about [Breath of Years] is that the casting material is lifespan. Casting materials once a month, which is the time Shade just did, affects the time before the end of this natural month, that is, before the end of today.
, it will consume one-tenth of the length of the affected time as a casting material.
"Although it sounds magical, and can even allow a low-level warlock like me to directly affect time, isn't the price too high? Even if the spirit is enough, the longest time that can be affected at one time is only about a thousand years. Well, so
Come to think of it, it doesn’t seem like the price is high.”
Shade sighed in his heart, but did not put another leaf representing [a true message - Dark Dungeon] in front of his eyes to read. The leaf can only be used once, but he has no intention of memorizing that complicated information now.
No matter what help this information can give him, he plans to wait until the adventure in the [Dark Realm] is over before investigating.
After confirming that all the items were picked up, Shade turned around and entered the cornfield, and found Luvia huddled next to the [God's Gift Box].
She was sleeping soundly, and Shade was horrified, thinking that she had fallen into that kind of eternal sleep again. But when she heard the footsteps, Luvia woke up slightly. Although her mental state was still very bad, she was actually better than when Shade left.
Some.
She forced a smile to Shade:
"You're back? Oh, I actually fell asleep."
"Something happened, but there is no danger anymore."
Shade carefully helped Luvia up, then turned around and put the box back on his back. The [God's Gift Box] shone very quietly, and there was nothing unusual about it.
"Follow me, I have found the location guided by your divination."
With Shade by her side, Luvia's spirit improved a lot. The two of them returned to the center of the cornfield where Shade had fought the demon just now. Shade also briefly explained what he had experienced in just a few minutes.
Later, Shade, who was particularly sensitive to spatial traces, found the gap in space that connected the unknown location. They held hands and stepped into the gap together. It was like using [Raglai's Jump], there was nothing at all
special feeling.
When you lift your legs, you are surrounded by cornfields, and when your legs touch the ground again, you are surrounded by a flat road in the dark.
Behind him were woods, with the road extending on both sides. There were some figures from the past floating around, blurry and difficult to identify. Shade raised his finger and pointed forward. With the dim light, his eyes could barely see a quiet building in the darkness.
The manor stands in this deep darkness.
"This is Miss Carina's manor, we have arrived at Miss Carina's manor!"
The witch's manor was without any light like the surroundings, but seeing the familiar buildings in the darkness still made Shade smile on his face. He didn't believe it at all, this manor had also fallen into darkness.
