Among the core spiritual runes of "Moon Spellcaster", there is the same [Silver Moon] spiritual rune as Shade, and when the gray-green light spread to her life ring, a new spiritual rune of blasphemy [Decline] appeared, and at the same time
The miraculous spirit rune she had mastered - [Life] actively flashed with an even more dazzling aura.
Her long black hair was fluttering behind her as her whole body shone. Shade felt that she was really communicating with the tree at this moment, and this process lasted for a long, long time.
At the same time, the gray-green light rising from the contact point between the tree trunk and the palm also began to spread towards the entire tree trunk.
Downward, it lit up the roots of the tree underground. The spiritual light penetrated the soil and allowed Shade to clearly see the distribution of the roots of this giant tree underground. The spreading area of the roots was even larger than the crown of the tree;
upwards, it lit up the crown of the tree above their heads, and the gray-green light flowed farther along each branch of the branches, until the tops of their heads turned into a sea of gray-green light dotted with stars, like a starry sky.
The only ones that were not lit up were the "corpses". Of course, Shade was glad that they did not light up.
In the end, the light even spread to Shade through the hands they held. However, there was no time curse on Shade, and he did not have a deep relationship with the tree, so——
[Outlander, you have encountered the curse of "The Curse of the Big Tree". 】
"What?"
[Because of its "natural affinity" characteristics, it is automatically exempted from all effects of the curse. 】
The night rain became heavier and heavier. At 7:10 that night, the lady who had closed her eyes finally opened her eyes again. When her hand left the tree trunk, the light above her head and under her feet also disappeared little by little.
Already.
She turned her head and met Shade's gaze:
"No problem, as long as you find this tree again in 1854, it will give you Anthony Winslet. But in this way, you will get Anthony Winslet whose time curse still exists."
"This is a trivial matter. It's easy to talk about it while the person is still alive. What is the content of his time curse?"
"Can't have sex with women."
Xia De was stunned for a moment:
"That's it. I remember that the content of the time curse is related to the purpose of traveling through time and its own characteristics. Didn't Flora's uncle travel through time to find his childhood friends? How could it be that his uncle is?"
Nearly two hours of communication with the tree, of course, not only gave her power and the promise of the tree. Shade guessed that the tree shared more secrets with her about the "Curse Erosion Tree", but they didn't need to
Stay in the rain said.
Shade turned into a cat again, and then was carried by the sorceress and flew back to the city. She also had a place to live in the city, but it was not the Accordion Hotel, but a three-story apartment in the old city in the north of the city.
The apartment was a little shabby, but when he sat down on the sofa in the dry living room listening to the sound of rain and watching the gas lights lighting up the surroundings, Shade felt that the place was still very warm.
"I saw something."
The black-haired lady who prepared tea for him said softly, her eyes looking at the void in front of her:
"That tree has absorbed the power of the Curse of Time, and eventually it will become food for the Paradox Worm. Countless insect eggs will cling to the tree after it reaches its limit, and then drain it completely."
"And that tree can re-extract the curses of the cursed?"
"No, the cursed tree does not have the possibility of being reused. Paradox insects themselves are evil creatures that eat the world tree. The trees they eat have absolutely no chance of survival. There will be new ones in due course.
The cursed tree appeared and I saw the memory of that tree’s life.”
Seeing Shade's worried expression while holding the teacup, she smiled softly and shook her head:
"I know what you are worried about. It's not what you think. This kind of evil thing is not born from a cursed person like me. Otherwise, you have to gamble and see how long it will take for a similar curse to appear.
They were deliberately cultivated, so they can shoulder the responsibility of absorbing curses and raising bugs. Their bloodline has been cultivated since before they were born, and the power has been preparing for their birth even since the time of their ancestors. Only
In this way, we can ensure that all processes will be absolutely error-free.”
"I was really worried just now that someone deliberately cultivated you into a cursed tree."
Shade held the teacup and said worriedly, and the sorceress smiled gently:
"Xia De, in your eyes, are the thirteen-ring warlocks of our era so weak? Don't worry, the memory in that tree has told me that every tree will work for three hundred years, and every tree
They will all be trained from his family.
His ancestors, his descendants, will always select someone to become a new tree every three hundred years. Yes, your guess is correct this time."
She whispered the final answer:
"Bennet.
The tree we saw is the ancestor of the Bennet family that you mentioned more than 200 years ago, and now its three hundred years have come to an end. According to its calculations, it will arrive in about thirty years.
In about forty years, it will be eaten by paradox insects, and then some of its surviving descendants will become new big trees."
"Who is it?"
Shade asked, and this question was also answered:
"For a mortal's body and soul to turn into the 'Curse Eclipse Tree', this not only requires the power of an ancient person, but also requires enough contact with the time curse. The masked man in the time transfer station is the next 'Curse Eclipse Tree'
Big tree'.
This requires a ceremony, and the materials for the ceremony are the bones of the "masked men" of the past three hundred years, that is, the ancestors of Bennet. When the chosen candidate completes the ceremony with the bones under the old tree, he
Able to sublimate from a human form into an evil being."
Shade leaned back slightly on the back of the sofa. The comfort of the cheap furniture was not very high, but what he was more concerned about at this time was the truth he learned. Slight heat wafted from the tea cup in his hand, and he seemed to be in the smoke.
I saw this reincarnation over the past thousand years:
"So, the Bennet family not only has to inquire about the news in the city for the ancient man, but also runs a time transfer station to cultivate paradox insects. They even have to sacrifice one person every three hundred years to become an evil object to absorb the curse. This family really
They are being exploited from head to toe."
Helena Carter nodded slightly;
"And every owner of the time transfer station is the head of the family and the person who knows the family secrets best. The secrets of the Bennet family will not be told to all family members. They actually lived in Ximu Town before it appeared.
local.
Initially he was a hunter hunting in the forest, and then he became a farmer in a small village. In the Ximu Town era, he became an aristocrat from an ordinary citizen, and in the current Vista City era, he is a famous local businessman."
"So, was the masked man of my time actually Thomas Bennet?"
"Yes, I saw the Anthony Winslet you were looking for in my memory. After seeing the tree, he was hung up by the vines on the tree. Then a young man appeared and took away Winslet's body.
Bug, that person looks like this."
The sorceress touched it casually, and the illusion created the appearance of a person. It was indeed the young Thomas Bennet. Calculating the time, in 1821, he should have just taken over the work of the transfer station, or maybe he was just helping others.
Father runs errands.
This answer was something that Shade had guessed a long time ago, but now that he had obtained the final proof, he could make plans later:
"So about the time transfer station, is there any information in the memory of that tree? I know it is a tree hole, so what is that tree?"
But this time the sorceress shook her head:
"It has been rooted there for more than two hundred years. Time has worn away emotions, and curses have worn away memories. Most of its remaining memories are related to the family and the tree itself. As for the time transfer station, the memory fragments it retains are only some time travels.
The stories of time. For love, for relatives, for feelings that cannot be let go, those stories are very complicated, and most people who go to the transit station want to regain something.
You told me that the masked man is very strong in the time transfer station. If you want to defeat him, fight outside the transfer station."
In addition to the information she gained from the tree's numb soul, she shared with Shade more information about the Cursed Tree itself. The power of the tree, the properties of the tree, the biology of the tree, the tree's biology
The possible direction of mutation is very similar to the knowledge shared by Adele, but the power of these trees that have been carefully cultivated since the ancestors' time is still not as powerful as the tree that Shade saw at the end of the world.
The night gradually became darker, and the conversation in the apartment continued very late. Shade even thought about whether to stay and rest tonight before leaving tomorrow, but when the clock struck midnight, the golden music that was still under construction
came from the direction of the hall, and the sorceress took the initiative to "drive away" him:
"Don't stay in this era for too long, go back."
She took out a notebook from her pocket, and then cut off a finger-length piece of hair from the tip. The black hair was tied with a red rope and sandwiched in the notebook. It was given to Shade for use in 1854.
The year calls her way to projection.
Although she is not a witch, the hair of an ordinary ring warlock still has important symbolic meaning.
"I'm waiting for you to call me, Shade."
Shade looked at her across the coffee table. He actually had a lot to say, but with the notebook and the bunch of hair in his hand, he found that he couldn't say anything.
She knew her future and her ending, and he promised her not to change what was bound to happen. Her story with him had ended in 1821, but had not yet begun in 1854.
The time transfer station can certainly not continue to exist, and Shade can use the power of the twisted tree hole as long as he can. Therefore, although the separation at this time can lead to the next projection of reunion, the real contact is likely to be the last time.