Whispering Poems

Chapter 2948: The Evil of Time Corrodes the Tree

Chapter 2948 The Evil of Time - Cursed Tree

The dilapidated home became clear as the "curtain" slowly opened. Even though this was his seventh time here, Xia De still couldn't fully adapt to the environment here.

He stood there for a while, holding his forehead, before he looked up and sighed. Looking at the sofa covered with white cloth, thinking of the time when he sat here and held Adele's hand before leaving every time, Shade didn't know whether he should be looking forward to it or feeling sad.

It is like facing a wonderful story. You look forward to the subsequent reading experience, but also regret the emptiness that will inevitably occur after reading.

Xia De pushed open the door that was stuck in the door frame due to severe deformation. The wind and sand blowing in his face made him squint his eyes.

The dim yellow sky was unchanged from before, and Shade even suspected that he came here at exactly the same time every time. But thinking that even the concept of time did not exist here, he did not explore this meaningless topic.

After taking a look at the black sun dripping with flames in the sky, Shade took out Adele's pocket watch:

"Adele Isabella."

He pronounced the name with a fairly standard pronunciation, and when he looked down at his feet, he saw that the string of white runes on the tiles of the square where the gravel was rolling were indeed glowing faintly.

But this time was different from the past. In the past, when this name was called out, the translucent lady would always lift her skirt and stand up, but this time, no figure appeared in the light.

Xia De waited for a moment in surprise, then cleared his throat and repeated:

"Adele Isabella!"

The rune string was still glowing, but no familiar figure appeared. Shade closed his eyes and tried to sense the fire mark on Adele's forehead when he left last time. The fire mark was still there, but the exact location could not be determined due to the confusion of time and space, but this at least showed that Adele was still alive:

"Is this what happened?"

He didn't have the heart to fight any powerful enemy right now. He was worried about the lady who lived here alone. He shouted to the glowing runes on the ground again:

"Adele! Isabella!"

I don’t know if it was because the loud voice really worked, but the light emitted by the rune was disordered for a moment, and then Adele’s shadow appeared.

Instead of slowly rising up with her skirt lifted and her body becoming solid, she looked completely transparent:

"I'm in some trouble!"

A panicked expression appeared on her face, and then she disappeared. And no matter how loudly Shade called, the blonde lady did not appear again.

[Stranger, you feel the call, do you respond to it? ]

Fortunately, "she" suddenly asked during Xia De's anxious attempts, and Xia De immediately asked:

"What call? Can't I leave Saint Teresa's Place?"

[Whether the projection counts as leaving St. Teresa’s Square is hard to say.]

“Answer the call.”

Then, her vision went dark immediately, as if someone had pulled her arm and sent her flying high into the sky. But soon her vision returned, and Adele immediately fell into Shad's arms. Under their feet, the name "Shad Suellen Hamilton" was flashing with silver-white light.

The sky was still dim above his head, but the surroundings were no longer the half-collapsed square that Shade was familiar with. This seemed to be a huge circular pit, the area of ​​the pit itself was not inferior to the square he had just left, and the surface of the pit was black soil and unknown black roots dancing like tentacles.

The ground at the bottom of the pit is made up of black rectangular bricks. A large number of bones are piled up in every corner of the pit, and on the edge of the pit there are altars and tables of different styles, decorated with various common and uncommon religious decorations and ritual items.

Strangely, most of the yellow sand that fell from the sky disappeared before falling to the bottom of the pit, so the bricks and stones on the ground under the deep pit were covered with only a thin layer of yellow sand.

At this time, Shad was hugging Adele and standing on the edge of one side of the deep pit. In the center of the deep pit, a huge black tree with its crown covering half of the sky whipped out dozens of black vines at Adele's back.

There was no green on the tree's crown, and skeletons were hanging on the dry branches. Its roots were not rooted in the soil at all. Those strangely shaped roots were covered with dense white vesicles, making the roots even thicker. If Shade was not mistaken, those vesicles were clearly wrapped with

"Hmm? Not a paradox worm?"

He jumped up with Adele in his arms, using the "Raglai Leap" to avoid the whipping vines. The vines then smashed the altar behind them with a loud bang, leaving a large hole on the side of the solid pit.

"The evil creature of doomsday - the Cursed Tree!"

The pale girl in Xia De's arms explained:

“This is one of the most dangerous evils since the end of the world, and no one knows its origin.

It existed before the end of the world. People initially noticed it because of its powerful time curse power, but soon people discovered that those "cursed" who were tortured by the time curse for various reasons could obtain complete relief by confessing and committing suicide under this strange tree, which was the supreme happiness in the end of the world.

Now the bodies on the trunk of the tree and the bodies in the cysts on the roots are the remains left by those cursed. But gradually, the tree absorbed more and more of the time curse.

Adele was unable to continue speaking, because a beam of white light, almost thicker than the tree trunk, shot from the tree canopy toward the two people in the air. Shade summoned the "Nightfall Seal" to block it, but his instinctive sense of crisis made him dodge at the last moment.

Then the crystal white light penetrated the black shield, and the two immediately fell from the air. When Adele helped Shad to stand up in the dust, she suddenly found that his entire left arm had turned into a crystal with colorful light.

Adele, with her messy hair, was about to cry, but the crystal layer faded away at a speed visible to the naked eye. This was not difficult for Shad, because in the story, his entire body turned into crystal, but in the end he changed back - this was a story recorded in the bark of the World Tree, and it was recognized by the world.

"Until I understand what moderation is, I will probably always have a high resistance to this eternal crystal."

Shade said as he held Adele and rolled to the side, avoiding the black ray that swept across. Shade didn't know what the ray was this time, but it seemed that it was no longer the power of time and trees, but the power of death.

Although he dodged in a very awkward manner, Shade still managed to dodge it. Adele, curled up in his arms, continued:

"This tree originally had a very powerful time curse, but for some reason it would not actively hurt people. But after the apocalypse, it absorbed too many time curses that did not belong to it, and ended up becoming a terrifying evil creature that combined the curse tree, the hatred of death, and the unstable power of time.

Although there are many similar evil things in this era, this one is the most special, and it should not even be put together with other time-cursed trees."

"Was the tree originally found at Mount Karas?"

Shade asked as he slashed a beam of moonlight forward. Adele was puzzled by the question, but she didn't know the answer either.

Although Shade felt that he knew the origin of this tree, and that sense of familiarity was hard to ignore, now was not the time to exchange information.

Xia De felt that he would definitely not win this time. Without the orderly environment similar to the "arena" created by the Tree Father like in St. Teresa's Square, he, with an eighth ring, was no match for these terrible evil creatures that existed in the doomsday.

As he was in the projection state, his senses were not complete, so he could not fully feel the horror outside the "City of Doom", but this did not prevent him from knowing how powerful this "Cursed Tree" was. Just now, the tree's casual attack directly broke the "Night Seal", and Shade knew that he should leave now:

"Fortunately, I recently learned how to fly."

The moonlight slashed the trunk of the tree without even leaving a white mark. As Shade flew into the air holding Adele, hundreds of vines stretched out into the sky and collided head-on with the "Chaos Residue" thrown by Shade.

The effect of the holy silver moonlight on the tree was not obvious, but the power that the nun had learned from death was particularly effective. The explosion under his feet effectively formed an obstacle. While the vines were blocked by the flames, Shad hugged the blonde lady and wanted to rush out of the hole in the deep pit directly, but was stopped by Adele who saw his thoughts:

"Don't go up! The location of the cave entrance is a chaotic time flow. Once we go in, we could go anywhere."

If she hadn't been unable to get out, she wouldn't have been so injured even if she couldn't beat the tree:

"This deep pit is an underground cemetery church where people spontaneously worship the tree. There should be a secret passage leading to the outside world. I will..."

"Disordered time flow, huh? That's okay, I just happened to learn a new trick recently."

As he said that, Xia De touched his pocket, and was surprised to find that the small bottle of perfume in his pocket was missing.

[When did you hear that relics can be projected in the projection state? ]

"She" asked with a smile, and Adele knew what Shade was going to do by looking at his movements. The demigod witch, who had recovered a little, did not speak again, but hugged his neck and kissed him.

This was not a simple kiss, and it was not appropriate to kiss while running for one's life. Just as Adele had once given Shade new strength with just a kiss, Shade also felt the surging spirit entering his body during this kiss.

The vines that had escaped the flames continued to chase upwards, and at this moment they met the crystal light.