Chapter 1048: The Incomplete Witch Echo

Experiencing his own mood, Xia De lowered his head slightly, and then covered his face with both hands. As the curled stone wings appeared behind him, Xia De turned into an angel statue covering its face.

Miss Chloe looked at him worriedly from the tent entrance, and it took a long time for her to close the tent again, leaving Xia De alone in the blizzard outside the tent.

Although Xia De in the "Calm Stance" state could not move, his perception other than vision remained normal. He knew he hadn't waited too long before he heard the sound of shoes stepping on the snow.

The sound got closer and closer, and Xia De also perceived traces of profanity and whisper elements full of malice.

He couldn't see the true body of that thing, but "She" could observe it:

【A black shadow gathered from thick blackness, in the image of the witch Chloe. It can be confirmed that it is a monster piled up from rich death power. Of course, this death is far from being comparable to the power in true death.】

"That's good."

The Shadow of Death didn't notice the angel statue that stood abruptly outside the tent and was already mostly covered by snow. It approached the tent just like before. The true body's appearance was the black Miss Chloe, and the image it disguised as was no longer the witch Wanda, but the owner of Mrs. Marx, the lost witch Provence.

Without Xia De in the tent, Miss Chloe's voice trembled again. She tried to drive the monster away with words just like before, trying to scare the monster away with threats, but without Xia De by her side, this action was quite unsuccessful.

The young witch's state was very strange; that trembling voice was like encountering fear that could not be faced. Xia De even thought that when he faced the fear itself in the Terror Castle in the autumn, he hadn't been so out of control.

"Is the effect of absorbing positive emotions so strong?"

Xia De, in the statue state, had already confirmed the enemy's posture and position through communication with "She". When Miss Chloe requested the black shadow to leave for the last time in a tone close to begging, Xia De lowered the arm covering his cheek:

"Moonlight Slash!"

Without any reservation, Xia De directly used his strongest posture, turning himself into a silver moonlight, piercing through the black shadow whose appearance he hadn't been able to see clearly.

He passed through the center of that black shadow, but the cooperative attack from Miss Chloe in the tent that he had anticipated did not happen.

That black shadow of death immediately entangled Xia De, who was panting. The power of death eroded his body and soul, but it couldn't produce any effect. Xia De, who had returned from death twice, didn't fear this power at all:

"Miss Chloe!"

He was firmly entangled by the black shadow in the image of Miss Chloe, and the other party climbed on Xia De like a spider, and the two fell into the snow together. Although it looked like the black shadow controlled Xia De in the blizzard, it could also be considered that Xia De controlled the other party.

"Come and help quickly!"

Xia De called out Miss Chloe's name loudly, hoping the witch in the tent would come out as soon as possible. Because he opened his mouth too wide, he even ate a mouthful of flying snow.

The sound passed through the blizzard into the tent. The witch, whose emotions were obviously abnormal and who was shivering, looked at the tent exit in front of her, her body stiff and unable to move.

"Meow~"

Until hearing the urgent cry of Xia De's cat, the body that was stiff due to the fear of death seemed to recover some temperature. The Sun Fire gifted by Xia De warmed her soul, and she finally reached out to open the tent, holding the cat and coming into the blizzard of the Silver Mountains.

The dim golden 11th-level steps appeared behind her against the blizzard. But unlike any golden steps of any witch Xia De had seen before, those steps were not only dim in color, but also so transparent that they were almost like fragile glass.

The witch saw Xia De lying on the snow at a glance, "fighting" with the black figure that looked exactly like her. Holding the cat with one hand, using Little Mia as a spellcasting medium, the witch secret technique that Xia De had never seen before was cast:

"Thousand Cat Curse!"

"Meow~" "Meow~" "Meow~" "Meow~"...

Thousands of cat cries appeared in the cold blizzard at the same time, and then, cats of different types such as white, black, calico, and orange rushed toward the black shadow together.

Xia De finally broke free with the help of the cat group, and the witch shouted loudly:

"Quick, launch the attack now!"

"Those cats..."

"Are all virtual summons!"

"Thunder Spear!"

As silver thunder exploded in his hand, with his palm as the center, thunder light extended to both ends. The silver-white thunder spear was thrown by Xia De toward the cat group that was still biting, and at the same time, Miss Chloe snapped her fingers:

"Snap~"

The sound fell, and with a loud bang, the cat group actually exploded directly.

"Meow~"

Little Mia, who was frightened, broke free from Miss Chloe's arms, but it didn't sink deeply into the snow layer, but ran to Xia De's feet stepping lightly on the snow. It didn't even need Xia De to hold it; its claws grabbed his pants and climbed directly to his chest, and then very actively drilled into his coat.

"It seems to be solved... so, that's why I didn't let you follow along this time."

Xia De smiled and patted his chest, and Little Mia indeed squirmed.

And as the sound of the exploding cat group continued to spread, muffled sounds came from the snow mountain. Miss Chloe pulled Xia De's arm and pointed to the peak in the distance.

The mountain body at the peak seemed to be about to collapse, peeling off layer by layer in the muffled sound. Xia De realized what had happened:

"Avalanche?"

The power of nature was not something a 4th-ring Shushi like him could stop. But fortunately, he hadn't even had time to feel the disaster, and the avalanche was stopped.

On the high ridge hundreds of steps away from them, the god holding a staff appeared again. The ancient god of winter raised his long staff high, and the avalanche was eliminated. The falling snow layer and ice layer returned to their original positions as if time had flowed backward.

Just like last time, the god only helped them. After a snowflake covered Xia De's eyes and flew away, the god disappeared.

"Oh, I was really dizzy, actually daring to use this secret technique."

Miss Chloe covered her forehead and groaned softly. Xia De breathed a sigh of relief; he was also frightened by the avalanche just now:

"It's fine, let's go see if that black shadow is really eliminated."

The snow surface was blown into a deep pit by the thunder spear and the exploding cat group, and blue smoke even rose from the deep snow layer.

Miss Chloe and Xia De went down to the deep pit after the explosion to check the situation. In the snow pit that was exposed to the ground, almost nothing was left. But after searching carefully, Miss Chloe still found some black granular substances.

While she was checking and collecting those black granular substances, Xia De, who was very interested in the snow layer being heated, reached out and touched the smoking snow.

"She" whispered in Xia De's ear:

【Outlander, you have obtained "Witch Echo·Chloe."】

"What?"

For a moment, Xia De felt that "She" was joking. But the echo collected by the 【Echo】 spirit rune, the unique knowledge and power contained in the echo, indeed poured into Xia De's soul.

"But, Witch Echo, unless the witch leaves it intentionally, isn't it only found in places where a witch with voting rights dies?"

He straightened his waist and stared at Miss Chloe beside him with wide eyes. The latter noticed Xia De's gaze and said embarrassedly:

"Should we return to the tent now? I have collected almost enough here, these black particles are very interesting."

"Okay, let's go back now."

Xia De nodded, and then took the initiative to hold the hand of this young witch with silver-white long hair, red eyes, and a slightly short stature. The latter's face turned red, but she didn't break free.

【She is indeed a normal living witch, and what you just defeated is definitely not a living person.】

"Then, why would I touch the echo in the place where that black shadow died... and, Miss Chloe is only at the 11th level, how could she have voting rights?"

The latter question was the key. Miss Feliana and Miss Violet had already proven that as long as a witch is strong enough, the "echo" does not have to be left behind only when dying. But the point of "having voting rights in the Witch Council" was unavoidable, otherwise the echo Xia De obtained could not have the ability to increase his voting rights.

Miss Galina once mentioned very clearly that even though history was lost in the change of eras, she was very sure that the official members of the Witch Council in the Fifth Era were all 13th-level. Even if there were not enough 13th-level witches in a certain period, the council would rather leave the seats empty than add qualifications to witches who were not high enough.

Therefore, the 11th-level Miss Chloe actually had the qualifications to leave an echo, which didn't make sense no matter how he thought about it.

With huge doubts, the two returned to the tent again. Mrs. Marx welcomed them softly, while the shrinking man remained silent.

"So, how on earth is this..."

"You take a rest for a while, we will set off again soon."

The witch who was held by Xia De ordered her two companions, and Xia De also began to transport the supplies he prepared. Mrs. Marx was going to boil vegetable soup again.

Actually, thinking carefully, this time adventure in time seemed to be wrong everywhere. Not to mention the god who always refused to approach, even among the three human companions, Miss Chloe's mental state when facing the black shadow just now was obviously wrong, and the remaining two people had a very low sense of presence.

In past adventures, even ordinary people were equal to witches in Xia De's memory and perception. But this time, he would subconsciously forget and ignore Mrs. Marx and that man. After returning to his own time, he didn't even mention these two people to anyone.

Considering it carefully, these two ordinary people could walk to this place in such a cold environment and lack of food, which was already quite incredible. They achieved silence to the extreme. Xia De's impression of the two was just "the woman who boils soup" and "the man who doesn't speak." He didn't remember the two doing any other actions.

【Compared to the 'Witch Echo·Academy Founder Feliana' and 'Witch Echo·Witch Emperor Violet' you obtained in the past, this echo is not complete. Witch Echo itself is the trace of a powerful witch existence or the trace left actively that you absorbed after your Echo Spirit Rune resonated with time and space, but this time, you only obtained partial knowledge.】

"The questions about this journey are getting more and more." ===== CHAPTER 1049 =====