Chapter 1898

Miss Danister's mouth twitched:

"This can also be considered the rare time I've brought you along to act. Follow me; this projection body of mine doesn't contain much power, but it should be able to help you."

Her eyes glowed slightly in the dark night. After placing her hand on Xia De's shoulder, their feet left the red beach and flew towards the lake.

Suddenly, a huge black tentacle shot out from the distance of the water surface like a cannonball. Before Xia De could act, the red moon that was looming in the air projected a clear red light, causing the tentacle, which Xia De hadn't even seen clearly, to rot and wither rapidly.

"Remember, the Red Moon represents flesh and reproduction. Although the Red Moon also has most of the properties of the moon, its truly unique power is influencing flesh."

Flying over the waves and reefs in the air, she whispered in Xia De's ear, and then smiled again:

"For so long, that sentence just now seems to be the first piece of knowledge about the Red Moon that I have truly taught you... No wonder you have always refused to call me teacher."

Xia De couldn't answer this sentence. They gradually moved away from the pier. Under the surging green lake surface, a steady stream of tentacles, corpses, and even stranger aquatic chimeric monsters were trying to attack them, and Miss Danister's ability to manipulate flesh to self-destruct also meant Xia De didn't have to do it himself at all:

"It's also because I've been busy with my own affairs all along. After the Green Lake matter is over, I will concentrate on going to the Academy every day to listen to your lectures."

He could only say this, and Miss Danister smiled. Although this was the body she projected, because of the nature of the Red Moon and her own spellcasting characteristics, this projection body was quite real, and Xia De could even feel the touch of her hair reaching his cheeks.

Finding that stranded small boat was easier than Xia De thought. Although high-efficiency spatial perception could not sense objects that were too small, the broken ship that was almost integrated with the scene was still easy to find.

That ship was not too far from the pier. Now only the front half existed, almost growing together with the reef, and the stern had long since disappeared.

After Miss Danister put Xia De on the reef, she turned to face the monsters emerging from the water one after another. Compared with the jungle, the number of monsters in the water was obviously larger and stranger. Probably Laplace Klein Howard had thrown most of his failed experimental products into the water.

The broken ship did not date back very far, because there were traces of steam power on it. But even if it was not far from the present, time had worn away most of the traces.

The red moon behind the dark clouds was rapidly receding. Although the underwater monsters surrounding them from all directions were quickly eliminated by Miss Danister, it also caused the existence time of this avatar to decrease rapidly.

Fortunately, after Xia De slashed the ship with his sword, he finally found a human skeleton at the bottom of the cabin. Sprinkling bone powder to use the miraculous art 【Soul Echo】, the soul of this skeleton was actually really summoned by Xia De just like that.

The appearance of a ghost is often accompanied by a cold wind, but in such an environment, the death wind brought by the undead was no longer the most sinister thing.

The soul's image was that of an ordinary fisherman. Xia De reached out and touched it, and was able to confirm that his soul was not controlled by any power.

Xia De quickly asked his question:

"Who are you?"

"A villager from Puhov Village."

The voice was extremely dull, but the accent was indeed the rural accent of a fishing village by the lake.

"Why did you appear here?"

"Summer of 1840, fishing on a rainy day. A monster under the water bit my fishing hook and brought me here."

Xia De was stunned; he thought of other ways to land on the island:

"How did you die? There are no traces of being bitten on your corpse."

"This place is too terrifying. Just by looking at the surroundings, I felt like I had gone crazy. I hid in the cabin and let the monster drag the ship forward until it hit the reef. My neck broke, and I died."

This information was useless to Xia De:

"What else do you know?"

The soul actually flickered out of thin air twice, and the originally dull expression turned into a look of horror:

"The person who escaped from the coffin... the enemy of past time... the guardian of time and space, tree? Tree~ tree! Ah, it's the tree!"

Under Xia De's astonished gaze, he said loudly:

"Praise—the Father of the Infinite Tree!"

The soul disappeared directly, as if erased from thin air. Xia De opened his mouth slightly. This was the first time he had seen someone other than himself take the initiative to pray to the Tree Father. Combined with what he said about "the person who escaped from the coffin," before the fisherman died, it seemed he had come into contact with the eldest son of the third generation of the Edwards family, Envy Edwards, who had transcended time and space and lost control.

"But what does this mean?"

He tried to summon the soul again, but found that the fisherman's skeleton had also disappeared, leaving only a pool of black blood on the ground. Judging from the traces on the ground, it was as if the skeleton had never appeared here.

This discovery made Xia De feel more and more that the diviner really seemed to have touched upon incredible power.

He reached out and touched the time key he got from the mimic in his pocket. Although he definitely couldn't open a new key tonight because the key's cooldown time was not enough, the Tree Father's power could still possibly be manifested on this island.

Frowning slightly, the pool of blood on the ground squirmed and grew into a small sapling. Xia De then reached out to touch it just as he did in the cemetery and the town, and "She" gave a prompt again:

【Outsider, you have sensed miracles, blasphemy, enlightenment, and whispers.】

【Outsider, you have come into contact with the "Edwards Ascension Technique," and you have extracted the power symbolizing "transcending time."】

【The suppression you receive from the island's power has weakened; the island has developed goodwill towards you.】

"This pool of blood is not the fisherman's, it's Envy Edwards'... Miss Danister, you can leave!"

Xia De turned and said to Miss Danister, who was floating behind him with a huge and illusory Thirteen-Ring life ring. The red-haired lady waved her hand, used a red blade to cut down the huge skeleton that emerged from under the water like a mountain, took two steps back, grabbed Xia De's shoulder, and flew into the high sky with him.

A familiar feeling of dizziness suddenly struck. The "spatial chaos" that he hadn't experienced for a long time seemed to be appearing because of their high-speed movement.

"Spatial Stability Halo~ High-Efficiency Spatial Perception!"

Xia De instead grabbed Miss Danister's hand in the air. The sorceress only felt the chaotic space around her being firmly fixed by Xia De like a "nail." Then she lowered her head and threw a dazzling red light at the dense octopus tentacles surging towards the sky under her feet:

"Miraculous Art - Blood Explosion!"

Xia De could no longer see how the exploding flesh polluted the green lake water. Miss Danister quickly landed back at the pier with him. Her body had now turned into a transparent red, and the short projection was obviously about to end.

Xia De also said what he had gained just now:

"The corpse on the ship was a fisherman who strayed onto this island. He didn't come in by luck. Some of the monsters lurking in the real Green Lake have the ability to enter and exit the two islands."

Danister immediately understood what Xia De meant, and her red eyes became brighter after her body became transparent:

"Following those monsters, can we find a way to get in?"

She nodded, looked up at the red moon that was close to a state of complete disappearance, and then said to Xia De:

"You also need to be careful yourself. I cannot continue to walk with you. However, there is still some unused power in this projection body. I will bestow it upon you. I wish you a safe journey."

After speaking, the red transparent figure opened her arms and hugged Xia De. Then, gentle and warm power surrounded Xia De's whole body. Then, the red light that constituted this lady in front of him all gathered on Xia De's arm.

Rolling up his sleeves, a symbol symbolizing the Red Moon appeared on the surface of his skin. This was the one-time power Miss Danister left for him. "She" in his ear gently explained how to use this power. That sorceress really left most of the Red Moon miraculous arts she mastered here, but Xia De could only selectively activate one.

He wanted to thank her, but the gentle figure had already disappeared. The red moon in the night sky was gone, and Xia De couldn't say what he was feeling at this moment.

"There are so many people who have been helping me..."

Suddenly, the pocket on his chest became hot. Reaching out to touch it, it was the charm for contacting the girls in the hotel that had destroyed itself. So Xia De couldn't care about considering other things, folded a return charm again, and disappeared into the thick fog of the pier on the shore.

"Xia De."

Just as he adapted to the bright flames on the first floor of the hotel, Grandma Cassandra's voice drew his gaze to the side.

The oldest witch currently in the Society, not knowing what kind of power she used, draped in a black robe, as if she had really appeared on the first floor of the hotel.

She actually walked straight to Xia De and handed the golden holy emblem she was holding in both hands to Xia De:

"This is a one-time alchemical item made by the Speaker, used to help the witch apprentices who are trapped on this island. It is filled with the power of those seven witches, allowing any witch apprentice to borrow it to release their combined power once. Although you are not a witch apprentice, we all believe that you can also use it."

The Old God holy emblem was held in Xia De's hand. The power contained in this divine item far exceeded Iluna's "Sunlight Spear" brooch, and was only weaker than the sun holy emblem left by Sister St. Perry in the Randall Valley, which had been passed down from the Fifth Era to the present.

"Grandma, how is the situation outside? Are you all okay?"

Xia De asked with concern again, and the old woman shook her head with a smile:

"You don't need to worry about our situation; we will arrive in time. The Five Gods Church has confirmed that Iluna Beias has also arrived on the island and is currently trying to project more power to help her. If you encounter the projections of the Church's Thirteen-Ring Warlocks, you can also try to persuade them to help you. In addition, your two friends known as 'Doctor' and 'Priest' have entered the lake alone. They said that the coffin can..."