Chapter 2326: [Flute of Time]

The summer night wind was a bit cold, and the starlight and moonlight illuminated the quiet countryside. Under the big tree at the crossroads, because of Xia De's gaze, the elf girl blushed a little:

"Okay, I know... I'm just a bit scared, but I also want to be like those legendary heroes and, like you, to accomplish some great things.

I'm not coveting fame, and I know that accomplishing great things often requires sacrifice, but I long to become such a person myself, someone who can make other people's lives better."

"Then hold on to this expectation and wait for fate to give you a suitable opportunity. It doesn't necessarily have to be an opportunity like defeating a demon again. Sometimes becoming a hero is very simple, even if it's just saving a child in a fire."

Xia De said, and Emilia pursed her lips and nodded. Then she felt a bit relieved and looked up at the stars above the tree canopy:

"Angelina is right, Xia De, you are really good at comforting others... You are really good. Even if the future is dark, I will remember your words. This is... a ray of light you gave me."

This praise made Xia De a bit embarrassed. He thought about it and said very seriously:

"Don't let others become your light, Emilia, remember—"

He coughed lightly, followed by a non-human language that was a bit awkward but very elegant:

"No matter what kind of darkness you face in the future, you must believe in your own light. That is the purest power we possess as not-so-ordinary humans (Elvish)."

The pointed-eared elf girl looked at him curiously, but saw Xia De also looking up at the starry sky:

"That was what my teacher said to me a long, long time ago. (Chapter 381)"

"Is it Miss Danister?"

"No, it's... Miss Felianna, Miss Mana Felianna."

Mentioning this name, the face of the golden-haired witch who wore a pointed hat and was as beautiful as a violet flashed before Xia De.

"Wow~"

The pointed-eared elf girl exclaimed quite cutely and nodded, but suppressed her curiosity and didn't ask more:

"This sentence is really great. Although I am not a human but an elf, I will remember it."

The little elf clenched her fists, feeling a bit of warmth in her heart, but she saw Xia De looking at her:

"Look behind you."

"What?"

Emilia turned her head to look back, and thick steam fog had emerged. It wasn't very strong, but the existence of the enlightenment elements was extremely intense. With Emilia's gaze, they gathered toward the life ring that emerged from the thick fog.

Whistles and bells were playing, and the brass-colored spiritual light was not dazzling, but absolutely clear. A moment later, the last spiritual rune of Emilia's five rings, Enlightenment - 【Light of Self】, was engraved on the life ring.

Emilia had said that she had long since obtained the first spiritual rune of the middle-ring sublimation language, which meant that she could already prepare for promotion to the sixth ring. Measured by the standards of elves, she, who was still an underage elf, could also be called a "genius" among her peers.

"When I was at your place, because of the 【Malicious Chain Curse Letter】, I obtained the whisper - 【Fear】 (Chapter 2117). When I pulled the sword on the clock tower, I got the miracle - 【Hero】. Now I have obtained this. The summer hasn't ended yet, and I have already obtained three spiritual runes. What is written in adventure stories is true: the more dangerous the place, the greater the harvest."

She withdrew her gaze from behind and let the life ring hide again. Her face was full of joy, probably thinking about writing a letter home to report this good news.

Xia De was also happy for her. As for the fact that Emilia obtained a spiritual rune just because of one sentence, he was not surprised at all.

Perhaps the elf girl had long since accumulated it, just lacking the final realization. And after all, she was a candidate for "Light". Even if the ranking was low, it was quite normal to obtain a spiritual rune related to "Light" before the story of Moon Bay was about to end.

However, seeing her life ring just now, Xia De remembered another thing:

"I wanted to ask before, you only have spiritual runes related to space, but no spiritual runes related to time, right?"

Emilia, who was still a bit excited, nodded embarrassedly:

"My mother said before that with the bloodline I inherited, I would likely awaken time talent before adulthood. I looked forward to it before entering the academy, hoping to enter the history academy like most of my ancestors, but unfortunately I didn't succeed, so I joined the chemistry academy and took care of Little Liana and the others."

After speaking, she said in a low voice:

"I looked forward to joining the history academy because the ancestors left a large number of course notes and exam materials, which would make learning easier."

"Yes, that's really a pity. The exam subjects of the history academy are not easy. Do you know? I took cross-grade exams this summer, not only taking subjects for two grades, but Miss Danister even added two subjects from the library management academy... It was clearly agreed at the beginning that I would take those two as elective courses."

Discussing academy life together and complaining about exams made the conversation much more relaxed.

And after ending this conversation, the two tacitly didn't speak, but stood under the tree together looking at the vast stars. It could still be considered midsummer at this time, and the starry sea of this slightly cold summer was as magnificent as in previous years.

Emilia had spent more than fifty such seasons, but she particularly liked this year; the Outsider was spending such a season in this world for the second time, and he cherished this memory very much.

The time to meet the delivery person was 8:00 at night. The other party appeared on the country dirt road in the direction Xia De and Emilia were facing at 7:53 at night.

He was wearing a cloak, and his other attire was considered normal. Because he didn't deliberately cover his appearance, Xia De could see that the other party was also a pure-blooded elf. From the appearance, this elf uncle was in his forties, but in reality, he was probably over a hundred years old.

The strange elf seemed to be Emilia's relative. Emilia wanted to call out the title happily, but was looked at by the other party and obediently closed her mouth.

The elf didn't say much, nodded lightly after making eye contact with Xia De, untied the long-strip package wrapped in cloth on his back, and handed it forward. Of course, it wasn't handed to Emilia but to Xia De.

I don't know what method the elves used, but there was no whisper element felt on the cloth. Only when Xia De held it did he feel the surging power.

The other party nodded to Emilia again without saying a word, handed a letter to her, waved goodbye to the two, and then turned and returned along the original path. The time of contact with Xia De and Emilia added up to less than two minutes.

"That's really efficient."

Xia De praised, seeing Emilia nervously opening the letter to read, he lowered his head to look at what he was holding. After untying the rope used for bundling, the long sword wrapped inside was revealed.

This sword was "heavier" than any relic sword Xia De had ever touched. He originally thought that the long sword with the name 【Flute of Time】 would refer to a pointer shape, but the shape of this sword was actually very regular. Emilia said it was wooden, but it looked like metal. White metal wrapped the black part in the center of the blade. The black sword body had tree patterns, and along the direction of the tree patterns, several green gems were embedded on it.

He tried to hold the hilt, and "She" in his ear said with a smile:

【Outsider, you have touched an item from the First Era, the wonder "Ancient Sound" has been triggered:】

【The World Tree once supported the world in the First Era, combing the context of time. At that time, the elves picked the leaves of the World Tree and the fallen branches to peek at the stories on the other side of the river of time. The power of time has been deeply immersed in their blood since then, and even now, this point has not changed.】

"Are you saying that Emilia's awakening of time talent is actually just a matter of time?"

"She" just chuckled. Xia De then swung 【Flute of Time】, and a melodious flute sound really came out in the *whoosh-whoosh* sound of breaking through the air, and the sound was very consistent with Xia De's sword swinging rhythm, and would not disrupt his movements in battle.

The length of 【Flute of Time】 was basically the same as 【Night Watcher】, but because the blade was thicker, it was also heavier. Black anti-slip cloth tape was wrapped around the hilt, and the common guard part had elf decorations and vine pattern decorations.

Besides white wrapping black, black dotted with green gems, the sword body actually had dense holy prayer texts that were not easily noticeable, which were prayer words in ancient Elvish. These carvings were difficult to distinguish even with Xia De's naked eye, and needed "She" to perceive to interpret.

And the only sentence that was not ancient Elvish, but like a language from a more ancient era, was written—

【The wind of time blows the flute.】

The ancient and vicissitudes feeling of this long sword was stronger than any long sword Xia De had ever seen so far. Primitive Angel-level long sword, even if he just looked at it, he seemed to be able to feel the flow of time with his heart.

After trying to swing it twice, Xia De guided his own spirit into the relic in his hand. Even without asking Emilia for advice, he knew that to exert the "slow down time", "accelerate time", or even "pause time" functions of this weapon, he only needed to use appropriate methods to use his own spirit to activate different green gems and different parts of the prayer text.

And the "pause time" characteristic of this sword was not like "Adele's time stop" which only paused the time of a certain individual, but paused the time of everything in an area except the sword holder himself.

But accordingly, "She" explained in Xia De's ear that it was not recommended for Xia De to do this:

"De-aging like illusion is certainly not the answer you want. If it is real de-aging where the physical state changes, there are indeed magic potions that can do it, but what meaning can that kind of magic potion have?

Illusory experience of returning to eighteen for a few hours or a few days, and then returning to reality, this is just the moon in the water, the flowers in the mirror. I think it's better to face reality."

She picked bacon with a fork very casually: