Chapter 2335: First Battle of the [Time Flute]

"Alright then, 【Night Watcher】 and 【Angel's Right Arm】 stay behind. With Sister Diefulin here, the Edge of Life and Death is not dangerous for us."

After speaking, Xia De looked apologetically at Sister Diefulin beside him:

"I'm sorry that you have to set off just after arriving without resting."

The gray-haired nun shook her head slightly and didn't say much. Of course, the group didn't set off immediately; the witches following Xia De to the Edge of Life and Death also needed to prepare the relics and spellcasting materials they would carry.

So everyone hurried to prepare. Luweiya helped Xia De get the relics he wanted to take, so Xia De stayed in the foyer to talk to Sister Diefulin.

The little unicorn didn't follow Amelia upstairs to get the sword. After the witches dispersed, it timidly approached Sister Diefulin. The pure white little beast boldly sniffed the nun's hem, then slightly raised its head to observe her, while the nun's silver eye mask also lowered to "look" at it.

The two "stared" at each other for a moment, and then the little beast seemed to be frightened, retreating behind Xia De. Although Xia De's body couldn't completely block it, it clearly felt a sense of security.

After confirming that Sister Diefulin wasn't chasing it, it turned around and ran quickly up the stairs, relying on Xia De's "cover." Angelina hurried to chase it to prevent it from bumping into others.

Xia De then looked at the nun, who remained expressionless. The little unicorn's performance was definitely not "disgust" but "fear." But Xia De didn't quite understand why little Liana was so afraid of the nun; clearly, in the eyes of an outsider, the nun was a very gentle lady.

The witches and Miss Ileth didn't take too long to prepare. After everything was ready, Sister Diefulin didn't even raise her hand, and a phantom-like blurry area appeared on the wall on the east side of the manor foyer.

It was like a shattered mirror hidden behind a thin gray curtain; it was impossible to distinguish what was happening on the wall just by looking. But the cold wind was already blowing from that wall; the passage to the "Edge of Life and Death" had been opened.

"Let's go."

The 【Time Flute】 was inserted into the wooden scabbard, and Xia De said while holding the sword. The two witches and Miss Ileth nodded, and Sister Diefulin walked at the front.

"Stay safe, we'll wait for you to come back for a midnight snack!"

Amelia waved her hand and said. She didn't suggest bringing little Liana along. This wasn't because the little beast was afraid of Sister Diefulin, but because it was best for an underage unicorn not to stay in a place with such a thick aura of death for a long time.

The feeling of passing through the "curtain" on the wall was like passing through a cold water curtain. Behind the "curtain" was still the appearance of the foyer on the first floor of the Beiya manor, but the whole world had turned gray-white.

Large patches of wall plaster had peeled off, there were dents everywhere on the floor, and there was even a large pit in the southeast corner as if it had been smashed by a heavy object. Gray-white moss clung to the walls and corners; these materials produced in the "Edge of Life and Death" were precious undead materials, and Mr. Corps of Tobesk had purchased them before.

The power of death was most intuitively manifested in the bone-chilling cold, but unlike last autumn, Xia De was basically unaffected now.

And when he looked around at the outside without doors, what he saw was thick fog with a faint moonlight color drifting in the gray-white manor courtyard.

"The fog here is glowing too? The power of the strange light in the real world has invaded here."

The Blue Dragon girl said softly. She didn't like this place at all; it reminded her of the feeling when she was first born in the Sea of No Light.

"It's my first time entering this kind of place too."

The Countess, whose constitution was the worst and thus felt a bit cold, rubbed her right arm with her left hand and then moved closer to Xia De. Miss Sylvia was feeling this unusual space and gradually perceived the truth of this space:

"So that's how it is. This place is actually still the material world, not an auxiliary space or extra space like Green Island. It's just that because of the contradiction between the powers of life and death, an area similar to a subspace was split off, so the scenery corresponding to the two spaces is almost identical... Opening a portal here is actually simpler; after all, this world doesn't have the large-scale monitoring rituals of the local Sect."

The influence of the "Edge of Life and Death" on the living also includes the difficulty of recovering spirit and physical strength. This has little effect on Xia De and Sister Diefulin, and has an effect on the "non-human" Miss Ileth, but it is not very serious.

And for the two witches, because of the experience accumulated by Grandma Cassandra during the Mid-Hill Fort period, and because they carried their own witch jewelry with them, the influence was not very great as long as they didn't stay for a long time.

Sister Diefulin just sensed it slightly and then guided everyone to leave the dilapidated mansion. After arriving outdoors where the glowing white fog was diffusing, looking up, one could faintly see half a silver moon above the thick fog.

When entering the Edge of Life and Death before, Xia De had never seen the sun or the moon.

Others didn't express opinions on this phenomenon. Sister Diefulin walked at the front, the Blue Dragon girl walked at the back, and the group of five quickly walked toward the outside of the manor.

Although the scale of this "Edge of Life and Death" was far from as large as that Unknowable-level relic in Mid-Hill Fort, the density of the undead wandering in the fog was about the same as there.

After leaving the manor, the group almost immediately ran into an undead on the street. It was a female "person" with her head lowered, wearing a tattered white wedding dress, holding a dirty rabbit doll in her left hand and a blood-stained axe in her right hand.

Before seeing her specific appearance, Xia De had already heard the "giggle" laughter that seemed to be right in his ears. And when he saw the other party's specific appearance in the glowing thick fog, he found that the other party was moving crookedly, as if sliding, as if she were disabled.

The white wedding dress and the fog were both glowing; even the undead in the Edge of Life and Death had been infected by the twisted power of the strange light.

"Just looking at her appearance, you know she must have a story."

"A bit different from ordinary undead."

Miss Beiya, who had a beautiful red birthmark between her eyebrows, hid behind Xia De and said. She was well aware that she was the weakest here, so she absolutely could not leave the team:

"Might be a bit tricky, but not very strong. Should we solve it directly?"

"No, let's test her strength and special powers first. The undead here might have special skills."

Miss Ileth also said, and the nun had no objections.

"Then I'll do it."

Xia De drew the 【Time Flute】. Just the action of drawing the sword produced a melodious flute sound in the fog. The group of five retreated back into the manor, and the female ghost holding things in both hands really followed in, giggling~.

The nun and the others cleared the position and hid in the fog, letting Xia De, who was holding the sword, face this weird undead alone. Although she had the blessing of thousands of undead, in this one-on-one situation, the undead still chose Xia De as her opponent.

Her speed was extremely fast, but it only took Xia De one or two breaths to reach Xia De's front. That rotating sliding movement suddenly accelerated when she reached Xia De, turning into arms spread out, and in the increasingly rampant crazy laughter, she rotated her body extremely fast, letting the rabbit doll and the axe attack Xia De in turn.

Her speed was so fast that it stirred up wind and left afterimages, and the laughter with mental attack power far exceeded the ordinary undead seen in the normal world.

But Xia De's speed was faster. The Time Flute in his hand swung out quickly, colliding with the doll and the axe that were hitting quickly in turn. The force of that axe was huge, but it was still within Xia De's bearable range, and as soon as the rabbit doll touched the long sword in Xia De's hand, he actually felt his whole body itching.

【This undead can turn people who come into contact with the doll into rabbits.】

【Ineffective against you.】

The long sword swung, and the melodious flute sound produced was exceptionally clear in the thick fog. The ladies watching the battle watched the rotating undead dance the two "weapons" in her hands into afterimages, while Xia De's stable sword strikes and forward steps forced the undead to retreat backward.

"Blade of Time Disorder!"

The four swords stabbed out at the same time finally forcibly blocked the rotating movement of the undead bride, and the ghost in the tattered wedding dress giggled~ and rotated backward. Her rotating movement was exceptionally elegant, so the movement of suddenly slashing out blood-colored light marks with the axe was not abrupt at all.

The blood-colored light marks crossed and collided with the silver moonlight slashed by Xia De in the air. The moonlight broke through the blood marks like a hot knife through butter, but when it touched the spirit body of the undead bride, the light was actually partially absorbed by her first, and then the weakened moonlight hit her body.

The giggling~ laughter stopped abruptly, and a hideous wound split open on the bride's abdomen. But the wound recovered quickly, and she rotated and disappeared from the spot, appearing behind Xia De in the next second, but her slash was blocked by Xia De's backhand slash.

"Characteristic 1: Absorbs light-type attacks, failed to fully absorb the light, no enhancement to herself was found from this absorption. This characteristic is suspected to be a common ability of these strange light-infected creatures."

The Countess said in the fog.

The melodious flute sound of the 【Time Flute】 seemed to be cooperating with Xia De's movements. With the witches present, Xia De didn't want to use 【Adele's Time Stop】, so as the long sword parried the axe slashing diagonally, as his own spirit flowed into the long sword, the second green gem on the surface of the 【Time Flute】 suddenly shone, and the rotating movement of the undead bride became slow.

This was by no means a simple slowing down of the enemy's movements, because even the skirt hem spread out due to the rotation and the rabbit doll being held were floating in the air due to the slowing of time. ===== CHAPTER 2336 =====