Chapter 2507: Witch and Owl

"What a ruthless person."

Time was still in a paused state, and the severed leg lost its activity in the air and stopped there. Xia De raised his hand to control a drop of blood and then cast his own miracle:

"Blood Echo!"

More than ten seconds later, Xia De, who jumped down from the roof, blocked the man with the scorched face on the "Golden Music Avenue" where pedestrians were frozen.

This was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties, shorter than Xia De, with an average build, and his clothes were tattered, making it impossible to tell his background. His right leg had returned to normal at this time, but when seeing him in the sunlight, Xia De felt more and more that he didn't look like a human.

This didn't refer to the other party's appearance, but to the other party's mental state. The ferocious face and the crazy expression all indicated that this was a madman. The traces of chaotic elements represented the loss of control of a ring warlock. Xia De didn't know what he had experienced in the past, but only hoped that the missing Miss Danister wouldn't become like this.

Everyone on the street was frozen in the paused time. Xia De intended to talk to the other party. Theoretically, this kind of five-ring warlock shouldn't have mastered this level of time miracle.

But the moment he saw Xia De again, the stranger launched an attack again. He didn't speak, his body accelerated by time left afterimages in the air, and in the next second, he appeared directly in front of Xia De, his right hand grabbing at Xia De's heart again.

Xia De's reaction didn't keep up with such fast speed, but that hardened right hand still failed to grab Xia De's heart directly under the blessing of speed, only leaving deep finger marks on Xia De's chest.

Xia De, who wanted to fight back, reached out and punched forward, but the stranger, who was still accelerating in time, pulled out afterimages and flew away quickly. But when he approached Xia De again with the speed advantage, Xia De had already pulled out the Moonlight Greatsword and stabbed it into the ground:

"Heaton Seal!"

The man rushing at high speed collided head-on with the golden shield emitting flowing light. After a bang, he failed to break through the defense. But then, bang, bang, bang sounds came one after another from all directions, and ripples spread on the shield. The enemy in the accelerated state relied on the speed advantage to attack the shield from different directions as if simultaneously.

After a loud bang, the shield was actively detonated by Xia De, and the bursting golden light waves impacted the surroundings, causing the man with the scorched face to fly backward.

He rolled on the ground, and after confirming that he couldn't beat Xia De, he turned around and wanted to flee to the distance. But this time, he fell down after taking only two steps, and his accelerated body slid forward along the road like a bullet.

When his body finally stopped, the strange man looked down in astonishment at his abdomen, which had been pierced by a blood-colored light, and then swallowed his last breath.

And Grace and Helen, holding hands, were standing on the roof of the Accordion Hotel watching below. The buzzing background sound rang out, time flowed normally, and the pedestrians on the street continued this ordinary afternoon.

As for Xia De and the corpse, they had already disappeared from here.

"When did you recover?"

"When you left here, sir."

In the broom closet, Helen answered Xia De's question:

"Although my sister and I don't have time talent, we still have resistance. It just takes time to recover. Any life that has experienced a long time will have time resistance, just like people who live in the ice field all year round are very resistant to cold, and people who live in the desert can endure the scorching sun."

After speaking, she looked at the corpse lying by the cupboard:

"We were worried that he would run away, and we didn't know what other means he had, so we just killed him."

"It doesn't matter. It's not easy to catch someone with this kind of time ability. We let him out from who knows what time, we can't let him leave just like that."

Xia De was sure that he didn't know this stranger. The other party was probably really crazy, otherwise he wouldn't have attacked them directly:

"If such an out-of-control ring warlock, especially one who has mastered time power, is allowed to escape, that would be a real big trouble."

Grace didn't really care about killing, but just didn't want to leave a bad impression on Xia De:

"His strong time talent should also be related to time travel. However, he shouldn't be a candidate for the Chosen One, otherwise he wouldn't have died so easily."

Xia De nodded, threw out a piece of canvas to turn the corpse into a toy and put it away, not caring too much:

"Dead is dead. He was the one who made the first move; we were acting in self-defense. It's just that the soul of such an out-of-control ring warlock is useless even if it is summoned."

As he spoke, he squatted down in front of the cupboard again. At this time, the cupboard door had automatically closed. After Xia De opened it, it was a normal cupboard again inside.

So he performed it again according to the previous steps, but this time Xia De didn't use the black time key, but used the normal time key—

Click, the key turned.

"She" reminded softly:

【Outsider, you have opened a "Twisted Tree Hole."】

【Hint from the Father of the Infinite Tree:】

【Using the "Key of Yggdrasil" to open the door here will connect to a random point in time where a "Time Traveler" exists.】

【Using the normal time key to open the door will connect to the following three times: 1698 of the Sixth Era of the present world; 1763 of the Sixth Era of the present world; 1814 of the Sixth Era of the present world.】

【Note: Except for you, any life using this passage will be cursed by time.】

【Note: You can enter the past time for twenty minutes through this abnormal passage, and you must return through this passage after the time ends.】

【Note: After using the key to open the door here twice, the passage will completely collapse.】

Xia De grabbed the key handle and listened carefully to these reminders:

"Why didn't... when I used the Key of Yggdrasil just now..."

【The Father of the Infinite Tree will not give separate hints for that special key; that key should not exist in the first place.】

However, this at least proved that the "Time Tree Hole" recorded in the literature was real, but what was encountered this time seemed to be different from Xia De's idea. The name "Twisted Tree Hole" itself represented that it was abnormal.

Although the method of opening it here was similar to the method of opening other spaces left by ancient gods, it was more like a one-time door, and an abnormal door that appeared due to the abnormal influence of the world itself.

"So, is the disaster of time this kind of time door with abnormal properties? Using the time key to open it connects to a fixed time, and without using the key, the abnormal properties appear randomly."

But no matter what, the path to the past had appeared.

Xia De didn't act immediately, but discussed it with Grace and Helen again, and decided to try to open the door to the winter of 1763 this time.

"But sir, if there really is a ring warlock from the current point in time appearing 91 years ago, then why didn't he or she leave any information? Did the church block the news of the 'Time Traveler', or is there some other hidden reason?"

Helen raised the question, but no one could answer it. Fortunately, these problems could be solved after finding the missing person.

"We only have two chances, but I feel that this time there is a high probability that we can find the person directly. After all, I saw snow in the fortune teller's divination this morning. You wait here for me, I will be back soon."

The two sisters didn't stop Xia De from taking risks, but pulled Xia De's hand over. Helen in the black dress bit Xia De's right index finger. After the blood seeped out, the two sisters bit their own index fingers and pressed them against Xia De's.

The blood of the three blended together:

"Even if you don't come back, we will definitely be able to find you!"

Grace and Helen kissed Xia De's side face as a blessing, Xia De smiled and waved goodbye to them, then pinched the key handle and opened the cupboard door—

There was still no white mist behind the door. The three looked down, but saw that the normal cupboard interior space was filled with books at this time.

"Hmm?"

Grace and Helen looked at Xia De beside them, who had disappeared at some point, and Xia De, who opened the cupboard, also found that Grace and Helen beside him had disappeared.

At this time, the surroundings suddenly brightened, and sunlight spilled into this classically decorated noble study from outside the window. Xia De was standing on the red carpet of the study, facing the cupboard that served as a bookcase.

The cupboard looked new at this time, the glass windows on the upper level were wiped clean, and the patterns on the lower door panels were not worn off. It was completely different from the down-and-out appearance in the broom closet a hundred years later; it was a high-end piece of furniture.

"Current time."

【Sixth Era of the present world, General Calendar 1763 Winter, 12th day of the Month of Slumber, 2:30 PM.】

There was no one else in the study except Xia De, and it was tidy. The whole room was covered with a red carpet, and noble portraits were hung on the walls covered with gold wallpaper.

A grand solid wood desk was placed in front of the three large windows on the east side, and when Xia De looked out the window, he saw the courtyard of this unknown mansion covered with white snow. It was still snowing outside, but not heavily:

"The snow seen during Luweiya's water divination should be this."

It was clearly winter, but the fireplace in the study was not lit. In fact, there were no traces of recent use here at all. But Xia De was not in a hurry to look for clues, because at the same time he realized that he had come to the past a hundred years ago, he clearly felt that the badge hanging on his chest suddenly became scorching hot.

"What?"

He had thought about meeting a witch, but never thought about meeting a witch at a point in time a hundred years ago. The scorching heat of this badge clearly meant that the witch had already arrived in front of him:

"Except for Old Granny Cassandra, the witches of this generation were not witches a hundred years ago, right?"

In surprise, his eyes looked at the only living creature here besides himself, which was the chubby round-faced owl standing on the windowsill behind the desk. ===== CHAPTER 2508 =====