Chapter 2541

The red-haired young lady displayed the severity of someone who had been a teacher at a school for many years while standing with her hands on her hips, which clearly frightened the ghost of Miss Bethany.

The ghost then immediately slipped out of the wall again; this time she waited for half a minute before returning. Of course, she still only revealed half her face inside the wooden house; Xia De guessed that the outside was the shadow covered by the tree shade.

"I can answer the question, but can you not send me away afterwards? I want, I want to play for a while longer."

The ghost pleaded, and Miss Danister then nodded:

"Fine, we promise you."

"No, let him say it; are you his lover or his student? That man is the one who calls the shots among you!"

Miss Bethany pointed at Xia De, and the red-haired young lady took a sharp breath to calm her temper, then waved a hand at Xia De, who then nodded and said:

"We promise you. But you must guarantee that you will not hurt anyone, otherwise I will definitely come back to find you."

Actually, this warning didn't have much significance; looking at the strength of this soul, she probably didn't have the ability to hurt anyone, at most entering dreams to scare timid fellows.

Consequently, the soul of Miss Bethany floated completely into the wooden house, then nodded rapidly:

"No problem, I guarantee I won't hurt anyone."

After finishing, she pointed to the doorway:

"There isn't really any abnormal situation here, it's just that I heard strange sounds twice. Clearly there were no living people here, but I heard two loggers complaining about not having a holiday this month, and another time I heard the sound of a thunderstorm, but that day the weather was clearly clear."

Miss Danister's eyes lit up; this was clearly the same as the broom closet where that cabinet was located, indicating that a "Tree Hole" must exist nearby.

"Where was the source of the sound roughly? In the well where you are?"

Xia De asked again, very worried that he would have to jump into such a place, but fortunately the soul hurriedly shook her head:

"On the ground. I was also very curious at the time, and even floated around to search for it. The source of the sound was roughly in this vicinity, yes, right near this wooden house."

"Echoes of the past!"

Xia De immediately cast a spell, but after listening for a while, no strange sounds came. Combined with what the ghost said, the recent activity level of the "Tree Hole" here should be far less than that of the cabinet.

"Are there so many tree holes in the Vesta region? I haven't even heard of them in other places... I will dig up this area three feet deep if I have to, just to find the door!"

As she spoke, the sorceress was about to take action, but was stopped by Xia De:

"No need for so much trouble, I'll do it."

He took the red-haired young lady out of the wooden house, and the ghost of Ashley Bethany dove into the well covered by the stone slab, but poked her head out again to watch.

Afterwards, Miss Danister turned back and waved her hand, and a halo of red moon light covered the wellhead, blocking the ghost's prying gaze.

"Remember? The last cabinet was immune to my spellcasting."

Xia De asked, and the sorceress recalled for a moment before looking at the wooden house in front of her:

"Toy Transfiguration, is it? But this one is so big, you..."

"Why not try and see?"

Xia De took a handkerchief out of his pocket, which was actually a toy made from a giant canvas. Afterwards, he took out that small pink bottle; the bright pink liquid looked even more crystal clear under the afternoon sun.

After Xia De uncapped it and took a small sip, he wiped the "handkerchief" on his body, then threw the rapidly enlarging canvas into the air.

The spell controlled the large piece of canvas to float above the wooden house, then precisely covered it underneath. And as Xia De frowned slightly and began to cast the spell, the outline under the canvas rapidly shrank and became smaller.

This was the largest item Xia De had processed since learning "Toy Making," but because it was hollow and not very heavy, the consumption of spirit was even smaller than he had thought; he might have even been able to do it without drinking that sip of essence:

"So I have already become this powerful."

Soon, that giant piece of canvas lay on the ground of the logging camp, and Miss Danister reached out to let the canvas fly up again; underneath the canvas, besides an exquisite human-head-sized wooden house model, lay a wooden door that had been eaten by insects.

Which was the door of that wooden house.

"I'll do it."

Xia De immediately walked over, just about to take out the black time key to test if it could be turned, when unexpectedly Miss Danister handed him a normal time key directly:

"Asked the Academy for it."

A normal key was of course better; Xia De reached out to stand the wooden door up and brought the key close to the keyhole:

"May the World Tree protect me in the infinite time."

The key was successfully inserted into the rusty keyhole, but Xia De exerted force on his wrist and couldn't turn it. Both were stunned for a moment, and Xia De immediately had a guess:

"Although both use keys, opening a tree hole is different from opening the door to the 'Corridor of Time.' The focus of the former is the tree hole itself, while the focus of the latter is the key. So the door for the latter only needs to be a door, while the door for the former must be *the* door."

Having figured this out, he retreated with Miss Danister, transformed the wooden house back, and then leaned the door against the door frame:

"May the World Tree protect me in the infinite time."

With a *click*, the key was turned.

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

【Hint from the Father of the Infinite Tree:】

【Using a normal time key to open the door will connect to the following time point: 1821, Sixth Era of the present world.】

【Note: Any life form other than you using this passage will be cursed by time.】

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

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

"How is it?"

The red-haired young lady asked with some anticipation, and Xia De smiled and didn't let her down:

"Connected to 1821, and can still be used twice... The last cabinet I encountered could also be used twice, is it a coincidence?"

"33 years ago... So my teacher actually came to Creekwood Town at that time?"

The sorceress was a bit distracted, and Xia De took the opportunity to ask:

"Had you already graduated at that time?"

"No, at that time I had just... Don't try to calculate my age from this."

She immediately said this, then looked at the door with a serious expression:

"If you use up both opportunities now, what will be the result for this door?"

"I don't know, this is not a normally occurring time tunnel. It might be that this distortion disappears, but it might also lead to some bad results, so it's best not to do this."

Xia De shook his head; if these "Twisted Tree Holes" were truly disasters caused by the world's anomalies, then the consequences would likely not be as simple as the tree hole disappearing.

Miss Danister pursed her lips and nodded:

"It's fortunate that this tree hole can still be used twice."

"Even if it can still be used twice, I can't let you use it. Do you remember what you promised me?"

The red-haired young lady nodded somewhat unwillingly:

"I know, what a nag... Xia De, do you guess that when teacher came to three years ago through this door, it was an accidental unstable opening of a tree hole like what I and Flora encountered, or was it opening the door with a key like you did... It was probably an accident; teacher didn't have time talent either."

【Accident, a twisted tree hole opened with a time key is a one-way door.】

"Accident, a tree hole opened with a time key is a one-way door; I was only able to return from the past because my time was limited."

Xia De explained:

"So your teacher likely also had a time curse on her; if we can find her, maybe we can figure out if she expelled the curse... Did she never talk about time travel and time curses before she went missing?"

Xia De asked very seriously, and the red-haired young lady shook her head with some disappointment:

"No, never, teacher didn't tell me everything either... But I will tell you everything I know; I am not like teacher."

She didn't mean to explain her closeness to Xia De, but wanted to show that she did better than her teacher—this was a child's way of sulking.

"It's almost four o'clock in the afternoon, let's go back now. This door will be placed in your room afterwards, but it must be placed in the innermost room of the suite, and you must not approach it casually afterwards; I don't want you to be dragged into the past time again."

Judging from the experience with that cabinet, as long as one doesn't get too close to these "Twisted Tree Holes," one won't be dragged in at will.

"I know, after I go back, I will also check the relics left by teacher again; maybe there are clues I didn't notice before."

The red-haired young lady said, her tone not very low. Being able to discover this door was already something she hadn't expected before leaving this morning; now with Xia De by her side, she believed that one day she would be able to cross time and see her teacher.

Even if she couldn't see her, just letting Xia De meet her teacher was already enough for Danister Gustav:

"Xia De, if someone in Creekwood Town mastered a safe method of time travel, would you stop me from using this door in that way?"

"Are you referring to the matter of Baron Kaming and his son?"

Xia De asked, and turned his head to look at the well. Although he had promised not to deal with that ghost, he also had to use the spell - 【Oath Binding】 to ensure that Miss Ashley Bethany would not hurt anyone or talk nonsense.

"Yes."

"That won't work either; I don't believe that traveling through time via 'Twisted Tree Holes' can be without cost; this is a disaster of time."

As he spoke, he walked toward the well, and the red-haired young lady followed, with that door floating behind the two:

"So you think only you are the exception. Xia De, you are truly arrogant~"

She poked Xia De's arm from behind with some dissatisfaction.

"Arrogance is indeed my original sin; listen to me today, I won't let you use this door."

"I didn't intend to use it either; am I that kind of impulsive person? But Xia De, once I recover, just wait for me to assign you homework~"