Chapter 2548: Danister and the Illusion
Just before acting, Xia De first handed the key to Miss Bell and that ten-ring Miss Katrina Tabach, letting them try.
Neither lady had time talent, and the key really couldn't be inserted into the keyhole. And when Xia De aimed the key at the keyhole of the door of room 317, the wooden key that didn't match the size of the keyhole at all was inserted in at once.
"May the World Tree bless me in infinite time."
Click~
After turning the key and pushing the door open, before Xia De had time to explain other things to the two girls, a dazzling light swallowed him.
It was like waking up from a long sleep, and like opening his eyes after a stable afternoon rest.
His head ached slightly because of the uncomfortable sleeping position, and when he realized he shouldn't be asleep now, the rustling sound of turning paper pages came from all around first.
Xia De, who was somewhat sleepy, sat up slowly while supporting the table in front of him, and when he looked around with sleepy eyes, he was still savoring the dream that was gradually fading.
This seemed to be a library. In the open space between the bookshelves, the two long tables, which were at least a hundred meters long and crossed each other in a cross shape, were filled with students burying their heads in reading and doing homework. Everyone was wearing a unified robe uniform, only slightly different in color according to the grade.
And looking further away, there were more such tables, and this was just a corner of this library.
The long table was piled with books, and every two or three meters, golden candlesticks floated above the table to provide lighting; it should be night at this time.
Because it was in the library, everyone kept quiet when walking, and there was no communication between them. Xia De, who was somewhat dazed, looked up at the huge astrolabe and star map floating on the arc-shaped dome, and then looked down to see that the book he had just used as a pillow was 【Ether Mechanics】.
That book looked thicker than a dictionary, and the page that was spread out was filled with formulas that Xia De could not immediately understand:
"I am..."
He felt as if he had amnesia, not quite remembering what the situation was at this time:
"Have I learned ether mechanics? I remember what I learned was called quantum mechanics..."
He stood up from the table, wanting to go outside to breathe some fresh air, and then a hand was placed on his right shoulder:
"Xia De, why are you still sitting here?"
A pleasant and lively voice came from behind, so Xia De looked to the right but found no one there. So he turned to look to the left, and sure enough, he saw the familiar eighteen-year-old red-haired girl, who was looking at him with her hands behind her back and smiling:
"Even if the final exam is coming soon, you don't need to work so hard with your grades of being first every year, right? It's already eight o'clock in the evening, why, why are you so surprised to see me?"
"Danister..."
The lost memory seemed to have returned a part. Xia De remembered sitting and talking with her, remembered the two of them sparring in the woods not long ago, this was his current classmate and friend Danister Gustav:
"What are you doing looking for me?"
The red-haired girl showed a disappointed expression:
"Don't you remember? Didn't we agree to go to the unicorn habitat together tonight?"
Xia De nodded somewhat slowly, feeling that it was very wrong at this time, but he did know where the unicorn habitat was:
"Sorry, let's set off now."
He then quickly collected the things on the desktop into the bag he hung behind the chair, subconsciously wanting to carry the bag, and then found that it was not a backpack, but a canvas messenger bag.
He frowned and fell into deeper confusion, and then was held by the hand by the eighteen-year-old red-haired girl. The latter smiled and pulled Xia De into the aisle between the bookshelves, wanting to take him to the library gate:
"Teacher is not here tonight, didn't arrange for me to be on duty in the library, let's leave quickly, if we wait until teacher comes back, we won't be able to leave."
The girl's hand was very warm and soft, but Xia De felt the feeling of something wrong was even more serious:
"Danister, can I ask you a question?"
He suddenly pulled the red-haired girl's hand forcefully, and the two stopped in the somewhat dim bookshelf.
The eighteen-year-old female mage looked at him in confusion, and then, not knowing what she thought of, she shyly broke free from Xia De's hand, and her rose-red eyes were a bit afraid to look at him:
"Of course you can, what do you want to ask?"
"Who am I?"
So those rose-red eyes blinked:
"You are Xia De Hamilton, an eighth-year student at the Saint-Byron History Academy."
She realized that she seemed to have misunderstood just now, so she asked with concern:
"Why ask such a question? Are you uncomfortable?"
"Danister, can you describe me more carefully? Including my interpersonal relationships, and life details."
Xia De made a request again, placing both hands on the red-haired girl's shoulders. The latter's face turned red, but she still nodded:
"Of course you can, but if you are uncomfortable, we will go to the school hospital to see... your elements and spirit are very stable..."
She began a formal description:
"You are Xia De Hamilton, a Saint-Byron student who enrolled in the same year as me. I am now one ring lower than you, but we are still... best friends. You like small animals, especially cats, and you don't have any special preferences for food, just don't like spicy food.
Your interpersonal relationships are very simple, apart from me, there are only a few friends like Emilia Sienod, but they are all pretty girls..."
Speaking of this, she also looked at Xia De with quite dissatisfaction, but found that Xia De had a thoughtful expression:
"You focus on learning at the academy, and are the ring mage who has advanced the fastest in the academy in a thousand years. Last year, you also won the academy's 'Felianna Medal'. Apart from reading and teasing cats, what you like most is playing Rhode cards. Your card skills and luck are quite good, even professors can't win against you.
The scenery of room 317 of the Accordion Inn was returning, and the scenery of the woodland in the sun was also gradually becoming blurred. Because the picture in front of him was very coherent, the red-haired girl didn't realize that she had missed an important two minutes,
It was just that when Xia De read out the current time and pulled the red-haired girl whose body was illusory toward himself forcefully, the young girl suddenly turned to look at the sunlight under the tree not far away.
She didn't know why she suddenly did this, there was clearly nothing there. And when she wanted to look carefully again, she had already been brought back to 1854 by Xia De.
"Mia!"
Xia De immediately turned the cat back, then touched the cat's head fiercely, and after confirming that it really wasn't contaminated with the curse, he turned it back into a toy amidst the cat's confused expression.
At this time, Xia De and Miss Danister were standing in front of the dilapidated wooden door placed in the deepest part of the cloakroom of room 317. Xia De quickly inserted the time key in his hand into the keyhole again, confirming that this door leading to 1821 really only had the last use opportunity left, and then turned to ask Miss Danister who had a melancholy face:
"It seems that the return was successful. What happened here? Miss Bell just told me that you wanted Miss Adele Isabella to find a way to use the door safely, and after being rejected by her, she took Miss Winslet to room 321 alone, and then things got out of control."
The thin white fog filling the room was disappearing slowly, and looking at the concentration, the fog was clearly floating out of this door.
Miss Danister looked somewhat guilty, but still shook her head:
"I don't know either. At 8:40 this morning, the thirteen-ring witch arrived at the inn, and the subsequent things were as you said.
After the three of them left my room, they didn't come back immediately, so I had been alone in this room just now. Everything was normal at first, and then I noticed a layer of fog in the room, and then found that the source of the fog was that door, but before I could do anything, I suddenly appeared in the illusion.
It wasn't me who cracked your art, and I didn't think about actively using this door... but I did think about it, but I didn't do it, it was this door that actively pulled me over." ===== CHAPTER 2551 =====
The eighteen-year-old girl looked up at him, her expression somewhat blank:
"Yes, why? You didn't explain this to me either... Xia De, why do you especially like purple?"
Xia De showed a smile:
"Because I especially like her eyes."
"What?"
Danister Gustav asked in confusion, Xia De didn't answer her question immediately, but held her hand again:
"Aren't we going to see unicorns? Let's go quickly, I haven't seen little Liana for a long time, I don't know how her weight loss is going... Actually, rose-red eyes are also very pretty."
The red-haired girl immediately stopped asking Xia De.
The two walked out holding hands, and Xia De asked silently in his heart:
"You could actually wake me up from the beginning, right?"
"She" smiled gently:
【Yes, but you would definitely be able to wake up yourself. Waking up on your own in this high-level relic-made illusion is also training for you. Of course, if you didn't wake up, I would also wake you up in a while.】
"High-level relic... Current time."
【Present Era, 6th Era, Common Calendar 1821, Summer, Sun Moon 30, 2:37 PM.】
"1821, the door that Danister and I found in the abandoned logging yard yesterday."
He had remembered that he opened the closed door of room 317 under the gaze of Miss Bell and Miss Tabach, so he was undoubtedly in the past again.
And the Danister lady holding his hand at this moment was clearly real, but the surrounding "night Saint-Byron library" scene was fake. Before finding the memory just now, no matter how strong his perception was, he couldn't perceive anything, and at this moment, the heavy whisper elements undoubtedly explained that they were trapped in the illusion made by the relic.
"At least a sage-level relic."
Xia De thought in his heart, and then guessed that this was a safety measure set by the teacher of Miss Danister who once used that door near that door, to prevent people from other times from seeing her secrets through that door.
And clearly, although the name "Emilia" had appeared in the illusion, this illusion was set for Miss Danister. Because Miss Danister clearly came here earlier than Xia De, and if it was an illusion for Xia De, then even if it was not the scenery of his hometown, it should be the scene of Saint-Dran Square No. 6.
"This illusion is very powerful, I don't know the relic's action characteristics for the time being, I remember 【Sober Nightmare: Illusion and Curse Breaking】 mentioned that unknown principle illusions are best not to be forcibly awakened, so I want to find a way to let Miss Danister wake up herself."
Walking through the labyrinth-like bookshelves holding hands, Xia De asked the red-haired girl who was in high spirits again:
"Speaking of which, where did your teacher go? I remember she should be in the library at this time."
The red-haired girl turned her head and replied:
"Teacher said she was going on a business trip in the afternoon, I don't know where she went either, but she might come back at any time... She'd better come back later, aren't we going to go boating on the ice lake to watch the stars tomorrow?" ===== CHAPTER 2549 =====
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