Chapter 2550: Time Travel Rules

The moonlight crossed the forest in the afternoon sun, and the fluctuating light was not dazzling at all. The strange lady seemed to have reached out and touched the ball of light, and then sighed again with her back to Xia De in the sun:

"Such pure silver moon, this reminds me of the praise for the first moon by the ancient ones in those ancient texts.

You have pure moonlight and outstanding time talent, even if you weren't chosen by her, after getting a lifetime teaching position at the academy, you might not have the qualifications to compete for the principal's seat. Very good, seeing that the academy has successors, and each generation is more outstanding than the last, I can rest assured."

"It's not that my talent is outstanding, it's that Miss Danister has a good eye... May I ask, do you really not want to see Miss Danister?"

Xia De asked again, after all, if she wanted to see her just now, she wouldn't have spoken after Xia De performed "Time Stop."

The strange lady shook her head as expected:

"No, sometimes it's better not to see. I don't know what will happen in the future, but I also have to try my best to avoid causing an impact on time stability. You and I are not from the same era, so I would talk to you, but Danister and I are too involved."

She hesitated for a moment before saying:

"But since you have touched these strange tree holes, you have already been involved in the Creekwood Town matter.

I have some words I must tell you, Creekwood Town and the Vista woodland area are really strange, if the time stability of other places is a dense and superimposed tapestry, then the time stability here is like a sieve with large meshes.

I didn't come to the local area because of time travel, but after careful investigation, the things here are really hard to describe. Tell me, young man, in the future many years later, have time travel events in Creekwood Town become more frequent?"

"How to describe it... I encountered three times in the week I arrived locally."

Xia De then added:

"And it looks like the eighth chapter of 【Whispering Poetry】, the story of the Time Chosen One, is about to unfold here."

"【Whispering Poetry】... The legend and epic of the 6th Era, actually in Danister's generation?"

The lady leaning against the big tree was silent for a few seconds:

"I will stay in Creekwood Town in this era for a period of time, even if we are not at the same time point, I should also have the opportunity to help you. I originally thought these strange tree holes were the power left by ancient gods, now it seems this is simply the source of disaster.

Oh, do you know the time travel rules of tree holes?"

"I only know one: if time travelers appear in places where they have stayed for a long time in the past, then they will spontaneously be attracted to that time again."

This is the experience summarized from the old Bennett house, and the strange lady continued to supplement:

"Rule 2: The more stable the tree hole, the more single the time point it connects to. And through stable tree holes for time travel, the time curse suffered will be lighter."

"Rule 3: Anyone who travels through time through these tree holes will be cursed by time, but the more powerful they are, the more obvious the curse. Just like Danister directly turned back to eighteen... think about it, her luck is really good.

The curse suffered by ordinary people is light, possibly because their soul, spirit, and elements are weak. But the time curse is fair to everyone, so even if the curse is light, it must be an unbearable price."

Xia De was thinking about whether to take out his notebook and write down "Tree Hole Stability Discrimination" and "Time Curse Inevitability," when he suddenly froze, and then a look of horror appeared on his face:

"Lady, I want to ask a very important question. If I accidentally deformed my pet cat into a toy and brought it to this time and space, will it also suffer from the time curse?"

His hand touched his jacket pocket, and little Mia's toy was still placed there. Infinite regret was intertwined in his heart at this moment, he didn't expect that he didn't realize this problem, but at the same time he hoped very much that Mia at this time would be judged as "non-living," and might not be cursed.

The lady in the black dress gave a better answer:

"During the process of crossing the tree hole, any transformation art will fail, and everything will present its original state. If your toy transformation art is still in effect, it only means that either your cat was originally a toy, or your art comes from the power of a god.

In this state, it will not be cursed, you can even limitably turn it back to be active in this era. But similarly, it came because of you, and will be regarded as a part of you. If it violates the rules of time, the curse will descend on you.

This applies to all animals, but don't do this to people, people and animals are different."

Xia De was relieved, which means that the art 【Toy Making】 blessed in the "Holy White Hall" can safely "smuggle" animals like little Mia to the other side of the tree hole, but Xia De needs to look after them.

This also means that Xia De is entirely possible to "smuggle" "Miss Owl" over, because she is really just an owl now. As for the art "cannot carry creatures that are forced to transform to cross the time corridor, space maze," that doesn't matter, because the "twisted tree hole" is not a time corridor at all, Xia De will know whether he can bring Miss Owl after trying it next time.

"Since you know so much, then you also have a time curse, right? Can't you strip away this curse?"

Relieved about Mia's matter, Xia De asked hurriedly, there was not much time left.

"I also have a curse, and I also have a way to solve it, but Danister cannot copy my approach. You can understand it as, I used a precious one-time relic treasured by the academy to transfer the curse I suffered to the moment of my death.

But Danister also has her own way. Although she is not a time-talented person, she must have not touched the taboos and stability of time in the process of traveling through time. So, she is only cursed because of illegal travel. Speaking of which, do you know her lineage?"

"Miss Danister said that her great-grandmother was from the Wind Chaser clan. This is also an elven clan that believes in the Tree Father, so Miss Danister has one-eighth elven blood. (2035)"

Xia De immediately recalled, and the strange lady nodded slightly with her back to him:

"Yes, so to a certain extent, she is 'one of our own'. Although this lineage will not let her be spared by the curse, but now she is only cursed because of illegal travel, then there is the possibility of 'atonement'... 【Paradox Worm】.

Ancient evil object - Paradox Worm, I won't tell you what this is, otherwise this tree hole will completely collapse. Go to your own time to check the information, the possibility of Danister's recovery lies here. Of course, it is only a possibility. Also, don't ask Danister what this is, check it yourself, and tell her yourself after checking it."

But Xia De was very sure that Miss Winslet had no elven blood. So the "smuggling method" only works for Miss Winslet, and the "Paradox Worm" only works for Miss Danister.

But no matter what, at least now there is finally a possibility to solve Miss Danister's problem, which can be considered progress.

"I understand, I will investigate it myself. We should go, one last question, do you really not want to see Miss Danister?"

He asked in the mottled tree shadows, the warm wind of the summer afternoon blew over the two, and the lady's back left the big tree, but she still had her back to Xia De:

"I don't know what happened in the future, but judging from her performance in the illusion, it's better not to give her hope. Young man, goodbye, may the moon bless you and me and her."

She disappeared as if melting in the sun, Xia De nodded lightly in that direction, then turned and patted Miss Danister's shoulder, and took out the key in his pocket:

"Hold my hand, I'm afraid I'll have to force you back in a while - may the World Tree bless me in infinite time."

Click~

The scenery of Room 317 at the Accordion Hotel is returning, and the scenery of the woodland under the sunlight is also gradually becoming blurred. Because the scene before her eyes is very coherent, the red-haired girl does not realize that she has missed two important minutes.

It was only when Xia De recited the current time and pulled the red-haired girl, whose body was illusory, toward himself with force, that the young lady suddenly turned and looked at the sunlight under the trees not far away.

She does not know why she suddenly did this; there was clearly nothing there. And when she wanted to look more closely, she had already been brought back to 1854 by Xia De.

"Mia!"

Xia De immediately turned the cat back, then vigorously stroked its head to confirm it was not truly tainted by the curse, before turning it back into a toy amidst the cat's confused expression.

At this moment, Xia De and Miss Danister are 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 truly only had one last chance to be used, before turning to ask Miss Danister, who had a melancholy look on her face:

"It looks like we successfully returned. What happened here? Miss Bell only told me that you wanted Adele Isabella to find a way to safely use the door, and after being refused by her, she took Miss Winslet to Room 321 alone, and then things spiraled out of control."

The thin white fog filling the room is slowly disappearing; judging by the concentration, that fog clearly drifted out from this door.

Miss Danister looks a bit guilty, but still shook her head:

"I'm not too sure either. At 8:40 this morning, that Thirteen-Ring Witch arrived at the hotel, and what happened after that is just as you said.

The three of them didn't return immediately after leaving my room, so I had been alone in this room just now. At first, everything was normal, then I noticed an extra layer of fog in the room, and subsequently found 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 broke your sorcery, and I never thought about actively using this door... well, I did think about it, but I didn't do it; it was this door that actively pulled me over."