Chapter 2566

Hearing "her" reminder, Xia De's right hand quickly sliced off a piece of flesh from the Baron, letting the blood pass through his transparent body and sprinkle onto the tabletop. He let go of his hand to prevent himself from being cursed, and then watched as the Baron completely disappeared before his eyes.

"Her" voice continued:

【The Time Curse will descend upon you in the form of "Time Key disabled for one week."】

【Outsider, you have detected the content of the other party's Time Curse in the Time Gap: Cannot touch metal with a gold content exceeding 95%; touching it means certain death.】

"He got away!"

The white mouse in his pocket said, and Xia De shook his head:

"He won't get away; I'll go find him right now. Also, I know the characteristics of his Time Curse."

He explained it simply, and Miss Mouse sighed:

"It seems the Time Curse is indeed fair. Although he is completely normal in his daily state as long as he is careful, he will have to guard against gold for the rest of his life... How are you going to find him? Use the tree hollow here?"

Miss Winslet did not stop Xia De:

"He traveled through time just now without doing anything; you must be careful, this person is strange."

"I know... do you want to come with me?"

Xia De asked suddenly, and the witch asked with doubt:

"Can I? I mean, although your cat verified the feasibility last time, I thought you would exclude me from the adventure."

Xia De smiled:

"Since you're here, let's go together. But before we go looking for that increasingly interesting Baron, isn't it more important to look at this first?"

He pointed to the box on the table that Baron Kaming had dug up from outside the city. It was a metal box, and according to Miss Bell, when this box was dug up, it was wrapped in waterproof oilcloth on the outside, so the degree of corrosion was not very high.

The box itself had no lock, and after Xia De checked it slightly, he reached out and opened it. Inside the metal box was actually a wooden box, and after opening the wooden box again, a glass bottle was embedded inside, and inside the bottle was a bright green potion.

"What is this?"

Xia De, of course, would not be incautious enough to rashly open a bottle of unknown potion, and Miss Winslet, of course, could not identify what it was just by the color of the potion. She did not have the wisdom of the Great Witch Megan/Audrey, and her age was not enough for her to accumulate experience like Grandma Cassandra:

"Let's catch up first; the Baron clearly knows more things than we do."

*Opening the Forest Gate: Our Animal Partners* was still in the drawer in James Kaming's room at this time, and after Xia De found the book, he prepared to set off:

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

Click~

The key was inserted into the door drawn on the book cover—

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

【Hint from the Father of the Infinite Tree:】

【Using a normal Time Key to open the door will connect to the following point in time: Sixth Era of the present world, 1802.】

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

【Note: You can enter the past time for forty 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.】

Because he had defeated the "Paradox Worm" last time, the time had been extended from twenty minutes to forty minutes. After confirming this information, Xia De gripped the mouse doll in his hand tightly, and then "pulled" open the door on the book cover.

The scene of the young nobleman's room in 1854 was quickly replaced by the scene of a young girl's boudoir from the Classical Era, but Xia De, who was ready to cast Time Stop at any moment, did not see anyone in the room.

And when the scene before his eyes finally stabilized, he looked at the neatly tidied desk beside him for the first time. With a flick of his finger, the unlocked drawers were all pulled open, so Xia De reached out and opened the locked drawer, and then saw the copy of *Opening the Forest Gate: Our Animal Partners* belonging to this era.

"It's really here."

The mouse doll held in his right hand quickly turned back into a real mouse and then transformed into an owl. She cautiously did not transform back into human form:

"I don't feel my curse deepening; it seems this method of smuggling is indeed feasible. Your transformation magic is really not just simple transformation magic."

She said this, flapping her wings to the windowsill to look outside:

"1802, Creekwood Town is still just Creekwood Town. Is there a way to find Baron Kaming? Or should I think of a way?"

"Of course there is a way."

Xia De stuffed the book into his pocket, and then took out the blood of Baron Kaming that he had collected just now:

"Blood Echo!"

The red-haired sorceress deleted Xia De, only claiming that she had broken free from the illusion, and then the tree hole was accidentally activated by itself again, which allowed her to return to 1854:

"But in this way, I completely confirmed that my teacher had been to Creekwood Town. After all, 【Dream in the Tree Shade】 cannot be wrong. It's a pity I didn't see her this time."

In order to cover up Xia De's existence, she didn't even hesitate to take the initiative to mention this matter. Before this, she didn't even want to discuss her purpose for coming to Creekwood Town in detail with Miss Wen Si Lai Te.

Miss Isabella nodded and didn't delve into the matter of the previous generation of Saint Byron's library administrator:

"Fuluola, the Council will not send more people here for the time being, but if you need help, the Council will provide any assistance other than manpower. I will leave after dinner with you, go to Willondale first, and notify Sylvia to be prepared to come here to support you."

After speaking, she took out her pocket watch from her pocket, but it wasn't to leave the pocket watch, but to take off the pocket watch chain and hand it to the Death Witch, who was flattered.

"This is for me?"

"Yes, Fuluola, you tie this as a bracelet on your wrist. In this way, no matter what time point you accidentally go to, I can perceive the traces. Also, Dannister, I..."

"I don't need your help, Adele, and don't look down on our Saint Byron's."

The eighteen-year-old girl said with a smile, taking out the "Spirit-Clearing Agent" Xia De gave her and shaking it.

Xia De certainly remembered that the group from 【Golden Dawn Opera Troupe】 would arrive locally this evening. He had originally planned to go to welcome Vanessa and Xilisi and the others, but Miss Isabella sat down and never got up.

By the time they finally stood up from the sofa, the sunset sun outside the window had already illuminated the city in gold, and also reflected the backs of the silver cat and the orange-white cat in gold.

People in the city were still discussing the anomaly that appeared above the Golden Music Hall at noon today, and the ladies who got up were not going to leave the room, but were discussing having dinner here, and then each went to the washroom.

Xia De could actually throw the crystal shoes home during this opportunity, but if Miss Isabella came out of the washroom and saw the cat was gone, she would definitely be puzzled.

So he could only lie on the windowsill with Mia and watch the ladies dine. During this time, Miss Beier also thoughtfully sent food to the two cats, of course, food for humans.

Because of his self-esteem, the Outlander firmly refused to eat in the cat form, which made Little Mia, who was originally prepared to eat, hesitate, and then she also closed her mouth and shrank back to Xia De's side.

【But when you were in the cat state, weren't you fed milk by Bella Belindel?】

"She" asked with a smile.

"That was because I was unconscious. Oh, can we not mention this in the future?"

During dinner, the ladies continued to chat about local topics. In addition to Adele Isabella's impression of the 【Hermits of the Woods】, she also spoke about the uncursing-type relics she believed might be effective against the "Time Curse":

"For a curse of this level, relics below Sage-rank need not be considered. Among Sage-rank relics, the 【Saint's Uncursing Stone】 and the 【Tears of the Mourning Angel】 might both be effective. I can think of many types of Angel-rank relics, but the side effects would all be very great.

Using relics to break a curse is just one approach; I will handle this, and you should focus your attention on Creekwood Town."

The Sage-rank relic 【Saint's Uncursing Stone】 was in Leixia's hands—it was that ruby earring of Leixia's—which caused the Princess and the writer to simultaneously develop the small habit of touching their earlobes from time to time.

This was a gift given to her by her teacher at the Zalas Academy of Literature. However, after the two became Chosen of Space, Leixia rarely wore this relic, so Xia De could borrow it to try it out.

After dinner, Miss Isabella finally left; Miss Winslet and Miss Danister saw her downstairs. And when they returned to the room with Miss Bell, they saw Xia De sitting on the windowsill feeding the cats:

"Don't eat so fast."

He patted Mia's little head, and then said before they could speak:

"Miss Danister, can you arrange for me to project to St. Byrons now to see Emilia? I have some things I want to ask her."

The red-haired girl nodded in surprise:

"Of course, I will go write a letter. It is Miss Siamnod's turn to be on duty in the library tonight; I can let you see her without alarming anyone else."