Chapter 2611: Containment

The power of time reversal was like pushing Iluna to retreat. No matter how bright the light of the dark golden balance in her hand was, she couldn't block the power of time. Fortunately, before she was about to be forcibly "pushed" out of the performance hall, a hand pressed on her shoulder from behind her, so all the abnormalities from time disappeared instantly.

Iluna turned her head and saw that it was indeed Xia De behind her:

"Alright, I admit that this matter had some small accidents... Your eyebrows look really good."

Xia De looked at the situation on the stage and couldn't help but sigh:

"Stop teasing me. How did it become like this here? People in the entire corridor outside have disappeared. Is the negative effect of this relic spreading so fast?"

Saying that, he held Iluna's hand and pulled her behind him, so the girl didn't even hold the balance anymore, directly pulling Xia De's clothes with one hand and holding the jar of umbilical cords Xia De handed her with the other.

Iluna poked her head out from behind him holding the bottle:

"The result of the divination from the Divination Association was wrong. This relic didn't appear here by accident; it was that guy on the stage who brought it here! He fell in love with a local actress, so he used this relic to freeze the other party's time, and just now he even said something about wanting to accompany her until the end of time."

"Time stasis... classic theme, just say it if you can't control your greed and desire to possess, what 'until the end of time'."

The man half-fused with the grandfather clock pointed at the two people at the door of the performance hall again, but this time it was not to say a command about time, but to shoot his flesh-and-blood fingers directly at them. But what was wrapped in that layer of flesh and blood was not bones, but metal hands.

Where the blood-red hand passed, thin white bright lines appeared in the air. And from those bright lines, gray-white fog was silently seeping out.

This hand seemed to be able to pierce through stable time. If hit by it, whether one would regress to the infant era or turn into a pile of dry bones at once, probably even that crazy man didn't know.

But facing such an attack, Xia De just raised the black key in his hand. While chanting, the ritual base of the sun, moon, and stars appeared under his feet, so the black staff "crawled out" from his palm and knocked away that hand with a clang~.

The blood-red hand flew obliquely towards a chair on the side and pierced into it, so the chair squirmed and turned into a piece of wood covered with sheepskin:

"So it really was a wool cushion."

Thinking in his heart, the emerald green light spreading from his palm had extended to the entire long staff. And as he exerted force fiercely and stabbed 【Yggdrasil's Staff】 into the floor tiles, the long staff stood in the aisle of the performance hall:

"Stability principle of ancient elves!"

The green radiance sprayed upward, and the flickering light actually formed a large tree with the long staff as the trunk, slowly extending its branches towards the roof.

So the gray-white fog that had just appeared slowly dissipated, and the time abnormality effect applied by the relic on the stage was also quickly compressed to just covering the stage area.

Xia De didn't think that his spellcasting could completely offset the relic's effect, so he was very satisfied with the effect of this sorcery:

"Iluna, how to contain this relic now?"

"Need a special red velvet cloth, just cover the dial position. Just now, before the Secret Keeper sent by the church disappeared, that cloth was thrown to the front."

She pointed to a corner of a red cloth exposed under a chair on the left not far in front of the aisle from behind Xia De. Xia De walked over and picked it up directly, Iluna followed quickly, while 【Yggdrasil's Staff】 remained in place to continuously stabilize time.

Xia De hoped that no one would ask him to compensate for the floor damage repair costs afterwards.

The red velvet cloth was quite thick, and it seemed to be made of the fur of supernatural creatures. And on the front and back of the velvet cloth, a huge sun pattern was embroidered with gold thread, and a rune representing the "World Tree" was embroidered with green thread.

Xia De checked it and walked towards the stage. Iluna said worriedly immediately:

"It's very dangerous on the stage, be careful."

During the time the two approached the stage, the green radiance brought by the sorcery effect had almost covered the entire ceiling of the room, but it could not reach above the stage. And the crazy guy who was fusing with the grandfather clock on the stage seemed to understand that below the stage was already a "safe area," so he didn't continue to attack.

That single eye, which was gradually becoming mechanical, stared at Xia De. Just as Xia De tried to lift his leg and step onto the first step under the stage, it actually hugged the grandfather clock in front of it with one hand, and then jumped fiercely with the remaining right leg, half of the person and the grandfather clock hit Xia De like a cannonball.

The time in the room, which had gradually stabilized, appeared abnormal again. Iluna behind Xia De, even holding that jar of umbilical cords, felt for a moment that she wanted to cry loudly like a baby pulling Xia De's clothes.

And Xia De, of course, didn't want to have direct contact with the relic. Holding Iluna behind him, he retreated and appeared beside Yggdrasil's Staff, making the "pounce" of the grandfather clock miss.

The grandfather clock smashed on the steps, and a clanging mechanical damage sound came from inside. Then the half-man hugged the grandfather clock again, and in the next moment, he appeared in front of the two people directly like a cannonball, hitting Xia De's chest again.

This was not spatial jump; this was time jump.

"All of you disappear!"

The sound from the half-mouth could almost not be distinguished. While sparks, springs, screws, and other small parts kept popping out of his mouth, Iluna's sunlight gun stabbed forward from Xia De's side.

The golden thunder pierced the lower base of the grandfather clock, but this did not affect the monster continuing to hit the two. The green light on the surface of the long staff was continuously weakening its own time abnormality characteristics. Seeing that the other party really dared to follow, Xia De reached out and pulled out the long staff stabbed into the ground, and blood-red light shadows flashed in his eyes.

The emerald green long staff stabbed forward, and then easily pierced the dial. And although the long staff pierced the wood under the grandfather clock dial, a squelching sound clearly was the sound of flesh being pierced.

The beating flesh heart hidden inside the wood was pierced by 【Yggdrasil's Staff】, and then, under the gaze of Xia De and Iluna who were incomparably surprised, that heart actually turned into dust as if it were absorbed by the long staff.

"How did you know..."

The crazy man used his last strength to point at Xia De.

"Because I have a sorcery that can see the modified parts of the human body. Very coincidentally, I saw that your body was full of non-natural components, but there was a heart shape inside the grandfather clock."

This refers to "Edwards' Eye."

The man who spat out his last breath, his fingers turned into flesh-wrapped hands and shot at Xia De again. But even at such a close distance, it just grazed Xia De's cheek and was dodged by him. The flying hand passed the two and pierced into the wall behind them. While the wall was rapidly decaying and collapsing, Iluna exclaimed in surprise and looked at Xia De's face:

"Your face is bleeding!"

Xia De raised his hand to wipe his cheek, and sure enough, he saw bloodstains on his fingers. He shook his head indifferently:

"It will heal soon, I don't look like I've become smaller or older, right?"

"No, no."

Iluna stared at his face and shook her head, but she was also very puzzled why Xia De was not affected by that hand. Even if his resistance was amazing, it was absolutely impossible to completely resist the effect in front of the relic.

Xia De didn't think so much, raised his hand and pulled out the long staff that pierced the grandfather clock.

The relic, of course, was not so easily destroyed. As the grandfather clock hands rotated counterclockwise, the half-corpse behind the grandfather clock was quickly absorbed by it, and the damage to the grandfather clock itself was slowly repaired because of this.

A little gray fog drifted out from the damaged part of the grandfather clock. Xia De frowned and was about to give it another hit, but didn't expect that strange scenes appeared in those gray fogs.

It was still this performance hall, but the lights in the room were not turned on. A girl wearing a costume walked in alone holding a letter, but shortly after entering the door, she froze in place like a wax figure.

The man who had just died jumped out from behind the door, with fresh tree branches hung with green leaves tied densely on his arms, two legs, chest, back, and head.

He was not affected by the relic, but like admiring some peerless treasure, he opened his eyes wide and kept circling around the girl and looking at her. Finally, he even moved a chair and placed it in front of the girl, then sat on the chair and stretched his head to watch her.

If it weren't for the rise and fall of his chest when he breathed, Xia De would even think that he was also frozen in time.

The scene in the gray fog accelerated, because many people came here one after another, and then froze in place one after another, making this small hall look like it had become a wax museum.

But none of this disturbed the man who was obsessed with watching. Until those people who were frozen, including the initial girl, were suddenly swallowed by the fog and disappeared at a certain moment, the man stood up in surprise.

He turned and came to the stage, constantly slapping the grandfather clock whose second hand and minute hand had stopped rotating, as if wanting to fix it. But he didn't notice that gray fog overflowed from the connection on the surface of the grandfather clock. So in a panic scream, the hand that should have fallen on the shell of the grandfather clock "passed through" into the inside of the grandfather clock, and his half body was fused with the grandfather clock because of this.

The scene disappeared here. Seeing those gray fogs still wanting to spread, Xia De waved his staff to disperse them. The matter was similar to what Iluna described, but Xia De still had questions:

"Did this Secret Keeper-level relic have this characteristic before? Continuous slapping will lead to fusion with humans?"

Iluna shook her head immediately:

"It wasn't written in that containment file from the early Sixth Era. It cannot be determined whether this characteristic was not discovered before, or whether the time disaster spread in the material world, causing time-type relics to change." ===== CHAPTER 2612 =====