Chapter 2639: The Story of Bronte

The noble lady continued to answer expressionlessly:

"It was my son who sent us here. Theodore didn't want us to leave. He couldn't make us the same as him and escape death, so he trapped all our souls here. I am in the small auditorium of the cemetery, his father is in the left tomb chamber of the underground cemetery, and his sister is under the tree behind the west wall of the cemetery.

When Theodore's future wife, children he might have, and other brothers die, they should also appear here. Young man, it's not that I don't want to leave here; I just can't leave."

Xia De pressed the cat's head on his chest; he clearly felt she wanted to speak to evaluate this matter.

"Then besides your son, who else traveled through time?"

After all, the paradox bug hadn't been found yet, and this question was very important, but this time the noble lady shook her head:

"I don't know. Theodore traveled through time when I had already died. All the things I just mentioned to you were what he said himself when he came to find me."

Xia De frowned slightly:

"Then do you know what method he used to travel through time?"

"Tree hole."

The noble lady said this term accurately, but she immediately closed her mouth and didn't speak, continuing only after a moment of silence:

"I don't know how much you know about this. The secret of the 'tree hole' has existed in Creekwood Town since a long time ago. I am a daughter of a noble family who married from outside; I am not from here. My husband didn't talk too much about time to me while he was alive.

I just know that the Bronte family has known about the existence of the tree hole since a long time ago. Although not every generation of Brontes uses the tree hole, my husband must have told the secret of the family to Theodore; this is probably the method he used to travel through time."

That the ancient families of the Creekwood Town era knew the secret of the "tree hole" was something Xia De had guessed from the very beginning, and this could be considered another confirmation. Only, he didn't have time to deal with more ancient things for the time being; now he still had to deal with the things in front of him first:

"Was that tree hole passed down by your family?"

If it really was like this, then the book that first appeared in the hands of Baron Kamin's mother, that is, little Kamin's lover, was also worth suspecting its origin.

"I don't know; my husband rarely talked to me about the topic of time."

"Then what was the mysterious existence in the woods that your son saw, that is, the existence that gave him the destined death?"

The noble lady still couldn't give an answer:

"I don't know. When he found that mysterious existence in the woods, I was already seriously ill and bedridden. When he came back, I had already died of illness."

"People living in Creekwood Town all know that many mysterious things are hidden and sleeping in this woodland. Most of the surnames living here for a long time understand some of the secrets. Perhaps he found something from the materials left by his ancestors in the family library, or perhaps it was just the desire for longevity that made him glimpse the darkness in the woods."

Next, Xia De asked her some things, such as the identities of the Bronte family members, and whether the Bronte family had other abnormalities. The noble lady was willing to answer all of them, and the only thing she wanted Xia De to do was to liberate York Bronte from "immortality":

"Young man, please kill my son and liberate us. His current existence has turned into a curse. I can clearly feel that he is rejected by all souls."

The curse here refers to the nature of the existence of "Death Apostle" itself, not the time curse. Therefore, Xia De still wanted to figure out what the other party's time curse was, but unfortunately, the noble lady really didn't know.

After confirming that there were no clues here, Xia De temporarily left the small auditorium with the cat and returned to the outside world shrouded in thick fog. The time for this time travel had already passed halfway, and they had to speed up their progress.

"Did you notice the time point?"

The cat on his chest reminded him:

"The correct order is: Theodore Bronte learned of the destined death, and then he traveled through time to escape death and became a Death Apostle. So him being cursed and him becoming a Death Apostle were almost things that happened at the same time.

According to the rules of time travel, the more powerful one is, the stronger the time curse received. Although the time curse received by Theodore Bronte, who is a Death Apostle, is not necessarily stronger than ours, it is definitely not a small matter like dying if he touches gold."

Xia De looked at the grave pit where the coffin was buried again:

"And he is still a Third-Order sorcerer from 1821 to 1854. This matter also has something wrong. My friend talked to me about Death Apostles before; Death Apostles directly change the essence of life. Even if his sorcerer talent wasn't high originally, it's impossible for him not to reach the Middle Order after becoming a Death Apostle."

"So the content of the curse is that the level is restricted? Forever unable to break through the Third Order?"

"Since the noble lady didn't know whether her son was a transcendent... There is still some time left; let's act fast and go ask others. Aren't his sister and father also here?"

Just like the noble lady who had completely turned into a vengeful spirit, the old baron and the woman in her thirties had also turned into terrifying vengeful spirits because their spiritual bodies existed in the edge of life and death for a long time.

Among them, the old baron's spiritual body in the underground tomb chamber fused with a corpse after mutation, turning into a mutated corpse ghost capable of full-body virtualization. After fighting Xia De in the narrow tomb chamber, it escaped with a single blow, relying on the ability to pass through walls to flee all the way, and even wanted to let other undead wandering in the tomb chamber attack Xia De.

Xia De, who was in a hurry, didn't have the time to tangle with him. Relying on the strength of his own body, he crashed through walls of soil and chased after it, then destroyed the corpse ghost's body with a single thunder spear, and after purifying it with moonlight, originally wanted to ask like just now, but the witch gave a terrible answer:

"No, his death time is longer than that noble lady's, and his soul has been completely lost; it's impossible to even extract memories."

But fortunately, Theodore Bronte's sister's death time was the shortest. When Xia De found her in the woods outside the cemetery, the young woman's soul rushed over with a shovel. This family of vengeful spirits all had powerful strength exceeding ordinary souls. The peculiarity of this vengeful spirit was not the shovel in her hand, but that she could conjure apples that could explode.

But a vengeful spirit was still a vengeful spirit, and after being successfully subdued by Xia De and restored to normal by the witch, she also provided important information for the two:

"Yes, my brother is a sorcerer. That happened two years before mother died. In order to treat mother's serious illness, he gradually changed from research on medicine to research on mysticism. And one day, he suddenly told me that he heard another voice belonging to himself in his ear."

The soul of the woman named Anna Bronte stood quietly under the tree. She was 31 years old when she died, unmarried, which was a tragic life in the eyes of both this era and the era of 1854:

"Theodore liked to communicate with me very much, and I know many things about him. After he heard the voice in his ear, he spent a large sum of money to buy a potion to become a sorcerer. But he said the potion he bought had side effects, and he would never be able to touch higher power in this life."

This is the disadvantage of becoming a sorcerer through non-normal means; the ritual methods mastered by the Five Orthodox Churches and the three major academies are the regular paths to employment.

"Two years after that, mother also passed away from illness, and my physical condition also went from bad to worse. When holding the funeral for mother, Theodore told me that he had achieved immortality, and he promised that he would make me the same.

I refused him; Theodore's mental state was already very wrong at that time."

"After he achieved so-called immortality, did you notice anything different about him compared to before? For example, details of life."

Xia De asked, and the girl's soul answered after digging into her sleeping memories:

"He liked eating raw meat."

But this was also a manifestation after a human turned into a Death Apostle, not a time curse.

"After mother died, a series of continuous missing person cases also occurred in the town, but those who went missing were all outsiders, and the murderer couldn't be found in the town. I always suspected that he was the one who did it, but I was already seriously ill and bedridden at that time, unable to investigate."

This was probably the crime of Theodore Bronte killing and devouring vitality. Father Augustus said that compared to plants and ordinary animals, Death Apostles prefer humans and high-intelligence exotic creatures.

"Except for this year, he appeared very frequently in this strange world of the dead and chatted with me, mother, and father. Even though we could no longer respond to him, he still came to visit us very frequently after we lost our reason. I originally thought he was missing his family members, now that I think about it... he seems to just like the environment here very much."

But this was not right. "Death Apostles," although they sounded like immortal undead creatures, undead creatures were things normally produced due to "death," while "Death Apostles" were neither living nor dead. This thing was definitely not an undead, and it was even more impossible to like the "edge of life and death."

Therefore, "liking to stay in the edge of life and death" was not a nature that Theodore Bronte should have.

Xia De's mouth revealed a smile; he felt he had grasped the point. And the cat in his arms also realized this, but she thought of more things:

"How did your brother discover this place? Your family cemetery is also here. Could it be that your ancestors knew about the existence of the edge of life and death?"

The girl's soul did not show surprise because the cat spoke; her emotional expression remained indifferent:

"At least before mother died, none of us knew about the existence of this kind of place. That was also something after mother died. Theodore frequently came here. I originally thought he was here to mourn his parents; I only knew after I died that he had already been frequently entering and exiting here after mother died."

"Before your mother died, did your family cemetery appear to have any incidents like undead resurrection?"

Xia De asked again, and the soul shook her head. This was very interesting. The edge of life and death overlapped with this area, and it happened to be a cemetery, yet not a single undead resurrection occurred, which could only mean that this world actually opened a crack only after their mother died. ===== CHAPTER 2640 =====