Chapter 2664

"Judging from the clothing and the order of memories, the one killed should be Theodore Bronte's wife."

Miss Bell said in a low voice.

And after killing his wife, the owner of the memory used magic to retain the soul of the sorrowful woman, and took a carriage to the family cemetery, sending her into the "edge of life and death."

He did not follow in, but stood alone in the empty cemetery and talked to himself:

"This is all for your own good. Death is for rebirth. Sooner or later, I will let you all come alive, just like me, and obtain immortality. What I have already obtained, don't leave, whether it is my life or your lives..."

"Why is the curse of time that I must regularly come into contact with high-concentration death power? This will greatly consume the life force I have absorbed and make my consumption become more. So, is this time urging me to kill?"

"So that's it. If I want to obtain a longer lifespan, I have to let others lose the lifespan they should have, so everyone's time is still conserved. That's right, that's it!"

The picture ended, and another series of incoherent pictures flashed by.

The witch sighed softly:

"He is indeed crazy."

Up to this point, Bronte's initial contact with the tree hole, the discovery of the coffin and contact with the "Mourner," and the time curse he carried had all been revealed. Xia De originally thought that the scattered pictures afterwards would not have any important things, but he didn't expect that the rapidly flashing pictures would freeze again, but this time the picture was quite strange.

"This is... a dream?"

The owner of the memory was walking in the dark forest at night, but the scenery around was extremely unstable. Dynamic dark-toned color blocks were constantly reorganized at the edge of the field of vision, and the clearest part in the center of the picture was like being covered with a gray filter.

Bronte walked staggeringly, and the abnormally strange forest actually seemed to take the initiative to clear a path for him. The Bronte in the dream shouldn't have realized that he was dreaming, just kept walking forward. Just when Xia De was curious about what kind of memorable things he was dreaming about, the road in the forest at night reached its end.

And at the end of that road, as the Bronte in the dream looked up, a black tree that seemed to connect the sky and the earth...

"Moonlight Slash!"

The black branches protruding from the picture climbed onto the walls of Room 317, and it seemed that it only took an instant to cover the entire ceiling and walls. In Miss Bell's view, time seemed to have discontinuity, because the growth of those branches did not show a process.

The moonlight accurately hit the ritual base of reading the soul memory, and even if the ritual was destroyed, it only interrupted the picture in Bronte's dream, but those dense branches were still growing in the room.

The intermittent and discontinuous time completely destroyed the time stability in this room. In Miss Bell's eyes, everything around became extremely strange because of the stopping, rapid speed, and slowing of time, and as the mist of the Time Gap poured into the room, the bodies of the witch and the red-haired girl became blurred.

"Damn it, what is this?!"

"Meow woo!"

"Grab my hand!"

"Miss, you speak too fast, I can't hear clearly!"

The chaotic room was in a mess for a while. The cat made a threatening sound at the surroundings, and the small fire sparks sprayed from its mouth actually really delayed the growth speed of those black branches.

But for the time being, no one noticed it. Miss Bell had already squatted down in pain holding her head, while Xia De reached out and grabbed the hands of the two ladies at the same time, and then found that his hands also began to become transparent. Fortunately, it was not his first time entering Vista Forest:

"Return of Time! Come back to me!"

He pushed forward forcefully, and the two ladies walked forward staggeringly, and their bodies really became solid again. And Xia De quickly summoned 【Staff of Yggdrasil】, and then smashed the long staff against the ground violently:

"Ancient Elf Stability Principle!"

After a thud~ sound, the emerald light resisted the surrounding thick fog. Because the memory picture of the black giant tree had disappeared, the power that destroyed time stability had no source. As Xia De's expression became slightly ferocious and he output his spirit, the gray mist and those clawing branches constantly shrank in the emerald light.

He held the middle of the staff with both hands and couldn't let go, but still sought help loudly:

"This won't work, give me my essence!"

The two ladies reached out to him at the same time, and their hands touched in front of Xia De's chest. The witch subconsciously shrank back, which led to the red-haired girl taking out the perfume bottle.

The bottle stopper was pulled out, and Xia De took a violent breath. The glowing pink liquid gathered into a water stream and entered his mouth. He had used the essence frequently recently, and now only a layer of liquid remained at the bottom of the bottle. If it weren't for Margaret's "practice" this morning, I'm afraid not a drop would be left at this moment.

But at least these remaining essences still replenished enough spirit for him. Accompanied by his eyes slightly emitting pink light, the emerald light erupted from the top of the long staff squeezed the living space of the fog and those black branches more and more strongly.

Finally, before Xia De was almost exhausted, the mist and branches all disappeared into the void.

"Hoo~ hoo~"

Xia De gasped and knelt on one knee holding the staff. The cat called worriedly. Miss Danister walked quickly to the cloakroom to check the situation of the wardrobe she kept here. Winslet walked to support her apprentice, but did not forget to ask Xia De:

"How are you?"

"It's okay, it's okay, just let me catch my breath. How is Miss Bell?"

Although even Little Mia was fine, the young witch apprentice suffered severe mental trauma in the series of time abnormalities just now. When she opened her eyes and woke up, she saw the three people in the room gathered by her side.

She thought for a while in a daze before remembering what happened just now. Because she was fed some holy water, her moist lips moved a few times, and then she said in a low voice:

"That big tree, Miss, that black big tree that grew out of Bronte's dream, that is an evil object, that is the remains of the ancient times, that is the root cause of the time instability in Vista Forest, that is..."

Her body twitched unnaturally, and Miss Winslet wanted to let her close her mouth and rest first, but the witch apprentice, whose face was getting paler, still said the truth she saw when her spirit was almost crushed:

"I saw the phantom, the giant tree collapsed and headed toward the end in the ancient era, and the remains splashed into every corner of the material world. The remains of the tree, the remains of the tree, it is in Vista Forest. Yes, the remains of the tree, the cursed tree..."

Black withered branches grew from her mouth, but were immediately destroyed by the witch. Flora Winslet covered her mouth, and then used healing spells together with Xia De and Miss Danister.

The power of the sun, silver moon, red moon, and nature wrapped her, and the exhausted girl gradually fell into a deep sleep, and her face calmed down.

Although the Council failed to provide more helpers, at least the Council supported enough magic potions and alchemy materials. They fed Miss Bell magic potions to stabilize her spirit again. After Xia De confirmed that her situation was better, the other girls went upstairs to take care of Miss Bell, and the witch's own face became very ugly:

"Is what Charlotte said true or false? That tree that York Bronte dreamed of..."

"Could it be the teacher?"

The red-haired girl asked Xia De immediately, and Xia De shook his head immediately:

"Of course not. Miss Bell said that was a remnant of the ancient times. And the time since Ms. Carter passed away is not even half a century, so it is unlikely to continue to affect Creekwood Town and Vista Forest."

He signaled the two nervous ladies to relax and pulled them to sit down:

"I am actually more curious about why Bronte would dream of this?"

As he said that, the three of them went to look at the soul core that had been recovered by Xia De. The frozen soul was originally pure white, but now it was stained with pitch-black patterns. The witch had already concluded that it could no longer be viewed for any memories:

"If Charlotte wasn't crazy just now, then besides the countless paradox worms, is there actually the remains of the World Tree in Vista Forest? No, I just think about this possibility and feel scared."

She pursed her lips and was quite worried, but Xia De didn't feel too surprised. Since he already knew that the material of 【Staff of Yggdrasil】 was the dead World Tree, then the Luweiya of the past must have come into contact with the remains of the World Tree.

And if it is said that among the thirteen Chosen, whose story is most likely to have remains, then it must be now.

"But if it is really the remains of the World Tree, what happened just now?"

The red-haired girl asked puzzled:

"We didn't even see the main body directly, but through the soul's memory, to see what appeared in his dream... I only saw a silhouette of that black tree, and I still feel very mentally uncomfortable until now. I didn't have this feeling when I saw the paradox worm."

"If it is really the so-called remains of the World Tree, then that piece of remains must have turned into an evil object in an unknown ancient era."

This was even worse than Xia De thought. He originally thought that the final opponent this time would be something like a "Paradox Worm King," or a monster whose body and soul had completely mutated due to frequent time travel.

The three of them were silent, each thinking about different things. Finally, Miss Winslet said first:

"No matter what is in Vista Forest, at least this time, we seem to have found the root cause of the local abnormality. The disaster of time first arose here, which has been explained."

"And we will face the things that follow together, won't we? I understand now why the Five Gods Church, the three major academies, and our Council were all very cautious and did not send large troops directly to the local area."

"I guess, even if they don't know about the tree, they should have their own guesses."