Chapter 2721: Time Guardian

The Ringed Shushi of the 【Tree Hole Society】 should not know the effect of Xia De's miracle, but the woman standing on top of the dragon beast still refused the approach of the Moonlight Dragon.

In the spraying of the two dragons, the dragon beast was at a disadvantage, so while it kept retreating in the air, its thick tail slammed into the air with force.

First, it shattered the brass mechanical creations that were trying to reorganize after being broken, and then the tail suddenly elongated into the shape of a long snake, biting toward the neck of the moonlight dragon.

"Wall of Sighs!"

The owl immediately cast a spell to counterattack, and a gray wall embedded with countless undead appeared in the air, blocking the front of the dragon beast's tail, but then the wall was shattered head-on by the tail.

Xia De had no choice but to stop spraying and threw a moonlight wheel at the tail. The light wheel cut off the tail, but the dragon beast's body was healing rapidly.

At this time, Mr. Gerald DeLong appeared again. As his life ring rotated, two brass mechanical giant-like arms clamped the dragon beast, which was still expanding in volume, in the air from left to right, and then a giant sword made of small mechanical pieces fell from the sky and slashed toward the dragon beast's head.

But this strike did not work, because on top of the struggling dragon beast's head, an identical monster appeared out of thin air to block the strike. Then, five dragon beasts squeezed out from the shattered space-time crack, and together they opened their mouths toward the direction of that 13th-tier Ringed Shushi and the Moonlight Dragon, spraying black flames together.

The five flames converged together, and the strong elemental reaction made neither side dare to take it head-on. So the brass mechanical parts that had just scattered formed a large shield to block in front of Mr. DeLong, and an ink-colored shield appeared around the moonlight dragon.

The collision of spirits and energy even caused the defensive ritual set up by the church over the city to appear distorted for a few short seconds, but fortunately, this did not attract too much attention. And when the dragon beasts' spraying disappeared and the shields of the Ringed Shushi and the Moonlight Dragon were withdrawn, the dragon beasts under the night sky also vanished.

Mr. Gerald DeLong, whom Xia De had met once in Coldwater Port, first glanced at the small, beautiful owl squatting on his head, and then took the initiative to greet him:

"God-Caller, it's been a year since we parted in Coldwater Port last summer."

"It's been a long time."

The dragon also opened its mouth and made a sound, but Xia De didn't want to have more contact with the church for now; this was something he would do after he reached at least the twelve-ring:

"That dragon is strange. I gained some new power in the Battle of Moon Bay, which can suppress all dragons."

This was a blessing from the fourth son of the ancient god.

"But that dragon beast is completely unaffected by me. I can't even detect the source of its bloodline... either it's not a dragon at all, or its true power is even more terrifying than we thought."

"The local Nature Church has investigated all the dragons that have appeared in the woodland, and they haven't found out which one it is yet."

The 13th-tier Ringed Shushi said, and the great dragon nodded:

"There are still three 【Tree Hole Society】 Ringed Shushi in the music hall; you try to see if you can catch them. See you next time, I still have things to do."

Saying this, he flapped his wings and flew toward the distant woodland with the owl on his head. The "Construct Master" did not chase after him, just stood in the air watching the dragon fly away:

"Although he is much stronger than the seriously injured state in the autumn of last year, but... outside the God-Caller state, is his ordinary thirteen-ring state not strong?"

Five minutes later.

With a *fluttering* sound, Xia De landed in the dim woodland holding the small owl, and Xia De in human form finally stepped on the ground with his own feet.

"Is this the dragon that appeared in the Battle of Moon Bay?"

The owl lady being held seemed exceptionally excited. She didn't say things like "You really are the God-Caller" again, but was quite interested in Xia De's transformation form:

"The dragon you transformed into is really too beautiful! The difficulty of dragon transformation is basically the same as unicorn transformation. I chose unicorn transformation at first because I was worried that becoming a dragon would be too ugly.

From the principle of transformation, the state after transformation is related to the source of transformation and the soul characteristics of the caster. The moonlight dragon just now was even more beautiful than what Bella wrote in the report, and that kind of holy silver is better looking than tonight's moon!"

She said while waving her wings, which was equivalent to waving her hands when humans spoke.

Xia De smiled and put her on his shoulder:

"Many people have said that the moonlight dragon is beautiful, but I don't know why it's like this. But the 'Clockmaker' still escaped. Is she really that powerful? Besides the magic eye, the number of relics related to time on her body... Come out."

He suddenly said to the surrounding dark woodland, and then with a clear *click* of a clock hand turning, the withered leaves falling in the night wind, the clouds moving in the air, the ants crawling under his feet, the owl on his shoulder opening its left wing wanting to continue saying something, or rather, the time of the whole world stopped completely.

"Huh? Not Emilia?"

Xia De was startled, a puzzled expression appeared on his face, and then he saw three men carrying black briefcases, wearing white shirts, black suits, black leather shoes, and green tree-pattern ties walking out of the air.

The three nodded to Xia De together. They looked like humans, but they were definitely not human. Xia De didn't feel too strong traces of elements on them, but the temperament of the three was quite strange. They seemed to have appeared here, but also seemed not to be here.

Or rather, they seemed to exist truly in every observation of Xia De, but this judgment of reality felt incomparably false when recalling.

He had just said "Come out" because he wanted the elves in the woods to appear. He hadn't had time to deliver the arrow he got this morning to the elves. And now that he had arrived in the woodland, the elves would likely appear suddenly as before.

But clearly, these three men who appeared with the freezing of time were not elf girls. Only after slight surprise did Xia De realize something. He looked at the person on the left of the three, and then found that it was Envy Edwards, the eldest son of the third generation of the Edwards family.

The latter noticed Xia De's gaze, so he nodded slightly to him without expression.

Xia De hadn't recognized Envy Edwards immediately just now because he had never seen the other party dressed so formally. And compared to when they parted after the Green Lake family gathering, Envy Edwards's temperament was now completely different.

The three stood not far from Xia De. Xia De blinked, and then asked hesitantly:

"Time Guardians?"

The leading man nodded again in this frozen world and saluted Xia De:

"Those who have accidentally caught a glimpse of our figures indeed call us that. Blessed by the Tree Father, good evening."

He was a tall middle-aged elf, and a pure-blooded elf at that, but he used standard Dralian common language when speaking.

"Good evening to you too..."

Xia De's tone remained hesitant when he replied:

"I have heard rumors about you in many places. Although there is no definitive evidence to prove your existence, I know you are real. I just don't understand, why are you appearing now? Um, I wasn't calling you just now."

He had originally thought that even if he could meet these strange people who were rumored to be responsible for guarding time after the Tree Father left, it should be around the time of the decisive battle in the Vesta Woodland.

Either they would provide important help to Xia De at the end, or they would be responsible for cleaning up the mess. Xia De just didn't expect the other party to show up at such a time:

"Is the crisis in the Vesta Woodland so urgent that you need to appear?"

The tall elf shook his head. His hair color was golden like Emilia's, but his eye color was brown, and his pupils were very bright:

"Our responsibility is to replace the Tree Father in guarding the timeline from collapsing. At least for now, things in this woodland are not dangerous to that extent. Child of the Moon blessed by the Tree Father, we have come for you."

"Me? I haven't done anything. I haven't even thought about letting the timeline collapse."

Xia De was even more puzzled. He thought carefully about what he had done tonight:

"Don't tell me that I shouldn't have defeated someone tonight, or shouldn't have met someone, because this conflicts with what should have happened."

The third person, other than the tall elf and Envy Edwards, said:

"You misunderstood. There is no such thing as what should have happened in this world. As long as time has not flowed downward, there is no 'certainty.' My Lord Tree Father does not restrict anything that happens in time.

You are a person blessed by my Lord, so naturally, you would not deliberately destroy the stability of time. It's just that an item that could cause the entire timeline to collapse has appeared on you."

The third person was also not a human. The small bat symbol floating above his head showed that he was a blood-sucking species. Actually, even without this symbol, Xia De could recognize the other party's race, because the other party didn't hide himself like Mr. Bernhardt or Mr. Albert. The shriveled and dehydrated face he revealed was the true appearance of the blood-sucking species.

"Causing the timeline to collapse..."

Xia De suddenly thought of something and took out the time key he had just retrieved from his pocket:

"This?"

This key was different from all the keys he had obtained in the past. Not only was the color deeper, but the texture was also thicker when held:

"Speaking of which, I also have a guess about this key. This is the only item in that secret compartment, so it should be the item placed when the secret compartment was manufactured, that is, the item placed in the Second Era, not a key condensed by time halfway."

He observed the expressions of the three, and seeing that they all remained unchanged, he said his guess:

"What time does this key lead to? The First Era or the Second Era?" ===== CHAPTER 2722 =====