Chapter 2902

In the flashing light representing eternity, those withered, yellow-black vines rapidly crystallized and solidified, shattering into large crystalline shards that fell downward before they could touch the two above.

Adele held Xia De's neck, watching as a magnificent crystal forest emerged from the surrounding air. However, there was no need to manifest the complete Mystery Domain yet; Xia De pointed upward:

"Mystery Domain - Crystal Light."

Crack!

The seemingly ordinary air above was "frozen" in the brilliant light of the crystals, solidifying into a visible crystal wall. The power of "freezing time" sounded very similar to "time stop," but Xia De had known the essence of this power from the very beginning.

Adele found this quite incredible:

"What kind of power can actually freeze time?"

The flowing time was truly brought to a complete standstill under Xia De's wonder, as if someone had frozen the river of time.

However, Xia De didn't have time to answer Adele's question. He held Adele and charged directly toward the top within the crystal forest that hadn't yet faded. With a loud boom, he smashed through the crystal wall with his physical body, taking Adele out of the pit.

Consciousness fell into chaos at this moment, and when Xia De came to his senses, he found himself lying on his back in the wind and sand, with the dim yellow sky and the ruins of the floating city wrapped in storms before his eyes.

He helped himself up and looked around, only to see that he had returned to St. Deran Square. He looked left and right but didn't see Adele's figure, though he felt as if he could still smell the perfume of the great witch who had been in his arms just a moment ago.

"No need to point it out, I know this sounds perverted."

Xia De thought to himself, and with a mix of anticipation and worry, he took out Adele's pocket watch again:

"Adele Isabella."

The wind blew away the sand at his feet, and the name of the Time Great Witch engraved on the square's paving stones lit up with light for who knows how many times. Within that light, Adele's figure stood up, lifting her skirt, and by the time she raised her head, her body had become completely solid.

"Adele, you're okay..."

She opened her arms and hugged Xia De, then, with absolutely no regard for reason, pressed Xia De against the outer wall of his house, interrupting his words while giving him a truly passionate kiss.

She looked a bit too excited, though fortunately, neither of them were ordinary people, so there was no risk of suffocation. It was just that afterward, Xia De felt his lips were a bit swollen, which was a very rare occurrence for him now.

He returned to the house with Adele and sat down on that familiar sofa. As the fire lit in the fireplace illuminated this cold and dilapidated home, Xia De, holding Adele, felt for a moment that this place wasn't as bad as he remembered.

His hand was around the witch, and Adele told Xia De what had happened just now.

Since they last parted, the Time Great Witch had been tracing the faint traces in the era of the apocalypse to investigate what had happened during the "War of the Time Chosen" back then.

Although she had come into contact with divinity because of Xia De in Moon Bay and was reviving her memories of every Sixth Era, it was very unfortunate that she had never properly participated in any of the Vesta Forest battles to date. So, if she wanted to help Xia De learn what had happened in the past, she could only do so in this era where all things were heading toward their end.

And that "Curse-Eroding Great Tree" seemed to be an important clue related to this, so she had taken the initiative to go and investigate.

In this era where she was likely the only living person in the entire world, the methods people had used to imprison this terrifying evil object back then were still exerting their effects. Before that black sun disappeared, that tree would likely continue to exist, so Adele had accidentally gotten trapped there:

"And when I first entered that underground pit sacrificial site, the tree was still in a dormant state. I investigated the surroundings and performed a certain degree of time regression; it seems it has nothing to do with Vesta Forest. Most of its terrifying power now comes from the time curses it absorbed after the apocalypse.

It was just a cursed tree that couldn't move in the era before the apocalypse. I used a special witch secret technique to peer into time; its place of formation was not in Vesta Forest either."

Originally, she was leaning on Xia De's shoulder, but as she spoke, she somehow ended up sitting on Xia De's lap.

"The place where it formed should be at the tower on Karas Mountain."

Xia De gently stroked her hair. He was almost certain that this "Curse-Eroding Great Tree" was the terrifying evil object that Helena Carter had turned into after her death—of course, the Helena of the past:

"I only recently became aware of the matter regarding that tree. It had nothing to do with the story of Vesta Forest in the past. The Sixth Era I wasn't in... after she traveled through time to investigate the astrologer's information, she should have left Vesta Forest directly."

Although she didn't know what Xia De was specifically talking about, she could feel the sorrow in his tone. She continued to lie on Xia De's chest, and Xia De gazed at the flames in the fireplace for a good while before asking:

"Adele, speaking of which, how did you summon me just now?"

"Name."

Speaking of this topic, the beautiful witch with the tear mole under her eye immediately answered with a smile:

"I wrote your name on the ground."

She even felt a bit embarrassed when she said this:

"I had written your name on the ground when I was bored before... I don't know what happened, but it had no effect before, yet this time it actually summoned you."

Xia De had a guess about this:

"This is probably because I learned a new spell related to names recently."

When they met at the beginning of the Month of Withered Leaves, Xia De was only just getting familiar with the environment of Vesta Forest, but too many things had happened in this month. He held Adele and told her the stories that had happened recently, including the stories that had happened in the past. Adele was thus informed of the possible origin of that Curse-Eroding Great Tree and where Xia De's Mystery Domain of freezing time had come from.

Of course, Xia De didn't have the heart to explain clearly what had happened in that fairy tale; that belonged to the few private matters he didn't want to share.

"The final choice that needs to be made? Sorry, I've never heard that the Vesta Forest incident requires a final choice.

Either the matter there wasn't successfully resolved, and the forest eventually disappeared into the chaotic, disordered time; or Luweiya Anate quickly resolved the problem, and no one knows the specific process."

She said apologetically, because due to the "professional ability" of witches, she could clearly smell the different perfume scents of the two girls on Xia De, and one of the perfume scents clearly came from Luweiya Anate, who was "born to love playing with conspiracies."

She could completely guess what Xia De had been doing before coming here:

"Sorry, I wanted to provide you with help, but in the end, I couldn't do anything... If it's convenient, use the Philosopher's Stone to cooperate with your sublimation words to summon me next time, and we will become one again."

The advantage of Vesta Forest was that there were many locations that met the casting requirements for Xia De's low-ring sublimation words, so if necessary, she could indeed be called to help again.

And since they were talking about sublimation words, Xia De thought of another matter and lowered his head to ask the lady in his arms:

"Adele, do you know this sublimation word—【The initial silver moon points to the final direction】."

"I know, of course I know. Isn't this the low-ring sublimation word that Anate used in the Sixth Era I experienced?"

Adele's tone sounded a bit gnashing of teeth:

"When I first fought her in this Sixth Era, she relied on this sublimation word to defeat the Thirteenth-Ring me with the power of a newly promoted High-Ring. This sublimation word requires the staff you are holding to be fully unleashed..."

This sentence was also said by Luweiya herself (Chapter 1335).

"Do you want to know its specific effect? It connects space-time with that staff known as 【Yggdrasil's Staff】, raises the staff to make the primitive moon appear in the sky, and then as the staff swings down, it guides the moon to fall."

"So, the effect of this sublimation word is to summon the primitive moon to bombard the enemy?"

Xia De said while imagining, and the image of Luweiya with long hair under the starry night, standing on the edge of a cliff and pointing the staff at the huge silver moon in the night sky, appeared in his mind for some reason... Even if it was just imagination, those purple eyes were still so beautiful.

"Not only that, Anate once told me that the fall of the primitive moon is the landmark event that ended the First Era, the Mythological Era. Therefore, the destructive power brought by the fall of the silver moon in her sublimation word is only the prelude; the true power is the 'final direction' that comes as a result—that is, after the silver moon falls, the sublimation word will turn the surrounding environment into the scene of the apocalypse.

She is the only one who knew what the apocalypse was before it arrived. Through this sublimation word, she can safely use this power."

After Adele finished speaking, she found that the look in Xia De's eyes when he looked down at her had turned into surprise:

"Why did she tell you these things? I mean, aren't you and she in an adversarial relationship? So, are you friends who are adversarial but actually have a good relationship?"

The blonde witch then reached out and patted the back of Xia De's hand; in fact, the force was about the same as a tickle:

"What are you saying? She is just my enemy. But although we are enemies, it's not like we haven't cooperated. You have to be twelve times more careful when cooperating with her, otherwise, you don't know when you will..." ===== CHAPTER 2903 =====