Chapter 2946: Miss Olanod's Countermeasure

"Can I hug you?"

After a moment of hesitation, Xia De asked her:

"As a farewell, let's hug."

The black-haired lady then took the initiative to give him a gentle hug:

"Go, don't linger here. I belong to the past, and you belong to the future."

She sent him downstairs, and the two said goodbye again in the foyer. They both looked at each other and couldn't say a word. Until the end, Xia De's lips moved, and then he also gave her a hug:

"We will meet again."

"We will, Xia De."

(Little Mia is running...)

In the dim Time Transit Station, when footsteps sounded from the top of the stairs, Thomas Bennett, who had returned to behind the counter, looked up.

Seeing that it was Xia De who returned with a look of disappointment, he teased in a hoarse voice:

"I have seen the expression you have now on countless people's faces. It seems you encountered something annoying in the past?"

"It was indeed very annoying. My initial thought was correct. Traveling through time only brings more regrets. Perhaps it is better not to know some things."

"A very profound summary."

Xia De had already returned to the first floor along the stairs:

"Are you not curious whether I finally found Anthony Winslett?"

He asked Bennett behind the counter curiously, and the latter shook his head indifferently:

"What does that have to do with me? I have seen too many stories here. The story of you being entrusted by someone to find someone is not very interesting. Of course, if you are willing to share whether you saw the teacher's teacher you mentioned for the first time in 1821, I would be willing to prepare a pot of tea for you."

"No, I really went to find Anthony Winslett. I don't want to share my privacy."

A short laugh seemed to come from behind the mask:

"Then have you finished your business? I am going to close up shop here too. Tuesday was never a business day here anyway."

Xia De nodded:

"Can I continue to use the invitation letter? Although this matter is finished, maybe I will have things to visit here in the future."

Bennett nodded:

"You keep it. You can use it yourself later or give it to others. I use this method of regular customers helping to solicit business for publicity here. There are not a few people who long to change the past; they just lack an opportunity."

"That's good. See you next time."

"See you next time, guest."

Walking out of the main door of the transit station, because he only left for a second, nothing much had changed in the dim alley. Xia De took a deep breath. The icy wind of winter was just different from midsummer.

Reaching into his pocket, Miss Helena Carter's ritual notebook and that lock of long black hair were still in his arms:

"After going back, let Galina and Xivi borrow the 【Poetry Cards】."

He thought in his heart, but hesitated about whether the matter of Miss Carter's possible visit should be told to Miss Danister, and if he told her, how he should say it.

He came with questions and left with worries. After circling around the neighborhood a few times, he turned into a silver cat and jumped onto the snow-covered roof. After looking up at the moon tonight, he planned to go back and rest:

"Although I found Flora's uncle and learned who the masked man in the transit station is, there are more worries... Forget it, don't think about these. Luvia said she and Dorothy would come to find me tonight."

The cat thought in its heart.

【You are still thinking about this?】

"She" by the cat's ear laughed softly. Xia De the cat then explained while running on the roof:

"This is an invitation from the girls to me. I can't forget it, right?"

Then he thought that maybe he could let Luvia and Dorothy help him make up his mind in a while. The writer lady, the fortune-teller lady, and the princess were all girls with strong opinions.

A strange sound of 'crack~' interrupted Xia De the cat's wild thoughts. The puzzled cat stopped immediately and looked around. It wasn't until it looked up at the night sky that it saw a crack open in the position of the three moons in the night sky.

Seeing some blood-red light seeping out from that crack, the cat on the roof took the initiative to turn back into human form.

Xia De stretched his neck and curiously pursued the source of that blood-red light, finally seeing the blood color becoming more and more intense.

The position where the crack appeared was the position of the three moons. The expanding crack soon completely covered the three moons. And when that terrifying blood moon truly illuminated the starry sky and the earth, Xia De didn't notice that his eyes had also turned blood-red at this moment.

He stared blankly at that blood moon, and the blood moon in the expanding crack also stared at him. For a moment, the Outsider felt as if he were looking down at the Vista woodlands from the air. Fortunately, the whisper of "she" by his ear made Xia De's thoughts return to normal.

【Outsider, the Blood Moon has descended.】

Like Luvia on the ship, Xia De also thought of the rumors of the "Moon of Madness" he had heard about for the first time. But the scene at this moment shouldn't be the disaster of the moon suddenly erupting in the Vista woodlands. This was more like a disaster that had appeared in ancient times, shining toward the present through a time crack.

Xia De even thought that the moon still existed in the time and space of the past, and it was only because it was quite close to the "Moon of Madness" rift that the light of that moon shone toward the present.

However, precisely because that blood moon did not actually belong to the present of the winter of 1854, when it shone on this area through the crack in time, the people bathed in the blood-colored moonlight did not immediately turn into crazily wriggling flesh and blood as recorded in the data.

It was just that the blood moon was becoming clearer and brighter. No one could guarantee that if that crack continued, it wouldn't truly lead the "Moon of Madness" to the present.

"Moon of Madness, the disaster of the moon."

Outside Vista City, on the deck of the Brilliance Messenger on Yulon Lake, Miss Olanod, who also saw the blood moon, muttered to herself:

"I have only seen it in ancient literature... Moonlight!"

She stretched out her right hand. The moonlight summoned by using the most basic "Light Spell" should have been the color of a yellow moon, but at this moment, in this bright red world, the moonlight she summoned actually turned blood-red.

The little princess held in Dorothy's arms also tried to summon moonlight. After saying the sentence "Xia De is Suren," she also mastered this ability:

"Moonlight!"

The light appearing in Ajelina's hand also turned blood-red, and Miss Olanod suddenly reached out and extinguished the light directly:

"Do not use the power of the moon while the Moon of Madness is ongoing. Witches and Ringed Shushi of the moon are more easily affected than others."

Seeing everyone looking at her, the ancient witch who came because of the World War temporarily took over the command:

"Everyone, enter the cabin immediately. Ilayse, can you make this ship sink underwater now?"

The blue-eyed ship girl nodded immediately:

"I can."

"Sink the ship underwater. This is the most effective response to the second stage of the Moon of Madness."

"Is it only the second stage now?"

Galina asked, and Miss Olanod nodded:

"Yes. The birth of the Blood Moon is the first stage, but we didn't see it. The Blood Moon had already risen at the point in time when the time crack opened. The blood-red world is the second stage. By the third stage, the moon you see will turn into a huge blood-red ball of flesh."

She didn't say what would happen next:

"I don't know how to close such a huge time crack, but I know how to temporarily suppress the disaster of the moon. Danister Gustav, come with me. I need the power of the red moon that you have mastered."

The red-haired girl nodded immediately, but reminded:

"Okay, but I still can't recover to the thirteenth ring now."

"No."

The yellow-haired witch looked at her in this blood color on the deck:

"Feel it carefully. Under the current circumstances, are you really not at the thirteenth ring?"

The life ring appeared behind the red-haired girl. The brass-colored life ring was also dyed bright red in the blood light filling the sky. The thirteenth-ring life ring appeared completely, exactly the same as her peak state. The red-haired girl even felt that her state at this moment had surpassed her peak period of power.

"There are not entirely no benefits during the duration of the Moon of Madness. Witches or Ringed Shushi of the red moon system will be strengthened and temporarily gain immunity to other curses. The priority of this effect is quite high."

The owl lady, who originally thought she could also temporarily recover, was immediately disappointed.

"Xivi Aphrolia, go to the council and contact the current Great Witch of the Moon, and have her rush to this area as soon as possible—what is her core spirit rune related to the moon?"

Xivi answered immediately:

"Full Moon."

"That works too. My method requires the power of the three moons to perform a ritual to simulate the power of the Primordial Moon and forcibly override the Moon of Madness. Where is Xia De?"

Miss Olanod asked Luvia again. Luvia looked in the direction of the city:

"Calculating the time, he has already come out of the Time Transit Station. How long he stays in the transit station is only an instant to the outside world. He must have seen this blood moon by now."

"Danister Gustav and I will set off first. You contact the Great Witch of the Moon as soon as possible. Everyone else enter the cabin and let the ship sink underwater to prevent the worst-case scenario.

The Moon of Madness may cause instability in the teleportation portal. Xia De may not be able to return through the portal. Vanessa Beninis, you are a thirteenth-tier Great Witch. You stay on the shore and wait for Xia De to return, and inform him of the current situation. Be careful not to use any charms or potions related to the moon. These things will be affected during the duration of the Moon of Madness.

After Xia De returns, if his state allows, have him go to the sky to rendezvous with us."

"Do we need to contact the church and have them do something?"

Cassandra the elder also asked, and Miss Olanod shook her head:

"No one in this era knows more about the Moon of Madness than I do. Apart from trying to find a way to close the time crack or making the power behind the crack no longer affect the present, they probably have no way to deal with that moon. After all, it is not yet... Emilia!" ===== CHAPTER 2947 =====