Chapter 2979: The Sword-Dancing Elf (Seeking Follow-up Reads)

Like a mirror shattered by a stone, the reality space around the two shattered and then reorganized into the Time Transfer Station in the darkness.

Xia De and Amelia drew the long swords in their hands at the same time. The blood-red light and green light illuminated their serious faces. They followed the stairs to the first floor, and Thomas Bennett was indeed waiting for them here.

The innkeeper did not wear that relic mask this time. He stood behind the counter and nodded to the two as if welcoming guests, with not much expression on his face.

The Life Ring had already appeared behind him in advance, but the Life Ring was not its original level but the current eleventh ring. The material of the Life Ring was still brass, but dense tree roots were wrapped around it, leaving gaps only at the position of the Spirit Rune imprint to allow the spirit light to radiate out, which made his Life Ring look like it had grown a circle out of thin air.

Amelia took the initiative to take a step forward, and the eight-ring pale jade-colored Life Ring behind her also appeared.

Although the two had heard of each other for a long time, this was actually the first time Thomas Bennett had seen Amelia, and if there were no accidents, it would probably be the last time. He looked at the young girl inquiringly, then sighed softly:

"The description of the Ancient One was indeed correct; the second candidate is a pure-blooded elf. Although I have seen many things in my life, this is the first time I have truly seen an elf."

Seeing that the other party did not intend to make a move immediately, Xia De asked:

"The Life Ring represents the power of the soul, so you are completely not planning to be a human anymore?"

Thomas Bennett shook his head and walked out from behind the counter:

"Do you know the story of our family? We have received the favor of the tree. Since my most distant ancestor accepted the power of the Ancient One under the tree, the imprint of time and the tree has remained in our bloodline.

I am still very self-aware; without using the power of the Ancient One, I am destined to only face death. But if I can really stop you, my path in the future may still be very, very long."

He raised his right hand and held up the back of his hand, and the emerald green patterns wove into leaf patterns:

"In the name of Yggdrasil, elf, this is our Time War."

With a bang, the door on the first floor opened, but behind it was not thick, impenetrable darkness, but the street scene in front of the Accordion Inn in the light.

That was also time frozen in an instant. Thomas Bennett made a gesture of invitation and then walked out directly.

Amelia wanted to follow, but heard the telepathic message from Xia De:

"Something is wrong. Last time he said he wanted to gain freedom and then find a way to resurrect his wife in the endless river of time. How did he become so resigned now?"

Amelia answered in Xia De's mind with great difficulty:

"Was he forced by that tree? He shouldn't have the ability to resist, right?"

The scene of the "Time Transfer Station" expanded to areas outside the first floor of the inn at this time, or perhaps the "Transfer Station" was not just on the first floor of the inn, it just hadn't been opened before.

After coming outside, there were no stars or moon in the sky, only darkness. There was no light in the city within sight. In this instant, the city seemed to be dead.

"Strictly speaking, this is indeed not reality in terms of space. Vesta Woodland exists relying on the wreckage of the World Tree in terms of space-time concepts, and this can actually be considered the interior of the World Tree wreckage, located in the space opposite to reality."

Standing on the street facing the two who walked out of the door, something seemed to have appeared in the darkness behind Thomas Bennett.

Xia De tried hard to look, and then found that it was a tomb with a cross tombstone, but looking carefully, there were clearly more dense tombs behind that tomb.

The dead city made Thomas Bennett's voice exceptionally loud. Amelia also saw the tombs behind him clearly, so she couldn't help but ask:

"You are clearly using the power of the tree, but in the end, you want to call upon the undead?"

"Undead?"

The middle-aged merchant shook his head gently. In the dense tombs behind him, rotting corpses climbed out one after another. Xia De could feel that there were souls in every corpse.

The corpses wore tattered clothes from different eras. They hunched their backs and stooped, and some even had a small section of their leg bones missing. Different Life Rings appeared behind those corpses, with the highest level being the eleventh ring and the lowest being the third ring.

Because they were no longer living people, the Life Rings of these corpses were not completely made of brass. It was just that every Life Ring was wrapped with tree roots like Thomas Bennett, and Thomas Bennett also gave the answer:

"These are my ancestors, the ancestors who operated the Time Transfer Station in the Hunter's Cabin, Bennett Village, Creekwood Town, and Vesta City that once stood in this darkness since 507 of the Sixth Era."

"So you people who served that tree for a lifetime actually couldn't even leave your souls after death? Is this to prevent someone from channeling them and then knowing the secret of the transfer station?"

Xia De asked, Thomas Bennett did not answer this question, but said to him calmly:

"Your opponent is my ancestor, and my opponent is your elf. God-Caller, even if you want to kill me immediately now, don't violate the rules of the Time War. Go, the whole city is your battlefield, and this street is the place for my duel with this elf."

His right hand held the lantern, and his left hand held the black wood used last time. It was just that this time the wooden block did not turn into a hand crossbow, but turned into a black cane. And although Amelia still looked very nervous, she nodded gently to Xia De. This battle could only be fought by herself.

Xia De leaped lightly into the air—after learning the flight technique, the "Frog's Leap" completely lost its value. And the corpses that climbed out of the tombs behind Bennett, either flying, jumping, or clinging to the wall like spiders, or transforming into animals, or simply running fast on their legs, all scattered toward the entire city in the darkness.

Looking down at the silent Vesta City from high altitude, Xia De in the air raised the staff in his hand:

"It's still too dark here—Moonlight!"

Then, like a silver sun blooming above the city, the dazzling and pure moonlight illuminated every corner of the city. Amelia clutched the 【Flute of Time】, and could even see the details of every pore on Thomas Bennett's face twenty meters away under the moonlight. She knew this was the greatest help Xia De could provide her within the rules.

"Then it finally begins."

The elf whispered to herself in her heart. The gentleness of the moonlight let her know that Xia De was by her side. The future Elf Queen then swung her sword forward. While the silver moonlight dragon roared and swept over her head, the two confronting each other under the moonlight also entered a state of time acceleration.

The 【Flute of Time】 swung, and the sword body emitted flowing light. The two met at close range. Amelia jumped into the enemy's attack range with light steps. The sword blade collided with the cane. Every movement of the long sword brought up emerald green afterimages, like meteors blooming in the dark night.

The gorgeous elf sword dance came from the inheritance of ancient elves. In the state of time acceleration, her movements were as fast as lightning. Now, attacking in the posture of sword dance, the afterimages even made countless frozen postures of the elf appear around Thomas Bennett.

The sword dance was as smooth as water. Not only did the sword body parry the cane, but even the sword tip could hit the time barrier constructed by the lantern's light in every rotation. Ripples echoed in the light around Thomas Bennett. Although his cane danced like the wind, his cold weapon fighting level was clearly not as good as an elf with proper inheritance.

Then, the light of the lantern in his hand flickered. In the impenetrable light area, the rapid slowing of time flow made Amelia's figure, which had almost turned into a mass of light, become clear again. The elf's short boots stepped on the ground, her figure stopped suddenly, and the 【Flute of Time】 in her hand stabbed forward suddenly.

Time slowing made the stabbed long sword seem to be stuck in the mud, but then the long sword tore through the viscous space-time like a sharp emerald green light. At the same time, Amelia injected power into the sword suddenly, the sword body made a distant flute sound, and the rhythm of time was redirected.

Behind Thomas Bennett, who cast spells without words, the pitch-black time crack opened, and then withered vines reached out from the crack. These tree vines, which lost their vitality because of suppressing the doomsday crack, possessed the characteristic of suppressing time anomalies.

The tree vines attempted to entangle Amelia like chains of time. Amelia leaped lightly, her figure like a swallow, her toes tapped on the tree vines, and her whole body rotated and leaped into the high altitude like a dancer.

In the little elf's head, she recalled the scenes of those powerful Fifth Era dragon maids spreading their wings one after another and rushing toward the sea, just to compete for who could catch more sea fish at once. The hunting techniques told by the red dragon Fiona Delage with a smile were mastered by her at this moment, so she slashed down with her sword, and the whole elf also rushed toward the bottom like a giant dragon.

The spirit light burst from the sword body was like the crescent moon cutting through the night sky at this moment. The flowing light of the sword dance made the afterimages of the 【Flute of Time】 in her hand like blooming lotus flowers, attacking the man with the lantern in a spiral trend.

Thomas Bennett felt that he was really facing a giant dragon at this moment, but he was not panicked. The eleventh-ring sorcerer urged the Life Ring to continue releasing thaumaturgy. When he held the lantern above his head, in the vigorous firelight, even Amelia was frozen in the air for a full second.

All the gorgeous spirit light that appeared because of the sword dance solidified like light and shadow in a photo. When Amelia came back to her senses, Thomas Bennett had already escaped from the center of the sword storm, and then his body merged into the light and shadow of the lantern and disappeared. ===== CHAPTER 2980 =====