Chapter 3009

Confirming that Xia De really only wanted to take one person, the three Great Witches did not discuss it again, but decided together to let Vanessa follow, after all, she was Thirteen-Tier.

Bella and Miss Oulannuode of course accompanied, and the sleeping Emilia was placed on the back of Little Liana. Xia De felt that Emilia should often sleep on the back of the little unicorn, because she had just been put on, and she took the initiative to hug the neck of the little beast:

"Little Liana, why has your neck become uncomfortable?"

The little elf murmured in her sleep, which was of course because of the armor.

Besides the witches themselves, they also selected six High-Ring followers to follow, most of whom participated in the underground operation just now. Siris, Margaret, and Miss Hayley Aurora stayed in the city because their levels were too low. Xia De originally intended to leave Little Mia to them to take care of, but later felt that the city was also very chaotic and didn't want to add trouble to others, so he simply brought the cat with him.

The representative of the elves, the Thirteen-Ring Shushi "Lord of the Deep Valley" Mr. Eldron, of course continued to lead the elf team to escort Emilia, and considering the needs of city defense and the combat environment in the forest, the candidates sent by the church were no longer the "Construct Master," but Miss Maria Ingram, the "Nightmare Witch" of the Nature Church, and Miss Gaiana Lisbrown, the "Emerald Shadow Walker."

The former was affected by age changes like Vanessa, and the latter came to the forest after that incident. Most of the local Thirteen-Ringers were responsible for city defense, so it was very reluctant for the church to draw two Thirteen-Ringers from the Nature Church. However, although the Thirteen-Ringers each had tasks, there was no shortage of High-Ring Shushi.

Considering that the number of team members was too large and not all good things, so in the end, besides the three Great Witches (Bella, Vanessa, and Miss Oulannuode), Sister Daifulin, the elf's Thirteen-Ringer, the church's two Thirteen-Ringers, and Xia De, this escort team only included six people from the 【Witch Council】, six from the church, three from the academy, three elves, and three High-Ring Diviners from the Diviner Society.

Xia De originally wanted to find the forest elf who entered the city to find the arrow of the Bennett family, but sending people to the Accordion Hotel, the old Bennett house, and even the Bennett family's house could not find it.

Seeing that time was tight, he had to give up accompanying the elf girl. However, Xia De believed that the other party would definitely appear in the end, and maybe even appear in a way that no one expected.

So after adding Emilia, the team had a total of thirty people and a little unicorn. In Xia De's view, this was already a quite large team, but anything could happen in the forest now, so all manpower was necessary.

After determining the team members, the Creation Church sent the team a special positioning device blessed with the power of the 【God of Creation and Destruction】. The shape of the divine artifact itself was a golden candle.

"After lighting the candle, we can sense the time and space you are in. This is a prop specially bestowed upon us by my Lord for this war. Once the candle is lit, unless the city is one second away from being breached by insects, we will definitely try our best to send people to support you."

It is hard to say how much effect the subsequent support team can play, but knowing that this trip is not completely going deep alone can indeed make people feel at ease.

After accepting the last divine artifact, the team set off immediately. Now is the buffer period between insect swarms, and most of the Ringed Shushi participating in this great battle are taking necessary rest, so Xia De did not let the church arrange too many people to see them off.

Only the Thirteen-Ring Shushi who temporarily returned to the ground and representatives of various forces came to the square in front of the Golden Music Hall to see the group off. However, they didn't say too much, and stood in the snow watching the team rush into this long night.

Although the time and space outside the city were almost completely chaotic, when Xia De took out the four branches, the direction pointed by the branches was still the north of the city.

The speed of flying in the city was very fast, and after reaching the edge of the city, the group walked out of the city. The ground troops who received the news cleared the way for them, and after leaving the giant shield covering the city, what appeared in front of them was the street block that had been smashed, and pieces of ruins still smoking in the snow.

The wind and snow outside the city made the skin feel more stinging. Now that the sky battlefield was temporarily stable, the ground battlefield also ushered in a short calm.

Ringed Shushi and ordinary soldiers watched the group gather around the holy white unicorn and walk toward the forest. Many people believed that the appearance of that legendary sacred creature meant that the gods had been protecting this city, which was a good encouragement to morale.

After leaving the city area, the disappearance of the light source at the top of the Golden Music Hall tower made the surroundings suddenly become dim. The moon and stars blocked by clouds and fog were not enough to illuminate such a long night.

Flying in this environment was obviously not a wise decision, and people walking on the snow also controlled the sound of their footsteps, and did not even leave footprints on the snow surface.

Xia De walked at the very front and let the branches float beside him to lead the way. At first, he didn't feel that this forest was any different from the past, but after the light of the city behind him disappeared completely, he was somewhat stunned to find that the light guiding the direction suddenly turned nearly two hundred degrees, guiding them to turn to the right rear.

"High-efficiency spatial perception... okay, this move is useless. This vicinity is simply like a complete oil painting cut into pieces and then spliced together randomly."

The chaos of the time-space order brought not only trouble in finding the way, but the collapse of the world's basic order also affected the spirits of the Ringed Shushi. The time represented by one second was no longer one second, and the distance that could be crossed by one step was not just one step. Even if this team was composed entirely of the most elite Ringed Shushi, most of the people in the team still felt the serious suppression of their own power and the unnatural loss of spiritual power in the slight dizziness.

If ordinary people or low-Ring Shushi stayed in this environment for a long time, even if they survived this great battle in the end, they would probably suffer from mental illnesses that could not perceive time and space.

There were still many monsters wandering in the forest on the necessary road ahead, but the group avoided unnecessary battles as much as possible for the purpose of moving forward as quickly as possible.

The perception intensity of the corrupted tree people wandering in the snowy night was the weakest. Only the illusion of High-Ring Shushi covering the team could ensure that the group held their breath and walked through the woods on the side;

When the Paradox Worm flew over their heads, the eyes of the ancient evil objects were enough to see through the power of illusion, so this required the Diviners to predict the arrival of the insects in advance, so that the team had time to drill into the snow to avoid their special sight;

And those strange relics that appeared inexplicably in the forest, these relics could not be targeted uniformly, and could only be identified and resisted after encountering them. Fortunately, the Thirteen-Ring Shushi in the team were strong enough, and the High-Ring Shushi were also true elites. Although there were still several battles along the way, the team was not delayed for too long.

During the advance, Xia De even remembered what happened in the Pantanal Swamp last winter. At that time, they rode horses from the outskirts of the swamp toward the center of the swamp. Thinking carefully, although it was only last winter, it seemed that a long, long time had passed.

The highly toxic eight-eyed spider was easily burned to ashes by Sister Daifulin's fire, and the relic derivative 【Nightmare】 from the 【Emerald Dream】 was sent back to its "hometown" by Miss Gaiana Lisbrown.

The elves bent their bows to dispel gargoyles from nowhere, and the "Nightmare Witch" Miss Maria Ingram even let the group get rid of the entanglement of the "Formless Children" by releasing large-scale nightmare mist.

The branches of the World Tree guided the group on the spatial road, and when they fell into the time maze, Xia De borrowed the "Flute of Time" in Emilia's hand and used the long sword to cooperate with the "Key of the Door" to open the road.

Leaving the city area to bathe in the most primitive moonlight, the battles along the way made others more and more tired and depressed, but made Xia De feel that his state was getting better and better.

The surging spirit made the upper limit of spirit higher and higher, and every exertion of muscles made physical strength stronger. The excited soul and stable spiritual power even made his already powerful perception break through the limit again.

Vaguely, Xia De actually perceived the truth under the chaos in the chaotic time and space at this moment. It seems that besides the ancient sealing ritual that was still barely playing a role at the moment, there was another powerful force here maintaining the final stability of time and space.

That was of course not Iluna's power. That power was more ancient and primitive, and Xia De was also very familiar with it.

When Xia De jumped again and slashed an arc-shaped sword blade in the air to split the "snowman" with a funny carrot nose, Bella was astonished to see that the Eight-Ring life ring behind him flashed past when he landed.

Xia De, who landed, couldn't stand firm as if he had twisted his foot. The Countess hurriedly reached out to support him. When looking around, she was glad to find that others were solving the "Snowman Legion" around—no one knew what this was, but judging from the whispering elements, this was some kind of derivative summoned by relics, so no one noticed the life ring that flashed behind Xia De just now.

"What's wrong with you?"

She asked in a low voice, and then found that Xia De's body was actually trembling slightly.

"I can't suppress it anymore."

He frowned and squeezed the sound from his teeth, but the expression should not be painful:

"Just now I almost didn't suppress it."

"What?"

"Promotion. The silver moon tonight is really too gentle. Under the caress of this moonlight, I am already on the verge of eruption even if I do nothing now, I..."