Chapter 731

Today is Wednesday, and Xia De is going to enter the Interstice with the witches to deal with the seal on the hillside. Therefore, for safety, he is carrying the 【Night Watcher】 and the 【Gift Box of God】 with him.

Little Mia is now being taken care of by Dorothy. Yesterday's lesson told Xia De that when going out on an adventure, it is better not to bring that troublesome cat.

After meeting the old witch with Miss Aurora at the Cassandra Auction House, the group, including the witch's followers, set off for the mountains.

Although the location of the seal hidden by the Witch Emperors on the hillside was already known, the witches opening the passage to the Dreamland and borrowing the Dreamland to go to the Interstice could not be done just anywhere.

The location to truly "open the door" was still a long distance from the passage on the hillside. After entering the Interstice in a while, they would still have to walk a long way.

Everyone on this trip except Xia De was a female sorceress above the Sixth Ring. To prevent the damage of the death power of the Interstice to the body, Grandma Cassandra obtained several complete branches of Elf Wood at a high price. To confirm the correct time, in addition to Xia De's 【Time Perception】, there was also the Poet-level (Level 5) relic 【Never-Damaged Time Hourglass】 in the hands of Miss Aurora's follower.

This relic was quite famous and, along with the 【Stone for Detecting Gravity】 and the 【Dylan Kingdom Flag for Sensing Wind Direction】, was known as the most useless Poet-level relic.

In short, after everything was ready, everyone stood together in the forest clearing with autumn leaves falling. Xia De was surrounded in the very center, which also meant to protect him.

Miss Aurora held Xia De's left hand, and Grandma Cassandra held Xia De's right hand. As the two great witches chanted softly, the scene of the deep autumn forest with falling leaves around them gradually became blurred.

It was as if water had been splashed on a rich oil painting; after the colors blurred, everything in the field of vision turned into mottled color blocks. Those color blocks were not fixed but constantly merging, deforming, and changing colors. This caused many incredible hallucinations to appear before their eyes; there seemed to be something unspeakable lurking in the rich colors, but observing carefully, it seemed to be just a wonderful combination of changing color blocks.

Time and space were distorted here, and the gate to the Dreamland was opening. But the group's goal was not the Dreamland, so before the space was completely transferred, thick white fog representing the Interstice surged out from the gaps between those color blocks.

The fog completely obscured their vision almost instantly, and then as the fog gradually thinned, the Interstice of Life and Death, with only black, white, and gray colors, appeared before Xia De's eyes again.

【Outsider, you have left the world of the living.】

【You have felt miracles, blasphemy, enlightenment, and whispers.】

【Note: The Interstice is more repulsive to the living than ever before. Even with the protection of the Youth-Preserving Leaf, do not stay here for more than 900 days.】

The prompts in his ears kept coming, and the "900 days" deadline was also reminding Xia De that this place was very different from when he entered last time. You know, last time "She" said he could stay here for a thousand days. Although it was only a one-tenth difference, for the soul strength of Xia De's divine radiance state, this was already quite incredible.

Coming from the real world to the Interstice, the surroundings still looked like a forest. However, the scene of autumn leaves covering the ground and golden yellow everywhere in reality had turned into a terrible scene of dead trees standing everywhere and mud everywhere.

The surroundings were extremely quiet, without a single sound. The sky was shrouded in gray fog, and in the distance of his vision, there was only white fog. This fog was actually very similar to reality; the two were truly gradually overlapping.

Entering the Interstice, the recovery of the living person's spirit and physical strength would be greatly reduced, and soul power would be more prominent than physical power.

Therefore, although he felt that his breathing was a bit unsmooth, for Xia De, it felt like he had broken free from shackles at this moment, and his own power had stepped up another level.

And in contrast to him, except for the two great witches, the other female sorceresses all had different abnormal reactions.

But sorcerers above the middle ring adapted to the Interstice quickly, so after slightly adjusting their state, as numerous life rings appeared in the steam, the effects of strange arts and spells such as vigilance, defense, counterattack, reconnaissance, detection, and illumination were orderly deployed around the group.

The two great witches used the power of witches to deploy a huge dark golden ritual base array. This was the spell 【Defense Against Undead】, but it could usually only be attached to objects such as doors. Xia De had really never heard of 【Defense Against Undead】 that could surround a crowd and follow the crowd as they walked.

"How do you feel?"

Before preparing to set off, Miss Aurora specifically asked about Xia De's situation.

"Not bad."

He held the leaf in his mouth and said vaguely:

"Better than normal state."

Although he had entered the Interstice the day before yesterday, which was Monday, there were a large number of red butterflies dancing around him at that time, and the scene was not scary at all, but rather dreamy.

And at this moment, truly walking by the power of mortals, the Sicar Mountain in the Interstice was even more terrifying than the city in the Interstice. The hideous dead trees in the fog were like bones sticking out from the dead underground, and the souls of various shapes floating in the distance seemed to be about to pounce on the living at the next moment.

Compared to the last time Xia De broke into the Interstice alone, they encountered more attacks this time. The endless dead souls were attracted by the vitality of the living like a tide, and then eliminated by the counterattack strange arts of the Ring Mages.

Even middle-ring mages could not easily eliminate these evil spirits now. The team of more than 20 people, plus the two great witches, actually spent a full six hours in the Interstice before arriving at the cliff where the entrance was hidden.

During this period, even Xia De joined the battle, replacing those female sorceresses who were exhausted from continuous fighting. Although he was only a low-ring, the damage of the 【Night Watcher】 in his hand to the evil spirits was very obvious. Holding an Angel-level relic, he did not appear to be holding back his companions, but instead could join the normal battle on his own.

During these six hours of mountain road, Xia De avoided using moonlight-type strange arts as much as possible and only used the 【Night Watcher】 to fight. The cold weapon fighting techniques inherited by this sword were taught to Xia De in this way. Even if this sword left Xia De after the Mid-Hill Fort major event ended, he had already benefited a lot from the sword.

"Aren't you tired?"

After all, this house was simply too big.

"Meow~"

"Are you sure you're okay? When you charged forward just now, you were even more enthusiastic than my followers."

"Of course I'm fine. Oh, some time ago, Sister Daifulin gave me help, letting the phoenix's flames burn my body, thereby improving my physical fitness."

Xia De answered, and Miss Aurora was even more puzzled:

"Being burned by the phoenix's flames, does it have this effect?"

"Doesn't it? That's what the stories say."

"The stories also say that bathing in dragon blood can make you stronger."

The witch said what Luweiya had once said, looking Xia De up and down, and joked:

"However, having better physical strength is not a bad thing."