OBS Chapter 2992 The Man Who Became a Tree
Chapter 2992 The Man Who Became a Tree
Chapter 2992 The Man Who Became a Tree
The core rune of the "Moon Sorcerer" contained the same [Silver Moon] rune as Shade's. When the gray-green light spread to her life ring, a new rune of blasphemy [Death] appeared. At the same time, the miracle rune she had already mastered - [Life], automatically flashed a more dazzling light.
Her long black hair fluttered behind her as her whole body glowed, and Shade felt like she was truly communicating with the tree at that moment, and the process lasted for a very long time.
At the same time, the gray-green light rising from the point where the tree trunk touched the palm began to spread to the entire trunk.
Downward, it lit up the roots of the tree underground. The spiritual light penetrated the soil and allowed Shade to clearly see the distribution of the roots of this giant tree underground. The spread area of the roots was even larger than the crown of the tree.
Upwards, it lit up the treetops above their heads, and the gray-green light flowed along each branch of the tree toward the distance, until the tops of their heads were completely transformed into a gray-green sea of light dotted like the starry sky.
The only things that were not lit up were the "corpses". Of course, Shade was also glad that they did not glow.
In the end, the light even spread to Shade through the hands held by the two. However, Shade did not have the time curse, and he did not have a deep relationship with the tree, so -
[Outlander, you have been cursed by the "Cursed Tree".]
"what?"
[Because of its own "Nature Affinity" characteristic, it is automatically exempted from all effects of this curse. 】
The rain was getting heavier, and at 7:10 pm, the lady finally opened her eyes again. When her hand left the tree trunk, the light above her head and under her feet gradually disappeared.
She turned her head and met Xia De's gaze:
"No problem. You just need to find this tree again in 1854, and it will give Anthony Winslet to you. But this time, you will get Anthony Winslet whose time curse still exists."
"This is a small matter. It's easy to talk about it while the person is still alive. What is the content of his time curse?"
“You can’t have sex with women.”
Xia De was stunned for a moment:
"I see. I remember the content of the time curse, which is related to the purpose of traveling through time and one's own characteristics. Didn't Flora's uncle travel through time to find his childhood friend? How could it be... Could it be that his uncle is..."
Nearly two hours of communicating with the tree certainly gave her more than just strength and the tree's promise. Shade guessed that the tree shared with her more secrets about the "Cursed Tree", but they didn't need to stay in the rain to talk.
Shade turned into a cat again, and was carried back to the city by the sorceress. She also had a place to live in the city, but it was not the Accordion Hotel, but a three-story apartment in the old town in the north of the city.
The apartment was a little shabby, but when he sat down on the sofa in the dry living room, listening to the sound of rain and looking at the gas lamps illuminating the surroundings, Xia De felt that it was still very warm here.
"I saw something."
The black-haired lady who prepared tea for him said softly, her eyes looking into the void in front of her:
"That tree absorbed the power of the Curse of Time, and it will eventually become food for the Paradox Worms. Countless worm eggs will cling to the tree when it reaches its limit, and then drain it completely."
"Then the tree can re-extract the curse from the cursed?"
"No, the Cursed Tree cannot be reused. The Paradox Worms are evil creatures that eat the World Tree. The trees eaten by them will never survive. A new Cursed Tree will appear. I saw the memory of that tree before its death."
Seeing Xia De's worried expression as he held the teacup, she smiled gently and shook her head:
"I know what you are worried about. It is not what you think. This evil creature was not born from a cursed person like me. Otherwise, we would have to gamble and see how long it would take for a similar curse to appear.
They were deliberately cultivated, so they can bear the responsibility of absorbing the curse and raising insects. Their bloodline has been cultivated since before they were born, and even since the time of their ancestors, the power has been preparing for their birth. Only in this way can we ensure that all processes will never go wrong. "
"I was indeed worried just now that someone was deliberately training you to become a cursed tree."
Xia De said worriedly while holding the teacup. The sorceress smiled gently:
"Shade, in your eyes, are the thirteen-ring sorcerers of our time so weak? Don't worry, the memory in the tree has told me that each tree will work for exactly three hundred years, and each tree will be cultivated from his family.
His ancestors and his descendants would select a person to become a new tree every three hundred years. Yes, your guess was correct this time."
She whispered the final answer:
“Bennett.
The tree we saw is the ancestor of the Bennet family that you mentioned more than 200 years ago, and now its 300 years have come to an end. According to its calculations, it will be eaten by paradox bugs in about 30 to 40 years, and then some of its surviving descendants will become new big trees. "
"who is it?"
Xia De asked, and this question was also answered:
"For a mortal's body and soul to transform into a 'Cursed Tree', not only does it require the power of an ancient being, but it also requires one to be exposed to enough time curses. The masked man in the Time Transfer Station is the next 'Cursed Tree'.
This requires a ritual, and the ritual materials are the bones of the 'masked men' of the past three hundred years, that is, the ancestors of Bennet. When the chosen person completes the ritual with the bones under the old tree, he will be able to sublimate from human form into an evil creature. "
Xia De leaned back slightly on the sofa. The cheap furniture was not very comfortable, but he was more concerned about the truth he had learned. The faint hot air floated out of the teacup in his hand, and he seemed to see the reincarnation of the past thousand years in the smoke:
"So, the Bennet family not only has to gather information about the city for the ancient one, but also has to operate a time transfer station to cultivate paradox bugs. They even have to sacrifice one person every three hundred years to become an evil creature to absorb the curse. This family is really being used from head to toe."
Helena Carter nodded slightly;
“And every time transfer station owner is the head of the family and the person who knows the family secrets best. The Bennet family’s secrets will not be told to all family members. They actually lived in the local area before the emergence of Riverwood Town.
At first, he was a hunter in the forest, then a farmer in a small village. In the era of Creekwood Town, he went from being an ordinary town dweller to a noble. In the era of Vista City today, he is a famous local businessman. "
"So, the masked man from my time was actually Thomas Bennett?"
"Yes, I remember seeing Anthony Winslet, the man you were looking for, being hung by the vines on the tree after he saw this tree. Then a young man appeared and took the worms out of Winslet's body. This is what he looked like."
The sorceress casually wiped the magic, and the illusion created a person's appearance. It was indeed Thomas Bennet in his youth. Calculating the time, it was 1821, and he should have just taken over the job of the transfer station, or just run errands for his father.
This answer was also something Xia De had guessed a long time ago, but now that he had obtained the final proof, he could make plans later:
"So what's the information about the time transfer station and the tree's memory? I know it's a tree hole, so what is that tree?"
But this time the sorceress shook her head:
"It has been rooted there for more than two hundred years. Time has worn away its emotions, and the curse has worn away its memories. Most of its remaining memories are related to its family and the tree itself. As for the time transfer station, the only memory fragments it has left are some stories about traveling through time. For love, for relatives, for inseparable feelings, those stories are very messy, and most people who go to the transfer station want to regain something.
You told me that the Masked Man is very strong in the Time Transit Station. If you want to defeat him, fight him outside the Transit Station."
In addition to the information she had obtained from the tree's numb soul, she also shared with Shad more information about the "Cursed Tree" itself. The power of the tree, the characteristics of the tree, the biological characteristics of the tree, and the possible mutations of the tree were very similar to the knowledge shared by Adele, but the power of these trees that had been carefully cultivated since the ancestral era was ultimately not as strong as the tree Shad had seen at the end of the world.
The night gradually became darker, and the conversation in the apartment continued until very late. Shade even thought about staying tonight to rest and leaving tomorrow, but when the midnight bell came from the direction of the Golden Music Hall which was still under construction, the sorceress took the initiative to "drive" him away:
"Don't stay in this era too long, go back."
She took out a notebook from her pocket and cut off a finger-length lock of hair from the end of her hair. The black hair was tied with a red string and placed in the notebook and handed to Shade, which was used to call her projection in 1854.
Although she is not a witch, the hair of the ordinary ring warlock still has important symbolic meaning.
"I'll wait for you to call me, Shad."
Xia De looked at her across the coffee table. He actually had a lot to say, but holding the notebook and the lock of hair, he found that he couldn't say anything.
She knew her future and her ending, and he promised her that he would not change what was bound to happen. Her story with him ended in 1821 and had not yet begun in 1854.
The time transfer station must not continue to exist, and Shade would not use the power of the twisted tree hole if he could. Therefore, although the separation at this time can still lead to the next reunion in the projection, the real contact is likely to be only this last time.