Whispering Poems

Chapter 2611: Druids in the Snow Forest
Hearing "her" reminder, Shad's right hand quickly cut off a piece of the baron's flesh, letting the blood flow through his transparent body and spill onto the table. He loosened his hand to prevent himself from being cursed, and then watched the baron completely disappear before his eyes.

"Her" voice continues:
[The time curse will befall you in the form of "the time key will be deactivated for one week."]

[Outsider, you have detected the other party's time curse in the narrow space of time: you cannot touch metals with a gold content of more than 95%, and you will die if you touch them.]

"Let him run away!"

The white mouse in his pocket said, and Shade shook his head:

"He can't get away. I'll go find him now. Also, I know the characteristics of his time curse."

He briefly explained it, and Miss Mouse sighed:

"It seems that the time curse is indeed fair. Although he will be completely normal if you pay attention to him, he will have to be wary of gold for the rest of his life. How are you going to find him? Use the tree hole here?"

Miss Winslet did not stop Shade:

"He just traveled through time without doing anything. You must be careful. There is something strange about this person."

"Do I know to come with me?"

Xia De suddenly asked, and the witch was puzzled:

"Can I? I mean, even though your cat proved it was feasible last time, I thought you would exclude me from the adventure."

Shade smiled:
"Since we're here, let's go together. But before we go looking for that increasingly interesting baron, isn't it more important to take a look at this first?"

He pointed to the box on the table that Baron Cumming had dug out from outside the city. It was a metal box. According to Miss Bell, the box was wrapped in waterproof oilcloth when it was dug out, so the degree of rust was not very high.

The box itself had no lock, so Xia De opened it after a quick inspection. Inside the metal box was a wooden box, and after opening the wooden box again, he found a glass bottle with bright green potion inside.

"what is this?"

Of course, Shade would not rashly open a bottle of unknown potion without caution, and Miss Winslet certainly could not identify what the potion was based on its color alone. She did not have the wisdom of the great witch Megan/Audrey, and her age was not enough for her to accumulate experience like Cassandra:
"Let's catch up first. The Baron obviously knows more than we do."

"Opening the Forest Door: Our Animal Companions" was still in the drawer of James Cumming's room. After Shad found the book, he was ready to set off:
"May the World Tree protect us in infinite time."

Click~
The key was inserted into the door drawn on the cover of the book.

[Stranger, you opened a "twisted tree hole." ]

[Tips from the Father of Infinite Tree:]

[Using the normal time key to open the door will connect to the following time point: 1802 of the sixth era of the present world. ]

[Note that any life other than you who uses this channel will be cursed by time.]

[Note: You can enter the past 40 minutes through this abnormal channel. After the time is up, you must return through this channel.]

[Note: After using the key to open the door twice, the passage will completely collapse.]

Because the last time the "Paradox Worm" was defeated, the twenty minutes time was extended to forty minutes. After confirming this information, Shade clenched the mouse doll in his hand, and then "pulled" open the door on the book cover.

The scene of the aristocratic young man's room in 1854 was quickly replaced by the scene of a strange girl's boudoir in the classical era, but Shad, who was always ready to cast a spell to stop time, did not see anyone in the room.

When the scene in front of him was completely solid, he immediately looked at the clean desk beside him. With a flick of his finger, all the unlocked drawers opened, so Shade reached out to open the locked drawer, and then saw the book "Opening the Forest Door: Our Animal Companions" which belonged to this era.

"It is indeed here."

The mouse doll in her right hand was quickly transformed back into a real mouse and then into an owl. She was careful not to change back into human form:

"I don't feel my curse getting worse. It seems that this method of smuggling is indeed feasible. Your Transfiguration is indeed not just a simple Transfiguration."

She said this, flapping her wings to the windowsill and looking outside:

"In 1802, Riverwood was still Riverwood. Is there a way to find Baron Cumming? Or I can find a way."

"Of course there is a way."

Shade stuffed the book into his pocket, then took out the blood of Baron Cumming that he had just collected:
"Blood Echo!"

Blood Echo can see the "echoes" left by the blood owner within 24 hours, but this requires Shade to know where the other party has been active.

In fact, Shad was not sure whether Baron Cumming arrived in 1802 at the same time as himself, but the town of Creekwood in this era was not big, and Shad thought that he could find out the answer by flying over the town.

In fact, he didn't need to do that at all, because the bloody afterimage had already appeared in the space as soon as the magic was activated.

"I saw it. Interesting. I couldn't see the Baron come in, only leave. He appeared directly here."

"Come on, I'll take you flying."

"Miss Owl" said while looking outside. It was the first month of 1802 and outside was a town covered in snow.

The owl was flying high in the sky holding the cat. The cat, with the clerical-level relic [Eye of the Crow], one of the "Seven Rings of Mia" strung on its tail, could clearly see the series of continuous red shadows on the ground even at high altitude.

Baron Cumming had arrived at this point in time less than half an hour earlier than the other two, but the owl was unable to see Baron Cumming until it chased him out of the town.

So the two had to continue going deeper into the woods. Fortunately, the owl flew very fast. At the eleventh minute after arriving at this time and space, they finally saw Baron Cumming kneeling in the snow in a small open space in the woods.

The wound on his shoulder had been bandaged simply, but his autumn clothes were obviously not suitable for this midwinter season. He knelt in the snow, shivering, his head and shoulders were covered with snow, but he remained motionless.

The shadow of an owl brushed past him as it flew overhead, and then a silver cat dropped from the sky, only to change into human form before crashing into the snow.

His shoes sank into the snow. Shade stood beside the open space and looked at the kneeling Baron. He raised his hand and stroked the owl that had landed on his shoulder from the sky. He shook his head in disappointment.
"If we just let this gentleman act as bait, isn't this trap a little too obvious?"

Seeing that there was still no response after he finished speaking, the owl flapped its wings violently, and a howling wind blew through the winter forest. The wind blew away the snow on the open space, revealing the ritual formation with Baron Cumming as the center.

Only then did the rustling sound of boots crushing the snow begin to appear around, and six robed warlocks walked out from their hiding place in the forest.

They were all dressed the same, wearing monotonous linen robes and cloth shoes that didn't look warm and didn't fit in with the season. The highest level among them was a tenth ring, and among the remaining five, one was a low-level fourth ring, and the rest were middle rings.

Seeing their attire, Shade was about to speak, but the six people all moved quickly. Each of them touched the snow-covered trees beside them, and the green light from the forest enveloped them. Except for the low-level warlock, the other five people all transformed into animals.

A gray brown bear, a huge tiger, an eagle whose wingspan was probably taller than Shad was, and a coiled patterned python.

The high-ring warlock's transformation was into an enormous alien creature called "Owlbear" with an "owl's head" and a "bear's body". The creature was completely snow-white, and its strong body, combined with the warlock's spellcasting ability, made him definitely more than just a ten-ring warlock at this time.

The low-ring warlock who had not transformed was a short-haired woman. She led the shivering Baron Cumming to retreat, while the five animals surrounded Shad in the snow.

In animal form, they were still able to summon life rings, and at this time various amplifying magics were shared and spread among each other. In addition, the forest itself seemed to be able to strengthen them. The animals formed by the five people looked very powerful.

Until now, Shade had never revealed any magic that had obvious traces of "God Summoner" in front of Miss Winslet, so naturally he would not summon the Moonlight Greatsword at this time.

As soon as he raised his hand, a blazing fireball appeared in his hand. But he immediately changed his mind, clenched his palm and extinguished the flame, then took a deep breath and used the spell, the power of the red dragon.

Shade originally thought that after absorbing the divinity of the "Dragon Devourer", this spell would be sublimated into a magic, but in fact it did not. It was just that Sister Defulin experienced the "violent" nature of the First Fire some time ago, and the flame she shared with Shade made this spell undergo a new change.

As the spell was cast, his body temperature suddenly rose, startling the owl on his shoulder and causing it to turn its head and look at him.

The originally dormant primordial fire seemed to ignite the blood in the whole body. Although the skin only turned slightly red, the rising body temperature as the strength increased not only made "Miss Owl" tremble like a sieve, but also made the five ring magicians who used transfiguration instinctively feel the danger.

The phantom of the red dragon flashed behind Shade, and the rising body temperature even melted the snow under his feet. Then the three-meter-tall owl bear transformed by the high-level warlock came to Shade first, and seeing that Shade did not intend to use magic, it did not use magic either.

The two used pure physical collision. Shade's punch produced a sonic boom like a bomb explosion, followed by a loud bang like a dragon's roar, and the snow-white owlbear flew backwards like a cannonball.

Even after experiencing such a burst of power, "Miss Owl" standing on Shade's shoulder did not feel his body shaking under the collision of power. The reason why he could achieve such an exaggerated and overwhelming power advantage was not only because of his own strength, the power of the earth and the power of the red dragon, but also because it was winter at this moment.

Winter blesses the stranger.

PS: The picture in this chapter is "Owl Bear in the Snow".

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