Whispering Poems

Chapter 2656 Containment
The force of time reversal seemed to be pushing Iluna back. No matter how bright the light of the dark golden scale in her hand was, she couldn't stop the power of time. Fortunately, before she was forced to be "pushed" out of the performance hall, a hand pressed her shoulder from behind, and all the anomalies from time disappeared instantly.

Iluna turned around and saw that it was indeed Shade behind her:

"Okay, I admit there was a little mishap. Your eyebrows are really nice."

Xia De looked at the situation on the stage and couldn't help but sigh:

"Don't be ridiculous. How did this place become like this? All the people in the entire corridor outside disappeared. Is the negative effect of this relic spreading so quickly?"

As he said that, he took Iluna's hand and pulled her behind him. The girl didn't even hold the scale anymore. She just pulled Shad's clothes with one hand and held the umbilical cord can that Shad handed her with the other hand.

Iluna poked her head out from behind him holding the bottle:
"The result given by the fortune teller of the Prophet Association is wrong. This relic did not appear here by accident. The guy on the stage got it! He fell in love with a local actress, so he used this relic to freeze her time. He just said that he would accompany her until the end of time."

"Time stands still. This is a classic theme. If you can't control your greed and desire and want to possess something, just say it directly. What's the meaning of 'until the end of time'?"

The man who was half-fused with the clock pointed at the two people at the door of the performance hall again, but this time he did not give any orders about time, but instead shot his flesh-and-blood finger directly at them. And what was wrapped in that layer of flesh and blood was not bones, but a metal pointer.

Where the blood-red pointer passed, a thin white line appeared in the air. From that line, gray-white fog was quietly seeping out.

This pointer seemed to be able to pierce through stable time directly. If hit by it, even the crazy man would not know whether he would regress to infancy or turn into a pile of dry bones.

But facing such an attack, Xia De simply raised the black key in his hand. While chanting the spell, the ritual array of the sun, moon and stars appeared under his feet, and then the black staff that "emerged" from his palm clanged and bounced the pointer away.

The blood-red pointer flew diagonally toward a seat nearby and pierced into it, causing the seat to wriggle and turn into a piece of wood covered with sheepskin:
"It turns out it's really a woolen cushion."

As he thought about it, the emerald green light spreading from Shad's palm had already extended to the entire staff. As he thrust the [Staff of Yggdrasil] into the floor tiles, the staff stood upright in the hallway:
"The stability principle of the ancient elves!"

The green glow gushed upwards, and the flickering light actually formed a large tree with a long staff as its trunk, and slowly extended its branches toward the roof.

Then the gray-white mist that had just appeared slowly dissipated, and the time anomaly effect exerted by the relic on the stage was quickly compressed to a range that only covered the stage.

Xia De didn't think that his spell could completely counteract the effect of the relic, so he was very satisfied with the effect of this magic:
"Iluna, how do we contain this relic now?"

"You need a special piece of red velvet cloth that only needs to cover the dial. Just before the keeper sent by the church disappeared, the cloth was thrown in front."

She pointed from behind Shad to a piece of red cloth sticking out from under a chair on the left side of the aisle not far ahead. Shad walked over and picked it up. Iluna followed quickly, while the Staff of Yggdrasil remained in place to maintain the stabilization time.

Xia De hoped that no one would make him pay for the repair costs of the damaged floor afterwards.

The red velvet was quite thick, and it seemed to be made of the fur of a supernatural creature. On the front and back of the velvet, there was a huge sun pattern embroidered in gold thread and a rune representing the "World Tree" embroidered in green thread.

Xia De checked it and walked towards the stage. Iluna immediately said worriedly:

"It's dangerous on stage, be careful."

As the two approached the stage, the green light from the magic almost covered the entire ceiling of the room, but it could not reach the top of the stage. The crazy guy on the stage that was fused with the clock seemed to understand that the area under the stage was already a "safe area", so he did not continue to attack.

Its one eye, which was gradually becoming mechanized, stared at Shade. When Shade tried to lift his leg and step onto the first step under the stage, it actually hugged the clock in front of it with one hand, and then jumped suddenly with its remaining right leg. Half of the person and the clock crashed into Shade like a cannonball.

The time in the room, which had been gradually stabilizing, became abnormal again. Even though Iluna, who was behind Shad, was holding the umbilical cord, for a moment she felt like pulling Shad's clothes and crying like a baby.

Of course, Shad didn't want to come into direct contact with the relic, so he pulled Iluna behind him and stepped back, then appeared next to the Staff of Yggdrasil, causing the clock's "flying" to miss.

The clock hit the steps, and there was a clanging sound of mechanical damage inside. Then the half man picked up the clock again, and the next moment he appeared directly in front of the two of them, and hit Shad's chest again like a cannonball.

This is not a space jump, this is a time jump.

"All of you, disappear!"

The sound coming out of his half-open mouth was almost indistinguishable. Sparks, springs, screws and other small parts kept popping out of his mouth. At the same time, the sunlight gun in Iluna's hand stabbed forward from the side of Shad.

The golden lightning penetrated the lower half of the clock's base, but it did not stop the monster from continuing to charge at the two. The green light on the surface of the long staff was continuously weakening its own time anomaly, and seeing that the other party really dared to follow, Xia De reached out and pulled out the long staff that was stabbed into the ground, and a blood-red light flashed in his eyes.

The emerald green staff thrust forward and then easily pierced through the dial. Although the staff pierced through the wood below the clock dial, the sound of "Puchi" was clearly the sound of flesh being pierced.

The beating heart of flesh hidden in the wood was pierced by the Staff of Y'k'trasil, and then, under the extremely surprised gazes of Shad and Iluna, the heart turned into dust as if it was absorbed by the staff.

"how do you know"

The crazy man used up his last bit of strength to point at Shad.

"Because I have a magical power that allows me to see the modified parts of the human body. Unfortunately, I see that everything on your body is unnatural, but there is a heart shape inside the clock."

This refers to the "Eye of Edwards".

The man exhaled his last breath, and his finger turned into a blood-covered needle and shot towards Shade. But even at such a close distance, it only grazed Shade's cheek and he dodged it. The flying needle passed over the two people and pierced into the wall behind them. As the wall quickly decayed and collapsed, Iluna screamed in surprise and looked at Shade's face:

"Your face is bleeding!"

Xia De raised his hand to wipe his cheek, and indeed saw blood on his fingers. He shook his head indifferently:

"It will heal quickly. I don't look any smaller or older, do I?"

"No no."

Iluna stared at his face and shook her head, but she was also puzzled as to why Shade was not affected by the needle. Even if his resistance was amazing, it was impossible for him to completely resist the effect of the relic.

Xia De didn't think too much about it. He raised his hand and pulled out the long stick that pierced the clock.

Of course, the relic was not so easily destroyed. As the clock hands rotated counterclockwise, half of the body behind the clock was quickly absorbed by it, and the damage to the clock itself was slowly repaired.

A little gray mist floated out from the broken part of the clock. Xia De frowned and was about to hit it again, but he didn't expect that a strange picture appeared in the gray mist.

It was still the performance hall, but the lights were off. A girl in a costume walked in alone with a letter in her hand, but soon after entering, she froze in place like a wax figure.

The man who had just died immediately rushed out from behind the door, with his arms, legs, chest, back and head tied with densely packed fresh branches with green leaves hanging on them.

He was not affected by the relic, but as if he was appreciating some rare treasure, he kept circling around the girl with wide eyes and looking at her. Finally, he even moved a chair in front of the girl, then sat on the chair and stretched his head to look at her.

If it weren't for the rise and fall of his chest when he breathed, Shad would even think that time had stopped for him too.

The scene in the gray fog was accelerating, because many people came here one after another, and then froze in place one after another, making this small hall look like a wax museum.

But none of this disturbed the man's obsessed viewing, until those stilled people, including the original girl, were suddenly swallowed up by the mist and disappeared. The man then stood up in surprise.

He turned around and came to the stage, and kept hitting the clock whose second and minute hands had stopped moving, as if he wanted to fix it. But he didn't notice that gray mist was overflowing from the connection on the clock's surface when he hit it, so with a panicked cry, his hand that was supposed to be on the clock's shell suddenly "penetrated" into the clock's interior, and half of his body was thus integrated with the clock.

The scene disappeared, and seeing that the gray mist was still trying to spread, Shade waved his staff to disperse it. The situation was similar to what Iluna described, but Shade still had questions:

"Did this keeper-level relic have this property before? Will continuous tapping cause humans to merge with it?"

Iluna immediately shook her head:
"It's not mentioned in the containment file from the early Sixth Era. I'm not sure whether this feature has not been discovered before, or whether the disaster of time has spread in the material world, causing changes in time-related relics."

(End of this chapter)