Feeling his own emotions, Xia De lowered his head slightly, and then covered his face with his hands. As the curled-up stone wings appeared behind him, Xia De turned into a statue of an angel with his face covered.
Miss Chloe Yin looked at him worriedly from the entrance of the tent. It took her a long time before she closed the tent again, leaving Shad standing alone in the snowstorm outside the tent.
Although Shade couldn't move in the "Calm Stance" state, his perception other than vision was still normal. He knew he didn't have to wait too long, and he heard the sound of shoes stepping on the snow.
The sound was getting closer and closer, and Shade also sensed traces of malicious blasphemy and whispering elements.
He couldn't see the object, but "she" could observe:
A black shadow that looks like the witch Chloe Yin, formed by thick black. It can be confirmed that it is a monster formed by the accumulation of strong death power. Of course, this kind of death is far less powerful than the real death.
"That's good."
The Shadow of Death did not notice the angel statue standing outside the tent, which was mostly covered by snow. It approached the tent as before. Its true form was Miss Chloe Yin in black, but its disguised image was no longer Witch Wanda, but Mrs. Marquez's master, the lost Witch Provence.
Without Shad in the tent, Miss Chloe Yin's voice trembled again. She tried to drive away the monster with words and threats as before, but without Shad by her side, this action was not smooth.
The young witch's condition was very strange. Her trembling voice sounded as if she had encountered an unfavourable fear. Shad even thought that he had not lost his composure like this when he faced the fear itself in the Dreadfort in the autumn.
“Is the effect of absorbing positive emotions so strong?”
The statue-like Xia De had confirmed the enemy's posture and position through communication with "her". When Miss Chloe Yin asked the black shadow to leave for the last time, Xia De put down his arm that was covering his cheek:
"Moonlight Slash!"
Without holding back at all, Xia De used his strongest posture and transformed himself into a silver moonlight, piercing through the black shadow whose appearance he could not see clearly.
He passed through the center of the shadow, but the coordinated attack from Miss Chloe Yin in the tent that he had expected did not occur.
The shadow of death immediately entangled the panting Shade. The power of death eroded his body and soul, but it had no effect. Shade, who had returned from death twice, was not afraid of this power at all:
"Miss Chloe Yin!"
He was tightly entangled by Miss Chloe Yin, who looked like a black shadow of death. She clung to Shade like a spider, and they both fell into the snow. Although it looked like the black shadow was controlling Shade in the snowstorm, it could also be said that Shade was controlling the other person.
“Come and help!”
Xia De called out Miss Chloe Yin's name loudly, hoping that the witch in the tent would come out as soon as possible. Because he opened his mouth too wide, he even swallowed a mouthful of flying snow.
The voice came into the tent through the blizzard, and it was obvious that the witch was in an abnormal mood. The shivering witch looked at the exit of the tent in front of her, her body stiff and unable to move.
"Meow~"
It was not until she heard the urgent cry of Shade's cat that her body, which had been stiffened by the fear of death, seemed to regain some temperature. The sun fire given by Shade warmed her soul, and she finally reached out and opened the tent, holding the cat and coming to the blizzard of the Silver Mountains.
Eleven dim golden steps appeared behind her in the snowstorm. However, they were different from any golden steps of any witch Shade had seen before. Not only were they dim in color, but they were also transparent and almost looked like fragile glass.
The witch immediately saw Shade lying on the snow, "fighting" with a black figure that looked exactly like her. Holding the cat in one hand, using Mia as the medium for the spell, Shade performed a witch's secret technique that she had never seen before:
"Thousand Cats Curse!"
“Meow~” “Meow~” “Meow~” “Meow~”… ...
Thousands of cats' cries appeared simultaneously in the cold snowstorm. Then, cats of different kinds, including white, black, spotted, orange, etc., rushed towards the black shadow together.
With the help of the cats, Shade finally broke free. The witch shouted:
"Quick, attack now!"
"The cats..."
"They are all virtual summons!"
“Thunder gun!”
As the silver lightning exploded in his hand, the lightning extended in both directions with the palm as the center. Xia De threw the silver-white lightning spear at the cats that were still biting, and at the same time, Miss Chloe Yin also snapped her fingers:
“Pah~”
As the voice fell, there was a loud bang, and the group of cats exploded.
"Meow~"
Frightened, Little Mia broke free from Miss Chloe Yin's embrace, but she did not sink deeply into the snow, but lightly stepped on the snow and ran to Xia De's feet. She didn't even need Xia De to hold her, but grabbed his pants with her claws and climbed directly to his chest, and then took the initiative to get into his coat.
"It looks like it's been resolved... That's why I didn't let you come with me this time."
Xia De smiled and patted his chest, and Xiaomia indeed moved a little.
As the sound of the exploding cats continued to spread, a dull sound came from the snowy mountains. Miss Chloe Yin pulled Shade's arm and pointed to the peak of the mountain in the distance.
The mountain at the top seemed to be collapsing, peeling off layer by layer with a muffled sound. Xia De then realized what was happening:
"avalanche?"
The power of nature was not something that a fourth-ring warlock like him could stop. But fortunately, the avalanche was stopped before he even had time to feel the impending disaster.
A few hundred steps away from them, on the top of the mountain ridge, the barefoot god holding a staff appeared again. The ancient winter god raised his long staff high, and the avalanche disappeared. The collapsed snow and ice returned to their original positions as if time had gone backwards.
Just like last time, the god just helped them. After a snowflake covered Shad's eyes and flew away, the god disappeared.
"Oh, I am really out of my mind. I dare to use such a secret technique."
Miss Chloe Yin covered her forehead and groaned softly. Xia De breathed a sigh of relief. He was also frightened by the avalanche just now:
"I'm glad you're alright. Let's go check if the black shadow has really been eliminated."
The lightning gun and the exploding cats blew a deep hole in the snow, and there were even wisps of green smoke rising from the deep snow layer.
Ms. Chloe Yin and Shade went down to the deep pit after the explosion to check the situation. There was almost nothing left in the snow pit exposed on the ground. But after a careful search, Ms. Chloe Yin still found some black granular substances.
While she was checking and collecting the black granular substances, Xia De, who was very interested in the heating of the snow, reached out and touched the snow that was emitting green smoke.
"She" whispered softly in Shade's ear:
Outsider, you have obtained the "Witch's Echo: Chloyin".
"What?"
For a moment, Shade felt that "she" was joking. But the reverberations collected by the Echo Spirit Rune, and the unique knowledge and power contained in the reverberations, did flow into Shade's soul.
"But, unless the witch left it behind on purpose, can't it only be found at the place where the witch with the right to vote died?"
He straightened up and looked at Miss Chloe Yin beside him with wide eyes. The latter noticed Xia De's gaze and said embarrassedly:
"Shall we go back to the tent now? I have collected almost everything here. These black particles are very interesting."
"Okay, go back now."
Xia De nodded, then took the initiative to hold the hand of the short young witch with long silver hair and red eyes. The latter blushed slightly but did not struggle.
She is indeed a living, normal witch, and the one you just defeated was definitely not a living person.
"Then why did we touch the reverberation at the place where the black shadow died... And Miss Chloe Yin is only at the eleventh level, how could she have the right to vote?"
The latter question is the key. Miss Feliana and Miss Violet have already proved that as long as the witch is strong enough, the "reverberation" does not have to be left behind when she dies. However, the point of "having the right to vote in the Witch Council" cannot be avoided in any way, otherwise the reverberation obtained by Shade will not be able to increase his voting rights.
Miss Carina once mentioned very clearly that even though history was lost in the change of eras, she was very sure that all the official members of the Witch Council in the Fifth Era were of rank 13. Even if there were not enough 13 witches of rank 13 at a certain time, the Council would rather leave the seats vacant than allow witches of insufficient rank to fill the gap.
Therefore, Miss Kloyin, who is at the eleventh level, is actually qualified to leave a reverberation. This doesn't make sense no matter how you think about it.
With great doubts, the two returned to the tent again. Mrs. Marquez welcomed them softly, but the timid man still said nothing.
"So, how did this happen..."
"You guys take a short rest, we'll set off again soon."
The witch, whose hand was held by Shade, gave instructions to her two companions. Shade also began to move out the supplies he had prepared. Mrs. Marquez was going to make vegetable soup again.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, this time adventure seems to be wrong everywhere. Not to mention the god who never approaches, even among the three human companions, Miss Chloe Yin's mental state when facing the black shadow just now was obviously not right, and the remaining two people have a very low sense of existence.
In past adventures, even ordinary people were equal to witches in Shade's memory and perception. But this time, he subconsciously forgot and ignored Mrs. Marquez and the man, and after returning to his own time and space, he didn't even mention these two people to anyone.
Thinking about it more carefully, it was incredible that these two ordinary people could walk here in such an extremely cold environment and lack of food. They were extremely taciturn. Xia De's impression of them was just "boiling soup and women" and "silent men". He didn't remember them doing anything else.
Compared with the 'Witch Resonance - Academy Founder Feliana' and 'Witch Resonance - Witch Emperor Violet' you have obtained before, this resonance is not complete. The Witch Resonance is your Echo Spirit Rune, which absorbs the traces of the existence of a powerful witch or the traces left behind by the witch after the vibration with time and space, but this time, you only obtained part of the knowledge.
"There are more and more questions about this journey."