The blizzard was howling outside the tent. Even though it had eliminated the shadow of death, it would not stop the blizzard in the Silver Mountains.
The howling sound of the wind was so terrifying. Xia De looked up at the other three people in the tent. It seemed that there was a strange shadow on everyone's face.
He turned Little Mia, who might have been frightened by the wind, back into a toy. He calculated that he still had two or three minutes to go back, and hesitantly asked Miss Chloe Yin:
"Is there anything I need to prepare for you next time I come?"
The witch thought about it and did not reject Shade this time:
"Prepare whatever you want. We have only one last leg to go. The next time you see us, we'll probably be preparing to climb the highest peak."
"Okay, I'll try to prepare."
Xia De nodded, still holding Miss Chloe Yin's hand, and the latter seemed not to notice this and did not struggle.
Whether it was "her" or Shade's own perception, it proved that Miss Chloe Yin was indeed alive.
He confirmed once again that he had obtained the third "Witch's Reverberation", and then discovered that the knowledge contained in this Reverberation was extremely small.
If Xia De wants to investigate Miss Chloe Yin's physical condition in more detail, he will have to have more in-depth contact. Xia De has no such plan at the moment, but there is undoubtedly something wrong with the three people who are preparing to climb the snow mountain.
He planned to return to the Sixth Epoch and then try to find information to solve this problem. Miss Chloe Yin saw that Xia De was looking at her all the time, and she unnaturally lifted the hair by her ear:
"Will you never show up again once we reach the top of the mountain?"
Xia De nodded, and the witch pursed her lips:
"So what about later? Will you come to see me again?"
"I'm not sure."
Shade gave the answer, and Miss Chloe Yin looked up at him:
"I don't know who you are or where you come from, but... you are a really good man."
A faint smile appeared on her face:
"You said you were the lover of a certain witch. If you have time next time, tell me the story between you and her."
There was some unnatural sadness in his tone:
"What a lucky witch that is."
At this time, Xia De was still thinking about the third part of the Witch's Reverberation. For a moment, he didn't know how to respond to Miss Chloe Yin's words, so he asked:
"I remember you said that there were nineteen of you when you entered the Silver Mountains. Do you remember the identities of the others? Are there any of them who are related to the god who helped us?"
Miss Chloë Yin was silent for a moment:
"My memory is already very confused. I only remember the faces and identities of twelve of them. In addition to Mrs. Marquez, there was also an ordinary person who was also a servant of the witch, but not a devout believer of that god."
This is indeed a fairly large team. Even Miss Violet, who lived more than 4,000 years later, only brought her distant niece and six personal maids.
"In other words, including this gentleman in the corner who you met later, you actually only remember thirteen people including yourself?"
Xia De was sure that Miss Cloyne did not want to recall her dead companions, so she just nodded silently. Mrs. Marquez gave her the answer:
"Yes. But now we need to add you, so there are fourteen of us."
Xia De smiled and nodded at the lady who was cooking vegetable soup, and then he had his own ideas in mind. So he asked again:
"Ms. Chloe Yin, when you faced that shadow of death just now... were you a little emotional?"
He had just been fighting with the shadow at close range, and he actually didn't feel his positive emotions being absorbed. He just felt that the other party seemed to be a mixture of death and fear. Shade's knowledge was not enough for him to understand what that was.
"It seemed like it was targeting me. Once I got close to it, I felt like I was facing death."
The short witch bit her lip and said:
"The environment here is trying to drive me crazy. If you hadn't shown up in time, we wouldn't have had any hope of reaching the top of the mountains."
"No, even if I don't show up, you still have a chance. This is not only because the god is still watching over you, but also because I can see that you are not a girl who will give up easily."
Xia De lowered his head slightly and looked at her:
"Ms. Chloe Yin, please keep climbing. The mountain is there, waiting for us to conquer it. Please believe this, believe that you who are lost here will eventually reach the end."
The witch pursed her lips and looked at him, then nodded slightly and stretched out her hand to him. The golden flame of the sun's fire was now floating in her palm:
"I swear to the sun that I will climb to the top of the mountains, to the highest point in the material world."
At this time, the white fog had already wrapped around Shad's body. The forty-minute adventure had come to an end again, and it was time for him to go back.
"Anyway, please be safe, I will come back again."
"I know."
Miss Chloe Yin hesitated for a moment, took the initiative to reach out and hugged Xia De, but then gently pushed him:
"Really, if I can't let you stay, why would I let me meet a man like you?"
She grumbled softly, watching him disappear in front of her.
(Little Mia is running...)
The year 1853 of the Sixth Era, the living room of room 1 on the second floor at number 6, Saint Teresa’s Square.
Stranger, you have returned to the present time.
Xia De stumbled out of the bedroom door.
"Why is there still a remnant of the witch?"
He still couldn't figure it out, but he still remembered jogging to the fireplace and trying to get heat from it.
"Could it be that the black shadow we encountered was her soul who had died in the future?"
Impossible, you didn't defeat a spirit.
"So, I know that Treefather's mission will definitely not be easy."
In front of the fireplace, he turned Little Mia back into a cat. The orange cat didn't seem to feel cold, and after turning back, it still meowed to express its dissatisfaction to Shad. At this time, Dorothy, who was getting ready to get up, came out of the bedroom. Last week, when Leisia saw that Shad was about to be frozen to death, she used her body temperature to warm him up, but a real writer would not do this. She walked quickly to the kitchen to prepare hot tea for Shad.
Dorothy and Shade had breakfast together and left. Shade took advantage of the free time in the morning and took a carriage to Miss Carina's manor outside the city. But because he didn't make an appointment in advance, the witch and Tifa were not there, so Shade left a letter and returned to the city.
However, at around 11 o'clock in the morning that day, there was a sudden loud bang in the west of the city, and a loud explosion occurred. The sound could even be heard in St. Teresa's Square.
Shad had already returned home by then, and he guessed that this was related to the ring wizards again, and there would be an additional news about a gas pipeline explosion in tomorrow's newspaper.
Although Sir Shad and Sir Prisher had agreed to meet at St. Teresa's Square at 3 p.m., Miss Danister arrived at St. Teresa's Square at 1:30 p.m. that day.
The sound of a bell coming from downstairs made Xia De mistakenly believe that a client had arrived. When he opened the door, he saw that the thirteen-ring sorceress was standing outside.
She was wearing a long black dress, with a lace-edged hat with beautiful yellow flowers on it, her long red hair was braided in a complicated pattern and hung down behind her head, she wore a pair of small gold-rimmed glasses, and she was holding a very beautiful plaid-patterned women's bag in her hand.
Compared to the strongest sorceress of the human race in the material world, she looks more like an intellectual and elegant female university professor:
"Good afternoon, Mr. Hamilton."
She greeted Xia De with a smile, then looked up at the house with emotion:
"Is this the famous haunted house in Tobesk? How interesting."
"Every ring sorcerer who has heard of the reputation of this place will sigh like this."
Shade replied, making way for Miss Danister at the door to come in. This lady was by far the strongest ring mage Shade had ever received in his home, and he even thought about letting Miss Danister tour the house if he had time to make sure there were no problems with other parts of his home.
Miss Danister had not been to Tobesk for many years because of the Orthodox Church and her duties. But she told Shade that when she was a student at St. Byron's, she had visited here for summer off-campus activities, but the three correspondence groups at Tobesk at that time had nothing to do with the three now.
She put her small bag aside, holding the cup of tea handed to her by Xia De and curiously observing the living room on the second floor:
"Your place is really nice. I always thought that the living environment of men living alone would be very chaotic."
Xia De held Xiaomia in his arms and sat on the sofa. He hesitated for a moment before saying:
"Someone helps me clean the house regularly... Miss Danister, you must know Mr. Shelf Tim and Miss Shana Aya, right?"
These are the two ring warlocks when the Doctor enters the group.
The sorceress withdrew her gaze from the surroundings, holding the teacup, and resting her weight on her left arm, which was placed on the soft armrest on the side of the sofa. She raised her eyebrows in surprise:
"You actually know these two names. No, please don't ask about this matter. It involves something very scary. Your team leader Bill Schneider was suspected of having problems because of that incident."
Xia De nodded and stopped asking questions. Instead, he pointed to the kitchen behind him and said:
"You can see the Yodel Palace from this window. If this wasn't a haunted house, I don't think my uncle, Mr. Sparrow Hamilton, would have been able to buy it so easily."
"Yes, the location here is quite good. You can live here for a few years, and when your group plans to leave for the college, this house will definitely sell for a lot of money. Oh, in fact, you can also sell it to the college, the college also needs such a popular house. I just need to make some arrangements to make this an asset of the library management college, and when you inherit my position, this house can naturally be registered in your name."
She talked about the academy, put down her teacup, and took out a box that was at least four times the size of her handbag from her small handbag:
"I almost forgot what you wanted."
The sorceress smiled.
Xia De opened the box, and inside was indeed the last stone tablet, with topaz wrapped around the four corners. He tried hard to control his smile, and now he only needed to unlock the Red Moon Spirit Rune, and the mystery of time would unfold before him.
In front of Miss Danister, he did not use the Yellow Moon Spirit Rune to illuminate the slate, but put it away. After thanking Miss Danister again, he talked about the recent news of Tobesk.
Although the librarian came to the local area mainly for the Silver Moon Library, her real duty was the affairs of the Chosen Ones, so she was happy to get some information from Shade. In addition to Shade telling Miss Danister about local affairs, the lady also talked to Shade about St. Byrons, the amazing academy city in the far north, the stories between the various departments, the history of the library and the affairs of the librarians.
It was then that Xia De realized that most of the librarians in Saint Byrons could reach the twelfth or even thirteenth ring. This position had been passed down for two eras and was powerful in itself. With this status, one would gain extra inspiration and wisdom when studying and conducting academic exchanges within Saint Byrons.
This was a convenience left for future generations by Miss Felina and the original librarian when the library was first established.
Seeing that the time was about to reach three o'clock, Shade, who had just finished chatting with Miss Danister about the current weather in the Far North, suddenly said:
"Speaking of which, I opened another time key a few days ago, but I haven't had time to write an investigation report. I went to the year 903 of the Fifth Epoch, and saw a witch named Chloe Yin, who was climbing a snowy mountain. I have never heard of this witch's name, and I didn't find anything when I looked it up. Miss Danister, may I ask if this is a famous person?"
The sorceress pointed her slender finger at her chin and tilted her head slightly to ask:
"The name Chloe Yin is common in northern civilizations in the early Fifth Epoch. Do you know the full name? It's not a very rare name."
Xia De shook his head slightly, and then he realized that he had not asked Miss Chloe Yin's full name:
"I don't know her name, but I can describe her appearance. She was not very tall, and looked to be about 17 or 18 years old in 903 of the Fifth Era. She had long silver-white hair, which was very rare, and her eyes were scarlet."
"During the time investigation process, most of the truth will be covered by fog, but you can see it so clearly."
Miss Danister teased, but did not go into details:
"It's hard to tell who she is based on these alone. If you know what great things she did, it would be easier to find her in the few existing records from the early Fifth Epoch. But you also understand that the older the historical records, the more incomplete they are. I don't think it's possible for you to find any information about Miss Chloe Yin."
She sighed softly:
"Time investigation is like this, filling in the gaps and supplementing completely incomplete history. Perhaps in the distant past, they were people who were able to influence an entire era. But for us in the Sixth Epoch, they are long gone, and their names represent only a piece of history, a few lines of text, and a story that has long ended."