He staggered out of the white mist door backwards, gasping for breath as he looked at the ancient stone door in front of him. The horrible wind of death blowing out of the stone door suddenly sobered Xia De up:
"Oh no! It's almost dawn!"
Without thinking too much, he bent down and picked up his belongings on the ground. After making sure that nothing was dropped, he immediately rushed out along the passage.
Inside the church, he did not encounter any obstruction. Even the soul of the church ring warlock who was standing at the door of the church with his hands folded on his chest congratulated him on his successful rescue of his companions.
After running out of the church and onto the street filled with white fog, Shade stopped before he had taken a few steps.
In reality, the Natural Church and the Dawn Church are both on Santa Carla Avenue, but they are located at the two ends of the street. At this time, on the narrow Santa Carla Avenue, two-digit evil spirits were wandering in the strange fog, and then they noticed Shade at this time.
"Damn, why are there so many evil spirits... Wait, could it be that I just used a maze lock behind the door and there was feedback in the narrow space and in reality?"
There was no time to think, as those evil spirits with terrifying faces had already swept over silently with the white mist. They almost merged with the white mist, and at this moment, it was like a tide of fog and a tide of ghosts rushing over together.
If they were in the outside world, the burst of silver moon light or even Felianna's witch light would seriously injure them all, but in order not to attract more attention, Shade could not do this.
"There are too many of them, and we can't use the Silver Moon Greatsword in close combat. We don't have enough time."
Thinking in his heart, he took a step back and drew a horizontal line in front of him with his right hand. A silver light mark parallel to the ground flew out immediately, but it only repelled the tall man in the front who seemed to be cut in half, and whose upper and lower bodies could be separated, so he could attack alone, and the noble evil spirit who was holding his head and dragging hundreds of heads behind him.
"The instant Silver Moon Slash isn't powerful enough."
Xia De continued to retreat, while drawing a cross with his arms in front of him. The light mark stayed in the air, Xia De bent down slightly, and then punched forward. The cross light mark flew out immediately, but because the casting time was too long, all the evil spirits easily avoided the attack.
"It seems that the power is enough, but the speed is not fast enough."
What would you do? Use a mind blast to knock back a whole street of evil spirits with one punch
she asked with a chuckle.
In the real world, Xia De's power is not that strong, but in a world like the narrow space that highlights the power of the soul, he can indeed do it with 80% of his current spirit. But there is still a long way to go, and Xia De cannot fall into the dilemma of lack of power again.
"It has to be fast and fierce... I have another trick up my sleeve."
Seeing that the terrifying spirit was approaching, Shade closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and meditated on the silver moon in his mind, while trying to grasp the further understanding of the moon that he had when drinking the "Moon Wine".
Stopping his steps and opening his arms—
Bang!
Stretch your arms out in front of you and clap your hands together:
"moonlight-"
The moment he opened his eyes, countless pale arms rushed out from the white mist in front of him and reached towards Xia De's head:
“—Slash!”
The two hands suddenly separated to the upper left and lower right, and as the hands separated, a bright arc of light was drawn between the palms. Due to the movement of the palms, the light trace bulged in the middle and the tail pointed backwards, and flew out almost the moment the arms were fully opened.
The white mist left a long-lasting afterimage. The arc of light almost cut all the evil spirits in front of it into two pieces in the next moment, and then flew into the depths of the white mist. The cuts on the spirit body shone with bright moonlight. After a second of silence, the "last words" of the soul sounded one after another:
"If I could only get home in time..."
"I want to live another hundred years."
"Actually, I didn't lose. He was the one who lost."
"Forgive me..."
"The horror beneath the earth is unimaginable to mortals."
... ...
As this chaotic voice sounded, Shade looked at his hands with a smile:
"At the first level, I learned Moonlight Slash, which is weak but takes no time to cast. At the second level, I learned how to make the light mark stop and then strike out, which has strong destructive power but takes a long time to cast. At the third level, I mastered the method of using my palms to draw out light arcs, which has medium power and a medium casting time. Perhaps, this magic is the most suitable for me. If there is a change in each level, even if it is not as fundamental as Blood Echo, this magic is enough for me."
There is not enough time.
"Oh! Go!"
In the narrow space between life and death, the sky was covered by a strange white fog, and the stars, sun and moon could not be seen. But at this time, the city of Midhill Castle had reached the last moment before dawn. Shade, who used the jump of Raglai and the leap of the frog to move forward quickly, had no idea how many evil spirits he had crushed along the way. When he entered the courtyard of Russell Manor, there was only half a minute left before dawn.
"It's not too late, it's not too late!"
The dawn of the material world seemed to be able to suppress the narrow space between life and death. The white fog was becoming thinner, greatly enhancing visibility.
Shade didn't even have time to go through the main entrance. He simply broke through the corridor window of the ruined manor and ran forward along the corridor.
When he turned into the deepest corridor of the manor, due to the time mismatch between the two spaces, there were less than five seconds left when there was clearly half a minute just now.
With a sudden dash, he crashed directly into the rotten wooden door deep in the corridor. Behind the door was the normal world. But even though he could cross space, time in the normal world was still passing by at a rapid speed.
Xia De took a step forward and crossed ten meters. His hand was about to touch the wooden door, but it seemed too late.
"There's nothing I can do but use Raglai's jump twice in a row!"
This would most likely attract the terrifying creatures living in the cracks of space, but Xia De couldn't care less at this time.
However, before he could make another space leap, the tightly closed rotten wooden door opened automatically, and then an old hand stretched out like stretched plasticine, grabbed Shad's right hand, and then pulled it hard, and at the last moment, dragged Shad from a position 15 feet away from the wooden door directly into the door connecting the two worlds.
The burning thread on his right hand completely turned into ashes, and the last spark floated in the empty corridor.
"oh!"
After passing through the door, Shade fell heavily in the corridor of Russell Manor and rolled several times to offset the huge impact. Looking up, there was no one in front of him. The interior of Russell Manor had returned to normal. As for the black vortex on the wall behind him that connected the narrow space between life and death, it had also disappeared.
“It worked.”
He slowly stood up with the help of the wall, and then he felt the fatigue of not sleeping all night. Returning to reality, his numb body regained normal perception. As the warmth emerged, Xia De also felt that he was really tired.
Not only did he not sleep all night, he actually stepped into death, and once again faced the blood-sucking saint. Even though everything was over, after his tense nerves relaxed, the mental stress could not be relieved just like that.
Yawning and resisting the urge to sleep, he walked out of the manor house, wanting to thank Sister Defulin and the spiritual order for their help. At this time, the bonfire in the courtyard had been extinguished in the eastern sky, leaving only extremely weak embers emitting heat on the charred wood.
The nuns and monks of the order also poured into the building, preparing to clean up the traces of the ritual inside the building. Sister Defulin was still standing in front of the bonfire, but there was an old woman beside her.
She has a head full of silver hair, but her face is still healthy. Although the wrinkles on her face can no longer be concealed, her eyes are still so bright.
She was wearing a very old black dress that seemed to be from half a century ago, and a black wide-brimmed hat with a large white artificial flower on it.
Xia De suddenly stopped at the door of the mansion and put his hand into his right pocket. He had just returned from the past and did not have time to wear the pendant around his neck, so he put it directly into his pocket.
Because of this, his skin was not in direct contact with the pendant that could sense the witch. It was not until this moment, when the heat was strong enough to affect his waist through his coat and shirt, that he realized who the old woman standing in front of him was.
The other party nodded and smiled at him, with a kind expression on her face, and seemed to have no ill intentions. Shade hesitated for a moment, and continued to move forward, passing by the blind nuns of the cult, and came to the gray-haired Sister Defulin and the old witch:
"Sister Develyn, I encountered some accidents in there, but the priest has come out. Not only the priest, but also most of the people who disappeared this fall, they should be scattered in Mount Xikar now. Someone helped us, a person with wings. I think there should be strange phenomena in the Mount Xikar area in the real world just now..."
After reporting the "facts" he had fabricated in detail to the nun, Xia De bowed slightly to the old woman:
"Hello, Ms. Cassandra, thank you for helping me just now."
The hand that brought Shadra between life and death should belong to this witch.
"Good morning, Mr. Hamilton."
The witch directly called out the stranger's surname in this world, and the nun next to her did not react at all.
The old man looked at Xia De kindly:
"You are right. Something did happen just now. I think someone must have used a maze lock deep in the narrow room, but it also helped you. It seems that you are really lucky.
Although she is old, the details of her face still show how charming she was when she was young:
"Actually, before I met you, I was a little skeptical about what Karina said."
"Miss Carina asked you to help me?"
Shade asked. He could see that the witch in front of him didn't seem to have any hostility towards him.
"Oh, yes. Yesterday, Devlin told me that a friend of Carina's came to her for help and even wanted to go into the narrow space between life and death herself. I happened to meet Carina in the parliament last night and told her about it."
Shade could imagine the Duchess's surprise and shock at the time. Shade did not tell her before taking action because Miss Carina would definitely not agree with him doing such a thing. After all, the red-haired witch did not care whether Priest Augustus lived or died.
"I heard a rumor some time ago that the Duchess of Saradir danced with a lucky man at the Queen's birthday party in Tobesk. At the time, I thought she had her maids dress up as men to cover up some facts and put an end to bad rumors. I didn't expect it to be true."