After the group study session at the doctor's office, Shad left with Dorothy as usual.
Instead of returning home immediately, Dorothy invited Shad to her apartment to see the trial print of the first volume of "Hamilton Detective Stories" after the publisher's typeset printing. The book is expected to be publicly available at the end of the month, and the sales performance will affect Dorothy's career development for a long time to come.
She even asked Luvia to do a divination for her a few days ago and choose the best time to release the new book in order to gain psychological comfort.
“Does it help to pick the right date to release a new book?”
"Oh, Shad, of course that's useless, otherwise everyone would be a great writer."
Dorothy had a very sensible view of the matter.
The two of them and the cat arrived at Quill Pen Street at about 4 p.m., and then stayed in the apartment until the evening before going out for dinner. The first edition of Hamilton's Detective Stories did not change many details from the newspaper serials that Shad read, except that Hamilton the Detective was given a background of being a descendant of a knight.
When Shad asked whether it was the publisher's idea or Dorothy's, the blonde immediately stammered and changed the subject.
After dinner, Resia and Dorothy exchanged souls, and Her Royal Highness the Princess continued to teach about sleep at number six, St. Teresa's Square.
So in the study, Shade mentioned to Lecia that he had come into contact with the statue of the old god, the Sleeping Father, this week, and thus obtained the Blasphemous Spirit Rune Laziness. This made Lecia, who was under the gaslight, extremely nervous:
"Fortunately it's not the Sleeping Spirit Rune, otherwise Dorothy and I would have failed again this time."
She clasped her hands together on the table.
"It doesn't matter. Even if you don't help me this time, don't you have other opportunities? Leicia, to me, you are always the forerunners on my path to becoming a ring wizard."
"Well, how about trying to call me 'teacher'?"
Leicia suddenly said, and Shade put down the pen and the cat in his hand and looked at the blonde girl on the side of the desk:
"teacher."
He said this seriously. Leisia suddenly blushed, subconsciously touched her ear, and then pretended to lift her hair to avoid Xia De's sight:
"Don't shout like that. This is a really... strange feeling."
Girls' minds are always hard to guess.
Shade shook his head and continued copying the story about the princess, the curse, the sleep and the spindle. He raised his eyebrows and looked up at his reflection in the window:
"An interesting story, very similar to the fairy tales in my hometown. However, this time it shouldn't be..."
He shook his head. What was supposed to happen would always happen in the future. It was not the first time that he noticed the similarity between this story and the one in his memory, but he no longer doubted where this story came from.
At half past ten in the evening, Shade sent the blonde girl, who had changed from Leicia back to Dorothy, back to Quill Pen Street. When he returned to St. Teresa's Square, the carriage arranged by Miss Carina had arrived.
This Saturday night, Xia De will take Mia to a manor outside the city to spend the night.
This was not because he had any improper relationship with Carina Cavendish, nor was it because he was afraid that there would be problems with the boundaries of his home again. On Sunday morning, he would go to the library that was about to be destroyed in the Fifth Era again, and the daily necessities he promised to bring to the witches were now in Miss Carina's manor.
The time to use the time key is dawn on Sunday. Miss Carina has never seen Shad use the time key before, so she got up early and watched Shad open the door with Tifa.
"Actually, this is a very boring process. I'll be back in three seconds."
Shade stood in front of the study door holding the cracked key. The sky outside had just revealed the first faint morning light. Miss Carina sat on the sofa with her back to the window, holding a cup of tea. Tifa stood beside her, holding Mia, who had not yet woken up.
Because of the bulky clothes, he now looked like he had gained weight. But there was nothing he could do about it, the temperature in the Dead Silence Valley was too low.
"This is real time travel, different from using keys with other 'investigators'. Even if the process is boring, at least it's fun."
The Duchess corrected, staring at the door in front of Shade:
"It's time to start."
"Okay then, see you in three seconds."
"Meow~"
The sleepy cat called out reflexively and even waved its furry little paws at Shade.
After Shade confirmed that the supplies he had brought to Miss Orlanod and the others were all on him, he recited in his unskilled Elvish:
"May the World Tree protect me in time."
The Elvish language was also learned from a real piece of information - the elves, but Shad's grasp of it was very superficial.
Silky white mist flowed out from behind the door that Shade had pushed open. Miss Carina sat up straight and looked towards the door.
"What the speaker said is indeed correct. This is a space of the same nature as the parliament."
Shade stepped inside.
Stranger, you have stepped into the "Corridor of Time".
Message from the ancient god "Father of the Infinite Tree":
Winter of the 3024th year of the Fifth Era, Central Continent, Dead Silence Valley.
Event: Destruction of the Library of Gaddis.
Duration: thirty minutes (2/3).
You get additional information.
The figure of the Infinite Tree Father continues to watch over you.
The tests given to you by the Ancient God of Time will continue.
Assist the old god "Gray Sage" to complete the recording of library documents.
The Father of the Infinite Tree will give you rewards: Knowledge-Original Sin Thaumaturgy, a piece of true information-Vampire.
He took another step forward, and the thick white fog around him cleared away. However, the familiar white snow scene was not in front of him.
The sky was still daytime with some clouds, but the whole valley had been dyed a terrible black. No, it wasn't the valley that was dyed black, but the black snowflakes that fell from the sky decorated the valley into a pure black appearance.
The black snow fell from the sky like burning paper, and in the snow, figures were wandering unconsciously.
The atmosphere around him was even more strange and oppressive than last time, and the concentration of whispers in the air and the power of repelling the living were also very familiar to Shade. If he had not been sure that he had arrived in the Fifth Era, he would have even suspected that he had entered the narrow space between life and death again.
"This is... Kuroyuki?"
He quickly recalled the rules of the Dead Silence Valley that the witches had told him last time:
"During the Black Snow Period, the dead revived and the living withered. Furthermore, if the black blood directly touched the skin, death would occur immediately."
Although he had been standing in the snow for a few seconds, because he was wearing too many clothes, including a hat, gloves, boots, and scarf, the black snow with a strong whispering element did not directly touch Shade's skin.
But just as this thought came to mind, a gust of wind blew through the valley, and black snowflakes like burning paper money immediately swayed to one side.
Chapter 718 Black Snow