Today is Wednesday, and Shade will follow the witches into the narrow space to deal with the seal on the mountainside. Therefore, for safety, he carries the gift box of the Night Watchman and God with him.
Little Mia is now in the care of Dorothy. Yesterday's lesson taught Shad that it would be better not to take the troublesome cat with him when he goes out on adventures.
After meeting the old witch at Cassandra's auction house with Miss Aurora, the group, including the witch's followers, set out for the mountains.
Although the location of the seal hidden by the Witch Emperors on the mountainside is already known, it is not possible for the witches to open the passage to the Dreamland and go to the narrow space through the Dreamland in any place.
The actual "door" was still a long way from the passage on the mountainside. After entering the narrow space, they still had to walk a long way.
Except for Shade, all the other members of this trip were sorceresses above the sixth ring. In order to prevent the death power from damaging the body, Granny Cassandra paid a high price to get several complete branches of elven wood. To confirm the correct time, in addition to Shade's time perception, there was also the poet-level (level 5) relic in the hands of Miss Aurora's followers, the indestructible time hourglass.
This relic is quite famous. Along with the stone that detects gravity and the flag of the Kingdom of Dylan that senses wind direction, it is considered the most useless poet-level relic.
In short, after everything was ready, everyone stood together in the clearing in the forest with fallen leaves in autumn. Xia De was surrounded in the center, which was also meant to protect him.
Miss Aurora held Shade's left hand, and Granny Cassandra held Shade's right hand. As the two witches chanted softly, the scene of the late autumn forest with fallen leaves around them gradually became blurred.
It is as if a richly colored oil painting is splashed with water. After the colors are blurred, everything in the field of vision becomes colorful blocks of color. Those blocks of color are not fixed, but are constantly merging, deforming, and changing colors. This makes many incredible illusions appear before our eyes. There seems to be something indescribable lurking in the rich colors, but if you observe carefully, it seems to be just a wonderful combination of changing blocks of color.
Time and space were distorted here, and the door to the Dreamland was opening. But the group's goal was not the Dreamland, so before the space was completely transferred, thick white mist representing the narrow space emerged from the gaps between the color blocks.
The fog completely obscured the view in front of him almost instantly, and then as the fog gradually faded, only the narrow gap between life and death in black, white and gray appeared in front of Xia De again.
Stranger, you have left the world of the living.
You feel the wonder, the blasphemy, the enlightenment, the whisper.
Be careful, the narrow space is more hostile to living people than before. Even with the protection of the Eternal Youth Leaf, you should not stay here for more than 900 days.
The reminders kept coming to Xia De's ears, and the "900 days" deadline also reminded Xia De that this place was very different from the last time he entered. You know, last time "she" said that he could stay here for a thousand days. Although it was only a tenth of a difference, it was already quite incredible for Xia De's soul strength in the divine afterglow state.
When I came to the narrow space from the real world, the surroundings were still forested. However, the scene of autumn leaves and golden yellow everywhere in reality turned into a terrible scene of dead trees and mud everywhere.
The surroundings were extremely quiet, without a single sound. The sky was covered in gray fog, and there was only white fog in the distance. This fog was very similar to reality, and the two were really gradually overlapping.
Once entering the narrow space, the recovery of the living people's spirit and physical strength will be greatly reduced, and the power of the soul will be more prominent than the strength of the body.
Therefore, although his breathing felt a little difficult, for Xia De it was as if he had broken free from shackles, and his own strength took another step up.
In contrast, except for the two great witches, the other female sorcerers all showed different abnormal reactions.
But warlocks above the middle level adapted to the narrow space very quickly, so after slightly adjusting their status, as a large number of life rings appeared in the steam, the effects of magic and spells such as alert, defense, counterattack, reconnaissance, detection, lighting, etc. were unfolded in an orderly manner around the group.
The two witches used their witch powers to unfold a huge dark golden ritual array. This was a spell to defend against the undead, but it could usually only be attached to objects such as doors. Shade had never heard of a spell that could surround a crowd and follow them to defend against the undead.
"how are you feeling?"
Before leaving, Miss Aurora specifically asked about Shade's situation.
"not bad."
He held the leaf in his mouth and said in a vague voice:
“It’s better than normal.”
Although I had entered the narrow space the day before yesterday, which was Monday, there were large groups of red butterflies flying around me at that time. The scene was not scary at all, but rather a bit dreamy.
At this time, if one really relied on the strength of a mortal to walk, the Xikar Mountain in the narrow space was more terrifying than the city in the narrow space. The hideous dead trees in the fog were like the bones of the dead sticking out from the ground, and the souls of different shapes floating in the distance seemed to pounce on the living in the next moment.
Compared to the last time Shade broke into the narrow space alone, they encountered more attacks this time. The endless stream of dead souls was like a tide, attracted by the vitality of the living, and then destroyed by the counterattack magic of the ring sorcerers.
Even a mid-level warlock couldn't easily destroy these evil spirits. The team of more than 20 people, plus two great witches, actually spent six hours in the narrow space before reaching the cliff where the entrance was hidden.
During this period, even Shade joined the battle, replacing the sorceresses who were exhausted from continuous fighting. Although he was only of low level, the damage to the evil spirits with the Night Watcher in his hand was very obvious. Holding the angel-level relic, he did not seem to be a drag among his companions, but was able to join the normal battle on his own.
During the six hours of the mountain road, Shade tried his best to avoid using moonlight magic and only used the Night Watch to fight. The cold weapon fighting skills inherited by the sword were taught to Shade in this way. Even if the sword would leave Shade after the Midhill Castle incident, he had already benefited a lot from the sword.
"Aren't you tired?"
The cliff was right in front of them, and Shade returned to the crowd from the periphery. Miss Aurora looked at her suspiciously. The witch's hand was shining with a dark golden light, which was the key to maintaining the resistance to the undead spell. The two witches were going to enter the deepest part of the narrow space soon, so they did not take action on the way, but chose to save their own consumption.
“Not too tired.”
"Are you sure you're okay? When you rushed forward just now, you were more enthusiastic than my followers."
"Of course I'm fine. Oh, Sister Defulin helped me some time ago. She let the flames of the phoenix burn my body, thereby improving my physical fitness."
Shade replied, and Miss Aurora became even more confused:
"Being burned by the Phoenix's flames still has this effect?"
"No? That's what the stories say."
"The story also says that bathing in dragon blood can make you stronger."
The witch said what Luvia had said, looked Shade up and down, and said jokingly:
"But it wouldn't hurt to have a little more physical strength."