Early Sunday morning, the Blonde Young Lady was still asleep. Shade, who had risen early as usual, had already packed the items he needed to carry and was ready to set out on a brand-new adventure.
Shade had not asked anyone to identify which year of the Fifth Epoch the new key Doctor Schneider had given him corresponded to. After all, knowing the year would not help him.
The cat that had been awakened by Shade getting up seemed to want to follow him into the past this time. But since this was the first time he was using this new key, Shade was not sure what would happen at that point in time, so he refused Little Mia.
So she lay pitifully on the sofa, watching Shade prepare to leave. Her aggrieved expression made it seem as though Shade were about to abandon her.
"Don't look at me like that. I'll be back in three seconds."
Shade said to Mia, feeling that the cat was becoming smarter and smarter.
He tightened the scarf around his neck, patted the heavy cotton clothes on his body, then inserted the key into the keyhole of the side bedroom door:
"May the World Tree shelter me within time."
Click~
He stepped through the White Mist Gate once again.
Outlander, you have entered the "Time Corridor."
A message from the Ancient God "Father of Infinite Tree":
Fifth Epoch 903, winter. North Continent, Silver Mountain Range.
Event: Lost in the Snow Mountains.
Duration: Forty minutes (1/3).
"This time it isn't thirty minutes, but forty? And I'm back on the North Continent again? Hope Town—1068, Thousand Tree Forest—3002, Terror Castle—1784, Night Manor—3014, Silent Valley—Year 3024, Lost Lake—Year 5177, and this time it's Year 903."
Shade stood amid the white fog. Fifth Epoch 903 was the earliest