Whispers of the Machine Age
Chapter 2545

Tree Hollow

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In the first record, the "Time Traveler" claimed that after passing through a tree hollow, he fell into the sea. He was then rescued by a small boat and learned from the Demon Hunters aboard that the time was the Third Epoch, the Demon Era.

There were seven people on the boat, all survivors who had escaped from an island already destroyed by Evil Spirit Demons. Unfortunately, after the "traveler" was pulled aboard and became the eighth person, a Demon hidden on the boat began killing people one by one, precisely one every night.

When only five people remained, the suspicious survivors began to suspect that the unidentified "traveler" and another woman with a deformed right hand were the Demon. Both were thrown off the boat.

The "traveler" knew nothing of what happened afterward. When he awoke, he was resting against that ancient tree, but the tree hollow was gone.

The "Time Traveler" in the second record was a woman, and her report was relatively simple. According to her, after passing through the tree hollow, she arrived in a magnificent palace. After being discovered and detained by a maid there, her lack of common sense and certain strange actions drew the attention of the palace's owner.

The exceptionally beautiful mistress of the palace quickly realized that she came from a different time. But before that beautiful and elegant lady could do anything, the "traveler" woke up once again in the forest.

The third record was the shortest, because by the time the Scribe of the parchment found him, the man who had passed through the tree hollow had gone completely mad.

The Scribe used many methods and, in the end, even damaged the man's brain beyond repair to extract some memories. Yet this record contained only one sentence:

The sky

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