Shade grabbed the hand of the red-haired girl beside him:
"Can't you really remove the Time Curse completely?"
But this time, the answer he received was the opposite of what they had heard in the tavern:
"There is one way. You already know the four methods of suppressing the curse: elven secret medicine, relics, the Time Stability Anchors we make, and confession in My Lord's Temple. Of the latter two, only one can take effect at a time.
But if she is willing to believe in My Lord and repent in the Temple for twenty years, the curse can be completely removed."
This was the second method of fully dispelling the curse, aside from Sister Devlin's proposal of "a spark of First Fire and the help of the Time Chosen Ones." Yet compared to that, Shade still felt the Nun's method was more reliable.
"I'm not staying here to become an ascetic."
Miss Danist shook her head as expected and even moved a little closer to Shade to make her stance clear. Mr. Davis had long anticipated that she would say so, but from the solution he had proposed, Shade also guessed that someone in the Hermit Order must have suffered from the Time Curse before:
"Mr. Davis, thank you for telling us all this regardless. Do you know about Paradox Worms?"
Mr. Davis nodded and waved for the other Hermits by the fire, apart from old Mr. Meloni, to leave first:
"We do. Paradox Worms do not appear merely because someone uses a Tree Hollow. They are born only when using one creates a Time Paradox event.
We know little about these Ancient Evil Beings from legend, said to be as old as the World Tree. We only know that the stronger the soul they are born from, the