Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 3072
Laplace recounts some memories she saw in the empty mirror.

It focuses on "one man, one beast and half a city".

The so-called "one person" refers to a wizard who is suspected to be of the time system.

From the perspective of picture recording, it should come from a water curtain hanging in the sky, and the scene reflected by it.

The water curtain may be a kind of water system dome, or it may be a sea of ​​sky. Because of the angle, it is unclear what it is.But the ground scene reflected by the water curtain can be clearly seen.

On the ground, there is a witch wearing a phantom cloak, she moves quickly on the treetops, and quickly passes through a forest.

It's just that her movement is not the displacement seen by ordinary people, but a strange displacement.

Every time she takes a big stride, two phantoms will appear one step at a time.

For example, if she is going to a treetop 500 meters away, she will first present a rainbow phantom A at the target point, and this phantom A is stationary.

After phantom A appears, a rainbow phantom B will appear at a distance between phantom A and her body, that is, about 250 meters.Although Phantom B also stays in place, it looks dynamic, like running.

Not long after the two phantoms appeared, the cloaked witch was teleported from the original place to Phantom A's location.

After the cloaked witch arrived at the destination, the two phantoms disappeared.

Simply speaking, this is a move.Angel didn't see any clues, but Laplace was very sure that this was a kind of time ability.

It seems to be the transmission of the space system, but it is actually the use of the ability of the time system.

She used Phantom A to simulate the position where she finally reached the target point, which is a "result"; and used Phantom B to simulate the scene when she moved, which is a "process".

After the moving process and result, the "event logic" is established; once she starts to move, the "time logic" is also established; if there is no problem with the representational logic, then the final "practice result" will definitely succeed, and this practice result That's it - reaching the end.

This forms a scene similar to space teleportation, but this is not teleportation, but an illusion that deceives time logic.

Although Laplace explained the situation in detail, Angel listened in a daze.

After saying "one person", the second memory image that Laplace said was "one beast".

This one beast refers to an unknown monster.

Its body shape is like a snake; but its specific appearance, including the pattern of patterns, whether it has scales or not, whether the head shape is triangular or oval... etc., Laplace did not see it, because it has all over its body. It glowed like a rainbow, obscuring the line of sight.

This snake is very strange, and it is Laplace who saw it while looking at the "landscape".

At that time, Laplace did not specifically look for the special memory picture in the Sea of ​​Mirrors, but stared at a nearby picture in a daze. This picture was not distinctive, and it showed "the calm sea under the moonlight".

At first, I thought it was just a very ordinary picture, but suddenly, Laplace saw an illusory shadow above the sea, which looked like a snake.

Just after Laplace fixed his eyes on the somewhat illusory snake in the picture, the next second, the snake appeared beside Laplace.

That's right, that's literally—the real snake came near Laplace's main body.

It drilled out of the picture of the sea of ​​empty mirrors, directly from the virtual to the real, presenting the entity in the mirror field.

At that time, Laplace was shocked. It was the first time she saw a creature jumping out of the screen.

And after the snake appeared in the mirror field, it still couldn't see its appearance clearly, and its whole body was covered by the rainbow light.After it appeared, it looked around.

It glanced at Laplace, and then at the sea of ​​empty mirrors floating around.

"It turned out that it was observed by the creatures in the mirror field. No wonder it fell out of the time gap... The sea of ​​empty mirrors is really dangerous. There are still creatures that can survive here."

"It's unlucky, forget it, let's go back first."

The luminous snake muttered these two sentences to itself, then turned into a rainbow streamer and disappeared.

Laplace looked at the "calm sea under the moonlight" again, but he didn't find the shadow of the other party in the picture.

This incident had a great impact on Laplace. She never thought that the object she was observing would pop out of the screen and face her face to face... But it was also because the other person appeared next to Laplace in person, allowing her to capture To the breath of the other party.

Later, by coincidence, Laplace finally confirmed that the breath on the other party was...the power of time.

The above is the story of "One Beast".

It's just that this "one beast" story made Angel even more confused than the previous "one person" story.

Moreover, Laplace was also vague in some places. For example, how did Laplace determine by chance that it was the power of time?
Laplace didn't want to go into details, and Angel naturally couldn't get involved, so he could only limit the scope of his thinking to the story itself.

After pondering for a moment, Angel asked, "Are you sure that those two sentences are what it said?"

Laplace: "It is certain that it is not spoken in words, but a special wave of thoughts."

After confirming that these two sentences were spoken by the glowing snake, Angel fell into thought.

From the other party's words, two pieces of information can be captured: first, it seems to know the mirror domain and the sea of ​​empty mirrors.Second, it explicitly mentions 'being observed'.

Judging from the meaning of the words, it seems that the snake fell out of the time gap because it was "observed".

As long as it is "observed", the traits will change.

This reminded Angel of a famous experiment on Earth that Jon once talked about...

In the end, Angor still couldn't figure out what this ability of "being able to get away with it in the time gap without being observed" was.His ability to the time system is still very vague, so it can only be put aside for the time being.

The example of "one man and one beast" mentioned by Laplace earlier is actually outrageous, and the "half city" mentioned at the end is even more outrageous.

Laplace didn't know where the "half city" was.

The perspective of the half-city picture comes from a glass installed on the top of the human city clock tower, because this clock tower has only one side of glass, and only one side is facing the direction.

Therefore, the scene presented in the picture is only the "half city" reflected in the glass.

But through this half of the city, Laplace saw a very strange scene.

At first, I thought it was a very ordinary human city... or a small town, because there were no towering buildings. From the half of the city, the tallest building was just a cathedral, and the highest point of the church, In fact, it is not as tall as the clock tower.

The other houses are very common with red walls and white roofs.

The characteristics of the whole town are probably clean, tidy and mediocre.

But soon, the picture changed rapidly: thick dark clouds suddenly floated in the clean sky, and then, a heavy rain fell from the thick clouds and sprinkled on the small town.

As the heavy rain fell, this originally ordinary town began to change.

The rain is like a paintbrush for drawing lead dust. In the blink of an eye, the clean and tidy town is covered with thick moss, and the walls of the houses that were originally white began to show mottled marks.

The most obvious change is that towering church... its top has collapsed.

There was no external force to damage the top of the church, and judging from the picture, there is only one reason for its collapse: aging.

It is not only the churches and houses that are aging, but also the people living in the small town!

It can be clearly seen from the picture that a young guy is wiping the dust on the outer dial at the top of the clock tower. Under the heavy rain, his skin began to age, and spots appeared on his body. In just a few seconds, he spanned time. Dimension, turned into a vicissitudes of life old man.

After a few more seconds, the old man continued to age, and finally turned into a skinny corpse. Because of the weight loss, coupled with the violent wind and rain, the bones were blown off, and finally fell to the ground, turning into debris.

This scene is already very surprising, but what is even more surprising is that this heavy rain not only makes people age.

In fact, at the top of the clock tower, that is, on the outside of the glass, there is not only the young guy wiping the dust.There is also a middle-aged hunchbacked man standing on the edge of the clock tower.

He was originally directing the boy where to wipe.

But unexpectedly, a sudden heavy rain turned the young man into a skeleton.

The middle-aged hunchbacked man was stunned by the scene in front of him, and he slumped on the ground. Fortunately, there was a handrail beside him, otherwise he would have fallen off the top of the tower.

The heavy rain was still falling, and the middle-aged hunchbacked man was actually exposed to the rain, but miraculously, he did not age in this rain, but appeared younger.

In just a few seconds, the uncle's hunchback disappeared, his stature also grew, and his sallow skin became fair and elastic.

Soon, a young man somewhat similar to the uncle appeared on the screen.

But the heavy rain came fast, and it was heard fast, and it had already started to subside slowly.

But before the heavy rain stopped, the uncle was still getting younger. Youth is not the end. A few seconds later, he appeared in the appearance of a boy.

A few seconds later, until the heavy rain stopped, the former middle-aged hunchbacked man turned into a child of six or seven years old.If it wasn't for the oversized shirt he was wearing, and if Laplace hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, no one would have thought that a middle-aged man would return to his childhood in a few seconds.

This rain, just from the changes of these two people, seems to give people a pattern: the old will become young, and the young will become old.

But it’s not like that in reality. There are old men who turn into bones in the blink of an eye. Similarly, there are children who turn into babies in the blink of an eye and disappear in the end, erasing their traces from the world.

Therefore, this is not a regular rain, and its changes, as far as this "half city" is concerned, are completely random.

The only thing we can know is that this rain contains unknown power of time, which has integrated into this city and changed it...

This is the story of "Half City".

It can be said that this is the most outrageous of "one man, one beast and half a city", but it is also the one that best fits Angel's imagination of the power of time.

For the previous "one man, one beast", Angel still needs Laplace to explain, or to think on his own, to understand the barrier of the power of time.But this "half city" directly demonstrates the power of time, not only changing the color of the earth and changing the buildings, but also causing irreversible growth and aging of the living.

This is the power of time.

Although Angel can understand "Half City" the most, it is also "Half City" that scares him the most.

Because according to the theory that Earl Black told him before, this kind of direct change of external time, at least ordinary wizards cannot do it, and neither can legendary wizards.

This torrential rain of time is either the means of an unknown miracle wizard... or it may be the effect of a mysterious thing.

The reason why it is speculated that it has something to do with the mysterious thing is because Angel knew that the Temple of the Prophet housed a strategic mysterious city with a Hoopa coefficient as high as 75, named "City of Reincarnation".

This city of reincarnation has evolved a city from prosperity to destruction in three days.After three days, everything resets, the destroyed things disappear, and all people and things will change to what they were three days ago.

Of course, this mysterious thing is not limited to the three-day reincarnation on the surface. It can be used as a strategic-level mysterious thing in the Temple of the Prophet, and it naturally has a deeper effect.

But just talking about the superficial effect, one can know that this "city of reincarnation" must be related to the power of time.

And the torrential rain in "Half City" represents both new life and destruction... If it wasn't the work of a miracle wizard, it might have been made by a mysterious thing.

As for the source of the mysterious thing, Angel doesn't know, but it may be... rain.

Mysteries are never limited to the outside, it may be a city, it may be a heartbeat, it may even be a ray, or a budding concept.

Since mysterious things can have various forms, it might as well be heavy rain.

Of course, all of this is Angel's guess.

However, having said that, there is another reason why Angel guessed that "Half City" is a mysterious thing, and that is that it is missing one point.

The person and beast in front all have the iconic rainbow light of the time system.

The phantom created by the cloaked witch exudes a strange rainbow light; and the snake that will appear when observed also exudes a rainbow light... Angel remembers that Akers was in the crypt ring, The iridescent silk threads that are produced and the rainbow image above the head are also rainbow rays.

It seems that this strange iridescent light has become a symbol of the time system.

But in the "half city", there is no such light at all.

But it is definitely impossible to say that the rain in the middle of the city has nothing to do with time.Such an obvious difference caused Angel to make different guesses.

But regardless of whether this guess is right or wrong, the magic of the time system can be seen just from the ability of the time system learned from Laplace.

Anyway, when Angel left the heart space for the last time, he was still immersed in the fantasy of the strange ability of the time system.

(End of this chapter)