novelonline Chapter 2398 Reversing Time (Seeking votes at the beginning of the month)
Chapter 2398 Reversing Time (Seeking votes at the beginning of the month)
Chapter 2398 Reversing Time (Seeking votes at the beginning of the month)
Closing his eyes, the scorching steam mist and the thick fog behind Shade almost merged into one. The sound of the whistle and bell spread far away in the silvery sand sea with the wind. Because Shade was sitting on the sand, the originally huge seven-ring life ring now floated slightly, making it look even bigger than before.
The life ring rotated very slowly, and the thirty-two spirit runes flickered with a dim light. The four-color spiritual light of gold, silver, copper and iron converged into the life ring itself. When Xia De, who had lowered his head to look at the sand, raised his head again, the enlightenment of [time and space] seemed to be slightly brighter.
“I am the audience and the narrator, right?”
He asked softly, but the one who answered him was "she" beside him:
[Yes, a stranger.]
"Well, let's go back in time - Breath of the Years!"
He took a deep breath and raised his right hand, pointing his palm at the ending of the story in the fog and slowly pulled it to the left. As some gray air flow wrapped in white mist entered his nasal cavity, the picture in the white mist actually shook without Miss Meister controlling the illusion.
Shade's magic "Breath of Time" can only reverse or speed up the time of a single item, and can only work on ordinary items and a few alchemical items. This time, his target is the "story" in front of him. Even if he has the identity of "audience" in this illusion, it is completely beyond the scope of this magic.
Although the extreme spell just now caused a momentary time disorder, it was far from enough time to rewind the entire story.
But Shade did not give up. He raised his empty left hand, and the small piece of Philosopher's Stone that was left after the mermaid girl cast the spell [Power of the Earth: Protecting All Things] flew into his hand.
The Philosopher's Stone was immediately thrown towards the Life Ring behind him. The moment it touched the Life Ring, the blood-red stone melted in the spiritual light, adding a bright red color to the entire Life Ring.
Xia De, who was ready, raised his right hand and pulled it to the left again:
"Time goes back - Breath of the Years!"
For a moment, Xia De seemed to hear a click ~ the sound of a pointer turning came from the void, and then the picture in the white mist actually quickly regressed, from the scene of "colorful bubbles" at the end to the scene of "the mermaid princess waiting alone for the first ray of sunshine".
But at this moment, Xia De suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood towards the fire in front of him. The flames flickered and then exploded. The cat in his arms cried anxiously, and Xia De used his right hand to support himself on the sand to prevent himself from falling.
Sweat slid down his cheeks. The power of the Philosopher's Stone was exhausted, and he successfully reversed the brief fragment of the story. The backlash caused by the forced spell made him feel like his internal organs were burning. But he remembered the touch just now. Outsiders always boasted that they had a high level of understanding. He had used the illusion to understand this power that surpassed the "Breath of Time".
He raised his right hand again and continued to pull to the left. The pain made his body twitch constantly, but Shade gritted his teeth and did not give up. So the scene went back again, from the mermaid princess sitting alone to the three people gathered on the deck.
The spirit was consuming rapidly, but at this moment, the illusion fog above Shade and the life ring also dissipated a little. The strange moon in the desert cast moonlight on Shade, and Shade, who absorbed the moonlight, was quickly recovering his own consumption.
So he slowed down a little, and his right hand continued to pull to the left. The pain in his internal organs was so severe that Mia even felt like there was a mouse jumping inside Xiade's body.
Blood flowed from his nose, ears, eyes, and mouth at the same time, and his head felt like it was being split open, but Shade persisted:
"Mother Siamnod has her own persistence, Miss Knight has her own persistence, Miss Sandel has her own persistence, and the Little Mermaid Princess in the story also has her own persistence. I will not lose to them."
The trembling right hand continued to move slowly to the left. Although the spiritual power granted by the strong moonlight allowed him to maintain consumption, the spell casting beyond his own ability still caused Xia De's aura to continue to weaken.
The life ring behind it even began to crack because of the pain in its soul. Mia continued to meow, and it was really worried.
But Shade could no longer feel these things. The severe pain in his soul and body made his five senses blurred. Fortunately, he still remembered what he wanted to do.
The scenes continued to go backwards, and Shade's body gradually became lowered. Until the story returned to the first scene, when the mermaid princess was happily playing in the deep sea, Shade finally lowered his head and put down his hands, motionless.
"Meow~"
The cat's mournful cry sounded particularly shrill in the vast sea of sand, but before it decided to do anything, Xia De raised his hand again and stroked it gently.
The stranger barely opened his eyes and tried to look up at the picture frozen at the first scene. He continued to raise his right hand, but found that he no longer had the strength to move.
"Why do you want to do this?"
The voice of the god came from the fog. She seemed to be right next to Shad, yet she seemed to be everywhere.
"They have their own persistence, and so do I. She saved me, so I have to save her. I will do it no matter what the price is."
The laughter of "Miss Meister" came from all directions, as if she was laughing at Shad's stubbornness, but also as if she was admiring his character.
"The gift I promised you if you didn't ask me for help was actually meant for this. But I can't help it. You're so likable."
After a short pause:
"Tell me, outsider, can you see me?"
This time the sound came from the white fog right in front of him. Xia De looked towards the fog, but could only see a blurry black shadow dancing in the fog.
The dizziness caused by the severe pain in his soul and body had made his vision very blurry. Fortunately, at this time, Mia had struggled to get out of Xia De's arms and roared to the front:
"Meow!"
Bright sparks spewed out of the cat's mouth, but in the blurred eyes of Shad, it was like the rising sun that helped him illuminate the darkness.
Then the figure in the fog became clearer, and he seemed to see a figure wearing a thin skirt and short clothes, with golden bells wrapped around her wrists and ankles, dancing in the fog.
That seemed to be Miss Meister, her graceful figure was obscured by the thick fog, seeming both real and like a dream.
When the figure turned around and looked at Xia De in the dance, and the golden eyes looked at him with a smile, the desert night wind blew through his eyes, and bright golden fragments floated behind Xia De as the first golden crack appeared in his right eye. The fragments hit the life ring, and then lit up the dazzling gold in the crack of the life ring.
Then Shad saw clearly that the veiled figure dancing in the mist was not Miss Meister;
Then Shade understood that the hazy figure who turned and smiled at him was the old god - Lady Mist.
Large cracks spread all over his body like flames. The light of divinity appeared here because he was looking at God. The slowly rotating life ring accelerated as he sat up again. The gold in the cracks on the brass surface of the life ring almost dyed the entire ring with the color of miracle.
The "Divine Afterglow" state was activated to its best state only because of the light smile of the God of Mist. Shade, who was instantly restored to his prime, raised his right hand and continued to pull to the left, relying on the touch of his heart, the feeling of using the Philosopher's Stone, the identity of the "audience" in the illusion, the touch of the persistence of the three ladies, and Shade's own persistence that he was unwilling to give up.
The scene frozen in the white fog at the beginning of the story actually started moving again, and the sound of the clock ticking and turning rang out in the void again.
The scene of the mermaid princess playing in the underwater world gradually became hazy in the white mist. In the subsequent picture, the first ray of rising sunlight was shining on the stones, garlands and colorful bubbles on the deck.
Xia De withdrew his hand, placed his right arm on his right leg that was stepping on the ground, with his elbow close to his knee, and his left hand on his left leg that was flat on the sand:
"That's enough."
Then the mist of the illusion gradually dissipated, and the picture of the ending became blurred.
As Granny Siamnod, Miss Knight and Miss Meister gradually reappeared in the fog, stones, garlands and colorful bubbles floated out together and came in front of Shad.
These objects, which were born out of persistence and became real because of the false, were now suspended in front of Xia De and glowed slightly. Then they flew to the huge life ring behind Xia De and melted in the miraculous gold and moon silver that existed simultaneously on the life ring.
The three items transformed into brass-colored aura, like adding fuel to a steam furnace, causing the life ring to spin even faster under the moon.
The fog had almost dissipated, and the desolate scene of the desert under the moon appeared again near everyone. Granny Sienod looked up at the moon, Miss Knight looked at the life ring behind Shade, and even her eyes were dyed coppery, while Miss Meister walked towards Shade:
"What did you understand?"
"Through the false, everything in the fog is actually true. With persistence as fuel and stories as goals, I understand."
He also stood up and turned to look at Miss Sandel, who was kneeling on one knee supporting the stone door in the mouth of the giant worm corpse behind him.
As Xia De stood up, the high-speed rotating brass life ring seemed to become larger under the moonlight. The brass spiritual light had completely permeated the life ring, and the golden divine afterglow of the whole body, blown by the wind, stretched out like a long line and spread across the entire sand sea.
"Can mortals' persistence really change the world?"
In the wind, the light brown-skinned lady asked in a dreamy voice. Shad's golden eyes looked at the stone statue of Miss Sandel holding up the stone gate and gave his answer.
(End of this chapter)