"Did you see...an iron plate?"
"An iron plate, or a steel plate, an ordinary wooden board, or a curtain..."
"Is that... something that doesn't exist in this magical image?"
"Well...according to my superficial point of view, rather than saying that it doesn't exist, it would be better to say that this is the real thing..."
"...It seems that my guess is correct."
Looking at Duan Qing's increasingly serious face, the Shadow Mage lowered the black veil in front of him: "Perhaps Oxon's conjecture is not wrong - adventurers with special qualifications can indeed see through... under certain conditions.
What is the nature of this world?"
"...Is this Oxon's research?" Duan Qing asked in a slow voice: "Has he told you all the conclusions?"
"Not only that...part of his conjectures were tested by me."
With his hands gathered in the wide sleeves of his robe, Gardevoir smiled and replied: "Ever since he learned the purpose of the Destiny Alliance, he has been committed to the research of seeing through the existing destiny trajectory, but due to some of his own... limitations
Sex, some attempts at magical manifestation...he had to leave it to me to complete."
"Using magical means to break through the shackles of this world is one of the subjects we have tried." Speaking of this, Gardevoir gently shook his head: "Unfortunately, it ended in failure."
"...So you turned your attention to others." Duan Qing stared straight ahead: "Those people who are rumored to be able to break through the shackles?"
"Yes."
Gardevoir replied softly: "In the past records, there are precedents of people who have made great achievements in shaping their destiny, but without exception, those people only left some rumors and then disappeared.
The weavers who are responsible for observing the trajectory of fate like to call these people the Children of Destiny, which means people favored by fate. According to legend, they can not only see through the shackles of fate, but also break away from the control of fate and move toward new possibilities."
"The current Destiny Alliance 'Diskaya' is a group of people who claim to be able to control their destiny." Gardevoir's mouth twitched slightly: "But in my opinion and that of Oxen...those people are just destiny.
Just a slave."
"Do you have a good relationship with Oxen?" Duan Qing's tone once again brought a little doubt: "Why did he sacrifice you at the last moment?"
"...Our relationship is not good. I should have explained the reason before."
Gardevoir slowly denied: "In his mind, I may be just a tool that can be used. Although this tool is very easy to use and obedient, in the face of the larger goal, these factors can be discarded. Feng
The battle on March 23 was the most critical moment in his mind. According to the conclusion we reached before... As long as the ritual can be completed, he can use it to pass through the appearance of the world and reach the essence of the world.
middle."
"Abandoning you for this?" Duan Qing shook his head slowly: "With all due respect, this seems to be a very wrong decision."
"But he succeeded."
The smile in Gardevoir's words became thicker and thicker: "And I... also succeeded."
"……What's the meaning?"
"Both Oxen and I have seen your identity as the child of destiny, but I chose to act arbitrarily, and he chose to go all-in." Gardevoir replied calmly: "The way you have dealt with things in the organization for many years, and
His eternal struggle with his own destiny makes that man still have no choice but to believe in himself on the forked road of destiny. As long as there is still a glimmer of hope, he cannot leave his destiny entirely in the hands of another person, let alone
This person is a little adventurer, and the opponent who has been secretly fighting against them for some time..."
"And my choice is much simpler." She looked at Duan Qing's figure: "So in the end... I won."
"...If I don't choose to save you in the end, but choose to believe in Oxon, what should you do?"
"I will face it calmly, because that is my original fate."
"..."
"...Okay, I know you will come to save me."
Facing Duan Qing's sharp questions and unspeakable silence, Gardevoir let out a few chuckles again: "From the moment you appeared in the Black Magic House, I knew you would take action to save my fate, but even if
In this way, I must also carry out the ritual, because whether it is you or Oxon, it takes a lot of energy to break through the shackles of fate, so in order to achieve the final effect, I must die at that moment."
"...A bold idea." Duan Qing sighed and nodded: "Compared to you, Oxon seems to be a little behind."
"Thank you." Gardevoir easily accepted Duan Qing's praise: "Although in the end, I don't know what happened..."
"You should know by now."
Pointing in front of the two people, Duan Qing responded in a low voice: "The situation you are encountering now is no different from what he was at that time."
"……oh?"
"Simply put, he failed."
Looking at the huge screen flashing with countless lights and shadows, Duan Qing pinched his chin: "It may be more appropriate to describe you as a failure, but I'd better confirm first... What I saw
You can’t see this two-dimensional image now, right?”
"...two-dimensional image?" Gardevoir shook his head hesitantly: "What is that?"
"That's...well, forget it."
Waving his hand at the other party, Duan Qing finally stopped thinking about explaining. At the same time, he got the answer he wanted from the other party's reaction: "If the conclusion I guessed is not wrong, I can be very sorry.
Let me tell you...this way of seeing through and breaking through destiny is probably only possible by adventurers."
"……Why?"
"It's hard for me to explain the specific reasons. In short, only adventurers who know certain secrets can see everything I see now." Duan Qing kept gesticulating in the direction of the other party: "Maybe there is something I don't understand.
I know the reasons exist, and I will continue to research, but what I am sure of is... there are very few people who can achieve this level."
"Otherwise, all the adventurers on the day of the ceremony should have seen these things."
He pointed to the movie that was still playing in front of him and replied expressionlessly.
"...Can you describe to me what the iron plate you see looks like?"
"……certainly."
Shadow Mage, who had been silent for a while, suddenly asked his question, and then immediately received Duan Qing's answer: "But..."
"The 'things' I saw in the Ring of Destiny before were not as big as these ones now."
The magical scenes that were still flying and intertwining in the air continued to play out in front of Duan Qing's eyes, and then gradually lengthened as he raised his gaze. He shook his head as he said these words, and finally appeared on the huge movie screen.
At the edge, a circular metal arc top was found.
It was the end of a chain that was interlocked.
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"So... you have entered the other world again?"
On Vichyss Avenue in the Free City, Jian Beidong, who was sitting in Roland's blacksmith shop that was about to be completed, raised his eyebrows and asked: "Are you going to be the administrator of this game soon?"
"If the optical brain allowed someone to interfere with the program, I would have applied for the job a long time ago." Duan Qing shook his head helplessly: "On the contrary, now... I, the alien who changed the process, may be treated as a virus and eliminated in the future.
?”
"I don't know if you will be squeezed out by the system, but you will definitely be squeezed out by other players in the city." Jian Beidong also shook his head and said: "As we recruit more and more people, many industries
The meeting has already begun to take action secretly."
"That is also the reality that you will have to face in the future." Duan Qing grinned and gloated: "Come on, I'm optimistic about you."
"Tell me your experience this time." The swordsman in black glared at the other party, and finally relaxed his serious face: "Next time something like this happens, let me go in and see it.
experience……"
"To put it lightly, how can one enter that weird and dangerous plane casually?" Duan Qing curled his lips and replied: "According to Gardevoir, this time it was in the Laoshizi Void Library, because
It is relatively close to the center of the world, so I can actually do it with a bottle of medicine..."
"reason?"
"..."
"...Is it related to Yi Jian?"
"...Probably so."
After a brief and tacit exchange of questions and answers, the two fell into silence for a short period of time: "Yijian will greatly improve the player's spirit, and at the same time enhance the commonality between the player and the virtual world... It must be for this reason,
Then it will be easy to slip into the hidden layer of the world."
"Sure enough, it's for this reason again."
Stepping into the dim light of the night, the swordsman in black leaned his body back: "In the past, when you dominated the game and showed off your power, you didn't even know how many internal data of the game you had corrupted.
, now three years have passed, and the results still have not changed..."
"Virtual technology has developed to the fourth generation. I thought that such a situation would not happen." Duan Qing also shook his head and said: "But since such a problem has arisen... I also have some conjectures of my own.
"
"……oh?"
"Since there is the term 'Child of Destiny' in the setting of NPC, then the content related to the underground world and the inner world...maybe also part of this game."
Pointing to the tops of the two people's heads, Duan Qing deliberately lowered his voice: "In other words... the major secret we thought we discovered might be just one of the designs of that old thief Christo."
"Resonating with the game...was that what the old thief had already thought about?" Jian Beidong's eyes really widened this time: "He also designed another world specifically for perverts like you?"
"Don't forget what this game looked like at the beginning and its subsequent evolution." Duan Qing analyzed seriously: "The meaning of pursuing freedom... That old thief kept shouting this sentence before he died.
.”
"I don't believe it, I don't believe it."
After staring at the opponent's face for a long time, Jian Beidong shook his head like a rattle: "Unless the skills you simulate now can be recognized by this system..."
"Can people like you and me still not know how far the system in the free world can reach?"
Pointing at Jian Beidong's chest, Duan Qing's mouth corners began to rise: "It is said to be a system with the least skills and no rules, but in fact it is a system with countless possibilities. If my guess is not wrong...
…The combination and changes of sword energy may become one of the mainstream studies of melee professions in the future.”
"You mean... the future system of the free world will give ordinary players the convenience to understand the rules?" Jian Beidong sneered: "What is this? If this is the case... then wouldn't professional players become useless?
Is it valuable?”
"The general improvement in the quality of players will squeeze the space of professional players, allowing those who dare to break through to discover more secrets in this game." Duan Qing said in a low voice: "Get used to the operation of this world and understand the world.
rules, and then one day, some of them will discover the existence of the other world..."
"No, no, no, that's too scary." Jian Beidong frowned and waved his hand: "In a world where everyone can decide the life and death of NPCs at will...how can you play this game?"
"...It depends on what Christo thinks next."
With a faint sigh, Duan Qing looked up at the brilliant starry sky that was gradually revealed outside the unsealed ceiling: "Maybe my guess has not reached the level designed by the old thief, but we'd better prepare early, otherwise,
Our next situation will become very bad..."
"Are you talking about...those people? Humph." The swordsman in black snorted with disdain: "Then let them come, and I will clean them up one by one."
"The Duanshan River in Jianghu has stepped into the threshold of Yijian, and some dark hands in the Free City have been studying our past. Under such circumstances, trusting... is an extremely undesirable choice."
Duan Qing shook his head and replied: "The enemy is hidden and we are clear, and we are in the center of the whirlpool of the Free Continent... What you and Liu Zhan and the others will face next will probably be a more severe situation."
"...It doesn't matter." Jian Beidong shrugged his shoulders: "Aren't we...and you?"
"...I am no longer as strong as I used to be."
Duan Qing lowered his head: "Besides... I'm leaving soon."
"…Must you leave?"
"Yes."
The cold wind passed over the heads of the two people as he sighed, carrying the withered leaves spinning towards the distance. The desolate breath also followed Duan Qing's words, passing by the two people: "After all, it has happened.
Things like that..."
"If you continue to stay, danger... may come at any time."
This chapter has been completed!