The sky is a sickly dark green sky. Bright green sparse cotton-like smoke floats in the sky, lighting everything up green.
The earth is an island made of unknown metal. There are countless bookshelves on the island and countless endless books.
The ocean is a sea of disgusting black mud. There seems to be something terrifying swimming in the sea, and the sea surface is constantly squirming.
All of this seemed familiar, but none of it made Arthur feel bored. He knew that the moment he touched the "Abyss Grimoire", he was transported to this kind of place again.
"Seeker of knowledge, you are here again." And sure enough, that long and loud voice sounded all around again.
The owner of the voice never shows up, and Arthur doesn't even know what the other person looks like, but he knows that this Demon Lord is not easy to mess with. It is Mobius Maiyu, the Lord of the Abyss, the hoarder of knowledge.
.
The owner of this abyss library.
"I didn't come here voluntarily." Arthur covered his head and said, "So stop pestering me and let me go back, okay?"
"No. No. Not now." Mobius Maiyu said: "You are here because I called you. You can only leave when I answer."
"Ah, damn it." Arthur vaguely felt something was wrong: "Everything just happened was also a trap. It was a trap set to trick me into entering this abyss library, right?"
"That person." The Hour of the Abyss did not directly answer Arthur's question, but just said in a circle: "That person is an agent. He has never been given the full power of "Abyss Grimoire: Vision Mantra". But you
, you are special------"
"... Just tell me what you want." Arthur felt impatient when he heard Mobius' protracted tone, "You want to take more memories from me? Take it if you want."
Take it."
But Arthur doesn't remember any fragments in his recent memory. He can't remember clearly things that happened too long ago, and any sudden fragments in his memories a few years ago or even more than ten years ago have no impact on him now.
"No. It's not your [past]." Mobius said: "It's [the present]."
"What? Now?" Arthur frowned: "You want to take away my [now]? You're kidding!"
Arthur simply cannot imagine the concept of [the present] being taken away. Is being taken away [the present] equivalent to death? Without the [present], there is no [future], right? Such an excessive request for Arthur to affirm.
He won't agree. If Mobius shows up to attack him, he will definitely fight this evil demon to the end!
"You, enter the library and destroy him." Mobius said: "Take action. Replace his [now] with your [now] and leave your miniature in this library. In this way,
You are now qualified to possess the "Mantra of Visions"."
Arthur frowned again.
"He"? Does he refer to the current owner of this Abyss Grimoire? That is... the figure who was holding the Grimoire just now and whose whole body was surrounded by black energy?
"He" is not in reality, but in this abyss library? So what was it that he fought with Arthur in the real world just now?
No, wait. The weirdo didn't fight Arthur in the real world just now. The weirdo just swallowed Arthur with nightmares. Arthur defeated the weirdo in the nightmare of nightmares. And that doesn't count.
Above is reality, at best it is only the spiritual world.
In the long corridor composed of countless bookshelves in this different space, Arthur moved forward while thinking.
That weirdo might not exist in the real world from the beginning. Whether it's the figure seen in the real world or the figure seen in the nightmare, it's just a projection. The weirdo's identity is in this abyss library.
, in the abyss, and has never left.
It should be said that he had no way to leave. During the massacre in Sheffield in 1406, that guy should have died, or had been on the verge of death.
The "Abyss" is an extremely special alien space, or hyperspace. The dimensions here are higher than the real world. It transcends the limitations of time and even the laws of physics. There is no concept of aging and death in the existence here. Then
The guy has always been here, he is immortal--although he has no way to return to the real world, as soon as he does so, he will die in the real world.
Mobius asked Arthur to deal with "him", probably because of this consciousness. Mobius didn't want to see that guy hiding in this abyss library, and wanted to get rid of him.
But why doesn't Mobius do it himself? Isn't this the domain of Mobius?
Arthur continued to walk deeper into the Abyss Library. There were pages dancing around here, but there was no strong wind blowing them, and the atmosphere was very strange.
Could it be said that even if Mobius, the Lord of the Abyss, is the master of this domain, there are some things that he cannot directly interfere with? Although it sounds unbelievable, this is the only reasonable explanation at present.
Full of doubts, Arthur walked through the deepest corridor of the library and entered a mysterious hall surrounded by countless towering bookshelves.
There, on a hill made of books, stood a man.
That guy can hardly be called a human being anymore. His whole body is burning, and it is still burning to this day, setting the books beside him on fire one by one. However, the abyss may have no concept of time, no beginning and no end, so that guy
Even if the flames on his body are not extinguished, the guy himself will never be burned to ashes and die.
The strange man, whose whole body was burned to a black mass, with bright red flesh occasionally popping up here and there, stood quietly on the hill made of books that were forever burning, waiting for Arthur's arrival.
"Destroy him! Destroy him [now]!" The voice of the Abyss sounded in Arthur's ears, urging Arthur to take action: "Destroy him, replace him!"
"I will not replace anyone." Arthur unsheathed his sword. Fortunately, his Seraph Holy Sword came to the abyss with him: "And I won't listen to you, so shut up!"
Mobius Maiyu stopped talking.
The strange man who was burned by the fire stared at Arthur intently, if the two burning holes on his head could be considered eyes.
"You------come-------------!"
The weird man walked down the hill of books and lit a book on fire.
"You------can't------take it------!!"
he roared.
"It is------my------'s------!!"
He quickened his pace and rushed towards Arthur.
"I want------vengeance!------"
He persisted in throwing fireballs at Arthur.
"I didn't want to kill you." Arthur dodged sideways to avoid the fireball, "But since you are seeking your own death, don't blame me."
The King of Knights slashed his sword at his opponent with his backhand, forcing the flame monster to dodge. While the opponent was dodging, Arthur had already transformed the crystallized gun with the alchemy glove on his left hand, and threw the crystallized gun without hesitation.
Whoosh!! The sharp crystallized gun penetrated the weirdo's chest.
However, after the crystallized gun shot out of the chest and disappeared in mid-air, the weirdo stood firm again as if nothing had happened.
There was obviously a huge hole left in his chest, but the hole repaired itself in a very short period of time, as if he had never been hurt!
How powerful is this self-healing ability?
No, it's not self-healing ability. Arthur understood immediately in the next second. That is not self-healing by repairing wounds, it is not even a wound healing process. It is just [time] going back, that weird thing
The body just went from being punched through a hole to the state before it was punched through!
This situation is consistent with the weird man's body that burns infinitely but never burns to ashes! In this [abyss], the guy's state should be immortal. I don't know what the weird guy is like.
He could do it, but he just did it. He left his [present] in the abyss, and the concept of time became blurred, in a hyperspace with no past, no present, and no future.
Can such a guy really be defeated?!
Arthur swallowed a mouthful of saliva. When he hesitated, the other party had already shot a fireball towards Arthur. Arthur dodged as quickly as possible and roughly avoided the attack of the fireball. However, his arm was slightly scratched and he felt a burst of pain.
Burning pain.
The wound on Arthur's arm did not return to the state before the injury. In this abyss, he was still himself, bound by time, with the past, present and future, he was not immortal!
The King of Knights really couldn't understand. They were obviously both in the abyss, so why were they different? Why did time flow in them in different ways? Is it because Arthur's understanding of time in the abyss was different from his counterpart?!
So what exactly can he do to defeat the immortal and immortal opponent in front of him?
"You have known the answer from the beginning." As if he had known that Arthur would have this series of questions in his mind, Mobius Maiyou responded promptly: "Use it. Use "Dimensions of All Realms"!"
That's right, only the "Abyss Grimoire" can fight against the "Abyss Grimoire". Arthur got another Grimoire before, so it must have its meaning. Mobius Maiyu will ask Arthur to come over and solve this problem.
The problem is, isn't it because Arthur is the owner of another grimoire!
Where is the grimoire...?
Arthur didn't pay much attention when he came here, but the grimoire appeared out of thin air in Arthur's hand.
What a wonderful book. Arthur had hidden it securely in a cloth bag and carefully tied it to the saddle. It obviously couldn't go anywhere, but it actually crossed the limitations of time and space and suddenly came to Arthur.
in hands.
It even opened by itself and turned to a certain page. The book was densely packed with words that Arthur couldn't understand at all.
Although he couldn't understand a single word, Arthur could understand its general meaning.
------Only eternity can confront eternity.
------[Infinite] cannot be destroyed, but can be exiled.
Something gushes out from the book, it's something like smoke.
As if feeling the crisis, the weird man who was on fire also rushed towards Arthur, waving his hands and launching countless fireballs. Those fireballs arced and surrounded Arthur from all sides!
Arthur reached out to grab the smoke emerging from the book, and threw the unidentified object with all his strength!