Volume 15: Organisms and Organisms and Organisms Chapter 19: Eternal Night (Part 1)
Then, the mysterious girl was instantly cut and shattered into a ball of crystal by the intertwined spell network of the wizards who were well prepared.
This is actually a matter of course. Although the way the girl appeared seems mysterious and unpredictable, the girl's own strength is not at the crushing level. Fighting head-on with a group of mages in the mage tower is really a stupid act that cannot be more stupid.
Moreover, the mages who were meeting here were basically not good people. In this world of grave digging and high technology, mages controlled the primary productive force, and the most essential parts of the corpses of the demigods were also controlled by mages. So although the mysterious girl's opening and actions looked extremely weird, she was immediately torn into pieces by dozens of killer maces with various powers.
"What's going on?"
Looking at the surprisingly weak attacker, all the mages didn't understand what was going on and looked at each other in confusion.
Many of them subconsciously activated their own defensive items, and ended up tearing the inexplicable attacker into pieces. They didn't want to do this, after all, they still had to figure out what the time trap was. However, the attacker died, and the situation suddenly became awkward.
The mages didn't dare to blame each other, otherwise there would be another big fight. They could only silently look at the remains of the girl's body festering on the table. Those colorful crystals didn't look like a spectacle that a human corpse could create. The broken limbs and head looked more like some strange sculptures that were smashed. The inside was full of crystal clear tentacles and roots, which didn't look like humans at all. Instead, they looked like some imitation puppets.
But if it is a puppet, her appearance and sequence of actions seem too weak, and it always feels full of mystery.
"…Is this the culprit that caused the time cycle?"
"I don't think so. She's too weak."
"He doesn't have any abilities. He can't even withstand our attacks. He doesn't seem like the mastermind behind this."
After the mages calmed down, they looked at the remaining fragments on the ground and began to use their strong analytical and organizing abilities.
Being able to analyze some useful things from a pile of corpses, anyone who regards these grave diggers as idiots is probably not that smart. As for these dangerous goods, they naturally have an intuition of handling dangerous goods over the years.
In their perception, these fragments were not particularly dangerous. At most, they were the remains of some creatures. The owners of the remains had long been torn apart by the mages, but the remaining material did make the mages feel a little curious. They had never seen these things before. This crystal clear material that seemed like a living thing made the researchers feel that it seemed beautiful.
"I want to see what this thing is made of..."
A wizard who seemed to be specialized in dealing with this matter rubbed his hands and stretched them out, as if he was talking to someone else, or as if he was explaining to himself.
"This thing looks so beautiful. I have never seen such a beautiful substance in all my years of research. And it actually exists inside some kind of humanoid object. I have reason to believe that this has a great connection with this time disturbance incident. Don't do anything yet, let me take a look... No, wait, it doesn't seem right."
The mage's words stopped abruptly .
Looking at the fragments in his palm, the old wizard was stunned for unknown reasons.
The moment they came into contact with the pale fragment, all the mages felt an inexplicable sense of panic.
It was a collective palpitation for no reason, as if something that had been forgotten was suddenly recalled. Looking at the broken crystal girl and the festering core in the center, all the mages inexplicably felt that this scene seemed to have happened many times, so much so that it seemed a little familiar.
If I think about it carefully, as a mage, the Time Hall must have discovered the problem first and held a time meeting. Why did they wait until 18 hours later to hold such an important meeting? And if I remember correctly, their experiments were usually conducted at night. Why is it that now, almost a day has passed, but my thoughts seem to be the same as they were at night, and I don’t even feel that time has suddenly passed so much?
Is it because my sense of time has become dulled by the darkness outside, or is there some other reason?
"Wait."
The outstretched hands froze on top, and the mages showed a slightly horrified expression.
"Why do I feel like this scene is familiar? Have we done this many times before? I feel that my actions are inexplicably familiar--"
'You can't die here just yet.'
A magnetic accent inexplicably rang out in everyone's heart.
It was like a rewind or a diversion of some events. All the mages began to pull the progress bar back to a certain position.
Their movements kept repeating the scene in the previous scene, and then the attacks they blasted out also inexplicably flowed back from the void and were re-infused into the dazzling array of accessories on their bodies. The girl's corpse instantly returned to the appearance of mental pollutants, glanced at the mages who tore it apart, and retreated back into the shadows. The mages who were caught by the inexplicable power sat in a circle on the chairs, looking at each other inexplicably.
After confirming that all elements were restored to their original positions, time once again turned its gears under an inexplicable force and slowly flowed. Looking at the mages sitting on the chairs around, all the people present were a little confused and showed puzzled expressions.
"……What?"
They were under the impression that they should be working on tasks in their respective laboratories, so why did they suddenly come to this place?
"Let me make it short."
The wizard at the chief seat was stunned for a moment, then immediately got into the state, looking at the confused crowd, and stretched out his hand to project a projection.
"Our time has been reset. It is now nineteen hours behind the Universal Standard Time. We have been trapped in eternal night for nineteen hours..."
The wizard of the Time Hall spoke clearly, and many wizards nodded repeatedly. Everyone listened to the leader's speech with the demeanor of a social elite and a pillar of the world. No one seemed to realize that anything was wrong. They just felt that this passage seemed inexplicably familiar.
But the term "meeting" must sound very familiar.
This sense of déjà vu was quickly forgotten, leaving many mages to continue to be immersed in a sense of crisis.
