Volume 4: The End of the World Chapter 49 This Side
The smoke and dust raised by the spell explosion obscured the vision of both parties.
Then, a strong wind blew past, cutting the thick smoke in half neatly like a sharp blade cutting through paper.
"Nazemar" appeared in front of the smoke screen with a whirlwind all over his body, and the edge of the smoke screen rolled up by itself like a piece of cut paper.
Her hands, covered with moss and scars, tightly grasped the silver evil-destroying rapier, and bursts of white smoke hissed up from her palms.
"That person...seems to have run away."
Her tone was calm, and it sounded as if she had let go of a mosquito.
"Fularo" , wearing a deer antler crown, walked to her side by side and said:
"Stay alert, he might still be hiding nearby."
But it was clear that Nezemar didn't think so. The silver rapier returned to the sheath with a clang, and she walked straight to Yin Laier who was tied to the roots, closed her eyes and began to chant the spell.
As the last verse of the chant ended, a swirling vortex of emerald green runes lit up around her.
"I'm sure the other person is no longer here."
It was only then that she explained.
The runes lit up, and the roots gradually squirmed and loosened, throwing the imperial ambassador down from a height of about two meters.
It fell to the ground with a "clang" and Yin Laier rolled on the ground twice in embarrassment. Finally, he lay on the ground groaning and complaining that the other party's actions were too rough.
In response, Nazemar quickly walked forward and knocked him over with his boot.
“You fucking…”
"Who was that man next to you just now?"
Ignoring the curse that came out of the other party's mouth, Nezemar asked directly.
At this moment, she had burn marks on her body from using a life spell, but her expression did not change at all. It was not because she was enduring it with her own willpower, but because she was like a pain-free patient who was completely unaware of the changes in her body.
"Man? What man?"
Yin Laier asked curiously.
"that is……"
Nezemar opened her mouth to say something, but after she said just two words, her expression froze. She looked as if she was trying hard to recall a forgotten dream. After hesitating for a long time, she finally put down her raised hand, and her expression returned to its previous indifference, or numbness.
"It seems that you have found this underground resistance base."
She spoke in a mechanical tone, like a bad drama actor.
"So our deal is done? I'll help you find this place, and you return the blind girl to me."
"Yin Lai'er" crawled up from the ground, opened the corners of his cracked mouth, and revealed a smile as if his conspiracy had succeeded.
"But I should have said before that we should not cause unnecessary killings, right?"
"Floralo", whose half face was a hideous skeleton, walked over. She pointed at the corpses scattered on the ground not far away and said with some dissatisfaction.
"Do you expect me not to even resist? I wanted to negotiate with them, but they attacked me the moment they saw me... I was acting in self-defense, don't you agree?"
As he spoke, Yin Laier looked at the surviving forest elves, opened his mouth full of maggots, and revealed a cheerful smile.
The forest elves who were squatting and trembling suddenly shrank their necks, which froze the smile on Yin Laier's face.
"Why are you so afraid of me? I won't eat you..."
He said a little depressed.
Floro ignored those people and waved behind her. Then Ebony, who was tied up, was escorted up.
"Okay, now that all the evidence is here, do you still have anything to argue about?"
Flora asked, turning to look at the man.
Ebony, who was escorted up, looked very tired. Perhaps a normal person would have this expression when he has been in a mental hospital for a long time and can't tell whether he is crazy or the world is crazy.
"I don't quite understand what you are trying to 'prove'."
Ebony said numbly.
"You used your identity as the Listener of the Sacred Tree Mother to hide the prisoner I sentenced to death."
"Flaro" said so.
"I'm just trying to save the few normal people in this city...as much as I can."
He replied weakly.
"So, you want to challenge the order of Holy Tree City in this way?"
"Holy Tree City?"
Ebony raised his head when he heard that and forced a bitter smile on his face.
"Dead Tree City is more like that..."
"Is that your answer?"
Flora asked, frowning.
"Anyway, no matter how I point out the truth, you won't believe it, right?"
This was Ebony's answer as she was placed in front of the Undead Duke.
Then, as if he could no longer bear it, he took a deep breath and spoke rapidly:
"Or do you want to hear the truth again? The truth is, in fact, all of you are dead, in fact, the history you left behind is fictitious, in fact, the Holy Tree Mother you believe in is just a dead body... But no matter how many times I say it, you will just pretend not to hear it and continue your ridiculous performance. Pretend that you are still alive, pretend that you are still normal people, pretend that you are really in Ravenwood now, and not in an illusion created by some higher being, or something else."
"But can you really hear what I'm saying?"
"Fularo" looked at the person in front of her, her fingers rhythmically tapping the magic medium in her hand. After a while, she looked at "Nezemare" beside her in a daze and asked:
"Did you understand what he just said?"
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When the smoke cleared, William, who was chanting a non-lethal spell to counterattack, saw Flora and her group looking at him nervously.
It was as if everything that had just happened was just an illusion - they didn't have rotten faces or exposed gums, nor did they have any inexplicable intentions to attack .
William turned his head and looked at the forest elves from before. This time, in the field of vision of [Life Detection], he could no longer see the outlines of those people.
this……
With his willpower at full capacity, he didn't think that what he had just seen was an illusion. Even if the Nightmare Lord himself cast an illusion on him, it wouldn't be this real.
In other words, what I saw before was the real scene...
So... did we just jump timelines?
Thinking of this, he extinguished the spell in his hand, and then released the imperial ambassador who was tied to the tree roots.
It fell to the ground with a "clang" and Yin Laier rolled twice on the ground in embarrassment. Then he lay on the ground without saying a word - he dared not make a sound.
"Just lie down here."
Leaving this sentence, William walked up to the group of people who came later.
"Did someone sneak attack you just now? I saw your magic barrier was activated."
Nezemal asked carefully while turning his head to look behind him alertly.
She had seen clearly before that the Chief Judge was chanting a spell in their direction.
"Have you been here the whole time?"
William asked.
"I'm not sure what you mean by 'always been here'. But we just followed Mr. Ebony's instructions and came all the way here. We didn't encounter anything strange on the way, nor did we hear any strange noises... So what happened just now, Mr. Presiding Judge?"
Nezemar replied immediately.
Flora, who was standing by, seemed to have guessed what William meant, and immediately asked:
"Did you just go to the 'other side'?"
William nodded slowly.
"I only stayed there for a few minutes, and then I came back. By the way, this guy also went to the other side with me."
William said this while pointing at Yin Laier who was lying on the ground pretending to be a corpse.
"Did you see anything on the other side?"
Looking at the dust around her that had not yet dissipated, Flora asked carefully.
"I saw you... Of course, you didn't look very well."
William chose his words carefully.
As soon as Flora heard it, she understood what it meant, so she didn't ask any more questions. She turned her gaze to Yin Laier.
"You said he just went to the 'other side' with you?"
She pointed at Yoon Lai-il who seemed to be pretending to be dead and asked.
William nodded, but before he opened his mouth to describe what had happened here before, Yin Lis suddenly crawled out from under Nazemar's arm.
She stared at Yin Lai'er lying on the ground with her eyes covered with white film and said:
"Your Excellency the Presiding Judge... Please allow me to correct you. It is not the other side that he went with you, but the other side that you went with him."
The world reflected in the eyes of God cannot be described in words, just like you cannot describe colors to a blind person. Therefore, describing time as a thread is just a metaphor. At this moment, in Yin Lisi's eyes, the thread of time on the body of this imperial ambassador was like a rope that was untied and was divided into two sections, and was slowly rewoven together.
In other words, the shadows of the two possibilities are constantly overlapping.
In other words, his personal time was previously broken into two parts by some force, and is now slowly healing again.
As for what force broke the time, considering what the other party had done before...
" In other words... killing the undead who traveled to our timeline can break time to a certain extent and go to another timeline?"
After listening to Yin Lis's description, William could only come to this conclusion.
Yin Lis nodded, and then continued with some doubt:
"That being said, he should be the only one who could temporarily jump to another timeline. But somehow, you, who was beside him, also went there. I don't quite understand why this happened - at least your time was intact. Or rather, I even doubt whether something could destroy it."
In her view, if the image of time in a normal person is a thin silk thread, then the image of time she can see in this judge... is almost like the thick hemp rope used by ships for anchoring.
