Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 888 Analysis
Weapons with notarized legal effect cannot be used.

No, it should be said that it is impossible to use anything that is not permitted by the 'rules' of this world.

"A rule-based concept similar to a notary system..."

Xin Lailai gazed at the scene before her and murmured, a look of utmost seriousness flashing in her eyes.

Without a doubt, what just happened was one of the key reasons why they were forced to choose death and were brought back to life in such a way that almost destroyed everything.

—Within the Macrophage world community…a certain rule concept with extremely strong exclusivity, similar to notarization, has already formed!

"However, while it reacts to external objects, is it unaffected by the Paradise Mark? Or perhaps..."

After thinking for a while, Xin Lailai looked down at the pale gold brand on the back of her hand, which had remained conspicuous since she woke up, and her eyes flickered slightly.

Judging from what just happened, the notary rules of this world don't seem like they would ignore branding, a core product of the notary system. Therefore, he can only think of one explanation:
That is the inherent notarization effect of the brand itself, which is resisting... or rather, hiding its own existence in some way.

This also explains why, although they had only been in this world for less than a month, the notarization effect of the brand had been consumed so drastically.

It is likely that their successful resurrection, achieved without any erosion of their own consciousness, origin, or eternal soul core, by utilizing certain rules of this world, can be largely attributed to the effect of the Paradise Mark.

"In that case, we probably don't have as much time as we thought."

Although the core reason for the severe depletion of the notarization power of their Paradise Mark should be that they used some rule of this world to 'resurrect' themselves, in the situation just now, in order to prevent their consciousness and origin from being eroded, the notarization power within the Paradise Mark was probably being forcibly depleted at an extremely slow rate every second.

"Fortunately, I had asked Xiaobai to create a plugin that displays the validity of notarization, which makes things a bit more predictable in this situation..."

Xin Lailai murmured to herself, looking at the mostly grayed-out interface at the edge of her vision, and began to manipulate it. Finally:
[Note: Adjustment complete. The branding plugin has been successfully activated. You can now view the remaining notarization validity of the branding.]

[Remaining notarization validity: 67/3180 (2.106%)]

Very well, the situation is worse than he imagined.

He said that the Paradise Brand, which has a lot of redundant design, has fallen to the point where it can't even run 10% of its functions, which means that the notarization validity of their brand is only about 2.1%.

"We can only hope that the notarization required to maintain normal operations won't be too much..."

If the corresponding functional module of Xiaobai No. 1 hadn't malfunctioned, they could have directly asked it to help calculate the consumption rate of the notarization validity to ten decimal places. But now, they can only wait until the notarization validity changes by a single digit before calculating the consumption rate based on the amount of change.

"I wonder how much the time flow differs between this world and the outside world..."

Xin Lailai glanced at the date displayed on the branding interface, her gaze shifting slightly, a thoughtful look flashing in her eyes.

第三纪元黄金历1020年10月15日17时32分57秒。

This is the date currently displayed on their branding interface.

However, they set off on September 26th, 1020 of the Golden Calendar. In other words, although they had no memory of it, they had actually been in this world for nearly twenty days.

“Normally speaking, a world of such immense size as a macrophage world cluster shouldn’t have an excessively low spacetime density…”

The abnormal flow of time in an abnormal world is often due to a large amount of spacetime exploring into the abyss wormhole, which causes the spacetime density of the external region to decrease, thus making the flow of time in the external region abnormally faster. In extreme cases, it may even be possible for a day outside to be equivalent to a year inside.

However, situations where the time flow rate differs by hundreds or even thousands of times should normally only occur in relatively enclosed small spacetime regions.

For example, the spatial battlefield where they met the old garrison commander on Dark Glow Star was so different from the outside world because its size was too small and it happened to be blocking the exit of the Abyss Hole.

The problem is that the Macrophage world cluster is a colossal entity with a radius of 2.19 light-years. Even if a world cluster of this size has abyssal wormholes at the level of abyssal voids inside, it can only disrupt the flow of time in the entire spacetime by 2 to 3 times compared to the outside world.

This is why he dared to request permission from the major to enter the Macrophage world cluster to conduct an investigation. After all, according to his initial plan, even if the flow of time inside the Macrophage was abnormal, they would only need to hold out for a little over a week at most before receiving rescue from Yan Yi. But now—

"The best-case scenario right now is that Yan can rush in and rescue us in a second, while the worst-case scenario is..."

Xin Lailai murmured, looking at the time displayed on the branded interface in front of her, a solemn look flashing in her eyes.

—The worst-case scenario is that Yan Yi has actually entered this world, but has failed to bring about any change.

After all, considering the rules and concepts that have developed within this world, which are similar to a notary system, it would be somewhat too much of a stretch for even a monster like Yan Yi to fight against such a thing on his own.

"However... it shouldn't have come to that."

Although the concept of resistance as a notarized system is somewhat exaggerated, the other party is, after all, an ultimate monster who has tempered his soul to the point that it is comparable to, or even surpasses, the will of the world.

If such monsters had truly entered this world, even if they couldn't be rescued, they shouldn't have left without causing any trouble.

Therefore, rather than whether Yan Yi had entered this world, Xin Lailai was more worried about something else:
"The Death Slayer, and Yamu, I wonder how they are doing..."

Xin Lailai did not regret her decision to enter the Macrophage World Cluster. After all, just as mentioned before, even if they chose to escape here, they would inevitably be assigned by the Paradise to investigate the Macrophage World Cluster in the next world.

On the contrary, if they take the initiative to come in and investigate during the expedition, they can use their position as majors to directly call Yan Yi, who would normally have to wait at least a month after they lost contact before they could launch an attack, to come and provide rescue.

But enlightenment is enlightenment, and reality is reality. In the current situation, it is obviously impossible for them, as captains, not to worry about Amu and the Deathbringers, who have also entered the Megaphalloid World Cluster.

"There are no signs that this world has been corrupted by the Netherworld, and our message did not mention anything about it..."

Whether they died because of the urgency of the situation, leaving no time to leave any information related to the Death Bearers and Yamu, or because they didn't have time to reunite with the Death Bearers and Yamu before their deaths, thus failing to leave any message... at least from the current situation, the Death Bearers and Yamu have not chosen to use the Seed of the Netherworld and the Seed of the Boundary Lightning.

"Is it like us, deciding to fight against the world's encroachment in other ways, or..."

Xin Lailai pondered, glancing at the clothes she was wearing and the surrounding cemetery. Her eyes flickered, and a certain possibility came to mind.

The Death Bearer and Amu... may not exist in this world.

Judging from the clothing, the scale of the cemetery, the speech of the nameless nun, and the burial goods around them, this world doesn't seem to be a world that has come into contact with the stars; instead, it's filled with a medieval atmosphere. Combined with the fact that the flow of time they've experienced is far beyond their expectations, they are likely currently in a single abyss world within the Macrophage world cluster, a world with its own spacetime barrier. This would explain why the spacetime flow they've experienced is so much slower than anticipated.

If that's the case, then there are only two possible outcomes for Yamu and the one who takes the death.

The first type came into this world with them and used the same method of 'resurrection' as them, and is now located in some corner of this world.

The second possibility is that Amu and the Deathbringers are not in this world at all, but somewhere else.

As for whether there is a third possibility, the answer is yes, but the probability is extremely low.

Assuming this world is indeed a single world with its own spacetime barrier, and that Yamu and the Death Keepers came in with them, then given the bizarre nature of this world, it's likely that as soon as they landed, the Death Keepers and Yamu would have already thrown out a Netherworld Seed and a Boundary Lightning Seed, and then escaped using the space bombardment device.

Since they have appeared here, and there are no signs of this world being corrupted by the Netherworld or by the Boundary Lightning, it means that the situation described above is most likely not to have occurred.

Based on this point, the first of the two possibilities mentioned above can actually be ruled out directly. After all, in terms of personality, it is really hard for him to think of any reason why Yamu and the Death Bearer would give up the Seed of the Boundary Lightning and the Seed of the Netherworld and instead choose to be 'resurrected' like them, and even actively delete their previous memories and records in the brand.

In other words——

Are we actually more likely to enter this world alone?

As Xin Lailai pondered, gazing at the grayed-out contact list at the edge of her vision, she felt a strange sense of relief.

At least, they weren't completely wiped out.

The situation in this world is too bizarre. Rather than the three of them perishing here, he would rather Yamu and the Death Seekers were still in the outside world searching for other methods.

After all, when it comes to the ability to survive in extreme environments, they, with their eternal soul cores and numerous physical backups, are far superior to the Deathbringers and Yamu. Their presence here is the best proof of that.

"Nearly twenty days, and it also possesses a kind of highly corrosive concept of rules. If we had fallen into this world as soon as we entered the Macrophage world cluster, the spatial bombardment device would probably have been corroded into a piece of scrap metal by now..."

In fact, there's no need to estimate. Regardless of the current situation, they were definitely with the space bombardment device when they landed. However, they ultimately did not choose to escape using the space bombardment device. Instead, they used the extreme method of 'resurrection' to integrate themselves into this world, which already says a lot.

"So, in other words, the only way to save ourselves is to start with the problems of this world itself...?"

Their means of escape are most likely obsolete, so they are left with only one option:

— Directly eliminate the 'anomaly' in this world and solve their survival problem at its root!
Although the difficulty of this problem is probably beyond their imagination, they cannot give up here so easily before seeing a conclusive result.

As for now...

"Is the first thing to solve the problem of weapons and armor?"

The only clue to break the deadlock is the path of the nameless nun. To continue along this path, one must reach the sacrificial site she mentioned and survive the things she warned about.

"Huh? Lai Lai, look over there! Those things look like they were placed there specifically for this purpose?"

As Xin Lailai pondered and was about to search for any usable tools around him, Ling Yuzi, who was sharing his view, suddenly spoke up, guiding him to look at an inconspicuous corner.

"This is……"

Seeing this, Xin Lailai's eyes flickered slightly, and she quickly walked over to look at the things neatly placed there:
The rattan armor that smelled sour from being soaked, the longsword that was rusty and slightly chipped, the small round shield covered in cracks, the outer robe covered in patches, the moldy wooden bow, and the arrows that were almost broken.

Without a doubt, in terms of equipment quality, these things are not even usable, but compared to the things around the cemetery that are already ready to be buried, this is already the most 'top-quality' set of equipment in the area.

"Did she prepare this for us...?"

"Hmm...she seems to be a very nice young lady."

"We still can't be too careless. After all, we warned ourselves to be careful of 'flames' before we died. Judging from her words, she must have a close relationship with the 'flames' we mentioned before we died."

Xin Lailai spoke, but still carefully put the [Nameless Nun's Soul] into her storage space, picked up the equipment in front of her, and while putting it on, examined the item information displayed on the gold and red interface:

……

A worn-out iron sword

Strength: F-
Agility: G
Combat Skill: Ready Stance

Synopsis: The nameless rusty sword, whose owner is long gone, is perhaps destined to remain here forever, like the skeletons in the heroes' graveyard.

……

"It's very different from the equipment descriptions in the amusement park!"

"Indeed, it has neither attack power nor durability, nor any specific equipment effects. It seems to exert its power according to our physical attributes, and there's also this combat skill..."

Xin Lailai stared thoughtfully at the equipment description before her, while Ling Yuzi, who was curiously examining the other equipment with his other eye, suddenly spoke up:

"Lai Lai, look! There's a letter here!"

letter?
Upon hearing this, Xin Lailai's eyes flickered, and she immediately looked in the direction Ling Yuzi had indicated. Only then did she realize that in the pocket of her coarse cloth outer robe, there was an envelope that looked so clean that it seemed out of place with its surroundings.

"It seems she left this for us. Let's open it and see; there should be some useful clues inside."

"Ok!"

As Xin Lailai spoke, she allowed Ling Yuzi to control her body to take out the envelope, open it, and carefully examine its contents.

……

(End of this chapter)