Versatile Mage: Unlimited Swordplay, Deconstructing Everything!

Chapter 14: At the end of the lost journey, the totem appears!

At the coal stove at the front of the train, there was a man with a hunched back, who looked like a train conductor, and he was constantly throwing shovel after shovel of glass-colored crystals into the blazing coal stove.

With each shovelful of mud thrown in, the front of the car felt more and more real, as if it was about to break free from the constraints of this false world.

Suddenly, the conductor stopped moving, and the blurry face under the brim of his hat seemed to bend slightly.

"It's been so many years, has someone finally come to the front of the car?"

"Are you alive or dead?"

The white broken-blade sword pointed at the conductor's heart. If any dangerous situation arose, he would immediately pierce the heart of the person in front of him.

The wind was howling. Lin Ling was carrying Lingling on his back. Behind them, there were no carriages. Only the front of the train was roaring along the tracks.

"I should have died fifteen years ago, but I've survived until now, waiting for you to cross the train and reach the front."

The gray hat flew high into the sky in the wind, revealing the terrifying face underneath.

The flesh on the left half had completely rotted away, leaving only the white bone shell, while the right half of the face was intact, healthy and rosy.

The strong contrast made Lin Ling and Lingling unable to tell whether the person in front of them was dead or alive.

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Hector Benjamin, and I'm the conductor of the Never-Setting Sun."

"The Never-Setting Sun?! Is this the tourist train that mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night in Sun Country fifteen years ago?!"

Hearing the words "never-setting sun", Lingling immediately told the origin of this train.

The Never-Setting Sun was originally a circumnavigating train built by the Midnight Sun Kingdom to celebrate the victory over the invasion of demons. Among the first passengers was the country's first princess at the time.

But when the train passed one-third of the country, this extra-long train with 49 carriages disappeared out of thin air.

No trace of the train could be found no matter what, as if the gods had erased its existence.

"I didn't expect that there are still people in the world who remember this train." The train conductor Benjamin looked at Lingling on Lin Ling's back and tried to show a kind smile, but his face would eventually become a little creepy whether he was smiling or crying.

"We're looking for this guy. Have you seen him on the train?"

Lin Ling took out the photo of the reporter. To be honest, all the carriages of the train were destroyed by him, but there was no living person in them, so he didn't expect to get any information from the train conductor.

"I've seen this woman before. She's the only passenger who got on and then got off again. But this time, she got on the train again and has now become the train's fuel."

The train conductor pointed to the pile of broken glass on the ground nearby.

"I know you have many doubts, and I also know you want to complete your commission. Over the past fifteen years, I've seen countless people like you board this train, but you're the only one who's come to me. If you want to completely resolve this train, blow the whistle three times in a row."

"This is your only chance to get off the bus, and it's also the only way to end this endless journey."

Suddenly, the sound of iron wheels hitting the rails came from behind. The two looked back and saw that the carriage that was completely destroyed by Lin Ling was repairing itself at a relatively slow speed. Perhaps it would not be long before a complete lost train would reappear.

"Lingling, can you pull it?" Lin Ling turned around and said.

"Do you have a trump card to turn the tables, Lin Ling?"

"Have."

He was indeed not lying. Among the Noble Phantasms recorded in "Infinite Blade Works", there was indeed a Noble Phantasm that could break the mystery before him.

This is why he dared to be so reckless. "Then pull it, I believe you, Lin Ling."

Lingling hugged Lin Ling tightly, responding to his decision with her actions.

The conductor made way, and as the yellow whistle rope was pulled down, the clear and melodious whistle sounded three times in succession. The train suddenly shook, and the track changed its direction of extension, rushing in another direction.

"Before we reach our destination, let me answer your questions."

The conductor sat back in his seat and continued adding glass-colored fragments to the coal stove.

"Those faceless people who appear on the train are actually the hollow shells of the passengers who once boarded it. After all their time is taken away, they will become eternal passengers of the train, and their time will become the train's fuel, which is these glazed fragments."

"People instinctively desire things they've lost. These faceless people will transform into the appearances humans desire to see, deceiving those who board the train and ultimately stealing their time. Although they will eventually become fuel for the train, like an addiction, this behavior has no end in sight."

"This train is a train lost in time. Time is the fuel of the train, but it is also the food that causes the train to get lost."

As the conductor spoke, the lost train finally stopped moving forward without anyone noticing.

Finally it stopped in a valley.

Clear stream water flows out from the valley. At the end of the stream, there is a huge blue cocoon-like object, shooting out countless blue silks, connecting to the valley wall.

The bright blue light appears and disappears from time to time, as if it is the breath of a blue cocoon.

"This is.?!"

It’s too exaggerated, this vitality!

From the giant blue cocoon, Lin Ling sensed an incomparable vitality, as if life was hatching inside.

"Lin Ling! Look at that!"

Lin Ling looked in the direction Lingling pointed and saw a familiar stone pillar standing in front of the giant blue cocoon.

Isn’t this the stone pillar in the photo on the blackboard wall!
In other words, the reporter had also been here, and finally reached some conditions, and finally got off the car with photos?
The train conductor Benjamin got off the train and said as he looked at the giant blue cocoon.

"This is the culprit that caused the Never-Setting Sun to become like this: the totem beast—the Butterfly of Time."

"Totem beast?!"

Lin Ling showed an expression of disbelief. He never expected to encounter a totem beast here.

"There used to be a scenic railway along the valley here. When we first arrived, we saw the mysterious stone pillar. But when the princess touched it, the sapphire, known as the Egg of Time, suddenly mutated."

"Later, I realized that it wasn't a gem, but the egg of a guardian beast that once protected the kingdom. It devoured all of our time, and in order to gain more time as nourishment, the Lost Train was born."

"Break free from the cocoon of the butterfly of time, and all this will end."

Lin Ling looked at the giant blue cocoon, and the mysterious clock on the summoning nebula in his body lit up with an unprecedented brightness.

And that mysterious stone pillar seemed to have sensed the call of the mysterious clock, and a deep blue mysterious spell appeared outside the pillar.

　During the period of the new book, it is really important for the author to keep reading. I would like to ask all the handsome guys and beautiful girls to collect it and read it to the end. Thank you!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)