I, the final BOSS of the beta test server!

On the other side, looking at his shrunken body, Barbarossa couldn't help feeling a little dejected.

"Silence Disqualified", this Night Blade that can invalidate supernatural powers seems powerful, but it has no effect at all on the distortion of its own soul.

If I go out into the outside world in this state, I will definitely scare a lot of people. If I don't find a way to get rid of this, I will probably have to stay in the Secret Tower for the rest of my life.

There was news from the academy that this year's round table leader possessed some kind of rule-based, lethal night blade... When she broke through to the sixth level, perhaps she could use the night blade to "kill" the curse on her soul.

However, Barbarossa did not hold high hopes for this. After all, he had a hunch... that his soul was not simply cursed, but had been completely distorted and turned into an inhuman form.

By then, even if the Round Table leader named Axia really broke through to the sixth level, what she could do would be quite limited. Would she let that little girl kill her transformed soul directly?

In fact, he had already prepared himself mentally to live in this way, but this Mystery Tower was too boring. Occasionally, people came to visit, but they were in a hurry to look up information or go to the world of the Last Night. There was not even a single person to chat with.

As a professor at Star University, Barbarossa has no students to teach here.

For the sake of confidentiality, all network signals are blocked inside the Secret Tower, and there is no opportunity to even surf the Internet.

Just then, he heard Rast's words.

"Professor Barbarossa, I'm very interested in what you said about practical training."

"Next time I enter the Final Night World, I will come to visit you again and ask for your practical experience."

The boy's words were sincere, which warmed Barbarossa's heart, who looked like a lonely old man.

Only a certain ferret rolled its eyes at the heartwarming scene of harmony between teachers and students.

Judging from Rast's character... he is probably like Xiao Xia in the past, and has set his eyes on the other person's Night Blade.

This Night Blade is destined to be with me x2.

……

After a brief conversation with Professor Barbarossa, the two men and the beast entered the archives of the Mystery Tower.

What comes into view are thousands of huge bookshelves made of metal, densely packed together.

The bookshelves are filled with a large number of ancient books, volumes, as well as confidential files, archives and evidence.

According to the specifications of the Mystery Tower Archives, if you just search along the bookshelves one by one, you may not find the corresponding files or documents even after three days and three nights.

However, as the Chief Inspector of the Military Department, Ingrid was obviously no stranger to the archives.

She stared at the deep and dark archives in front of her, took off her black silk gloves, and pointed her dark silver prosthetic limbs at the archives.

The next moment, light ancient Aramaic came out of Ingrid's mouth, echoing in the air.

This is an ancient language that is not common in the modern world but is widely used in the night world. It is also a compulsory course for every night traveler in Starry University.

Because of what Dean Yin had reminded him before, Last took tutoring classes in Ancient Aramaic on his hospital bed.

With Rast's control over his mind and memory attic, he managed to memorize the ancient Aramaic vocabulary by cramming in just a few days.

Although he was still quite unfamiliar with grammar and spoken English, by relying on forced memorization, Last still understood the meaning of that long string of syllables as elegant as an aria.

[Full database search: all archives and files related to "Canaan"]

[Restricted search conditions: Confidentiality Level 9]

In order to prevent the secrets from being leaked, the Mystery Tower shielded all network signals and even had electromagnetic interference installed specifically to prevent the use of technological means to copy them.

but--

The extraordinary person who created the Mystery Tower bypassed the computer program and instead wrote and created the corresponding retrieval rules for the archives directly within the Mystery Tower space.

As a result, the search rules established in the space are triggered.

The magic power began to flow slowly, searching, querying, and generating the entire database according to the preset conditions.

The search was completed until the flow of magic power in the archives gradually stagnated.

On the wooden table in front of the three people, two black suitcases with silver metal edging had appeared.

Inside the suitcase, of course, was everything related to Canaan.

Ingrid pointed to the two suitcases on the table and put on the black silk gloves on her right prosthetic leg again.

Even Dean Yin was tactful enough to find a corner and eat some dried fish.

Dean Yin had heard Hiltina talk about their entire experience in Deep Blue Harbor, so he naturally knew how much weight the word "Canaan" held in Last's heart.

Last took a deep breath and suppressed his fluctuating emotions.

Then he opened the first portable safe.

Then he saw a brief file.

At 7:15 AM on May 30, 813 in the Xiahua calendar, an unusually large and violent explosion occurred near the Three Sages Snow Mountain in the northern border of the Western Continent, 800 kilometers from the main peak of the mountain range.

According to a brief account from an eyewitness hundreds of kilometers away, a massive fireball streaked across the sky, as bright as the sun. A few minutes later, a powerful beam of light illuminated the sky. Shortly thereafter, all window panes within a radius of 700 kilometers were shattered.

[According to subsequent confirmation by dispatched personnel, the center of the explosion was a small border town called "Canaan," which completely disappeared in this extraordinary event.]

Because this unusual explosion occurred in the Fares Province of the Holy Kingdom of Flan, it was also referred to by the authorities as the "Fares Explosion."

[After the "Fares Explosion," the disaster occurred without warning and was so unexpected that the authorities of the Holy Kingdom of Farran initially determined it to be the "Dusk Disaster," a manifestation of the remnants of the night world's disaster.]

[However, after sending several night travelers to confirm, this hypothesis was rejected.]

Before the Fares explosion, no unconquered remnants of the calamity appeared within the Western Continent. Furthermore, after the subsequent conquest of the Fifth Epoch's Final Remnant, the complete conquest of all twelve Fifth Epoch Night Worlds was confirmed, and no undiscovered Fifth Epoch Night Worlds appeared.

[Subsequently, after the Holy Kingdom of Fran dispatched a sixth-order expert to the scene to investigate, the confidentiality of the incident was rapidly increased, and the Holy Kingdom of Fran began to implement mandatory secrecy measures, and carried out post-processing and intelligence clearance.]

Because communication technology was underdeveloped at the time and the internet hadn't yet emerged, information transmission relied solely on paper media. Furthermore, the town of Canaan was extremely remote, with no human habitation within a thousand miles, and few people witnessed the incident firsthand... The impact of the incident was quickly suppressed by the French authorities.

The Granville Empire Military Intelligence Bureau, relying solely on spies within the Holy Kingdom of France, was able to successfully preserve the information contained in this file, thereby exposing several French informants, including a Viscount.

The file ends here.

Luster closed the suitcase.

It is now the 994th year of the Xiahua calendar.

In other words, the "Farewell Explosion" recorded in the archives happened nearly two hundred years ago.

At that time, the Western Continent did not even have a rudimentary communication network, and the speed of information transmission was extremely slow.

In addition, local officials quickly handled the intelligence and suppressed public opinion.

No wonder even Fanxing University was unaware of it. Only an organization specializing in espionage like the Granville Intelligence Agency could obtain clues from its informants.

Thinking of this, Rast opened the second suitcase.

The first thing that caught my eye was an old black-and-white photo, which, even though it had been carefully preserved in the archives, was obviously faded.

This is the trace left by nearly two hundred years.

But even so, Last still recognized the scenery depicted by the black and white blocks in the photo—

The mountains are rolling, and the peaks are covered with snow...

That was exactly the scenery he had seen in Canaan. As long as he looked up from anywhere in that town, he could see the mountains with snow-white peaks looming in the distance.

however.

In the layout of the photo, the place that should have been Canaan—

A hillside covered in soft green shade, a lake as bright as a silver mirror at the foot of the hillside, and a quiet town nestled beside the lake...

Everything in this memory no longer exists in that photo.

Instead, there was an extremely huge hole that covered the entire Canaan town in Last's memory.

The huge hole was bottomless and looked hideous and terrifying.

It was as if someone was holding an eraser, descending from a higher dimension and landing on the map of the world.

Then, the small town called Canaan and the surrounding world were completely wiped clean with an eraser.

The huge hole and the snow-capped mountains in the distance were both imprinted in the black and white world, filled with an extreme sense of separation and disharmony.

Last just stared blankly at the black and white photo in front of him.

After a long time, he silently took out the remaining things from the suitcase.

The first thing is a jar of dust sample that looks like lunar soil and is placed in a glass container wrapped in foam.

There is also a test report issued in conjunction with it.

[Testing of soil samples from the suspected origin of the "Canaan" archive yielded the following conclusions:]

The laws of space and time in this area were forcibly rewritten and invaded, causing the spatial rules to shatter... ultimately resulting in the phenomena of "space-time erosion" and "space-time annihilation."

[Preliminary assessment suggests the source of this phenomenon is an end-of-era level twilight disaster, a true god's descent, or a rank seven or higher legend using the full power of the Spacetime Night Blade.]

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The soil sample test report was stamped with multiple seals, including those from the Military Intelligence Bureau and various authoritative appraisal agencies...

The seals vary in age; some appear to be a century old, while others were clearly stamped in recent decades.

Obviously, during the nearly two hundred years that the soil samples were sealed in the archives, with the advancement of detection technology, different appraisers had repeatedly tested the soil samples, but they all came to the same conclusion in the end.

Luster gently closed the suitcase in front of him.

Secret files from nearly two hundred years ago...

Combined with the soil sample and the old black and white photo.

These three artifact-level objects in the archives, the information they contain, are connected and interwoven, and the conclusions drawn are concise and credible:

"Canaan" is a small town that once existed in the real world. It was not located in the Granville Empire, but in the northern border of the Kingdom of Fran.

But about two hundred years ago, a disaster named "The Explosion of Phares" wiped the entire Canaan off the map like an eraser.

All that remains in the photo is a void that is out of tune with the surrounding scenery.

Or to put it more directly -

The "Canaan" he had seen with his own eyes and regarded as a safe haven was but a speck of dust in history.

In the real world, this town has long since disappeared.

……

"In the military, intelligence confidentiality is divided into ten levels, corresponding to the level of power involved in the intelligence."

"Level 7 confidentiality means the intelligence directly or indirectly involves Legend."

"The ninth level signifies the descent of a true god, or a twilight disaster of equal power, the end of an era."

"Only a supernatural event of this magnitude could trigger such a large-scale 'space-time annihilation' phenomenon, directly wiping out an area of ​​dozens of kilometers from the world."

"Of course—if it were a Legendary who specialized in spacetime abilities, it could potentially cause spacetime annihilation... but none of the currently known long-order sequences can interfere with spacetime."

"The Space-Time Night Blade is also extremely rare, and both its cultivation and development are extremely difficult. The highest recorded Space-Time Night Blade wielder in the Arcana Tower has only reached the fourth level, and it is difficult to advance any further."

"Therefore, the probability of a space-time legend appearing in the present world is even smaller than the first two possibilities."

On the side, Ingrid added a few words.

She walked over to Rast and took the two suitcases from the boy's hands.

Even with Ingrid's authority, there is a strict time limit for borrowing archives and cultural relics from the archives, and they need to be returned immediately after borrowing.

But the moment Ingrid took the suitcase with both hands, she suddenly noticed that Rast's hands were trembling slightly.

This surprised her a little. The request for assistance in entering the Mystery Tower to search the Canaan archives was sent to her by Hiltina on behalf of the academy. Therefore, Ingrid did not know about Last's past, nor did she know why this junior was looking for an ancient place name from nearly two hundred years ago.

Or was Last just an errand boy sent by the academy?

But since he is valued by Dean Yin, it means that he is quite single-minded, just like the current head of the Round Table named Akshia, whom Ingrid had met before. Apart from the pursuit in her heart, she maintains an indifferent attitude towards everything in the outside world and will not be easily shaken.

Judging from his previous interactions with Last, this junior fellow student, who had a similar background to him, should also have this type of personality. He always maintained an erratic and mysterious demeanor before, and should never have lost his composure like this.

But when Ingrid looked up at the boy's face with some confusion, she was suddenly stunned. She saw Rast, whom she had never seen before.

It was a look that was difficult to describe in words. The light in those dark eyes was as vicious as a sickle, like a violent lone wolf...

But at the same time, his expression was so fragile and confused, as if he was a distraught child who was told by an adult that Santa Claus did not exist and the Giant of Light was just a childish story made up.

It also reminds people of porcelain that is full of cracks, can only be glued together with low-quality glue, and may fall apart at any time.

It was strange, his junior was only at the second level, but Ingrid had already reached the sixth level...

But looking at the terrifying light in the boy's eyes, for a moment, Ingrid clearly felt her heart beating.