A dull longsword and a heartbroken villager

This is when the elders are truly put to the test.

As a kind, gentle, and intelligent elder, Nick Boras would naturally handle the situation gently.

“Then you can stay with Xiaoyou and stay by Bray’s side.” Nickbolas nodded to himself, thinking this was a brilliant solution.

He can stay at home as before, and Xiaoxue won't object. Being able to be with Xiaoyou, he probably doesn't care about anything else.

"It's settled then! Thank you, Grandma." Xiaoxue happily rushed to Nickbolas, picked him up, and kissed him.

“…” Bray’s face was gloomy, and his right eye flickered with some indescribable emotion.

"An ally..."

“I refuse.” Bray refused decisively before Nick Boras could finish speaking.

If it were an ordinary person, Bray could say that it's just one more person and one more pair of chopsticks.

This isn't an ordinary person, it's a dragon!

“You already have a silver-blooded hybrid and a purebred at home, so one more purebred won’t make a difference,” Nick Bolas shrugged.

“…” Bray’s eyes had already told Nick Boras his answer.

Nick Porras frowned and began to think.

He didn't want to take Xiaoyou back, but Xiaoxue insisted on sticking with Xiaoyou, and Bree wouldn't take Xiaoxue back.

This is really a big deal for the top leader.

“My ally, I have something to discuss with you,” Nick Boras said to Bray, a sudden inspiration striking him.

"Discuss?" Bray looked at Nick Boras with a puzzled expression.

Now that things have come to this, what else does Nick Boras want to discuss with him?

Even if Nickbolas offered him benefits, he wouldn't take in another dragon.

If a single dragon can destroy a country, what are two dragons?

He also had to stuff the two dragons into his ordinary house!

“Alright! Xiaoxue, Bray has agreed.” Nick Boras suddenly shouted.

“???” A big question mark appeared in Bray’s right eye.

He didn't even nod when he said it was okay.

"I have nothing yet..."

“You two, talk to Naruko, then go back with her first. I have some things to discuss with Bray,” Nick Boras interrupted Bray.

This was Bray interrupting Him before retaliating.

Although He is a magnanimous dragon, some things cannot be simply left unresolved.

For example, when you're about to launch into a long speech, someone abruptly interrupts you.

"Wait a minute..." Bray wanted to say something, but stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence.

“…” Bray glanced at Nick Boras out of the corner of his right eye; the guy had silenced him with magic.

Nickbolas's magic was far more powerful than Baffrom's back then, and Bray was immediately silenced.

"Ahem, it's not convenient to talk here, let's go to my house."

“What you said is very ambiguous,” Bray said weakly to Nick Boras, now that he could speak again.

“It’s alright, the Silver race doesn’t mean anything by saying such things to the Iron race,” Nickbolas said.

After listening to this, Bray thought about it and realized that it seemed to be true.

"Wait a minute, don't change the subject. I haven't agreed to let Xiaoxue in yet."

“I didn’t change the subject, because I knew you would agree.” Nick Boras’s tone was full of confidence.

He never considered the possibility that Bray might refuse.

“Little Nick!” Nick Boras clapped his hands and called out.

Then the all-powerful Nick appeared out of the void beside him.

"What are your orders, Great Lord Nickbolas?" Little Nick asked respectfully, flapping his chubby wings.

“Move me and Bray to our house,” Nick Boras said.

Even though he could teleport, Nickbolas deliberately chose not to.

In Nick Porras’s words, He was lazy, but in a very strange way.

“Okay, please get ready, Blakeras,” Nick said.

"Huh?" Bray tilted his head, not understanding what Nick meant.

"My transfer was not 100% successful."

"There is still a small chance of failure."

“???” Bray was stunned, but he quickly recalled Nick’s character setting.

Ah, Bray remembers now, he had tried out Nick's mobility feature before.

“Wait a minute, your home isn’t far from here, walk back.” Bray’s face began to darken.

"It's so tiring."

“Just move on, Nick.” Nick Boras completely ignored Bray’s meaning; he wasn’t going to go back.

"I really think about it!" Bray exclaimed urgently.

Little Nick sat on Bray's head, seemingly starting something.

"real..."

Then Bray's voice disappeared along with his figure.

Along with Bray, Nick Boras and Nick Jr. also disappeared from the spot.

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“Ally, your weaknesses always seem to lie in all sorts of strange places.” Nick Boras looked at Bray, who was lying on the sofa like a salted fish.

“That’s not a weakness,” Bray replied weakly. “Alright, now that it’s just the two of us, let’s have a serious discussion.” With that, Nick Boras jumped onto the sofa.

"If I say no, it won't work."

"Xiaoxue is not going to move in. One dragon is already enough for me to handle."

“Don’t think I don’t know, Xiao You didn’t actually do anything with you,” Nick Boras said casually.

Well, so far, Xiao You has indeed been quite well-behaved.

That's why Bray couldn't find any rebuttal.

Although she usually seems a bit dull, she is more well-behaved than Xiaoxue in some ways.

“Alright, let’s move on to the next topic.” Nick Bolas clapped his hands.

"Little Nick, bring that thing over here."

“Yes, great Lord Nickbolas.” Upon hearing Nickbolas’s call, Little Nick quickly flew over from a short distance away and grabbed a stone slab that was about the same size as him.

"What is this?" Bray looked at the stone slab in Little Nick's paw, puzzled.

“This is a stone slab, the so-called stone slab that can take you back to the ‘past’,” Nicopolis said, making a startling statement.

Bray's pupils suddenly contracted. Returning to the "past"—what a romantic phrase.

"Listen to me before you look on with anticipation," Nick Bolas cleared his throat.

He was initially very excited to find this stone slab.

However, He later figured out how this thing worked, so it suddenly became boring.

“Because a month or two ago, you told me that you saw the ‘future’.”

"So I paid special attention to similar things, and unexpectedly I found such a stone slab."

“Unfortunately, this stone tablet is related to the ‘past,’ not the ‘future,’” Nicopolas said unhurriedly.

"I bought this stone slab from an elven nobleman; it was surprisingly cheap."

It appears that this stone slab was made using several chests of gems and adamantite from Nicopolis.

But it's not a big problem; Nick Boras has many, many more of these sparkly pieces.

Trading those items for stone slabs is a sure way to make a profit.

“Alright, then I will begin to explain this stone tablet to you.” Nicopolas prepared to explain the stone tablet.

"Time is harder to change than space."

"Unless the world allows it, it is not feasible to go back to the past or travel to the future through any mechanism."

"Going back to the past would create paradoxes." Changing the past would create contradictions at this point in time.

"Traveling to the future is nonsense." The future itself has countless possibilities, so which future would one travel to?

"..." Bray was confused.

“So, this stone tablet doesn’t actually take you back to the past,” Nick Boras said in a deep voice.

"Instead, it allows people to experience the past in an infinitely realistic way."

“Hmm.” Bray nodded, giving a look that said, “I should understand.”

Unfortunately, Nick Boras could tell at a glance that Bray didn't understand at all.

"It's like the stone slab allows people to experience the 'past,' and no matter how this 'past' is changed, it won't have any impact on reality."

"Because what is simulated and calculated is a range of independent computational worlds."

"Give me time, and I can make the same thing using my own concept."

"Hmm..." Bray's expression was stiff, but he still stubbornly responded.

It would be a bit embarrassing to admit that he didn't understand at all, so Bray just gave a few perfunctory replies.

“Ally, if you don’t understand, you can ask me,” Nick Boras said, unable to bear it any longer.

"Ah, uh..." Bray stammered, not even knowing where to begin asking.

"My ally, do you remember the game I made you play?"

“Ah, games…” When talking about games, Bray’s most memorable one wasn’t Nick Bolas, but a certain white ball of fluff.

“That’s the kind of thing,” Nick Porras said.

But Bray realized that it wasn't Nick Boras's game, but rather the game made by that dumpling named Wiltron.

That was a very real world, so real that even Bray couldn't definitively say it was fake.

“It seems you really understand now.” Seeing Bray’s enlightened expression, Nick Boras said with satisfaction.

It seems that His explanatory abilities are quite strong.

Therefore, this stone slab can only be considered a toy.

“…” Bray’s eyes were strange when he heard Nick Boras’s words.

After all that talk, it turns out we were discussing toys?

“No, calling it a toy is a bit of an exaggeration.” Nick Boras seemed to realize that his statement was a bit too much.

"For us Silver-class people, it really doesn't mean much; calling it a toy wouldn't be an exaggeration."

“But to you lower species, this is a diary.” Nicopolas likened the stone tablet to a diary.

"The above records events from the end of the Second Age."

"There should be virtually no texts describing the end of the Second Age for the Black Iron race."

Bray fell into deep thought. He had heard about the end of the Second Age many times before, and had met many people who were connected to it.

To be honest, Bray couldn't imagine what had happened back then.

It is said to be the most desperate moment for lower species, but is it really such a desperate situation?

“Want to give it a try?” Nick Boras looked at Bray with interest.