I, with a long knife in my hand, can only do one move

Gresta waved her hand, then immediately came up again and asked mysteriously: "By the way, where is this place? I haven't been out to play in a long time."

, not to mention that I happened to meet Isabella this time. Can you take me around? "

Judging from this tone, Gresta seems to have never sneaked out of the Durnoi Continent before.

"Teacher... I remember you were in the Ultramarine Forest to reflect on yourself, right?"

"Hey~ Even in prison, you have to have time to relax. It's so boring to be alone! How about introducing each other?" Gresta greeted Alikila and Xiaomo who were on the side.

"I really like this kind of boudoir gathering. We get together in pajamas and chat on the bed at night! It's been hundreds of years."

With a wave of the wand, the witch's robe on Gresta's body changed into a nightgown, and the witch's hat disappeared.

"Then, what's your name?" Gresta was the first to look at Alikila. After all, half of her face was covered with a metal mask, and she was the most distinctive among the few with one eye.

"Alikira."

"Where are you from, what race, how old are you? What are your hobbies?" followed by a series of questions, which can be regarded as a model of cross-examination.

"Secret." Alikila snapped Gresta back with just two words.

"What about this little sister... She's so cute, but she looks a lot like Bubbles?" Gresta didn't pay attention to Alikila's attitude and directed the conversation to Xiao Mo.

"Well...that's a long story." Isabella then began to explain Xiaomo's origin to Gresta, and said that although she was dragged here by Arikila this time, but Also found a solution to the problem.

.....

"So that's it, this is your husband's avatar."

"If you say that... you're right..."

"It's Xiaomo, right?"

Xiao Mo nodded.

Gresta pinched her chin and looked at Xiao Mo carefully for a long time, then turned her head and said, "I'm still interested in Leticia's old lover you mentioned!"

Leticia: "Ah!!"

Celestis: "People are busy, so don't cue."

"I don't think there's anything to say... The confession failed."

Isabella smiled awkwardly but politely.

Then I remembered something, and Isabella quickly took out the two sheepskin rolls that had been put away.

"By the way, this is the solution, but I can't understand it. Teacher, do you know such words?"

"Oh? Let me see..."

Gresta took the parchment and unfolded it, looked at it for a while and then shook her head.

"I can't understand it either. This seems to be a very ancient written record system. Although I have read many books, I only know what it is."

"what?"

"This should be a civilization about 6000 years ago, and it doesn't belong to the Durnoi continent. To tell you the truth, I saw this kind of writing from the Book of Taboo."

Book of Taboo! ?

Isabella is clear about the classification of taboo books. As long as it involves spiritual interference magic, incantations, and magic enchanting, they can all be collectively referred to as taboo books.

Consciousness and spirit are linked to the soul, which means that all taboo books must be related to spirituality.

And Celestis is obviously a master of soul science.

"I remember the author of that book is..." Gresta nodded her forehead and thought hard for a while, "It should be called Celetis L. Vitaledi, yes, that's the name. "

"Your memory is really good..." Isabella sighed.

This name is very likely to be the same person as the Celestis I know. Unexpectedly, the clue got a breakthrough from Gresta.

Gresta shook her head and said, "It's nothing. After all, I'm still young, I haven't reached a thousand years old, and I have a good memory!"

"..."

Chapter 22 game, to continue!

Gresta's suggestion was to put this thing away and take it back to Leticia to see, she must know what was written in it.

Immediately afterwards, this matter was left behind, and Gresta forced a few people to chat about other things.

Isabella can understand that it is really difficult for Gresta, who has been living alone in the Witch's House, to find someone to talk to. It is also an accidental fate to be able to meet this time, and to be able to meet Gresta's teacher Isa Bella herself was actually quite happy.

So this time there was one more tenant who was traveling with Arikira.

There are two days and one night before Alikila's expected departure time. After knowing that this is a flea market where you can buy anything, Gresta eagerly wants to go out for a stroll tomorrow morning.

But the late-night tea party did not affect her plan, and the few people were still taken to chat until late....

During this period, Arikila's attitude towards Gresta changed sharply after she explained that she had destroyed an entire continent and cast all sequences of forbidden magic.

However, most of the reasons are actually from Isabella's point of view. At most, it is because of being able to wrestle arms with Leticia head-on, which Alikila thinks is very handsome.

After Isabella yawned No.20 four times, Gresta finally glanced at the time on the wall clock behind her, pamperingly rubbed Isabella's drowsy head in her arms, "It's getting late, let's talk tomorrow."

"Ah, yes..."

"Good night, everyone." Aliki pulled off the hair bow tied with a ponytail, stretched hard, and put her face

He took off his mask and fell into bed.

Eh! ?Can that thing still be taken off?

The loose hair covered the upper half of Alikila's face, and Isabella, who was in a daze, couldn't see clearly, and then drowsiness swept over her, and she fell into a deep sleep.

Originally, Isabella would not have slept in this kind of place so defenselessly.

But... I was being held in Gresta's arms, and I insisted on sleeping on the same bed with her.

Gresta's arms were very warm, and she could hear her steady heartbeat, which also brought Isabella an endless sense of peace of mind, so that she could sleep with peace of mind after a hard day's work.

The lights went out, and in the pitch-black environment, only the ticking of the second hand of the clock echoed non-stop...

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As if reading all the stories in it, Cheng Rang slowly closed the book. He took a deep breath and looked up at Leticia in front of him.

This time, he walked through the chaos and woke up at the end of the truth.

There are two volumes of "Cause, Effect and Price", and I have read all of them so far.

Walking with death, Cheng Rang could not count how many times he opened his eyes on the ground until he turned the last page and he no longer lost consciousness.

The step-by-step learning process is longer and easier to absorb by Leticia.

"Congratulations, you are finally qualified to learn Time Curse." Leticia nodded to him.

Time elapsed at training ground: 89 days.The time lapse ratio is one to thirty.

He did not eat, drink or sleep for 89 days, and the basic rest time was only 10 minutes apart. After such hard continuous study again, Cheng Rang's understanding of cause and effect is obviously more thorough.

At the same time, there is a clearer understanding of the "price".

Leticia's casting of the Time Curse was actually taking advantage of loopholes. She made full use of her characteristic of "not dying", and converted all the varying degrees of price required for all Time Curse into "life".

Sounds familiar.

Yes, paradox.

Time is continuous, or time is discontinuous, just like when you shoot an arrow, during this time, the arrow keeps flying forward, and at this time it is in motion.If time is completely stopped, then the arrow that is flying at a single moment is still in the air, and when the next moment is switched, the arrow at this single moment is still still, in short - the flying arrow does not move.

So whether the arrow is moving or not is related to time. Is the arrow that is still in a single moment at this moment moving or still?

The fact that the arrow is not moving at any given moment does not mean that it is stationary.Movement is not about what happens in moments, but about what happens between moments.If an object is in the same position at adjacent moments, then we say it is at rest, otherwise it is in motion.

But under the influence of the Time Curse, Fei Ya can indeed stay still.

That is to say, between two adjacent moments, although the flying arrow has traveled a certain distance, it is still at the same place.

This is what can be achieved by [Cut], [Edit], [Flatten] on the time axis and timeline.

As with time, so with cause and effect.

However, the theoretical knowledge is complicated to explain after all, and it is clearer to carry out practical demonstrations.

Leticia took a stone casually and smashed it on the ground, Cheng Rang witnessed the whole process.

"Now, recover."

Following Leticia's order, the energy of the spell began to circulate in Cheng Rang's body, and dazzling golden light shone from the sealed hands.

The release system of the Time Mantra is completely different from that of the Lin Mantra and Sanskrit Mantra.To be precise, the release experience of the other two weeks of spells cannot be reused on the time spell.

"First: [Capture]."

Carve the law into the mantra, capture and extract the cause and effect of the released object and its timeline. For example, if you use your mobile phone to record the process of Leticia breaking the stone, then this step is to select the video file on the computer.

"The second step, [Expand]"

That is to open the video file.

During this period, the process of the stone being broken from intact was played repeatedly in front of Cheng Rang.

In general, according to the most abstract analogy, the process of releasing time spells to repair items is very similar to editing videos, but it is quite different from editing videos.

"Step [-], [Analysis Reset]"

Cheng Rang's spirit reached out to the gravel surrounded by a faint golden halo. The moment he "touched", the golden mantra light turned into a bright green, which indicated that Cheng Rang was about to start interfering with the movement of the gravel. 【cause and effect】.

Cut off the cause and effect, and reverse the time axis, then you will get this stone that has been reversely restored from fragmentation to completeness, and it [has never been fragmented]

"The penultimate step: [Interference]"

The modification of the prefab is affected and mapped to reality, commonly known as "preservation".

"The last step - pay the price of modifying the cause and effect."

As before, the mantra, which was flexibly manipulated like brothers and feet, seemed to betray Cheng Rang in an instant, and began to blow back like a storm. They seemed to aimlessly and unstoppably "take away" a part of Cheng Rang.

As for which part--

Before practicing the time mantra, people who do not understand the cause and effect and the price may take a lot of things away from the price.

However, the meaning of the Time Curse is to guide you to [which part] you want to be taken away as a price.

Of course, it doesn't take much to modify a boulder that can be found everywhere to bring it back from shattering.

After all, it is a dead thing without a soul and without life.

No matter how precious it is, like a unparalleled jade carefully carved by a skilled craftsman, in the definition of Time Curse, all of them are dead objects.

Backtracking the dead has the least causal cost, whatever that is.

The spell was running, and the surging energy was guided by Cheng Rang, and then part of the spell power was taken away as a price.

The bright green light dissipated, and the stone lay quietly on the ground, intact.

Mantra energy is born in the spirit, which is the reflection of the soul. In the human soul, there are many "characters".

Those unwavering characters, in the words of Celestis, the master of soul science——

"That's something more precious than gold."

Although gold is still a dead thing that is not worth much price under the definition of Time Curse, but for a universe, the generally constant amount of gold is the standard to prove a large part of its value.

Leticia picked up the stone restored by Cheng Rang, looked at it carefully, and finally put a smile on her stern face.

"Congratulations, you succeeded."

Cheng Rang took the stone handed over by Leticia and grinned.

"How about it, am I a genius?"

"It's still far away. Do you know how long it took you to restore this stone?"

"Ah? Isn't it a few seconds?"

Leticia rolled her eyes, took out her phone and tapped it a few times.

"Three days! Three days!"