Chapter 2555: Mist Event, Climate Anomaly

Discovered traces of Demon Descendants? Or discovered some rare animal?

The difference between these two could lead to two completely different outcomes, and Xia Duo did not want to guess whether it was good or bad for the time being, fearing he would fall into a cognitive barrier of his own construction.

……

As the decoding process advanced, Xia Duo gained a clearer understanding of these future announcements. Right below the announcement of "something discovered in Yierlan and other regions"—

February □□□□, □□□□ Northland Alliance investigation team □□□□ thoroughly □□□□ Mist □□

With the foreshadowing of the previous two announcements, it was not hard for Xia Duo to guess that what followed February should be the abbreviation of the specific year, "Netheril Calendar 840," but the rest remained blurry.

A Northland Alliance investigation team appeared, and "Mist" was mentioned again; it was hard not to suspect that what was discovered in Yierlan and other places mentioned earlier might be the "Mist" mentioned in this announcement.

This narrative style gave one an uneasy feeling.

The next one after that—

March, Netheril Calendar 840, winter extended, blizzards ravaged the Nan Jing, Lord □□□□□□□□□

This one was relatively complete, speaking of the extended winter and ravaging blizzards. The territory scene when Xia Duo obtained these future announcements was indeed in the midst of a blizzard.

But looking at this announcement now, this blizzard seemed to have not stopped even in March. Previously, when Xia Duo saw the blizzard, he thought it was in winter; now it seemed it existed in March, and perhaps it would continue for several months after.

In other words, the blizzard scene he saw in the prophecy might be from several months later.

There was also the fact that he was mentioned in the announcement. Being recorded by Jieyin in an announcement should also be a major event involving the Territory. Xia Duo projected himself into this situation and quickly inferred several possibilities.

The most likely thing he would do was, of course, to dispel the blizzard, but this was not easy to achieve. Such a massive blizzard could not have occurred only in Daxia Territory; it was very likely that it covered the entire Netheril or even a wider range.

Just dispelling the blizzard in his own land could not fundamentally solve the problem unless he kept dispelling it without stopping. This was something a Floating City could do, but Xia Duo felt he probably would not do that forever, but would instead try to solve the problem from the root.

According to previous judgments, the climate anomaly should be caused by the meager power leaked during the collapse of the Dragon Madness Mythallar, and it would become increasingly severe as the degree of the Mythallar's collapse deepened.

Xia Duo felt he should try to solve the problem from the Mythallar Control Center side, but the problem was, according to the March date in the announcement, he should have already gone to the Arctic to explore, and if nothing went wrong, he should be able to find the Mythallar Control Center.

If things went even smoother, he could even eliminate the climate anomaly in advance!

Did having such an announcement mean that his subsequent exploration of the Arctic would yield nothing? This cast a shadow over Xia Duo's heart.

Whether it was that there was no Mythallar Control Center in the Arctic, or that he could not control it, neither was what he hoped to see, but in the Red Heart Alliance Projection Plane, the Evereska Alliance did indeed control the Control Center!

Could there be some key points in this that he did not understand?

Xia Duo felt he had already obtained 91 Dragon Madness Secret Scrolls; his understanding of the Dragon Madness Mythallar, even if not exceeding that of the nations of the Evereska Alliance, should at least not have such an obvious gap, right?

The last announcement—

□□□□□□, Northland temperatures warmed abnormally, thunderstorms frequently appeared in the Narrow Sea, drought north of Ai Sa Ke Ling in central Netheril, blizzards continued in the Nan Jing.

The last one also made Xia Duo feel anxious; the continued blizzards in the Nan Jing meant that the future him might not be in the Territory, or was unable to dispel the blizzard.

……

In the following few days, Xia Duo conducted multiple Prophecy Rituals in succession. Excluding those without an Announcement Delivery System, the rest were more or less the same as the previous prophecies.

And after several Prophecy Rituals, he had roughly completed the major events that might happen in the future. After the Daxia Cultural and Arts Festival, the event he guessed might be the "Mist"—

Also appeared frequently in subsequent Prophecy Rituals, just in different locations, but basically within the borders of the three countries: Yierlan, Keman, and Siluwende.

Whenever there was a time line where this Mist appeared, the Northland Alliance would send out investigators, but they would never return. Those Mists were like black holes that devoured everything; anyone who went in would only enter and never exit.

Under normal circumstances, Jieyin's announcements would be full of the progress of the Mist Event, but later, after the climate anomaly appeared, the announcements focused mainly on the climate anomaly.

Furthermore, Xia Duo also discovered a pattern: whenever there was a time line where the Mist Event appeared, a climate anomaly of low and high temperature cycles would inevitably occur.

In time lines where no Mist Event appeared, there was nothing; what Jieyin recorded were only major events of the Territory or Netheril, such as the largest land-granting ceremony in the Territory, the union of the Netheril Lords, and so on.

As for those time lines where no announcement system appeared, they were basically occupied by war scenes. In other words, the current Northland appeared calm, but in reality, it hid the hidden dangers of war.

But the problem was, Xia Duo was not sure who held the fuse of the war, and who was guiding the appearance of the Mist. The only thing that could be determined was that the Mist was highly likely not a natural phenomenon, but artificially controlled.

But he was not sure why the person controlling the Mist would make different choices; some time lines had Mist, while others did not. This even gave him an illusion—

Was it because of himself, that every time he prophesied, the appearance or non-appearance of the Mist changed?

Reality, of course, could not be that absurd, but the development of reality often ignored logic. Xia Duo was not sure if waving his hand in the Nan Jing would trigger the Mist Event within the borders of multiple Northland countries.

Mastering the uncertainty of the future should be the charm of Prophecy, but this was also an abyss that led people to fall, a poison that trapped one in a cocoon of their own making.

Xia Duo was now full of confusion about the future. He decided to rest for a few days and then continue according to his own plan. Of course, the prophecies of these few days were not entirely useless; at least they let him know the precursors of the climate anomaly.

Next, he should continue to focus on the Mist Events appearing within the borders of Yierlan and other countries. If convenient, he could also observe them at close range; as for going inside, that was unnecessary.

In the future announcements, the Northland Alliance sent a large number of investigators, yet not a single person could walk out of the Mist; Xia Duo was naturally also worried that he would never return.

……

Tower of Time, Aipusi's bedroom.

This was the third time Xia Duo had come to check on Aipusi since he came out of the Stasis Chamber. Thanks to the repair of the link between body and Soul at the time of rescue, Aipusi had recovered quite well since coming in.

"Spellcasting ability should have recovered, right? After recuperating for another period of time, you can have Bishop Anbulier perform a Restoration Ritual for you, so as to completely recover from the aging state of the body."

What Xia Duo did not say was that physical aging was easy to recover from, but spiritual aging was not easy to recover from. Currently, the only way he knew was—

To endure time, using a vigorous body to nourish the Soul; as long as one lived long enough, one would recover sooner or later.