Chapter 2611: Ancient Secrets

Originally, thirty years was already tight enough, but I never expected the ancient Elf to say that without him, the Dragon Madness Mythallar would have less than ten years left.

Just hearing this countable number made Xia Duo feel a sense of dread; if not for this Arctic exploration, when everything became irreversible, he would likely have to become a Plane Wanderer.

"You say you want to try to slow down the trend of the Dragon Madness Mythallar collapsing?"

Xia Duo realized the meaning in the ancient Elf's words and hurriedly asked, "The current era is too far removed from your era, and the Dragon Madness Secret Scroll has been lost, with only partial fragments remaining. If there is no complete secret scroll, I fear it will be difficult to complete the final repair. I wonder if you could—"

"I thought you had already collected the Dragon Madness Secret Scroll! Do you have paper or Gemstones? My time is running out; for every second wasted now, the less time I can delay the collapse of the Dragon Madness Mythallar."

Hearing this, Xia Duo could not help but regret wasting so much time just now, but if time were reversed and he had to choose again, he would still make the same choice.

As for his current self, he hurriedly took a pile of paper from his Personal Space, and also took out quite a few Gemstones, all of which were Arcane Crystals, scattering them onto the palace floor with a crisp sound.

"What pure Energy Gems! There are traces of Spellcasting; it seems your era is also quite splendid! I really want to go to the outside world to see, but unfortunately—"

The ancient Elf sighed deeply, selected an Arcane Crystal, pressed it against his brow, and while casting a Spell, urged Xia Duo, "Ask whatever else you have quickly; once I finish cutting the Soul Fragment, it will be too late."

"What other questions?"

Xia Duo glanced at the glowing Arcane Crystal on the ancient Elf's forehead and asked subconsciously, "Is the Taiquese Yizu really from another world? Do you still have the coordinates for that world?"

"Has your era even forgotten that piece of history?" The ancient Elf showed an expression of displeasure for the first time, but still explained patiently, "The Taiquese Yizu did indeed come from another world; that is our homeland!"

"As for the coordinates, I will leave them in the Soul Fragment, but I must warn you, although this world is facing the crisis of the Dragon Madness Mythallar collapsing, our homeland is even more dangerous!"

"Otherwise, if there had been any possibility, our ancestors would not have fled to this world. So many years have passed; it is also possible that our homeland has long since been destroyed. You can explore it slowly!"

Extremely dangerous? Possibly even destroyed?

Xia Duo could not help but form many associations; could it be that that world was ruined by the Elves? And now the Main Plane where he is located has also been ravaged by the Elves.

The fragmentation of the Single Continent is one such instance, and now there is this historical legacy problem of the Dragon Madness Mythallar.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo hurriedly asked again, "What exactly is the King-Slaying Star? Why does its arrival lead to the end of the world?"

"This question was long recorded in the Dragon Madness Secret Scroll, but unfortunately, you have lost it. Then I will say it again: the King-Slaying Star seals the Ancient Dragon King, or the Ancient Dragon God. Once the Dragon Madness Mythallar collapses, guess what will happen?"

"Can't the seal be reinforced separately?"

"It can, but the difficulty is no less than repairing the Dragon Madness Mythallar. The complete Dragon Madness Secret Scroll also contains the method for dealing with her; you will know once you read it."

"What kind of existence is a god, exactly? In our era, mortals have already achieved Ascension to Godhood; could this not solve the King-Slaying Star?"

"Mortals achieving Ascension to Godhood? Has your era already developed such Arcane Arts? In my era, gods were extremely mysterious and powerful existences. That Ancient Dragon God was actually not sealed by my kin, but rather due to infighting within the dragons; the Dragon King was sealed by his own kind. I remember that after the war was won in my era, many Mages were researching Dragon Magic. Does your era have no remnants of this at all? As for whether the mortal Ascension to Godhood you mentioned can solve the King-Slaying Star, I cannot answer that question."

Hearing this answer, Xia Duo suddenly realized that the Ascension Ritual created by the Elves likely originated from the dragons, but because the era was too distant, coupled with the deliberate concealment by the Elves, the historical thread could no longer be found.

"One more question, it might be a bit presumptuous, but please forgive my curiosity: in your era, did the Taiquese Yizu have gods?"

"That is not an offensive question. In my era, the Taiquese Yizu did not have gods that existed in Reality, but we did have Faith in the Creation Mother Goddess; this is a Faith we brought from our homeland."

"Creation Mother Goddess?"

Xia Duo felt shocked once again. He had actually heard this title many times before, not for the first time; he had heard it many times in Projection Planes. For example, in the first Projection Plane he entered, the Elf family would pray in the name of the Creation Mother Goddess before dining, and there were traces of the Creation Mother Goddess in some subsequent Projection Planes as well.

But this was the first time he had heard of it on the Main Plane. One must know that the current Main Plane Elves only have one god, and Xia Duo only knows the name of one of her avatars—Kelanni—and he had even met her before.

Kelanni's true body has two formal titles in the Elf World: one is the 【Elf Guardian God】, and the other is the 【God of War Victory】, but the outside world generally refers to her collectively as the Elf Main God.

It has nothing to do with the Creation Mother Goddess, and in the current era, there might not be any Elves who even know this name.

Previously, Xia Duo guessed that the "Creation Mother Goddess" might just be a special evolution of the Projection Planes; after all, there were no traces of it on the Main Plane, and if he insisted it was real, he couldn't even convince himself.

But now, he had heard the name "Creation Mother Goddess" from the mouth of a real Elf. Although the object this name refers to might not exist in Reality and was merely a concept of Faith similar to ancestors, the actual Faith was real and existed!

At least in the era where this ancient Elf lived, the Faith in the Creation Mother Goddess was true and real, and the name of the Creation Mother Goddess was by no means completely vanished as it is now.

There must be a great deal of secrecy here; for instance, how did the current Elf Main God appear? Why did the traces of the Creation Mother Goddess disappear completely?

But this question, the ancient Elf before him probably could not answer; they were separated by several eras, and if he could be a Prophet, that would be too fake.

Thus, Xia Duo seized the time to continue asking, "Have you heard of the Eastern World? They call themselves the Heavenly Dynasty people, ruled in turns by the descendants of five ancestral gods."

"Eastern World? Never heard of it; perhaps it was after the era I am in. Regarding our era, if you are willing to advance the time of the Dragon Madness Mythallar's collapse a bit more, I can cut off a larger portion of the Soul Fragment."

"No, no need; business is more important. I was just curious. As long as the Dragon Madness Mythallar crisis is completely resolved, I will have plenty of time to investigate and explore slowly."