Chapter 3341: Withdrawing from the Real World, Changing the Past

It was fine not to use Perception, but once he did, Xia Duo almost laughed in anger; Dafuni had actually returned once again to the garden bench where he was currently sitting!

However, Xia Duo soon realized where the problem lay: Dafuni disappeared from the real world (Wide-Area Detection could not find her), and instead of thinking about escaping, she remained in place; perhaps once could be explained as a perverse sense of humor.

But this was the second time it had happened, and it was even under the circumstances where both sides had already determined they would have a confrontation, yet the other party still made such a choice; the reason for this was almost self-evident—

Dafuni had entered the current state of having no interaction with the real world, and she simply could not move far away.

Xia Duo guessed that the other party might have anchored herself to the real world through some method, but had also withdrawn from the real world, and this anchor point might not be some scene or object, but rather him, a living person.

Or perhaps, it was very likely that Dafuni had realized that he, a living person, could serve as a key Node to anchor the real world.

Xia Duo knew of his own uniqueness, but he could not fully know just how unique it was or in what specific aspects it manifested; at least for the moment, Dafuni seemed to demonstrate the ability to anchor to the real world by borrowing his existence.

Since Dafuni was not in the real world, even if Xia Duo wanted to strike at her, he could not find a target at all; perhaps destroying the space directly would work, but in the capital of Yierlan, he was not yet reckless enough to do something so outrageous.

Especially since an Elder of Yierlan had just been assassinated in the Council, such a massive disturbance as destroying space would definitely trigger a violent reaction from the Yierlan side.

Xia Duo certainly did not want to over-stimulate the Yierlan upper echelons, who were already sufficiently on edge, so he chose to leave himself; as long as he left, Dafuni should fall back into the real world due to losing her anchor.

Then what about Dafuni?

After learning of the existence of time-related Magic, he had always held a psychological expectation regarding this situation of changing the past to affect the present, but when he saw such a thing happen before his eyes, the shock in his heart was still incomparably intense.

It was like the relationship between a character in a novel and their historical prototype; perhaps the novel perfectly shaped a historical figure, but the character in that novel could never truly be equated with the person in that history.

Unlike her previous calm and unhurried concealment, Dafuni's state at this moment was slightly disheveled, as if she were enduring extreme pressure or gravity, but she was still struggling to move toward Xia Duo.

There was only one reason for her existence, and that was that the Wise One had artificially shaped her according to his own ideas; perhaps he had referenced the Ailan Elf he had prophesied to perform a reconstruction, but she was by no means the Ailan Elf from the prophecy.

Sure enough, the next moment, even though she was clearly in the space separated by the War Spell 【Wide-Area Prohibition】, Dafuni disappeared again in a very eerie manner.

……

"Caught you!" A hint of excitement could not help but ignite in Xia Duo's heart; the leader of the Darkness Society, the Wise One, who had long been at odds with the various nations of the Northland, was finally about to fall into his hands!

Additionally, his Spell would not stop; in this way, if Dafuni really returned to the real world as he speculated, then the War Spell could immediately take effect.

As his thoughts raced, Xia Duo had already activated the Magic Net to store a Spell and instantly teleported about ten meters toward the direction outside the garden, landing exactly at the corner of a corridor, even obscuring his line of sight, but due to the existence of the War Spell 【Wide-Area Detection】, Xia Duo still had a clear grasp of the situation inside the garden.

Such obvious details, he could not possibly ignore, and upon further detection and comparison, he discovered even more changed details.

In other words, the Darkness Society could not be guided by another Time Line, and it was even less possible that an Ailan Elf from another Time Line had run into this Time Line.

"This—" At that moment, Xia Duo even felt a sense of his consciousness freezing, and only felt a chill down his back.

Of course, he only left physically, and would not even go too far, because judging from Dafuni's performance, the restrictions of this withdrawal from the real world were very large, possibly only within his close proximity.

Of course, emotions were emotions, but his reason told him that Dafuni was not that easy to catch.

But through the Alliance's research on time-related Magic, it could basically be determined that the grand plan the Darkness Society was plotting was indeed related to time; once they succeeded, it was indeed possible to change reality in an instant.

At the same time, the Alliance Mage also confirmed one thing, which was the existence of the Time Line; perhaps there was another Time Line parallel to the real world, but for the real world, everything outside the real world was void and had no real significance.

It was as if the reality foundation of his own existence was about to be overturned the next moment.

As for now, although Dafuni had disappeared from sight again, bumping into his Personal Space meant it was Dafuni's bad luck, and Xia Duo discovered Dafuni again not far from his side.

Perhaps this was not a true change of the past affecting the present; perhaps it was merely reconstructing the matter of reality, making it look as if the present had been changed by changing the past.

At such a distance, Dafuni seemed difficult to locate, so Xia Duo once again witnessed the scene of the other party falling back into the real world from outside the real world; first, a patch of starlight surged from nowhere, and then Dafuni's figure appeared.

Thinking of the danger of time-related Magic, Xia Duo felt that the Alliance's emphasis on this kind of Magic was still far from enough; not only should research be restricted, but it should also be checked constantly to ensure that another Darkness Society would not appear.

The result was obvious; even that kind of eerie starlight Magic was not omnipotent, at least in the Arcane domain, it could not fully contend with the Thought Robe, this Strategic Weapon that could be called a product from the future.

It was just that this time it did not seem to be a simple withdrawal from the real world; Xia Duo clearly saw that the garden bench where he and Dafuni had both sat had inexplicably changed color.

This was different from the previously destroyed ritual, and also different from the Space-Time Mist that might have been caused by a ritual accident; this kind of operation that tangibly changed reality was truly shocking and made one feel fear.

Xia Duo naturally unceremoniously pressed 【Wide-Area Prohibition】 again, followed by a Spell Suppression Field and binding Magic; although he knew that this method, which was enough to catch a high-level Mage, would very likely fail against Dafuni again, he still wanted to see what Dafuni would rely on to escape the strike of his future weapon after losing the means to withdraw from the real world!

Xia Duo saw clearly with the perspective of the War Spell; the moment he teleported away, a burst of starlight suddenly surged from the position corresponding to Dafuni on the bench, and the next moment, Dafuni appeared on the bench with a stunned expression.

And the closer she got, the more dangerous it was.

Seeing this, Xia Duo naturally could not let the other party approach, so he chose to teleport again, only this time he teleported a bit far, almost to the edge of the Linna Nie'ersi Chengqu, and was long since out of Dafuni's territory.