Chapter 3455: Alliance Integration

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These Alliance representatives did not ultimately disappoint Xia Duo; he did not have to wait for the full twenty minutes he had given them to elapse. In just about four or five minutes, under the leadership—or one could say "coercion"—of Tili'ao, Dewen, and other representatives who had already clearly expressed their support, they jointly signed the authorization Document.

Furthermore, at Xia Duo's strong insistence, the validity period of the authorization Document was to be calculated from the start of the Tear Drop Lake battle, and would end after the war.

The end time did not have much impact; the key was the start time, as it related to the time Node at which Xia Duo could reasonably, logically, and legally intervene in the past.

Now that the new authorization was in hand, it was equivalent to the various countries allowing him to directly intervene in the Time-Involving Signal source point battlefields within their borders during the decisive battle, through means not limited to directly sending personnel or using War Spells.

This had no meaning for the present world, because no matter how early the authorization was backdated, it was already a thing of the past; but for the true decisive battle on the Time Line, this was the greatest guarantee for the post-war period.

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After obtaining the new authorization, Xia Duo immediately returned to Yongle City and arrived at the Secret Ritual Chamber where he had performed the Prophecy before the battle. Not much time had passed since the last Prophecy, and the furnishings within the Secret Ritual Chamber had not changed at all.

What Xia Duo cared about most among these was the altar located in the center of the Secret Ritual Chamber, which still maintained the Reality he had anchored before he performed that Prophecy.

If he were to conduct a new round of Prophecy, then maintaining the past anchoring state would not be conducive to his current Prophecy; it is best for a Prophecy to use the present as the anchor point.

If the past is used as the anchor, or rather, if Xia Duo does not update the past anchoring state as he is doing now, then when performing the Prophecy, all possibilities from the time Node anchored in the past to the present moment of the Prophecy will occupy the "share" of the Prophecy.

Since the possibilities from that past time Node to the present are actually things the diviner has personally experienced and are certain, the diviner does not actually need the other possibilities for this period; it is equivalent to diluting the needed Prophecy with unneeded Prophecy.

And the act of Prophecy itself is like panning for gold in the waves; the so-called dilution is equivalent to the gold becoming less, while the water remains just as much.

Therefore, even from the perspective of someone like Xia Duo who has just entered the door of Prophecy, when choosing the anchor for the anchoring before performing a Prophecy, or choosing which time Node to use as the starting point, it is best to choose the present, which is closest to the time the Prophecy is performed.

But this time, Xia Duo was not performing a Prophecy, but hoping to change the past; from this perspective, the anchor existing in the past was actually more advantageous to him.

Because the period from the anchor to the present, which should have been a certain past for the current Xia Duo, was not what Xia Duo wanted to preserve; he hoped to find other possibilities within it that were better for the Alliance.

In this case, using the past anchoring became very appropriate.

Moreover, doing this had another uncertain benefit: it could "never meet" the Controller of the Time-Involving Ritual on the Illuminati side, and he would be in a relatively advantageous position.

Originally, Xia Duo could not have achieved this, but the Time Force gave him unexpected support.

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In previous research, Xia Duo discovered that this Time Force, which naturally dissipated from Dafuni's Time Gem and was then collected by him, naturally possessed the effect of enhancing Spellcasting for Prophecy.

Even just holding the Strange Crystal used to store the Time Force he had re-collected allowed him to gain the ability to observe the Time Line, which would normally require performing a Prophecy Spell to obtain.

But performing a Prophecy Spell has many restrictions and requires first establishing a time anchor, yet one could gain such an ability just by holding that Strange Crystal storing the Time Force.

Although it was not continuous and was very unclear—like some scenes suddenly flashing in his mind that he had never experienced before—at first Xia Duo did not think they were Prophecy visions, but he was very certain those scenes were definitely not his memories.

Being able to produce such scenes or perspectives out of thin air is difficult to explain with Sending or Projection Spells.

What truly made him certain it was a Prophecy Spell was the accurate prophecy of the extremely near future—about two or three seconds—which also allowed him to automatically obtain such a future perspective without Spellcasting.

For example, when Xia Duo watched a small ball fall from his hand, he would immediately see the scene of the ball hitting the ground and bouncing, and only then would the ball actually fall to the ground.

The closer to the present, the more precise and clear the Prophecy scene; the further into the future, the more fragmented and blurred the Prophecy scene.

In this regard, he did not attempt much, only stopping after a brief taste, because any attempt would consume Time Force, and for him now, this bit of Time Force, which could be called unique, still had to be used in more critical places and certainly could not be consumed at will.

Although it was only a brief taste, he still gained a great deal, and among these, the point least important to him now but perhaps the most far-reaching in influence was—after coming into contact with and consuming the Time Force, he could already perceive the existence of Time Force.

The feeling Time Force gave him was not like any specific Elemental Energy, but more like a trend, like the ripples generated as the Time Line constantly extends into the future.

But this was also a real and powerful force, powerful enough to change the past.

With his current perception of Time Force, he could not quantify the amount of Time Force, only roughly compare it; this was also the reason he was able to judge the Illuminati's Time-Involving Ritual under Ailan before.

If he could not perceive Time Force, he might have had to find a way to get close and judge from the details of the ritual, which might have delayed quite a bit of time.

If there was any power similar to Time Force, Xia Duo could immediately cite one example: Bloodline Force, which is also a non-conventional and very difficult-to-quantify power.

But compared to the traceable Bloodline Force, Time Force was too elusive; Xia Duo had only collected the Time Force dissipated from Dafuni's Time Gem and consumed them to perform some simple experiments, and he had already gained the ability to perceive Time Force.

If he were to continue researching and coming into contact with it further, would he gain the ability to directly Control the Time Line or even travel through the Time Line at will?

In fact, he could already manipulate the Time Line, but the Time Force he currently mastered was truly too scarce to support him in directly manipulating the Time Line; instead, he had to rely on other methods to amplify the characteristics of the Time Force itself to the extreme.

It was similar to a leverage effect.

And what Xia Duo chose was the Prophecy Spell; this and the Illuminati's Time-Involving Ritual were already two completely different technical routes. Of course, if one were to say which was more advanced, it would certainly be the Illuminati.

After all, the Time-Involving Ritual could already achieve changing the past without needing Time Force, while his current method still revolved around making an issue of Time Force.