Chapter 3463: Looking Toward the Future

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Xia Duo's understanding of Time Force is still very limited, but in his view, rather than consuming Time Force to increase the efficiency of searching the Time Line, it is better to consume Time Force to create the Time Line he needs.

The "Time Line" is conceptually existent, not a physically real object; when Xia Duo is in the Main Plane, the period he experiences from the past to the present is the current Time Line.

And as long as the current Time Line exists, any other Time Lines—no matter how many there are—can be considered non-existent.

After realizing this, Xia Duo simply stopped obsessing over searching through the near-infinite possibilities of the Time Spring, and instead used Time Force as a basis to actively shape the future he needed.

And because the future is infinite, even if this future is something he imagined out of thin air, the possibility of it being realized still exists, though there is a difference: the amount of Time Force consumed.

Xia Duo was mentally prepared for such a result; after all, one cannot expect the consumption of Time Force to be the same for defying the heavens to change fate as it is for going with the flow!

From another perspective, the probability of events that defy the heavens and change fate occurring is extremely low, while going with the flow is the majority; how many individuals caught in the torrent of real history can make the most correct choice at the right time?

It is conceivable that if one wants low-probability events to replace high-probability events, how can it be done without paying a price?

If Xia Duo did not need to change the outcome of the Xiangshui River Battle, he would have no need to consume this Time Force, but since he wants to change it, paying the price is only right and proper.

The higher the degree of change, the greater the price, which also aligns with his simple prior psychological expectations.

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Soon, Xia Duo found a Time Line where the Alliance won the Xiangshui River Battle, but he did not just look at this scene; with the help of Time Force, he also conducted an investigation into the development of the situation beyond the Xiangshui River Battle.

The Alliance winning the Xiangshui River Battle counts as defeating the Illuminati at a key Node, but the Alliance has little awareness of this, whereas the Illuminati, as the enemy, knows the importance of this battle.

After the Alliance won the Xiangshui River Battle, the Illuminati immediately accelerated the progress of their ritual, and their speed was so fast that the Alliance was caught off guard for a time; among all the battles at the Time Signal Sources, the win rate continued to fall, and the speed of the decline was getting faster and faster.

Ultimately, before he collected the Time Force to conduct the ritual, the entire Northland and even a wider area fell into a mass of Space-Time Mist, and the future thereafter was even more hazy, falling outside the scope of Xia Duo's prophecy.

Xia Duo guessed that if he chose this Time Line, the Illuminati might complete the ultimate ritual before he could even choose another Time Line, and then, in order not to lose completely, he would only be able to destroy the Illuminati's ritual site in the Underdark in advance.

But this could only stop the opponent's plan to reshape the Time Line and have the Elan Civilization replace the nations of the Main Plane; for the Alliance itself, the currently unsolvable Space-Time Mist covering the entire Northland effectively meant losing this war.

Without a doubt, this is a lose-lose ending!

Furthermore, once he chooses to swap to this Time Line, it means he has completely lost the possibility of a counterattack, because in this Time Line, he did not have time to go to Beilunuo to obtain Time Force.

"Is the Illuminati truly this invincible?"

Xia Duo is very clear that the Illuminati's direct combat power is not much stronger than an ant to the entire Northland Alliance; what truly makes the Illuminati difficult to deal with is their Time-Involving Spell, or rather, Dafuni's Time Force.

In the face of the great power of time, even the most united and powerful alliance has countless cracks and weaknesses; as long as they are targeted one by one at the level of the Time Line, it is almost impossible for the Alliance to win.

It was precisely after obtaining Time Force and conducting research on it that Xia Duo learned how difficult the current Illuminati is; this difficulty does not lie in how strong the opponent's hard power is, but in the fact that even if one knows the opponent's methods, it is very difficult to have countermeasures.

With the help of Divine Envoy Power, he can anchor the established past where the Alliance won in a local battlefield, and through such means, he can delay the Illuminati's ritual progress, but it is only a delay; as long as the Illuminati can win, the progress continues to advance.

Moreover, to anchor the past, the Alliance must at least be able to win a battle first; if they lose, anchoring instead helps the Illuminati completely lock in the victory.

Looking at the Strange Crystal in his hand, which was already somewhat dim compared to the beginning, Xia Duo could not help but feel immense pressure surrounding him from all directions.

This is his and the Alliance's only means of counterattacking and turning the tables, yet the source of the little Time Force he has in his hand is Dafuni; with just this little existing Time Force, he can change the past with the help of the Prophecy Ritual.

Then what about Dafuni, who possesses more Time Force? What kind of scene would that be?

For a moment, Xia Duo even thought about just giving up on the Main Plane; after all, the Tower of Time and most of his subjects had already left the Main Plane, and if he felt guilty, taking Yongle City as an ark to bring more people away would not be a problem at all.

But after thinking a little more deeply, he abandoned this idea without hesitation; it is not yet the time when things are truly at an impasse, at least the little Time Force he has on hand has not been completely consumed.

Furthermore, letting the Illuminati, who can continuously obtain Time Force, occupy the Main Plane is simply too dangerous, and in Xia Duo's heart, there is also a desire for Time Force that is not as calm as it appears on the surface.

As long as he can defeat the Illuminati, perhaps he can obtain the secret of Time Force regeneration from Dafuni, or at least obtain certain clues.

If he misses this opportunity, perhaps there will never be such an opportunity again.

In Xia Duo's hometown, the most ultimate secrets of the Universe are nothing more than space-time and matter, and the Magic world is the same, and right now there is such a shortcut to penetrate the mysteries of time.

If he could miss even this, Xia Duo felt that his future self would definitely slap himself hard.

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"Heaven's Will, what exactly is Heaven's Will?"

Xia Duo does not believe in Heaven's Will, but the real world is an incomparably complex system; no one can fully grasp every detail within this system, and the natural evolution of the system beyond one's own control might be Heaven's Will.

But besides himself, there are countless individuals with free will in this system, and the Heaven's Will manifested from this appears chaotic and unpredictable.

Xia Duo does not believe in Heaven's Will, but the real world is an incomparably complex system; no one can fully grasp every detail within this system, and the natural evolution of the system beyond one's own control might be Heaven's Will.