Chapter 3466: Another Diplomatic Mission

————It will be later~~

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Having utilized the Astral Plane's time advantage to plan out the next new Time Line, Xia Duo did not waste Time Force locking onto possibilities with extremely low probabilities, but instead prepared to walk the Time Line he had just experienced once more.

Of course, once he began to reshape the Time Line, the future's trajectory would inevitably not be exactly the same as the one he had just experienced; even if he could maintain operations identical to before, with so many free wills in an entire world, there was no guarantee the future's evolution would be the same as before.

It was like a chaotic pendulum; no matter how precisely it was made, and no matter how consistent the initial conditions were at the start, it would eventually become a result completely different from before under the combined effect of numerous variables.

Of course, in real history, there exists historical inertia, and the probability of certain situations appearing is simply higher than others, just as no matter how many final states a chaotic pendulum has, they all ultimately rotate around the center.

Therefore, basically as long as Xia Duo maintained the same operations as the last time, the general direction of future development would basically be the same as the future, but there would inevitably be a large number of differences in details unrelated to the general direction.

After everything was prepared, Xia Duo immediately began to reshape the Time Line; in an instant, he felt as if he had returned to the past, yet the evolution of the previous few Time Lines remained vivid in his mind.

The Time Line he chose was the same as the last one, but he himself had quite a few regrets after finishing the previous Time Line, and since his main purpose this time was to investigate the Xiangshui River Battle, its subsequent evolution would likely deviate significantly from the last time.

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Yongle City.

Xia Duo had just completed a prophecy of the future, but in the very first Time Line, he had only seen some simple future scenes.

For example, the scene of Evereska, which was still docked at the edge of Yongle City, being attacked and crashing, as well as the scene of the entire Northland being covered by the Space-Time Mist.

It was also because of these prophecies that he made the judgment that the Illuminati might attack Evereska, and the judgment that the Illuminati's ultimate ritual needed to be properly neutralized.

And now, he had the previous Time Line's prophecy of the future in his mind, as well as the memories of two Time Line reshapes, which was equivalent to seeing a clearer, more comprehensive future.

If the Illuminati also predicted the future this way, it would likely be far more powerful than any divination Spell.

Because he had already planned the strategy for this Time Line while in the Astral Plane, Xia Duo sorted through his memories slightly and immediately began to act——

First, to ensure he could still have the opportunity to reshape the Time Line, he had to obtain the Time Gem from the Sea Elf Dali as soon as possible, and then collect Time Force from it.

And since the current time Node was still before he summoned the Divine Envoy, and because of the special nature of the Divine Envoy itself, it was indeed the future for him now, but from all his experiences, it was a past that had already been anchored.

During the last Time Line reshape, Xia Duo had not been able to start from this moment; the Time Line only began to become different from what he first experienced after the Divine Envoy was summoned.

But this time, he also had a special technique; since the act of summoning the Divine Envoy had already converged all possibilities from the perspective of the Time Line, as long as he did not resist, he would not be skipped over by this period of time.

Of course, the limit of time he could control was the moment before the Divine Envoy descended; the time from the Divine Envoy's arrival until he parted ways with the Divine Envoy belonged to things that had already happened, and it would connect perfectly with the moment he summoned the Divine Envoy.

That is to say, no matter how many times Xia Duo reshaped the Time Line, or how many times he experienced the same, similar, or different things, all memories of contact with the Divine Envoy only existed once, which was that very first time!

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Subsequently, Xia Duo transferred his consciousness to his avatar currently in Evereska; in the first Time Line he experienced, he had come to warn Evereska, which had made the relationship between the two sides somewhat delicate.

But this time, there was no need for him to warn them, because whether Evereska was attacked or not was not in Evereska's hands, and in the previous few Time Lines, the Illuminati had not subsequently attacked Evereska.

Although this was not necessarily the result of his warning, he had come to this Time Line with a plan anyway; if everything went smoothly, he might not even need to wait for the decisive battle with the Illuminati before reshaping the Time Line again.

Alliance Headquarters.

Xia Duo sought out 【Name missing in source】 alone,

This was his, and even the Alliance's, only means of counterattacking and turning the tables, yet the source of the little Time Force he had in his hands now was Dafuni; with just this little bit of existing Time Force, he could change the past with the help of the Prophecy Ritual.

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

For a moment, Xia Duo even thought about simply giving up 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, using Yongle City as an ark to take more people away would not be a problem at all.

But after thinking a little deeper, he abandoned this idea without hesitation; it was not yet the time to be truly at the end of his rope, at least the bit of Time Force he had on hand had not been completely consumed.

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

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

If he missed this opportunity, perhaps there would never be such an opportunity again.

In Xia Duo's hometown, the most ultimate secrets of the Universe were nothing more than space-time and matter, and the Magic world was the same, and right now there was 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 did not believe in Heaven's Will, but the real world was an incomparably complex system; no one could 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 were countless individuals with free will in this system, and the Heaven's Will manifested from this appeared even more chaotic and unpredictable.

And under such circumstances, personal choices could better highlight one's character: does one believe that destiny is hard to change and thus go with the flow, or does one actively strive for every favorable factor to attempt change?

Xia Duo was undoubtedly the latter,

After pondering for a moment, he decided not to change the result of the Xiangshui River Battle for the time being, but to first explore the specific Positioning of the Xiangshui River Battle in the Illuminati's ritual in other Time Lines, thereby providing a certain actionable train of thought for later changes.