Chapter 3884: Time and Gao Ta

Dusk City, Great Library, Underground Level 5.

Various pipes and cables are distributed and intertwined here, just like blood vessels and nerves in a huge body. These pipes and cables converge on the iron-black metal platform in the center, which has a steel flesh bed style.

A weak figure is lying on this bed. His appearance is very strange. He looks like he is in his 30s, but he shows a particularly old appearance. Judging from the physical signs of ordinary people, some people believe he is 70 or 80 years old.

Several Sun Scholars of the library are surrounding him, and they are using various ways to continue his life. Fortunately, this is the Great Library of the Sun faction in this world. No other faction in this world can continue his life for even half a second longer.

The four Sun Scholars surrounding him at the moment are scholars who have inherited a large number of healing-type "Sun Miracles" of the Sun God Clan. Just in terms of continuing life, the faction of these four people can rank in the top three in the entire Void Myriad Worlds.

This person's name is Ashvis, and more people call him Hand of Destiny · Ashvis. Ashvis comes from the Starry World, which is one of the few big worlds in the Myriad Worlds that is only weaker than the Transcendent World. In addition, born in a big family, Ashvis's talent in destiny has not been buried.

Unlike other geniuses in the family, Ashvis has understood one thing since he was a child: the gun hits the bird that sticks its head out. So he never took the initiative to show his edge, but secretly helped the family to divine timing, predict crises, etc. Over time, even the patriarch of his grandfather's generation regarded him as an indispensable main member of the family rather than a future talent of the family.

Without benefits, Ashvis never shows his skills. Even if there are benefits, he has to talk to the person concerned, and everything is low-key. Facts have proved that this decision is correct. Ashvis did not encounter any too fatal risks until his strength was upgraded to the ninth tier.

Ashvis is not a flower in a greenhouse. This guy is born steady as a dog. Even if there is a huge ordeal one day, he must be tough and cautious in his heart. It's just that being low-key does not mean he has no ambition. From being upgraded to the peak of the ninth tier, he began to peek at the god position of the Goddess of Destiny.

Adhering to the style of being steady as a dog, Ashvis was promoted to Absolute Foreign Qiangzhe, followed by a long and steady accumulation process, until Ashvis, as a destiny-type, reached the peak of Absolute Foreign Qiangzhe. This is actually very rare. Generally, destiny-types reach the middle and lower reaches of Absolute Foreign Qiangzhe and are already remarkable. Subsequent development is not to improve their own strength, but to specialize in the development of destiny-type main abilities.

Ashvis's point of view is different. In his view, if he is not strong enough, after his destiny-type main ability is strong to a certain extent, it will inevitably backfire on himself. This is also why those who have insight into destiny in history have not ended well. If you want to peek at destiny, you must have the qualifications to bear the weight of destiny.

There is a problem: wanting to be promoted to Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe requires massive resources. Even at the lowest threshold, being promoted to the lowest-limit Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe, the amount of resources required is still not something Ashvis can bear.

For the help from the family, Ashvis is not prepared to let his family grow stronger again. He has peeked at the luck of his family. The extreme degree is just like this. Once he forcibly breaks through this limit, his family will indeed be more powerful, but it will face a devastating disaster in a few years.

Wanting to promote an Absolute Foreign Qiangzhe to a Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe, the resource consumption is something that even the Arcane Eternal Star has to consider, which Absolute Foreign Qiangzhe spellcaster is more qualified to be promoted to Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe. Of course, the promotion on the Arcane Eternal Star side is a high-standard potential promotion to Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe, and the resource demand is a hundred times that of Ashvis's low-standard promotion.

Helplessly, Ashvis can only accumulate slowly by himself. He originally wanted to continue to be steady as a dog, but one day, when he divined his future, he suddenly found that the result of this divination was a piece of darkness, which shocked him not lightly. Subsequently, he took a huge risk and peeked at the near future of the Void Myriad Worlds, which was still... a piece of darkness.

This made Ashvis sure that something big would happen in the Void Myriad Worlds. He must be promoted to Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe before this, so that he can occupy enough vitality in this unknown disaster.

In this way, his style of being steady as a dog has to be slightly changed. Those high-risk commissions in the past also have to be tried to accept, until he received a commission from the Great Library of Dusk City in Radiant Star through the Hunter Guild channel.

At first, Ashvis's heart was rejected, but the Great Library gave too much. After arriving at the Dusk City of Radiant Star, Ashvis still had some hesitation, but after seeing those cursed silver coins, his thought was: isn't it the legendary "Extinction Law Luck"? This is already the Third Era. It is just the luck of an Extinction Law practitioner. It should have been much weaker than the luck of the previous generation of Extinction Law practitioners in the Second Era.

Just like this, Ashvis set up the timing enhancement ritual. When he stood at the center of the destiny formation and started this formation, he found that the situation was wrong. In the past, enhancing luck was his active transformation of world power into "Destiny Aura," which was added to the target.

But this time, Ashvis felt the world power surging over. He was forced to become a "World Power -> Destiny Aura" converter from the original controller. What is even more terrifying is that this conversion requires consuming his luck energy, but not long after the ritual started, his luck energy was exhausted, and it was changed to forcibly consuming his source vitality.

At the moment, Ashvis is lying weakly on the bed. He raised his right hand tremblingly. He has forgotten how many times he has tried to interrupt the ritual, but the next second, his hand was flicked away with a slap.

Seeing this, a Sun Scholar put Ashvis's drooping right arm back on the bed and patted Ashvis on the shoulder, as if comforting Ashvis that with the few of them here, Ashvis definitely wouldn't die.

"I want to see that... Extinction Law practitioner."

Ashvis spoke tremblingly. A Sun Scholar with a beard and braid sighed and said truthfully: "Child, it is difficult for us to satisfy your request."

"Why..."

Ashvis stared wide-eyed.

"Actually, we are currently hostile to that Extinction Law practitioner."

"?"

Ashvis almost sat up in shock from his illness. He really wanted to roar: 'Are you sick? Helping the enemy enhance luck, and still hiring people at a high price to enhance the other party's luck.'

Seeing that Ashvis's emotional fluctuations were relatively large, the elderly Sun Scholar comforted: "If there are no accidents, that Extinction Law practitioner should have arrived at the Ancient Gao Ta. After he defeats the Gao Ta Knight Commander, he will definitely return to Dusk City to rest. At that time, we can meet him."

"So?"

"So you persist for a few more days."

"A few... a few days?!"

Ashvis was so angry that his lips were trembling. He was able to reach today's strength, naturally not the kind of person who is particularly afraid of death, but this way of dying is too suffocating.

Ashvis closed his eyes, and at the same time swore in his heart that he would stay as far away from that Extinction Law practitioner as possible in the future. However, what he didn't know was that sometimes things go against his wishes.

Holy Heart City, in the Bone Auditorium on the southwest side.

The black tentacles gradually dissipated in the air. The Priest, the Platinum Apostle, and the Abyss Archbishop were standing or sitting. The Bone Auditorium, which had just experienced a death battle, was in a mess. Obviously, the Priest team defeated their second strong enemy, the Undead Ascetic.

"Priest, how did your plan with Bai Ye go?"

The Abyss Archbishop broke the silence. The plan he mentioned was the plan that the Priest secretly contacted Su Xiao to conspire to kill the Abyss Archbishop.

"It went well."

The Priest had no panic about being exposed, but was as calm as chatting.

In fact, before the Priest went to cooperate with Su Xiao, he had already told the Abyss Archbishop that he would unite with Su Xiao to backstab him.

In this way, no matter how you look at it, the Priest is setting a bait, using backstabbing the Abyss Archbishop as an excuse to prepare to calculate Su Xiao.

But if you really think so, it's just on the second floor. The Priest clearly knows that it is impossible to secretly unite with Su Xiao without alarming the Abyss Archbishop. The Abyss Archbishop's dark-type abilities are pervasive.

Since that's the case, it's better to play with open cards. The Abyss Archbishop's dark-type abilities are pervasive? That's good. Under the monitoring of the other party's abilities, unite with Su Xiao openly and honestly, to the extent that the Abyss Archbishop is difficult to doubt.

The Platinum Apostle witnessed all this, but he didn't want to say anything, because his plan could only be implemented after the Abyss Archbishop was backstabbed.

It's strange to say that such an old yin-b team of three people with thousands of hearts combined, their efficiency in dealing with strong enemies is actually very high.

Ancient Gao Ta, top floor, dilapidated room.

Ding~

Su Xiao flicked a soul coin and caught it with one hand. He deliberately didn't perceive the flight trajectory of the soul coin and the front and back situation, just guessed that the front was facing up in his heart.

After opening his palm, well, the back was facing up.

Su Xiao flicked the soul coin again, and then guessed wrong again, which gave him a certain understanding of his own luck. The addition from that unknown destiny-type was obvious at the beginning, but as time passed, this addition became intermittent.

Getting up from the crystal chair, Su Xiao came to the door. After pushing the door open, he arrived at the central area of this floor. The center here is the elevator shaft. Because of the long years, the cylindrical guardrail around the elevator shaft had decayed. Looking down, it was blocked by dark purple substances.

More than 95% of the entire top floor area is occupied by dark purple substances. Su Xiao perceived the positions of Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja, and found that they were in the area on the other side of the top floor. That side was empty, with only stairs leading to the lower floor.

Su Xiao's area has a total of four doors, as well as stairs leading further up. If he continues to go up, he will reach the top of the Ancient Gao Ta. This can complete a hunting bounty.

"Bounty 3 · Gao Ta: Climb to the top of the Ancient Gao Ta."

Su Xiao estimated that the strong enemy to be fought this time should be at the top of the high tower. And Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja, because the space situation of the Ancient Gao Ta is too special, whether it is summoning them over or using the teleportation array, the risk is too high.

And this time, the Gao Ta Knight Commander to be fought is ten-to-nine the kind of powerhouse who has traversed the tragic battlefield all his life. Attacking such a powerhouse in groups will likely trigger some kind of passive ability of the other party, leading to his combat power rising again.

Therefore, Su Xiao let Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and the others explore the bottom of the high tower to see if they could find any rare treasures. After receiving Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's reply, he closed the team channel and looked at the four doors on the semi-circular wall on the right.

Dong dong dong.

Su Xiao tried to knock on the first door. He had a feeling that this gray-brown door, engraved with unknown patterns, might have some unimaginable powerful ability.

"Who!"

The anxious and neurotic voice came from inside the door.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, and the person inside fell into a short silence. But the person inside obviously didn't have enough patience and asked anxiously:

"Is it finally the Queen who wants to summon me?"

The person inside the door was excited. Hearing this, Su Xiao's brows frowned a bit. He tentatively pressed one hand on the wooden door, 1 second, 2 seconds...

Ka ka ka~

Cracks began to appear on the wooden door. He raised his hand, and the cracks on the wooden door gradually recovered, which made him determine one point: this wooden door and everything behind the door are actually not at his time point.

A more precise way of saying it is that the time inside the door is sealed, just like a bug sealed in amber. When Su Xiao, who has a normal "time concept," touches this time door that has existed for I don't know how many tens of thousands of years, it will cause it to be gradually synchronized, and then pass through millions of years in an instant, causing this wooden door and everything in it to turn into fly ash in an instant.

"Answer me, is it the Queen who wants to summon me? Or did the seven great knights under the Sun King attack? We have Lord Kuros, the knight commander who symbolizes the supreme moonlight on the high tower! The final winner must be us. Also, you must tell the Queen for me, it wasn't me who killed the Wolf King, it wasn't me! The Moon Wolves just left temporarily, they didn't completely lose hope in us, yeah, that's it, the Moon Wolves just left temporarily, we killed the Wolf King, it was also forced by helplessness, yes, that's it, it won't be wrong."

The person inside the door muttered to himself, the more he said, the more lost he became. After his emotions calmed down a bit, he said:

"I seem to feel that a long time has passed, and it seems... not a moment has passed. Ah~, I remember, I killed the Wolf King, and the Queen imprisoned me in the time cage at the top of the high tower. You are not from this era, stranger."

The person inside the door laughed a few times, and then said:

"I actually didn't want to kill the Wolf King, but it was about to lose control. We went to the Dark Domain to check the situation of the abyss passage, and it actually talked to me about the dark knowledge from the abyss, whispering in my ear, I warned it, and it didn't admit it. We are abyss monitors, how can we peek at those dark knowledge? I killed the Wolf King who was about to lose control, and those Moon Wolves actually asked the Queen to execute me. It's too absurd, and what's more absurd is that the Queen actually ordered me to be imprisoned at the top of this high tower. You say, is this very absurd."

The person inside the door became more and more angry.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't answer. He pressed one hand on the door, and cracks began to spread on the door. This person inside the door cannot be judged by good or bad. He was once an abyss monitor of the First Era, but he was gradually eroded by the abyss force after long-term contact with the abyss force, and lost control to the point of killing the contemporary Wolf King of the Moon Wolf clan.

Even considering the loss of control enhancement due to abyss erosion, which increased combat power, this abyss monitor could kill the Wolf King and return to the high tower afterwards. Presumably, his original strength should be on par with the Wolf King.

The cracks on the door became more and more, and finally burst open. Everything inside the door turned into ash in a short time. The reason for doing this is to reduce the risk of facing the Gao Ta Knight Commander later as much as possible. Su Xiao didn't want to face a strong enemy like the Gao Ta Knight Commander and suddenly have an abyss monitor of the First Era appear, that would be certain death.

【Hint; You have obtained Abyss Monitor's Soul Remnant (Special Item).】

【Holding this item to the Black Fog Island · Wolf Tomb can upgrade the "Overlord Equipment · Silver Moon Blade" once.】

【Hint: After this upgrade, the "Overlord Equipment · Silver Moon Blade" will reach its absolute limit strength.】

This was an unexpected gain. Su Xiao collected all the 【Soul Remnants】 drifting in mid-air and turned to leave the room that was already empty.

Coming to the second time door, Su Xiao was about to raise his hand to knock on the door, but this door shattered. Everything inside the door also turned into fly ash. It seems that this time door has become unstable to the extreme. Not to mention knocking, just approaching it will cause it to shatter.

Su Xiao walked into the second room and found many engraving traces on the wall. These should be traditional summoning formations, and they might be the highest-tier traditional summoning formations. The so-called traditional summoning formations are those performed with Charisma attribute as the core attribute and formation studies as an auxiliary.

Su Xiao's summoning formation is completely centered on formation studies, without any Charisma attribute addition at all, or rather, he is avoiding the negative impact of his own Charisma attribute on the summoning formation as much as possible.

Although Su Xiao basically couldn't understand the traditional summoning formation knowledge on the wall, these knowledges are very valuable. He took out paper and pen to record. Such high-level formations certainly cannot be recorded by taking photos. The main thing is to record the charm.

A moment later, Su Xiao put away his notebook and turned to leave. Not to mention recording the charm, he found that the things he drew, compared to the traditional summoning formations on the wall, were no matter how they looked, they were different. Clearly, it was a 100% imitation, but after drawing and looking up, the shape was indeed the same, but there was a feeling that it didn't match.

Preliminary analysis, Su Xiao felt that his Charisma attribute as high as -26 could not understand the traditional summoning formation with Charisma attribute as the core attribute at all.

Stopping at the third time door, Su Xiao knocked on the door.

Dong dong dong.

The messy noise inside the door suddenly disappeared.

"Hello."

The voice of a little girl came from inside the door.

"..."

Su Xiao was silent for a few seconds, then turned and walked towards the fourth door. Facing the abyss monitor just now, he could keep his hand on the door and let it sleep forever through time synchronization, minimizing unknown risks.

But at this moment, the little girl inside the door, Su Xiao didn't intend to touch this time door again. The risk is too high. First of all, imprisoning a criminal in a time door is likely a right that only the Dark Moon Queen has.

From many signs, the Dark Moon Queen is not cruel, and it is basically impossible to imprison an innocent little girl in a time door. Even if she really did this, an innocent little girl couldn't exist in the time door until now. The time inside is indeed stagnant, but inside, one can feel the passage of time outside. This kind of pain, even if the will is firm and the Willpower attribute is above 300 points, will go crazy because of this.

Adding these conditions together, after knocking on the time door, a sweet little girl's voice came from inside, and she also said "Hello." Facing such a situation, the most correct choice is to walk away immediately.

The existence inside the time door seemed to have discovered Su Xiao's move of walking away. After a loud crash, a mixed roar of men, women, old, and young came from inside. I don't know how many sharp claws were scratching inside. The rough sound of biological tissue flowing and rubbing against

Su Xiao arrived before the fourth Gate of Time.

Knock, knock, knock.

After he knocked on the door, it was quiet inside for a few seconds, followed by a sigh.

"Do you have the qualifications?"

An aged voice came from within the door.

"..."

Su Xiao still did not speak. These Gates of Time held too many unknowns, and conversing with the entities inside was a form of causal contact. If he were the slightest bit careless, it could trigger consequences that would be difficult to handle.

"You are not yet qualified. First, go to the top of the tower and defeat the Tower Knight Captain. If you win, come back and find me."

With those words, the faint aura behind the fourth Gate of Time vanished, as if there were nothing inside at all.

Su Xiao walked toward the stairs leading to the top of the tower. As he stepped onto each stair, the surroundings suddenly grew dim. After the surrounding space twisted slightly, he underwent a very short-distance teleportation, covering a distance of only about ten meters or so.

When the surrounding spatial mist dissipated, Su Xiao was already standing at the top of the ancient high tower. The circular top of the tower was vast and flat, with a diameter of several hundred meters, and there was a parapet less than a meter high at the edge.

The prompt for the completion of the hunting bounty appeared, but Su Xiao did not look at it, because at the center of the tower top, a greatsword was thrust into the ground, and there was no sign of the Tower Knight Captain.

Su Xiao stepped forward and pressed one hand onto the pommel of the greatsword. The next second, everything around him went still, followed by time passing rapidly until a full moon hung in the sky.

Strangely, after night fell, it was neither a Dark Night nor a Blood Night; it was a very normal night. The only special aspect was that the moonlight had a somewhat pale-blue hue.

A black shadow appeared beneath the full moon. As it descended at high speed, a sense of oppression struck, making one feel a weight on their shoulders. The entire high tower seemed to be trembling.

Boom!

The figure landed on the top of the high tower. As he slowly stood up, he gripped the hilt of the greatsword with one hand. As the figure, who stood over three meters tall, held it, cyan patterns appeared on the greatsword, gradually creeping toward the tip of the blade.

There seemed to be murmuring whispers in the air. The figure was covered from head to toe in battle armor, which clung to his body like a second skin; even the joints of his fingers were exceptionally precise. His dark blue cloak showed signs of wear, and the Moon Eclipse seal upon it signified that he was the leader of all Moon Eclipse Knights.

That's right, this was none other than the Tower Knight Captain, Kuros, the final glory of the Dark Moon faction from the First Era's Dark Moon Kingdom.

Under the reflection of the full moon, the top of the high tower was not dark; instead, there was a sense of clarity from the faint light. A gust of wind blew, causing the cloak to snap loudly. After this gust subsided, a torrential downpour began. Raindrops struck the blade of the greatsword and the edge of the longsword, and as water splashed everywhere, the two figures at the top of the tower vanished simultaneously.

Black clouds obscured the moonlight, plunging the top of the tower into darkness. A bolt of lightning flashed, illuminating the top of the tower for an instant as the greatsword and longsword clashed.

Boom!

The large-scale spatial shattering caused by the clash between the greatsword and the longsword suppressed the thunder that sounded simultaneously.

At the top of the high tower, one side was moonlight, the other was blood energy. The two collided violently, each occupying half of the tower top, eroding and suppressing each other. Almost simultaneously, the curtain of rain falling in this area froze in mid-air.

Crack!

A bolt of lightning struck down, hitting the metal pillar on the right side of the tower top. The electricity conducted along the ground, climbing onto Su Xiao and the Tower Knight Captain, then spreading to the weapons held by each, which were locked against one another. Sparks flew as the blades ground together with a clicking sound, and arcs of electricity surged across both weapons at the same time.

The death battle began.