Chapter 365: A Lie from Ten Thousand Years Ago?

High-Energy Magic Ring Zone, near the Gate of Creation.

Luosen and Tiralilin were guarded in the middle by fifty Dawn Sentinels, walking along the still scorching Lava Avenue toward the Gate of Creation.

In the ruins flanking the Lava Avenue, many traitor Dawn Sentinels lay scattered in disarray.

Most of the Dawn Sentinels were completely destroyed; a small portion, having exhausted their energy, entered standby mode.

On either side of the avenue, roughly every twenty meters stood a Deep Purple Dawn Sentinel brimming with energy.

The sentinels followed their every step, guarding them without a single gap.

Luosen looked at the battle log sent by the sentinels and smiled: 'Not bad luck—we nearly wiped out the opposition; only a purple-gold Dawn Sentinel escaped.'

The five hundred nuclear warheads were costly, but they were well worth it.

Tiralilin, however, was very cautious: 'Your Majesty, you must still be careful—the one who escaped is Xise Luo.'

'His Dawn Sentinel is an elite model, its performance over fifty percent better than ours.'

Rosen Ziran did not dare underestimate it, but he also believed that a fifty-plus percent performance edge could not offset the huge numerical disparity between the two sides.

In fact, compared to his own safety, he paid more attention to protecting Tiralilin.

After all, she is the key figure who entered the Royal Artifact Bureau and obtained the Dawn Legacy.

'When will the Gate of Creation open?'

'According to the original puppet setting, it should open at noon, but after so many years I don't know how much deviation has occurred—just be patient.'

It is currently ten ten in the morning, and the two wait patiently about a kilometer from the Gate of Creation.

Rosen Ziran would not idle; taking advantage of this last opportunity, he conducted various combat drills inside the High-Energy Magic Ring.

Whether it was the spells he had mastered before, the two new time spells he had just learned, or various close-combat techniques, he practiced them over and over without tiring.

This is something one must do when entering a new environment, aiming to obtain the best combat training data.

After drilling a while, he still felt it insufficient, because the time was too short and the rate of acquiring new data too slow to properly train Laifu's Heart of the War God.

He thought it over, then, disregarding power consumption, unleashed a newly mastered Time Torrent Domain, creating a domain where time accelerated up to a thousandfold.

To avoid ambush, he also placed around them a thick layer of Ultra-Massive Time Stasis Shield and an equally thick Ring Wall Shield for defense.

Afterward, he entered it to continue drilling.

Time passed minute by minute; it was not until past two in the afternoon that the Gate of Creation finally showed any movement.

The two towering pillars began to tremble slightly, their surfaces covered with countless runes that emerged and emitted a deep purple glow.

Seeing this, Luosen withdrew from the Time Torrent Domain.

Although only four hours had passed outside, inside he had trained for over four thousand hours—equivalent to half a year—gaining vast combat data and using it to greatly refine Laifu's Heart of the War God.

Of course, the power consumption was enormous, consuming a full five hundred grams of Solar Essence.

But it didn't matter, because the Dawn Sentinels carried two kilograms of Solar Essence—more than enough for him to squander.

He looked at the pillars already shrouded in purple light and said softly: 'It's over two hours late; it seems the Creation Bureau's operation has deviated considerably.'

Tiralilin's eyes showed a hint of worry: 'I sense some abnormal time distortion; I hope nothing abnormal occurs.'

Whether there is an abnormality or not, guessing is useless; we must go inside and investigate to know.

So the two could only wait patiently for the Gate of Creation to open.

'Hum~~~'

From the center of the Gate of Creation's pillars emerged a dim purple column of light, shooting straight up and beginning to grow brighter.

When the column became so bright one could not look directly at it, it suddenly split to the sides, forming between the two pillars a bright, neat purple light curtain.

Within the curtain appeared a faint, intermittent image—vaguely, the semblance of a grand hall.

Tiralilin could barely contain her excitement, her voice trembling: 'The Gate of Creation has opened; this is an encrypted spacetime portal. Enter the secret key, and you can be transmitted to the Royal Artifact Bureau.'

'Come with me!'

She commanded her Dawn Sentinel and led the way toward the Gate of Creation.

Luosen hurried to follow, ordering the Dawn Warrior Corps to guard their flanks: 'Don't rush, don't rush—beware of Xise Luo's sneak attack.'

He had noticed that Tiralilin rarely became excited, but when she did, her whole body trembled and her voice quivered—rather amusing.

Under the tight protection of the Dawn Warrior Corps and Ultra-Massive Magic, Tiralilin arrived before the purple light curtain.

She directed her Dawn Sentinel to extend a Spellbreaker Blade; the blade's tip gathered a wisp of purple-incandescent light, then she lightly tapped it against the purple light curtain in a strange rhythm.

Each tap left a mark on the purple light curtain; after tapping several thousand times, the marks merged into a single, extremely complex pattern.

The pattern flickered faintly, and the vague image of the grand hall on the purple light curtain vanished, turning into a rapidly inward-spinning, bottomless opening.

Tiralilin immediately said: 'Your Majesty, the spacetime passage has been opened by me; entering it leads to the Royal Artifact Bureau sealed in time stasis.'

'The passage will stay open for only three minutes—hurry!'

Saying this, she was about to leap in first.

But Luosen stopped her: 'Lilin, don't get excited—first test with a Dawn Sentinel.'

One Dawn Sentinel leapt in; after a while, a flood of messages streamed out from the passage.

The message frequency was extremely high and dense, as if someone had compressed ten years of speech into a single second.

Luosen spread his hands: 'This isn't right—the flow of time inside is indeed different from normal, but it's not stasis; it's a strong time torrent state, with a turbulence multiplier far higher than ordinary spacetime.'

Luosen checked the log frequency sent by the Dawn Sentinel, made a rough estimate, and drew a conclusion.

'Time has accelerated at least a thousandfold.'

The unexpected situation left Tiralilin feeling at a loss and somewhat panicked.

'How could this be?'

'We clearly set it to a thousandfold stasis—how did it turn into a thousandfold torrent?'

'With such time acceleration, the equipment inside the Creation Bureau will soon corrode!'

'No, the Creation Bureau must have undergone some unforeseen changes; the Imperial Treasury cannot afford mistakes, and I cannot betray the Emperor's trust—I must go in immediately to check the situation.'

By the end, Tiralilin was so anxious she was spinning in circles; if Luosen hadn't stopped her, she might have jumped straight into the passage.

Luosen had no feelings for the so-called last Dawn Emperor; at this moment he had a different idea.

"Tiralilin, are you sure Emperor Safinonos told you the whole truth?"

He had spent considerable time with Tiralilin, had used the Natural Scepter to carefully observe her body and soul structure, had also conducted deep soul bonding, and long known she was a pure‑hearted scholar.

Although Orales Safinonos was an emperor of mediocre talent, an emperor is still an emperor.

, as the supreme ruler of an empire, he may be mediocre in magical ability, but he certainly has extraordinary talent in manipulating people.

Perhaps this emperor cannot manipulate those with intricate thoughts, but controlling a pure scholar like Tiralilin poses no difficulty.

Tiralilin had obviously never thought of this; she was shocked: "No, this is absolutely impossible! Emperor Safinonos has no need to deceive me!"

Although she spoke with certainty, Luosen heard doubt in her tone.

Evidently, she had also vaguely sensed Emperor Safinonos's covert methods, so she wasn't very confident.

Luosen said nothing; he continued to command the Dawnbreak Guards.

"Enter the passage in defensive mode; if there are living people inside, switch to defensive‑counter mode."

Two per group, one group charges in every two seconds, continuing until ten groups have entered.

Soon, a vast amount of information transmitted from inside the passage.

To analyze such dense information, an ordinary person would need a considerable amount of time; the five‑minute window for the passage to stay open is far insufficient.

But Luosen's Laifu excels at this kind of task.

Soon, Laifu finished analyzing all the information and summarized it into a brief message: a single noun, 《Closed Backward Barbaric World》.

Luosen felt a strange stir in his heart, about to speak, when suddenly he sensed an extremely faint power fluctuation not far away.

Startled, he had no time to react, and the Heart of the War God, which had been on alert, instantly activated.

He and Tiralilin already had a ring of Spacetime Stagnation Shields around them; now an additional layer of shield was triggered.

The new shield was far more powerful, its radius exceeding five hundred meters, and its stagnation multiplier reached the extreme of ten thousand times.

The instant the shield completed, a violet‑gold Dawnbreak Guard emerged from the air and charged at them at an unimaginable speed.

It was Xise Luo controlling an elite Dawnbreak Guard.

He slammed violently into the outer ring wall shield, then detonated himself! 'Boom—'

A blinding flash of light erupted; the supermassive ring wall shield was instantly shattered by the self‑detonation shockwave, and the remaining force violently struck the two inner layers of supermassive Time Stagnation Shields.

The power of the outer Time Stagnation Shield was instantly and violently depleted, failing at once. However, the shockwave's power was also greatly diminished, successfully delayed by the inner Stagnation Shield.

Meanwhile, the Heart of the War God continued rapid spellcasting, and a third supermassive Stagnation Spell had already formed.

Just then, another change occurred! Three fierce jets shot out suddenly from a mass of air a kilometer away.

These jets pierced the three Dawnbreak Guards' bodies as easily as an iron spear through tofu, finally striking the newly formed Spacetime Stagnation Shield.

The jets were instantly slowed by the shield by a factor of ten thousand, yet their absolute speed remained considerable—still over 300 meters per second.

That is, in normal spacetime their speed would reach three thousand kilometers per second, almost one percent of the speed of light.

You must know this is not a microscopic particle but a macroscopic object.

At this moment, Luosen felt somewhat surprised.

"The Dawnbreak Guard self‑destructed to break the outer shield, while he hid in the dark to launch ultra‑high‑speed jets for a sneak attack—so fast, this guy Xise Luo really is quite formidable."

If it were a mage with slow reactions and slow spellcasting, like Tiralilin, she would have died many times over.

"So easily piercing the Dawnbreak Guard, this time spell is powerful!" "No, this should be called a spacetime spell, for it has already touched the world's most fundamental force."

Spacetime is almost the very foundation of the world; all forces are built upon it.

Controlling spacetime with magic is probably the most powerful magic in this world.

The reality before our eyes also clearly proves this.

At the same moment, the Heart of the War God controlled Luosen's Dawnbreak Guard and also Tiralilin's Dawnbreak Guard, instantly dodging to the side.

'Hiss—'

The high‑energy jet passed by a half‑meter margin from the sides of the two, struck the ground, and blasted three bottomless black holes.

But the third Time Stagnation Shield was also almost depleted of its power by it.

Although it did not completely collapse, it was practically as good as gone.

At this moment, there were temporarily no defensive spells around Luosen.

Although the Heart of the War God was rapidly replenishing new stagnation shields, this still required some time.

At this instant, this was their weakest point of defense.

And at that very instant, Luosen saw a black silhouette emerge from the air in the distance.

It was Xise Luo!

He flew toward the violet light curtain's opened time channel at an astonishing speed.

Just a glance, and Luosen knew the opponent had granted himself a displacement‑type time surge spell, making his flight speed reach the extreme.

Even so, perhaps fearing Luosen might intercept him midway, or simply wanting to eliminate the opponent, halfway through he thrust a sword fiercely at Luosen.

The sword light was blue‑white, brilliant with starlight.

To onlookers the movement seemed slight, but Luosen felt the world quickly darken, leaving only this radiant, brilliant sword in heaven and earth.

He even felt that letting this sword pierce him was an inescapable fate.

Luosen secretly gasped: "Is this the Extinction Law Sword? Indeed formidable!"

But though he was affected by the extinction effect, the Heart of the War God was not.

Xise Luo's speed is indeed extremely fast; he likely bolstered himself with a time spell to accelerate reaction speed.

But Luosen likewise used a time spell to greatly accelerate his own reaction speed.

With both sides accelerated, Laifu's speed ultimately still exceeded Xise Luo's by a bit.

Heart of the War God one side using combined casting technique, quickly and continuously triggering small stagnation flow shields, constantly buffering the Extinction Law Sword's offensive.

On another side, applying displacement-type time surge spell to oneself, greatly increasing bodily evasion speed.

Luosen clearly saw that the sword tip of this second-rank divine artifact broke through layer after layer of obstacles, point by point piercing toward his own soul core.

But at the same time, his continual dodging kept pulling the distance between the two sides apart.

The two sides chased and fled; although the tip of the Extinction Law Sword gradually approached, it always fell just short of catching up to Luosen.

After less than one-third of a second of normal time passed, the power of the Extinction Law Sword was exhausted.

But the sword tip was still twenty centimeters away from Luosen's soul.

One strike accomplished nothing; he had no choice but to retract it.

Xi Sai Luo glanced at Luosen once, his eyes full of reluctance and surprise.

But he was not reluctant to fight; he continued accelerating, about to plunge into the Time Channel.

Luosen is not the type to take a hit without striking back.

Seizing the moment when the opponent exhausted his power and sheathed his sword, he perfectly grasped this opportunity, wrapping the fierce Time Stagnation Flow toward the opponent.

Xi Sai Luo was startled, also quickly releasing a time spell, attempting to neutralize Luosen's binding.

Unfortunately, his proficiency in time spells was far greater than Luosen's, but his casting speed and power intensity were far inferior to Luosen's.

Thus he could not completely neutralize it.

Seeing that he was about to be trapped by Luosen's Time Stagnation Flow, he suddenly raised his hand, redirecting the Extinction Law Sword to stab toward Tira Lilin.

Luosen naturally could not let Tira Lilin die; he immediately added most of the stagnation flow power onto the Extinction Law Sword.

The Extinction Law Sword was firmly trapped.

Xi Sai Luo decisively abandoned the Extinction Law Sword, added another burst of speed, successfully broke free, and rushed into the Spacetime Channel.

Upon entering the channel, his figure completely vanished.

The clash between the two sides was extremely fast, lasting less than half a second.

If the opponent had not been wielding the powerful second-rank divine artifact Extinction Law Sword, he would already have been captured alive by Luosen.

Thus, Xi Sai Luo essentially exchanged his sword for his own life.

Only then did the scholar mage Tira Lilin react.

She cried out in shock: "It's Xi Sai Luo; he went in!"

Luosen silently sighed: "The glasses girl's reaction is really slow."

Xi Sai Luo indeed entered the Spacetime Channel, but he is likely to be disappointed.

According to the information sent back by the Dawn Guard, the other side of the Spacetime Channel is not the so-called Royal Creation Bureau, but very likely a secluded ideal state created by Emperor Safenosi using spacetime law.

In this secluded ideal state, Emperor Safenosi is likely the supreme world ruler.

But he had not yet had time to explain to Tira Lilin when the Spacetime Channel began to flicker.

Three minutes of time were about to end, and the Spacetime Channel was about to close.

Tira Lilin didn't think twice and plunged headfirst into the Spacetime Channel.

"Your Majesty, we must absolutely not let Xi Sai Luo obtain the empire's inheritance!"

Luosen's heart stirred slightly: "Since Xi Sai Luo and Tira Lilin both firmly believe there is an empire's inheritance, the Dawn Empire likely truly has such inheritance. Even if not in the Royal Creation Bureau, it must be elsewhere."

"And this secret is probably known only to the secluded Emperor Safenosi."

No matter what, he must obtain the Dawn Empire's inheritance; this is the only way for his Natural Empire to resist the Abyss.

Because the interior of the channel is a spacetime surge space with a thousandfold rate, he has ample time to seek a solution.

Thinking this, he immediately used spirit resonance to send a message to Swan Fortress's Qi Ge Rui La Na: "Dear, I may have to leave for a few days."

While speaking, he again deployed the Time Surge Domain, enveloping all Dawn Guard within.

After spending some time, he collected all the solar essence carried by the Dawn Guard, totaling 26 kilograms.

He dumped it all into the Dawn Guard he pilots, directly filling its power chamber to 80%.

No matter what else is lacking, power cannot be lacking.

These 26 kilograms of solar essence might not be enough, but it's still better than nothing.

Then he grabbed the Extinction Law Sword, controlled the Dawn Guard, and plunged headfirst into the Time Channel.

His entry time was only about five seconds slower than Tira Lilin's.

Soon after he entered the Time Channel, the channel flickered and turned back into a purple light curtain.

After a few more minutes, the light curtain also vanished, and the Gate of Creation was completely shut.

I have affairs at home these two days, so only one update.

(End of chapter)