Chapter 2352: Reversing Time (Seeking Votes at the Beginning of the Month)

Closing his eyes, the scorching steam mist and the thick fog behind Xia De almost merged into one. The whistle and the bell sound spread to a very far place with the wind in the silver-shimmering sand sea. Because Xia De was sitting on the sand, the seven-ring fate ring that was originally huge floated up slightly, making it look even larger than before.

The fate ring was rotating very slowly, and the thirty-two spirit runes were flickering with dim light. The four-colored spiritual light of gold, silver, copper, and iron converged on the fate ring itself. When Xia De, who was looking down at the sand, raised his head again, the enlightenment 【Space-Time】 seemed to brighten slightly.

"I am the audience and the narrator, right?"

He asked softly, and the answer to him was "She" by his ear:

【Yes, Outsider.】

"That's good, time reversal—Breath of Years!"

While taking a deep breath, he raised his right hand, aimed his palm at the story ending picture in the fog, and pulled it slowly to the left. And as some gray air currents carrying white mist entered his nasal cavity, without Miss Mester manipulating this illusion, the picture in the white fog actually shook.

Xia De's miracle "Breath of Years" could only reverse or accelerate the time of a single item, and it could only produce effects on ordinary items and a few alchemical items. And this time his target was the "story" in front of him; even if he had the identity of an "audience" in this illusion, this was completely beyond the range that this miracle could influence.

Although the extreme spellcasting just now produced a momentary time confusion, it was far from enough to backtrack the time of the entire story.

But Xia De did not give up. As his left hand lifted, the Philosopher's Stone, which was not large anymore after Miss Sander performed 【Power of the Earth · Blessing All Things】, flew into his hand.

The Philosopher's Stone was immediately thrown toward the fate ring behind him. The moment it touched the fate ring, the blood-red stone melted into the spiritual light, which in turn added a bright bright red to the entire fate ring.

Xia De, who had made preparations, pulled his raised right hand to the left again:

"Time reversal—Breath of Years!"

In an instant, Xia De seemed to hear a click~ sound of a clock hand turning coming from the void, and then the picture in the white fog actually retreated rapidly, changing from the "colorful bubbles" scene at the end to the "mermaid princess waiting alone for the first ray of sunlight" picture.

But Xia De also spat out a mouthful of blood toward the fire in front of him at this moment; the firelight flickered and then the fire exploded. The cat in his arms was calling uneasily, and Xia De supported himself on the sand with his right hand to prevent himself from falling.

Sweat slid down his cheeks; the power of the Philosopher's Stone was exhausted, and he had successfully reversed a short segment of this story. The backlash caused by the forced spellcasting made him feel as if his internal organs were burning with pain. But he remembered the touch at that moment; the outsider had always prided himself on high comprehension, and he had already understood this power that transcended "Breath of Years" with the help of the illusion.

His right hand raised again and continued to pull to the left; the pain made his body twitch constantly, but Xia De, who was gritting his teeth, did not give up. Thus, the picture retreated again, changing from the mermaid princess sitting alone to the gathering of the three people on the deck.

Spirit was consuming rapidly, but at this moment the illusion mist above the fate ring also dispersed a bit. The strange moon in the desert projected moonlight onto Xia De, and Xia De, who was absorbing this moonlight, was rapidly recovering his own consumption.

So he slowed down a bit, and his right hand continued to pull to the left; the pain of the soul and body even made Little Mia feel as if there was a mouse jumping in Xia De's body.

His nose, ears, eyes, and mouth were bleeding at the same time, and his head felt as if it were about to be split open with pain, but Xia De still persisted:

"Granny Xinnuode has her persistence, Miss Knight has her persistence, Miss Sander has her persistence, and the little mermaid princess in the story also has her persistence; I will not lose to them."

His trembling right hand continued to pull slowly to the left; although the strong moonlight gave him the spirit to maintain consumption, the spellcasting that transcended his own ability still caused Xia De's aura to weaken constantly.

The fate ring behind him even began to show cracks because of the pain of the soul, and Little Mia also continued to meow~, it was really worried.

But Xia De could no longer feel these; the severe pain of the soul and body made his five senses become blurred, but fortunately, he still remembered what he wanted to do.

Thus, the picture retreated scene by scene, and Xia De's body also became drooping bit by bit. Until the story returned to the first scene, the mermaid princess playing happily in the deep-sea world, Xia De finally lowered his head and put down his hand, motionless.

"Meow~"

The cat's mournful cry was extremely shrill in the vast sand sea, but before it decided to do anything, Xia De raised his hand and gently touched it.

The outsider, who was barely opening his eyes, tried to raise his head to look at the picture frozen in the first scene. He continued to raise his right hand, but found that he had no strength to continue acting at this moment.

"Why do this?"

The voice of a deity came from the fog; she seemed to be beside Xia De, yet seemed to be everywhere.

"They have their persistence, and I have mine. She saved me, so I must save her. No matter what price I have to pay, I will do so."

The laughter of "Miss Mester" came from all directions, as if mocking Xia De's stubbornness, and as if appreciating his character.

"Originally promised you, if you didn't ask me for help, I would give you that gift, which is actually used here. But... no way, who made you so likable?"

After a slight pause:

"Tell me, Outsider, can you see me?"

This voice came from the white fog directly in front; Xia De's eyes looked at that piece of fog, but could only see a blurred black image dancing in the fog.

The dizziness caused by the severe pain of the soul and body had already made his vision very blurred. Fortunately, at this time Little Mia had struggled out of Xia De's arms and roared at the front:

"Meow!"

Bright sparks sprayed from the cat's mouth, but in the eyes of Xia De, whose consciousness was blurred, it was like the rising sun helping him illuminate this dark night.

Thus, the figure in the fog also became clearer; he seemed to see, see the figure wearing thin clothes and short skirts, with golden bells wrapped around wrists and ankles, dancing in the fog.

That seemed to be Miss Mester, her graceful figure covered by thick fog, as if real and as if a dream.

And the moment that figure turned to look at Xia De while dancing, and the golden eyes looked at him with a smile, the desert night wind blew across his eyes, and bright golden fragments drifted toward the back of Xia De with the appearance of the first golden crack in his right eye. The fragments hit the fate ring, which in turn lit up the dazzling gold in the cracks of the fate ring.

Thus Xia De saw clearly that the figure dancing in the fog with a veil was not Miss Mester;

Thus Xia De understood that the hazy figure turning to smile at him at this time was the Old God - Lady of Mist.

Large swaths of cracks spread across his entire body like flames. The light of divinity manifested here because he had gazed upon a god, and the slowly rotating Fate Ring accelerated its rotation due to his action of sitting upright again. The gold within the cracks on the brass-colored surface of the Fate Ring almost dyed the entire ring in the color of miracles.

The "Divine Radiance" state was activated to the best state just because the God of Mist smiled lightly. Xia De, who instantly returned to his peak state, relied on the touch in his heart, the insights from using the Philosopher's Stone, the identity of the "audience" in the illusion, the being moved by the persistence of the three ladies, and the persistence of not wanting to give up that belonged to Xia De himself, raised his right hand and pulled to the left again—

The picture in the white fog frozen at the beginning of the story actually moved again, and the sound of the clock click~ turning sounded in the void again.

The scene of the mermaid princess playing in the deep-sea world gradually became hazy in the white fog, and then the picture that appeared showed the first ray of sunlight in the morning shining on the stones, flower wreaths, and colorful bubbles on the deck.

Xia De retracted his hand, placed his right arm on his right leg stepping on the ground, his arm and knee leaning together, and his left hand pressed on his left leg placed flat on the sand:

"It's enough."

Thus the mist of the illusion gradually dispersed, and the picture of the ending also became blurred.

While Granny Xinnuode, Miss Knight, and Miss Mester gradually reappeared in the fog, the stones, flower wreaths, and colorful bubbles floated out and came to Xia De's front.

These items, which were born because of the false becoming true and because of persistence, were now floating in front of Xia De and glowing slightly. Then they flew toward the huge fate ring behind Xia De on their own and melted in the miracle gold and moonlight silver that existed simultaneously on the fate ring.

The brass-colored spiritual light transformed from the three items, like adding fuel to a steam furnace, made the fate ring rotate more rapidly under the moon.

The mist had almost dispersed at this time, and the scene of the desert under the desolate moon appeared near the group again. Granny Xinnuode looked up at the moon, Miss Knight looked at the fate ring behind Xia De, even her eyes were dyed brass, and Miss Mester walked toward Xia De:

"What did you understand?"

"False becomes true; everything in the mist is actually real. With persistence as fuel and stories as the goal, I understand."

He also stood up, turned, and looked at Miss Sander, who was kneeling on one knee supporting the stone door in the mouth of the giant worm corpse behind him.

As Xia De stood up, the high-speed rotating brass fate ring seemed to become larger under the moon. The brass-colored spiritual light had completely soaked the fate ring body, and the golden divine radiance all over his body blown by the wind stretched into long lines and scattered toward the entire sand sea.

"Can the persistence of mortals really change the world?"

In the wind, the lady with light brown skin asked like a dream, and Xia De, with golden eyes, looked at the stone statue of Miss Sander holding up the stone door and gave his answer. ===== CHAPTER 2353 =====