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Chapter 3703: New Area · Doom Town

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Adele said, taking a scroll from the bookshelf to the right of the "clothesline." After unfolding it, Xia De realized it was a canvas, but it was empty now.

Adele continued to explain:

"I told you, after meeting you, not only the current me, but the experiences of me living in different Sixth Eras are all entering my head in the form of memories. I discovered one thing: in all Sixth Eras so far, I have lived to the era after doomsday. Yes, I have walked to the end every time."

Xia De then asked:

"But I remember you said that there is only one doomsday, and all Sixth Eras are connected to here after destruction. Even the doomsday welcomed by the Sixth Era where I am will likely lead to today's ending."

Adele nodded:

"You are curious why there is only one me here, instead of multiple me's? I think this is the most important reason why I was able to advance to a demigod in the era after doomsday—the me's in different times together achieved 'uniqueness', allowing me to advance to a demigod.

No, this is not important. I mean, although other me's are theoretically me, they also have different experiences living in doomsday. And among all me's, the most powerful research is the research on remote movement in the doomsday era."

She moved the easel and put the canvas on the drawing board:

"Use World Tree material as canvas, use representative items of the location in the pre-doomsday era as brushes, and use memories as pigments to draw pictures of a certain location. If this location still has broken walls in doomsday, instead of disappearing completely, then you can use the painting as a door to go there."

This was actually an inspiration she got very accidentally when Emilia saw her before advancing and she was teaching Emilia knowledge.

"But Xia De, you also know that time and space are chaotic in the current era, so the way through this is not now, not the past, and not the future, just a silhouette of that location in the doomsday era."

Xia De didn't quite understand, but in short, this canvas was the experience accumulated by Adele, the demigod time Great Witch, over six doomsday eras, and it was finally made into a method that could allow people to teleport directly instead of crossing the sand sea to go to distant places.

"Is this useful in a normal era?"

"It should be useful. The principle of this technology also refers to the oil paintings used for spatial movement by the 【Spirit Cultivation Order】."

Adele then signaled Xia De to try:

"You said your scope of action is limited to St. Deran Square, right? Just find a representative item as a brush and try it on the canvas. If you can go to other places in this way, maybe there will be a big harvest. This is World Tree material after all, maybe it can break through the restrictions of the Tree Father."

The restriction on carrying items when opening the black time key was much larger than the normal time key, so most of the items on Xia De were ordinary items. He searched and finally took out a piece of ice:

"This is an ice cube made of snowy mountain water. I use it as a backup water source. The clean water I gave you is also from the same source. Using this to represent Fatumengste Island should be fine, right?"

"Then let's try."

So Xia De shaped the ice cube into the shape of a pen, and then held the ice cube and imagined the Fatumengste Island in his memory. But when the ice pen fell on the canvas, it didn't leave any traces.

It wasn't that it had no effect. Xia De felt a certain resonance just now. So he took out the "Yggdrasil Key," hesitated, and handed the ice to Adele:

"Do you have a palette here? Melt it and put it in the palette."

Adele soon brought the palette, and then Xia De dipped the key in ice water and "fell the pen" again, but it still had no effect.

It seemed that only the last step was missing. When Xia De was thinking, Adele reminded again:

"Maybe more of the Tree Father's power is needed. Do you have any other items related to the Old God of Time on you?"

No items, but Xia De had power.

The "Fate Manual" was summoned by him. The source of this book was a page of the "Book of Years," and the material of that book was related to the World Tree. The "Fate Manual" was not a spiritual weapon. Although Xia De could touch it directly, it was just a phantom most of the time.

So the opened book page overlapped with the canvas on the drawing board. When the black key dipped in ice water again this time, the key tip fell on the canvas, and the color immediately spread from under the key tip to the entire canvas.

The ice water had no color, and the color spreading on the canvas was more inclined to cyan-blue.

When Xia De took away the key, the complete picture had appeared. The picture on the canvas was the scene of looking at Kyle-Todd Town from the direction of the sea in winter.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, there were crowds of people at the pier of the town. The background of the pier was numerous stone houses with island-style characteristics, and the last part of the picture was that towering snowy mountain.

Although it was a frozen oil painting, Adele was still slightly lost because of the appearance of this painting. It wasn't because this attempt was successful, but because for a short moment just now, she really felt the sea breeze blowing on her face and heard the noise coming from the town.

And all of this was impossible to appear in this world.

"It seems to be successful. You can definitely use this painting to leave the City of End, but I might not be able to."

He said and reached his hand towards the oil painting in front of him, and then that hand disappeared like passing through a phantom water curtain.

"Successful?! Can I leave here?"

Seeing this, Adele also reached out her hand towards the oil painting, and the same situation appeared again.

So the two explored their bodies towards the oil painting together, and they disappeared in place as if they were absorbed by the "Kyle-Todd Town Oil Painting."

The next moment, the wind rolled the yellow sand and blew on Xia De's cheeks. After opening his eyes, what he saw was not the town at the foot of the snowy mountain under the blue sky and white clouds, but broken walls covered by gravel under the yellowish sky.

The voice in Xia De's ear gave a reminder:

【Past Life · Sixth Era, Old Continent, Doom Town · Kyle-Todd Town.】

【Note: Only you and Adele Isabella can see this oil painting.】

【Note: During this exploration, you cannot leave the scope of Kyle-Todd Town.】

【Outlander, a new way to leave has appeared—】

【Use the time key to draw locations in your memory on specific canvases, enter those locations to collect powerful relics, and you can return to the "current" time.】

"Without defeating enemies in the square, I can also leave the past life... powerful relics?"

Adele stood by Xia De's side, also looking at the scene in front of her, but for Xia De, it was a novel scene, but for her, it was very ordinary:

"Time and space order collapsed in the doomsday era, and I haven't been here either, but this should be Kyle-Todd Town, right?"

Yellow sand rolled by his feet. In front of him were clearly broken houses covered by gravel, and the few remaining dilapidated houses were already very difficult to correspond to the winter town in Xia De's memory.

And looking back, they saw boundless sand sea, without any trace of the sea. It was just that the easel holding that town oil painting was behind them. When the two tried to touch the oil painting again, they returned to the dilapidated No. 6 St. Deran Square.

After returning to the dilapidated home, Xia De told Adele the information he had just obtained from the voice in his ear. Although Adele didn't know what "powerful relics" were, she knew that Xia De didn't have to risk defeating enemies every time to leave:

"In the doomsday era, time and space order is chaotic. Since you can explore in this era, let's take obtaining powerful relics as the goal for exploration. I will go with you."

After returning to the town covered by yellow sand again, the two first tried to find the boundary here. Xia De soon discovered a thin barrier that prevented him from continuing to travel far. This barrier was very similar to the barrier surrounding St. Deran Square, but Adele was not affected at all.

"In this way, for you, this is just a special task opening method, but for me, this painting is a means of long-distance teleportation."

She then said to Xia De very firmly:

"The Tree Father's power now covers this town, just like when you appeared in St. Deran Square. I think the Tree Father should also be in favor of your exploration in this era. Maybe you weren't allowed to leave St. Deran Square before just because your power wasn't enough."

"Adele, but the way to leave the city was found by you."

"Maybe it's not a coincidence that I could find those tree barks... Let's go, let's go ahead and see."

Only one-third of the town's buildings could still see traces, and most of these one-third were just walls or collapsed roofs. The yellow sand almost buried all the houses in the low-lying areas. Xia De tried hard to compare the town in his memory with the one here, and barely identified that the location they appeared in was the town's pier.

The yellowish sky and the black sun made this desolate picture even more twisted and empty. It was even more lifeless than Tobesk. Xia De originally worried that monsters would rush out from behind those dilapidated houses and broken walls when the two passed by, but in the end, nothing happened.

Adele, who was holding his hand, said:

"At the beginning of doomsday, the number of monsters was not small. But later, except for locations occupied by powerful existences like the Yodeer Palace Castle, the monsters scattered in the yellow sand gradually disappeared. After all, everything was sliding towards the end. In the end, I'm afraid nothing would be left."

The terrain of the seaside town in the yellow sand also had a certain degree of disorder. The area of the entire town was missing about one-third compared to Xia De's memory, but he couldn't find out what was missing. ===== CHAPTER 3704 =====

After all, everything is sliding toward the end, and in the end, I fear nothing will be left."

The terrain of the small seaside town in the yellow sand also underwent a certain degree of disorder; the entire area of the town was missing about one-third compared to Xia De's memory, yet he was unable to discover exactly what was missing.

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