Arcane Lord

Yongle City, in the secret room.

Xia Duo quickly completed the preparations before the ceremony. In fact, there was nothing to prepare. The anchoring altar of the present world, as the most important auxiliary tool for casting spells, did not need to be changed. The rest was more of a psychological preparation.

After all, the time power he collected was very limited, and now he had to use such a limited and non-renewable time power to fight against the original owner of these time powers.

And once he failed, it would probably be a tragic victory for the Northern Alliance and the main plane. To be honest, Xia Duo was under great pressure at this time, but he would not deliberately put all the pressure on himself.

"Just do your best!"

Finally, after comforting himself like this, Xia Duo randomly began to cast a spell to project his consciousness into the astral world. At this time, he still followed the normal process of the prophecy ceremony.

Soon, he saw a surface timeline that was constantly spreading outward based on the anchor point of the present world, like a spring. If he did not anchor the present world, he would see a long river of time with no end and no clear direction.

All the images seen in such a long river of time may be from the past, present, or future. If the time cannot be judged, it means that the prophecy revelation finally obtained by the caster may be meaningless.

Most prophets have their own way of judging time, whether it is through intuition or through certain conditions, at least one.

Prophets who cannot judge time are not even worthy of being called prophets.

And Xia Duo's method comes from the Red Heart Alliance in the projection plane, including the prophecy ritual he is using now, and the prophecy spells of the Red Heart Alliance did come from elven magic at the beginning.

After all, they are all elves, but they are infected by the breath of the abyss and become demon descendants, but the source of magic is still the same.

But compared with the elven magic that has always been inherited in the main plane, the magic system of the Red Heart Alliance has become the Naishe magic under Xia Duo's interference-the Red Heart Alliance must rely on this kind of quick magic to grow rapidly in the early stage.

This also makes the prophecy spells of the Red Heart Alliance develop later, and actually become the results of the pure Naishe magic system, which also includes the anchoring of the altar in the present world.

The main plane elf prophet uses multiple prophecies, real-world exploration, intuition and other means to determine the time node of the prophecy scene.

Of course, this is what Shado learned from the memory of the prophet Pafen, who was captured alive by him before. It only represents Pafen, not other prophet, but Pafen is quite famous in the elf world and is somewhat representative.

At least Pafen does not have the ability to exclude the prophecy scene before the preset time node before the prophecy is made. The first thing he has to do after making a prophecy is to determine the time node he predicted.

The so-called "prophecy" may actually be more appropriately called "checking the long river of time", and "checking the long river of time" is not limited to the future.

Similarly, in the elf world, all spells involving time and prophecy can basically be determined to be based on the current time node of the caster.

The time-related rituals of the Illuminati are no exception.

The reason why Shado dared to challenge the Illuminati in this field, in addition to the reason that he was not chosen, is that when he cast spells in the field of time, the anchor point can be chosen in the past.

Of course, strictly speaking, it is not that he "can" choose the past, but that he happens to have an anchor point belonging to the past. If he does not have one, then he cannot create it out of thin air.

Anchoring the present is called this because it can only anchor the present moment of the caster. Once anchored, the anchor point will not automatically move forward with the passage of time, but will remain in the past.

So, Xia Duo has such an advantage that is not sure how big the advantage is.

But through previous experiments, he can almost be sure that when changing the past (relative to his present) through the power of time, having an anchor point in the past is very advantageous.

The most intuitive manifestation of this advantage is that it will reduce the consumption of the power of time.

In layman's terms, from Xia Duo's current perspective, he does want to change the past, but from the perspective of the power of time, having an anchor point in the past is actually more like changing the future. (The anchor point was set by Xia Duo before the decisive battle to predict the direction of the war.)

If changing the past is like sailing against the current, changing the future is like sailing with the current.

As for the future, there is no change at all, because the future has not happened yet, it is just to guide the future that you hope to see, that's all.

It is because of this advantage that Xia Duo has the confidence to fight the Illuminati in the final battle at the timeline level where they are best at.

In addition to this advantage, there is also the advantage of the overall strength of the Northern Alliance, which can provide enough support when Xia Duo tries to change the past, thereby reducing the number of attempts, instead of trying all the time like the Illuminati.

Xia Duo is very clear that the biggest disadvantage on his side is that he has not mastered the means of manipulating the timeline through arcane magic. Now his trump card for counterattack comes precisely from the time power he has collected.

The time power he collected is limited, but the time power of Daphne on the side of the Illuminati can be infinitely regenerated. Even if there are certain limitations, it is definitely much more abundant than him.

So he must make the best use of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and use this limited power of time to its full potential.

Now, all preparations are ready. Xia Duo thinks that he has considered it comprehensively enough and done his best. The rest - if there is a will of God - then leave it to God!

...

Special dimension of the astral world.

Above the spring of time that continues to flow outward, Xia Duo holds a strange crystal that preserves the power of time, and instantly locks a scene that he thinks is pretty good in the constantly surging water of time.

Then he uses the characteristics of the birth and death timeline of the power of time to instantly cover the rest of the scenes. This is just a time anomaly displayed in the astral world. It only exists for a moment and then returns to its original appearance.

But in the main plane, the existence that cannot exceed the timeline cannot perceive such changes, but for the existence that can maintain the continuity of consciousness in the birth and death of the timeline, the past has been changed!

And Xia Duo is undoubtedly such an existence.

At the moment when the timeline changed, he seemed to experience the battle of the Lake of Tears again, and even the later trip to Belluno, collecting the power of time, and exploring the underground of Elan.

Until he projected his consciousness into the astral plane again and tried to challenge the Illuminati on the timeline level, which is now.