The Master of the Strange Realm

Chris Williams spread her right palm, and the next moment, different colors finally appeared in the green carriage. The red, yellow and blue light spots rotated in her palm, and finally the three colors merged together, and a wooden box emitting a faint green light appeared in her palm.

There were no patterns on the other five sides of the box, only the lid had a pattern of a towering tree.

"What is this?"

Alexia took it and felt that it was not very heavy. She could not feel the contents inside shaking even if she shook it slightly.

"This is a second chance for Uncle Jenkins. Everything we observe is not necessarily true. Only what Uncle Jenkins observes is true. So I can't know what the truth was back then. I can only send this back according to the aunts' request."

"Aunts?"

Alexia grasped the key point. Chris Williamette smiled, then stretched out her hand to cover her mouth and said in a very dull voice:

"I can't say this. If I say it, Uncle Jenkins will be unhappy."

"But why do this? I never think that letting the future time point observe the past will have any good results. This kind of thing has happened more than once in history. There is a precedent."

"This is to compensate."

Chris nodded and replied:

"I don't know if you know, um..."

She frowned and thought for a long time:

"For you, it happened last month. In that incident, Uncle Jenkins saw a younger me. And before that, he received an important message about the 'future'."

This refers to "killing the Pirate King before the end of the month." Alexia heard Jenkins talk about this.

"Jenkins said that he left it for himself in the future."

"Yes, it was indeed done by Uncle Jenkins himself in the future. That message was to prevent the final disaster of the 18th century from coming and become more powerful. But the problem is... Uncle Jenkins wrote that note because of me."

"Huh? What does this have to do with you?"

"It's troublesome to say. Last month at your time, Uncle Jenkins encountered B-07-1-6233 [Uncertain Future], not because of his bad luck, but because of me."

Chris tilted her head slightly, not looking into Alexia's eyes.

"I want to see Uncle Jenkins in the past. I want to know what kind of person he is. I want to know everything about him, everything about him... So I hid it from the adults and used a ritual that can observe the past, but I didn't expect that Uncle Jenkins's [uniqueness] had reached an almost perfect level at the time point I observed, which is half a month ago as you know. By doing this, I directly let him encounter B-07-1-6233 [Uncertain Future] and temporarily "jump" to the future. But this also attracted B-12-1-9999 [Time Paradox]. You know, it is an alien creature that maintains the stability of the timeline and is the only mortal that can jump at different time points. Because I destroyed the stability of time, it... wants to kill me..."

Alexia didn't speak. She had only occasionally glimpsed the information of B-12-1-9999 [Time Paradox]. Before that, she even thought it was just a legend.

Chapter 1221 Chapter 1200 Temporary End

"Uncle Jenkins at my time threatened those things. But as the price of letting me go, I need to use actions to smooth out the time ripples caused by the accident. The first step is to connect with the past and make the non-existent note appear in the empty picture frame. This is why Uncle Jenkins got the hint... Then this time, I will send the [Second Chance], which is not sure whether it exists, to your hands.

These two actions will not affect history, just like me leading Uncle Jenkins to the future. After all, whether these things happen or not, Uncle Jenkins' actions will not change. But the time ripples caused by these two things can offset the ripples I caused in the past to the maximum extent, so I came."

Chris William said with her eyes lowered, then bit her lips and stopped talking.

Alexia thought for a long time before putting away the box representing [Second Chance]. She agreed with this statement.

"I see, so you came here on the Dawn to make amends for your mistakes."

Her tone became inexplicably gentle, and she did not blame the young man in front of her for his mistakes.

"Yes, even if I do nothing, this small ripple will not affect history. But Uncle Jenkins said it was a punishment... It's up to you to decide whether to use the box. Its function is actually just to 'appear' at this point in time. As long as you do what happens afterwards, it will definitely be the correct history, because Uncle Jenkins is by your side. That's it... I'm sorry."

The girl lowered her head, and then felt that she was gently hugged by the elder in front of her:

"I think my future self has punished you, so I don't need your apology now. Chris, there is no difference between Jenkins' past, present and future. The Jenkins I know has never changed. I know you want to refute me, but this is the fact. He is a very stubborn person, just like me, so I like him so much."

This is what Alexia has never said to Jenkins.

"If you are really curious about Jenkins, you should get to know him around you, not him in the past. You are immature and don't know what the 'now' means to us. Remember, Chris, we are all mortals for the time being. The past and the future are meaningless to us. What is meaningful is the present, so cherish the present and everyone around you..."

Alexia's eyes gradually became firm. This is not only to comfort Chris, but also to warn herself.

When Jenkins found the cat running around, took great effort to appease her, and returned to the front of the train, Alexia was still standing there talking to the conductor.

But the conductor was still wiping the sweat off his forehead for some reason, and when Alexia saw Jenkins appear with the cat, she looked at Chocolate with a very strange look.

After the consolation just now, in addition to [Theory of Time Stability (White Foundation)], Chris also said some "facts" that would not cause the out-of-control paradox.

"I will blame it. Chocolate has indeed been a little too much recently."

Jenkins mistakenly thought that Alexia's eyes were complaining about the cat running around, so he hurriedly explained.

The short lady shook her head slowly, and when she looked at the cat, her eyes were more scrutinizing.

Now that the cat was found, Jenkins and Alexia were ready to leave. Jenkins originally thought that he could find a way to solve the current dilemma from the passengers of the Dawnbreaker, but this time he couldn't open any door, so this hope was also shattered.

But before leaving, Chocolate struggled out of Jenkins's hand again, and when he jumped around in the front of the car, he seemed to swallow something. Seeing that the conductor did not notice the cat's movements, Jenkins hurriedly took Alexia away.

The green train circled twice in the air and disappeared into the sky with the rails. Alexia held Jenkins' hand and continued to fly in the sky as before. The two looked down helplessly. The crystal stone that sealed the parchment roll had completely floated up from the ground.

Jenkins squeezed Alexia's hand with some worry. He was not worried about his own safety, but the short lady and the princess underground were not immortal.

"No matter what happens in a while, as long as the barrier collapses, you leave directly, and leave everything else to me."

He whispered.

Alexia pursed her lips and shook her head, "I will be with you."

The final moment finally came. As the crystal stone bloomed with a dazzling ice-blue light in the wind and snow, cracks appeared on its surface.

The [Frost Victory Contract] in the crystal stone unfolded little by little, and with a crackling sound, the crystal stone broke into four pieces, and the parchment roll was completely revealed.

The spirit that was almost solidified into liquid burst out from the Senate Square like a shock wave. Amid the chaotic prayers and whispers of the ice sculptures, a big hole was broken in the dark clouds in the sky, and behind this big hole was not the blue sky, but a deep black abyss.

"Here it comes..."

Jenkins held Alexia's hand tightly and slowly fell to the ground in this doomsday scene. The coldness that froze all time, space, information, and matter spread from the black hole in the sky. Compared with this, the extreme cold on the ground was nothing.

Thoughts seemed to have stopped at this moment, and nothingness occupied the mind. The world in front of him disappeared and only blankness remained.

Jenkins didn't know how long this feeling lasted, nor did he know what would appear in the black hole in the sky.

When he came to his senses again, he found himself lying in the center of the clean and tidy Senate Square. The standing ice sculptures surrounded the square, but there was no sound. The original sea of ​​blood and corpses and the standing icicles seemed to have become an illusion, and there was nothing on the ground of the square.

But outside the square, the buildings of the entire city were covered with a layer of ice. The snow had stopped, the wind had stopped, and the bright sunshine shone from the sky, making all the buildings that could be seen flash with freezing light.

"Meow~"

The cat poked its head out of his arms, stepped on Jenkins' clothes pocket, lowered its head and licked Jenkins' cheek fiercely. This cat had never made such an intimate gesture, and Jenkins was stunned for a moment, thinking that this was a dream.

Alexia lay quietly on the side, and the two of them were still holding hands. After touching his cat, Jenkins sat up and woke up Alexia. The latter didn't know what happened, and her last memory was that the two fell from a high altitude. As for the scene of the entire city being frozen, Alexia didn't know how it was formed.

The three barriers have collapsed, and noise and crying can be heard in the distance, which means that only the buildings are frozen. After returning to the underground again and confirming that Dolores and her group are only unconscious and not seriously injured, the two of them left before the church people arrived.

PS: This intermission... is already halfway through.

The main purpose of the plots in these two chapters, in addition to setting up the foreshadowing of "Second Chance", is also to illustrate that in the world where Jenkins lives, the stability of time and space is particularly important. This further leads to a question that has been raised since the beginning of this book: What is the significance of the corresponding months of the true god and the expansion of the false god by one year?

So these two chapters are not water.

Chapter 1222 Chapter 1201 Sequelae

It was that night when I saw Dolores again. The princess in the manor was sitting on the sofa wrapped in a blanket, looking like she was cold. In fact, when the rescue team of the [Earth and Harvest Church] drilled through the soil under the square and rescued the people underground, this happened to everyone.

The specific manifestation is that he cannot sense the temperature normally. No matter what environment he is in, he feels like he is standing naked in a snowy field with howling wind.

The church has checked the physical health of the survivors after asking them to sign a confidentiality agreement. This is not a permanent condition. The symptoms will last for about two or three days and will end. Before that, it is best to stay in a warm place and keep warm. In this way, there will be no sequelae other than mental illness.

"So, what happened in the end?"

Dolores asked, holding the teacup tremblingly, the heat of the tea blurring the air in front of her. She was not that old to begin with, but now she looked like a sick little girl.

Julia is not here now. She is resting in bed upstairs, so Alexia, the teacher, and the servants can only take care of the princess temporarily.

"We don't know what happened. There was a very... I don't know how to describe it. It responded to the call and temporarily focused its attention on Loen. At that moment, the whole city was frozen, except for us. , any creature within the range of Loen will experience temporary amnesia, but only those of you under the square have strange symptoms."

Alexia replied, then looked at Jenkins and asked him to say a few words.

Jenkins had guessed that an unknown master had responded to the call, and only that kind of existence could have such power. Just the gaze of his eyes had such an impact. But he didn't know how to explain it. After all, just the word "master" representing identity and status would directly cause discomfort to the listener.

"I just went to the Church of the Sages and heard that the roll of parchment has been resealed. The reply from the church was unclear, but the local keeper hinted to me that the great one who was called did not want to It is not good for humans. Before He left, he took away most of the extreme cold power, so the House Square became like spring."

"But the areas outside the square are still covered in ice."

Alexia said, standing up and pushing open the huge door behind the sofa. This is the second floor, and outside the living room is a well-decorated terrace. Because this suburban manor is located on a high ground, you can overlook the city in the distance.

The sun has set now, but you can still see the ice sculpture-like city in the distance shining with moving brilliance in the afterglow of the setting sun.

"Now the Ice and Snow Festival has really become an Ice and Snow Festival."

Alexia sighed as she looked at the crystal clear city.

"But fortunately, no one died. The great one was really a benevolent person. Although he had the power of extreme cold, he was so gentle in his heart."

Jenkins admired, after all, you don’t need to spend gold pounds to speak, and if you praise him more, your luck may get better.

This incident caused by Lark Stuart, after triggering a doomsday effect, ended temporarily like an anticlimax.

That night, Dolores's intelligence network delivered transcripts of private letters to the Lark Stuart family, which they had ventured to copy before the church sealed and searched them. Judging from the correspondence between Luck and [Tree House], this accident was not planned for a long time, and the cause of the incident began with what happened last winter.

At that time, a member of [Treehouse] named Osiris Alexander (Chapter 446) was on a mission in the capital of the Kingdom of Fidictari, responsible for finding a magical lamp.

Later, he didn't know what kind of news he discovered, and left Belduran alone on a steam train, and has been missing since then. When [Tree House] used divination to find him, two fortune tellers died suddenly immediately, and their bodies turned into ice that could not be melted by ordinary fire. Therefore, [Tree House] learned about the existence of a certain master.

Later, when Loen was planning a conspiracy in the Kingdom of Hampavo, he accidentally learned about the roll of parchment from Lark Stuart, and also learned about the [Contact **] ritual from the parchment. Therefore, the bold group of people want to try it.

They probably discovered halfway through that their translation of the parchment text provided by Lark Stuart was incorrect, so after the two inferior demigods were defeated by Jenkins and Alexia, no one showed up again.

The final ritual summoned the great being that caused Osiris Alexander to disappear, but the result was not the disaster that destroyed the world.

This shows to a certain extent that [Treehouse] may not know as much about the end-of-era disaster and [Overlord] as Jenkins does, but it is because these lunatics are so ignorant that Jenkins is even more worried.

With luck this time, the master who looks at the material world is a benevolent one; if they find another way to call the bad-tempered master next time, maybe the entire city will be destroyed.

Dolores, wrapped in a blanket, shivered again subconsciously. Jenkins leaned forward slightly and put the back of his hand on her forehead. The flames were divided into thousands of strands to help her keep warm, but this could only have some psychological effect. Even Jenkins could not cure this strange sequelae.

The Stuart family really suffered a disaster this time. In addition to the death of the main culprit, Lark Stuart, King Salsi II was seriously injured, the eldest prince broke an arm, and the other princes and princesses were more or less injured.

If there was no one in charge in the palace now, Dolores would not have left the palace in the evening. According to her, because Salsi II has not woken up yet, her brothers and sisters have quarreled in the palace. Although no one has dared to raise matters related to the throne, it is clear what everyone's real intentions are.

Jenkins had just returned from the church. As the best healer in Nolan, even when he arrived in Rune City, where priests from the [Church of All Things and Nature] and the [Church of Earth and Harvest] were stationed, he found that he was still the best healer.

Because of the help of other healers, Jenkins only needs to heal some of the sage's followers. He took advantage of the rest time to learn a lot about the Stuart royal family from the local bishop. Although Dolores mentioned most of these things, listening from another perspective does have different gains.

In addition to these, he and other healers have observed the situation of Salsi II and know that he is not fatally injured. So Dolores did not stay in the palace with some brothers and sisters, but took the initiative to leave there on the grounds of "avoiding suspicion".

PS: Chapter 450, Jenkins saw an ice world before escaping from the weird thing. That is the world owned by the master. If you don't remember, you can look at chapters 445 to 450 again.

Chapter 1223 Chapter 1202 Set off again

Speaking of those brothers who immediately revealed their true colors, Dolores showed a look of contempt on her face, but immediately shuddered again, and the maids serving on the side immediately hugged her another blanket.

Dolores hid her entire face, like a fat squirrel.

"Chocolate, you're not cold, what do you need a blanket for?"

The cat saw the soft blanket, so it stretched out its claws to touch it, but was forcibly clamped by Jenkins' hand.

The cat made a dissatisfied humming sound, but also knew that it had made enough trouble recently, and it had to behave well for a while. It had to find Jenkins' bottom line, otherwise it would be easy to really annoy him.

Dolores didn't care about the throne, but she knew that any action she made in the palace now would become a handle. Salsi II would not die today, at least not in this matter. Her less intelligent brothers would probably get the information of the church's diagnosis and make the same choice as her.

But Dolores left the palace, in addition to the diagnosis, because Jenkins had quietly healed most of the king's injuries from the shell attack and assassination when he went underground for the last time to confirm Dolores' safety.

This was not difficult for him.

As for the reason for the treatment, Jenkins believed that the country still needed a king who could stabilize the situation. After such a big thing happened in the capital, if the royal family fell into civil strife because of the struggle for the throne, then the Kingdom of Hampavo might be destroyed before the fight between the Kingdom of Fidictli and the Kingdom of Cheslan.

According to his estimation, Salsi II would probably wake up tomorrow afternoon or evening, so Dolores should avoid the palace before then. What is being staged there now is probably the most exciting "court tragedy and comedy".

"Jenkins, I think it's not over yet."

Alexia, who was still standing on the balcony overlooking the city, suddenly said.

"What did you find?"

Jenkins put the cat on the coffee table, then walked around the sofa, walked out of the door and came to the somewhat cold balcony. The cat in the room and Dolores showed dissatisfaction at the same time. The former looked at the latter, and then showed an even more dissatisfied expression, and the little cat's face wrinkled.

"Although the great man has withdrawn his power, it is like a person throwing a stone into a fish pond. Even if the stone is taken back, the ripples caused by it will not disappear."