Whispering Verse

Chapter 2398 Reversing Time (asking for votes at the beginning of the month)

Closing his eyes, the hot steam mist almost merged with the thick fog behind Shade. The whistle and bells spread far away with the wind in the silvery sand sea. Because Shade was sitting on the sand, the originally huge seven-ring life ring floated slightly at this time, allowing him to It seems even bigger than before.

The life ring rotates very slowly, and the thirty-two spiritual runes shine dimly. The four-color aura of gold, silver, copper, and iron converged on the life ring itself. When Shade, who lowered his head to look at the sand, raised his head again, the Enlightenment [Time and Space] seemed to be slightly brighter.

"I'm the audience and narrator, right?"

He asked softly, and the one who answered him was "her" in his ear:

[Yes, foreigner. 】

"Okay, then, go back in time - Breath of Time!"

While taking a deep breath, he raised his right hand, pointed his palm at the ending of the story in the fog, and then slowly pulled it to the left. As a bit of gray air wrapped in white fog entered his nasal cavity, Miss Meister did not While controlling this illusion, the picture in the white mist actually shook.

Shade's magic "Breath of Time" can only rewind or accelerate the time of a single item, and can only have an effect on ordinary items and a few alchemical items. This time, his target is the "story" in front of him. Even if he has the identity of "audience" in this illusion, it is completely beyond the scope of this magic.

Although the extreme casting just now caused a moment of time confusion, it was not enough time to review the entire story.

But Shade didn't give up. He raised his free left hand, and the small Philosopher's Stone that was left after the mermaid girl cast the spell [Power of the Earth: Bless All Things] flew into his hand.

The Philosopher's Stone was immediately thrown towards the life ring behind him. The moment it touched the life ring, the blood-red stone melted into the spiritual light, adding a bright red color to the entire life ring.

Shade, who was ready, once again pulled his raised right hand to the left:

"Go back in time - the breath of time!"

For a moment, Shade seemed to hear a click~ the sound of a pointer turning came from the void, and then the scene in the white mist really quickly regressed, from the "Colorful Bubbles" scene at the end to "Mermaid Princess" The scene of lonely waiting for the first ray of sunshine.

But at this moment, Shade spit out a mouthful of blood towards the flame in front of him. The fire flickered and then exploded. The cat in his arms screamed uneasily, and Shade used his right hand to support himself on the sand to prevent himself from falling.

Sweat slid down his cheeks, the power of the Philosopher's Stone was exhausted, and he successfully reversed this brief fragment of the story. The backlash caused by forcibly casting the spell made him feel pain in his internal organs as if they were burning. But he remembered the touching moment just now. Foreigners always boasted that they had a high level of understanding. He had already used the illusion to understand this power that transcended the "breath of time".

He raised his right hand again and continued to pull to the left. The pain made his body twitch continuously, but Shade gritted his teeth and did not give up. Then the scene regressed again, from the mermaid princess sitting alone to three people gathering on the deck.

The spirit was being consumed rapidly, but at this moment the fog of illusion above Shade and the life ring also dissipated somewhat. The strange moon in the desert casts its moonlight onto Shade, and Shade, who absorbed the moonlight, was rapidly recovering from his own consumption.

So he slowed down a little, and continued to pull his right hand to the left. The pain was so intense that it even made little Mia feel like there was a mouse beating inside Shade's body.

Blood flowed out of his nose, ears, eyes, and mouth at the same time, and his head hurt as if it was about to be split open, but Shade still persisted:

"Grandma Siam Noord has her own persistence, Miss Knight has her own persistence, Miss Sandel has her own persistence, and the Little Mermaid Princess in the story also has her own persistence. I will not lose to them."

The trembling right hand continued to move slowly to the left. Although the spirit given by the powerful moonlight allowed him to maintain consumption, the spell casting beyond his own ability still made the breath on Shade's body continue to weaken.

The life ring behind her even began to crack due to the pain in her soul. Little Mia also continued to meow ~ she was really worried.

But Shade couldn't feel these anymore. The severe pain in his soul and body made his five senses blurred. Fortunately, he still remembered what he wanted to do.

So the scene continued to regress scene by scene, and Shade's body became drooping little by little. Until the story returned to the first scene, the mermaid princess was happily playing in the deep sea, and Shade finally lowered his head and put down his hand, motionless.

"Meow~"

The cat's melancholy cry was extremely sad in the vast sea of ​​sand, but before it decided to do something, Shade raised his hand and stroked it gently.

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

"Why is this so?"

The voice of the god came from the mist. She seemed to be beside Shade, but she seemed to be everywhere.

"They have their own obsessions, and so do I. If she saved me, I will save her. No matter what the cost, I will do it."

"Miss Meister's" laughter came from all directions, as if she was laughing at Shade's stubbornness, but also as if she was appreciating his character.

"I originally promised you that if you don't ask me for help, the gift I will give you is actually used here. But there is no way, who makes you so lovable?"

After a slight pause:

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

This time the sound came from the white fog directly ahead. Shade looked at the fog, but could only see a blurry black image dancing in the fog.

The dizziness caused by the severe pain in his soul and body had made his vision very blurry. Fortunately, at this time, little Mia had already managed to get out of Sha De's arms, and shouted in front of her:

"Meow!"

Bright sparks erupted from the cat's mouth, but in the eyes of the confused Shade, they lit up the dark night like the rising sun.

Then the figure in the fog became clearer, and he seemed to see a figure wearing a thin dress and short skirt, with golden bells wrapped around his wrists and ankles, dancing in the fog.

That seemed to be Miss Meister, her graceful figure was obscured by the thick fog, it seemed both real and dreamy.

And when the figure turned to look at Shade while dancing, and looked at him with golden eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, the desert night wind blew through his eyes, and bright golden fragments followed the first golden streak in his right eye. The cracked color appeared and floated behind Sha De. The fragments hit the life ring, and then lit up the dazzling golden color in the cracks of the life ring.

Then Shade saw clearly that the veiled figure dancing in the fog was not Miss Meister;

Then Shade understood that the hazy figure that turned to smile at him was the old god Lady Mist.

Large cracks spread across his body like flames. The light of divinity appeared here because he looked at the gods. The slowly rotating life ring accelerated because of his movement to sit upright again. The gold in the cracks on the brass surface of the life ring accelerated. , almost dyeing the entire ring with a miraculous color.

The "divine afterglow" state was activated to its best state just because of the light smile of the God of Mist. Shade instantly returned to his full strength, through the inner touch, the realization of using the Philosopher's Stone, and the "audience" in the illusion. "Identity, being moved by the persistence of the three ladies, and Shade's own persistence that he was unwilling to give up, he raised his right hand and continued to pull to the left——

The scene frozen in the white mist at the beginning of the story actually started to move again, and the sound of the clock clicking and turning sounded in the void again.

The scene of the mermaid princess playing in the underwater world gradually became misty in the white mist. In the scene that emerged later, the first ray of rising sunlight was shining on the stones, garlands and colorful foam on the deck.

Shade withdrew his hand, put his right arm on his right leg that was on the ground, his arm and knee were close together, and his left hand was pressed on his left leg that was flat on the sand:

"That's enough."

So the fog of the illusion gradually dissipated, and the ending picture became blurry.

While Granny Siam, Miss Knight and Miss Meister gradually reappeared in the fog, stones, garlands and colorful foam floated out together and came to Shade.

These objects, which were made out of falsehood and became true due to persistence, were suspended in front of Sha De and glowed slightly. Then they flew towards the huge life ring behind Shade, and melted in the miraculous gold and moon silver that coexisted on the life ring.

The brass-colored aura transformed by the three items was like adding fuel to a steam furnace, making the life ring rotate more rapidly under the moon.

The fog had almost cleared at this time, and the desolate desert scene under the moon appeared near everyone again. Grandma Siam looked up at the moon, Miss Knight looked at the life ring behind Shade, even her eyes were dyed brass, and Miss Meister walked towards Shade:

"What did you understand?"

"Fake things come true. Everything in the mist is actually true. Use persistence as fuel and stories as goals. I understand."

He also stood up, turned around and looked at Miss Sandel, who was kneeling on one knee to support the stone door in the head of the giant worm corpse behind her.

As Shade stood up, the rapidly rotating brass life ring seemed to grow larger under the moonlight. The brassy aura has completely infiltrated the body of the life ring, and the golden divine afterglow that is blown by the wind spreads across the entire sand sea like a long line.

“Can mortal perseverance really change the world?”

In the wind, the lady with light brown skin asked dreamily. Shade's golden eyes looked at the stone statue of Miss Sandel holding up the stone door and gave her own answer.