Chapter 170: Time Dragon Lair! Great Prophecy

Within the half plane.

A bucket of water, a bucket of lime and a bucket of sand were suspended beside Xiao En. Invisible hands held these spellcasting materials beside him, and in front of him was a simply repaired mud road. Not far away was a row of simple mud houses. The mud was all dug from the lake and piled up with simple molds, a bit like the old yellow adobe houses in the 1950s and 1960s. Yvonne Tanner and others selected some skilled craftsmen from the refugees around the city and asked them to repair a mud road in half a day, and then the remaining laborers piled up adobe houses.

This job is very simple. You just need to shape the mud into mud bricks, then pile up the outline of the house, and then do some repairs. The stickiness of the mud will automatically stick together when it comes into contact with water.

——Turning mud into stone [spell upgrade]!
Xiao En's figure was suspended half a meter above the ground. As the materials behind him were consumed, the muddy road in front of him gradually turned into hard sandstone. The materials for this spell were sand, lime and water. The stone created was soft stone, which could be transformed into harder stone through additional spells. But there was no need to do this at the moment. Xiao En was just building a place for them to settle down. The future layout of the demiplane would definitely need to be replanned.

A hard rock road surface emerged, and as the magical energy expanded, the nearby mud houses were transformed into simpler bungalows one after another.

——"Turn Mud into Stone (5th-level spell): This spell can permanently turn mud or quicksand into soft stone. Each level of the spell can affect a cubic area of ​​about three meters on a side."

Xiao En's current spellcasting level is 19, and one cast can cover an area of ​​nearly sixty meters.

He had only used up less than one-fifth of his original magic power, and rows of earthen houses had already been built. This was because there was not enough sand in the demiplane. If he directly used sand to build houses and then cast the technique of turning mud into stone, the construction efficiency would be much faster.

It only took Xiao En one day to build a shelter for these refugees. It has to be said that the magician's construction ability is really powerful.

"Owner."

Succubus Veronica transformed into a beautiful girl. She quickly came to Xiao En, handed him a list and said, "The list of these refugees has been completed."

"This includes their age, gender, previous occupation, crafts they are good at, education they have received, etc."

"Yvonne Tanner and his team have developed quite a few followers."

At the foot of the isolated peak in the demiplane, the priests of the Church of Holy Terra have built a simple altar with only a shrine on it. There are no camp requirements for believing in Holy Terra, and you don't even need to have devout faith. Verbal belief is enough.

After joining the Holy Terra Church, these refugees will receive living supplies funded by the church and will then be assigned some simple jobs based on their abilities.

The priests of Terra will carefully examine every believer, and eventually select those with talent to be trained as potential transcendents.

Xiao En nodded calmly and said, "I understand."

"You will help manage this place for the time being. Those who are willing to stay will be properly settled. Those who don't want to stay will be sent back to Dagon after a while."

His demiplane cannot accommodate more than 100,000 people for the time being, so it is enough if half of them can stay.

After these people survived the disaster, many of them are probably unwilling to return to Dagon. Xiao En's demiplane is undoubtedly safer, but if they stay here, they will be temporarily isolated from the outside world and become subjects following Xiao En.

——Creation (9th level spell)!

After dealing with the affairs of the demiplane and arranging personnel to resettle the refugees, Sean came to the edge of the demiplane. Accompanied by countless condensed fragments, the 9-ring creation technique of the psychic path accelerated the expansion of the entire demiplane.

To accommodate such a large population, it is not enough to just have a place for them to stay, but also to form a virtuous ecological cycle within the demiplane.

Xiao En didn't have to worry about food. After all, the three sisters of the lake fairy had a druid spell list. The entire demiplane had already arranged a "fertility" area in the early planning. Only one or two thousand farmers were needed to maintain food self-sufficiency. However, these people also had to be assigned work. Eating grains alone was fine for the time being. In the long run, the demiplane had to develop animal husbandry. A certain amount of meat was a necessity, and the extraordinary people of the warrior path had a high demand for nutrition.

Xiao En plans to first select a thousand people from these people and promote them to become extraordinary people in the paths of warriors, rangers, and thieves.

Around the city.

After Xiao En returned to the Ring City, he immediately felt a breath of natural energy. He saw the figures of druids in the ruins. It seemed that the Derle region had finally sent people over. Led by a forest sage, more than a dozen extraordinary people from the Druid Path were arranging a holy ceremony to purify the plague pollution in the Ring City. This once prosperous city has now become a dead city, with broken ruins everywhere and wandering ghosts at night.

haunted.

In areas shrouded in negative energy, hauntings are almost inevitable.

"It looks like the land will be purified in a week or two at most."

Sean saw the witchers from Crow's Nest in the crowd, and there seemed to be traces of the Night's Watch among them, because there was an unusually burly figure who was very familiar, Jason Tangle, the extraordinary being from the Barbarian Path, who was also in the witcher's team.

"Have the Night's Watch and the Witchers merged?"

Sean saw some Night Watchmen wearing witcher cloaks. There was only one familiar face among them. The others might be from other places in Dorne. The high-level officials of the Path of Death should be planning to reorganize the witcher heritage. If nothing unexpected happens, other Night Watchmen will come to support. Because the undead plague has not completely ended, the undead creatures around the city have been cleared, but the death energy spread by the ritual has awakened the corpses in the graves in the surrounding areas.

Ordinary people can deal with those low-level skeleton zombies, but they must not be bitten, otherwise the corpse poison will be very troublesome, and in the end they will most likely be handed over to demon hunters to clean up.

Sean went to the Black Spire, and as expected, the Horn family's treasure house was empty.

It should have been taken away by someone from the Path of Death. Sean didn't care because he was still waiting for Lady Hecate to give him a reward. After the fall of the Tomb King, there would inevitably be a major reshuffle on the Path of Death, and the legacy he left behind would be divided up by others. Sean would definitely get a share from his teacher.

After setting up several teleportation beacons, Xiao En returned directly to Abyss City.

Ever since Amon left, the space barrier of the real world has become increasingly fragile, and smuggling has become much easier than before. If this continues, the laws of the real world will slowly assimilate with those of the weird world.

Devil's Spire.

Xiao En returned to his base in Abyss City, where the Fire Demon Ornn was already waiting for him.

"Master Xiao En."

The figure of the Fire Demon Ornn looks much taller than before, nearly two and a half meters tall, like a little giant. As the extraordinary essence of the Demonic Path is digested, he will become more and more like the Balrog, and finally grow to a height of seven or eight meters.

He brought a heavy alchemical box, opened it and said, "Fifty Infernal Roaring Hand Cannons, six thousand rune bullets."

“This is my limit.”

"If I want to continue to expand production capacity, I need more alchemy apprentices."

Now the Hellfire has almost become his personal arsenal, but unfortunately alchemy requires apprentices with spellcasting skills, which warriors cannot produce. The production capacity of Sean's followers is currently very low.

Xiao En picked up a heavy Infernal Roar hand cannon, looked at it and nodded, "It will be enough for now."

"Gather the men."

"We need a batch of extraordinary relics from the Path of Flesh and Blood."

The Fire Demon-Owen seemed to have guessed Xiao En's thoughts and asked in a deep voice: "Are you planning to train a group of extraordinary people in the warrior path?"

"If it's just the warrior path."

"You can completely use the Touch of Flesh and Blood to complete your promotion. In the area near the corrupted nest of the Bizarre Country, where the pillars of flesh and blood extend out of the surface, the Touch of Flesh and Blood is everywhere."

Xiao En pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "That's a good idea."

If there are one or two flesh-and-blood superhumans like Benjamin who can transfer injuries, then Xiao En will make a fortune. Although the warrior path does not have a strong productivity, the magic power armor that Xiao En plans to wear in the future can only be worn by high-level warriors. The strength attributes of other superhuman paths are still a little low.

After arranging for the Fire Demon Ornn to gather people, Xiao En finally had time to study the mysterious rune imprint given to him by Master Xu.

"This seems to be a special space beacon."

Xiao En stood on the astronomical table and studied it for a long time. He said uncertainly, "The space in the Weird Kingdom is closed by gray fog. Will this teleportation beacon still work?"

Master Xu shouldn't harm him.

Xiao En thought about it and decided to give it a try.

Raw magic flowed from his palms and poured into the rune imprint in front of him. Along with a bright light, he instantly felt his consciousness separating from his body.

"Out of body experience?"

"wrong!"

Sean urgently teleported his body to the wizard tower, and the next second his consciousness left his body. He saw grains of light golden sand floating around him. That was the sand of time. It is said that only those who have visited the time realm once can master it. When Ms. Hecate cast the legendary spell "Time Replication", a little bit of light golden sand would appear around her, which flowed out from the long river of time and space.

All of this involves an ancient god whose only name is known, the Lord of Time, an ancient god of order whose existence is unknown.

A streak of light flashed across Xiao En’s consciousness.

He felt as if he had crossed the border of nothingness, not sure if it was the astral realm, or possibly the etheric plane, or the legendary realm of nothingness. When his consciousness gradually regained its perception, he had arrived at a nest filled with countless floating gravels.

"anyone there?"

Xiao En looked at the empty nest in front of him. It seemed a bit like a dragon's nest because there were a lot of treasures piled up inside. They were all ancient objects related to the corona engravings of clocks and watches. They were not very valuable, but they all had traces of a very long history.

The far boundary of the nest is a deep void with nothing in it. Here, one cannot even feel the passage of time, as if one is at the end of time.

Xiao En seemed to have guessed where this place was.

——Time Dragon Lair.

Legend has it that time dragons will build their nests at the end of time, an unknowable and unexplorable area that is extremely difficult for even gods to find. These extremely powerful legendary dragons are born with the power to control the laws of time. They are the top existences in other crystal wall systems, and the ancient time dragons even have the ability to deify time.

The wind howled.

A burst of flying light golden sand turned into a vortex, and then a ferocious and huge dragon head poked out. It stared at Xiao En with a dark gaze. After a long while, it murmured, "The timeline has shrunk again. We must notify the guardians immediately."

This is an adult time dragon, with a challenge level of over 40+. Its huge body flew out of the Time Sand Sea, looked at Xiao En in front of it, bowed its head slightly and said: "Welcome to the Cavern of Time."

"Master Xiao En."

This time dragon knows itself.

Xiao En had an illusion at this moment. It seemed that the other party had peeked into his future and seen some things in the distant future. Otherwise, it would not have called itself Master Xiao En. A stream of light turned into a projection and fell.

It was a vague humanoid creature. He looked at his cube-like body and asked in surprise, "Are the laws of the distant kingdom so twisted?"

"Even my projection has become indescribable."

This is an incarnation.

But for some reason, he couldn't even form a clear human figure.

"Hello."

The blurry figure said to Xiao En in a friendly manner, "Master Xu sent you here, right?"

"Don't be nervous."

"We have no ill will. In fact, we have already met. Well, in the near future, although the timeline is a little advanced, but it's not a big problem."

timeline?
Xiao En's expression was extremely solemn, and he said slowly: "What timeline?"

The blurred figure began to display garbled characters, as if the signal on a video game console suddenly went bad. After a burst of garbled characters, his figure condensed again and explained, "The timeline of the known universe."

He raised his hand and drew a straight line, and then a faint light appeared in the straight line, like points of light.

"The Space-Time Central has been keeping an eye on all the children of destiny."

"That is, those who have the luck of the plane."

Having said that, he gently raised his hand and balls of light appeared. Sean's eyes widened in surprise, because he saw Lady Hecate, Eamon, the butcher, Benjamin, and even himself.

“The future is full of variables and unpredictable, but if at a certain point in the future you reach a height that exceeds the laws of time, then all known predicted futures will collapse towards this point.”

“That’s the timeline contraction.”

The vague figure said to Xiao En: "Your existence, at some point in the future, has mastered the laws of the time domain."

"So any prophetic timeline."

"You were bound to contact us, but we didn't expect that at this point in time, you would meet Master Xu, bringing forward the time of our first meeting by five years."

Xiao En's expression seemed to show some understanding.

The laws of time were still too profound for him. He had to at least master some legendary spells related to time before he could understand this knowledge.

The blurry figure seemed to see his doubts and raised his hand again to lay out a star map.

"This is the multiverse we live in."

He pointed at the star map, drew bubbles one by one, and said slowly: "These are the crystal wall systems of the multiverse."

Then, a straight line ran through the bubbles.

He said, "This straight line is the past. The past is fixed and cannot be changed. The ancient time dragon guards all the past time."

Then he lit a ball of light.

The figure continued, "This point of light is now. It is constantly moving forward, moving towards the future, which is our current point in time, the established present."

After saying that, he stretched out his hand and pointed. In front of the ball of light, in the timeline belonging to the future, countless rays of light dispersed in all directions. The forked timeline was the predicted future.

“This is the future.”

"We see fragments of the future by peering into time and using prophecy spells."

"Each of these predicted futures is different, but only when the present time point moves to their position will they become reality, otherwise they will always be predictions of the future."

“This point of light is you.”

"As long as your future is strong enough, some of the things predicted will definitely happen."

"For example, you will meet us and know the existence of the Time Dragon and the Space-Time Central."

“This is timeline contraction.”

Xiao En seemed to understand a little after hearing this. He said in a deep voice: "You mean, in all future timelines, I will meet you all, but because the timeline is shrinking, I will come here earlier?"

Although he has not studied the art of prophecy in depth, Sean knows the basic principles of prophecy magic.

That is, all predicted futures are possible timelines.

Just like Amon predicted his own death, that was a possible future, but he did not die in the end because a being beyond the laws of time interfered with his fate. This is the turning point of the timeline. Beings beyond the laws of time can reverse the predicted future.

Even legendary prophecies are not necessarily accurate, because they can only see the future deduced by the law of cause and effect. Some existences beyond time and cause and effect are not within the scope of prophecy, so their influence on the future cannot be deduced.

The figure snapped his fingers happily and said, "Right. That's it."

"It's much easier to communicate with an arcanist than a druid."

"In future episodes, even if you don't meet Master Xu, you will encounter a time dragon while studying time spells."

"Ah."

"Even in the latest timeline, after you master the 'time replication technique', you will begin to explore the long river of time and space, and meet us at a certain point in time."

“This is the future that the prophecy foretells.”

"And when we meet now, the timeline is shrinking."

At this point, the figure seemed very happy. He smiled and clapped his hands, saying, "Since the timeline has shrunk, then the things that belong to you can be given to you in advance."

"young people."

"Are you interested in learning a few legendary spells from me?"

Xiao En was stunned when he heard this.

The blurry figure looked at him and smiled, saying, "You have advanced to the level of an arcanist. There are some things that I don't need to hide from you, because you will know them sooner or later."

"Studying the laws of time and space is an area that arcanists cannot avoid."

"The Space-Time Hub."

"It was founded by the ancient Lord of Time and was born together with the Pantheon of Gods. It is now managed by us, the Guardians of Time and Space and the Ancient Time Dragons. You will study the laws of time and space in the future, and you will most likely become one of us."

"Since the timeline for our meeting has been advanced, there are many things we can do."

At this point, the figure said solemnly: "In the great prophecy we cast, Su En will return at a certain point in time. You must be promoted to a demigod before He returns."

"Otherwise, if you use Suen's brain to complete your promotion, you will become his slave!"

Suen?!
Xiao En was instantly alert that the source of the laws of his spiritual path was Su En's brain.

The blurry figure said slowly: "I will first teach you a spell called 'Eternal Blazing Sun'."

"Learned it."

"It should be able to help you survive the stage of the Fate Legend. As for how you will be promoted to a demigod, we cannot predict it. We can only wait for the law of cause and effect of the timeline to continue to complete the deduction."

"But you have to remember."

"You are racing against Su En! You ascended with the power of Su En's brain, so you are inherently controlled by Su En. You must kill Su En once and for all!"

"Your mind law has no flaws."

What Xiao En stole was Su En's spiritual law. If Su En returns, his spiritual power may be deprived. The best way is to kill Su En and completely replace Him.

"We will find a way to make Suen's descended body die in other crystal wall systems."

"It's just that the spirit body is resurrected and returns."

"You still have a chance to kill Him completely!" the blurry figure said in a deep voice, "But before that, you'd better find a few more demigod-level helpers."

"Inside all the predicted futures."

"Ms. Hecate is your most important helper. Do everything you can to help her master the ministry of death."

"This will help you kill the resurrected Suen once and for all!"

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(PS: I was delayed by something. I will take a day off on the 3rd and update as normal on the 4th.)
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