Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 894 Back to the past?

"Unfortunately, this is not possible."

The person in Angel's mirror shook his head without hesitation and replied.

"I know where you want to go back to, or at least take another look at that world, but the time span between the two is as wide as the Pacific Ocean, and you only have one bathtub."

She did not hide the fact that she knew the "origins" of the two, especially the word "Pacific Ocean", which Angel had not heard for a long time and could only be made up in Loen language. It made her heart sink again.

"But what you mean is... if the time span is not that long, there is a hope that my 'bathtub' will float over?"

Catching the key point in the other party's words, Angel continued to ask.

This question made the person in the mirror silent for a moment. After a moment, he sighed as Angel usually did and said:

"It is indeed possible to use the characteristics of the City of Disaster to conduct so-called 'time travel', but it requires two conditions: an anchor point for the power of 'source material', and sufficient spirituality."

Without waiting for Angel to continue asking questions, she immediately explained the two concepts:
"You should already know the significance of the anchor point. Going from Bansi Harbor to Trier's catacombs, and crossing the barrier that blocks the God-Forsaken Land on Sona Island to enter the lightless land, both used the anchor point formed by the power leaked from the 'City of Disaster'. And sufficient spirituality is what you need to 'return' to the starting point. Both are indispensable."

"Return to the starting point..."

Angel murmured this sentence again and again, and soon understood what the person in the mirror meant.

The so-called "time travel" cannot allow her to go back to the past from the present, but when she uses the "City of Disaster" to go to different power leakage points, she will leave a "brand" or similar mark at the original location. After a period of time, she can consume her own spirituality from that side to return to the time where the brand is. If the spirituality is enough, she can return to the starting point even after several days or even months.

...but he couldn't go back to the more distant past, because before that, he hadn't left the corresponding "mark". Even the power of the source couldn't allow a person to travel through time without reason.

"Isn't this just like... a save file in a game? A save file that can only be saved and loaded once..."

Angel muttered, feeling more and more frustrated.

"Yes, and you don't have a save file now."

As the "person in the mirror" who had the same origin as her, the other Angel in front of her immediately responded to her words and said with a chuckle.

At Sequence 5, Angel stepped into the altar in the cave on the top of the mountain near Bansi Harbor, and returned to the original place from Trier three days later. As a price, she almost exhausted her spirituality; in the basement of the uninhabited village on Sona Island, she triggered the rune for sacrifice again, went to the mysterious God-forsaken Land, and returned soon after. During this period, she received a hint from "herself", verifying her conjecture that there were indeed two of herself at the same time.

But both "loading" have consumed the "mark" she left behind. At this moment, Angel is not in a state where she can use the power of "City of Disaster" to return to the past at any time, unless she draws a new rune here, activates it with blood, and crosses this homemade altar to an unknown destination.

This would give her the opportunity to return to the present someday in the future and bring with her the memories of this time in the hope of making a change.

"This is the 'Mirror World'. Even if you draw the runes, it won't produce the effect you want."

The person in Angel's mirror seemed to see through her thoughts and immediately spoke up to remind her.

"Mirror world..." Angel was immediately attracted by this sentence. He looked up at the sky. There was no winding mirror passage except for the broken sky. "But I have to return to reality and enter the 'mirror world' to find the corresponding passage. Could it be the 'mirror world of the mirror world'?"

Her awkward words almost made the person in the mirror laugh. The latter pursed his lips and glanced once, lingering for a moment on the "Darkless Cross" on the ground, the substitute doll, and the "Dream Walker" characteristic that was almost extracted, and then replied:
"This is both reality and not reality... Because the original essence of the City of Disaster is sealed in the Western Continent, the part you see is just the 'mirror world' formed instinctively by a trace of power leaked from it. This is different from the one used by the witches, which is close to the spirit world and connected to the whole world. It is a fragment between reality and the mirror, a 'special mirror world'."

The Western Continent, the seal, the power of the leaked source...one concept after another impacted Angel's thoughts, giving her a headache.

"So, the 'City of Disaster' is not the city we are in?"

She asked subconsciously.

"Of course not, otherwise how could the 'Source Essence' have only this much power, only able to suppress the 'Darkless Cross', only able to grant you power one order lower than its own, and only able to create spells that are difficult for even angels to kill?" The man in the mirror replied with an almost sneering tone, "This is only one in ten thousand of its power. Once the seal is released, the power of the 'Source Essence' will not be inferior to that of real gods, and may even surpass them!"

"So who sealed it?"

"…This is not something you can know now." The person in the mirror's somewhat excited tone suddenly became low.

It seems that this is another secret information that can only be known by reaching the level of an angel... Angel nodded and changed the subject:

"Is the mirror world beneath Trier that gave birth to the evil 'Mirror Man' caused by the leakage of source power?"

"Not all of them. There is the power of the 'City of Disaster', and there are also leaks of the power of the 'River of Everlasting Darkness', 'Wilderness of Knowledge' and other source substances... After the Four Emperors' War, the battlefield where the true gods were buried has become a trash can in the sense of mysticism. The power of various gods and source substances is mixed and affects each other. Even the living true gods are unwilling to touch it, so they can only seal it and build a new Trier on it." "River of Everlasting Darkness"... I remember Arrodes said that it was deep in Calderon, the City of the Dead. How could it appear in Trier in the Fourth Epoch? Well, the man in the mirror mentioned the leakage of power. Could it be that this source substance, even including the "Wilderness of Knowledge", was sealed in the Western Continent like the "City of Disaster", with only a little power leaking out? Are all the nine source substances the same?

Who sealed these powers and even the "source essence" that surpassed the true gods? For thousands of years, no one, not even gods, had gone to the Western Continent to look for these source essences?

Angel's mind was filled with thoughts, and more questions popped up one after another, but she understood that most of them "could not be known now". Only after she was promoted to Sequence 2 and could safely obtain this information, could she resolve her inner doubts.

Afterwards, while waiting for the characteristics of "Dream Walker" and "Hypnotist" to emerge, she discussed the techniques of using mirror magic with her own person in the mirror. She learned that because her "person in the mirror" had mastered some of the power of the source material, she was able to gain an absolute advantage in the "mirror battle" of the same sequence, which usually requires being one or two sequences higher than the opponent.

For example, when Nightingale of Despair fought Angel, who was still "joyful", she locked onto a nearby mirror, causing her to quickly use up the magic mirrors she was carrying. She also did this in her battle with Tracy when she was the Witch of "pain".

This is a little combat trick, right? Angel muttered. Just as she was about to discuss the issue of two selves existing at the same time after "time travel" with the person in the mirror, the latter grabbed the "hypnotist" feature and stuffed it into her hand, saying coldly:
"Take it and leave first. The subsequent Beyonder characteristics are close to low sequence, so they may be fused together when they are precipitated. I will then give it to you together with the Darkless Cross through the Granting, just like you and... The Fool."

Can sacrifice and gifting be used in the "City of Disaster"... Well, this is consistent with the principle of her responding to Sherman's prayer... Angel took over the Beyonder characteristic and looked at her mirror image with a bit of amusement as it urged her to leave in a tone that was almost like expelling her.

You obviously enjoyed our conversation too... Angel muttered, and with the "Dream Walker" and "Hypnotist" that he was going to sell to "Justice" Audrey, as well as the "Manipulator" feature that might become the property of this small rich man in the future, he entered the mirror world and left this special mirror world along the passage in the sky.

……

Looking up at the broken sky that displayed the authority of "Disaster", an inexplicable light flashed in the eyes of the "Man in the Mirror". After a moment, he lowered his head and looked at the small bronze cross under his feet, and the substitute doll with light golden hair hanging on the cross.

The latter was slightly freed from his restraints due to the movement of the Beyonder characteristics just now, and said in a sharp voice:

"You are in a very low mood. Do you need me to give you a psychoanalysis?"

The only extraordinary characteristic left in it is the "psychologist", and the ancient name of this sequence is "psychoanalyst".

But the person in the mirror just glanced at it coldly, and invisible silk threads stretched out from everywhere, tying the puppet tightly to the "Darkless Cross", making it howl in pain.

Amid the other person's curses and cries of pain, the person in the mirror silently closed his eyes and stood on the deserted street without moving, as if he had become a statue.

Until she heard a series of illusory sounds that seemed to come from far away.

That was a prayer to Angelica, the "Golden Queen".

She just returned to reality, so she should have time to deal with it... The person in the mirror, who had a similar personality to the original, did not respond, but simply wrapped the substitute doll tighter so that it couldn't even make a wailing sound.

"...The master of the Spirit World Ship..."

"...the embodiment of pain and despair..."

The repeated chanting of the honorific name finally made the person in the mirror open his eyes, and he looked up at the sky in surprise.

She discovered that the owner of the voice was the owner of the Honorable Name, Angel was praying to her!

Looking for me... The person in the mirror seemed to have realized something, and his spirituality spread, and soon he touched the channel in the mirror that conveyed the prayer.

A moment later, the item sacrificed by the "believer" appeared in her hands.

It was a glass bottle with an uneven surface, narrowing and widening, and a silhouette like a slim girl. It was almost full of brown liquid, with fine bubbles rising from the surface of the liquid.

On the quiet street, the person in Angel's mirror raised his lips slightly and smiled.

The glass bottle in her hand cooled rapidly, and the liquid inside quickly dropped to freezing point.

With a "puff" sound, she easily popped open the metal bottle cap with her fingers, put it to her lips, and solemnly poured the cold cola into her mouth as if taking a magic potion.

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On Friday evening, Leonard Mitchell, dressed a little differently than usual and wearing a hooded windbreaker, walked cautiously into an alley not far from the Church of the Goddess of Night in the East District.

He tapped a tooth in his mouth with the joint of his right fist in a somewhat unfashionable manner. A breeze blew upward from his side, and a spirit invisible to the naked eye was released from the tooth that sealed it. It quickly flew into the air and monitored the movements nearby for Leonard with eyes that could see through most disguises.

Today, he is going to meet the witch recommended by "Queen" Angel!
(End of this chapter)