Spell Return: The Wheel of Time

Chapter 377 Giving up
"Shocking news! Shocking news!"

Shocking news headlines can immediately attract many people to subconsciously click in to see what's going on. Although most of the time it's just a gimmick, the mediocre content makes viewers who have seen too many such headlines feel bored.

But today seems to be an accident...Everyone who clicked in following the title quickly discovered that this was not a fake gimmick, if it was not a story made up by some madman.

It's no wonder that people who clicked on it would have such doubts. The content of this news is really too outrageous, so much so that even people who have experienced the baptism of supernatural cognition such as spells feel it is a bit absurd.

But soon their suspicions had to be gradually reduced, because after this first piece of news, news media of all sizes, not just those in Japan, released this news one after another.

The content of the news is very simple, and even the things it describes have no evidence. It seems more like conjecture or rumors, but compared with everything it narrates, these seem less important.

To put it simply, it describes the incredible story of a person, or a sorcerer. According to the content written on the book, which is not sure whether it is true or false, the sorcerer has lived for thousands of years!
If this degree can be barely considered within the 'acceptable' range, after all, the incredible power of spells is real, then it is not impossible for someone to possess a spell that can grant them immortality.

Just words like these might also cause a stir, but the people who really pay attention to and explore it will only be limited to a certain group of people, instead of causing the unprecedented wave of today.

Because these news stories with similar content also mentioned one thing at the same time, that is, Neon's vague history in the past, a history that was almost unrecorded for some reason and was like a blank, and now it has been revealed in a way that is not serious at all.

The stone pillars and carvings in those pictures immediately caused great controversy. The doubts about the end of the Heian period, the truth about the sudden collapse of the shogunate period just after it began, and the silence of hundreds of years of history all appeared at this time in a form beyond everyone's imagination.

If you had once told the whole world that this closed, tiny place had been continuously ruled by a single individual for hundreds of years, and that he had accomplished what countless emperors of dynasties had dreamed of, he had even completed the feudal rule over a piece of land and a country with his individual power.

Anyone who hears it will despise something that is even more outrageous than the story. After all, that was hundreds or even thousands of years ago, when gunpowder had not yet appeared and been used, and people fought with cold iron blades and armor. Even in Japan in the past, armor was a treasure that only senior officers could own. Ordinary soldiers, let alone armor, had weapons that were generally things like wooden spears and hayforks.

That is why the people here mutated and created the samurai sword, a knife with a clear curvature and suitable for chopping. Most of the time, it is used against unarmored enemies, so this type of knife pursues sharpness, and the people here have developed a unique swordsmanship.

In such a world, there are limits to fighting one against many, and that's only if the enemies are mostly a bunch of small fry, and are not equipped with armor, long weapons, cavalry, etc. Otherwise, once the battle formation is formed, no matter how powerful you are, with dozens of spears stabbing at you, even you, even a swordsman, will be useless.

By the way, those famous sword masters, the strongest ones, basically use spears on the battlefield. This is the real world. In cold weapon combat, distance is everything. Those rumors about one against a hundred are all unequal battles.

It is already so difficult and demanding to deal with a few, dozens or hundreds of people, let alone trying to rule an era on one's own.

But the premise of questioning it is that there is no such foul power as magic. Now that we know and confirm the existence of magic, this fairy tale-like story actually... seems to have some real possibility?
If, in the past, there was a sorcerer whose power could allow him to achieve immortality and whose martial arts skills reached an unprecedented level, then it would seem that such a person would indeed have the potential to ascend to the supreme throne.

We can think of that era as an enlarged version of a tribe. The person with the strongest military force in the tribe must have a high status. And if his military force is strong enough to fight against everyone in the tribe, and others can't do anything to him, then before he reveals his weakness, this person with overwhelming military force is the unquestionable leader.

Originally this was impossible, but the variable of the curse made it possible for this news to be further investigated and verified.

If it's true...

Countless ordinary people, sorcerers, and external forces that have been eyeing Japan's current situation, all now cast more complex and diverse eyes on this island country, openly or covertly.

Some people care about the unknown and powerful personal force, some people care about the rule that existed in the past and made people at that time taboo, and even buried history, and some people care about the ability to live forever...

The fall of this blockbuster bomb has once again caused the surface of the water, which had finally calmed down, to become turbulent. Even if the world ranking competition were to start immediately, people would probably subconsciously link the two together.

So everyone is curious about one question: Who is the sorcerer who has lived for thousands of years and ruled Neon for hundreds of years?

"Could it be a noose?" The one who asked the question was Otsutsukotsu Yuta. He had already arrived in Tsushima City with Gojo Satoru, Zenin Kei and other core members of the sorcerer class. They had already seen the news on the way. Compared to ordinary people and most sorcerers, they knew more and obviously had some guesses about it.

After all, that unspoken existence has so many restrictions. Just the fact that it has lived for thousands of years is not something that an ordinary sorcerer can do. This aspect will immediately remind people of Tianyuan in the Hongxing Palace and the noose that recently appeared in the vision of the high-level sorcerers.

The information about the latter technique has been almost figured out. Such a technique is indeed troublesome. Whoever's body is obtained may inherit that person's identity and even all the abilities such as the technique. Not to mention, if Nosuke occupied the body of a powerful magician in the past, he might really be able to do all that.

In fact, Tianyuan is also a big suspect, but Tianyuan's personality does not match the general description in the disclosed information. In addition, there are actually some records about Tianyuan, which have been passed down through the local Buddhist tradition.

As for this guy named Noso, if he didn't really exist, it would be hard to believe that there is such a guy who can constantly change his body to achieve immortality, and is mentally abnormal and keen on doing all kinds of things. It is said that the most evil sorcerer who was originally regarded as the shame of the Kamo family, Kamo Kentoshi, might have seized his identity and then committed such horrific crimes as the "Nine Phases Diagram".

But there is still a small doubt, that is, does Luo Suo really have the power to rule two eras? If so, why is he forced to be humble now? Is it because he is no longer the same as before without a suitable and powerful body?

Gojo Satoru did not answer Otsutsu's question, and the latter did not ask any further questions. After all, the problem they were about to deal with was a more urgent matter that had to be dealt with immediately.

"But why does Gojo-sensei look a little uneasy? Although the situation in Tsushima City is a little bad, would a big-hearted Gojo-sensei really become like this so easily... And the best person to handle this should be Genichi-sensei. Even the position of principal was given to Gojo-sensei. Is there something else going on?"

No matter how Otsutsuki's thoughts ran wild, he never moved his mind towards the worst and most incredible direction. There was no special reason, but only because he trusted Gojo Satoru and Kamiganichi even more than he trusted Tengen, the cornerstone of the world of sorcery.

Therefore, Otsutsuki had never thought of that possibility subconsciously. As for the position of the principal and the strange disappearance of Shenyuanyi, they were a bit suspicious, but his first thought was that there might be other conspiracies behind all this.

As he had important matters to attend to, Otsutsuki quickly put aside these distracting thoughts. Gojo Satoru arranged tasks for the others, and then he and Otsutsuki prepared to go in first to investigate the situation in case a large force broke into Tsushima City, which had already fallen into the hands of the enemy.

There is no guarantee that those ancient curse masters who have been reborn will not take the remaining innocent people in Tsushima City as hostages. However, if it is just the combination of Gojo Satoru and Otsutsuki, no matter whether the other party knows their information or not, they will most likely not do such a desperate behavior.

On the contrary, based on the analysis and judgment of those ancient curse masters, if they knew something about Gojo Satoru's name, they would be more likely to choose to accept the "provocation" of the two. That group of ancient magicians came from different periods in the past, but they were all extraordinary and had made a name for themselves.

When faced with the "challenge" from the top modern magicians, these people, who have their own pride and persistence and are different from the rat-like modern curse masters of today, will most likely choose to fight Gojo Satoru first.

To put it bluntly, Gojo Satoru was using the safer path of leaving the main force behind to exchange or gamble on an opportunity, betting that the group of ancient curse masters would be proud of being "strong" in curses, so that Gojo Satoru and Otsutsuki would have the opportunity to delay more enemies, allowing the rest of them to rescue more innocent citizens in Tsushima City.

"Otsutsuki, can you now reverse the copied technique?"

In order to avoid being discovered by possible enemy means, Otsutsuki and Gojo Satoru adopted normal infiltration instead of using [No Limits] to teleport directly in. On the way, Otsutsuki suddenly heard Gojo Satoru ask this. He understood that he was mainly asking him if he could reverse the [Wheel of Time] of Shingenichi.

After all, if they could achieve this, their action would have a great deal of room for error and a high chance of success, but Otsutsuki could only tell the truth with some shame.

"I'm sorry, Gojo-sensei. I'm not very proficient in reversing the copied technique. I've tried Genichi's technique before, but the most I can do is reverse the time to a single digit and a second, and after using it continuously, the structure of the technique will collapse..."

Gojo Satoru finally smiled, "That's enough. This kind of complicated technique is not easy to construct. It's a pity that although you are a distant relative of the Gojo family, you did not inherit the awakened six eyes, otherwise your progress in this area should be faster.

But that's enough, let's go meet the ghosts that linger and should have died long ago."

(End of this chapter)