Arcane Lord

Xia Duo had a wonderful idea, but without Daphne's cooperation, it would be all in vain. But now there is a high probability that Daphne has put herself into the loop, and this is what he can take advantage of.

As long as he does nothing and doesn't show any abnormality, Daphne will most likely persist and try to make him surrender in this way.

Next, things developed exactly as Sha Duo expected. Daphne showed a mental toughness far beyond that of most high-level mages. If she had maintained the continuity of consciousness during this process, then Sha Duo simply couldn't imagine herself. What kind of monster we are facing will inevitably lead to one possibility, and that is——

Daphne did not retain the continuity of consciousness, but placed herself in a loop, just like the human mage in the movie that Chateau had seen.

If Xia Duo didn't have the key to break the cycle, even if he could recover from mental fatigue during the cycle, he would still be trapped in such torture.

The reason why he can endure such a time loop now is largely not that he can endure it, but that there are exploits in such a time loop.

If at this moment he has completed the analysis of the Illuminati's ritual in the Lake of Teardrops, and at the same time his own research has reached a point where he cannot proceed without realistic experiments, can he still endure it under such circumstances?

It's like turning a normal person into stone. It seems eternal, but all the unknowns are locked, and all the thoughts are the same old things from countless years ago. In this case, wouldn't the person really become a piece of ancient food? stone?

In this situation, no matter how objectively you can endure it, psychologically you will be driven crazy by such an unchanging layer of time and space.

Fortunately, Sha Duo hasn't reached that level yet. He still has too much work to complete. If possible, he really hopes that Daphne can persist until he takes the initiative to break the cycle.

But how could such a good thing happen to him!

When the time loop lasted for nearly two years, Daphne, who originally shouted the previous sentence every time it looped, suddenly changed her tone:

"Are you stalling for time?!"

Without waiting for Xia Duo to answer, the cycle started again, and this time Daphne said something different, "What did you do before? What is your purpose?"

Then the cycle continued. In the new cycle, Daphne did not speak first this time, as if she wanted to wait for Sha Duo's answer, but Sha Duo remained silent. He was seizing the time to make final confirmation of the relevant details of the Teardrop Lake ceremony. !

Seeing that Xia Duo didn't answer, Daphne didn't wait any longer, but decisively started the cycle again, and then tried to counter Xia Duo in the new cycle.

But how could this kind of chicken-stealing behavior be so difficult for Xia Duo? After adjusting the balance between work and rest, he still remained alert enough to the outside world even when he was thinking deeply.

He would not let down his guard just because he was in a loop for one or two seconds. Even during the loop, he would conduct simulations on how Daphne might launch an attack and how to counterattack.

Stealing chickens is a situation that Xia Duo has simulated many times. In fact, if he is the leader of the cycle, knowing that the target can maintain continuous consciousness in the cycle, he will also try to steal chickens after a long cycle. It's a sneak attack.

Normally, no one can remain vigilant for such a long time, but Xia Duo is not an ordinary person, and ordinary people cannot maintain continuous consciousness in a time loop.

So, Xia Duo decisively fought back, and this time Daphne did not continue to start the cycle, but Xia Duo was no longer in the same state as in the beginning. Although the current duel continued the previous state, Xia Duo was at a disadvantage, but after the cycle During this period of continuous research, he had many new plans for the current situation.

The specific manifestation is that after countless cycles, Xia Duo quickly recovered his losses in the duel and gradually occupied the top position. Moreover, his advantage was far from that, and his biggest trump card had not been used yet!

Now it's more like teasing Daphne, like seeing what other cards the other party has.

But obviously, as Sha Duo had expected before, Daphne has exhausted her skills, otherwise she would not have resorted to the infinite loop method, and now it is just a pointless struggle.

"Daphne, you can use whatever means you have. You don't have to wait any longer and you won't have a chance now. Don't say I didn't give you a chance."

Daphne secretly hated Sha Duo's provocative words, but she did not show it. Instead, she continued to try to trick Sha Duo into asking: "What did you do before? Why can you transcend the timeline?"

"Do you call this 'transcending the timeline'? What about you? Why can you manipulate the timeline? Is it the starlight energy in your eyes?"

As for the methods used by Daphne, after two years of analyzing the Teardrop Lake Ceremony, Shado now has some understanding, but there are still many doubts. After all, the Teardrop Lake Ceremony is not the core ritual of the Illuminati. It is impossible to contain all the secrets of the ritual.

His biggest confusion now is how Daphne or the Illuminati control the timeline so accurately. Whether it is the previous Metril ceremony or the Teardrop Lake ceremony, the control of the timeline is very rough.

At least judging from those two rituals, it is absolutely impossible to be able to accurately control time and continuously cycle within one or two seconds like Daphne is able to do now.

This is too exaggerated, and it is completely unlike a technology that mortals can master.

…

The time loop that Xia Duo experienced before was not actually a real time loop. According to what Xia Duo could understand, it actually created an extra timeline of only one or two seconds.

Then it replaced the normal timeline.

Or it can be considered that Daphne separated the one or two seconds of Xia Duo and all related people or things, and repeated the evolution until the possibility that Daphne thought was acceptable appeared.

Because it was an operation on the timeline, the real world that Xia Duo perceived was real, because Daphne could not create a timeline where he did not exist, and the timeline where he existed, as long as he perceived it, was real.

This is probably what Daphne said about the transcendent timeline.

According to Xia Duo's understanding, there can be multiple real timelines at the same time, but for an individual, there is only one that can be perceived, and only that one that can be perceived is real.

Perhaps there are countless Xia Duos on other timelines, but Xia Duo on this timeline cannot perceive it, so it can be considered that those timelines do not exist.

Countless personal timelines are intertwined to form the real world.

If there are two people who have no causal relationship (outside the light cone in Earth terms), their timelines are complementary and interfering, and if one of them is changed, the other will not change at all.

But if there is a causal relationship, if one of them changes, the other will also change.