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Dinner was served at Fort Savoie, and the convoy finally arrived at Fort Savoie before it was getting dark.

After that dull dinner, Charlotte overlooked the long-lost castle on the terrace of her room. From the terrace you can see Rebecca's beloved Rose Garden, and on the other side is a landscaped pond, one of the Clayderman siblings' favorite outdoor activity spots.

The dark vision of the Vientiane Eye allows Charlotte to see everything in the Rose Garden in the dark night, and the cold winter in the north has caused the flowers to wither, leaving all that is left of the boreal plants endemic to the north. A cold wind blew, and Charlotte, who was pillow on her elbows, shivered, extinguished the cigarette butt, and turned to walk into the room.

His room was still the same as before, furnished at all. On the weapon cabinet opposite the bed are the wooden swords that I used to practice as a child and the short sword I used when I was twelve. Charlotte's fingertips brushed over her dagger and felt every decoration in the room, before she lay on her back on the velvet quilt with her head in her hands.

"I'm just now realizing that I seem to prefer hardwood beds to velvet beds now. ”

"Wow! slut!" Elle turned into a young girl, her hands on her chin, and narrowed her eyes comfortably, "Then you can sleep on the floor! ”

"I'm just trying to say that some things don't seem to have changed, but they've long since changed. Charlotte sat up and spread her hands, "Forget it, maybe I shouldn't be sad in front of you." ”

He said so, and walked straight to the door.

"Where are you going?" asked Al.

"I'm going to Aven, I have something I want to talk to him about, do you want to come along?"

"Of course!"

Unlike his own room, which had not changed, Aven's room was no longer next door, and it was not even on this floor. Charlotte, led by the castle guards, walked to Aven's room and knocked on the door. Soon, Aven's voice came from the other side of the door.

"Who?"

"It's me, Charlotte. ”

There was silence for a moment, "...... Come in. ”

Charlotte pushed the door open, and years of adventure had made him habitually look at the interior of the room.

This is a spacious room for office and hospitality, facing a reception area arranged in a Sichuan shape, the double row of sofas is the left and right strokes of the Sichuan shape, they are arranged opposite each other, and in the middle is a low wooden table, or coffee table, which is a vertical stroke in the middle of the Sichuan shape.

At the end was a black desk, where the owner could face the door. Flanked by neatly arranged bookshelves, and a short distance behind each side of the desk was a wooden door, one of which was supposed to lead to Aven's living room.

This arrangement is symmetrical and rigorous, and it is indeed very mage-style. But let's be honest, if Charlotte were to decorate the room, he would have chosen to push the bookshelves inward in a wavy shape, which would have deepened the sense of depth of the environment. In other words, he prefers to add a little asymmetry to the symmetry to add some playful vibrancy to the rigorous arrangement.

"Hey, I didn't bother you, did I?" asked Charlotte, sitting in the chair across from her desk, folding her hands.

"It's okay, it's just some routine documents and data. Ai Wen raised the notebook in his hand.

There was no magic on it, and at a quick glance, the magic eye's excellent dynamic vision captured a few words in the report of Santos Town, and it seemed that the book was a government report or an account.

"You're usually the one to handle these documents?" Charlotte asked incredulously.

"Otherwise, I'll have to help my parents with something. ”

"Wait, wait, what level are you now? I'm a mage. Charlotte swallowed, his expression a little embarrassed.

"Nine Rings, what's wrong?" Aven raised his eyes from the file.

Charlotte's mouth was slightly open, and it took a long time for her to awkwardly touch a cigarette and put it in her mouth, and he said in disguise, "Ahhh I'm also going to hit the Nine Rings in the near future, do you want one?"

"No, thank you. ”

Charlotte lied. He couldn't hit the Nine Rings at all, because the formula derived from the coin of fate collapsed, and his perception of the world began to waver.

From the seven rings to the nine rings at the mage level, the mage must build the foundation for the legends who come into contact with the reality of the world. The Nine Rings are the most critical threshold, starting from the Nine Rings, the mage's basic cognition of the multiverse has been basically finalized, and when he reaches the Nine Rings, the mage can gradually perceive the reality of the world, enrich his knowledge in the cognitive framework, or add branches and leaves to the backbone, so as to build a towering tree that leads directly to the legend and even the root.

That's not to say you can't change paths once you've reached Legendary, but it's generally hard, almost impossible to achieve. It is far more difficult to tear everything down and rebuild than it is to build a high-rise building on a good foundation, and Charlotte is now facing great doubts about building the foundation.

Unlike the rest of the mages, Charlotte's process of getting in touch with the truth of the world through the study of spells is gradual. And Charlotte's early exposure to spells is a root-level death reset, in other words, his perception of the world is based on the most incomprehensible space-time dimension.

And now, Heywood's future certainty, Lu Sien's uncertainty of fate, and Sylvia's fate choice theory (she believes that history that has a huge impact on the future cannot be changed, simply put, the legend of death and above cannot be resurrected in the true sense, or change the fate of death) has made Charlotte have great doubts about the reality of time and space. As a result, he is also mired in great doubts about the truth of the world and the future path.

And doubt, which means that the future direction cannot be determined, also makes Charlotte unable to impact the nine rings. Because of the doubts and the impact of the Nine Rings, there is a danger that the cognitive system he has built for a long time will collapse, and the collapse of a mage's cognitive system or a fundamental mistake means that his path has come to an end.

Youth is Charlotte's capital, and he may have a chance to start over before the end of his life, but Charlotte doesn't dare to gamble.

And Ai Wen in front of him, he was able to reach the Nine Rings while dealing with busy government affairs. How terrible was his gift, and what was the path he had determined to know the truth of the world? All of this made Charlotte both panic and embarrassment.

Charlotte finally realized Edie's helplessness that she couldn't catch up with her competitors.

"Evan ......," Charlotte couldn't help but ask, "what path are you sure about?"

Ai Wen should be very similar to himself, and his understanding of the world does not start from the changes of energy and matter like ordinary mages, but starts from the most obscure space-time dimension, which is like a guy who has not studied Newton's classical mechanics in his previous life to learn relativity and quantum mechanics, although the starting point is high, but there are more relative doubts.

So how did Evan solve these doubts? This is very important! This is not Charlotte's desire to probe Evan's cognitive system, but the cognitive system is related to Evan's personality and perception today.

In other words, Charlotte is worried that Evan has fully accepted Rusen's cognitive system, which means that Evan is likely to gradually become the powerful and terrifying Lord of Time.

Charlotte doesn't think that Evan can simply solve the doubts that plague her and build a new path. Just thinking about it made Charlotte feel terrible, and he suddenly felt that sitting across from his desk was no longer his gentle and considerate elder brother, but some resurrected undead.

Charlotte waited for Aven's answer, who was silent for a long time, took a cigarette from between Charlotte's fingers, took a puff, and choked several times before speaking.

"I can't tell. "And I don't want my cognitive system to confuse your perception of the world as it really is. ”

Evan chose not to talk about it.