“…… Well. ”

Waking up leisurely from a coma, the mysterious woman named Lorna slowly opened her eyes, and a weak and slight moan then echoed in her hoarse and dry throat in her struggled movements, and the originally low voice was now with a bit of the soft taste unique to the girl when she woke up: "This, this is—"

The vague feeling gradually became clear, her eyes widened suddenly, and the alert gaze then flashed between the eyes of the mysterious woman shrouded in the hood, and finally slowly fell on the identical figure sitting on the attic floor in front of her: "Is there a mistake in my memory?" Before......"

Slipped into the tower along the gap that Duan Qing had been blown up before, pushing the final battle against Distea to the peak, but he lost the basis for fighting against him because the Void Power he held was far from the opponent's Void Power level, and finally had to use his body as a shield to block the opponent's attack. The chaotic battle then gradually entered the white heat in the following time, but her consciousness also became more and more blurred as time passed, the endless void and the laughter that seemed to spread throughout the void also became the last scene left before her consciousness disappeared, and the last lingering despair left in her mind turned into endless confusion at this moment: "Yes, by the way, that guy almost killed him, and finally shredded Morna!" ”

"Are we the victors?"

Weakness mixed with alertness gradually replaced by doubt, Rhona's wide eyes kept wandering back and forth between the backs of the players sitting quietly in front of her, and a tall magician surrounded by these backs also raised his arms at this time, as if he was speaking in high spirits: "...... As the owner of this lighthouse and this haven, allow me to thank you once again for your efforts and your enthusiasm to defend against foreign enemies. ”

“……”

There was no superfluous applause, not even a feeling of applause, and several players named Qingling Adventure Group just sat quietly in place with their brooms and mops, as if waiting for Molnar, who had folded his arms, to speak next: "Ahem, ahem...... Well, I know that's not what you want to hear right now. ”

"My identity is indeed a bit embarrassing, after all, my existence should not have been known to you in the first place." The dim light flickered under the hood of the impossible to see through, as if to express the frequency of Molner's deliberations and thoughts in this way: "As one of the old administrators designated by the system, my existence should not have been in this world in the first place, so everything may be called a beautiful misunderstanding and an unexpected ......"

"It's not that we doubt your identity, Mr. Molnar." Looking back and forth at each other for a while, Duan Qing finally voiced his voice as a representative of all the players present: "We are just...... Uh, a little worried......"

"Worried about this secret being leaked?" Blinking his eyes, the hood belonging to Morna also turned to the direction where Duan Qing was: "Although it is indeed unbelievable, this secret has been exposed several times in the past thousand years, and people on the mainland who have seen this kind of miraculous power have also wanted to worship me as a god several times. ”

"Only I know in my heart what the reason I can do all this." He folded his arms, and the dim light towards the players around him became a little dimmer at this time: "This is not a miracle, and even the level of magic theory is not much higher than that of the magicians of the Ancient Magic Empire, just because my 'authority' is half a point higher than that of ordinary people in the Free Continent, and I know a little more than them." ”

"That's amazing enough."

Knowing what the other party was referring to, Duan Qing smiled bitterly and gestured in the direction of the other players: "Born from the system of the virtual world, knowing the existence of all identities including players, can control the laws and settings of various virtual worlds, and can even erase hostile units at will—even if you are a real system administrator, I'm afraid you can't do all of this that you can do now, right?" “

"It's not as exaggerated as you described, but there are a lot of limitations." Morna's mellow voice kept echoing around everyone: "And the last one—as a member of the free world, the supreme rules of the free world will impose more restrictions on our existence, so things like interfering with fate and erasing life, I can't do it at all. ”

"But what you're doing now has changed the fate of some people to a certain extent."

Sighing slightly, Duan Qing, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, spread his hands again: "Including yourself - if you are really restricted, this information and content that has broken through the shackles should not be told to us in the first place, right?" ”

"As I said before, I'm one of the old ones." Molnar replied in a deep voice, "The old style is a part of the history of this world that has not been systematically recycled and eliminated, and it is also a part of the free continent that was deliberately left behind when it was first founded, and we have become what we are today after thousands of years of experience and evolution together with all the primate beings who were set up by the Creator. ”

"If it weren't for the fact that I was accidentally 'killed' and put in a state of accidental reset, I probably wouldn't have done the previous series of transgressions." He stretched out one of his arms and gestured to the sky of the tower above the heads of several people, "The effect of the reset is now gone, and even if you ask me to repeat the demonstration now, I can't do it again." ”

"But some normal permissions should still be fine." Exchanging a glance with Xue Lingphantom Ice, who was quietly visiting, Duan Qing's voice again was quietly lowered a little: "For example, teleportation, or space magic......

"What, you're still doubting my previous statements?" Looking at Duan Qing in front of him steadily, the dim yellow light under Molner's hood flickered a few times: "I did tell some lies before, but not all of them are lies, I have indeed been in this place for a long time, and I have never known the information on the continent and most of the development process. ”

"The only reason why I can guarantee the food and everything in this place is because I make it from the furnace system." The tall magician pointed to his feet: "To put it simply, it was conjured out of thin air. ”

"By virtue of it, out of thin air?" This time, it was Asahi Dongsheng who took the lead in making his own surprised voice: "This, this is also against science, right?" How could anyone conjure up these things out of thin air? ”

"Of course there is, that's what the furnace itself does." Morner's voice was still warm and calm, "As long as we can pay an equal amount of consideration - such as the sea beast's magic core and materials - we can get whatever we want from the furnace." ”

"You mean to say...... There's also a furnace here? Expressions of increasing surprise flashed across their faces, and Duan Qing then looked at the feet of Molnar that he had indicated earlier: "Is it the kind of furnace where you can make magic items at will?" ”

"There are all sorts of furnaces on the free continent, and their uses would have taken on different preferences depending on the original design of the Creator." Molner explained in a deep voice, "For example, the furnace in the center of the Free Continent is good at smelting metal, and the furnace on the top of Hulan Mountain is good at smelting all kinds of bones, and this furnace is located in the middle of the Endless Sea...... He is best at smelting seawater, or the water element in the sea. ”

"Converting the energy condensed in the sea and the ocean into the tools that people need is what this furnace that exists on the Endless Bridge is all about." Pulling his hood, the smile in Molnar's voice faded with the passage of time: "But now that the supply of magic has been lost, the operation and capacity of the furnace have been greatly reduced, and being able to maintain it because of my maintenance is already the best thing that can be done now." ”

"That's why you've always wanted the bridge to be repaired?" Duan Qing blinked his eyes: "Restore the magic power supply of the Bridge of Miracles and regain the original vitality of this furnace?" ”

"After all, that's one of my duties here." Morna replied in a low voice: "The furnace was supposed to provide a source of supply for the surrounding magical structures, supporting the magic core of the regional leylines, but the situation of the furnaces in the Endless Sea has become extremely special due to the geographical environment and conditions, and the chaotic climate and violent elemental winds have not only failed to provide any support for the furnaces here, but have been consuming the stability of the magical structures here. ”

"After so many years of consumption, the magical energy near the Haven has been almost consumed." Speaking of this, he let out a sad sigh again: "When we first designed the Bridge of Miracles, we had considered this possibility, but after so many years of hard work, in the end, nothing has changed or gained. ”

"So you've turned that expectation into a mission, hoping to rely on our strength to complete the repair of the bridge, right?" Gedman, who touched his nose and covered his face with his hand, broke the temporary silence of the field for a while: "Although I don't know why and when this bridge broke like this, I am afraid that it will not be a trivial matter to repair it in a physical sense." ”

"These issues can be solved as long as there is time to keep going." Shaking his head, Molnar, dressed in a wide magic robe, looked at the others around him with a dim glow: "But the problem now - I've been short of helpers. ”

“…… We can act as your helper. ”

"No, you can't."

Quietly interrupting the other party's words, Molner's mellow tone then began to become low: "So you can, as long as the relationship and bond between us have not changed. ”

“……”

Understanding the implicit meaning of the other party's words at this time, Duan Qing finally let out a helpless wry smile: "Finally got to the subject of this conversation—say, what do you need from us?" ”

"I need you to keep my secret." The dim light under the hood flickered slowly twice, and finally reverberated in everyone's ears with Molner's voice: "About who I am, and who I really am...... I can't allow these similar settings to be known to anyone else on the continent. ”

"It's not a big deal, is it? Didn't you say that this kind of thing had happened a few times before? Before Duan Qing could say his response, the rising sun on the side raised his arm that was hugging the back of his head with a big grin: "Even if it really spreads, it's just to add some numbers to the people who worship you." ”

"The relationship between the inhabitants of the free continent and me will naturally be conditioned by the free world itself, and I myself am not worried about these problems." The hood turned in the direction of the rising sun, and Molner's voice was still extremely low: "But your identity is completely different from theirs, and I can't interfere with your identity and the world you live in. ”

"The most interference I can do is only for the parts of the game that you 'belong' in."

As he said this, the yellow light flickering between the hoods became more and more dim, as if Duan Qing, who was looking at him, then lowered his head quietly, and only after a while did he break the silence between several players sitting around him with a soft sigh: "I see, that is to say-"

"If we don't listen, our data in this game world will be affected, right?"

As the rest gasped, he looked at Molnar's body calmly, "Is this a little unfair to those of us?" ”

"I'm sorry, but from that moment on, our relationship has started to become unfair." Molner shook his head slowly: "As an old-fashioned person, I don't really need to follow the rules set by the creator of this world, but I also have the responsibility of being a member of the free world, and I can't sit idly by and watch any possibility of breaking the rules of this world play out in front of me in the future." ”

"Limiting the possibilities by limiting yourself - you guys really like to do things perfectly." The calm expression gradually became tangled, and Duan Qing pinched his eyebrows: "But no matter how it is restricted, we players are outsiders who extend from another world after all, if you really break the jar and break it, any of your actions will not be able to really restrict us, right?" ”

“…… That's right. ”

After looking at Duan Qing for a longer time, Molner's dim hood then swayed up and down in the atmosphere that was frozen to the point that he couldn't breathe: "It's true under normal circumstances, but you-"

"You're in a different situation than everyone else."