Look at the unpredictable ocean around you, which seems to be enveloped by a storm......

Look at the frozen scene reflected by the broken mirror......

Look at the frozen historical moments......

Whether it was Geralt or Ciri, the strength of their whole bodies seemed to be drained, and they felt as if their whole bodies were stuck in a quagmire, so that their bodies that could not have strength were slowly sinking.

And the Mirror Master is still talking to himself, revealing the cruel and ruthless truth:

"Because time is inherent and irreversible, wanting to go back to the past and change history is the power of God that countless people have pursued. However, since it is the power of God, then nature is not a realm that can be touched by man. ”

"You want to change history by traveling through time, but you don't know that history can't be changed. To put it simply, what would happen if you went back in time and made changes that led to the death of your young grandfather or grandmother? ”

"If there is no grandfather, there would be no father, and if there is no father, there will be no you, but if there is no you, how can you go back in time and change the history of the past?"

At this, Gunter Odim paused slightly, and then laughed mercilessly—

"This should have been discovered a long time ago, but you didn't realize the problem after countless efforts and failures...... But also, after all, you fail all the time, and if you succeed once, you will find out what the problem is. ”

“……”

“……”

The invisible curse is quietly conveyed, and the malice of the world is here to initiate a mockery.

I don't know if I'm in reality, but Geralt and Ciri both understand something in a trance.

Right now, right here – they finally get it.

They simply didn't do anything, they couldn't do anything at all, because if they followed that grandfather paradox that this demon said, they couldn't have changed history at all, whether the plan succeeded or failed.

Because if you go back in time and change history, everything will become a lie. If what happened is gone, then what's the point of doing it?

- To deny the past is to deny the self.

To change history is to deny everything they have done. Just as without a grandfather, there would be no father, without a father there would be no them, and without them there would be no movement through time and changing history.

Therefore, no matter what, it can only be a failure, and even if it succeeds, it will be distorted as a failure.

Therefore, both of them were completely stunned because of this fact...... The truth is too large to accept.

"From the moment you choose to play with time because of the possibility of traveling through time brought about by the blood of the ancients, you and the world have fallen into the trap of time."

The Mirror Master stretched out his hand to the unacceptable Ciri and the extremely ugly Geralt, and smiled, and that smile was full of a kind of delightful, even creepy weirdness.

"You are not the original you, and you are definitely not the last. Maybe it was not necessarily to fight the crazy lich now, but it could be to deal with a wild hunt or hoarfrost or something. ”

"Even more aggressively, that lich wasn't your enemy in the first place, and maybe fought alongside you in the first place...... It's just that whatever you were fighting in the first place, you took the method of traveling through time to change history. ”

"Now it's time for you to bear the consequences, the Blood of the Ancients is definitely not a gift of miracles, it was destined to be a cursed monster from the beginning."

The demon shook his head again and again, and kept sighing: "It is inevitable that the Aine El clan will lose it, because this monster should have been annihilated in the world like this, but you humans have released this monster with your own hands. ”

At this point, Günt Odim paused again, and looked at the expressions of the two with interest, as if he was very satisfied.

His meaning is clear—it was you who changed the possibilities of the past, it was you who carved out new branches again and again, and it was you who eventually led to the emergence of the lich......

Then, in that leisurely voice, the demon delivered a cruel fatal blow: "It's you...... The world's largest natural disaster was created. ”

"How can it be like this...... accompanied by a trembling voice, the tears that Ciri had been holding back finally couldn't be suppressed, and when the intense feelings came up, tears burst out of her eyes.

Why did you finally find hope, but the road ahead was only pitch black?!

Gambling his life in order to save the world, spending a long time because of his own persistence, and insisting on moving forward with pain and heaviness, in order to change history, change the past, and change fate, and not want his efforts to be wasted.

The result?

And now all this is denied like this?!

So what is the point of their previous efforts, their hard work, and everything they have done?

"I remember, I told you before, that people with wisdom are often the stupidest people, and history knows that."

The Mirror Master shook his head and said.

“…… But this kind of thing is too cruel......" Ciri kept shaking her head, as if she wanted to deny the cruel truth.

She had roughly understood, but it was precisely because she understood that she felt completely unacceptable, and tears poured out like a burst of embankment.

"Indeed, it may not be interesting to you." The Mirror Master nodded approvingly.

Geralt didn't speak, and although the witcher's expression had also become very ugly, it seemed to be seriously thinking about something.

At this time, he asked in a heavy tone-

“…… You just seemed to say that because we fail every time, we don't realize what the problem is? In other words, we actually have a chance to succeed? ”

“……”

“……”

After staring at the white-haired witcher for a long time, Gaunt Odim nodded with a smile on his face and replied:

"I know what you're asking, but I'm sorry to tell you that if you succeed, you're just opening up a new branch."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to the refracted freeze-frame scenes around him, the shattered frozen images.

"Whether you succeed or fail, the changes you make will open up another timeline to the future."

"This line is the result of your choices, the changes you make, and the opening of a new branch in time. But in the original world, nothing has changed, and the old world still exists......"

"Whatever should happen happens, and the past that has already existed cannot be changed. Your mortal vision is too narrow, but you have been given the possibility of touching the realm of time, so you choose the path to change your fate. ”

As the words of the Mirror Master fell-

The surroundings were completely covered in darkness, and more scenes spread out in the unpredictable storm, which seemed to be an endless picture of scenes, a sad, miserable, and distant world.

After countless mistakes and mistakes and mistakes, little by little, they changed the world they inhabited, as well as the history of this planet, accumulating countless cruel fragments.

- Maybe that's despair.

"You've tried to make changes more than three hundred times, but look at these twisted timelines, there are too many to count!" Master Mirror said calmly, "Even I can't figure out what the original change was for and on which timeline. ”

"The only thing that is certain at the moment is that the subject of time has leaned towards the point of convergence occupied by the mad lich, and although it cannot control time, there is no doubt that it has found a place upstream in this river relative to you."

Gaunt Odim waved his hand lightly, and the world in the eyes of the two was directly covered in darkness, and all scenes disappeared.

A whole new world slowly unfolded before the eyes of the two of them, as if their fluttering consciousness was pulled by some force and arrived in a wilderness of another era—

After a moment of flowering, they found themselves standing on a continent, dark, barren, desolate, and lifeless, with no vegetation on the surface, bare rock formations, and rolling deserts.

But it's not the kind of Gobi Desert that is vast and hot, full of yellow sand, and the sun is scorching, because there is no atmosphere in the sky at all.

Even the sun had dimmed, no longer shining with the incandescent light it had before, but eclipsed like blood.

It was as if many generations had passed, the ocean had sunk to the seabed, the planet had come to an end, and everything had become hopeless......

But beneath the dim sun and the mournful sky, the desert in the distance was filled with towering spires and splendid palaces, bathed in the dimming of the ominous sun.

It seemed to be a city and a kingdom built without knowing something, but it was like a series of tall tombs and magnificent mausoleums.

"What is this...... Place? Geralt asked with difficulty.

He felt extremely uncomfortable and uncomfortable, as if a living person had arrived in the underworld belonging to the dead, even with the physique of a demon hunter, he was a little unbearable, if it wasn't for the mirror master with them, he had no doubt that he would have died the first time he came to this place.

"That lich's stronghold, the upper ...... of time," the Master Mirror whispered, narrowing his eyes as well, "an evil greater than death has descended. ”

Following the direction of the demon's gaze, Geralt and Ciri both looked up at the sky.

The supposedly radiant star emerged a grayish-black hue, shrouded in an eternal black fog, losing most of its light and heat. The emptiness is chaotic, and the surface of the abyss is dark, as if the shadows from infinite time and space are approaching.

Just one glance at it was as if something had penetrated their brains, leaving them feeling depressed and crazy, and their chests were about to burst.

There is some kind of knowledge flowing into the brain, and an unfamiliar concept inexplicably emerges -

This is the Proto-Dark Star.

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