Chapter One Hundred and Nine: The Sands of Time
Kane recounted the Great Lakes incident to the wizarding delegates who could be understood as the 'United Nations Task Force'.
He first gave a rough account of the ambush's past.
This part is basically verifiable, with a bunch of eyewitnesses and even video footage recorded in a crystal ball with magic.
The delegates had already searched for the wizard last night and learned all this information. So now it's a matter of going through the motions, and their focus is on the information Kane gets from talking to Yu Xiaolou.
After the foreplay, Kane emphasized: "Horizontal comparisons between parallel universes are plausible, and it is difficult to determine how similar they are. Believers who understand the principles of divination know that foresight is change, so please judge for yourself how high the probability of what happens in another world is in this world. In addition, I can't be sure that the information I get is the truth, and I can only guarantee that what I said is what I heard, and I am not lying. ”
With that, Kane signed a candid oath in public.
The wizards secretly praised Kane's approach again.
Due to the peculiarities of the caster, how to eliminate falsehood as much as possible has always been a key point of consideration in serious occasions like this.
An imposter using a polyjuice potion, or being cast with an ecstasy spell, can cause things to go wrong at the root.
Truth-spitting agents are very useful, but there is a question of degree involved here. Now it is a consultative inquiry, not a suspect being tried, and the use of truth-vomiting agents is a violation of personal rights.
Kane took out these contracts to guarantee a minimum of arbitration, which seemed very professional and good.
As for the reliability of the contract, it is still the same sentence: it doesn't matter if you don't understand it, the caster's unique psychic perception can detect its characteristics. This is a common ability shared by wizards on the mystical side, and it is also a characteristic of the Planetary Secret Text, a secondary law symbol.
This kind of writing itself is an abstraction and condensation of the laws of nature, which can be understood directly from a perceptual point of view, of course, there is a threshold, but ordinary people cannot.
In this regard, people with mental abilities (including some psychopaths, underage children, and a serious illness with abnormal lights) are as if they are color blind, and can see, or can image in their minds things that ordinary people can't.
All of the wizards present were experienced wizards, so naturally there was no problem of difficulty in identification. Some people are even wondering whether to introduce this contract system into their own department.
They speculated that the system was most likely a product of the glorious age of magic.
Where is the brilliance? Beautiful, all kinds of miraculous buildings? No, at least these are not the main criteria, the main yardstick is humanistic, which can distinguish between obscurantism and barbarism.
Just like ancient Rome, the people of that time were enlightened and tried various institutions such as republics, but then they were defeated by a group of barbarians, and Europe fell into a dark age that lasted for centuries.
From today's point of view, then, ancient Rome was glorious, while the ancestors of the main population of present-day Europe played an inglorious role at that time.
In the minds of these wizards, the height of civilization in the glorious period of magic is comparable to that of modern times.
The legendary Atlantis is a product of a magical civilization that was finally destroyed in a catastrophe similar to a nuclear war. And the characteristics of magical civilization make it rare to preserve traces of civilization (loss of magic, decay is accelerated and complete)
It is precisely because of this background that once Kane's contract magic is associated with the glory days of ancient magic, it immediately becomes synonymous with loftiness.
Kane's opening sentence is a little more informative, but the wizards can still understand it.
The time turner that Hermione used in her third year is now lying in the British Ministry of Magic's magical item vault.
Although Rowling, the creator god of the orthodox HP world, later felt that such an unnatural item (compare "Death Note", it is not difficult to imagine its effect) could easily become a fatal loophole and destroyed it in a very careless way. But as long as there is existence, even if it has existed, there must be an impact (butterfly effect).
Wizards with good knowledge generally know the existence of this item, and even know its driving principle and key substances, so they also have a certain concept of parallel universes.
Kane also made a point of making up this information after Dumbledore proposed to investigate the mystery of the Carrett family's demise in 1853.
Coupled with the addition of Yu Xiaolou not long ago, I basically understand the situation of materials and creations related to time and space in this world.
The source of everything comes from the magical substance of the sands of time.
Legend has it that this substance is the leftover material after the world is shaped, similar to the leftovers at the end of construction on the construction site, of course, it is extremely high, after all, it has the prefix of 'magical'.
There are also many legends of the Sands of Time, and Kane thinks that the more important ones are that a certain bull fought against it and the embodiment of the laws of the world. Victory, creating the legendary magic artifact of the Hourglass of Time.
What is this concept? Simply put, as the loser, the world recognizes the right to use this item.
This is a different kind of registration, and it won't be used to be killed by a thunderbolt from the clear sky or something.
At the same time, it also means that the world agrees to endorse it, and in addition to what mess, the world will wipe its ass, or neutralize and balance the consequences.
Kane thinks this is very important, this kind of magical substance can only be played by gods, ordinary people use it, and the power of time and space will be devoured, and the consequences will be more tragic than death.
In his previous life, in the Vientiane Gate system, he also saw some pretending criminals who hated the sky and hated the earth and died because they couldn't do it.
is similar to the DND universe's Netheriel's Terminator Level 41 Arcanist Casas, the god-killing is very awesome, but it is very tragic to follow the ascension, and the mortal body simply cannot contain a large amount of magical power and information, and as a result, the magic net representing the magic system collapsed, all magic failed, the floating city fell, and the new generation of magic goddess Mystra saved three. Casas put an end to the Nether civilization and the Age of Alpha.
This kind of typical flipping table can also be done with the good operation of the sand. If the world doesn't endorse it, then use it to bury magical civilization.
Therefore, Kane felt that the hourglass of time was extremely important. The extremely important mysterious leftovers were stolen, and the construction site pinched his nose and recognized it, and then the leftovers killed people, and it was found that they were from this construction site, and the construction site should be responsible for it, which is the meaning of endorsement.
The Hourglass of the Legendary Creation Hour, at the cost of the maximum longevity, can be returned to the past, and can be activated three times every 24 hours.
This thing is in the hands of smart people, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an invincible weapon.
It is said that it was later broken in battle. And the point of contention is the ancient Syrian desert.
The world laughed.
I am not to blame for this!
As a result, more than half of the sands of time are unrecoverable in the sea of sand.
And for the rest, no one has the legendary craft of making the hourglass of time, so the usage becomes crude and wasteful.
It is said that they were hidden in the Temple of Time, and many stories have happened around them, and the sands of time have been consumed little by little.
One of the founders of the modern wizard spellcasting system (wand casting), the immortal Sabaye, left behind the principle of the time converter, which was perfected by later generations, and finally created the time converter, the core material of which is the twelve sands of time, which are used to represent the time scale of the mysterious direction, so this creation is plural, more than one.
There is only one known left, and that is the one in the British Ministry of Magic's Magical Items Vault.
The ins and outs are there, but obviously the pit is obvious, even if it is not lost in the sea of sand, there is still a part of the sand of time that is missing.
This means that any parallel universe with the main axis of HP has a few opportunities to use the sands of time to make trouble. Including coming through time and space like Yu Xiaolou.
Most of the wizards here are also aware of this past, and understand that the sands of time can travel through time and space when used intensively.
Going back in time is a complex concept, involving the butterfly effect and world endorsement.
If it was a small operation like Hermione's use of the time turner, it would not be enough to shake the general trend, and the world law system would tolerate this kind of bug with a blind eye as if you were using other methods to achieve a similar effect. This is known as the power of world correction.
If it is a big change, it will be born of a bifurcation of time and space, and a new parallel world will be formed.
As for the question of who is Zhengshuo, let's put it this way, the dark HP world is not Zhengshuo in the first place, Kane was reborn here, created the Demon Eye Chamber of Commerce, etc., and it is even more turned around, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a hybrid among the hybrids.
This world, like a new leaf on the trunk, is still very immature, and when it really expands its own grand and profound history, it is qualified to be called a parallel universe, and now it is the world, and even the regions, those regions that have not been seriously affected are still in the same state, and they have not been torn out from the original dark HP world, and the deep space universe is even more so.
So Kane's deep thinking triggered by this incident is: how many parallel worlds will carry out similar operations and thus bring unpredictable trouble to this world?