"Huh?"

Tang Sen didn't react for a while: "What did you say?" ”

"There is no magic net in this space." The girl said: "Moreover, because of the chaos of time, even if it is your own natural ability, or the casting of magic items, it will be greatly disturbed. ”

"So, why can you cast spells here?"

Because my spell casting has nothing to do with the magic net at all, and I don't use the magic of this world at all.

Naturally, Townsend would not have taken these pallets out.

But through the other party's words, Tang Sen at least knew the special features of this half-plane.

At the same time, his heart was also relieved.

Therefore, the strange girl in front of her is not as dangerous as she imagined, the caster has lost most of her abilities after losing the magic net, plus the magic props and her own abilities are also limited, no matter how strong this girl was before, there is no one in ten now.

And I won't be affected too much.

"Wait. Who is she? Varro then woke up from a dream and said, "What happened?" ”

Tang Sen then explained the situation just now.

"Time turbulence?" Varro's face was not afraid at all, but he thought with interest: "This is the first time I've heard of this kind of thing. After all, no one had ever seen the Time Dragon, let alone the corpse of the Time Dragon. ”

"There's no way to cast spells in the turbulence of time, and it's still a half-plane, doesn't that mean—"

He glanced at the girl: "As long as you come in, you can't get out again?" ”

The girl ignored Varro, and still looked at Townsend with burning eyes: "Can you go out?" ”

Tang Sen just smiled slightly, and instead of answering positively, he asked, "How long have you been here?" ”

"Forget." The girl said, "At the beginning, I was still an accountant, but in this place, the timekeeping doesn't mean anything - time is so chaotic, I don't know how long it has been here, and I don't know how long it has been since the outside world." ”

She hesitated, walked back into the mushroom house, and said, "Come in with me." ”

Varro was a little confused about the other party, so he gestured to Tang Sen with a look, Tang Sen bowed slightly, and the two walked into the mushroom house.

As I had sensed before, the furnishings in the mushroom house were very simple, with a table, a chair, a bookshelf on the wall, and a mountain of paper in the corner, but not even a bed.

Of course, neither Townsend nor Varro cared about the furnishings, but looked directly at the papers.

The paper is pale blue in color, the surface is not smooth, and it looks somewhat shoddy.

"I make paper out of fungi." The girl noticed the gaze of the two and said, "There is also ink made of mushroom juice." ”

"But I've forgotten when I came up with these technologies."

The two didn't ask her why she had forgotten so much.

Come to think of it, it's probably because the time is too long, after all, normal people will forget, and the caster has a way to keep his memory, but it's hard to say in this kind of place where there is no way to cast a spell.

"And what do you remember?" Varro couldn't help but ask, "I think you look like a drow elf-"

"I'm a lich." The girl interrupted him: "That's what I remember. ”

"The Lich is a form of existence, and there are Lichs of the Drow Elves." Varro reflexively explained, then suddenly paused again, looked the girl up and down, and said, "You don't look like a lich although I don't know how many years you've been here, but"

He pointed around, "That's a staggering number, I'm afraid. ”

"And the normal lich needs to often sacrifice the soul of the living to the life box, and once it is broken, it will directly degenerate into a half-lich."

His exaggerated hand dance: "The body of the half-lich is completely decayed, only a withered head remains, and it is sad to survive, and over time, it will even lose its self-awareness and become a complete monster!" ”

"Really?" The girl's reaction to this was flat: "I seem to remember this. But I really didn't sacrifice to the Chest, I was transformed into a lich in this half-plane. ”

Tang Sen frowned slightly: "I remember that the transformation of the Lich Ritual requires trading with some evil and powerful beings, usually with evil gods, there is not even a demon net here, and the gods of the outside world can sense this?" ”

Tang Sen didn't think it was a possibility, otherwise, the gods wouldn't have spared the corpse of a Time Dragon, even for the gods, this could be regarded as a treasure.

The girl raised her head, her lilac eyes were calm: "There is really no way to communicate with the outside world here. ”

"But I don't want to die."

"So I modified the ritual and relied on the power of the Time Dragon to transform myself into a lich."

"This kind of thing can be done?" Varro opened his mouth wide: "Lichs are not this form of existence at all!" You're at most so. Sort of"

He tried to find the words to describe it, but the girl was clearly not interested in the topic and just looked at Townesend, "Do you have a way to get out of here?" ”

"Maybe." "However, there are a few more things I need to know. ”

It may be an endless cage for girls, but for Townsen, it's a treasure trove!

He really wanted to get his hands on the corpse of the Time Dragon, but Tang Sen wouldn't rush to test the time power that the other party was exuding, at least, to figure everything out first.

"What's the matter with those corpses in the hall?" Townsend asked.

"Occasionally, other creatures will be sucked in by this half-plane." The girl was concise and to the point.

Tang Sen waited for a while, and saw that she didn't mean to continue at all, so he could only continue to ask, "And then?" ”

"And then they're going to die." The girl said, "It's disgusting to be dead, so find a place to stack it together." ”

"Have you any?" Varro hesitated and made a gesture to eat.

The girl tilted her head: "What do you mean?" ”

"Don't you need to eat?"

"I'm a lich, no need." The girl looked back at Townsend and was about to speak.

Townsend hurriedly interrupted her, no doubt that what she wanted to ask was obviously the same repetitive question: "What I want to know is that you just said that other creatures were killed by the half-plane. Suck it in? ”

"I've forgotten how I got in, I was told by a human spellcaster."

It seemed that the endless years of her stay here had made the girl very patient, and she explained, "It was a legendary spellcaster, and I remember her name was Orr. Er."

"Orlin?" Varro interjected.

"Seems to be."

Varo's expression of surprise was revealed: "That's a legendary mage, who was extremely famous hundreds of years ago!" ”

"No one knows her whereabouts, and everyone speculates that she may have left Faeron and gone to the outer plane, but she didn't expect her to come to the bottom of the dark region?"

"You know her?" The girl finally set her eyes on Varro's body: "If you want to find her, it's still too late for her bones to be buried too deep." ”

"Just heard of it." Varro sighed a little: "After all, she is a legendary mage, and Ilminster admires her very much. ”

"Go on." Townsend spoke.

"Orrin said that when she was adventuring in the dark region, she saw a palace from a distance, and she sensed that something was wrong, so she moved away in the opposite direction, but she didn't know what happened, she found herself getting closer and closer to here, and by the time she found herself in a half-plane, it was too late."

"She tried to use the otherworldly teleportation to leave, but she couldn't communicate with the magic net at all, and the magic props on her body were all invalid."

"According to her later research, perhaps it is the influence of the Time Dragon on the outside world that causes this phenomenon, and once it gets too close to this half-plane, it will inevitably be sucked in."

Townsend frowned.

It sounded like his own fate was similar to that of the mage named Orlin.

At first, he thought it was caused by the malice of a certain existence.,It's probably the girl standing in front of him.,Now it seems,He should be too worried.。

"And then?"

The girl took it for granted: "Dead." ”

"With Orrin's knowledge and magic, it's so easy to die?" Varro's eyes widened: "Even you are still . I mean, she can find a way to transform herself into a lich, right? ”

"She tried, she failed." The girl's expression was very flat: "And it's very unlucky, in the time turbulence of the Time Dragon, the life span is directly exhausted." ”

Varro sighed, "It's a shame that she didn't try to get out of here by other means?" ”

The girl pointed to all the paper in the room and said, "Tried, and all the sapient beings that came in tried." ”

"Research to bypass the magic net to cast spells, want to release the otherworldly teleportation technique, study the distribution of time turbulence in this space, try to find out the weak points, study the corpse of the time dragon directly, and directly destroy it once and for all-"

"For such a long time, almost every conceivable method has been tried."

Varro was intrigued, so he picked up a piece of paper.

"An attempt to extract the rules of the spell structure from flesh and blood?"

The girl tilted her head: "Looks like a necromancer's research?" Or is it a spirit-sucking monster? ”

Her memory was clearly a little fuzzy.

"These theories seem to make some sense, but I haven't studied them, and if it were Ilminster, I would be able to see that this method is not feasible." Varro said with a frown.

"It's all failed research." The girl said: "It may be possible to achieve it in the outside world, but it can't be done in the turbulent environment of time." ”

"And what are you studying?" Varro asked.

The girl took a book from the shelf and handed it to Townsen.

Townsend was a little surprised, and the other party didn't hand it to Varro, perhaps because he looked more like a spellcaster.

"Time?"

The girl nodded: "I study everything about time. ”

"Did you get any results?" Varro asked impatiently.

"Yes, but not enough to get me out of here." The girl looked at Townsend again: "Can you get out of here?" ”

"Yes." For the first time, Townsend answered the question head-on.

"Take me out."

"Why?" Tang Sen raised an eyebrow: "I don't seem to have a reason to do this. ”

Such a response gave the girl a distressed look on her face for the first time.

She opened her mouth, not seeming to know what to say.

Having been in this place for too long, although she has not lost her ability to communicate because of the constant sucking of creatures in, her communication skills are obviously very weak.

"I believe in fair trade." Townsend didn't embarrass her too much, just said, "What price can you pay?" ”

"Everything but death." The girl said without hesitation.

It can be seen that this person's desire to survive is indeed extremely strong.

Also, if there is no such strong desire to survive, just such a long period of loneliness is enough to destroy her sanity.

"If you don't have much value other than your life, that's not in line with fair trade rules." Tang Sen said expressionlessly: "So, what are you worth?" ”

Girl: "."

This question seemed a little more difficult for her.

"Mr. Tang." Varro said hesitantly, "Is this necessary?" If you can afford to take her. It's a matter of a little effort."

"Mr. Varro, you may be a little naïve." Tang Sen said flatly: "You don't know her at all, if she is a wicked person, and she immediately fights back after we rescue her, how should you deal with it?" ”

Varro was stunned for a moment: "Won't it?" It seems-"

"Looks? Monsieur Varro, I did not expect that a writer who traveled to Ferren would rely on such superficial judgment to distinguish between good and evil, and if it were someone else, he would have died many times, right? ”

Varrow's moment was a little embarrassed, and just as he was trying to distinguish something, Townsend had already begun to continue.

"Have you ever considered a question, Mr. Varro?"

"There have been so many deaths in this place, why is this lady still unharmed?"

Tang Sen said unceremoniously: "Is it because those monsters who entered here are not strong enough?" In the lower reaches of the Netherlands, not all monsters rely on spell-casting abilities, in fact, most of the time, they rely on their own physical power purely for hunting. ”

"Will they choose to be friendly with her, or will they choose to feast?"

"If she can't cast spells at all, as she says, how can she resist those monsters? Why wasn't she lying in the bones? ”

Varro was stunned.

"I heard her mention necromancers and soulsuckers, and it is conceivable that the people who are sucked into this half-plane cannot be just good people like Orlin, so why didn't those evil people kill her? Or even be able to keep your own research materials here? ”

Towngsen's barrage of questions prevented Varro from uttering a word.

Varro looked at the girl.

The other party did not react to Tang Sen's questioning, still frowning, as if he was still distressed by the question just now, in Varro's eyes, at this time, the other party's petite figure and beautiful face suddenly became less harmless to humans and animals.

"So, what are you worth? In other words, what other means do you have in this space? What level of strength did you have before you came to this space? ”

Convincing Varro, Townsend looked sharply at the girl.

"I'm a lich." The girl seemed to think seriously: "That's all I know. ”

Townsen's brow furrowed slightly.

Fortunately, this time the girl did not stop talking, but said, "Those doubts you had just now. It's because I'm a lich. ”

"So I'm still here, and the other creatures that were sucked in are dead."

"It is true that the Lich can be resurrected from the crate after death." Varro looked at her suspiciously: "But, as I said before, you don't look like a lich and you don't have the conditions to worship the Fortune Box, so, this is a lie. ”

"There's no need to lie." The girl said, "You can give it a try." ”

"Give it a try?" Varro froze.

"Kill me." The girl said, "Lichs can be resurrected. ”

"There's no need for that, is it?" Varro was a little frightened by the girl's indifferent attitude.

"I want to be valuable." The girl was very calm: "Then, you take me out of here." ”

The latter sentence was addressed to Townsen.

Tang Sen carefully examined her expression, his eyes narrowed slightly: "Since you have said so, then I. . As you wish. ”

"What-" Before Varro could finish his words, Townw's fingertips already lit up green.

Almost without hesitation, the light turned into a green ray that struck the girl directly on the forehead.

The overbearing power of the dissociation technique barely gave the girl a chance to react, a green glow appeared under her skin, and then her entire body collapsed into a puddle of powder.

"What did you do!" Varro let out a scream.

Tang Sen's face was flat, and he said, "Since she asked me to try, then I will try." ”

"It's the easiest way to verify."

"You're going to do it just because of this?" Varro was meeting Townsend for the first time: "You didn't think about what would happen if she was really killed?" What if she was innocent? ”

Tang Sen frowned slightly.

It is indeed a little inconvenient for Tang Sen to get along with orderly and kind people, in the past, Tang Sen often disguised himself as an orderly and kind person to act, but this time, Tang Sen did not want to choose this method.

After all, the Time Dragon was too important to Townsen.

"There are only two possibilities, either she's lying to us, then she's innocent, or she's telling the truth—"

Townsend explained: "So, let's just wait. ”

Varro felt that there was some truth in what Townsend said, but he felt that something was not quite right.

But no matter what, Tang Sen is not an evil person, otherwise, the other party would not have saved himself before, and twice.

So he could only calm down and wait.

The lich's resurrection was not immediate, it still took several days, so Townsend took advantage of these days to explore the surrounding area, of course, he didn't dare to go too far, just moved around the area where the glowing mushrooms were planted-

It's okay not to know the truth about this half-plane, but it would be stupid to know that it's all time turbulent and running around.

Who knows if there will be an area where there is no way to detect the time flow rate is particularly abnormal, and as long as you enter, it will consume your life a thousand times.

His lifespan is only more than a thousand years, which is only equivalent to the longevity races of Faerun, and he can't afford to waste it.

As for Valo, he plunged headlong into the various research materials in the mushroom house, of course, he didn't understand most of the knowledge, after all, he was only a writer, not a spellcaster who studied spell knowledge, even if he had written a masterpiece such as "Varro's Guide to Ten Thousand Laws", he also recorded it from the research materials of other mages.

Of course, during this period, Tang Sen also tried to enter the side hall where the body of the Time Dragon was located again.

He was guessing that if he cast a spell from a distance, he would be able to directly affect and even cut the corpse of the Time Dragon.

But he also didn't take any risks, such a reckless move was definitely the last option, and Tang Sen didn't want the power contained in the corpse itself to rebound and directly involve him in the terrifying power of time.

More information, perhaps, will have to start with the girl.

In this way, a few days finally passed in a flash.

Tang Sen was standing at the door of the side hall studying the Time Dragon, when he suddenly heard an exclamation from Varro in the mushroom house, he hurriedly approached the mushroom house, and unsurprisingly, saw a thin girl with silver hair standing in the room.

She was still wearing the red, ill-fitting robe, and when she saw Townsend come in, she was the first to speak: "I am resurrected." ”

"Are you really a lich?" Varro opened his mouth wide: "But, doesn't the resurrection of the lich require a lifebox?" What about your life box? ”

He soon realized that his question was presumptuous, and no one in their right mind would ask directly about the location of a lich's life box.

Undoubtedly, the only reaction of any lich is to kill the idiot.

But the girl didn't do that.

She didn't seem to mind at all, and even pointed to herself, as if answering an ordinary question, and replied, "My life box is here." ”

"Here?" Tang Sen looked at the nothingness in front of her, and even forcibly opened the space of the surgical fruit, but could not see anything.

"I'm not lying." It seemed that because of Townsen's previous decisive behavior, the girl took the initiative to explain: "I don't know what happened, but, since the moment the life box was formed, I have never seen it, I only know that every time I rise from the life box, I will stand in this place." ”

"I can't see my lifebox, no one else can see it, it's like it doesn't exist, but I know it exists, and it's here."

"That's why I built my house here."

Sounds a lot like a lie.

But Townsend could see that the girl was telling the truth.

There are already too many weird things happening in this space under the effect of time turbulence.

"Wait, time turbulence?" Tang Sen's heart suddenly moved: "Is it possible that your life box is not in the timeline you are currently in?" ”

"This possibility is the most likely of all the speculations I've studied." The girl took another book from the shelf: "The specific inference and research process is here. ”

Townsend flipped through a few pages, no doubt unintelligible.

At least in terms of the study of time, the girl in front of her is much deeper than herself, of course, and it is likely to be the same in other fields.

Varro was in high spirits: "So, this is the reason why you are obviously a lich and you are in such a strange state?" ”

"You and your life box can be connected, but because you are in a different timeline, both the life box and your state have changed under the influence of time."

"The strange thing is that if you still need to rely on your life box to resurrect yourself, then you should appear directly in that timeline after resurrection, not here, right, you will appear here, but you will have to wait for a long, long time before you can wait for us again? Isn't that right, if the timeline of the lifebox is in the future, we have to wait a long time? ”

Varro couldn't figure out the relationship for a while, and he was dizzy when he thought about it, so he could only spread his hands helplessly: "Okay, I really don't know anything about time." ”

"What you say won't happen." The girl explained: "This place is already in the turbulence of time, everything is chaotic, whether my lifebox is in the past or in the future, there is still a turbulence of time. ”

Tang Sen also had a headache when he heard this, but he knew that his purpose was not these, everything about time, and he would naturally be able to grasp it when he devoured the Time Dragon.

"At least for now, you're being honest." Tang Sen stared at the other party, thinking to himself.

At first, Tang Sen only wanted to get information about the Time Dragon from the girl, and even if he agreed to let the other party leave, he only used otherworldly teleportation to randomly teleport the other party to other planes.

After all, Tang Sen didn't know what kind of strength the other party would have when he returned to the scope of the magic net, if it was too strong, he might not be able to grasp it, and of course it was impossible to leave the abyss gate with the other party - as for the randomness and danger of the otherworldly teleportation. You just said did you leave here, right?

But now Townsend has changed his mind.

A lich with a lifebox in another timeline is virtually immortal if it is not interfered with by time-related abilities.

It's so rare that it would be a great boost if you could use it for yourself.

The most important thing is that because the other party has been in this lonely half-plane for too long, everything before entering here, including personality and position, has long been almost wiped out, like a blank sheet of paper, and there is absolutely room for readjustment.

Finally, Townsend spoke, "I can get you out of here." ”

The girl's eyes lit up.

"But there are conditions." Tang Sen said, "I want the corpse of the Time Dragon, you help me get it." ”

The glint in the girl's eyes suddenly disappeared: "This kind of thing can't be done." ”

"Why?"

"Nothing can come within a meter of the Time Dragon, let alone affect it." "I'm not just talking about living things, I'm talking about magical powers," the girl said. ”

"Unless you can also manipulate time, otherwise, time is an invisible barrier, untouchable, and never crossable, you think that you and the Time Dragon are only separated by one meter, but there may be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years of time between them."

Townsen's brows furrowed slightly.

He had foreseen this before, so he didn't rush to move the dragon.

"No magic powers?" Townsend asked.

"With my years of research on time, I absolutely can't." The girl said.

Tang Sen paused and said, "So. . . What about divine power? ”

Keep up the struggle! Ask for a commuter pass!

(End of chapter)