PS: The three more are complete! The seemingly messy setting in this chapter is not actually my original, it comes from the stalk of Lao Roll......

That is to say...... Are you being cheated by Aisha?"

After listening to Io's description, Aroma couldn't help but twitch the corners of her eyes - although I don't know what reason Lu Dao had made Aisha choose not to notify the others to do it first, but even though there were thousands of reasons, she still caused a lot of commotion and chaos, and Xiang didn't know what to say.

"Thankfully, I had a good time to prepare, otherwise it would have been a clumsy plan now. Io was also considering whether to save a "Great Engineer's Wrath" for Aisha to taste for herself. Aowie, by contrast, is much more calm—because her mind is now full of things related to fragrance...... Or rather, the words she said earlier.

"Alas, Aophee, don't bury your head alone if you have any ideas, let's think about it together?Don't look at me like this, but I'm still a little confident in my brain......" Io's mind began to wander again, but he didn't think about anything else, now Aophee was very calm, she just thought that Aophee was thinking about something related to this castle.

"I don't have any ......," Aoife subconsciously wanted to retort, but after seeing Io's smiling face and Aroma's somewhat inexplicable face, he finally changed his words, "Okay, there's something I want to show you." ”

Aoife gathered his mind and revealed the key to tranquility.

"Oh, is this the rumored 'Key to Tranquility'? Well, much milder than written. It seems that it is no longer in a crippled state, and it has been fused with the Soul Purifying Stone?"

Io's well-informed or whatever, when Aoife took out the Key to Tranquility. She immediately discovered the mystery, which made Aoiffe a little surprised.

As for Aroma, her face became violently nervous at first, but after listening to Io's explanation, she still stretched out - since it is the key to tranquility that has been fused with the Soul Purification Stone, it is natural that the user will no longer need to pay for his own life...... For Aofei, a junior who is very similar to a figure in her memory, Aroma still has some spoiling thoughts. If the Key of Tranquility hadn't fused with the Soul Purifying Stone, she would have had to dissuade or even prevent Aoife from fulfilling her "duty".

Honestly, for this "artifact". Although the fragrance has only heard and not seen the real thing, it still has no affection for it. No matter how much it blows, it can't hide the essence of its own inadequacy and having to treat human life as fuel refilling.

"Where's the Soul Purifying Stone, why didn't I see it?"

"Here......" Orphee pointed to his heart. "I've become one with me. ”

"Eh, that doesn't mean ......," Io's gaze shifted back and forth between Orphee and the Key of Tranquility several times. In the end, she laughed out loud, "Haha

After this series of events was over, Io couldn't help but feel extremely interesting when he thought that the Key to Tranquility, which was highly valued by the Holy See, had actually become Aophe's personal belongings—as for whether the Holy See would persecute Aoife for this?

That's really no different from cutting off your hands and feet. Besides, the incomplete key to tranquility is a chicken rib. And now it can be used normally, as long as the high-level of the Holy See has no convulsions. Definitely understand what to do.

"That's not the point — you see. ”

Under the bewildered gazes of Io and Aroma, Aoife summoned another key to tranquility. As she had expected, Io and Aroma changed their faces when they saw it.

"The other one!?" Io rushed forward, leaning over to it, carefully observing the difference between the two keys to tranquility. Of course, she was not able to find any difference in it, whether it was the workmanship, the casting, or the amount of force contained in it, it was exactly the same, it was almost like a perfect copy.

"Interesting, there is not the slightest difference? Even if it is a clever imitation, it will definitely be deviated, and it will be exactly the same as the real thing, doesn't it mean that this is the real thing...... Or is it the real thing that it didn't go through the 'imitation' step from the start?"

"Are there two genuine products at the same time?is it possible?" Aoife thought for a moment, and then told the two of them the origin of the other key to tranquility, and Aroma immediately frowned—not to mention what an unwise move it was to change the commander on the spot, entrusting the key of tranquility (whether it is true or not) to a second ancestor, what the hell is going on!

"It's pointless to think about these things now, anyway, with two keys to tranquility, at least the situation on Aophee's side is more stable, it's a good thing~" Io hurriedly played the round and prevaricated this doubt, she pointed to the black cloud below, and said, "Now at this time, let's hurry up and complete the top priority." If it spreads further, the situation will be difficult. ”

"Do you have any plans?"

"In the original plan, Aisha and I went to the city to set up, and at the same time found out the situation inside, and set up the detonator, while Aoife stayed outside to wait, waiting for us to detonate inside, she took advantage of the moment when the castle was blown up, and activated the ability of the key of tranquility to restrain and destroy those evil thoughts that had become rootless...... Now Aisha doesn't know where Lu Dao has gone, but since there is a fragrance, it is not a problem. ”

"Is there anything I need to do?"

"It's simple, protect me. 'Great Engineer's Wrath' is a very dangerous explosive bomb, so I have to do a series of tedious settings and arrangements before detonating, and I may not have enough energy to deal with all kinds of possible attacks around me in the process, so I need someone who can protect me - in short, it's just you who haven't run away now, accept your fate, Aroma." ”

Io couldn't help but say that he stepped forward and hugged Aroma, grabbed her and dragged her forward.

"Be careful!"

"Understand, you have to be more careful! Io, you are ...... The same is true of the aromatic predecessors!

At all costs. Now she is still a comrade-in-arms, and she is still a soldier who fights for justice, even if she has any personal grudges. I'll have to leave it for later...... But no matter what, there must be no accidents at this time!

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"What is there that you don't want to say to Aowie's face?"

After entering the gloomy castle, Aroma took the lead and casually cut off the heads of several outrageous guardians, and after assessing their combat effectiveness, Aroma was also a little frustrated - a little weak. Therefore, she also relaxed a little, and asked Io behind her a question.

Io's performance just now. Obviously, there is something hidden here, and it's okay to deceive some of the somewhat absent-minded Aoife, but the fragrance can't hide it.

"The origin of that other 'key to tranquility'. I have a ......."

"Oh?" Aroma wasn't very surprised by this situation, she was more concerned about what Io didn't want to let Aoiffe know. "Is it something important? Tell me about it...... Anyway. It's also a little idle!"

Because this situation may recur in the future, in order to leave some reference information for future generations, Io and the others are also tasked with exploring this castle - just as Aisha planned, the power of dark consciousness is assigned to this castle, and each area confirms a part of its power power. For Io and Aroma, this is a form that can be tough on the front, but for others. Targeted action is still necessary.

So a lot of things that don't really matter. They could have skipped it, but they still drew the map seriously. Although the monsters in the castle seem to be endless, and the strength is quite amazing, even ordinary skeletons have considerable strength, and with the number, it can completely make many famous mercenary teams hate at the gate. And the deeper you go, the more powerful the monsters become, and without exception they all have ugly and hideous appearances...... It seems to correspond to all kinds of negative emotions in human nature, these monsters, just looking at the appearance, can make people feel heartfelt.

But this is no different from a paper paste in front of two full-level chengguan~ Many times, the number of monsters regenerated can't keep up with the speed of Fang Xiang's monster removal - she is the only one, and Io is still paddling...... Actually, seriously, if Io gets serious and goes all out, it's not impossible to brush alone, but in that case, you have to load bombs, clean up castles, and draw maps, and do everything alone, which is very boring and boring.

"Aroma, you know that time is linear, unidirectional, and irreversible, right?"

"Isn't that common sense? Do you think that the key to tranquility has to do with time, from the past or from the future?"

Io denied this.

"It's about time, but it's definitely not about the future or the past...... It should be said that it comes from the present, but not from the 'now' in which we live, but from another possible parallel world. ”

"Well, I've heard of this theory, but ...... Does this have anything to do with 'time'? Isn't it more important to move closer to the perspective of 'space' when things from another world are flowing here?"

"Time and space are complementary and inseparable in nature, and when it comes to time, space will definitely be involved, and vice versa, but most of the lives living in this plane of the present world cannot observe 'time' from the perspective, and the understanding of 'space' is quite limited only through vision, so in our subjective impression, there is a gap between time and space, but the problem of our understanding angle is only that hand...... But that's not the point. ”

Seeing Aroma's dazed expression, Io reached out and pulled a strand of hair from her head.

"This is the 'time' that these beings can experience - we can't actively observe time like measuring the length of height, we can only look at it sideways through the changes of some side objects. Whether it is judged by natural phenomena such as sunrise and sunset, or by timekeeping tools such as man-made clocks and watches, in the final analysis, all the ways we observe time are based on the laws of development of things in nature. Push everything in the world behind so that they don't stop and don't look back...... This makes the world in which we live in a one-way linear time. There is no possibility of two different trajectories intertwined, just like this strand of hair. And because what happened later is the cumulative effect of what happened before, this forms another concept, which is 'cause and effect'. ”

"Cause and Effect ......"

"For us beings, the concept of time is linked to cause and effect. The causes of past lives and the consequences of future lives. There are only one-sided arrows, and this is one of the most basic and important forces that bind the stability of the world. Once the framework of cause and effect is broken. Not to mention that the foundation of the material world will be shattered, just this aspect of human nature also has an extremely terrible and bad influence...... Can you imagine a world where wicked people do evil things without incurring evil consequences?"

At this point, Io's expression became serious.

"Even if there are some of them. Ability to stop time rewind time and speed up time...... But anyway. They all have to abide by one benchmark, and that is the law of cause and effect. But in the present time period, the absoluteness of the law of cause and effect has been broken......"

Io controlled the hair he pulled out with his psychic powers, causing the front end to split ends.

"At a certain point in time, because of the difference in 'choice', different future developments have been formed, and from that point on, the two worlds will not be the same. And because of the one-way nature of time, a divergent world has been formed. There will be no more overlap, and this is the parallel realm. Maybe it was just a small difference at first, but when this snowball rolls bigger and bigger, after rolling for thousands of years, maybe the two worlds have already formed different worlds except for the same rules and the history of the long time ago. ”

Io bent the two ends of the fork again, and then the front part overlapped.

"This is a normal and absolutely impossible situation - the boundaries of the world, which have been separated, have come together again. For example, I have an apple that can only be given to one person, either to you or to Aophee. But in this case, I can give it to both you and Aophe...... I can't describe what happened in between, but when I asked the next day, both of you would give me an affirmative answer - I ate the apple I gave me yesterday. ”

Aroma's mind could not help but think of the nuns of the church distributing apples to the children...... Io's statement was a bit bizarre, but not very difficult to understand.

Linked to Io's statement that the other "key to tranquility" had appeared because of time, Aroma suddenly understood what Io was trying to say.

"You mean to say...... Before today, there was a point in time when the Holy See had made different choices, one of which was to give the key to tranquility to Aophee to deal with, and the other might ...... No matter how it happened, in short, it was handed over to the second ancestor, and the development of this divergence, due to the influence of some reason, made the absoluteness of cause and effect broken, and the intermediate process of the two different developments was blurred...... And the ends coincide, so suddenly there are two identical keys to tranquility?"

Io nodded.

"Because the world is still running, and the law of cause and effect still exists, the various contradictions that are formed during the time when the law of cause and effect is briefly broken will be blurred as much as possible under the control of the consciousness of the world world. So now, everyone's own experience is still unique and not chaotic, like the example I gave earlier - I can only realize that I gave the apple to one person, so the next day I must be confused, because I don't have a memory of myself on the boundary of another world. Speaking of which, you should understand that why I want to avoid Aophee for these things, right?"

Fang Xiang thought for a while, and also understood the key.

Io said that everyone thinks their experience is unique and there is no problem.

If the person who made the decision to entrust the "Key to Tranquility" to Lu was the one who shared the apples, what if under the correction of the World Realm, he thought that what he had experienced was another World Boundary? What he remembered was that he entrusted the Key to Tranquility to another person instead of Aophee, and Aoye took the Key to Tranquility from the other person...... In that case, the Soul Purifying Stone possessed by Aoife would be the most fatal loophole! Aophee, who fused the Key of Tranquility with his own generation, even if he said that he temporarily snatched the Key of Tranquility for the sake of living beings and exercised his power, would be considered a deliberate plan to covet the power of the artifact, right?

After all, if the key to tranquility is handed over, no one else can use it.

"That's really interesting...... No one deceived anyone, no one betrayed anyone, but because of the chaos of time, it caused an irreparable situation? I really don't know if this is a tragedy or a comedy......

"But in any case, if that happens, it will be impossible to reconcile the contradictions. Neither Aoife nor the Holy See hierarchy will think that he has done wrong—Aophee has a clear conscience and thinks that the Holy See is persecuting him, and the Holy See will think that Aoife is deliberately betraying...... At that time, my identity is not suitable for mixing, after all, I am an elf, and it will be difficult to deal with any disasters to my clansmen. So ......"

Aroma received Io's gaze, and could only sigh helplessly.

"You're really good at calling people. ”

To be honest, Aroma didn't have that much time and energy to get involved in such a troublesome matter, but thinking of Aophee's familiar eyes, a figure in the depths of his heart surfaced.

To help? or not to help?

It doesn't seem like there's a choice...... (To be continued......)