Chapter 1847
by 林方方Chapter 1847 Sword in the Stone
“So, rankings are completely meaningless. Xiao Nan Si’s potential simply cannot be measured by pure combat power,” Lina said calmly.
“When I first met her, I knew she was different from other agents… Although she wasn’t the only one who harbored killing intent toward the deity they represented, she was the only one actually plotting how to kill Loki.
Later, she really succeeded. She killed Loki, became the new God of Mischief, and established [Hidden God] in the mist. Her existence in the [Ten Imperial Guards] had already become legendary…
However, four years ago, she suddenly approached me, saying she needed to do something, and after that, she wanted me to replace her and manage the entire [Hidden God].”
“You mean she actively asked you to take her place?”
“That’s right. She used ‘trickery’ to create a fake mischief law in the world, making Fenrir obey my commands. She also arranged for her two closest confidants in advance, allowing me to successfully deceive everyone else, and then she went to Mount Olympus herself, saying she was going to infiltrate it…
After that, the moon erupted in divine war, and I never saw her again.”
Lina glanced at Lin Qiye, “Weren’t you Xiao Nan Si’s comrade back then? You should know more inside information than I do.”
Lin Qiye remained silent for a moment, then nodded.
“I see…”
It seems that Lina was the stand-in that Xiao Nan Si had prepared before infiltrating Olympus. However, the great battle that occurred later forced her to remain in the Doushui Palace forever, and after that, Lina had been impersonating her identity and managing [Hidden God].
“In these four years, has no one discovered anything unusual?” Lin Qiye asked.
Hearing this, Lina’s expression darkened as she slowly spoke: “Of course they have… At the beginning, no one suspected me, after all, the power of the ‘God of Mischief’ was deeply imprinted in their hearts, and everything they had came from Xiao Nan Si.
But as time passed, I never took action again, and I was always wearing a mask, which naturally aroused suspicion…
Starting last year, there were more and more voices questioning me within [Hidden God]. In the end, I had to reveal my identity. Although my confidants testified that I was chosen by Xiao Nan Si as the leader of [Hidden God], I was still just a human, and they didn’t have faith in me.
After that, although they didn’t openly oppose me, they had already marginalized me… Otherwise, do you think I would have come here alone?”
Hearing this, Lin Qiye understood the cause and effect, and thoughtfully said,
“No wonder [Hidden God] has been making quite a few small moves against Great Xia lately… It seems that without Xiao Nan Si, [Hidden God] is no longer the same [Hidden God] as before.”
As his words fell, Lin Qiye’s gaze turned to Fenrir, who was collapsed on the ground. The attack from No. 22 had been too terrifying. Although Fenrir had survived thanks to his tough bones, he probably wouldn’t last much longer.
Lin Qiye waved his fingertips, and two summoning arrays opened from nothingness. Two “Mysteries” wearing deep green nursing uniforms landed in front of him and respectfully said:
“Hello, Director~”
“Hmm, please help treat it.”
These two “Mysteries” were staff from the hospital’s nursing medical department. Their abilities were related to healing. Although treating humans would be difficult, they should have no problem performing simple wound care for the magical wolf Fenrir.
Seeing this, Lina frowned slightly, “Why are you helping me? Shouldn’t [Hidden God] and Great Xia be enemies now?”
“[Hidden God] is Great Xia’s enemy, but you two are not,” Lin Qiye calmly replied. “Fenrir is Xiao Nan Si’s mount, and you are her chosen successor. No matter what, I can’t just let the two of you die here.”
Lina snorted but didn’t say anything.
“By the way, how did you get here?” Lin Qiye asked, as if remembering something.
Lina hesitated for a moment, then extended her hand and gripped the ice beneath her feet.
On the seemingly empty ice surface, a mysterious long sword suddenly appeared. Most of this sword was hidden underground, with only the hilt exposed to the air. Around this hilt, densely packed huge stones were piled together, as if burying it in the crevices between rocks.
“What is this…” Lin Qiye frowned as he looked at this sword existing between reality and illusion, and asked curiously.
“This is the divine weapon given to me by King Arthur, the Sword in the Stone,” Lina pointed to the position of the hilt. “It’s extremely sensitive to the perception of time. By gripping the hilt, I could feel the flow of time here… To avoid the pursuit of [Divine Desire Paradise], I made my way deep into this place.”
“Sword in the Stone?”
Lin Qiye curiously examined this mysterious sword inserted into the ground. From the aura it emitted, this was undoubtedly the supreme divine weapon of English mythology. However… this sword thrust into the ground actually had the ability to perceive time?
He reached out to touch the hilt of the Sword in the Stone but was blocked by Lina’s hand. She said solemnly:
“No one except King Arthur and me can touch the Sword in the Stone… If you don’t want to be corrupted into white bones, you’d better not touch it casually.”
Lin Qiye naturally wouldn’t try again. After withdrawing his hand, he asked:
“Can you describe what the time labyrinth looks like when you hold this sword?”
Lina frowned deeply, thinking seriously for a long time.
“It… looks like an inverted pyramid.”
“Pyramid?”
“Not in appearance, but in terms of the flow of time, it’s an inverted pyramid.” Lina began to sketch on the ice surface with her finger. “The deeper you go, the smaller the area of the pyramid, but the time is also more ancient. From my perception, the bottom of this pyramid is about a hundred years away from the outside world.”
Over a hundred years?
Isn’t that when the Gate of Truth shattered and the mist enveloped the world?
In other words, the end of this time labyrinth, which is the bottom of the inverted pyramid, should be where the remnants of the Gate of Truth are located… Only by reaching the time more than a hundred years ago, right after the mist was released, can one find the remnants of the Gate of Truth.
So, when Wang Mian saw the Gate of Truth, he had actually reached the end of the time labyrinth?
As expected of the God of Time… Lin Qiye thought to himself.
Lina pointed at the inverted pyramid on the ground and continued:
“The entrance to the labyrinth is at the first layer of this inverted pyramid, which is also the top layer and the most fragmented layer.
In this layer, each step takes you into a different time because time is so severely fragmented here. The fragments are small, but the time difference between them isn’t too great, with each fragment differing by only a few days.
But the deeper you go, the closer you get to the bottom of the pyramid, the more complete time actually becomes. At that point, each time fragment you pass through has a time gap measured in ‘years’…”