It was the beginning of the new year, and it was a morning with nothing to do but the sun was shining comfortably on it.
Sitting on the roof, a certain someone was looking at the streets of the Holy City of Estali. The place where he lived was considered a high-class residential area on Earth, so there was a distance between the houses. It was impossible to walk on the roof like in an assassin game on Earth.
The houses were not tall, and the most common ones were two-story buildings with at most an attic under the roof. It was rare to see a building with three stories and above. In the mysterious land, the buildings with three stories and above were either military fortresses, castles, or Mage Towers. Therefore, the certain someone sitting on the roof could see several Mage Towers scattered in the city at a glance.
The reason why he was sitting on the roof like a 50-year-old black-and-white hound was not because he was in the mood for leisure, but because he was chased out by the apprentice who wanted to clean the house. Speaking of which, the two girls were getting more and more unscrupulous. They were comparable to the two brats and the three kittens. He had to find a chance to teach them a big lesson.
However, in almost a month, the World Trees were busy with the first and second phase, which was to change their own core mageweaths and integrate the 25 World Trees in the mysterious land into one. They could not take care of themselves. Therefore, during this period of time, they did not summon or send out their respective Holy Envoys to tell them what to do.
The Dark Elf Merda also stayed in this house, doing similar things as the two apprentices. It was as if she had been forgotten by the Ancient Fasnath. She did not receive any orders from the World Trees during this period of time. However, it was unknown whether she had a good mentality or had been warned in advance, but she was calm about her current situation.
By the way, the White Grand Swordsman William Greco had left a long time ago. Ever since he learned about the shortcomings of his body from a certain someone, he left the Holy City and looked for opportunities to break through. Although it was also an option to stay and become the Lich's experimental subject, he still chose the path that might not lead to any results.
The Demon Prince Azad was still there, but the person who was supposed to fight with him was changed from William Greco to the former Commander of the Dark Army's Praetorian Guards, Rock Stone, who had regained his body. According to Fen, the stone had just obtained a new body and needed some rehabilitation exercises to help it adapt to its new body. He also changed some of his previous bad habits, such as exchanging injuries for injuries.
According to Azad, the two of them had dealings with each other, and neither of them had won or lost. If he shamelessly refused to fight after losing, it could not be considered a failure. The Demon Prince and the former Imperial Guard Commander were indeed unable to determine a victor.
For Shi Dong, the only order Fen gave him was to counterattack. Therefore, as long as Azad stopped, he would not pursue him. According to Fen, it was not easy to find a good punching bag. Who would be the next unlucky one if it was destroyed in an instant?
At this point, even if a certain someone had any objections, his mouth would be stuffed.
However, this also showed the gap between the two experts from different eras. Azad was a well-deserved expert in this era of peace. However, there was still a gap between him and the powerhouses born in the era of war where even the gods would fall.
Shi Dong's evaluation of this opponent was that he was too used to dealing with people weaker than him, but did not know how to fight against opponents stronger than him.
At first, it sounded reasonable, but in reality, it did not make any sense at all. This group of people had already reached the ranks of the strongest in the world. If they did not spend their days chasing after gods and killing gods for fun, how many of them would be able to find someone stronger than them to fight? This was not to find excuses for Azad, but because Shi Dong's words had too many points to criticize.
As for the new member, it seemed that he still retained the habits and personality of the Stitched Corpse Era. He was so dull that he could be said to be inflexible. Other than physically necessary activities, as long as Fen did not say anything, he would not do anything extra. He could be considered a different kind of person, and was very easy to raise.
The others were still the same. Although this was a world without much entertainment, everyone was still working hard to make a living. Only a certain someone who had nothing to do, except for the two hours of extracurricular mathematics every day, actually lived a somewhat muddle-headed life.
As for his own magic apprentices, they all lived on their own. Even the new one was also in a state of not doing proper work. Anyway, no one came to a certain someone, their teacher, for magic problems.
But it was such a lazy time, basking in the warm sun, that a certain someone suddenly shivered.
Learning was like sailing against the current. If you did not move forward, you would fall back. Such a saying suddenly popped up in his mind.
This was a maze where one could lose his life at any time, not his old home with good security. Besides, no matter how peaceful his old home was, there were many accidents in life that could take one's life, such as car accidents, kidney cleansing due to eating too much good food, high blood pressure due to abnormal daily routines, and even strokes.
In short, continuing to live a lazy life was absolutely not a good idea. Sitting on the roof, a certain someone directly opened the window in his field of vision and browsed through the to-do list he had recorded in the memo. He saw what he wanted to do but had not done yet.
After one of the items came into view, a certain someone could not move his eyes away and stared straight at it.
Speaking of which, this period of time happened to be a period of free time, which should be suitable for a stargazing plan. A regular, fixed life, used to collect a lot of observation data.
Speaking of which, how long had it been since he took a good look at this starry sky? Lin looked up at the sky. Although his vision was not as crazy as 17.0, it was not difficult to add a few layers of filters to his vision to observe the stars in the daytime.
Lin turned off the superfluous calculation and comparison functions to avoid automatically showing data such as the relative distance and characteristics of an object when his eyes met with the object. He looked at the sky seriously. It was the same blue, the same changing clouds, the same twinkling stars hanging high in the sky. Other than the position and distance of the stars, this sky was no different from what he observed on Earth.
Then what about looking up from the Abyss?
Back when he accepted the Devil Moth King's request to enter the Abyss to save that annoying kitten, the sky of the Abyss was something he could not forget. He still remembered that when he walked in the Abyss, the sky was gray as if there was a volcanic eruption nearby and the entire sky was covered in volcanic ash.
At that time, he only had the mission in his mind and did not think much. But when he returned, the reminder from Wheeze Hardy made him remember the sky again. What did it look like behind the gray sky? Was it a sky full of bright stars like Earth and the Lost Land, or was it another scene he had never seen before?
That led to another question: where was the Abyss? Was it in the same universe as Earth and the Lost Land? Or was it in a different plane? Or even a different dimension? Although the possibility of the latter was not high, living in a higher dimensional world and the Lost Land were two completely different things.
The last question was: what was the Abyss?
Although he did not think that he could find the answer to this question, the Abyss was obviously a world with different characteristics from Earth. As for the Lost Land … it was hard to say. The main difference was the existence he called Gaia's Consciousness.
Earth did not have a subjective consciousness. The so-called counterattack of nature was actually an inevitable result brought about by certain actions of human beings or certain weather phenomena. Setting fire in the forest would cause a forest fire. When a typhoon came, it was either a storm or a flood. But no matter what happened, Earth was silent and silent.
But the Lost Land did not seem to be so quiet. At least, a certain person had seen evidence on the Lord of Protection that the gods were related to the mother they spoke of more than once. It could even be said that the reason he was not killed on the spot by the Lord of Protection was because of the Mother Goddess he had never met. Otherwise, he would have said goodbye a long time ago.
If the Lost Land was like this, then what about the Abyss?
After coming to this world that was similar to Earth, but different, he would have this question from time to time. What kind of existence was the Abyss?
It was not like hell on Earth, it was just a product of imagination. The Abyss did exist, and so did the demons. Then what was the relationship between the two worlds? Plus, the matter of the World Tree Gaius taking root in the Abyss made a certain person even more curious about how the two worlds were connected.
Perhaps he would never find the answer to all these questions. But so what? The process of exploration was the most interesting, wasn't it?
Just do it! Lin began to plan what he wanted to do. The center of everything was, of course, to observe the stars in the Abyss. Around this destination, there were many ways to do it.
Using Blink to come and go every day was one way. Finding a fixed base without an owner and living there semi-permanently was another way. Borrowing the territory of other demons and cooperating to obtain a stargazing base was also another way. Every method had its pros and cons. Different preparations were needed, and of course, different observation plans were suitable for each. Strictly speaking, this was another option that had no right answer.
Considering that the environment of the Abyss was worse than the Lost Land, and the problem of whether it was necessary to move his observation equipment around, it seemed to be the best choice to find a local and powerful demon to cooperate with. At least there would be someone who could protect and keep the observation equipment after he left.
As for the price, of course, Lin would not give up his soul for such a thing. With the current him, there were many ways to make the demons agree to free services. Even if he could not do it, there was still Fen, the former Demon King.
He would not have any psychological burden to coerce the demons and exploit them for labor. After all, the other party was a demon.
Then, the first suitable person he thought of was a familiar face, the Demon Lord Sha Bin. It was the great demon who occupied a vast territory on the other side of the abyss passage guarded by the Demon Moth King during the mission to save the kitten.
As the saying went, no discord, no concord. He had fought with him once. This time, if he made a small request, it should be easy for him to agree. If he refused, then he would just fight again.
Demons were just like children. Everything could be discussed easily.
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