The curtain of darkness enveloped the Black Earl, and he subconsciously closed his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a cramped stone room.
The room was very dim, but not to the point of being pitch-black. On the left wall, there was a wall candle covered by a white curtain. The candle was still burning, and some dim light shone through the holes in the curtain.
With this little bit of light, the Black Earl could see the layout around him.
There was a wooden shelf with various daily necessities on it, a desk with a few boxes on it, and the place he was sitting on — a wooden bed with messy sheets on it.
The bed was still warm, and it was obvious that he had slept on it not long ago.
No … It wasn't him, the owner of the lantern was still sleeping here.
The Black Earl knew very well that he was only the owner of the lantern in his past memories. In other words, he was not the Black Earl, but the owner of the lantern in his memory.
Because there was no mirror in the room, the Black Earl couldn't see the appearance of the owner of the lantern. He reached out his hand and touched his face.
He wanted to rely on blind touch to construct the appearance of the owner of the lantern in his mind.
However, the moment the Black Earl touched his face, he found that something was wrong. The owner of the lantern was wearing a half-mask, and everything above the nose was covered by the mask. Other than the holes in the eyes, everything else was sealed.
The Black Earl wanted to forcefully pull off the mask, but he only felt a sharp pain.
The mask seemed to be branded on the owner's face, and it was almost connected to the owner's flesh. There was no way to pull it off.
Even if it was pulled off, it would only be a bloody mess, and it would be very difficult to confirm the owner's face.
The Black Earl thought for a moment and temporarily gave up on confirming the identity of the owner of the lantern. Instead, he planned to walk around this "memory" to see how big it was.
He also wanted to confirm why the owner of the lantern left this memory node.
It seemed that the owner of the lantern left this memory node because there were some people or things that left a deep impression on him.
The Black Earl had just stood up and was about to move when he heard a commotion outside. It seemed that many people had come to the room.
Hearing the commotion outside, the Black Earl had a guess: Perhaps, the people outside were the reason why the owner of the lantern set the memory node at this moment.
Thinking of this, the Dark Earl stood up and walked to the door.
He wanted to use the hole above the door to see who was outside.
However, before he could see what was going on outside, a scarlet beam of light shot in from outside and pierced through his head.
His first trip through space-time memories had ended.
The Dark Earl, who had returned to the stable room, was in a daze for a while before he recovered from the shadow of his brain being penetrated.
So, the owner of the coachman died just like that in his past memories?
No, I'm the one who's dead … The stableman isn't dead. He must have survived, or else he wouldn't have this memory.
Black Earl sensed the time and confirmed that the time in his memory was the same as the time in the outside world. Only then did he relax. Because he had to leave before the bell rang, otherwise he would be completely lost. The uniform flow of time allowed him to estimate the current time more accurately.
Since he couldn't leave the stable, and the most valuable thing in the stable was the memories in the lantern, the Dark Earl entered the lantern's memories.
This time, the Black Earl did not sit on the bed in a daze. Instead, he got up immediately and wanted to open the door to see what was going on outside. Taking advantage of the fact that those people had not arrived, he wanted to go out and hide in advance.
However, just as the Dark Earl opened the door, the familiar scarlet beam of light appeared again.
In the scarlet beam of light, the Dark Earl seemed to be suppressed by a supreme pressure and couldn't move at all.
He died once again.
After that, the Dark Earl used various methods to test it, and each time, it ended in death.
After dying dozens of times, the Black Earl had also come up with a pattern.
As long as he got close to the door, he would definitely be pierced through by the scarlet beam of light.
Even if he didn't get close to the door, the door would be pushed open by the people outside. The moment the door was pushed open, the scarlet beam of light would still shoot him to death.
Anyway, no matter what, he would die.
He would either seek death in advance or die in two minutes.
In short, he would at most live for two minutes in the room before he would be killed by the scarlet beam of light in the end.
As for who the scarlet beam of light came from, and what the people outside looked like, he couldn't see clearly …
The Dark Earl had been "reincarnated" countless times, but he still couldn't see the situation outside. It was as if there was some kind of law that blocked his gaze.
The Dark Earl also tried to use his ability to block the scarlet beam of light … but it still didn't work.
This body rejected external energy. If he wanted to use his ability, he could only use the ability of this body.
However, the Dark Earl didn't know what ability the owner of the lantern had. Even if he knew, he might not know how to use it. Therefore, in this space-time memory, he was like an ignorant person whose hands and feet were tied and whose mouth was sealed. He could only passively accept the outcome of death.
However, the Dark Earl was sure that the owner of the lantern didn't die in this experience. However, the Dark Earl didn't know what method he used to survive.
The Dark Earl reincarnated several times in this space-time memory. In the end, he was sure that he couldn't survive the scarlet beam of light … Therefore, the Dark Earl didn't take the initiative to seek death.
Instead, he focused all his attention on the cramped room.
Perhaps, there was a secret passage in this room? That's why the owner of the lantern could escape?
After many reincarnations, the Dark Earl couldn't find the secret passage for the time being. However, he found a handwritten letter in the box on the table.
The handwritten letter was densely packed and couldn't be finished in a short amount of time.
However, the Dark Earl didn't care. After all, he had two minutes of safety every time he reincarnated. He would read a paragraph every two minutes. Adding the two minutes together, he would be able to finish reading it.
After reincarnating another ten times, the Dark Earl finally finished reading the contents of the handwritten letter.
The handwritten letter was written in the Ancient Meese language. This was a type of supernatural language that was popular in the Origin World ten thousand years ago. It had the characteristics of being able to express both meaning and appearance at the same time.
The Dark Earl had learned it before, so he didn't have any problems reading it.
The name of the handwritten letter was' Hermes's Notes on Cultivation '. It described the sorrows and joys of a Magus who called himself Hermes, as well as some of the difficulties in cultivation.
From the notes, it was a very ordinary handwritten letter.
However, if one were to look at the contents of Hermes's cultivation, one would find that this handwritten letter wasn't ordinary.
This Hermes … was a Time Magus.
To be more precise, he was an apprentice of the Time Element. The notes on cultivation recorded in the handwritten letter were related to various Time Element abilities.
What was known was that Hermes should have an inheritance. In the notes, he mentioned his mentor more than once. Moreover, the handwritten letter also recorded many Time Element abilities he had obtained from his mentor.
For example: Eye of 15, Second Scale, Continuous Slash, Space-Time Continuous Slash, Yesterday Once More … and so on.
These were all Time Element Magic Tricks.
However, Hermes didn't record how to cultivate these Time Element Magic Tricks. He only recorded their names and the various problems he had encountered during his cultivation.
Apart from that, Hermes also recorded many of his mentor's abilities. Among them, there was one that the Dark Earl found very familiar.
In Hermes's notes, this ability was described as a 'miraculous technique'.
It was just a 'miraculous technique', so it shouldn't be a miraculous technique. However, from this, one could guess that Hermes' mentor was very close to becoming a Legend. He might even be a Legend Magus himself. Otherwise, Hermes would have said 'miraculous technique' instead of 'miraculous technique'.
The name of this technique was Time Memory.
According to Hermes's notes, this technique allowed one to do whatever one wanted in one's memories.
This made the Dark Earl think of the information he had obtained from the lantern … the lantern had the ability to illuminate the sea of memories. It could reflect the scenes in the memories and do whatever one wanted in the memories.
It was the same story.
Moreover, one thing was certain. The information in the lantern should have been left behind by the owner of the lantern.
If the room in the memories belonged to the owner of the lantern, then there was a high chance that the owner of the lantern was Hermes.
Hermes couldn't have used the same story to describe different techniques. Therefore, the technique contained in the lantern might be 'Time Memory'.
After the Dark Earl finished reading 'Hermes's Notes on Cultivation', he continued to rummage through the room.
Unfortunately, he didn't find any valuable information.
Instead, he found a pitch-black secret passage under a stone compartment under the bed … it seemed that the owner of the lantern had escaped from here.
Thereupon, the Dark Earl tried to enter the secret passage.
Unfortunately, every time the Dark Earl entered the secret passage, he would be ejected from the memory.
It wasn't an automatic ejection after death. Instead, it was forced out by the lantern.
The Dark Earl was no fool. He quickly guessed the answer. The secret passage should be the border of the memory.
Back then, the owner of the lantern had escaped from the secret passage.
Could it be that he had simulated this memory just to escape again? That was impossible.
Since he was able to escape back then, there was no need for him to simulate the situation in the secret passage.
The main point of this memory was those people outside the door and that scarlet beam of light!
Perhaps, the owner of the lantern had simulated this memory to decipher the scarlet beam of light or to find the truth behind why he was chased by those people back then?
This was the Dark Earl's imagination.
However, if his imagination was correct, perhaps the scene outside had been simulated as well.
In other words, this memory wasn't as big as the room. It should be possible to go outside as well. However, the prerequisite was to decipher the scarlet beam of light and deal with the people outside.
Although the Dark Earl wanted to go outside and take a look, perhaps there would be more opportunities outside, the scarlet beam of light was not something that he could decipher. He could only stop there and leave the room before the bell was rung.
…
The Dark Earl's story was long and full of ups and downs.
The reason why he said so much was to indirectly express one thing: time knowledge was not easy to come by.
The Dark Earl could tell them the answer directly, but it would only make them feel that it was cheap and easy to accept.
The Dark Earl didn't want to exchange the knowledge for anything. He just wanted them to know how precious time knowledge was.
The Dark Earl didn't say it out loud, but both Angor and Dorcas knew what he was implying.
"Homis's Notes on Training mentioned something about consecutive strikes," said the Dark Earl. "The consecutive strikes here, on the surface, look exactly like a bloodline skill. However, it's not a bloodline skill. It's a time ability."
Both Dorcas and Angor were still puzzled by Count Black's words. How did the Time Elemental Combo Slash do it? Why was it a time ability?
Soon, the Dark Earl gave them an answer.
"Consecutive strikes, in the eyes of bloodline wizards, are a special skill that can only be used when one's constitution and vitality reach a certain level. It has a high requirement for a wizard's constitution.
"But in the eyes of time elemental Magi, consecutive slashes are a completely different thing. It's a power that's cut from time itself."
According to Homis's notes, when attacking an enemy, there was a probability that an attack of the same level, energy level, magnitude, and form would be intercepted from time.
"Intercepting an attack of the same level, energy level, magnitude, and form?" Dorcas repeated in a low voice. "I don't know how to intercept power from time, but from the literal meaning, it's using mana instead of vitality to perform consecutive strikes?"
"You can think of it that way," said the Dark Earl.
Dorcas mumbled, "No wonder Eckstedt could do consecutive strikes so easily. He only needs to use a little mana."
Using mana to cast Combo Slash was simply too easy in Dorcas' eyes. Bloodline wizards who wanted to learn consecutive strikes had to build up their foundation, and they had to have a solid constitution! Besides, even if they met the requirements, they might not be able to perform the skill. It also required a certain amount of talent.
As for time wizards, they could perform it with a wave of their hand … This was simply unfair.
The Dark Earl seemed to have seen through Dorcas's resentment and said lightly, "Time elemental consecutive strikes are not as simple as you think. They have very strict restrictions."
"In other words, all time elemental abilities have extremely strict restrictions. If the corresponding conditions are not met, they cannot be performed … Even if they are performed, there is a certain probability that they will suffer a backlash. "
"As for time elemental consecutive strikes, there are four restrictions."
First, they must be within five meters of the enemy.
This limited the attack range.
Second, the attacks intercepted from time and space cannot be carried by the void, so there must be a constant and unchanging material to carry them.
This meant that they had to use weapons to attack the enemy at close range.
Third, because the weapons needed to carry the power of time and space, they were easily damaged. They needed to be custom-made and sturdy weapons.
Fourth, there was a limit to the attack power of consecutive strikes. If the space was unstable, it could not be achieved.
In other words, if a space-type wizard wanted to perform consecutive strikes that exceeded the power of consecutive strikes, they had to learn how to stabilize space. In other words, they had to set up a tool that could stabilize space. Otherwise, they would not be able to perform the spell.
The above four conditions had to be met at the same time to be able to perform consecutive strikes.
Not to mention the difficulty of these four restrictions, just the fact that they forced a wizard who was originally capable of long-range attacks to learn from bloodline wizards and engage in close combat was enough to show how strict the conditions were to perform consecutive strikes.
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