Chapter 558 The Lich in the Turbulence of Time (7K)

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

"There is no magic net in this space." The girl said: "Furthermore, due to the chaos of time, even one's own natural abilities or the casting of magic props will be greatly interfered with."

"So, why can you cast spells here?"

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

Naturally, Tang Sen would not take these trays out.

But through the other party's words, Tang Sen at least knew what was special about this demiplane.

At the same time, he felt relieved.

Therefore, the strange girl in front of him is not as dangerous as he thought. The caster has lost most of his abilities after losing the magic net. In addition, the magic props and his own abilities are also limited. No matter how bad this girl was before, Strong, now there is no one out of ten.

But he will not be greatly affected.

"Wait a minute. Who is she?" Varro said as if he had just woken up from a dream: "What happened?"

Tang Sen then explained the situation just now.

"Time flows turbulently?" There was no fear on Varro's face. Instead, he thought with great interest: "This is the first time I have heard of such a thing, ha. After all, no one has ever seen a time dragon, let alone a time dragon. The dragon’s body.”

"There is no way to cast spells in the turbulence of time. This is still a demi-plane. Doesn't that mean -"

He glanced at the girl: "As long as you come in, you can never get out again?"

The girl ignored Varo, but still looked at Tang Sen with burning eyes: "Can you go out?"

Tang Sen just smiled slightly and did not answer directly, but asked: "How long have you been here?"

"I forgot." The girl said: "At first I could still keep time, but in this place, keeping time has no meaning - time is too chaotic. I don't know how long it has passed here, nor how long it has passed in the outside world. "

She hesitated for a moment, then walked back to 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 his eyes. Tang Sen nodded slightly, and the two of them walked into the mushroom house.

As perceived before, the furnishings inside the mushroom house are very simple, with a table, a chair, bookshelves on the wall, and a mountain of papers in the corner. In addition, there is not even a bed.

Of course, neither Tang Sen nor Varro paid attention to these displays, but looked directly at the papers.

The color of these papers is light blue, the surface is not smooth, and they look a bit rough.

"I made paper from fungi." The girl noticed the gaze between the two of them and said, "And ink made from fungus juice."

"But I have forgotten when I developed these technologies."

The two did not ask her why she had forgotten so many things.

Thinking about it, it's probably because it's been too long. After all, normal people will also forget. Spell casters have ways to retain their own memories, but it's hard to tell in a place like this where there's no way to cast spells.

"Then what do you remember?" Varro couldn't help but ask: "From your appearance, you should be a drow——"

"I am a lich." The girl interrupted him: "That's all I remember."

"Liches are a form of existence, and there are also lichs from drow elves." Varro explained reflexively, then suddenly paused, looked at the girl up and down, and said, "You don't look like a lich. I don't know how many years you've been here, but"

He pointed around: "This is probably an astonishing number."

"A normal lich needs to frequently sacrifice the souls of the living to the phylactery. Once this is interrupted, it will directly degenerate into a demi-lich."

He danced exaggeratedly: "The demi-lich's body is completely decayed, leaving only a withered head. It survives sadly. As time goes by, it will even lose its self-recognition and become a complete monster!"

"Really?" The girl's reaction to this was very dull: "I seem to remember this. But I did not sacrifice to the phylactery. I was transformed into a lich in this demiplane."

Tang Sen frowned slightly: "I remember that the ritual of transforming a lich requires dealing with some evil and powerful beings, usually with evil gods. There is not even a magic network here. Can the gods from the outside sense this place?"

Tang Sen does not think this is possible, otherwise, the gods will not let go of the body of a time dragon, even for the gods, this can be regarded as a treasure.

The girl raised her head, her lavender eyes were very 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."

"Is this kind of thing possible?" Varro opened his mouth wide: "The lich is not in this form at all! At most, you are..."

He tried to find words to describe it, but the girl was obviously not interested in this topic and just looked at Tang Sen: "Is there any way you can get out of here?"

"Maybe." Tang Sen said: "But, I still need to know some things."

For girls, this place may be an endless cage, but for Tang Sen, this place is a treasure trove!

He really wanted to get the body of the time dragon, but Tang Sen would not rush to test the time power emanating from the other party. At least, he would understand everything first.

"What's going on with those corpses in the hall?" Tang Sen asked.

"Occasionally, other creatures will be sucked in by this demiplane." The girl said concisely.

Tang Sen waited for a while and saw that she had no intention of continuing, so he could only continue to ask: "Then what?"

"Then they will die." The girl said, "It's disgusting to die, so find a place to pile them together."

"Have you?" Varro hesitated and made a gesture of eating.

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

"Don't you need to eat?"

"I am a lich, so there is no need." The girl looked at Tang Sen again and was about to speak.

Tang Sen quickly interrupted her. There was no doubt that what she wanted to ask was the repeated question: "What I want to know is, did you just say that other creatures were sucked in by the demiplane?"

"I have forgotten how I got in. A human spellcaster told me before."

It seems that the endless years of staying here have made the girl very patient. She explained: "That is a legendary spell caster. I still remember her name is Or. Er."

"Orlin?" Varro interjected.

"Seems to be."

Varro suddenly showed a surprised expression: "That was a legendary mage who was extremely famous hundreds of years ago!"

"No one knows her whereabouts. Everyone speculates that she may have left Faerûn and gone to the outer plane. Unexpectedly, she actually came to the bottom of the Underdark?"

"Do you know her?" The girl finally set her sights on Varro: "If you want to find her, it's still too late and her bones are not buried too deep."

"I've only heard of it." Varro sighed a little: "After all, she is a legendary mage, and Elminster admires her very much."

"Go on." Tang Sen said.

"Orline said that when she was adventuring in the Underdark, she saw a palace from a distance. She sensed something was wrong, so she moved away in the opposite direction. But she didn't know what happened. She found that she was getting closer and closer to this place. By the time I found out that I had entered a demiplane, it was already too late.”

"She tried to use another world to teleport away, but she couldn't communicate with the magic network at all, and the magic props on her body also failed."

"According to her later research, it may be the influence of the Time Dragon on the outside world that causes this phenomenon. Once it gets too close to this demiplane, it will inevitably be sucked in."

Tang Sen frowned.

It sounds like his own experience is similar to that of the mage named Orlin.

At first, he thought it was caused by the malicious intent of someone, most likely the girl standing in front of him. But now it seems that he may have been overly worried.

"and after?"

The girl took it for granted: "Dead."

"With Orlin's knowledge and magic power, can he die so easily?" Varro's eyes widened: "Even you. I mean, she can also find a way to transform herself into a lich, right?"

"She tried and failed." The girl's expression was very plain: "And she was very unlucky. In the turbulence of the time dragon, her life span was directly exhausted."

Varro sighed: "What a pity, didn't she try to leave here through other methods?"

The girl pointed to all the papers in the room and said, "I have tried it, and all the intelligent creatures that came in have tried it."

"Study on how to bypass the magic network to cast spells, want to release the teleportation technique to another world, study the distribution of time turbulence in this space, try to find the weak points, study on directly destroying the body of the time dragon, and directly destroy it once and for all -"

"Over such a long period of time, almost every conceivable method has been tested."

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

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

The girl tilted her head: "It seems to be the research of a necromancer? Or is it an illithid?"

Her memory was obviously hazy.

"These theories seem to make some sense, but I have not done any research on them. If it is Elminster, I should be able to see whether this method is feasible." Varro frowned.

"This is all failed research." The girl said: "Maybe it can be successfully realized in the outside world, but it cannot be done in an environment where time flows turbulently."

"Then what are you studying?" Varro asked.

The girl took a book from the bookshelf and handed it to Tang Sen.

Tang Sen was a little surprised that the other party didn't hand it to Varro, maybe because he looked more like a spell caster.

""time"?"

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

"Are there any results?" Varro asked impatiently.

"Yes, but it's not enough for me to leave here." The girl looked at Tang Sen again: "Can you leave here?"

"Okay." Tang Sen answered the question head-on for the first time.

"Take me out."

"Why?" Tang Sen raised his eyebrows: "I don't seem to have a reason to do this."

This response caused a troubled look to appear on the girl's face for the first time.

She opened her mouth, as if she didn't know what to say.

She has stayed in this place for too long. Although she has not lost her ability to communicate because creatures are often sucked in, her communication skills are obviously very weak.

"I advocate fair trade." Tang Sen did not make it too difficult for her, and 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 she didn't have such a strong desire to survive, just such a long period of loneliness would be enough to destroy her sanity.

"If you don't have much value other than your life, this does not comply with the rules of fair trade." Tang Sen said expressionlessly: "So, what is your value?"

girl:"."

This question seemed a bit difficult for her.

"Mr. Tang." Varro said hesitantly: "Is this necessary? If you have the ability to take her away, it will be a piece of cake."

"Mr. Varro, you may be a little naive." Tang Sen said calmly: "You don't know her at all. If she is a villain, and she immediately turns against you after we rescue her, what should you do? How to deal with it?”

Varro was stunned for a moment: "No way? It looks like——"

"It seems? Mr. Varro, I didn't expect that a writer who traveled in Faerun would rely on such superficial judgment to distinguish between good and evil. If it were anyone else, he might have died many times, right?"

Varro felt a little embarrassed. Just when he was about to tell something, Tang Sen started to continue talking.

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

"So many people have died in this place, why is this lady still safe?"

Tang Sen said unceremoniously: "Is it because the monsters that enter here are not strong enough? In places like the bottom of the Dark Territory, not all monsters rely on spellcasting ability. In fact, in most cases, they rely on It’s my physical strength that is purely used for hunting.”

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

"If she couldn't cast spells at all, as she said, how could she resist those monsters? Why wasn't she the one lying among the skeletons?"

Varro was stunned.

"I heard her mention the Necromancer and the Illithid just now. It is conceivable that the people who were sucked into this demiplane could not just be kind people like Orlin. So, why didn't those evil people hurt her? Killer? Can you even leave your own research materials here? "

Tang Sen's series of questions left Varro speechless.

Varro looked at the girl.

The other party did not respond to Tang Sen's question. He was still frowning and seemed to be still troubled by the previous question. In Varro's eyes, the other party's petite figure and beautiful face suddenly became less inhumane. harmed.

"So, what is your value? In other words, what other methods do you have in this space? What level of strength did you have before coming to this space?"

After convincing Varro, Tang Sen looked at the girl sharply.

"I am a lich." The girl seemed to think about it seriously: "I only know this."

Tang Sen's brows frowned slightly.

Fortunately, this time the girl did not stop talking, but said: "The doubts you had just now are because I am a lich."

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

"The lich can indeed resurrect from the phylactery 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 offer the phylactery. So, this is a lie."

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

"Try it?" Varro was stunned.

"Kill me." The girl said, "Liches can be resurrected."

"Isn't that necessary?" Varro was a little frightened by the girl's indifferent attitude.

"I want to be valuable." The girl said very frankly: "Then, you take me out of here."

The latter sentence was said to Tang Sen.

Tang Sen examined her expression carefully and narrowed his eyes slightly: "Since you said so, then I will do as you wish."

"What -" Before Varro could finish his words, Tang Sen's fingertips already lit up with green light.

Without any hesitation, the light turned into a green ray and hit the girl's forehead directly.

The overbearing power of the dissociation technique gave the girl almost no chance to react. Green light appeared under her skin, and then her entire body collapsed and turned into a puddle of powder.

"What have you done!" Varro screamed.

Tang Sen looked calm and said, "Since she asked me to try it, I'll give it a try."

"This is the easiest way to verify."

"Just because of this, you took action?" Varro said as if he was meeting Tang Sen for the first time: "Have you never thought about what if she is really killed? What if she is innocent?"

Tang Sen frowned slightly.

It is indeed a bit inconvenient for Tang Sen to get along with lawful good people. In the past, Tang Sen often pretended to be lawful good people to act. However, this time Tang Sen did not want to choose this method.

After all, the Time Dragon is too important to Tang Sen.

"There are only two possibilities, either she is lying to us, and she deserves to die, or she is telling the truth——"

Tang Sen explained: "So, just let us wait."

Varro felt that what Tang Sen said made sense, but he also 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 him before, and twice.

So he could only calm down and wait.

The Lich's resurrection was not immediate, it would still take several days, so Tang Sen took advantage of these few days to explore the surrounding area. Of course, he did not dare to go too far, and only moved around areas where luminous fungi were planted -

It's okay not to know the truth about this demiplane. It would be stupid to run around here after knowing that all time flows here.

Who knows if there will be an area where the flow of time is particularly abnormal and cannot be detected at all. As long as you enter, your life span will be consumed a thousand times.

His lifespan is only more than a thousand years, which is only equivalent to those long-lived races in Faerûn, but he cannot afford to waste it.

As for Varro, he plunged into various research materials in the mushroom house. Of course, he did not understand most of the knowledge. After all, he was just a writer, not a spell caster who studied spell knowledge, even if he had written He also recorded masterpieces such as "Varro's Guide to All Arts" from the research data of other mages.

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

He was guessing that if he cast spells from a long distance, he could directly affect or even cut the body of the Time Dragon.

But he also did not take risks. Such a reckless move was definitely the last choice. Tang Sen did not want the power contained in the corpse to rebound and directly involve him in the terrifying power of time.

For more information, perhaps we have to start with that girl.

Just like that, a few days finally flew by.

Tang Sen was standing at the door of the side hall studying the Time Dragon when he suddenly heard an exclamation from Varo in the mushroom room. He quickly approached the mushroom room and, as expected, saw a thin girl with silver hair standing in the room. middle.

She was still wearing the red, ill-fitting robe. Seeing Tang Sen come in, she was the first to speak: "I'm resurrected."

"Are you really a lich?" Varro opened his mouth wide: "But doesn't the resurrection of a lich require a phylactery? Where is your phylactery?"

Then he realized that his question was very presumptuous. No one in their right mind would directly ask the location of a lich's phylactery.

There is no doubt that any Lich's only reaction is to kill this idiot.

But the girl didn't do that.

She didn't seem to mind at all. She even pointed in front of her and replied as if answering a common question: "My life box is right here."

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

"I didn't lie." Seemingly because of Tang Sen's decisive behavior before, the girl took the initiative to explain: "I don't know what happened, but since the moment the phylactery was formed, I have never seen it. I just Know that every time I am resurrected from the phylactery, I will stand in this place."

"I can't see my phylactery, and neither can anyone else. It's like it doesn't exist, but I know it exists, and it's here."

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

It sounds a lot like a lie.

But Tang Sen could tell that the girl was telling the truth.

Too many strange things have happened in this space due to the turbulence of time.

"Wait, time is flowing turbulently?" Tang Sen suddenly thought: "Is it possible that your life box is not in the timeline you are currently on?"

"This possibility is the most likely among all the speculations I have researched." The girl took another book from the bookshelf: "The specific inference and research process are here."

Tang Sen flipped through a few pages, and there was no doubt that he couldn't understand them.

At least in the study of time, the girl in front of me is much deeper than myself. Of course, this is also likely to be the case in other fields.

Varro was very interested: "So, is this the reason why you are in such a strange state even though you are a lich?"

"You and your phylactery can communicate, but because they are on different timelines, both the phylactery and your status have changed under the influence of time."

"The strange thing is, if you still need to rely on your life box to resurrect yourself, then you should appear directly in that timeline after resurrection, instead of appearing here, right? You will appear here, but you need to wait How long will it take before we can wait for us again? That’s not right, if the timeline where the life box is located is in the future, we will have to wait for a long time?”

Varro couldn't figure out the relationship for a while. He was so dizzy thinking about it that he could only spread his hands helplessly: "Well, I really don't know anything about time."

"What you said will not happen." The girl explained: "This place is already in the turbulence of time, and everything is chaotic. No matter whether my life box is in the past or the future, there is still the turbulence of time. "

Tang Sen also had a headache after hearing this, but he knew that this was not his purpose. He would be able to master everything about time when he swallowed the Time Dragon.

"At least for now, it seems that you are quite honest." Tang Sen stared at the other person, thinking to himself.

At first, Tang Sen only wanted to get information about the Time Dragon from the girl. Even if he agreed to let the girl leave, he would only use alien teleportation to randomly teleport the girl to other dimensions.

After all, Tang Sen doesn't know what kind of strength the other party will have when he returns to the magic network. If it is too strong, he may not be able to grasp it. Of course, it is impossible to take the other party away from the Gate of the Abyss together - —As for the randomness and danger of teleportation to another world, just tell me if you have ever left here, right?

But now Tang Sen has changed his mind.

A lich whose phylactery is in another timeline is almost immortal if there is no interference from time-related abilities.

This is so rare, and if you can use it to your advantage, it will be a great help.

The most important thing is that because the other party has stayed in this lonely demiplane for too long, everything before entering here, including personality and stance, has been almost worn away. Like a blank piece of paper, it is completely possible to re- Space for training.

Finally, Tang Sen said, "I can take you out of here."

The girl's eyes suddenly lit up.

"But there are conditions." Tang Sen said: "I want the body of the Time Dragon. You can help me get it."

The light in the girl's eyes suddenly disappeared: "This kind of thing is impossible."

"Why?"

"Nothing can come within one meter of the Time Dragon, let alone affect it." The girl said: "I'm not just talking about living things, but also magical power."

"Unless you can also control time, time is a barrier that cannot be seen, touched, and can never be crossed. You think there is only one meter between you and the Time Dragon, but there may be tens of thousands or even dozens of years between you. Thousands of years of time."

Tang Sen frowned slightly.

He had foreseen this before, so he didn't touch the dragon rashly.

"No magic power works?" Tang Sen asked.

"Based on my years of research on time, this is absolutely not possible," the girl said.

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

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