A curtain of darkness enveloped the Black Earl, and he subconsciously closed his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, he found that he had arrived in a cramped stone room.
The room was very dark, but not pitch black. On the left wall was a candle covered by a white gauze curtain. The candle was still burning, and a dim light of fire shone through the holes in the gauze curtain.
With this little bit of light, Earl Black could see the surrounding layout.
There was a wooden shelf with various daily necessities on it; a desk with several boxes on the table top; and the place where he was sitting at this time - a wooden bed with messy sheets.
The bed was still warm, and it was obvious that he had slept on it not long ago.
No...it's not him, it's the owner of the lantern who is still sleeping here.
The Black Earl knew very well that at this time, he was just the past memory of the lantern owner. In other words, he was not the Black Earl at this time, but had "passed" into the body of the lantern owner in his memory.
Because there was no mirror or anything like that in the room, the Black Earl couldn't clearly see the face of the "lantern owner", so he reached out his hand and touched his face.
I want to rely on blind touch to build up the appearance of the owner of the lantern in my mind.
However, as soon as the Black Earl touched his cheek, he noticed something was wrong. The owner of the lantern was wearing a half-face mask, and everything above the nose was covered by the mask. Except for the holes for the eyes, everything else was closed.
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The Black Count tried to forcefully pull off the mask, but only felt a sharp pain.
The mask seemed to be branded on the face of the lantern owner, almost connected to the flesh and impossible to pull off.
Even if it is really pulled out, it will only be a bloody mess, and it is basically difficult to confirm the face.
The Black Earl thought for a while and temporarily gave up on confirming the identity of the owner of the lantern. Instead, he planned to walk through this "memory" to see how big the area was.
And, confirm why the owner of the lantern left this memory node.
Thinking about it, the owner of the lantern left this memory node because there should be some people or things in this node that he remembered deeply.
The Black Earl had just stood up and was about to take action when he heard a noisy sound of people outside. It seemed that many people had come outside the room.
Hearing the movement outside, the Black Earl had a guess in his mind: maybe the person coming from outside was the reason why the owner of the lantern set the memory node at this moment.
Thinking of this, Earl Black stood up and came to the door.
He wanted to use the hole above the door to see who was outside.
However, before he could get a glimpse of what was going on outside, he was pierced by a scarlet beam of light coming from the outside.
The first journey of time and space memory is over.
The Black Earl returned to the groom's house and was in a daze for a while before he recovered from the shadow that had penetrated his brain.
So, the owner of the groom also died like this in his past memory?
No, it was me who died... The groom's master was not dead, he must have survived, otherwise it would be impossible to have this memory.
The Black Earl sensed the time and confirmed that the time in his memory flowed at the same speed as the time in the outside world. He was relieved. Because he had to leave here before ringing the bell, otherwise he would be completely lost. The flow of time was consistent, allowing him to be more
Accurately estimate the current time.
Because he could not leave the groom's house, and the most valuable thing in the groom's house was the memory in the lantern, the Black Earl then entered the memory of the lantern again.
This time, the Black Earl did not sit still on the bed, but stood up immediately, wanting to open the door and see what was going on outside. He could go out and escape before those people came yet.
However, as soon as the Black Earl opened the door, the familiar scarlet beam of light appeared again.
In the scarlet beam, Earl Black seemed to be suppressed by a supreme pressure and could not even move.
Die again.
Next, the Black Earl used various methods to test, but each time he ended up dead.
After dying dozens of times, Earl Black also figured out some rules.
As long as he gets close to the door, he will be pierced by the scarlet beam.
Even if he is not close to the door, the door will be pushed open by someone outside, and at the moment it is pushed open, the scarlet beam of light will still arrive and shoot him to death as promised.
Anyway, he will die no matter what.
Either seek death in advance, or die in two minutes.
In short, he can only survive in the room for two minutes at most, and he will be killed by the scarlet beam in the end.
He didn't see clearly who the scarlet beam of light came from or what the people outside looked like...
The Black Earl has been "reincarnated" countless times, but he still cannot see the situation outside. It is as if there is a mysterious law blocking his sight.
The Black Earl also tried to use his own ability to resist the scarlet beam... but it still didn't work.
This body rejects external energy. If you want to use your abilities, you can only use the abilities of this body.
But the Black Earl knows nothing about the abilities of the owner of the lantern. Even if he knows, he may not know it. Therefore, in this memory of time and space, he is like an ignorant person whose hands and feet are tied and his mouth is blocked.
Those who do not can only passively accept the outcome of death.
But what the Black Count can be sure of is that the owner of the lantern must not have died during this experience. But what method he used to survive, the Black Count does not know.
The Black Earl reincarnated in the memory of time and space several times. In the end, he had determined that he could not survive the scarlet beam... Therefore, the Black Earl stopped seeking death.
Instead, he focused all his attention on the cramped room.
Perhaps, there is a secret passage in this house? So the owner of the lantern can escape?
After many reincarnations and many rummagings, Earl Black has not yet found the secret passage; however, he found a volume of notebooks from the box on the table.
The handwritten notes are densely packed and cannot be read in a short time.
But it doesn't matter to the Black Earl. Anyway, he has two minutes of safe time in each reincarnation. He reads one section every two minutes. If you add up the two minutes to everything, he can always finish it.
After another ten reincarnations, the Black Earl finally read all the contents of the codex.
The manuscript is recorded in the ancient Mystic script, which is an extraordinary script that was popular in the source world thousands of years ago and is characterized by its ability to express both meaning and appearance at the same time.
I have also studied Earl Black, so there is no obstacle in reading it.
The name of the handbook is "Hermes' Practice Notes", which tells the story of a wizard who calls himself Hermes, the joys and sorrows he encountered during his practice, and notes on some difficulties in his practice.
Judging from some of the notes, they are very ordinary practice notes.
But if you look at the content of Hermes' practice, you will find that this handbook is extraordinary.
This Hermes...is a time wizard.
To be precise, he is a time-based apprentice. The practice notes recorded in the handbook are also related to various time-based abilities.
What we can know is that Hermes should have an inheritance. He mentioned his mentor more than once in his notes; and the notebook also recorded a lot of time-based abilities that he obtained from his mentor.
For example: Eye of Fifteen Points, Scale in Seconds, Continuous Slash, Time and Space Continuous Slash, Reappearance of Yesterday...etc.
These are all time tricks.
However, Hermes did not record how to practice these time magic tricks, but only recorded the names and various problems he encountered during his own practice.
In addition, Hermes also recorded many of his mentor's abilities, one of which struck the Black Earl as familiar.
This ability is described in Hermes' records as "a miraculous skill."
It's just a magic technique, it shouldn't be a miracle, but it seems to be guessed from this that Hermes' mentor may be close to a legend, or even a legendary wizard himself. Otherwise, what Hermes should say is "a magic technique that can be called a legend."
technique” rather than “a technique that can be called a miracle”.
The name of this technique is - Time Memory.
According to Hermes' records, this spell allows people to do whatever they want in their memory.
This reminded the Black Earl of the information he got from the lantern...The lantern has the ability to illuminate the sea of ​​memory, reflect the scenes in the memory, and do whatever he wants in the memory.
It's the exact same rhetoric.
Moreover, it is certain that the information in the lantern should have been left by the owner of the lantern.
If the room in this memory also belongs to the owner of the lantern, then the owner of the lantern is most likely Hermes.
It is impossible for Hermes to use the same rhetoric to describe different spells, so maybe the spell contained in the lantern is "time memory"?
After the Black Earl finished reading "Hermes' Practice Notes", he continued to rummage through the boxes in the room.
Unfortunately, no further valuable information was obtained.
But under a stone grid under the bed, I found a dark secret passage... It seems that the owner of the lantern escaped from here?
To be continued...