Chapter 656 – [Garuna Plateau]

They said they hadn’t entered the interior in earnest yet, but information about the [Twisted Valley of Time] Had been studied to some extent.

First of all, those affected by the twisted time within the sphere of influence are limited to living things.

In fact, I was slightly oblivious to this. Weeds grow profusely, then die and rot, but the valley itself remains.

Tens of years if you can’t do it, hundreds of years if you stretch the time. If that time passes, the valley will look somewhat weathered, but there is not much difference from outside the realm.

Second, the product of fantasy power can be sustained by consuming fantasy power for a certain period of time, but disappears when fantasy power runs out.

Through this experiment, it is said that it was confirmed that even if a person enters, it can survive with imagination.

And the third one…… Time passed quickly or slowly. There is no difference in the powers of imagination used to escape its influence.

“After the second experiment, I also tried to enter the outskirts. However, I can only endure it for about ten minutes at most due to the amount of imagination consumed.”

“Anyway, thanks for the data.”

I don’t know anything else, but the output of imagination power still active Duke Magnus can only last for 10 minutes. Then, it was impossible to survive within this unless it was a truly long-lived continental ten river.

Even a dragon probably won’t last long. Even considering the lifespan and the output of fantasy power, it is the same.

But it didn’t mean much to me.

“I’ll have to go in and check it out.”

“No, Your Highness! Such reckless……”

“I have no problem thanks to my self-fantasy. It’s because my self-fantasy was specialized in this way from the beginning.”

“…Come to think of it, even when we fought before, I didn’t feel the attack. If that’s the case, then?”

“For now, I’ll keep my self-fantasy a secret. Knowing it will only spread my weaknesses.”

In fact, there are no weaknesses or anything.

My force field is an absolute defense. Even if I faint, it continues unconsciously, and the only weakness is that many of the filters of the force field are canceled for my acquaintances.

Of course, it is limited to a lot of acquaintances, but it is not completely released. Only one Shion can completely cancel it.

“And wouldn’t it be better for me to investigate? If I went wrong and passed by in 10 years, I would only be a young man, but I think the duke should be quite concerned.”

“Kuhm”

“Well, it was a little rude, but really not.”

Anyway, a day or two was enough to go in and fix it.

Fortunately, it only affects living things, not the direct flow of time, so even if you spend a day inside, only a day passes outside.

Hundreds of years have passed since I came to play like a dragon palace, or on the contrary, I spent a month like a room of spirit and time, but it will not happen that less than a few hours have passed.

“It’s better to go quickly and take care of it.”

“Confidence is good, but is it really possible?”

“Then you can try it.”

I came out of Duke Magnus’s private tent and headed to 【Twisted Valley of Time】 with Latri.

I slightly strengthened the force field between the boundaries and went inside.

In the sphere of influence, weeds are growing rapidly, as if time is accelerating. For the time being, the effect is transmitted to affect me too… But in the end it is blocked by the force field and has no effect.

“I’m going to sit here for a while and see if my body changes.”

“If there’s a problem, you bring it out?”

“Do whatever you feel like”

In fact, if there is one thing that bothers me, it is that my body will become an adult in no time if I use this self-fantasy lightly.

It’s a little bit like I’m still young, so I drink well, and I’m physically behind in bed with Zion. Some may have forgotten, but I’m still 11 years old now.

…….Aww, fuck. I really do my best to die early in this life. At the age of 11, I drank and made rice cakes.

It’s tall and growing, so it’s about mid-teens, but the feeling that it just needs to be a little bigger tempts me. Oh, what can I do?

While I was thinking about it, there was no change in my body even though 30 minutes had passed.

“……Are you really okay?”

“Look at that”

“Is it because your self-fantasy is unique? Come to think of it, what is your self-fantasy?”

“I don’t know”

“Hey!!!!”

Anyway, this proves that the power here has no influence on me.

Then, honestly, it’s over. Unlike the Black Forest and the Northern Isles, there were no other factors in the way here.

Aside from the culprit in the center of this area, there are no endless monsters or evil weather changes, so it’s enough to just walk slowly and solve the problem.

Come to think of it, the environment was tricky, but the delusion site itself wasn’t that difficult.

Well, if you’re not a transcendental person, you won’t be able to hold on after coming in, so it’s the correct answer for me to come.

“Anyway, I’ll be back, so wait a minute.”

“Wait a minute, don’t you need a map? I brought you a map of this valley just in case.”

“Oh, nice to have”

“I haven’t been able to investigate for a while, so at most it’s a map from 50 years ago… But it’s still useful.”

After receiving a map of the area from Latri, I went inside.

Then, the flow of time changed. On a whim, this time it starts to flow slowly.

Slowly passing time is difficult to grasp. In particular, it affects only living things, but if the cognitive ability is the same, you can realize that time passes slowly only after experiencing a very long time.

I’d rather grow one. It’s kind of weird when a ephemera lives longer than a week.

“Let’s see…”

A water vein runs through the valley here. It’s not a big river, it’s a small river. Judging from the map, it is used only occasionally to feed livestock.

And the river ran through the middle of the valley. It seemed that he could reach his destination if he followed the river.

I followed the sound of the water and found the river. The width was at most my pace, and a small river a little more than 10 steps caught my eye.

But the fish that live in the river also stand out. However, one strange thing is that fish die while swimming, and other fish rush in and eat them, then grow rapidly… Such a strange ecosystem was formed.

“The mystery of life is amazing. To survive to the end even in a place like this.”

It was rather strange to live in a place where the concept of time is so fickle that you have to move and eat something, even if you don’t know if it’s a grass that grows in one place.

If you don’t eat something when the time is fast, you’ll soon get hungry and you’ll die. The faster time goes by, the faster aging is, and the same goes for metabolism.

Ah, when I looked closely, all the fish in the river were small. It was small enough to think of a smelt, so it seemed to be adapting to this environment.

As small as it is, it requires less nutrients, and in case of emergency, you can survive by eating only plankton in the water.

It’s so strange to see something like this

“No matter how much I become a transcendental person and understand some of the laws of this world. In the end, it’s only a part…”

Even in front of the concept of time, the concept of nature never disappears. It just differs in form and method.

I don’t think I’ll ever realize that unless I become a rod that’s in charge of a concept. And what you realize is the important law.

Soon I continued walking along the river. There’s no one else and I’m alone, so it’s a pretty enjoyable walk.

Then something caught my eye.

“………Uh?”

This place has been untouched by humans for a very long time. It is normal that the grass is overgrown and there is only a part of nature, but nothing else should be visible.

If you can see it, it must have been decades ago, but what catches your eye is that traces of people have remained until relatively recently.

“The traces of the fire… Hmm, I think I made something and ate it.”

The grass was cut and placed on the floor to make a bed, and a short distance from there was charcoal powder left over from burning firewood.

Even if non-living objects are not affected by it, the traces of the burnt charcoal are relatively recent.

To give you a rough guess…Two weeks ago.

It’s an impossibly recent thing. In a delusion where no one has been in for 50 years, there are traces of someone lighting a fire two weeks ago?

It was only then that I opened my heart and confirmed it. Anyway, if a guy named Zandtmann was playing tricks, I wouldn’t be able to detect it easily even with my senses, so I didn’t need to use it, so I didn’t do it, but this is a different story.

And when I put the delusion paper into my senses… There was an obvious sign of a person.

“……Is Zantman that bastard?”

No, no.

He wasn’t Sandman or the culprit behind this delusion.

First of all, I can recognize his presence. The level is the level of the continental ten rivers, but it is by no means a transcendental one, and if he was the culprit of delusion, there would have been a void that hindered my senses.

So what is that kid?

I sped up. I ran quickly and moved to pursue him.

“The guy here isn’t normal or anything like that. Let’s see what kind of guy he is.”

It was far away, but it didn’t take long for him to come into sight.

And the person who was there… Was a beastman.

It is also a wolf beast, which is rare in this Garuna Plateau and is a weak tribe.

“Ah!!! Aaaaa!!!!”

Not young, but not old either. He was a shaggy man with a shaggy beard.

As for the weapon, I was holding a spear with a tooth missing that hadn’t been maintained for decades, and I tried to compete with me with the tip of the spear and say something, but it just groaned as if something didn’t come out.

“Do you speak? Who are you?”

“Ahhh…….”

“I think I understand the language roughly, but I’ll ask you one more time. What’s your name?”

“OMG…….”

He seemed to be trying to keep saying something and remembering it, so I waited patiently.

Eventually, recalling his name from the other side of his oblivion, he said it slowly.

“Tin… Dalos”

Oh wait. Suddenly, the genre started to scare me.

*        *    *

He sat down in his seat and shook his hands. It was an attitude that a person who was greatly shocked would do.

“Four, four, people, two, talking, uh, how long has it been…”

“Looks like you’ve been here for quite some time, but you deserve it.”

Are you a survivor of the people who lived here?

It has its own possibilities. Besides, just looking at this person, it wouldn’t be strange to rise to the top of the Continental Ten.

It’s simply hard to hold on here to that extent, but likewise, if his self-fantasy is also related to time, he will be able to withstand the volatile time.

Luminous also uses his self-fantasy constantly. Rather than enduring the change of time here, if it is overlaying other self-fantasy, it is more efficient and it is understandable that it was safe here.

There is already no guarantee that this delusion itself will not be evidence of self-fantasy interfering with the concept of time, and a second self-fantasy interfering with time as well.

“Oh, I’ve been here all alone for so long, so long”

“……..Okay?”

But I have a strange feeling about this guy.

On the one hand, that feeling is ominous. However, there were other feelings besides that.

I’m still not quite sure what this feels like… But it’s not too late to ask slowly, get information, and then make a decision.

“This is a place where time is fickle. If you do something wrong, you can die of old age in an instant. How did you survive here?”

“I, I…【The Hound in Time】. I can live, I can live here, uh…”

“Is that your self-fantasy?”

“That’s why I’ve lived a very long time here. A very long time here. Months, no, years, no decades… 100 years!!!!!”

I heard that this delusion has only been around for 50 years.

However, if the time felt by the person himself is enough to say that it is a hundred years… It seems that the two time interferences have been twisted and a time difference has occurred.

In short, it is a traffic accident of time. It’s like a time lag that happens when two transcendents who often deal with the concept of time fight, but it’s quite a headache anyway.

First of all, I know that this guy has lived for a very long time. My level was high, so I was aging slowly, but more than that, I think I look younger than my age because of the jet lag.

“If I had lived alone in a place where no one was around for a hundred years, I would have forgotten to speak to people. I’m getting some dementia.”

“That, ah…”

The clouded eyes looked stupid enough to not be thought of as a strong player at the level of the continental tens.

I’m crazy too, but it’s like that among transcendentalists. Originally, as the level increases, the basic specifications also increase, so it does not become that low.

“I’ll take you out of here for now… No, wait a minute.”

No matter how much it was, if it had been decades or even a hundred years.

This valley isn’t extremely wide, so wouldn’t it be enough to go out? Even a gilchi can get out of that place if it wanders for a hundred years.

But why did this guy stay here instead of leaving here?

“Why did you come here in the first place?”

“Me…….?”

And that moment.

It began to replay his memory, repeating the same words over and over again like a broken machine. On the one hand, it shows obsession to the point of frightening.

“Me, why? Here, why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Huh?”

At that moment, his movement stopped in an instant. His hand, which had been shaking like a man with tremor, also became normal, and the light returned to his blurry eyes.

I hear the sound of him grinding his teeth.

“Revenge!!!!!!!”

Only then did I intuit.

They say that this bastard is the seed of trouble left in Garuna Plateau by that bastard, Jantman.