The Shadow Gate still exists, and there is a vague connection between the Mountain Maiden and the gap in the door.

Her body was full, almost no different from a normal person, and what appeared in front of Roger's eyes was no longer that ugly appearance.

Stretching her limbs to her heart's content, the Mountain Maiden seemed to be enjoying the long-lost freedom, she was in mid-air, her eyes falling on Uma.

"It seems that between me and him, you still chose the latter."

From the expression on Roger's face, it was not difficult for the mountain girl to guess what had happened.

"I really don't know what to say about your choice to give up real freedom for the sake of a man."

"I long for freedom." Uma shook her head.

"I just don't believe you."

"Last time, I put my heart and soul into trusting you, but as a result, I became a tumor in you."

"Where are you going to put me this time?"

Uma looked at the mountain girl up and down with a mocking face, she did hesitate, and almost made a mistake, and finally reined in the precipice and chose to stand by Roger's side.

"But it doesn't matter, you've done what I wanted to do for me."

"I haven't been able to get out of that cage completely, but at least I've entered a new area where the lockdown is much smaller and my chances of freedom are greater."

The Mountain Maiden held out her hand to Uma, "Give you one last chance, you can start over with me." ”

Hearing this, Roger couldn't help but set his eyes on the Mountain Maiden and Uma.

Having said that, two women have been together day and night for dozens of years, cough cough, in the process, it is indeed possible that some strange things may happen.

It's lonely, understandable.

Uma didn't say anything, just took a step closer to Roger.

"It's a shame you chose the wrong answer."

The mountain girl's body became looming, and at the same time, the gap on the shadow door gradually intensified, feeling the changes around him, and as soon as his heart moved, Roger immediately understood the mountain girl's plan.

She is trapped in a cage and has no way to leave by normal means, and the last time she tricked Roger failed, but through the changes in Uma's body, the mountain girl began a new plan.

Since there is no way to leave, then open the passage with another shadow fragment, which is equivalent to increasing her range of activities in disguise.

It's not really freedom yet, but at least it's possible to use another shadow shard as a springboard to do things that weren't possible before.

"Wait a minute."

Roger spoke suddenly.

"I've done you a great favor, aren't you going to show it?"

"Tell me?" The mountain girl was in a happy mood, and the smile on her face became very bright, "Don't worry, we will soon be inseparable from each other." ”

The power of shadows poured into the mountain girl's body along the crack in the door, and the space around her stirred, and everything became clear.

"I should thank you that, according to Uma, everything wouldn't have gone so smoothly without your help."

"Something else in this cage will stop me from devouring, and it will make everything uncertain."

Roger didn't seem to care at all about the changes around him.

"The cage, you're saying that creatures like you were once held here?"

Roger asked.

"Haha, it's nothing to tell you."

"This so-called cage used to be something that everyone longed for, but in many cases, life and death were just a thought."

"There is no clear line between good and bad."

The expression on the mountain girl's face changed.

"I thought it would take you a long, long time before you came into contact with these things, after all, your current strength is still a long way from the realm I need."

"You're too far away."

"The span of the four levels is huge, and each level is subdivided into different stages."

"It can even be said that after reaching the end, the road begins."

Hearing this, Roger's heart moved, isn't the level of the Sword Lord and the Divine Lord the peak of the fourth order?

"Pursue the rules of a world, keep improving, and there will be an end to power, and the end is the limit under the rules of this world."

"The only thing that can be pursued to reach this level and move forward is to break the existing rules and create possibilities from the impossible."

"From life to death, from death to life."

"The revival of destruction has been so repeated."

What the mountain girl said is not clear, what she refers to should be applied to the extraordinary power system under the rules of various worlds.

The path forward is different, but the end is the same.

Roger didn't speak, the changes around him continued, he was very patient, even if the speed of the mountain girl's devouring was accelerating, but the hints given on the bulletin board made Roger extremely reassured.

"Assimilable shadow fragments detected, fragments of small energy, do they devour assimilation?"

"When the road comes to an end, when the power is raised to the limit of the rules of the world, in the case of no way out, if you want to break the rules, you need new rules to fill and expand!"

"When the world can't tolerate you, you can either be suppressed by the world and compromise under the rules, or you can use other rules to form your own world."

"At this stage, what we have to do is to merge a piece of the world, no matter where it comes from, even if it doesn't fit with our own power."

"But with a new world fragment means new rules, and these rules, no matter how weak, are like pearls in the sand."

"That's the key!"

The mountain girl clenched her fists as she spoke.

With the transmission of the power of shadows, her own aura also became powerful.

Not how Roger felt when he faced Sunset Mountain and the Jackdaw Sword Master.

It's quirky, it's like seeing a man and a mountain.

The mountain that stands on the earth is not aggressive, but it is something more powerful and magnificent than a person.

"There are many names for transcendents at this stage, immortal, lifeless, and so on."

"But if they can go this far, it means that they can basically get rid of some of the original practical rules."

"For example, the ...... of life"

"But at the same time, this is also a step that will never be recovered, and once you step out, there is no turning back."

"The original world began to squeeze and reject, or hide in your own small world and never leave, becoming a prisoner of eternal life."

"Or, try to fight against the rules of the world, resist its oppression, and constantly improve yourself, and then become the master of the world."

A hint of pride welled up on the mountain girl's face.

"Ahem, so...... Have you failed? ”

Roger couldn't help but speak.

"You know what?"

The mountain girl's brow furrowed.

"The way up is too difficult, this is not something that can be said clearly in a few words, in order to change, it is necessary to fuse fragments from different worlds, but after fusion, it is always squeezed by the rules of the original world."

"I couldn't feel it at first, but the stronger the power and the more fusion, the greater the oppression."

"Too many people can't go to the limit, and they will not be able to resist the oppression of the rules of the world and lead to the collapse of the small world."

"These collapsed small worlds, under the intertwining and influence of the rules of the world, will form strange cursed items and special areas."

Hearing this, Roger's heart moved, could this be the reason for the existence of the Cursed Lands and Cursed Items in Menia and the European continent?

However, he always felt that things were not so simple, and those strange places and cursed items were not something that could be formed by one or two broken world fragments.

Reverse deduction, there are by no means a few strong people who have reached this level, and the progression of strength is becoming more and more difficult, and it basically meets the pyramid-shaped standard of progress.

According to the mountain maiden, it is impossible to generate transcendents who have reached the level she said with the existing base of transcendents.

Even if the number of transcendents hidden in other worlds in the Western world, such as the Privy Council, is dozens of times that of Sunrise, it is unlikely to reach the number that the mountain girl said.

Seems to see Roger's doubts, "The world you see is too small, haven't you come into contact with creatures from other worlds?" ”

"Creatures called Advent or Otherworldly Visitors or whatever."

"Each of them, behind them is a huge world, all the worlds are intertwined, and the base of the transcendent will be far greater than you can imagine."

Visitors from the Otherworld......

It was only then that Roger remembered that the short-lived Alien Spirits, similar organizations, there must have been many more on the European continent or in other parts of the world.

Rule exclusion......

Countless chaotic clues were intertwined, and Roger vaguely grasped something, but he couldn't sort it out for a while.

"I'm not one of those creatures huddled in a small world waiting to die!" The mountain girl snorted coldly.

"I once wanted to fight and accumulated great strength, but unfortunately, in the end, I fell short under the oppression of the rules of the world."

"The small world collapses, and after the collapse, even the smallest fragment of the world will be locked down in order to maintain its own existence, and the person who fuses it will be trapped there forever."

A hint of reluctance flashed across his face.

It can be seen that the mountain girl in her heyday must be extremely powerful, at least in what Roger can't imagine now, but even so, she still failed.

Some clues converged, and many previous doubts were solved.

But the old problems are solved, and new ones reappear.

The Cursed Land, those transcendent worlds that intersect with reality, these world fragments do not appear out of thin air, are there any omissions in the story of the Mountain Maiden?

According to her, transcendents who have reached the level she spoke of need to change beyond the original rules if they want to go further.

And this kind of change itself cannot be given, they need to find fragments from other worlds, extract the rules in them and fuse them.

The specific process and the benefits obtained by Roger are unknown.

But at least after this step is completed, these transcendents can truly be considered transcendent.

But obviously, detachment comes at a price.

Either stay in the fragments of the merged world and isolate yourself, never leaving there, so that you will be the least oppressed by the rules of the world.

Either it is to make a struggle, to make a bigger change, to make a more radical provocation, and at the same time to be strong, but also to get more oppression.

There are obviously a lot of risks involved in doing so, but the benefits are self-evident.

But Roger was aware of another problem.

That's the Shadow Elders.

Through the corpse of the Shadow Elder, Roger once saw images of him fighting with the others, and although it was brief, it left a deep impression on Roger.

Could it be that the Shadow Elder is also a rebel similar to what the Mountain Maiden said?

Or is it a higher-order being?

While facing the squeeze of the world's rules, there are unknown dangers waiting for them?

So, where did the fragments that these transcendents fused with in the first place come from?

It's impossible to have countless worlds that collapse at the same time and then merge with other worlds.

Thinking about this question, Roger noticed one thing at the same time.

That's the world of shadows......

Whether it's the Mountain Maiden, the Shadow Elder, or the place he's in now, it's not what they call a colorful little world.

It's a land of pure shadows.

Realizing this question, Roger asked directly.

"I'm starting to like you a little, really like you."

The mountain girl clasped her hands together and squeezed a part of her body like a mountain peak.

People are like their names, people are like their names.

"I don't know what you're going to do, but at least you're much better than some brainless idiot, and most importantly you didn't try to attack me."

"And the truth is, you don't have any effect on my attack right now."

She smiled calmly.

"This is a level gap, and only transcendents who are at the same stage as us can harm each other."

"Under this, even if your power can shatter a mountain, it doesn't make any sense."

"Like you just said, why did I and the world here end up in a shadow?"

"Because shadow is the most fundamental reason for the interweaving of different worlds, or it can be understood as the only rule that exists in different worlds at the same time."

"At least that's the only rule we know."

"It is precisely because of the interweaving of shadow worlds that different worlds are fragmented and fused with each other."

"And it is the shattering of the shadow world that eventually leads to the integration of other worlds, and everything that is now is what it is now."

"When the world is blocked, there is no longer any change in the rules, and slowly, the blocked world will be assimilated by the shadow world, and finally become what it is now."

There was a hint of sarcasm on the mountain girl's face.

"Those who are self-contained, after spending a long life, will end up with the result you see."

"Assimilated and devoured, to become the nourishment of the world."

"You see, even the most core rules in this world are so cruel."

Although what the mountain girl said was not very clear, Roger could basically understand what she meant.

The rules of the world, the fragments of shadows, and the transcendents who want to escape their fate merge and intertwine to form a cycle.

The fragments of the world, intertwined by shadows, provide the possibility for these transcendents to break the rules, but their death will lead to the creation of more small fragments of the world.

In the process, this will facilitate the increase in the strength of a large number of Transcendentals, who will then follow the path of the Precursors.

Either wait to be assimilated, or fight and face the same result.

And the world is like a greedy predator, cultivating transcendents and then harvesting, among the countless transcendents, is there really a guy who can get rid of the rules of the world?

For a moment, Roger felt malice from the whole world.

The Witcher hunts monsters.

But for this world, all transcendent beings are his prey.

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