Richard closed his eyes, then slowly opened them

After mastering all the twisted rules, the true side of the dark region has been fully revealed to Richard, and the veil of the past has been completely lifted

Richard looked around, and sure enough, he saw a completely different world

The aborigines are no longer virtual, they are a life that is slightly more than a meter tall, with four lower limbs and two upper limbs, these aborigines are obviously intelligent beings, Richard saw altars, houses, and all kinds of tools in their villages, but now, all three villages are silent, all the aborigines have died, men, women and children, all dead, not a single one has survived

Richard's original combat power was already the peak of Norland, and the power of the holy knife moonlight in the dark region was undiminished, in this case, no aboriginal could escape Richard's pursuit, even the butcher couldn't stop Richard's knife, not to mention these aborigines who were obviously weak

Before the rules were analyzed, these aborigines were pieces of semi-blurred light and shadow, and Richard couldn't even see their bodies clearly, no matter who they were, as long as they were active and alive, Richard would cut them into two pieces with a subconscious slash, which was simply Richard's instinctive reaction when dealing with shadow creatures, no need to think, relying on instinct to fight

But after seeing the real side of the world, Richard didn't know what it was like in his heart, the aborigines of the three villages were all dead, but Richard was the same even if he didn't kill them, just like the people of order were difficult to survive in the dark region, and after eliminating the distorted nodes, these aborigines would not live long

Richard looked again, and the wasteland in front of him was a different scene

Most of the wasteland is still lifeless, but near the Warp Node, there is a lot of life, and from time to time you can see some grass-like life growing on the ground, and the farther away from the Warp Node, the more sparse and fragile these grasses become, and after a certain distance, it is simply a lifeless wasteland

"Could it be that these lives rely on twisting the rules to survive?" Richard couldn't help but think

However, Richard's mood was only wavering for a short time, and on the rest of the road, he was still eliminating the distorted nodes that he could reach, but he didn't deliberately take more detours to eliminate them

When Richard lights the beacon of time, the entire Land of Daybreak will return to the Land of Order, and at that time, the people of order in the Holy City of Daybreak will naturally rejoice, but these natives will be completely destroyed

After eliminating the fifty-sixth Twisted Node, Richard finally found a Soul Grass on the central altar of the Aboriginal Fall, which was the material for the wick of the Time Lighthouse and the last thing needed to build the Time Lighthouse

The only thing Richard lacks now is the spark that ignites the beacon of time

According to the established route, it should be time to go to the Time Lighthouse, judging from the map given by Yio, this Time Lighthouse has been built for most of the time, and Richard only needs to make a few small repairs, and then it is to light the lights and lead the entire Land of Dawn back to the world of order

As for the tinder, when Richard approached the beacon of time, he naturally knew where to look for it

Richard finally confirmed the route, and then he saddled his backpack and headed for his final destination in the distance

After walking like this for several days, Richard suddenly felt a slight throbbing in his heart, as if there was something particularly important in the other direction, he immediately turned around, followed the guidance of his heart, and ran in that direction, not even caring about whether it would consume his body and magic power

After two full days of non-stop running, Richard has crossed tens of thousands of kilometers, and most of the stored body and magic power have been consumed, but in front of him, a twisted node finally appeared, this is a very hidden twisted node, the fluctuations are extremely obscure, if it weren't for the throbbing like a whim, Richard would be a hundred kilometers away It is difficult to feel that there is a twisted node here

Even Richard couldn't detect it, and if you look at the entire Land of Dawn, I'm afraid no one can find it

There were surprisingly no aboriginal people around the Distorted Node, and when Richard eliminated the Distorted Node, a small village was revealed

Said to be a village, in fact, there are only three wooden houses and a well, Richard glanced into the well, and found that there was still rippling water at the bottom of the well, so he took a bucket of water, drank a few sips, and found that it was really pure water, Richard drank several large sips in a row, until he felt that he could fill up the magic power, and then looked at the bottom of the well

Beneath the surface of the water, there is no emptiness

This well actually opened up the world of order, and it can extract energy from the place of order and condense it into pure water, if it is in the dark region, there is no such thing as water here

Richard came to the central cabin, pushed the door in, and then froze

The wooden house was very simple and supposed to be a human habit, with only a wooden table, a cabinet for clothes and miscellaneous items, a table and chairs, a table in front of the window, and a quill and inkwell in the corner

At this moment, there is a slender and familiar figure sitting in front of the window, constantly writing something on the paper

That's quicksand

Richard never expected to see quicksand here, he was in a mood, hurriedly took a step forward, just stretched out his hand, but saw the girl in front of the table put the quill back into the inkwell, stretched his body, and then the figure gradually disappeared

Richard's hand stopped in mid-air, and it took a long time to confirm that what he had just seen was just a phantom, but it didn't look like a phantom, so real that Richard couldn't tell the difference between reality and illusion, his eyes fell on the desk, where there was really a piece of stationery, and the ink had not dried

Inspector Richard took a long breath, walked over to his desk, sat down, picked up the letterhead, and began to read

"Richard:

When you read this letter, it should be three thousand years later, you may or may not come, although I have already seen the direction of fate, but I still can't be sure, the power of fate is not great, but it is not unchangeable

The Beacon of Time has been built, it will not be difficult for you to light it, the tinder is on the table, and you are familiar with it

It is only now that I feel like I can say that I have done everything I can

Then, it's not my time."

It was a very short letter, but after reading it, Richard was indescribably heavy, especially the last sentence, like a boulder, mercilessly smashed into Richard's heart

When Richard finished reading it, the letter paper instantly dissipated into the power of golden time, which dissipated at his fingertips

It was as if the letter, written 3,000 years ago, had never existed

Richard looked at the table, and in the corner of the desk, there was a thick book with a bronze cover, which Richard was extremely familiar with, it was the Book of Time in Quicksand's hand

No matter when, Quicksand will never put down this Book of Time, but now, the Book of Time is lying quietly on the desk, but Quicksand is nowhere to be seen, even if the image he saw when he came in, he was stingy and only gave Richard a back

Richard sat quietly for a moment, then reached out and took the Book of Time, flipped through it casually, and actually opened it, in the past, no one could open the Book of Time except quicksand

Richard made up his mind, turned the book to the title page, and saw that it was written with a beautiful pen: "The truth of the world is often the opposite of what we see"

The meaning of this sentence was incomprehensible for a moment, and Richard looked down again, and lines of handwriting appeared on the pages, all of which were ways of using the Time Lighthouse

After a few moments, when nothing was on the page, Richard closed the Book of Time

There was nothing else to commemorate in the quicksand room, and Richard looked at the other two cabins, which were supposed to be the residences of Io and Nayu, respectively, with their distinct aura

Richard stood silently for a moment, then left the small village and headed for the Time Lighthouse

This may be the last trace left by quicksand in the Land of Daybreak, and soon even the Land of Daybreak will no longer exist, and Richard also wants this small village to become an eternal fragment of the torrent of time together with the Land of Daybreak

Seven days later, a magnificent tower appeared in front of Richard, and seeing this huge tower hundreds of meters high, Richard understood why it took thousands of years to build the lighthouse of time

In the dark area, although people are immortal, but there is no extraordinary power, the materials for the construction of the time beacon often need to be carried from tens of thousands of kilometers away, or even further, this magnificent giant tower, is the quicksand The three of them gradually built up with bricks and wood, each stone brick of the tower, is made from the mining of stone

Richard slowly climbed the lighthouse of time, and every brick and stone he saw, every decoration, was the result of thousands of years of silent labor in quicksand

In the lamproom, there was already a huge copper brazier, but the pedestal under the basin was still missing a corner, Richard took out seven square blue stones from his backpack and filled them into the pedestal, just to fill the missing corner, he took out the leather bag again, and poured the core black liquid into the brazier

As soon as the lumpy core black liquor entered the brazier, it immediately melted on its own, turning into a deep pool of lamp oil, and it tumbled and boiled on its own, and when the bubbles burst, Richard seemed to hear a muffled cry

Finally, Richard took out the soul grass again, kneaded the long grass like a reed into a wick, and put it in the brazier, and the black oil immediately went up the wick, dyeing it all black

At this time, a large ribbon of colored light suddenly appeared in the void above the lighthouse of time, and the power of the rules was surging and boiling, even crazy

Behind the band of light, there were large blurred shadows flickering, and Richard could see that they were all natives of the Dark Regions, and the number was simply innumerable, they seemed to want to rush into the time beacon, but they were blocked by an invisible barrier, and they had no ability to approach at all

But these aborigines are still frantically storming the beacon of time, and more aborigines are coming in the distance

In the gray sky, several golden bands of light suddenly pierced the sky and landed on the Time Lighthouse, immediately stabilizing some fragile protections, these bands of light all came from the cities in the Land of Daybreak, and the thickest and most powerful one came from the Holy City of Daybreak