The Truth of Magic

Chapter 708 Take it back

"Amnesia?"

It's already 2021 AD, why is there such a bloody plot?

Hearing Ernest's words that he lost all his memories, Zhao Xu suddenly fell into an inexplicable sluggish state.

It was as if he had just watched an action drama that had just reached its climax, and was suddenly stopped forcibly, and directly switched to a romantic plot by a low-level director.

I love you, you love him, he loves me.

"No, don't be joking, are you?" Zhao Xu silently protested.

This is the only existence in history who can use eleven-ring and twelve-ring spells!

How could he lose his memory? What's the difference between this and a mage forgetting to read a magic spell?

However, Antinoya looked pitiful, "Actually, I also hope this is a joke, otherwise, I will meet the white moonlight in my life earlier than before."

"Or, I wouldn't have witnessed all the tragedies from birth to childhood."

Zhao Xu felt a faint throbbing in his heart.

In Antinoya's memories, he once saw her as a young and helpless girl, with that kind of pitiful look that made her want to hug and give her a warm look.

"How did I lose my memory?"

Zhao Xu no longer distinguished between the two identities of "Ernest" and "Zhao Xu".

He took a deep breath.

Antinoya shook her head, "I don't know either."

She looked at Zhao Xu helplessly, "You are clear, I am the reflection of your heart, I can understand your memory, so I am also composed of your memory."

"But Ernest, he came to Arthur after he lost his memory, but what happened to him before this time, even he himself doesn't know, and neither do I."

"It was a past that he couldn't trace back."

Zhao Xu shook his head.

It's a perfect endless loop.

The key is placed in the room, the door is locked, and the key is needed to open the door.

Immediately afterwards, after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't help but fell into a state of stupefaction that he couldn't help himself from, and even fell into a deep shock.

In other words, it was hard for him to be sure——

Ernest, in that terrifying plane, lost his memory for some reason, such as escaping after losing, or experiencing some kind of power during the fight.

Then he instinctively returned to the original world of Arthur.

But the node of the torrent of time and space was wrongly selected, and then he strayed into thousands of years ago, back to the time when Antinoya was not born?

Or, did the other party have to give up this memory for some unavoidable reason?

Or threatened? Or some kind of exchange? Or a last resort?

Is there even nothing greater than death?

For example, the whole world is destroyed, and he lives alone?

So simply erased all memories to avoid falling into a state of eternal pain.

Zhao Xu didn't want the latter.

The line of fate is endless, representing countless possibilities.

Just like tossing a coin into the sky, two fate lines will emanate—the lines on the front of the coin and the back of the coin, and in a few cases, there are vertical lines, or lines that are taken away by birds.

The choice of all the creatures on Arthur at this moment has created countless fate lines that cannot be measured by trillions of scales.

This is an incomparably huge and indescribably complex state, and it can be called Arthur's most mysterious superposition state.

But in the end, they all converge to one point.

Fate, completed one of its solutions.

It chooses the one with the highest probability and executes it.

Human beings have also completed their own observation.

They saw the world unfold.

Ernest's fate line was Zhao Xu's most likely fate line in the future.

Even he didn't dare to violate it.

If in this fate line, he didn't become a powerful mage, and at the same time returned to Arthur thousands of years ago.

Then at that time point, Antinoya will develop according to the fate line without Ernest.

Half-elves live only a few hundred years.

Even the immortal lich is facing many adventurers' crusade, not to mention the natural threat from the gods of the priesthood of death.

Whether Antinoya can live to this moment has become a big question mark.

Even since Arthur lost Ernest's participation, the development of the entire magic system is likely to go in another direction, and the eight major factions have since disappeared.

Even today's mages are all specialized mages, all mages can only learn two or three schools, and even magic has been lost.

These are all possible.

After all, Ernest's position in the entire history of magic occupies at least one-third of the text, and sometimes the history of magic is Ernest's official autobiography.

Zhao Xu, who was conservative, was afraid of knowing the fate of the future, knowing that he would return to Arthur in ancient times, and then he would have to leave and return to the correct time node.

after.

He will still accept this fate.

This is the helplessness of fate.

It was this kind of helplessness that made him panic in his heart, worrying that when he faced the choice of amnesia, it was also a kind of helpless acceptance.

It is as if a man knew that at five-thirty in the afternoon he would be killed.

But in the next few world lines, the Prophet found that every time he stood at the intersection and waited for the vehicle running the red light to pass by, his fate would be even more tragic.

Even his family members are more unfortunate because of this.

This constant repetition, the constant tragedy repeats itself.

In the end, let the prophet, at that time point, stand there silently, calmly accepting the death arranged by fate.

This was Zhao Xu's greatest fear at this moment after hearing that Ernest had lost his memory.

And Antinoya chuckled, "Don't worry. Even if you lose your memory, you are still you, Zhong Xia, Ernest, Zhao Xu."

"You will still be you, and you will still be him."

After Zhao Xu listened, he took a deep breath from the bottom of his heart. Although his whole body was being perfectly controlled, he maintained the most stable balance.

But he could still feel the flushing of his cheeks, as if a fire was burning.

Zhao Xu gasped silently.

Inhale silently.

Breathing silently.

Like a middle-aged failed man, sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at the future and tomorrow lonely.

He suddenly realized that sometimes, knowing fate is also an extremely cruel thing.

Especially when you have the confidence to change this fate, but you don't have the courage to change it.

Zhao Xu looked up and looked at Antinoya again, "Then after Ernest traveled through, he was in a situation where he didn't know what happened in the future?"

Antinoya nodded.

"At that time, the teacher accepted me as an apprentice and May as a believer. There were not many of us in the group, and we all followed him closely."

As she spoke, she frowned slightly, "But most of them are girls, including the first, second, and third generation of magic goddesses."

"In the future, we will follow the teacher's last wish and stand up to become the new Lord God of Magic at every Ragnarok's twilight."

"And the final scroll is the last resort left to us by the teacher. It consists of seven notebooks."

"On it, the secret of obtaining the priesthood of magic is recorded. Basically, every candidate who becomes a legendary mage in the Mage Association will get a chance to witness the true face of the final scroll. At that time, they will know the truth of this world. I will also take an oath to protect magic until I die.”

"So relying on the legendary mages accumulated over the years, the whole process of becoming a god is far less complicated than in the ancient times."

Zhao Xu silently looked at the notebook in his backpack, which he had almost forgotten.

Damn, doesn't this mean that before he leaves Arthur, he has to complete the seven notebooks first, and then leave this world smoothly.

On the one hand, the former Arthur can also appear in the final scroll.

On the other hand, after he left, Arthur owned only the seven notebooks of the final scroll.

It won't be like now, there is the final scroll in the tower of the floating city, and he has a notebook that has not yet become the final scroll.

Recalling that he used the "identification technique" to look at the notebook in his hand, Zhao Xu felt that he was too stupid on the spot.

"Then Ernest, where did he go after leaving Arthur's world? Do you know?"

With the last trace of fear, Zhao Xu asked this question.

Regarding this, Antinoya looked at Zhao Xu with relief and regret and said, "Actually, I really want to tell you that he has come to the current world line."

Zhao Xu walked away from Arthur.

Ernest stepped back on Arthur.

This seems to be a plot connected in series on the world line.

"This is what I begged him to do at the beginning, hoping that he would return to the time point where he was really born and existed after ten thousand years."

"All our apostles swear to him that they will absolutely guard their strength in secret and wait for his return."

"But Ernest refused?"

Zhao Xu asked.

How could he be so ambitious in the future?

There is clearly a safe road to go?

Before giving up many methods, such as becoming the master of the abyss and giving up the magic empire established, it was essentially because he would leave Arthur in the ancient times.

After returning to the proper timeline later, he will no longer be rejected by the timeline, and he can firmly be the king of the mountain in Arthur.

Mastering the abyss is equivalent to full building, and mastering eleven-ring and twelve-ring spells by oneself is equivalent to full technology. With all the sets in hand, any enemy can just pass by with their eyes closed.

Not even a little difficult.

Even the Lord of the Nine Prisons is nothing more than the old and the young who will be swept into the dustbin of history.

Unless all the gods of Arthur can find the legendary way to give birth to the God of God, that is, the king of the gods.

Otherwise, half of Arthur would have been stuffed into Ernest's trouser pocket.

Antinoya said sadly, "Later, although the teacher lost his memory, the spiritual sense from magic made him aware of the key information, which made him decide to go back to the original horror world and find what he lost. memories, and to retrieve lost things."

ah?

this?

Zhao Xu almost didn't close his mouth.

As for memory, if ordinary people lose their memory, that is true amnesia.

Who is reversible?

Ernest, who is almost synonymous with Arthur's magic, is not a big problem if he can't get his memory back?

You wait until I leave this world, and then you come back, can't you slowly piece together some by reading everyone's memories?

Except for the part of the horror world that no one knows, it is really impossible to find it back.

People like Antinoya who have known each other for thousands of years can exchange pleasantries as soon as they meet.

Even Antinoya has a memory of getting along with Zhao Xu, which can be connected.

He even suspected that the place in front of him was also Ernest's precautionary measure.

But.

Zhao Xu sighed.

But if he accepted this imperfect plan, then he would not be the Ernest who once suppressed the entire Arthur and prevented the gods from raising their heads.

But the place he is going to, Longtan and Tiger's Den are not enough to describe.

In that world full of indescribable horrors, Zhao Xu was tormented just by being dreamed by Nyarlathotep, who represented the existence of chaos.

wrong.

chaos.

Zhao Xu's memory stuck at this moment.

Although each sky has its own independent "chaos", the level that looks at that terrifying world is even stronger.

Those rumored outer gods, all of them seem to have the strength to crush Arthur's most powerful god.

Can really compare.

His "chaos" as Arthur "one of the three creation dragons" and Nyarlathotep's "chaos" are not in conflict?

Outer God, Lux.

For a moment, Zhao Xu seemed to be hooked up to something again.

Not at all, he is also the incarnation of Nyarlathotep, right?

If that was the case, he would just commit suicide on the spot to avoid nausea.

Thinking that the rumored person's appearance was somewhat similar to a devil, Zhao Xu felt that his skin was about to get goosebumps.

But think about it, since Ernest wants to go back to that horror world and get some things back, then this possibility should not be great.

The crux of the problem now is whether that Ernest won the battle after traveling back to the horror world ten thousand years ago.

it is a pity.

Um?

Zhao Xu suddenly had another flash of inspiration, recalling what Ernest had witnessed when he arrived, and the sigh he had made at that time!

It's a pity that I didn't meet in the real world!

This sentence, after careful consideration now, seems to represent a deep meaning, is it a kind of helplessness?

Looking at Antinoya in front of him, Zhao Xu lowered his head silently, his gaze fell on the ground, without raising his eyes at all.

It seemed that he couldn't look directly at the lovely person in front of him.

"Antinoya."

"Huh?" Antinoya tilted her head slightly, listening.

At this time, Zhao Xu called his mentor by his first name for the first time.

He believes that it will also be the beginning of everything in the future.

"I think you should know, Ernest, besides the memory, he must go back and get something back?"

Antinoya smiled slightly at this.

"Ok, I know."

"He wants to go back, except to get his memory back."

"Maybe, the love of my life."