Daniel quickly dismissed his initial theory.
This spell beast was using earth magic, not water. Had he come to the wrong place? But then another thought crossed his mind. If this spell beast was similar to a worm and lived underground, then perhaps the entire area had been reshaped by its movement.
The ground might have been churned up multiple times.
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With that in mind, Daniel let out a surge of mana, and an idea of a spell he had once studied came to him:
“Rewind!”
Using the Rewind spell, he could view the past events here, like watching a movie from a third-person perspective.
The surroundings began to rewind, with the soil churning as he had suspected.
This spell beast had indeed been altering the ground.
Soon, bloodstains appeared in the area, and Daniel paused the rewind, watching intently.
He could see the Dewcrystal growing in its spot, but there was no sign of any water-element spell beast.
Could it be that the spell beast lived in water?
Daniel briefly considered this but shifted his focus back to the scene.
The bloodstains on the ground eventually faded, indicating that the critical moment was approaching.
In the distance, Daniel saw a group of people moving cautiously through the forest.
Most wore mercenary gear, while an elderly man was dressed in a mage’s robe.
They moved carefully, and one of them noticed the Dewcrystal with excitement.
The group approached cautiously, with the old man carefully picking a piece of Dewcrystal and putting it away, ready to leave.
Suddenly, the scene froze—just as it had when Rose had tried to view the event in the Mistriver Realm.
Everything halted. Daniel sensed something was wrong.
He was using a Rewind spell to recreate past events; how could it stop like this?
Time seemed to pass in silence. When the scene resumed, only blood remained on the ground, with no sign of people.
Time quickly moved forward again, but everything appeared normal.
When the Rewind ended, Daniel’s confusion only deepened.
This interruption during a crucial moment was highly abnormal!
If the Mistriver Realm had stopped the vision, he might have chalked it up to the realm’s quirky nature.
After all, the rewards from Mistriver Realm were sometimes strange and unpredictable.
But this time, he was using a Rewind spell.
The only explanation he could imagine was that someone had deliberately erased that part of time.
They had not only erased the cause of his predecessor’s father’s death but also meticulously wiped away any trace of their involvement.
Daniel’s curiosity grew. In his memories, his predecessor’s father hadn’t been particularly powerful; he was even embroiled in conflicts with the two main families in Riverside City and had come to Mistwood out of desperation to advance.
How could he have provoked someone capable of erasing time itself? This was no ordinary person.
With that thought, Daniel returned to the carriage.
“Headmaster, what were you doing?” Nina asked as she saw Daniel come back.
“Nothing important. I have another matter to attend to, but I’ll be back shortly. Stay here and be careful,” Daniel replied. He then left a few protective magic arrays in place.
“Remember, don’t leave the magic array’s boundaries.” With that, Daniel vanished again.
…
Voidland.
Daniel had returned here, seeking out the Sacred Time River.
If someone had erased the evidence in the real world, could they also erase it from Voidland’s Sacred Time River?
Using his immense mind power, he delved into the Sacred Time River, sifting through its records.
A year ago, in Mistwood… He quickly found the relevant moment. But then—the worst possible result occurred.
Even in the Sacred Time River, that part of history had been severed. No one could now know what had happened during that lost time.
Daniel fell into deep thought. He began to suspect that his predecessor’s father might have had a hidden identity.
Otherwise, why would someone go to such lengths, using such extraordinary means to kill him? If even time couldn’t reveal the truth, then… could bloodline-related fate uncover it?
As Daniel prepared to explore this idea, the Sacred Time River suddenly vanished, and mystical doorways appeared around him, enclosing him in a circle.
The moment he saw the doors, Daniel knew he had walked into a trap!
The mysterious enemy had left this trap specifically for anyone who might attempt to uncover the truth. The trap was the array of doors.
Voidland was a nexus between worlds, and each doorway represented a path to a different world, holding the unique power of that world.
Without hesitation, Daniel launched a powerful spell at the doors, casting magic akin to forbidden spells at them.
But it was ineffective. These doors seemed immune to his attacks, absorbing all his energy as if his magic were useless.
Examining the doors closely, Daniel noticed that they weren’t only imbued with the power of other worlds; they also held a fragment of the Sacred Time River’s energy.
That was why his magic had no effect.
“Time, huh? My apologies,” Daniel muttered as he drew upon a vast reserve of mana stones he had collected over time, surrounding himself with them.
“I declare: time shall decay, and all things return to their end…” Daniel’s power increased exponentially as he began his chant, releasing an invisible force from within—a force of death and despair.
This was the ultimate death, representing the end of time.
The force swept over the doors, weakening the time-bound energy that protected them.
The doors themselves began to wither, crumbling into dust.
Daniel dared not overuse this power, quickly retracting it once the doors were destroyed.
This was a force representing the end of all things; in Voidland, an error could result in a world’s destruction.
Turning to the Sacred Time River, Daniel noticed signs of decay along its flow under the influence of his power.
However, the Sacred Time River would soon heal with the world’s continued evolution, as he hadn’t directly attacked it—his target had only been the doors, and the river was merely affected indirectly.
As he inspected the Sacred Time River, he suddenly noticed… a black shadowy mass had appeared on its surface?
