Chapter 3046 - 59: Who Is Warning Whom?

Chapter 3046: Chapter 59: Who Is Warning Whom?

Four colored light points slowly descended from the night sky.

One was light blue, another pale yellow, a blood red, and a cinnabar red.

They seemed like four fireflies clustered together, or perhaps four stars falling from the distant deep sky. Though they appeared to descend slowly, in the blink of an eye, they had landed above the old Crowley family estate from a place higher than the clouds.

Residences of such old wizard families, even if abandoned for a long time, were protected by powerful guardian magic. But when those four lights fell, it was as if the magic didn’t exist, allowing them to pass through every barrier and appear deep inside the old house.

Without disturbing anyone inside the mansion.

Including that elder wizard, disheveled and weathered with age. However, it was only he who felt a strange caprice when those lights fell and glanced out the window.

Then he saw a splendor he had never witnessed in his life.

"——Damn."

The elder wizard uttered his final words.

The light blue spell light was the first to illuminate, like a light ball expanded countless times, enveloping the entire old Crowley family mansion, from the mage tower rising dozens of meters at the magic node to the Level 4 Laboratory dozens of meters underground, not missing even an ant in the corner.

This light ball, trembling slightly like a breath under the night sky, suddenly vanished.

Along with it vanished the ancient mansion which used to squat silently on this wild as if it were a giant beast.

There were no astonishing celestial phenomena, no explosive sounds, nor intense surges of magic power. The entire residence seemed to have never existed, vanished entirely from the concept. Only a shepherd ten kilometers away rubbed his eyes, wrapped his sheepskin cloak tighter around him, suspecting he’d drunk too much tonight, leading to blurred vision.

After the light blue spell light, there was that blood-red spell light.

In fact, it bloomed simultaneously with the light blue one, except that the light blue spell light acted on the real dimension while the blood-red spell light was released on the virtual dimension’s layer.

In this world, every objectively existing entity has a corresponding reflection in the virtual dimension. Many wizards believe it’s the source of soul power, but Dimensionism wizards think it’s just magic’s reflection of reality—like a stone having a shadow in sunlight—in most cases, this shadow hidden in the virtual dimension wouldn’t react to reality at all.

"——Yet, there’s always a slight chance of accidents."

The young legend standing on high, supported by the wind glanced down and explained to the Shadow Cat beside him: "Some magical experiments observed when certain existences vanish abruptly from reality, their conceptual existence can’t be compensated for a short time, overflowing into the virtual dimension, bringing the ’shadow of the stone’ to life and forming a new stone. Of course, compared to the old stone, due to its inherent origin deficiency, the form of existence of this new stone is slightly different from an actual stone... Some old resurrection spells are constructed based on this principle."

"Ghost Stone?" Shadow Cat twitched its ears, feeling uneasy.

"Well... something like that," Zheng Qing nodded reluctantly, "You know, my understanding of magic theory isn’t profound, just grasp the gist."

Shadow Cat snorted heavily.

"No wonder you dared to make such claims just now," it muttered—indeed, a concept erased simultaneously from the real and virtual dimensions has no possibility of resurrection from hell.

Pausing, it tilted its head toward the young legend: "What about the remaining two? Now that this place has been erased so thoroughly, do you intend to restore it and blow it up again?"

Though it didn’t like those sneaky fellows, it wasn’t to that extent.

"The remaining two—"

Zheng Qing folded his hands, looking at the vast land below, his gaze unfocused, tone slightly melancholic: "I remember a book mentioning that everyone dies three times: once is biological death; once is social death; and then there’s a final time when the last person who remembers you leaves this world, only then do you cease any connection to it... This old mansion is the same.

Removing it from the real dimension is its physical death; removing it from the virtual dimension is its conceptual death; the last two spell lights, one is to erase the memory of its existence, and the other is to repair and restore this time-space damaged by dimension experiments."

"You’re a rather nice person," Yellow Flowered Cat commented sarcastically.

"What do you mean ’erase the memory of its existence’?" Shadow Cat felt slightly incredulous: "Are you saying you cleaned this old mansion along the timeline? How is that possible? You’re just a Side Door Legend!"

"Of course, he doesn’t have that skill, the real contributor is me!" Yellow Flowered Cat pointed to its own nose, snorting angrily.

"——It’s not that we meant to wipe the timeline of the Crowley family’s old mansion clean. We aren’t Ancient Ones, lacking such energy."

The young legend cheerfully corrected Shadow Cat’s assumption: "It’s just throwing a stone into the past, warning them not to mess around..."

As they spoke, the figures of one person and two cats gradually vanished into the deep night.

And in the wilderness, having been abandoned by the Crowley family for over a hundred years, this mansion, originally dead in a social sense, finally met its ultimate end—or perhaps its fate.

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Over a hundred years ago.

The old wizard of the Crowley family looked at the mage tower destroyed by the aftermath of the intersecting spell light, his expression very grim. Moments before, a spot of spell light suddenly landed on the mage tower, activated the family protection Array drawing in magic powered up for decades in a single moment, which also, under the intense magic force, turned into debris.

"——This mansion can no longer be kept."

The old wizard’s face was somber, his tone deeply annoyed: "Check, from top to bottom, and see which brat in our family has dared something bold enough to provoke the Legendary..."

"Could it be those demons’ handiwork?"

"Demons? Which demon can utilize the magic power of the flower cat beside the headmaster? This is not a war, but a warning. A warning across timelines!" The old wizard of the Crowley family said with a hint of relief: "But it seems not much trouble is likely, otherwise it wouldn’t have been that cat coming along the timeline..."

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Over a hundred years later.

The old Crowley family wizard held the crystal ball in his arms, looking at his suddenly disappeared old mansion, his expression somewhat complicated. Before lending the mansion to several companions, he never expected that a warning buried in memory for over a hundred years would still fall upon him across the long timeline.