Chapter 216 - 216 216 Lanzes Perspective (Part 1)
Chapter 216: Chapter 216 Lanze’s Perspective (Part 1) Chapter 216: Chapter 216 Lanze’s Perspective (Part 1) Lanze stood on the familiar land, but everything here made him feel alienated.
Every brick and tile he ‘saw’ with his spiritual power was from the Imperial Court of his childhood, unchanged. There was also a Lanze here, who hade a fate both similar and different from his own.
“Go back, go back to your own world,” he said to Lanze.
With confusion and unease, Lanze returned to the place where worlds B and A intersect, but through a twist of fate, he fell into a place.
This place seemed like a rift, connecting two worlds. It floated in the void, with the edge of the black hole flickering with faint light, like a lone star in the Milky Way.
The scenery around him began to blur, and Lanze strained to extend his spiritual power’s tendrils as far as they could reach, feeling shrouded by a thin fog. It was an indescribable force, enveloping him.
In this place, the concepts of time and space became fuzzy, all senses were stripped away.
His body floated in the vacuum, gradually sinking into a stupor, and he closed his eyes.
In this otherworldly space, all perception was wiped clean, and Lanze’s spiritual power was also disturbed, as if he had entered a realm of “nothingness.” There was no passage of time, no spatial boundaries, and no material existence.
He didn’t know how much time had passed; within the chaos, he faintly heard the sound of two people conversing, their voices seemingly coming from a great distance, as if talking through water.
“What is the purpose of you seeking me out?”
“I want to ask you to enter the game once more. I will tell you everything I know about the game, hoping you can change Anubis’s ending.”
“Why me?”
Lanze abruptly opened his eyes, straining to ‘listen’; he recognized one of the voices, muttering to himself, “Suisui…it’s Suisui…”
He desperately moved closer to the source of the voice, emitting his spiritual power without reservation, and indeed, through the layers of chaos, he saw her, the one he longed for.
Her attire had changed, her face looked more naive than before, but her expression was icy cold, with a bottomless melancholy in her eyes.
Lanze found Suisui’s surroundings very strange, markedly different from the interstellar environment. He tried to step forward and grasp her wrist, but the next second his hand shockingly passed right through her body.
“How can this be…” He clenched and unclenched his fists, trying to embrace her, but still passed through her body like a ghost.
Lanze saw Suisui leaving and hurried after her, but as he passed an opposite seat, his steps faltered.
“Ye Xi?”
B Lanze had shown him a photo of Ye Xi.
B Lanze’s words immediately echoed in his ears—
[Ye Xi has logged out…]
[She left me a letter; she has returned to her own world…]
If Suisui and she were together, it meant they came from the same world, which also meant… Suisui had logged out…
Considering this possibility, Lanze swayed slightly, finding it hard to stand firm. Regaining his senses, he rushed to the revolving doors of the café, trying to catch up with Qiao Suisui, but as he stepped out the door, the surrounding chaos dissipated like thick smoke, and he was on the land of the Freedom Alliance.
Gasping for breath, Lanze looked around, “I’m back… this is… the Ruins Eye.”
He searched for Qiao Suisui’s figure but found nothing. Lanze felt a strange sense of panic, but kept repeating in his mind, “No, she wouldn’t leave, she can’t have.”
With an anxious expression, Lanze hurried into the center of Kanbukun City, intending to rent a Flying Ship back to the Auslan Empire, but on the way, he saw many people dressed in garb that wasn’t typical of the Freedom Alliance. Their attire wasn’t that of the Federation’s Beastmen, nor the local residents; they more closely resembled the Rebel Army he had heard of. Yet, the inhabitants of the Freedom Alliance around them showed no wariness, even chatting warmly with them, and the scene was harmonious.
Lanze looked at the scene with a bewildered expression, feeling he had missed some crucial clue. But the most urgent matter was to confirm that Suisui had not logged out, so he couldn’t afford to figure it out.
He first returned to the church’s backyard where he had temporarily stayed and found that the house had aged much more than when he left. A child was sweeping the yard and asked, tilting his head, “Who are you looking for?”
Lanze said, “I had notified Bishop Tia that I would be staying here for a while, and now I’ve come to collect my things, preparing to leave.”
The child responded with surprise, “Bishop Tia went on a pilgrimage three years ago. You couldn’t possibly be a fraud, could you?”
Lanze was taken aback and asked, “Three years ago?” He carefully probed the entire place with his spiritual power and indeed, there was no sign of Bishop Tia, which made him frown.
The child brandished the broom at him, “Get out! My father is a minion of the Dragon Clan, you know Sang Yan, the Alliance Hierarch, right? He often visits our house, and if you don’t leave, I won’t be nice to you!”
Lanze’s keen mind caught the information in the child’s words and, with his intelligence, an absurd hypothesis immediately surfaced in his mind.
“You are saying… Sang Yan is the Alliance Hierarch? The hierarch of where?”
“Where else, the Freedom Alliance of course.”
Lanze felt dazed and then asked, “What year is it this year?”
“It’s Star Year 763. Don’t you even know that?”
The child looked curiously at the big brother in front of him as he muttered to himself:
“763… ten years… how could this be…”
Including the time he departed and the search for the entrance to World B within Ruins Eye, only a few months had passed. How could it be ten years later when he emerged…
Could it be that the time flow in the two worlds was different?
Lanze’s thoughts were in turmoil. He steadied himself and asked, “Where is Sang Yan? I need to see him.”
…
Sun Never Sets Rainforest.
Sang Yan stood atop a mountain, placing a bouquet on a uniquely shaped rock—the rock had four characters engraved on it: “End of the Earth, Edge of the Sky.”
A Beastman dressed in rebel army attire approached and kneeled on one knee, respectfully saying, “Alliance Hierarch, everything has been prepared.”
Sang Yan turned and helped him up, saying, “I’ve told you many times, there’s no need for this. The Freedom Alliance doesn’t have these kinds of formalities.”
The man still had a respectful demeanor: “Had it not been for your selfless acceptance of us ten years ago, we might have been wiped out by the Federation. It was you who spared us from being refugees, who provided us with a place to live and allowed us to build families here. We will forever hold this in our hearts.”
Lanze had heard this conversation upon his arrival and had roughly understood the entire situation on his way here.
It turned out that not long after Lanze went to World B, in World A, news of Dante Connor’s murder spread, Anubis was captured, and the Rebel Army was completely defeated. They resisted fiercely, and the remnants fled in all directions. Soon after, Zong Yan came to power, and he relentlessly pursued them for years.
Three years later, like a madman, Leberli waged a war; Sang Yan broke with him, returned to the Freedom Alliance, organized an armed force, and over the years, climbed to the position of Alliance Hierarch, leading the entire Freedom Alliance.
It was also during this time that Sang Yan happened to rescue the fleeing Rebel Army, and after a long time, he built trust with them, eventually allowing the Freedom Alliance to accept all the remaining Rebel Army members.
Back to the present moment, Sang Yan saw Lanze standing opposite and ordered the others to step back.
“I heard you’ve been missing for a long time.”
Lanze didn’t answer but hurriedly asked, “Where is Suisui? Where is she?”
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