Hearing this, Cleveland was so scared that he immediately stopped struggling.
Xiao Chen asked: "Is it possible for him to break this barrier?"
"Unless his realm is far higher than mine, or he is particularly good at space magic. Otherwise, it is impossible." Mei Tiantian said.
Xiao Chen laughed: "Why rush? Let him stay in there and calm down. How can he attack us without paying the price?"
The bleeding on Mei Tiantian's body had been stopped by Luo Ling. She pointed her finger at the crystal, and the crystal wrapping Cleveland slowly became smaller, and finally became a palm-sized crystal, which fell into Mei Tiantian's hand.
"What's going on?" Xiao Chen asked.
Mei Tiantian took the crystal in his hand and shook it towards Xiao Chen. Xiao Chen saw that only half of Cleveland's face was left in the crystal. His eyes moved up and down, looking at this side of the crystal. "This crystal is the embodiment of a space barrier. You can think of it as a window between the space layer and this world. Whether the window gets bigger or smaller, it has no effect on the Star Cage itself, but it makes it easier for us to carry it."
After Eserit was rescued, he wanted to find the evacuation supply convoy, but Xiao Chen refused. He believed that since they had been discovered, if they continued along the original route, they might encounter other executors. Although they now had three saints, the battle between saints was still very dangerous. If possible, it would be better to proceed in secret and avoid all unnecessary battles.
So, they abandoned the convoy and set off with only two captives, Cleveland and Yolanda. As for the executors, they were left behind. Xiao Chen did not adopt Glade's suggestion to turn them into ghost warriors. He always felt that the relationship between him and the executors of the judicial agency was not necessarily a life-and-death relationship, and the conflict must be controlled to a certain extent.
After abandoning the captives and the caravan, they set off lightly and took another route to the Holy Maiden City.
Last night, they camped in a small village called Yakone. Eserit rented a two-story house from the richest villager there.
Xiao Chen and his companions finally had time to properly interrogate their prisoners.
This small village has no electricity, and of course no lighting crystals. The houses are lit by oil lamps.
Under the dim light, Yolanda sat alone on a chair in the middle of the room.
She had been fighting and traveling all day and had not eaten anything. Even as a saint she felt very tired and a little depressed.
But more importantly, the illusion Xiao Chen gave her was too real, so much so that the first thing she said when she saw Xiao Chen and his men coming into her room was: "Please tell me, is that world real? Am I a soul that traveled from that world to this world, or am I just an executor under your spell?"
Xiao Chen was surprised. He himself had never thought that the illusion world he and Luo Ling created could make a saint lost.
He asked, "What makes you unsure of your identity?"
Yolanda said, "Yes... souls. I can feel that that world is rougher than this one, and there are some unreasonable things about it. For example, I have no memories outside the city, and my memories of my childhood are always vague. But... the person I met there made me feel so vivid and real. I dare not, and I don't want to believe that they are fake."
"I did create them," Xiao said.
"Then how do you make them look different? Personality, attitude, memory, and emotions. I have such a deep impression of them. I don't believe that they are all pretended by you alone." Yolanda said, "But based on my understanding of mental magic, magic itself cannot have such power."
Xiao Chen said: "That has something to do with the path I chose to reach the Saint level. It seems that the rules for your advancement to the Saint level are the rules of perception, right?"
Yolanda didn't hide anything and said, "Yes, to make the distant and unknowable things knowable, this is my rule."
Xiao Chen suddenly realized, "So, you are best at sensing various things, and you also have the ability to influence other people's perception, right?"
"Yes."
Xiao Chen stretched out a hand, and a floating ball of light appeared on it. In the ball of light, a super-modern city could be vaguely seen, with mechas fighting, and the training hall where he and Yolanda met. However, everything in it was stagnant, just like a series of photos.
Yolanda looked at the ball of light and said, "Is this my world? What I experienced was just a dream in such a small ball of light?"
Xiao Chen nodded.
Yolanda seemed to have suffered a heavy blow, and her whole dejected look faded.
After a long while, she said, "It turns out that those people and those things were all dreams... Just ask whatever you want to ask."
Xiao Chen could sense a lack of interest in her tone, but he wasn't concerned about Yolanda's personal emotions. What he cared about was, in this world where magic was banned, why did the highest-ranking people in the judicial body all use magic
"Why do we use magic?" Yolanda thought for a moment and said, "Since you are also a magician, it should be easy to understand, right? When a person's mental power is strong enough, it is easy to contact and use the magic of this world. Just like a magic breaker like Cleveland, using mental power to break other people's magic is actually using mental power to control magic.
People like us, who already have a certain level of mental control, can quickly reach a high level once we learn magic. This is not uncommon."
Xiao Chen asked, "Are you saying that many generations of executors before you were already magicians who mastered magic?"
Yolanda was silent for a while and then said, "This is a secret that will kill many people."
Xiao Chen said: "I am not the enemy of the Tribunal. Did you see how I treated the executors I defeated? Unless there were unavoidable casualties in the battle, I let them go. I always feel that there is no life-and-death conflict between us. I guess there are many people in the Tribunal who actually want to accept magic, but you are not sure you can convince the Saint to change her original decision. That's why you acted so secretly, right?"
Seeing that the other party didn't speak, he continued: "Perhaps after we meet the Saint, we can change her mind. After all, thousands of years have passed, and many things have changed."