Few people slept that night, and when it was almost two o'clock, Jenkins was in the reception room with Miss Bevanna, talking with Miss Stillwell about the plans for a few hours later. At this time, news came from outside the city that the Son of the Mist had appeared in the suburbs of Nolan.
Miss Bevanna rushed to help, Jenkins yawned and touched the chocolate lying on his lap sleeping peacefully. I wanted to say something more, but Miss Stewell had already got up and was about to say goodbye:
"I can't stay away for too long, or they'll suspect me."
Jenkins also packed up and prepared to find a room to rest for a while, but before he left the reception room, he saw Miss Audrey and the people from the Church of Destiny hurrying over:
"Jenkins, this way~"
She beckoned Jenkins to go over, and Jenkins saw that Miss Broniance was there:
"The divination is over?"
"It was interrupted. The teacher rested for a few hours before recovering, but fortunately, it was rewarding."
The harvest of this divination has been conveyed to the Evergreen Forest. Miss Audrey and her party came to the Church of the Sages, on the one hand, to participate in the negotiations in a few hours, and on the other hand, to tell Jenkins the news.
Go back to the room just now and ask the nun to help prepare the tea. A group of people behind Miss Audrey put the documents on the table and left, leaving only Jenkins and the two fortune tellers in the room.
Jenkins originally thought that Miss Broniance would first ask about the process of the sacrifice of the believers of lies, and even personally divination the authenticity of those corpses. But she didn't ask anything, and seemed to have no interest in the death of the lie believer.
Jenkins has picked up the file and the report is very thick. He directly turned to the last part to read the conclusion. Miss Audrey said while he was reading:
"The prophecy of [When the dream wakes up, the day the bell rings] has come true, indirectly proving the reliability of this divination. Therefore, I think the other parts of the content are not low in authenticity. Even if it is interrupted halfway, this It can be regarded as a successful divination."
Miss Broniance's divination was mainly aimed at the eight-story metal tower. Based on the conclusions obtained by Miss Magic and the tower in the north, she further found that the order of the towers was disordered.
That is to say, although the characteristics of each floor can be seen from the outside, after entering the tower, the sequence of themes of the strange world encountered may not be consistent with the sequence of characteristics outside the tower.
In addition, divination also reveals some characteristics about the details of the paradox. Because the divination has not been carried out to the end, those chaotic revelations cannot be discerned. We can only say with certainty that no matter what the theme of each layer is, each layer must be related to machinery.
And more importantly, maybe those strange places are not pure strange places.
"What's the meaning?"
The document doesn't go into detail about it, and Jenkins can only ask the fortune tellers. Miss Broniance still looked a little weak, but she still answered Jenkins' question:
"Time, I discovered it halfway through the divination. There is the power of time in the tower. It should be said that I didn't even discover it through divination, but when my consciousness was trying to see through the fog, I naturally felt the terribleness behind the curtain." .”
"I never heard that the Difference Engine has the power of time... okay."
The opponent did show the power to suspend time today, and the origin of this power was the broken clock last fall.
"Jenkins, since you have joined the school, I think Audrey should have talked to you about some time-related topics. The origin of the school is a very outstanding ancient divinationist. She pointed out that divination and prophecy have a certain meaning. There is also interference with time because we are looking into the future."
Jenkins has indeed seen this point of view more than once in the notes of the fortune teller girl Ovia.
"So, when you have a deep understanding of the knowledge and power of the school's inheritance, you will find that our inheritance also involves a part of understanding of time. My understanding of that tower is that it contains the power of past time."
"I still don't understand."
"We don't understand either."
Miss Audrey said:
"So, this needs to be understood by yourself. After all, you are the savior, aren't you?"
Combining the information currently obtained from the Frozen Tower, Miss Magic, the Seer, and [A4-type Arithmetic Auxiliary External Machine], Jenkins has a very preliminary understanding of the nine-story metal tower (currently eight floors).
Each floor of the tower corresponds to a strange world, and the theme of each strange world is the ability to "reverse" the savior. The nine dungeons are connected to each other, except for the first and last, where the exit of each is the entrance of the other.
The nine treacherous realms form a larger treacherous realm, so that the ability can only be used once in the nine treacherous realms, instead of being recalculated in the next treacherous realm.
In addition to the ability to "reverse" the savior, the nine paradoxes also contain mechanical power and power from the past. This made the already dangerous situation even more difficult. And the difference engine, with a high probability, is at the end of this super-large-scale paradox, waiting for Jenkins there after he has almost exhausted all his abilities.
Therefore, unless it was a last resort, he would not consider letting himself into that tower. This is obviously a trap, a chess game set by the difference machine in order to truly become a disaster beast.
"So, as long as I don't enter there, what we have to deal with will not be the beast of disaster."
He came to this conclusion, but then asked himself:
"But now the Difference Engine has tried twice to use other methods as a means to promote the Beast of Calamity, maybe there will be a third way. And if it really uses the third way - it has been stated in the possibility that this is very likely —Promote promotion, after the promotion, use the Rebel Ritual as a method to absorb more power under the identity of the Calamity Beast, so what should I do?"
It was already past midnight, and everything that happened yesterday, whether it was the weird and huge dream, or the three announcements to the world, might make it break through its own essence, but Jenkins destroyed part of it.
"So, it was frightened by the God of Lies, so it gave up waiting for all the nine-storey towers to rise, but changed to immediately use other methods to promote, and then deal with the savior... Thinking about it this way, I caused all this of?"
The more I think about it, the more I feel that the difference machine suddenly changed its established strategy because of this reason, especially the first battle yesterday, which was the battle with the robot inside the giant brass gate on the coast. Now that I think about it, it looks like the opponent He is testing the power of the savior, so as to judge which method to use for promotion.
"On the one hand, I was frightened by the god of lies who shouldn't appear in the material world at this point in time. On the other hand, I found out that there is actually only one savior, and this person is very powerful... It won't be really frightened, right?"
He gradually affirmed his own ideas and wanted to prevent the Difference Engine from using the third method to promote himself, but he didn't even know what the other party wanted to do. The difference engine plan has been planned for thousands of years, and it will be a year since Jenkins came to this world until tomorrow Sunday. If it weren't for fate's joke, the two sides would have no value in comparison.
It was three o'clock in the morning, and Jenkins still didn't feel sleepy at all. He stood in the corridor, looking at the oil painting on the other side of the wall, not knowing what he should do at this moment. Time is running out, but he can't help, he can only wait for the other party to make a move, this is the most sad thing.
After rubbing his face, he went to the kitchen to get some supper, and ate some food with the chocolate who was "woke up" by the smell of the kitchen. Then came to the gate of Vientiane and met the secret keeper.
The secret keeper Jenkins is most familiar with is Mr. Smith, but this old gentleman has been stationed under the metal tower recently, so the female secret keeper, Granny Alia, is stationed here at the moment.
Although the Gate of Vientiane directly projected the internal space into the air, the real underground door still existed here, and it opened about 60 degrees. Just looking inwards only sees complete darkness.
"From here, you can go directly back to that side."
The Keeper introduced, and then asked Jenkins why he came here.
"I want to ask, does the church have a way for people to learn abilities directly? Dad told me that there is a way that can be paid for by blank bubbles. But this sacrifice is too great. May I ask, is there a price? In a smaller way?"
"What ability do you want to learn?"
"Blessing of books."
Jenkins isn't going to lie:
"The church has prepared many times before, but every time something happens. Now, it is even more impossible to coordinate the venue and personnel to arrange the ceremony for me in the chaos, and I don't think it will be successful... But I really need it This ability, so I wanted to ask if there is a way.”
The keeper nodded, lowered his head and thought for a while:
"What kind of sacrifice can you accept? Or the price?"
That said, I must have thought of a way, so Jenkins replied with certainty:
"First of all, I can't affect my own power, otherwise it would be meaningless to exchange power for power. I can't sacrifice my feelings, or close people, except for these... Although it sounds bad, I can sacrifice everything."
"Then there is no other way, St. William, you know the meaning of ability to the giver. If you want to gain the ability, you have to lose something. If it is easy for the giver to learn the ability that cannot be learned, then whether it is Churches and cultists, there is no need to train young people with specific talents.
The way Oliver said is actually a way with a relatively low cost. If it's [Blessing of Books]... sacrificing five bubbles should be about the same. "