Witch Special

Led by the head maid, Lin Zhenxi soon arrived at the door leading to the spiral staircase in the underground library. The head maid released her time-stopping ability at the door, bowed slightly to Lin Zhenxi, took two steps back, and then activated her time-stopping ability once more. In the blink of an eye, she disappeared from Lin Zhenxi's sight.

Wait, why didn't she get exempted from the head maid's time-stop ability this time?

Lin Zhenxi thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure out why, until she looked down and saw the floor beneath her feet.

The floor beneath her feet, along with the wooden door beside her, actually differed from the overall style of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. It was after the head maid had retreated from this slightly unusual floor that she used her ability.

Perhaps starting from the folding fan wooden door, this place has already been covered by Teacher Patchouli's power, and the head maid's time-stopping ability cannot invade Teacher Patchouli's territory, so Lin Zhenxi is not affected by the head maid's ability.

In other words, Patchouli also noticed that the head maid often paused time, which annoyed her, so she separated the time area of ​​the Bavaru Great Magic Library and the Scarlet Devil Mansion above her head. No matter how the head maid paused the time upstairs, it would not affect the great library below.

This was the most likely scenario Lin Zhenxi could think of. After all, she didn't think the head maid's ability to pause time was unlimited. Even she could maintain the coherence of her thoughts during a time pause, so there was no reason Patchouli couldn't do it. It wouldn't be so bad if she couldn't detect it, but if she could, being stuck in a time pause state would be quite uncomfortable. No one likes the feeling of being completely restrained and unable to move.

Then again, the Head Maid's time pause wouldn't cover the entire Courtyard of the Dead, right? She'd never felt her time pause outside the Scarlet Devil Mansion, not even when she was near the Head Maid. The feeling of time being paused only became apparent when she was right beside her.

Perhaps the head maid only paused the time around her. As long as she left a certain range, she would not be affected by the time pause.

It was just a guess anyway. This was probably the head maid's most private secret. Lin Zhenxi didn't expect the head maid to tell her, and she wouldn't even ask. But it shouldn't be illegal to just guess.

In fact, until now, Lin Zhenxi had no idea that she had actually walked back from the gates of hell. She didn't know how dangerous it was for a stranger to suddenly appear in front of Flandre, so she had no idea that she had actually saved her life.

In fact, if Flandre only had time to raise her hand, Lin Zhenxi would probably be dead.

Lin Zhenxi, who had luckily saved his life, happily pushed open the door to the underground library, and then jumped directly down the spiral staircase, enjoying a very long free fall process. When he was about to land, he cast a slow-fall spell on himself and landed lightly on the central open space at the bottom of the spiral staircase.

"This is indeed the correct way to go downstairs." Lin Zhenxi looked up at the spiral staircase that was so high that the top could not be seen, and said with complete certainty.

Then Lin Zhenxi pushed open the thick wooden door of the Bavaru Library and walked into his safest shelter in this extremely dangerous world.

Everything in the library was the same as usual. Lin Zhenxi successfully found Teacher Patchouli sitting on a chair in the rest area in the center of the library. Teacher Patchouli was not reading a book, but turned her head to look in the direction where Lin Zhenxi came from. She must have been waiting for Lin Zhenxi to come.

"Teacher." Lin Zhenxi walked to Teacher Patchouli's chair and said respectfully.

Teacher Patchouli nodded and said, "I know you want to know what happened in the Celebration World. Unfortunately, the Chaos Demon that was originally prepared for you was eliminated by someone else. The entire Celebration World was built on the foundation of the Chaos Demon I captured. With the Chaos Demon's death, the entire Celebration World naturally cannot continue to exist."

"But don't worry about what will happen if you don't complete the test I gave you. The purpose of creating that world was to let you see what a world completely corrupted by Chaos looks like. As for the Chaos Demon God's true form, it doesn't really matter if you don't see it. That's not an enemy your world will encounter at this stage."

"But teacher, my world has been targeted by the demon, right? Sooner or later we will have to face the demon." Lin Zhenxi was actually quite depressed. Teacher Patchouli took great pains to capture a Chaos Demon for her. It was originally prepared for her, but in the end it was killed by someone else, making her miss the chance to face the demon. It was a pity.

However, Teacher Patchouli shook her head and said, "You're certainly right, but perhaps it's a good thing you didn't see the demon. Demons are masters of playing with minds. If you were to face the demon's true appearance beforehand, it might leave a deep impression on you, and this would become a coordinate for it to locate your world. Then it would seem that you had led the demon into your world, which would have a bad impact on you."

Lin Zhenxi felt a little dazed at the thought of becoming the demon's guide. But then she thought, this doesn't make sense. Hasn't the demon been sent away? How could he still find her world?

She asked the question in her mind, and casually mentioned the name of the demon god, the Eye of Deep Chaos, and the fact that this demon god was sealed by Teacher Patchouli in the sun of the celebration world of the difficulty of the Moon Watching Level.

However, when Teacher Patchouli heard that Lin Zhenxi actually knew all this, she seemed a little surprised.

Especially when Lin Zhenxi told Teacher Patchouli that after entering the string world, she saw an extremely desolate world and the real body of the demon god floating in the sky, her breathing became a little disordered.

After Lin Zhenxi finished sharing her experience, Patchouli floated up from her chair, stood in mid-air, looked at Lin Zhenxi, and said, "Zhixi, it seems that your innate element has given you the ability to see through all illusions, but you must use this ability with caution, because sometimes, facing the truth of the world can be very costly, especially when you cannot transcend it."

"Now that you have come face to face with the true face of the demon god, what kind of impression has it left on you?"

Lin Zhenxi recalled her experience in the celebration world, and after carefully considering her words, she answered Patchouli's question in a somewhat uncertain tone.

"A big, hairy eyeball that looks awful?"

"Pfft..." Teacher Patchouli couldn't help but laugh at Lin Zhenxi's words. After laughing, she said in a relaxed tone, "Very good, it seems that the world derived from your innate element helped you resist the spiritual pollution of the demon god. You are right, the demon god I captured is indeed an eye demon."

"Through the filtration of your 'string world,' you might be immune to the demon's most subtle and dangerous mental pollution abilities. This will give you a significant advantage when facing this type of enemy, because oftentimes, they don't possess any remarkable qualities beyond their own filth. If you can peel away their filth, you'll find they're nothing more than squirming pieces of rotten flesh."

After listening to Teacher Patchouli's advice, Lin Zhenxi nodded. She now found that her innate elements were indeed useful. After all, she could also move through the string world. Although it was a bit slow, it completely eliminated the influence of various energies, even the mental pollution when facing the devil. It was safer.

The topic of the string world cannot be fully discussed in a short time, so let's put it aside for now. Lin Zhenxi brought the topic back to the unlucky demon who was stabbed by a passerby who didn't know the truth.

"Teacher, you said that if I saw the true form of the demon god, I would lead the demon god to my world. But didn't you capture that demon god? Could it be that it's not its true form?"

"Maki, now that you know the name of that demon god, what do you think the Deep Chaos is?"

Teacher Patchouli still likes to use rhetorical questions to guide Lin Zhenxi's thinking.

"Hmm...the Chaos God's settlement. What kind of Chaos products come from that place?"

"You're only half right. Chaos does exist in the form of settlements, but the hotbed of chaos is often also the source of chaos, or even chaos itself. Whether it's a demon or a devil, they are actually just manifestations of chaos in the outside world. You can think of all chaos of the same type as a vast whole, with each individual being an insignificant part of this whole."

"Now you should understand, right? The demon I captured is called the 'Eye of Deep Chaos,' but that's just its name. It doesn't mean there aren't other 'Eyes of Deep Chaos' besides this one. Aside from the source of chaos, other products of chaos haven't reached the level of uniqueness."

"And when you leave an impression of the 'Eye of Deep Chaos' in your heart, all 'Eyes of Deep Chaos', and even all of 'Deep Chaos', will be connected to you and can be traced back to your world through you. This is extremely dangerous for your world."

"But don't worry too much. Although Chaos is a lifelike concept inclined towards chaos, its strength is far inferior to the Void, which tends towards destruction. If you sense that you have been contaminated by Chaos, or even just have doubts, you can first come to the Garden of Departure and slowly cleanse your mind."

"After all, Chaos wouldn't dare to come near the Courtyard of the Dead. We are more dangerous than they are."