After reaching the maximum level, my "soft rice system" finally arrived.

.......

"The topic of the laws of time has been a subject of considerable debate since ancient times, both within the Black Tower and among scholars across the continent..."

"Although supernatural abilities and magic that can directly or indirectly interfere with the flow of time are rare, they do indeed exist."

"Of course, in the currently verifiable records, most of the magic and superpowers that interfere with the rules of time are only at the level of accelerating oneself and slowing down the enemy."

"Moreover, due to their extremely high mana consumption, these spells and abilities can only be maintained for a very short time, and the area they can interfere with is not very large."

"The impact of the interference time is negligible on the plane and can be easily corrected."

In a secondary plane of the Black Tower, the legendary dragon-speaker His Holiness Kieran stands on a platform, calmly recounting arcane knowledge to the wizards below.

Below the podium, many wizards dressed in high-ranking robes were listening attentively.

The personal guidance from a legend, especially regarding such profound matters as the rules of time, is a rare opportunity even for high-ranking wizards like them.

This is also what distinguishes the Dark Tower from other extraordinary organizations.

Whether it's the Dawn Church, the Shadow Council, or the military and executive bureaus of the various kingdoms, they are all well-ordered organizations with clear hierarchical divisions.

Legendary powerhouses are the true leaders within their organizations, and their subordinates rarely even have the chance to meet them.

But in the Black Tower—

Whether it was the legendary mage Kieran, or the tower masters Shar and Vemes, whenever they had free time, they would lecture to the Black Tower wizards and frequently participate in arcane seminars.

Compared to the hierarchical relationships in well-ordered organizations, the relationship between high-ranking wizards in the Black Tower is more like that of students and teachers.

A teacher is one who imparts knowledge, teaches skills, and resolves doubts.

We study together and make progress together, nothing more.

.......

"but--"

"I believe that at this very moment, everyone is having the same thought as me..."

"Does some extremely powerful forbidden spell or supernatural ability exist... that can surpass the realm of merely altering the flow of time by three or four times the speed...?"

"Instead, it reverses the flow of time...changing the past, or perhaps interfering with the future?"

Kieran's story continues.

"Of course, this leads to many new problems, the most classic of which is... If you travel back in time and kill your maternal grandfather when you were young, then your grandfather would not have died and you would not have been born, nor would there have been the process of you traveling through time and killing your grandfather later... This is the so-called grandfather paradox."

"The discussion about time travel is the mainstream research direction of our Black Tower Time and Space School."

"Some believe that the grandfather paradox makes reversing time impossible..."

"Some arcanists have also proposed the hypothesis that traveling to the past only allows one to observe what happened in the past, but not to actually interfere with it..."

"And the current Black Tower chief—"

"Our Deputy Tower Master, His Majesty Charles Egut, also proposed a conjecture about the spacetime school when he was young."

"He also relied on this hypothesis to become the youngest Archmage in the history of the Black Tower."

As he spoke, Kieran couldn't help but recall the scene when his paper on spacetime appeared out of nowhere at the Arcane Council of the Black Tower.

If it weren't for Professor Sharl's identity, many people would suspect that this paper was written by a highly respected old arcanist and then published by Sharl on his behalf.

At the young age of sixteen, Shar was granted the title of Archmage by the Arcane Council, which caused a great uproar in the Black Tower at the time.

The title of Arcane Wizard has nothing to do with the wizards' strength or rank; it is solely based on their mastery of arcane magic.

Earning the title of Archmage meant that Shire, who was only at the sixth ring at the time, had already established himself at the forefront of arcane research, becoming a true guide for wizards and worthy of being compared with other legendary mages.

This is undoubtedly shocking news.

only--

Later, as Charles broke records time and time again, he eventually became the youngest legend in the Western Continent.

This small record of being the youngest Archmage is overshadowed by Sharl's countless brilliant honors, making it seem less conspicuous.

Kieran pulled himself out of his memories and continued explaining.

"The hypothesis proposed by His Majesty Charles—that is, the hypothesis of a parallel world tree."

"The core of this hypothesis is rooted in the idea of ​​a multiverse."

"That is to say, every choice that occurs in a plane will generate a corresponding possible plane in an infinite number of dimensions."

“Charles’ conjecture goes a step further than that.”

He believed that creating parallel universes would require unimaginable amounts of energy, and that the total amount of energy was finite...

"Therefore, the number of parallel worlds will not increase indefinitely with the branching of possibilities, but will be periodically filtered out under certain conditions, discarding some of the parallel worlds."

"In his hypothetical scenario... the selection criterion is the probability of a certain parallel world's future."

"If we were to judge the good and evil of parallel worlds using a subjective view of good and evil, then the development of good would be 'stable and full of possibilities, capable of developing into more divergences in the future,' while the development of evil would be 'a one-way street that, due to excessive extremism, can no longer be changed.'"

"And if we extend this conjecture further, perhaps what controls the birth and death of parallel universes is some kind of advanced life form that is beyond our comprehension—"

"The reason the universe continues to expand is precisely to create... a 'future' that no life form, no matter how advanced, can fathom."

"Therefore, those planes where all the possibilities of the future can be seen at a glance have lost their value because they have lost the possibility, and are thus eventually erased."

.......

"Cough-cough-"

"Of course, these are just some conjectures put forward by Deputy Tower Master Xia, and have not yet been truly verified."

"I'm only telling you this to give you the most basic concepts of time and space."

"The profound mysteries of space and time are something that even the Deputy Tower Master and the Tower Master have not been able to find the real answer to, so you don't need to take it too seriously."

"Then let's conclude today's arcane seminar here."

Kieran restrained his urge to tell the story and announced the end.

The wizards below, some deep in thought and others puzzled, left one after another.

The murmurs rose and fell, and even the faint sounds of arguing could be heard.

This is the norm that everyone in the Black Tower takes for granted.

Arcane inspiration and sparks often arise from repeated arguments and clashes of different viewpoints.

He stepped down from the podium and found a girl with crimson eyes quietly waiting by the wall, holding a book in her arms.

"Your Majesty Kiran..."

The girl with crimson eyes gave Kieran a standard noble salute, and then spoke hesitantly.

"I'd like to ask a question—"

"Has Charles still not shown up at the Black Tower recently?"

Kieran recognized the girl with the beautiful crimson eyes as the current True Ancestor of the Western Continent's vampire clan.

Her status was equivalent to that of a queen, yet she voluntarily chose to come to the Black Tower to study.

In terms of status alone, Aisveta, as the true progenitor of the vampires, is not inferior to him, the legendary mage.

Therefore, Zilean didn't put on any airs as a legendary mage, but simply shook his head helplessly.

“He hasn’t appeared in the Black Tower since he came to the Great Library a few months ago to borrow a few spellbooks from me.”

"Now that I think about it, he must have been in seclusion in some secondary dimension developing forbidden spells again..."

"Anyway, this isn't the first or second time he's done this."

Kieran was already used to the Shard's elusive whereabouts.

He's practically a carbon copy of his golden elf teacher...

Its main theme is a free-spirited and unrestrained love of freedom.

Although they are nominally the head and deputy head of the tower, they never take charge and leave all the responsibilities to themselves, the old man in charge of the library.

"Is that so? I understand."

The vampire girl seemed somewhat disappointed, but she still bowed to Kieran before turning and leaving with elegant steps.

This is the fourth one...

Kieran sighed inwardly.

In the past few months, more than one person has come to him to inquire about Charles's whereabouts.

Moreover, they are all people of extraordinary background—

First it was the Dawn Saintess of the Dawn Church, then the third princess of the Aran Empire...

It's said that they came all this way because Xia Er hadn't replied to their messages for a long time.

Their identities also forced Kieran to treat them with utmost care each time, lest a mishap turn into a diplomatic incident.

Even Vimers, the master of her own Black Tower, after making a rare appearance on the Western Continent, left herself with the words, "When Sharl returns, have him come to the Subspace to find me," and then went into seclusion on her own.

"This guy......"

Kieran shook his head, intending to keep his complaints to himself as usual, but then something suddenly occurred to him.