My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Mystics, demon hunters, tower scholars, alchemists, and other humans forced into joining the new temple by the faceless ones fight on the edge of the time-stopped space.

The faceless man's consciousness lingered on the mountaintop for a long time, checking each creature in the area one by one, repeatedly confirming that he did not see the figures of Xia Zuo and other pure-blooded mages.

If certain people don't appear at the end of time, there are only three possibilities:

The most obvious case is:

This group of people died before the end of the Faceless Ones' time arrived, possibly at the hands of the Otherworldly Demons, or perhaps as sacrifices during the ritual to open the [Land of the Sleeping Ones].

Another possibility is:

This group of people are still alive, but they did not participate in the battle between the temple and the Starry Sky Demons, or they did participate in the battle, but the battlefield was too far away from where the Faceless Man fell to be shown in the Faceless Man's End of Time.

The last scenario is extremely rare:

When someone masters the laws of spacetime, and their mastery of these laws surpasses that of the Faceless Man, the Faceless Man's spacetime container cannot deduce this person's fate, and therefore, that person will not appear in the Faceless Man's End of Time and Timeline.

Both Aksut and Crestor have mastered the laws of spacetime.

Their understanding of time and space is far inferior to that of the Faceless Men, so even if they are not in the Faceless Men's end of time, they can still be seen in the Faceless Men's timeline.

To the Faceless Man, paying attention to someone who doesn't appear in the End of Time is an extremely inefficient thing—he can only see the fate trajectory related to himself, and cannot arbitrarily view the fate trajectory of people who are not in the End of Time.

for example.

If he wanted to see what might happen to Merlindora, he would simply approach her in the End of Time, read her spacetime information, find the corresponding timeline, and then control his consciousness to fly into the spacetime portal above his head to see what Merlindora encountered in those timelines.

Although in each time tunnel, the Faceless Man can only see the time change where his fate intersects with Merlindora's, it is enough for him to roughly reconstruct Merlindora's destiny.

When a group of people do not appear at the end of time, this method of searching the timeline according to spatiotemporal information will not work.

The faceless man could only delve into his own timeline one by one, carefully searching for their figures and gathering information from the fragmented pieces of time and space.

Searching for the fate of such people would take a lot of time. It would be better to use that time on other things, such as finding ways to improve the strength of allies in the End of Time, or to improve one's own strength.

Over the years, it was only after witnessing the end of his own time that the Faceless Man conceived the idea of ​​changing his destiny.

The faceless man recorded every human being at the end of time, and using the timeline and his precognitive abilities, he broke down their psychological defenses one by one, turning them into his subordinates.

Despite his hard work and remarkable achievements, in the end times of the Faceless Man, apart from the rapid growth of his allies, his final fate remained unchanged, as if his death was predetermined.

After discovering this tragic truth, the Faceless Man turned his attention to another area:

[The place of eternal rest].

In dozens of timelines leading to the end of time, the Faceless Man discovered a common thread—he and his allies had never reached the Land of the Slumber.

The faceless man instinctively believed that as long as he could enter the [Land of the Long Sleep], he could completely change his fate.

In order to achieve this goal, he made contact with the shamanistic school.

So, a hundred years ago, during one of the last moments of light, a shaman appeared in this time-stopped space.

After that, the Faceless Man kept trying to get into the [Land of the Sleeping].

Logically speaking, given all the effort he put in, personally meeting with key members of the pure-blood mage faction and extending a sincere invitation, there should have been a new timeline related to the [Land of Eternal Rest] in the sky at the end of time.

But looking up at the sky, in those space-time tunnels radiating seven-colored light, there was still no timeline showing him successfully entering the [Land of Eternal Rest].

This inevitably left the faceless man utterly confused and bewildered.

During his conversation with the pureblood mages today, Faceless Man discovered that the female pureblood mages, including Christo, highly valued Shazor's attitude. They made it clear that they would only join Faceless Man's organization if Shazor accepted his invitation.

The Faceless Man estimated that Xia Zuo was probably the strongest among the pure-blooded mages, otherwise he wouldn't have been chosen by the arcane mage as a partner.

Shazo – a pureblood mage – the bloodline power of a pureblood mage is a key material for the ritual to open the [Land of Long Sleep] – Shazo is unwilling to contribute his bloodline power – Krestor and others, who value Shazo's attitude, will certainly refuse to offer their bloodline power after Shazo objects to contributing it.

In this chain of clues, Xia Zuo became the most crucial factor.

It could be said that his attitude directly determined whether the Faceless Man could open the [Land of the Long Sleep].

Right now, the most important thing for the Faceless Man is undoubtedly to find Xia Zuo's figure in the many timelines, to see what Xia Zuo will do in the next month, whether he will become the Faceless Man's subordinate, and if Xia Zuo refuses the Faceless Man's invitation in a month, what are the reasons behind it?

Two hours later in real time.

The faceless man dispelled the spacetime container on his body, clenched his fists tightly, and walked heavily to the wall.

"Merlindora!"

The faceless man growled coldly:

"Why didn't you tell me that Xia Zuo had mastered the laws of spacetime?"

The Faceless Man was able to discover this thanks to his understanding of the Temple Mage promotion mechanism.

Upon being promoted to a Hall Mage, each new member can purchase a grain of Sand of Time to attempt to comprehend the laws of spacetime.

At some point in the Faceless Man's past, he learned from Merlindora that Shazor had become a Temple Mage. At that time, Merlindora did not tell him that Shazor had mastered the laws of spacetime.

Within a year and a half of Xia Zuo becoming a temple mage, the Faceless Man could still see Xia Zuo's figure in the past timeline.

But just three months ago, everything changed dramatically.

The Faceless Man was astonished to discover that Xia Zuo had completely disappeared from the past timeline of three months ago to the present, as well as the future timeline from now until the end of time. The Faceless Man could not find any trace of Xia Zuo.

The answer is obvious: Xia Zuo not only successfully comprehended the laws of spacetime, but also made rapid progress three months ago, surpassing the Faceless Man in his mastery of spacetime. He jumped out of the Faceless Man's timeline and became completely immune to the Faceless Man's deductions.

Faced with the faceless man's questioning, the potted plant trembled, and two green leaves and a ring of green vines appeared on its branches, piecing together a woman's face:

"I don't know if he has mastered the laws of spacetime. My informant didn't report this to me. How did you find out?"

The fact that the spacetime container can envelop the caster has always been the Faceless Man's biggest secret.

Each time he checked the End of Time, he would surround the potted plant with alchemical instruments to ensure that no one could detect his spellcasting process. Although these alchemical instruments looked no different from ordinary ones, they were actually a powerful protective array that could both protect the alchemy room and imprison the target.

In fact, even if Merlindora discovered his act of encasing himself in a time-space container, she could not get anyone else to replicate the Faceless Man's actions.

Encasing oneself in a spacetime container is not as simple as containing and being contained; it requires something called talent to support the spellcaster in doing so.

The Faceless Man was 100% certain that Merlindora did not know how he foresaw the end of time. Since she did not know, Merlindora did not need to deliberately hide the fact that Shazo had mastered the laws of time and space. Merlindora's statement also basically cleared her of suspicion of concealing the truth.

The Faceless Man immediately dismissed his suspicions about Merlindora and listed her informant as the most suspicious person.

“You need to have a serious talk with your informant,” the faceless man said coldly. “She may be hiding the most crucial information.”

“Okay, I’ll go right away.” Merlindora nodded.

Her vine-covered face was about to disappear when the faceless man called out to her, "No, wait a moment."

"Is there anything else?" Merlindora asked, her face reforming.

“I’ll go myself,” the faceless man said, leaving no room for argument. “I have many things I want to ask her face to face. I hope you won’t stop me.”

Merlindora nodded silently in response.

Chapter 19 Selena's Entrustment

After an unpleasant conversation, Merlindora's face disappeared from the potted plant's branches.

The faceless man walked to the desk and sat down, bending his arm and resting it on the armrest of the chair. He rubbed his brow with his fingers, looking somewhat helpless.

He has always used the banner of freedom to recruit subordinates, teaching them how to condense chaotic containers and completely control the elements.

Now, he is tasting the bitter fruit of freedom.

So far, each of his subordinates is an independent and free mage. There is no strong binding force between them like the laws of the temple. His subordinates obey his commands only out of awe and commitment to the Faceless Man.

This submission to the faceless man did not extend from his subordinates to their subordinates' subordinates.

Because the faceless man only taught his direct subordinates how to condense the Chaos Vessel, but did not teach it to his subordinates' subordinates.

If a subordinate intentionally hides something from him, Faceless really doesn't have a good solution right now...

The faceless man sat on the chair for a while, then came back to the open space in the center of the room and wrapped himself in the spacetime container.

He wanted to thoroughly understand Merlindora's informants across the numerous timelines.

...

Let's go back two or three hours.

In Christo's office in the outer sanctuary teaching area.

Xia Zuo has been in deep thought with his eyes closed for twenty minutes.

The three people, Christo and Christo, sitting on the sofa behind him, remained quiet and did not disturb him.

Five minutes later, Xia Zuo let out a long sigh of relief, ending his first meeting with the faceless man and successfully using his blood magic clone to escort Janice back to the academy dormitory.

He stood up from his chair, turned to the three pure-blood mages who were staring at him expectantly, and asked with a smile:

"None of you accepted that guy's invitation, right?"

Christo and the other two shook their heads up and down together.

“No,” Letunia said. “We are waiting for your decision. Only if you accept his invitation will we have any chance of becoming his followers.”

Xia Zuo was slightly taken aback. "Why should I make the decision first?"

“Because…” Letunia opened her mouth.

"Dong dong dong."

The knocking interrupted Letunia's words.

Christo looked towards the doorway. "It's Selena, along with a few temple guards."

Christo walked toward the door, turning the handle with her silvery palm.

“Good day, Selena, is there anything I can help you with?” Christo asked.

Selena stood at the door, first nodding to everyone inside to greet them, then her gaze fell on Shazo. "The temple guards asked me to help deal with the anomaly on the circular island altar plaza. I need Shazo to lend me a hand using his blood magic puppet."

The pure-blood mage faction has a month's grace period to deal with the crisis, while the danger at the altar plaza is imminent, making the latter far more urgent than the former.

Xia Zuo exchanged a brief glance with his pure-blooded mage colleagues, picked up the image box from the desk and put it in his pocket, then walked towards the door. "No problem, I'll do my best. Lead the way."

He and Selena walked side by side in front, followed by the temple guards protecting them.

The group entered the secret chamber of the tower—the same secret chamber where Xia Zuo had stayed for three or four months when he was carrying out the mission to infiltrate the territory of the Otherworldly Church.

Besides Shazo and Selena, there were other people in the secret chamber. They were of different identities, and judging from the embroidered patterns on their robes, these people wearing various robes came from several different departments of the temple.

After careful examination, Xia Zuo discovered that these people had one thing in common: they were all quite knowledgeable about magic clones/alchemy clones, which could create clones, and alchemy.