When he saw Trist, Lu Ban felt as if he was in another world.

After all, he had just heard the news of Drizzt's death. The Xuanjun who suppressed the Old Ones in the cave in Jiangcheng Mountain was his familiar old friend Drizzt. Now that the cycle of fate has been closed, it is really touching to be able to see Drizzt again.

Lu Ban sat in the carriage and the team continued to move.

He glanced at Xia, then at Stone, as if seeking their answers.

"I already know that."

Drizzt suddenly spoke at this time.

He didn't explain what he knew, but judging by his eyes and expression, that should be everything.

"When I saw Stone, I already had a premonition. After all, there is no other pipe like this."

Trist took out the briar pipe from his arms, which was exactly the same as the one in Stone's hand, even the pattern on it was exactly the same.

"So, I will be taking part in a mission to travel to the past of your world and suppress an Old One?"

He confirmed it again.

Lu Ban nodded.

"Because I saved your world, you were able to be born in that world and eventually meet me. So, when we first met, the ending was already determined and fate had already reached a closed loop, right?"

"Drizzt asked in the swaying carriage, the gloomy sunlight filtered through the gaps in the trees, shone through the carriage door into the carriage, and the raised dust showed the trajectory of the light.

"right."

Shia answered.

She knew very well that the Drizzt sitting in front of them now was the Drizzt after "The Glass Flower" and before "The Night of the Summoning". This should be a mission that Drizzt participated in during that period. After that, he would undertake the mission to the foreign land where Lu Ban was, and eventually meet his end there.

Of course, even if he told Drizzt this, he wouldn't feel it was real.

From his perspective, he just hadn't seen Lu Ban and Xia for a while. Who would have thought that to them, he was already a dead person.

“But not completely.”

Xia explained again.

"To be precise, what we have observed so far is that Lu Ban's world was preserved because of Xuan Jun's actions. You never returned to the Wasted City after a certain mission, at least not in front of Stone. If you stayed, Lu Ban would know that Xuan Jun was you."

"What did I leave behind?"

Drizzt inquired.

Stone was about to answer, but Xia stopped him.

"You don't know what you will say now, maybe there will be a turn for the better."

The mage girl said.

"Because this sentence is Lu Ban's evidence that Xuan Jun is Drizzt. If we don't reveal this sentence to you, it means that fate can be changed."

"What's the meaning?"

Trist didn't quite understand. Some of these things involved himself, and some of them involved the disordered time in the Land of Silence. It was difficult to understand for someone who had always perceived time in a one-way direction.

"Lu Ban did not personally witness the process of you becoming Xuan Jun and eventually dying. So, if we can find some way to intervene, then the fact that we knew in the past that you became Xuan Jun and died may not be true. In fact, you hid and survived, but we all thought you were dead."

Shia explained.

"Like, I first saw a piece of cake in your hand, then I turned to look outside the carriage, and when I looked back, the cake was gone, and there was a little cream at the corner of your mouth. So I concluded that you ate the cake, which is logical."

"But it might actually be like this. I was upset because you ate my cake, so I developed a magic that can travel through time and space and went back to the past. When my past self looked out the window, my future self came back and snatched the cake and ate it, and put a little cream on the corner of your mouth."

"In this way, my past has not changed, but my future self has eaten the cake."

After hearing Xia's explanation, Trist and Stone looked at each other.

Only Lu Ban spoke.

"I want cake, too."

"I want to eat, too."

Xia nodded in agreement and looked at Drizzt again.

"Do you understand?"

"But if that was really me, I should have been seen by other people when I died. How do you explain the successor or something like that?"

Trist still found it hard to understand.

"Only the Chosen Ones can understand what I just said, because they are the ones who have traveled through time and space. As for the descendants, they cannot understand time other than their own, so for them, those possibilities are nothing."

Shia explained.

“If you think of your journey as a novel, then they are the people in the book. The people in the book will never know that they are in a story. For them, only the page read by the reader is real. We are the readers, who can flip through the pages at will, or even skip some chapters, to achieve the result of reorganizing the story at will.”

"That's why I said, if Drizzt doesn't know that sentence yet, then we still have more room for recovery."

She looked at Stone, then at Lu Ban.

“Is that so…”

Drizzt fell into thought.

Telling him that he was going to die was too shocking, and Xia said these words that could save him, so he really needed time to digest it.

"However, Lao Cui's story also proves one thing, that he will definitely be able to leave the Country of Darkness through this mission, which means that our mission will definitely succeed."

Lu Ban said again, his eyes set on Trist.

"Even if you say that, I won't be happy."

Drizzt subconsciously wanted to light his pipe, but after thinking about the carriage and the lady, he put the pipe back into his pocket.

"That won't happen."

Xia spoke up, denying what Lu Ban said.

"This is the ancient Kingdom of Night, before the Gray Tower was built. I come from the Kingdom of Night in the future. The fact that I can stand here and use spells means that the building of the Gray Tower is an inevitable event and a closed loop of fate."

"Also, there is a possibility that the establishment of the Gray Tower was inevitable, but it was not necessarily built with our help."

Stone reminded.

Indeed, judging from the history that Xia could observe, the establishment of the Grey Tower was beyond doubt. Therefore, even if they failed this time and escaped by chance, there would be other people to help build the Grey Tower. The difference would only be a few years or even a dozen years at most. It was not rigorous to judge the future of the mission based on the existing history.

"No, the establishment of the Grey Tower is inevitable, and it is definitely our achievement."

Lu Ban suddenly said at this time.