So heavy.
Even with the protection of "anchoring", a deep feeling of powerlessness still overwhelmed Ash's soul the moment he stepped into the Golden River.
It's not because of how fast the flow is, nor because of how heavy the water is. In fact, "anchoring" does block any external factors that affect him literally. In this state, even if Ash wades through a sea of flies and feces, he can remain untainted.
However, "anchoring" only blocks the influence of the outside world on the magician, but does not prevent the magician from receiving external information through the channel - the five senses.
When you are too weak, excessive information can be poison.
The countless echoes of the flowing golden river and the rolling waves reflecting thousands of scenes. Ash seemed to be able to hear the sighs of millions of lives as they grew old, got sick and died, and see the scenes of the long years intertwined by all living things. Just processing this overload of information almost made his soul freeze!
It is obvious that with his information receiving ability, it is impossible for him to digest so much information at the same time. Just like in math class, he can only receive and understand the most basic knowledge. As for the advanced formulas on the blackboard, he can neither understand nor remember them.
The current situation is equivalent to teachers pounding piles into the heads of poor students, forcing hundreds of GB of learning materials into their brains!
Even if Ash closed his eyes and blocked his ears, he could still feel that what was flowing through him was not just the river water, but also the life of all living things. When he moved his fingers backwards, he swept through the past of millions of people; when he splashed his feet in the river, he accidentally trampled on the glorious history of a city.
He suddenly had an epiphany: the so-called time faction does not mean that there is a force called "time", but that the flow of all living things forms time, and the essence of time is flow.
Every drop of water in the Flowing Gold River comes from reality, perhaps from people, immortal elves, mayflies that live and die in the morning, or perhaps from floating clouds, immovable rocks, and withered leaves. After understanding this, Ash found that although he was still receiving excessive information all the time, it no longer affected his thinking, and his excellent forgetting mechanism was also working, quickly throwing the new files stuffed into his brain directly into the recycling bin and completely crushing them.
As expected, the Golden River is the most terrifying natural landscape in the Continent of Time. Even if it is "anchored", it cannot completely protect the magician... When Ash couldn't help but worry about the operators, he looked up and saw that the two had already swam in front of him.
Among them, the Witch swam the fastest, followed by the Sword Lady - there was no magician who couldn't swim. In order to meet the basic requirements of crossing the Sea of Knowledge, even a magician in the desert would become a swimming expert.
Faced with the information impact of the Golden River water, it took Ash a second to update the driver, but Sword Lady and Witch adapted to the environment of the Golden River almost instantly.
Ash secretly sighed in his heart: They are worthy of being the genius magicians specially selected from "Aurora's Magician's Handbook". There is indeed a big gap between ordinary people like him and them.
But they had only crossed the basic threshold of the Golden River, and the real danger was about to come.
The duration of "anchoring" is only five seconds. The moment "anchoring" fails, the huge amount of time almost instantly overwhelms the three people!
Ash could only feel his strength rapidly declining, his vision was as blurry as if he was using a landline phone in shooting mode, his throat was breathing in pieces like a broken fan, and his thinking was as sluggish as a locked screw.
Although Ash immediately entered the "anchored" state again, he almost aged dozens of years in the brief few moments he was exposed to the Golden River!
This was understandable. After all, being close to the Liujin River would accelerate aging, and they were now swimming directly in it. The fact that they did not dissolve on the spot was already because the Liujin River was distracted and lazy.
At the same time, because of the "anchored" state, Ash could not consume soul energy to restore his aging soul, and could only continue to swim like this. Although the golden river was not wide, it seemed that he could swim across it with a single acceleration, but Ash estimated that he could only withstand two or three more washes at most. If he did not escape quickly, he would be literally swallowed up by the "wave of time".
After all, the "anchoring" of the two-color anchor only has a 20% triggering probability. Unless the triggering probability can be increased to 100%, the Golden River will still be a restricted area where no one is allowed to enter!
There were many time spirits in the Liujin River. Seeing Ash swimming in so bravely, they probably thought he was a new kind of spirit and came close to greet him. There were more than a dozen rare spirits that Ash knew, including the precious spirit "Tingri" that the witch lost in the amnesia cabin. But he really didn't even have the spare time to pick up the trash, and he struggled to swim forward.
Perhaps because this section of the Golden River was only a small tributary, Ash and the others quickly swam halfway through. When they were only one or two meters away from the shore, five seconds had passed and the anchor was released again.
Ash was ready to accept the scouring of time, but perhaps because the white bull had walked away, the speed of the golden river increased in vain. The turbulent waves splashed a few drops of golden liquid, one of which fell into Ash's ear and slid into his soul as smoothly as milk.
Even though Ash entered the "anchored" state immediately after the next breath, his ears still exploded. But this time, what he heard was not the echo of someone else's life, but the echo of his own soul!
"What an ugly child, it looks a lot like you." "No, it looks more like you, I'm not that ugly." "I just gave birth to a child, can't you give me some space? It's obviously ugly like you!" "You two, all newborn babies look this ugly!"
"Brother, why are we different sizes?" "Xiu, this is normal. When you grow up, you will...Σ(っ°Д°;)っ焯!? Wait? Why?"
"(＊/ω＼＊)Shh, Xiu, keep your voice down, this is my classmate, she came to my house to study..." "Mom! My brother brought a female classmate home!"
"What an ugly child, he looks just like your dad." "Do you have any manners? How can you scold my grandson like that? If you want to scold your brother, just be more direct!" "That's right!"
"I found an internship. If I'm lucky, I might be able to stay in this company." "Have you found a girlfriend?" "It's a mobile game company. It has a 14th salary and a year-end bonus, and also provides housing allowance..." "Have you found a girlfriend?" "Can you ask me something else?" "How much did your fund lose?" "I didn't find a girlfriend."
"I told you not to come back. Dad just sprained his back. I'm here to watch over him."/"You, don't come over here!" "What's wrong, Igula, aren't you going to fight me ten times in a row? Now you beat me once, and I beat you once, and there are still eight more times."
“Ahem, hahaha, what a pity Valcas, you almost dragged me down to be the bottom of the corpse, luckily the executioner is faster than you… luckily you are an elf hated by the people!”
"Freya, come with me, I need you."
"Veela, this race almost no longer exists in the Kingdom of Gospel... But you two are not even magicians, how did you pass through the virtual passage? Forget it, from today on, you are employees of my funeral office."
Echoes bring back memories, and memories stir up emotions!
His ears were filled with these seemingly plausible voices, and Ash's mind was almost instantly overwhelmed by the noise. His soul was forcibly trapped in the echoes of the past, and it was difficult for him to even keep himself from floating, let alone continue swimming!
Time flies, a moment is a lifetime!
Sword Girl seemed to notice that he had an accident, and she struggled back to pull him away. However, with this delay, five seconds passed in a flash, and the third flush of the golden river water almost turned them both into old corpses!
They have lost the ability to cross the Golden River.
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"Alpha Sennheiser," Denzel said, "You have a talent for armor, try to capture them."
The named Heroic Soul Commander nodded silently, armed himself with soldiers, and stepped into the Flowing Gold River area. The time power of the Flowing Gold River is also effective for Heroic Souls, but the armor reduction effect of Heroic Souls is also effective for time. For example, Commander Alpha, his stacked armor reduction limit reaches an astonishing 95%. Although the soul power consumption is huge, it can play a tactical effect of reversing the situation at a certain time.
Soon, Alpha returned to the Legion, empty-handed.
"They are not on the shore." Alfa explained: "To cross the Golden River, we need to break the time barrier, and my time faction realm is not high enough."
"Time barrier..." Denzel bit his lips lightly, feeling a sense of powerlessness in his heart.
She has already put the resources at her disposal to good use, but those magicians actually have special troops that can resist the Flowing Gold River, and they can even break the time barrier and cross the Flowing Gold River - the water of the Flowing Gold River is extremely poisonous to magicians. Only genius magicians who can understand the essence of time can use or even come into contact with the water of the Flowing Gold River. This is the so-called time barrier.
Simply put, the time barrier is a mechanism for measuring the magician's upper limit. Only when the magician has the potential to climb to the legendary realm of the time faction can he pass the time barrier.
Although it was only theoretical potential, it was incredible that all three magicians passed the test - but it was incredible enough that they could form a team to drive in the Time Continent. In comparison, the fact that they were all genius magicians was nothing.
Accident, accident, accident...
Although this was only the first time they were being hunted, there were still many more Spider Tower rounds ahead, and the three magicians would definitely stay in the Time Continent for many more rounds. But Denzel's only one-sixth soul fragment told her that the same trick would not work twice on them.
It would take something more despicable, she thought.