"Clatter, clatter, clatter."

The rain kept falling and the wind kept blowing in the Howling Wilderness, but there was no sign of lightning.

It was another pitch-dark night.

After leaving the tent, Rosen first took out the magic weapon "Hercules" and cast a spell "Heavy as a Ten Thousand Pounds" on the pressure stones around the tent.

In this way, a stone that appears to weigh only a dozen kilograms will actually have a mass of more than two hundred tons.

Then, he cast a 5th-level toughening spell on the fur of the tent, temporarily increasing the strength of the half-centimeter-thick old cowhide to a level comparable to that of high-strength steel plates.

So, this small tent suddenly became an inconspicuous but very sturdy temporary fortress.

After ensuring Tiralilin's safety, Rosen cast another ordinary Dark Insight on himself.

Under the effect of the spell, his eyes lit up slightly and a dim and pale world appeared, similar to the night vision mode of electronic surveillance.

Following that, he cast various combat-assisting spells of the same 5th-level power. After making sure everything was ready, he patrolled the temporary camp built on the high ground as quietly as a cat.

The wind and rain were so strong that everyone in the camp stayed in their tents, and not a single person could be seen outside.

No one was worried about being attacked in such horrible weather, so the camp's alert level was very low. The soldiers on night watch were all relaxed and many of them were dozing off.

After a round of searching, nothing unusual was found in the camp.

The patrol area was continuously expanded.

One circle, two circles, three circles, when the range expanded to 300 meters, Rosen finally found something wrong.

Behind the weeds that were half a person's height, he saw a number of vague human figures.

The figure was very tall, about two meters tall, very strong, humanoid but not human, humanoid, with animal ears, a face similar to that of a gorilla, and thick hair, in the form of an orc in the folklore of the demiplane.

There were quite a few of them, estimated to be more than 40, and they were staring at the camp on the high ground with a covetous eye.

The orcs were just that, and although they were very strong, Rosen didn't take them seriously at all.

What really made him feel incomprehensible was that although these orcs showed great hostility towards the camp, there was no response at all to his and Tilalilin's premonition of time crisis.

Even now, Rosen has discovered the attacker, but the time crisis sensor has not been triggered, as if these orcs in front of him are just illusions and do not exist in this space and time.

"Could it be that someone secretly cast a spell similar to "Undercurrent"? "

"That's not right. If you really have such a great ability, why would you attack secretly? Wouldn't it be better to just crush them directly?"

If you can’t figure it out, keep investigating.

There were only 40 orcs in total, and their perception ability was not very good, so they had not noticed Rosen's existence.

After a while, Rosen successfully got behind the orc attacker and began to search for possible time masters.

When searching, he will mobilize all of Lai Fu's computing power. Once he finds an opponent, he will launch the most powerful attack without hesitation or mercy.

But after searching for a long time, nothing was found.

He once suspected that it was Antoine's elemental projection Gao Miller who came in person, so he did not plan to discover the other party first, but instead planned to defend and counterattack.

"What's going on?"

If there was a strong man behind the orcs, judging by the means they displayed, he would have probably discovered me by now and taken action against me, but the other party has not taken any action yet.

This is most likely not because of the other party's mercy, but because such a strong person simply does not exist.

'But why can't the time spell sense these orcs?'

Rosen stood about fifty or sixty meters behind the orc, concentrated his mind, and began to observe the illusion of time on the orc.

After taking a few glances, he was immediately surprised: "Huh~ There is no time illusion?"

Time magic is a power against the most basic existence of "time and space". Logically speaking, as long as a creature exists in time and space, it must have overlapping time illusions on its body, showing its past and future.

But there was nothing on the orc in front of him, only nothingness.

"They are breathing every moment, and they have obvious heartbeats, which means they are all alive and interacting with this space-time all the time. The time illusion must exist. But why can't I see it?"

After thinking about it, he came up with two possibilities.

Either his talent for time is not strong enough, and these orcs have some ability to hide illusions. In other words, his level of cultivation is not high enough.

Or there is a principle of time magic that he is not yet clear about, and it is this principle that causes the current abnormality.

I don’t know the specific situation yet, and I have to study it carefully to find out.

The research target is naturally the group of orcs in front of us.

These orcs looked stupid, but their strength was still unclear. To avoid any accidents, Rosen quietly retreated more than a hundred meters, then picked up a stone and threw it at an orc using the throwing technique.

"Puff~~"

The stone hit the orc's back with neither a light nor a heavy force.

The orc turned his head and seemed to look around, then scratched his back hard, and then nothing happened.

Despite such an obvious abnormal situation, he acted as if nothing had happened.

Looks like a stupid idiot with a bad brain.

'Then I'll be ruthless. "

Rosen quietly sneaked to a distance of about 50 meters from the enemy, aimed at the place where the orcs were most concentrated, and with a thought, he cast a newly developed elemental spell "Blade of Annihilation".

"Buzz~~~"

A sound so faint that it was easily covered up by the sound of wind and rain.

An almost invisible fan-shaped ripple cut through the dense group of orcs in front at high speed, and in the blink of an eye it had cut through the chests of nearly thirty orcs.

"Puff, puff, puff~~~"

There were 43 orcs in total, and the upper and lower bodies of 33 orcs were suddenly separated. The upper body above the chest fell directly from the lower body. Blood spurted into the sky, but was quickly diluted and washed away by the storm.

The remaining orcs were suddenly shocked by the terrible attack.

They stood up and looked around, looking for hidden enemies.

But Rosen didn't give his opponent a chance to react.

"Buzz~~Buzz~~~"

He quickly changed his location and used two annihilation blades in succession, once every half a second, killing another eight orcs.

Almost in the blink of an eye, only two orcs were left alive.

To be more precise, the two orcs were intact.

Because Rosen discovered that although those orcs who were separated from each other were in great pain and on the verge of death, they had not yet died. The souls in their heads had actually remained condensed.

Rosen was secretly surprised: "Are these orcs so strong?"

The remaining two orcs were so frightened that they just stood there in a daze, not moving a muscle.

Rosen walked slowly to the two orcs and asked, "Can you understand human language?"

The two orcs woke up in shock, fell to their knees with a plop, and spoke gibberish to Rosen.

It was a strange language and I couldn't understand what it meant, but judging from the tone, it seemed like a plea for mercy.

Judging from the pronunciation, it should be a variant of the common language of the Ao Shuang Kingdom.

With Lai Fu's help, Rosen quickly mastered the orc language.

He asked, “Where are you from?”

"Dark wilderness."

Rosen had never heard of this place name in the Aoshuang Kingdom, so he asked, "Which kingdom is it in? Cologne or Linde?"

The two orcs shook their heads.

Another orc with big buck teeth said, "The ground of our hometown suddenly cracked open, and a big hole appeared. We fell in, and kept falling until we came to a new world."

The white-haired orc continued, "The new world is terrible. They wanted to capture us all, so we ran away. We kept running away. Many of our tribesmen died, but we were lucky enough to find a cave. We crawled through the cave and arrived here."

Big Teeth continued, "This world is also terrible, but it's better than the previous world."

The white-haired orc immediately added: "We really want to return to our hometown, but we can't go back no matter what we do."

"In fact, our hometown is not that good either. Those hairless people are very hateful. They keep us in captivity like wild animals and don't let us run around."

The two orcs talked to each other, just like a crosstalk, and gradually outlined the outline of the incident.

Rosen was skeptical: "Where did you learn what you are saying now?"

Big Teeth said, "I learned it from the adventurers in the wilderness. We have been in this world for many years."

Baimao said: "We can live for a very long time. I have already lived for more than 300 years."

Rosen asked again: "How did you originally plan to deal with the camp ahead?"

Big Teeth swallowed his saliva and said tremblingly, "I don't dare~I don't dare to deal with it."

"Hurry up and tell me!"

Fear and helplessness were clearly visible on Big Tooth's rough face. He stammered, "We don't want to kill all of you. We just want to rob a group of you and eat them as food."

White Hair continued, "We have no choice but to do this. Human flesh is not tasty at all. But we are very short of food now. If we run out of food, we will starve to death."

"We won't let them suffer either. We don't have the hobby of torturing people. We will just stone them to death."

As soon as Rosen heard these words, he knew there were many lies, because these orcs were tall and strong, and did not look hungry at all.

But that has nothing to do with him.

He asked again: "You just said that you crawled through a cave and got here. Have you ever thought about crawling back?"

The orc shook his head repeatedly: "I can't climb back. If I climb back, the situation will be completely different. It's very strange."

The other orc also nodded repeatedly.

"Yes, yes, it's very strange. Orcs keep crawling out from inside, but they can't crawl back in."

"Everyone also said that we fell from one hell into another, and have been wandering around in hell. We don't know what kind of misfortune has befallen us."

Rosen smiled faintly, then his face became serious: "Lie down!"

"What?"

"Everyone lie down on the ground! Don't move!"

The two orcs immediately did as they were told.

Rosen walked over, first set up a barrier to block the wind and rain, and then began to carefully observe its soul structure.

Why observe the soul?

Because the illusion of time is located by the soul, he cannot see the orc's illusion of time, so the problem is most likely with his soul.

It was soon discovered that the soul structure of these two orcs was completely different from that of the humans in this solar star realm. Starting from the most basic structure, they were completely different. Not only was there no similarity at present, there was no similarity at all in the biological evolution path.

What's even more strange is that his soul and the thread of time did not react at all.

Rosen was secretly surprised: "It seems that the homeland of these orcs is probably not a certain plane of this solar star world, but another solar star world."

Where is this solar star realm?

Whether it is in the same universe as them, or somewhere else, no one knows.

While studying its soul structure, Rosen said, "What is your hometown like? Describe it to me in detail."

The two orcs immediately rushed to speak, fearing that if they spoke slowly they would be torn into pieces by Rosen.

"There are two suns, one blue and one yellow."

"There are four moons and countless stars. The sky is very lively."

"There is magic, but it is very difficult and we can't learn it."

Rosen immediately asked, "What does it look like?"

"It's the magic that can make people fly in the sky."

"It can also lift the city into the sky!"

"I can create a moon in the sky!"

"You can even tie the moons in the sky together with ropes!"

"Those hairless people are so powerful, much more powerful than us hairy people."

Rosen asked again: "Have those hairless people also come to this world?"

"I don't know. They should be here too. They look pretty much like you. I can't tell the difference anyway."

After Rosen observed the soul structure of one orc, he continued to observe the soul of another orc.

Common ground was soon discovered.

'There seems to be a sophisticated space-time structure in the soul, which is probably why time spells are ineffective against it.'

This structure is at the subatomic level, very, very subtle, and extremely difficult to perceive. Even with Rosen's time talent and 13-ring soul strength, he can only vaguely feel its existence, but is unable to explore its specific fine structure.

He then checked the souls of the remaining 41 orcs, which had remained condensed, and found similar space-time structures.

During the examination, he also found that although these orcs were split in half from the chest and even their hearts were cut open, making them too weak to move, the vitality of their body cells was still very strong, and it felt like they could come back to life as long as their bodies were put back together.

He tried it immediately.

As a result, as soon as he connected the body, the broken wound began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye. At this rate, it would take at most three hours to heal.

During the healing process, Rosen did not feel any interference from ordinary magical powers, but only vaguely sensed a very obscure and subtle fluctuation in space and time.

'What is this? A space-time life spell?'

In any case, this situation far exceeded Rosen's current understanding of time and space magic, making him feel the breath of a higher-dimensional power.

He came to a conclusion.

"It seems that the Eternal Empire's ultra-high energy space-time experiment may have opened a passage to the distant Solar Star Realm."

"The mainstream race in the opposite Sun Star Realm also possesses extremely powerful strength, even more powerful than the Eternal Empire, so the Eternal Empire was invaded."

"Since these orcs can come, then the mainstream races can definitely come as well. The number of people coming is likely to be greater and stronger."

While speculating, Rosen carefully recorded the special space-time structure he perceived into Laifu's database.

'The space-time power of the current solar star realm has an extremely weak effect on the souls of another solar star realm, and can almost be ignored.'

"That is to say, in this demiplane, or even in the abyss, there are likely to be a large number of time-nothing souls from another world."

Thinking of this, Rosen asked again: "Which cave did you come out of?"

"I'll lead the way~"

"I'll do it, I'll do it. I remember the route better than you do!"

The two orcs started talking again.

Rosen immediately said, "Let's lead the way together."

He had originally planned to go alone, but considering that his knowledge and experience in time and space magic was far inferior to that of Tiralilin, he returned to the tent and took the latter with him.

(End of this chapter)