Chapter 150: What Year Is It Tonight

Loga was a genuine local Mage, considered a high-class resident of this Star System, belonging to the class that mastered knowledge and power . This was the reason Lin Lei wanted to take him away.

Hidden by the Disintegration Field, the two walked deep into the forest. Lin Lei intended to find a secluded place, rarely visited by people, to properly pry some information from this first-level Mage.

This weak Mage had already been frightened senseless by Lin Lei’s cruel methods earlier. He was muddled and allowed Lin Lei to manipulate him.

It was not until they were tens of kilometers deep into the woods that Lin Lei stopped by a small forest stream. He found a flat stone and sat down.

“What’s the matter? As a Mage, can you not withstand the sight of blood? That is no surprise. If you remain this fragile, the achievements you can reach in your life will stop right here.”

Seeing Loga staring blankly without speaking, his eyes dull, Lin Lei intentionally provoked him.

Loga’s throat moved, but he made no sound. He just fixed his gaze, which had been staring into the Void, onto Lin Lei. His eyes held only awe, terror, and even a trace of fanaticism.

Lin Lei turned his head to look at the stream flowing under the starlight, with shattered silver light sparkling on it, and continued, “Tell me about your background. I didn’t kill you earlier because I considered that we are both Mages. But you acted as an accomplice to bandits. Without a reasonable explanation, punishment is unavoidable.”

Lin Lei was just fishing for information. Otherwise, given Loga’s previous behavior, what explanation would be needed? He would have simply punished him.

However, the fearsome reputation Lin Lei had established outside Moka Town had completely crushed Loga’s will to resist. Now, upon hearing the word punishment, he involuntarily thought of the horrific deaths of those bandits and could not help but shudder.

He spoke cautiously, “Sir… I… I am a member of the Free Mage Alliance. I was born humble. I became a Mage entirely through diligence and talent. My mentor was killed in a dispute between Mages several years ago. Without a guide, I could only explore and comprehend on my own to advance further, which requires a lot of money. My actions tonight were truly out of helplessness.”

“Free Mage Alliance?” Lin Lei had never heard of this name. The only Mage Alliance he knew of was the City of Saints!

Loga said fearfully, “Yes, with your powerful strength, Sir, you surely look down on it. It is normal that you haven’t heard of it.”

Actually, the scale of this Alliance was not small, and there was no lack of powerful Mages within it. But compared to the Holy Council formed by believers of Main God Phobos, the difference in power was not just a little, but like the difference between clouds and mud.

In Loga’s view, the Archmage before him should be a member of the Holy Council. And being so young, he must be someone who had devoted himself to cultivation. It was normal for his knowledge of the outside world to be somewhat limited.

He would have been better off not thinking about it. But as soon as he had the thought, his brain waves began to fluctuate. His brain automatically brought memories from the memory area to the surface of his consciousness. This gave Lin Lei the opportunity to read them silently.

Holy Council? Could this be the predecessor of the Holy City? Then this so-called Free Mage Alliance might very well be what the City of Saints looked like when it first appeared.

Lin Lei was a bit speechless. It seemed that Lenna had sent him back to a time quite long ago.

If that were the case, then Sky City, the organization for Energy Controllers of the Warrior type, probably hadn’t been organized yet. Lin Lei had been here for half a month, and he hadn’t even heard that term from the mouths of the town residents.

To truly determine what year it was, this clue could only be found on Montokas Star, the planet where Lin Lei had once fought. In this remote Tanster Star, there were no objects for comparison.

The current space-time of the Universe was generally flat and smooth. And from an extremely macroscopic perspective, it also maintained isotropy.

There would be no obvious difference in the passage of time between the Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy. However many years passed here, the Galaxy would not be much different.

In fact, throughout the Universe, except for some special places like extreme conditions within the Event Horizon of a black hole, there would generally be no obvious relativistic time differences.

Lin Lei now had a concrete impression of Montokas in his memory. Once there, he could analyze exactly how many years back in time he had gone using his current calculative instincts.

For example, changes in the stellar spectrum of Montokas and subtle changes in the orbits of the three satellites could all easily deduce the time.

“Loga, have you heard of Montokas?”

“Sir, of course. Although I am a first-level Mage, I have read many books. Montokas is not far from here; one only needs to cross three Abyss gaps. And I know the detailed teleportation coordinates for Montokas.”

“Are you sure? Or did you just read it in a book?” Believing everything in books is worse than having no books. Lin Lei would not easily try a teleportation point recorded in a book. If he teleported to an unknown star region, like the super black hole at the center of the Andromeda Galaxy, even with his current power, he would not be able to escape.

The super black hole at the center of a galaxy was not as simple as the small black hole he had utilized in the Galaxy before. When power reached a certain level, a qualitative change would occur!

Even though both were spacetime singularities, the two were completely incomparable. A river and an ocean are both collections of water. Some dare to swim in a river, but no one dares to cross an ocean with bare hands.

“I am sure. My mentor once took me to Montokas. I memorized the teleportation coordinates at that time. And after that, I linked my Will to the coordinate origin stone of the Holy Council. The Holy Council updates this coordinate every moment!”

As he spoke, he recited a complex string of numbers.

After listening, Lin Lei fell silent for a moment, then asked, “Do you know teleportation coordinates for other places? Tell me everything you know!”

He was not from this Star System and had not established a knowledge system for it. So he did not understand the coordinates Loga recited. He could only understand their true meaning through the comparison of multiple sets of data.

Loga was stunned, then recited the teleportation coordinates for Tanster and the location of the Holy Council.

Three coordinates were enough for Lin Lei to analyze. A few seconds later, he determined the origin point of this coordinate system. It was based on the Holy City and established on the swirling disk surface of the Star System. It was a very detailed coordinate system.

Its precision reached 10 meters. At the very least, it wouldn’t teleport you into the core of a planet, nor would it appear tens of thousands of meters in the air.

10 meters was the maximum precision control possible. After all, planets were not stationary. This precision was already without danger for a Mage.

To get to Montokas, Lin Lei would have to pass through two transit stations. Attempting to span the distance in one leap was impossible with his current ability.

“Very well, I will take you with me. I hope you are not lying to me.” Stranded in the Universe, as long as the situation was not extreme, Lin Lei could survive, but this Loga would surely be done for. Lin Lei trusted that he would not dare play tricks.

After saying this, without waiting for Loga’s consent, Lin Lei grabbed Loga’s shoulder with one hand and initiated the teleportation using the latest coordinates he had provided.

Every teleportation required opening Subspace and consumed all the energy Lin Lei had gathered. But with his body now freed from the shackles of Carbon-based Life, he could re-gather energy in a very short time for a new round of teleportation.

He was not like Saint Anthony in the past, who needed to rest for most of the day before re-teleporting. As a result of that rest, both his disciple and he himself lost their lives.

This terrifying endurance made Loga even more awestruck. He became even more determined in his resolve to follow Lin Lei. If such a powerful Mage became his guide, he wouldn’t have fallen so low as to scrape for money with bandits.

After three teleportations, Lin Lei stood on the surface of the Montokas Star, and less than half an hour had passed.

Upon arriving, Lin Lei began to analyze the situation of the satellites in the sky. In the world of satellites, there is a phenomenon of synchronous rotation, which is the result of tidal locking after long-term operation.

The three satellites of the Montokas Star were no exception. Basically, one side always faced Montokas, while the other side remained forever mysterious to the residents of Montokas.

This provided Lin Lei with stronger evidence regarding the passage of time. At the very least, the craters on the satellite’s surface could also provide some circumstantial evidence.

The clearest memory Lin Lei had was of the Mokasha Moon. On that night, he killed Lord Kagle, burned down Roland City, and both he and Yan Siyu were afflicted by a Curse.

At that time, he had only glanced at the bright moonlight in the sky. But now, this detail was extracted by his incredibly precise and high-speed calculative instincts and was undergoing profound analysis.

First was the size of the moon disk. The distance between a satellite and a planet cannot remain unchanged forever. Whether due to its elliptical orbit or its actual distance, moving away or closer, it was certainly always changing.

Just like Earth’s Moon, which moves away at a speed of three centimeters per year.

Coincidentally, the location Lin Lei teleported to was on the same day of the month as his assassination of Lord Kagle, and it was also night. The Mokasha Moon was hanging right above Lin Lei.

This saved Lin Lei a lot of trouble. With his eyes, which were now comparable to large-aperture astronomical telescopes, he could very precisely measure the current distance of the satellite from Montokas.

The analysis proceeded very quickly. He not only measured the distance of the Mokasha Moon from Montokas but also calculated its speed of moving away from the Montokas Star based on extremely weak gravitational perturbations, roughly one centimeter per year.

Comparing this result with his memory led to a shocking conclusion!

If Montokas had not undergone some massive upheaval, then the current Mokasha was 50 meters closer than in his memory!

In other words, time had regressed by 5000 years. Lin Lei’s first reaction was disbelief.

In 5000 years, even if an atom underwent a tiny perturbation, it would be enough to cause earth-shattering changes 5000 years later, let alone a living person like him!

Such a change could absolutely not be the price Lenna could afford to pay. Lin Lei did not need to know the principle of time regression; he could make this conclusion based solely on the last sentence spoken by the Blood-colored Abyss!

An inexplicable intuition made Lin Lei certain that a mysterious existence had intervened! And this was the second time!

The first time, he had regressed from the Ecological Sphere of Mote Planet to Earth three years prior.

The timeline Lin Lei experienced was like a spiral, drawing two mysterious and unfathomable arcs.

All these unknowns plunged Lin Lei deeply into confusion.