"Why do you always have to find her first?"

I quietly asked Adrian as I approached him. I understand that we came to this house in advance to prepare for the "Judgment of Light", but I find it rather curious that he always chooses the same person to help.

"Because Judith is easier to talk to, she likes to look at things from a rational perspective. I just need to use the excuse of foresight to get her to temporarily believe me."

Adrian did not hide it and whispered back close to me.

"And the two Star Glory knights are more troublesome. Probably due to their profession, they are easily suspicious of strangers, so it's hard for them to be willing to follow my words!"

It seems that even though Ron and Mike entered the cave just a few hours earlier than me, they have already looped through this place quite a few times.

"Then what about Vivianne? Vivianne is so familiar with us, why don't you get her to help?"

I'm still a bit puzzled. If Adrian was there, perhaps Vivianne wouldn't have disappeared without a trace until now.

"Because she's even more troublesome!"

Mentioning Vivianne, Adrian's face couldn't help but reveal a helpless expression.

"Remember a few months ago, we did a mission together. We encountered a very troublesome light mage, who was skilled in illusion and had a bit of knowledge about reading memory. Vivianne suffered a major setback at the hands of that person, being tricked around. Since then, whenever she encounters such unreasonable situations, she will become rather neurotic and not dare to trust easily. I've had to fight with her a few times, wasting a lot of time in vain."

"No wonder she would react that way..."

I nodded in understanding. Suddenly I realized that it was not easy to establish trust with Vivianne from the very beginning, and it's a pity that it has deteriorated after the reset.

"If we really have traveled ten thousand years into the past, how can we go back? By returning the same way?"

Since Judith thinks time travel is the most likely scenario, Mike suddenly became anxious. Their duty is to protect the Pope and solve problems for him, but they have unexpectedly ended up in this place, so naturally the first thing on their mind is how to get back.

"We can't go back!"

Hearing this, I sighed and couldn't help but speak up.

"That exit is probably gone, we'll just be wasting our time, it's better to think of other ways."

"Why are you so sure? The exit of the cave is not far from the village, we can just go try it out, right?"

Of course, Ron didn't understand, this tune was almost the same as mine before, and I suddenly felt a bit ironic.

"Because I've tried it myself once!"

Under Adrian's slightly surprised gaze, I unreservedly recounted the experience of having died once and then being revived. As expected, the expressions on the two of them were as if they were listening to a fantasy story.

"Time reset? And the rest of us don't have memories other than you and Adrian?"

Pushing up her glasses with two fingers, Judith's gaze held a hint of excitement.

"Hehe, interesting! If it's true, that must mean it's inseparable from..."

"Feliciana's words are indeed true, and I can prove it! And it's not just reset once!"

However, Adrian suddenly interrupted her.

"If you want to say it's 'inseparable from the influence of wind elements', I'm sorry, I already know that. But that's the limit, if you have any other guesses, feel free to share them."

"Of course I have other guesses, I just need to further confirm them..."

Judith answered a bit embarrassedly, with a meaningful glance at him.

"So is this the truth behind your foresight ability? It seems you've already told me these things before, then what about Battle qi? Have you really awakened it?"

"What do you think?"

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Adrian didn't give a direct answer, but the answer was already self-evident.

"What should we do now? If the original path back is not viable, is there any other way we can return?"

Mike asked solemnly. They have seen my strange attitude towards those four-winged Apostles, and with Adrian's support, they have more or less half-believed it.

"Wait, if there really is a time loop, then what about Beluto? Judith just said we might have traveled ten thousand years into the past, right?"

Although he didn't think I was talking nonsense, Ron still discovered a very important issue.

I'm also puzzled, time loop and time travel should have a certain contradiction, but we just happened to encounter both. It can't be that everyone just happened to be in a loop segment of a time travel, right? That's just too far-fetched!

"Judith's two guesses are both reasonable, but I'm actually more inclined towards her second inference."

Adrian looked at me, hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to continue.

"This is also what I want to tell everyone next - the world we are seeing now may not be what you think it is!"

...

Time passed quickly, and when the "Cloud Palace" appeared again, we had already left the village far behind and were heading in the opposite direction.

"The palace really appeared, it seems you were right!"

Although he had already learned this from us, seeing the distant mountain peak, Ron still had an expression of surprise on his face.

"Hehe! This speed of construction is impossible to achieve with just magic and magic formations alone, I think it must be relying on the light element control power of the Light God Beluto."

Judith gently pushed up her glasses, and since she was only a third-rank, she couldn't keep up with the others' speed, but luckily Mike's strength was great, and he had no problem carrying her on his back as they ran.

"This is not the time to be amazed, those Apostles may still catch up, we must quicken our pace!"

Adrian urged without looking back. In fact, the running speed of everyone is already quite fast, even slightly exceeding my usual flying limit. This is mainly thanks to the effect of Adrian's Battle qi.

That's right! Although the foresight ability is just a pretense, Adrian truly possesses Battle qi, he just has a rather special way of applying it, with a lot of variety. And the acceleration effect is one of its functions.

To be honest, it's really quite peculiar! If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I couldn't have imagined that Adrian's Battle qi ability would be manifested in this way.

If I had to describe it, it's just a bit similar to "incantation".

Probably because he didn't receive systematic Battle qi guidance, Adrian hadn't even had time to develop his own ability when he just awakened Battle qi and entered the cave. Later, through repeated time loops and Judith's suggestions, he gradually explored a set of Battle qi application methods of his own.

That is, attaching individual word to the arrows, giving them literal additional effects. The most typical example is the arrow that defeated the Apostle and blew me up before.

By common sense, even if a general fire-type explosive magic explodes from the body of an angel, the damage effect would be far from so exaggerated. Because light elements will greatly reduce the energy generated by the explosion. But the arrows enhanced with Battle qi are completely different, with power much higher than ordinary six-element magic, able to achieve this.

And the word Adrian attached to the arrow was naturally "explode". As for why this kind of magical effect would be produced, Judith did give a certain degree of explanation.

"Battle qi is not one of the six elements, but is closely related to the six elements. Perhaps Adrian can convert it into a specific attribute through his own imagination of words, to achieve a specific effect. For example, the word 'explode' can convert Battle qi into a fire attribute, but its essence is not just simple fire element, so the explosive power it produces can be strong enough to be immune even to light elements."

In other words, the "speed" word that is currently increasing our running ability is converting Battle qi into a wind attribute.

What a convenient ability...

I can't help but start to envy it a little, fortunately Adrian can only attach one word to the arrows, if it was a long sentence, what kind of invincible effect would it produce? Basically no one could keep up with him!

However, Judith doesn't think such a situation will occur, after all, Battle qi is essentially a form of energy, no matter how much it is converted through words, it cannot exceed the application range of energy.

In any case, the fact that our team now has two Battle qi powerhouses is undeniable, and the plan we are about to carry out will naturally become much easier!

On the way, we passed through a small town, and although most of the buildings there had already collapsed, we could still see some local residents standing dumbfounded in the rubble, their light pollution clearly more severe than the villagers.

What a terrifying and hopeless world is this? As we rushed past them, all of us couldn't help but let out a heavy sigh.

"Have we shaken them off yet?"

After running for a while, until we could no longer see the mountain peak supporting the palace, we finally stopped. Mike frowned and asked Adrian.

"Are you sure we should keep going?"

"It's impossible to completely shake them off, we've only temporarily escaped Beluto's attention for now, being discovered is just a matter of time! Unless we didn't let him know about our existence from the very beginning..."

Adrian shook his head, his gaze looking towards the vast horizon in front of us, where there were only endless mountain ranges.

"If I remember correctly, it should take about one or two more hours to get to that place, and then the real challenge will begin."