Chapter 300: Chapter 300: Eternal Yesterday

The clock tower hung upside down in the sky, pulled by twelve iron chains—truly bizarre.

But placed in this city, it seemed pretty ordinary.

Directly below the clock tower was a huge plaza. On the plaza, you could see a statue and lots of tulip sculptures. Pedestrians were everywhere—and every single one was a supernatural being.

Magicians, knights, rogues too. Except for clerics, pretty much every supernatural profession was there.

Looking across the entire continent, you probably couldn’t find another country, another city like this.

Even the City of Alchemy formed by alchemists, or the city-states built by stargazers, couldn’t pull this off.

In those city-states, some ordinary people would show up, some merchants and such, helping supernatural beings obtain necessary supplies and services.

But here, there truly wasn’t a single ordinary person. Everyone was supernatural.

Just this alone was shocking enough.

Even weirder were the city’s buildings.

Looking at everything, Ren just felt absurd, bizarre, twisted, unreal—like Newton’s coffin lid was about to blow off...

Every building had an odd shape, reminding him of an animated show he’d watched in his past life.

Irregular buildings, violating physics principles everywhere.

Violating physics could be explained—using magic or other supernatural powers to cancel it out.

But many buildings just looked unsuitable for human habitation. Too twisted, too tilted. It couldn’t just be a visual error, right?

"Lady Dream really is interesting!"

Watching all this, even the Goddess of Magic exclaimed. Then she focused her attention on the crack in the sky.

It was a massive crack, like looking at a strait from the seafloor—like a giant rift valley appearing in the sky.

Just one look, and you felt this crack could corrode everything.

The light portal Lady Dream opened was this.

Through this crack, you could reach the corresponding coordinates on another planet.

Before today, he’d never imagined the distance between himself and another civilization was so close.

But he still didn’t understand—based on the information they’d gotten from outside, the signal from the opposite planet came from an extremely distant region. Why did they only need to condense such a crack in the sky above the Tulip Kingdom to connect?

"What do we do now? Explore this weird city? Or directly find the strongest fighters, make them compromise, and ask about the situation here?"

The Goddess of Magic looked around, focusing her gaze on a strange building.

Looking from the ground, this building was like a pillar carved with various totems, no different from any other. Near this pillar, there was even a stone tablet with three words: "Heaven-Reaching Pillar."

But looking down from the sky, you’d discover this building was like a mushroom-shaped existence.

At the very top of this sky-high pillar was a huge platform. On the platform, nearly thirty legendary-level characters were stationed—it seemed all the legendaries stationed in this city were on this building, except for one person gambling.

Perhaps precisely because of this, this building was where magic power was most concentrated on the entire island.

"Let’s wander around first and see the Tulip Kingdom’s true face."

After thinking, Ren made a decision.

Seeing is believing, hearing is deceiving.

First confirm what state this city was in, how much of that other world’s source energy there was, what other people’s living conditions were like, whether there were beings who only cultivated the other world’s source energy, whether these people were still from this planet or from another...

Only by confirming all these questions could they judge whether this kingdom built between illusion and reality should exist, and in what form it should exist.

The moment they stepped into this city, they could clearly feel everything around them seemed to change.

The original eerie feeling of "stay away from strangers" receded like the tide.

As if they were very familiar with this place.

They even felt those bizarre-looking buildings became harmonious, like...

After brief thought, Ren thought of a word.

Dreaming.

The instant they entered this region, their subconscious seemed to produce a feeling, as if they were dreaming.

Even the weirdest-looking things became very reasonable in this moment.

"My perception of this place seems to have changed somewhat."

Ren murmured, suddenly concentrating his attention. The strange thoughts that had just appeared directly vanished.

"If I’m not sensing wrong, the thing affecting our perception comes from there."

The Goddess of Magic pointed at the clock tower in the sky.

"Yes."

Ren didn’t argue. "My Spirit Realm authority really wants that thing... It seems that as long as I get it, I can control this entire region."

"No, to be precise, that clock tower is the core of this region. Lady Dream seems to have fused part of her authority into this clock tower, refining it into a divine artifact... Its function is that within the range where the sound can spread, everything gets reset."

"Reset?"

"Right, reset. Today’s time moves forward, just like the normal world, passing the day very ordinarily. But tomorrow this clock tower will move backward, making everyone who can hear the sound return their bodies to yesterday’s state. Repeating endlessly—they don’t actually have infinite lifespans. Instead, they relive that one day every day."

To subdue this divine artifact might require some effort, but if just sensing it, Ren, who possessed abilities from the same authority, could very easily understand everything.

Forever stuck on one day, repeating endlessly...

The Goddess of Magic was shocked. What kind of power was this? Time? Causality?

Actually, Ren was equally shocked.

He’d never imagined the Spirit Realm could be used like this.

Couldn’t this also mean that if he fought with a god now and was about to get killed, he could directly use this move to restore his body to peak condition?

Or if a war had ended with countless dead, and he mastered this move, could he revive all these people?

After all, it could restore things to how they were one day ago.

Under the influence of divergent thinking, Ren became increasingly curious about Lady Dream, whom he’d never met and who might already be dead.

How much energy had she put into this "Spirit Realm" to develop so many weird usage methods?

"Really interesting!" The Goddess of Magic pondered whether she could also use authority to do similar things.

But soon, she withdrew her attention. If there was time in the future, she’d study it. Right now, the most important thing was figuring out what was really going on here.