145 The World is a Cheese Part 2 (1/2)

The attack lasted for more than half an hour before the magic beasts along the river bank went away. Saleen felt that he had been too nervous. He was able to manipulate the water shield into going down even deeper, and yet he had chosen to wait patiently here.

Floating up, they made sure the coast was clear and that there was no danger waiting to ambush them before they climbed ashore.

Lex released a Cleaning spell to clear the puke off of her and Saleen’s bodies before feeling slightly better.

”Saleen!”

”Yes?”

”Do not breathe a word about today.” Lex rarely spoke this harshly to Saleen.

”If we can get out of here, I promise I won’t.” Saleen’s words were depressing. Get out? She did not even know where they were. Like Saleen, her brain was filled with an enormous amount of information, but it had not been completely internalized and when she needed it, it did not instantly come to her.

However, Lex knew that not even a god could create a perfect world inside of a pillar.

Saleen crouched down and grabbed a handful of dirt. There was enough moisture inside of it that he could use his icy sight to analyze it carefully. Even though he could not see beyond this world, Saleen knew that within this dirt, the six types of elements were coexisting.

Lex crouched down as well and plucked a small piece of grass. Removing a hairpin from her head, she used its sharp end to cut lines within the blade of grass.

The veins within the grass could be seen clearly. It was real.

The skies began to turn dark. Saleen pointed towards the horizon and said, ”Lex, look.”

The mountain rage in the distance had white clouds swirling above it and the greenery there was lush. Having stayed in god’s hell for so long, this felt like the heaven described by disciples of faith. At the peak of the mountain, the sun was slowly setting, and its golden-red light spread out and gleamed on the water’s surface. Along the river bank, a white fish leapt up and splashed back into the water. The wind blew, bringing with it some vapor and a hint of coolness.

If this was an illusion, it was too real.

”I have no idea where this place is.” Lex shrugged her shoulders slightly, feeling helpless for the first time. If this was an illusion, even if she took the risk of completely destroying her god’s ring, they would not be able to leave this place.

”Let’s think carefully. You can set some magic arrays so that we won’t be ambushed by any magic beasts.” Saleen knew that waiting was fruitless, and he had too much information in his head. He needed to look through it carefully, and perhaps they might find a lead.

”Yes, go think.” Lex took out two metal discs from the god’s ring and set up a space of darkness. She took out the war puppets again to patrol their surroundings. Once everything was set up, she began to rummage through her memories for anything related to realistic fantasies.

The air seemed to grow quiet, and only the sound of river flowing could be heard. Saleen searched through his memories carefully, not only for knowledge on illusions but for anything related to magic spaces.

Only when he began to feel hungry did he stop. Saleen opened both his eyes and saw that Lex had already released an Illumination spell. Between the two of them was an oil cloth with black bread and smoked meat on it.

”What have you found?” Saleen asked Lex, taking a cup and creating some restorative water as he did so.

”A little, but not enough. You?”

”Me too.”

”Tell me.”

”In my memories, there aren’t many things related to illusions. Most of my knowledge comes from magic notes that are more than a thousand years old, but I have found a sentence that seems to be related to our current predicament.”

Lex began to butter Saleen’s black bread while she listened. She was a little surprised. The mages in Alchemy City were certainly wealthy to own magic notes from more than a thousand years ago.

”In one of the magic books, there is a description of the world. The mage says the world is a cheese.”

Lex perked up. Saleen was definitely smarter than he looked. She had not considered it from this perspective. However, the things she had thought of were definitely related to this seemingly ordinary sentence.

The world is a cheese. This sentence had been said by a legendary sorcerer. This sorcerer had been famous throughout the lands a thousand years ago. Back then, the Holy See had just begun to rise, and the holy knights had swept over nearly half the Mainland and only faced defeat at Holy Rock City. However, the conflict between mages and the Holy See had not started then. Even before that, a legendary sorcerer by the name of Raphael had been going against the Holy See. Among the students he’d had, more than twelve of them were sorcerers, and on the Myers Mainland, these sorcerers foiled the attacks of the Holy See again and again. Out of the seven oracles then, four of them died by the hands of Raphael.