Light Fortress Chapter 2001 - 54: Mist of History

An airship hovers above the Moon City Fortress.

The Rust Bone General sits in the main ship’s lounge, before him are two secured rest pods, within which Zhou Jiren and Zhong Wei are sleeping...

"Don’t worry, their condition is stable."

The main screen shows the heart rates and mental fluctuations of the two.

The Heavenly Eye used the Hypnosis Technique to forcefully drag them into the Dream. It’s the best method she could think of.

She believes that her little junior brother can single-handedly break the stalemate.

The teacher and Zhong Wei, who’ve undergone 140 resets, are now burdens on the path to the little junior brother’s breakthrough. To shatter this reset dream completely, her mission isn’t to venture out with Gu Shen, but to protect other outsiders, including herself.

The Origin Will must abide by the world’s rules.

Once it realizes it can’t stop Gu Shen...

Then it will surely do everything possible to kill the other outsiders and initiate another reset, returning Gu Shen’s exploration progress to zero!

"Several days have already passed."

The Rust Bone spoke in a deep voice: "The new cycle of reset hasn’t begun, evidently Gu Shen has successfully delved into the Old World."

A piece of intelligence came from the Frontier of the Northeast Fortress recently.

Saying the Heavenly Eye captured a suspicious substance landing and exploding 100 miles outside the fortress, initially causing a great threat to the Frontier, but before the alarm could spread internally, the suspicious substance somehow "vanished." Because everything happened too quickly, the Heavenly Eye could only transmit a blurry image, and it seemed to be a huge meteor burning with light and fire.

Upon seeing the image, the Rust Bone knew immediately what had happened there.

That thing is a Source Material Storm!

The Source Material Storm that blasted Gu Castle sky-high!

The occurrence of such a thing is certainly not coincidental. The Origin Will has already started manipulating pawns to "attack" Gu Shen. The Rust Bone doesn’t know what happened in the Old World, but doesn’t need to.

As long as the new reset hasn’t begun, it means Gu Shen’s mission is still ongoing!

"It seems staying here was the right choice."

The Rust Bone took a deep breath, saying: "That kid Gu Shen actually managed to get hold of an airship to venture out... he really has some tricks..."

He knows Gu Shen has many secrets.

Evidently, the matter of the airship is one of the many secrets Gu Shen holds.

The Rust Bone chuckled.

He didn’t think anything was amiss.

Gu Shen chose to have the Rust Bone stay at the Five Continents, partly to avoid the murderous intent of the Old World, and for another reason.

If the Rust Bone were to accompany him, it could cause trouble... because with this North Continent General on board, even if Turing pleaded, Alf would never allow such a superpower capable of Destruction Origin to step inside the Origin Ship.

Taking a thousand steps back.

Bringing the Rust Bone along, then doesn’t that mean bringing along the senior sister, teacher, and senior brother too?

Taking a bunch of people into the Origin Ship... even with Gu Shen’s thick skin like city walls, he’d hesitate to suggest it.

"Our opponent is the ’Origin Will’ of this Dream World."

Luo Er’s expression was heavy, saying: "Although Gu Shen’s side is progressing smoothly, things here... seem a bit ’too peaceful.’

"The reason for bringing the airship to Moon City was because here is one of the three major fortress defenses of the Fourth Legion."

The Rust Bone said coldly: "The Origin Will is indeed powerful, but it must also adhere to the Extraordinary Iron Law. If it wants to kill us, it needs to fabricate disasters capable of challenging Moon City Fortress. In my memory, this fortress hasn’t been breached in 600 years, nor has it faced Great Cold, drought, famine, or Storm."

This is an iron city!

Upon arriving, the Rust Bone also gathered his elite troops!

There’s no fear in facing a thousand, only in that eventuality!

If the Origin Will indeed gathers power to assault us "outsiders"... relying on the iron walls of Moon City, coupled with the combat power of the Fourth Legion, the Rust Bone is confident to hold until Gu Shen breaches the stalemate!

"The existence of the Origin Will ... implies that the birth of this Dream World follows a pattern."

Luo Er calmed the Heart Lake.

She pieced together the known intelligence.

After 140 resets, she and Zhou Jiren and Zhong Wei were forced into a "deadlock." It’s not that the direction of their efforts was problematic, but the Origin Will is "toying" with them. Due to Gu Shen’s presence as the "fated protagonist," they must follow the original trajectory of the world.

But the setbacks encountered while venturing out have made her realize.

The Origin Will can manipulate the timeline in this Dream, interchanging it at will.

"The Origin Will cannot alter the power of the Divine Throne."

The Rust Bone said: "In my consecutive audiences with the Empress, her responses have remained unchanged, even her demeanor and actions haven’t altered... evidently, it cannot change the timeline events of the Divine Throne in this Dream."

Once the Empress begins seclusion, it is true seclusion.

No matter how many audiences the Rust Bone attends, he cannot change the will of the Empress.

In reality, if such "audiences" occurred in the real world, the Empress would have broken seclusion long ago!

Deep Sea is about to wage war? The three generals will face danger in the future?

The North Continent would never allow such a situation to happen!

And the current "failed audience" reveals a very important piece of information.

That is, the Origin Will cannot interfere with the loft where the Empress resides.