Chapter 716: Changes in World No. 5
Wendy's face turned pale with fear, and a dark shadow covering the sky appeared in her mind. The scene of the battle with Acnorolia on Sirius Island reappeared in her mind.
For the time being, she is unable to verify whether what Wendy No. 5 said is true or false, but it is better to believe it than not. If she cannot stop it in time, her world may become like World No. 1, and even suffer a crisis more serious than the reversal of light and darkness!
"Everyone in the guild..."
"Irene-san suffered an irreversible injury in a battle. When her body was on the verge of death, I asked her to attach her personality to me, so now she is in a state similar to a second personality."
"As for those words like 'taking over my body' just now, it was just a joke she played on you. You don't have to regard her as an enemy."
"On the contrary, I'm very grateful that she's willing to stay. If she hadn't been by my side teaching me, I wouldn't have been able to grow up so quickly..."
With just a few words, Wendy's vigilance was greatly reduced. With the endorsement of No. 5 Wendy, No. 5 Irene's behavior changed from "maliciously occupying her body" to "staying at her request", and the nature of the behavior changed instantly.
From a bad aunt who coveted the body of a normal young girl, she suddenly transformed into an elder who was willing to live in the world with a secondary personality and protect the younger generation.
Ten minutes later...
Two Wendys, one big and one small, sat side by side on a man-made stone bench on the mountain top, one talking and the other listening, gradually forgetting the time.
Wendy No. 5 briefly recounted the horrific war situation in World No. 5 over the past six months. The names, familiar or unfamiliar, coming out of her mouth caused Wendy to exclaim repeatedly.
"The battle between humans and dragons lasted for more than seven months. Countless humans were killed or wounded, but only 30% of the dragons were injured."
30%? ?
Wendy's first reaction after hearing this was: Is this data a bit too high? Are humans that strong?
She had fought against Acnorolia, and had also met dragon masters like Kurnuki and Selene, and knew that the power of a dragon was far beyond what an ordinary wizard could handle.
As if she noticed Wendy's doubts, Wendy No. 5 smiled and explained, "There are mainly two reasons for this!"
"One of them is Kira's proposal and the technology of 'Dragon's Heart', which gave us dozens of second and fifth generation dragon slayers."
The second and fifth generation of dragon slayers? ?
Wendy was stunned at first, but soon thought of words like "magic crystal" and "devouring dragon flesh".
"The second reason is more exciting. Not all dragons that invaded Ishgar are hostile to humans!"
"Among the tens of thousands of dragons, there are many dragons like Grandine and Iguneru who like humans. They chose to stand on the side of humans and fight alongside us."
No. 5 Wendy smiled softly, with a hint of gratitude in her tone, "Especially, thanks to the help of Irene-san, the human side has also added some first-generation dragon slayers!"
The first generation of Dragon Slayers was created by using additional magic to attach the power of dragons to humans, and the founder of this method was Irene. She was naturally familiar with this aspect, so it was not difficult for her to recreate the first generation of Dragon Slayers.
Wendy secretly smacked her lips and sighed, "The battle between humans and dragons, and the battle between dragons, sounds exactly like what was recorded in history four hundred years ago..."
This exclamation caused Wendy No. 5 to fall silent for a while.
"What's wrong?" Wendy asked curiously.
"No, you're right!"
Looking at the innocent girl in front of her, a trace of nostalgia flashed in No. 5 Wendy's eyes, and she sighed in her heart: The situation in X791 is indeed similar to that four hundred years ago, but what is similar is not just the battle between humans and dragons, or dragons and dragons.
She continued the story: "With the participation of that group of dragon slayers, the damage on the human side has decreased, and the frequency of fighting with the dragons has also begun to slow down."
"Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. In May of X792, a change disrupted the battle. On that day, Akunorolia appeared again in the sky above Ishgar!"
"Nani?! Akunorolia?!" Wendy was horrified and couldn't help but exclaimed, "Wasn't it banished to Elentina by Kilasan?"
"It looks like that! But in fact, that guy has returned to Ishgar at some point, but he has been hiding ever since."
"It was like a repeat of the time four hundred years ago. After Akunorolia appeared, he slaughtered dragons again. His mind became more and more crazy. Until July, he was completely reduced to a ferocious beast without any mind and could not communicate."
"And at that time, the number of dragons on Ishgar was more than three thousand!"
Killing from tens of thousands to three thousand, this kind of record is unimaginable no matter who it is. Among all the people Wendy knows, even Makarov, Preshito, Kira, August, and Irene can't do it.
But if it was Acnorolia, then it suddenly didn’t seem surprising.
Besides, the fact that Acnorolia had completely lost his mind, the dragon blood spilled by seven thousand giant dragons was more than enough to make Acnorolia lose his mind, and even create another Acnorolia!
"So...what's going on in your world? Why are you here?"
Even with the cleanup of Acnorolia, there are still three thousand dragons left in World 5. This is not a small number. You have to know that humans have been fighting for more than half a year and have only cleared less than a hundred of them, not even a fraction of the total!
What's more, No. 5 Acnorolia is just crazy, not dead!
It is like an unparalleled sword hanging over the heads of both humans and giant dragons, dividing the world into three forces by its own power.
"My main purpose for coming here is to change history. As long as I can change the course of history, maybe I can erase 'Ten Thousand Dragons Destroying the World'."
"Modify... could it be using Eclipse??"
The effects of the solar eclipse had spread throughout the guild in the past two days, so Wendy also knew what it did. "But can't it only open up parallel worlds? Changes to the parallel world won't affect the development of the original world!"
"By the way, speaking of parallel worlds...why do you say this is World No. 7?"
World No. X is numbered according to the record of Lucy No. 1. This is the 7th world she has experienced, so it is called 'World No. 7'. However, Lucy's journey is one-way. According to common sense, people in the previous world should not be able to know what the next world looks like!
So how did Wendy, who claimed to be from World 5, know for sure that this was World 7?
Wendy No. 5 seemed to have understood the logic behind it a long time ago, but she still traveled through it, as if she had a plan in mind.
"First, why do I know this is World No. 7? This is because after leaving you, No. 1 Lucy went to World No. 5 again and shared information about various worlds with us. That was in the year X787 in our world, which is the 'past' of our world."
She was confident and drew two parallel lines on the ground with the magic wand in her hand, writing the numbers '5' and '7' on each line. She also wrote 'X768' and 'X792' at the beginning and end respectively. She wrote 'X787' after 'X786' of '5' and then drew an arrow, with 'X768' of '7' pointing to 'X787' of '5'.
"After several years of research, the people in World 5 have actually improved and innovated the theory and structure of the solar eclipse. By using time and space magic, they have added the function of 'adjusting time nodes within a certain range' on the basis of 'traveling between parallel worlds', just like this..."
She drew an arrow again, this time from 'X792' of '5' to 'X768' of '7': "To you, I come from the 'future' of World 5 instead of the 'present'. This journey not only spans space, but also time."
"Then there's the reason why I came here. According to my current intelligence, each parallel world has experienced different changes. The one in World No. 1 is 'Nirvana', where light and darkness are reversed; the one in World No. 5, where I am, is 'Giant Dragon', where first there were thousands of dragons invading, and then the black dragon slaying dragons."
"These changes will cause a world to collapse to varying degrees!"
"Every mutation has a source . The sources of most mutations are still unknown, but we know the source of the mutation in World No. 5. It happened in the year X786 in World No. 7!"
Wendy No. 5 briefly explained her logic to Wendy. In simple terms, something that happened in World No. 7 in X786 triggered the dragon mutation in World No. 5 in X791, so as long as this thing is changed, the mutation in World No. 5 may be eliminated.
The more Wendy listened, the more confused she became: "The source of the change... is in our world now?"
The kind and simple Wendy could no longer sit still when she thought that someone or something in her own world might cause another world to be destroyed by a dragon and countless people would die as a result.
"Finally, it's the question of 'will it succeed'!"
"It is indeed as you said. Under normal circumstances, using Eclipse to change the past will not affect the original world. Because the two are parallel worlds and have no direct connection, changing the past of another world will certainly not affect the present of this world."
"But the situation in World No. 5 is different!"
"The source of the changes in World No. 5 is World No. 7. The two are directly related! So this change is effective!"
What Wendy No. 5 did not say is that this is only logically self-consistent and cannot guarantee other accidents. For example, it is possible that because of her actions here, new world branches will emerge in the future, while the changes in World No. 5 remain unchanged.
She is actually gambling too!
Wendy didn't think too much about it, she just felt that what the other party said made sense.
So... why did you bring me here alone? Could it be that the source of the change is related to me?
