Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton
Chapter 1777 - 1338: The Only Increment Generated Is...

Chapter 1777: Chapter 1338: The Only Increment Generated Is...

"The ke—y—is—incre—ment?" The Undead King in the void looked at Ange on the platform, tilting his head as a thought message was transmitted over, just stretched out a bit.

But since it’s a thought message, it doesn’t get distorted when stretched like sound would. Once fully received, all the content can be restored.

"I know nothing about increment... What is increment?" The king muttered to himself, pondering in distress.

After absorbing all the breath of death, the king still felt no change, even though the death aura around him was so dense it was about to spill out. However, he couldn’t absorb this breath of death quickly and could only digest it bit by bit, just like the long soul slumber before.

Realizing it would take a long time to digest this power, the king directly asked Ange, "You can reverse time, can you accelerate it? I’ll go outside, and you speed up time, so I can digest it properly."

Ange nodded, not only could he accelerate, but this acceleration didn’t consume much of his power, much less than reversing time.

So the king went outside, ready to digest this power of chaos, only for Ange to throw him a sentence: ’The key is increment.’ What is increment?

Of course, the king knew what increment was, but knowing the definition didn’t mean understanding how it was produced. How is increment generated?

In a closed system, without external forces, how can increment be generated?

In a closed system, every substance and energy transitions from order to chaos. Having increment means the process from order to chaos is halted or even reversed, so not only increment but also a force that reverses chaos is needed.

So, where does increment come from? With this thought, the king fell into slumber.

The slumber of the Undead doesn’t cause loss of consciousness like living creatures, actually being a low-consumption dormancy to reduce the consumption of soul energy.

And the Undead King’s slumber, even with low consumption, wouldn’t stop his thoughts, resembling a hangover state, where thoughts turned slowly but were especially clear.

"What is the increment? Forget it... What was the key to my breakthrough with the Lord of Mourning back then? Soul Network... In my old Soul Network, there were thousands of nodes, and then I naturally broke through... Nodes... Only souls with brains are called nodes..."

In his slumber, the Undead King murmured, emitting scattered soul fluctuations, which in an ordinary person would be akin to sleep talking.

However, with time accelerated, on the platform of the board and in the field of the void, the time flow rates were different. Fluctuations flashed by, and no one could clearly hear what the king was muttering.

Switching back to the perspective of everyone on the platform, they only saw the king as if sped up, each action flashing by, and then his head drooped, the soul fire in his eye sockets dim, as if he fell asleep, maintaining a pose.

For a while, without seeing the king making a move, Negris finally turned to Anthony and asked, "What did you say you discovered just now?"

Ursman also turned around and said, "Let me guess. You went outside and found that time outside hadn’t changed, still at the moment when we came in?"

Anthony was shocked, staring at Ursman: "How did you know?"

Kvada, Anthony couldn’t help but curse in his mind. He wanted to surprise everyone with this big discovery, not expecting Ursman to have already known?

Ursman said, "I guessed. As soon as you came back, you asked how long it had been. I said nine months, and you weren’t surprised at all, but rather let us guess what you discovered, so your discovery should be related to time."

Anthony couldn’t help but give a thumbs up: "No wonder you’re the Wise Man. I only said two sentences, and you guessed this big discovery. Time outside is still at the moment we came in; Yennefer has just left the Dimensional Space. When I caught up to him, he hadn’t even returned to the Dragon Clan’s settlement yet."

"I stayed outside for more than ten minutes; coming back here, nine months had passed. Even if it hadn’t stayed at the moment we entered, the difference in time flow rate would be huge."

Ursman thoughtfully said, "Because of this, we often ignore the passage of time. If not deliberately counting, we don’t know how much time has passed. In fact, after you left, I made a few timers with simple materials, with drip style, escapement style, and even brought a goblin timer myself."

At this, Ursman took out all the timers and handed the most exquisite one to Anthony.

This was naturally the goblin timer, only the size of an ordinary person’s thumb, very exquisite, but when Anthony saw it, he found that the timer wasn’t moving.

Seeing this, Anthony looked at the other rougher ones, one of which was an hourglass, and the sand inside was suspended, not dripping down.

Seeing Anthony’s gaze shift, Ursman took out some sand grains, held them in his hand, and the grains flowed smoothly through his fingers.

Anthony’s eyes widened in shock, realizing what Ursman meant, while Negris wasn’t as quick to react and asked in confusion, "What does it mean?"

"The sand can flow in my hand, but in the hourglass, it can’t. When they were formed into timekeeping tools, their physical reactions disappeared," Ursman explained.

"All of them are like this?" Anthony pointed to all the timers in his hand.

Ursman nodded, "All the same, time doesn’t exist here, so they can’t measure time. I can only count in my head."

"That’s my discovery. In the Space-Time Domain, time doesn’t exist. I didn’t expect you to verify it with tools, worthy of being the Wise Man," Anthony couldn’t help but admire.

Earlier, he thought Ursman discovered the issue because of his two sentences, not expecting he’d already verified it with tools.

Negris nodded in realization, "So this place has no time, but the Space-Time Domain can reverse, can accelerate, and the absence of time is reasonable."

After a pause, Negris suddenly seemed to recall something and said, "Here, time doesn’t exist, and no timepiece can be used. But you can count time with your consciousness. Does that mean the only increment produced here is from our consciousness?"

Anthony and Ursman suddenly widened their eyes, looking at Negris with astonishment and joy, "Lord Nage, you...you..."

Negris didn’t understand why they were so excited, and suddenly a strong soul fluctuation burst out of the void. Turning around, they saw the king, who had been slumped asleep, now raising his head and walking towards the board with a very normal stride.

Ange tilted his head in confusion, looking at his hand, which was still turning.