Mystic Overlord: Reading Gives Strength
Chapter 57: Displaced Space

Chapter 57: Chapter 57: Displaced Space

Strange—

Unpredictable—

Danger that can be understood at a glance—

In the warehouse in front of them, the twisted light and shadows fully interpreted the meaning of these words.

The spatial switch in the archive room did not follow the external rule of four minutes and forty-eight seconds, and at first glance, it only felt chaotic.

The fastest change.

Almost every second, the fan-shaped spaces would exchange places with each other.

Some documents or objects, also cut in the middle due to the crossover of time and space, would then continue to move according to their neatly cut appearance, without scattering on the ground due to the shift of the center of gravity.

Continuously disrupted and reorganized spaces were filled with discord.

This was a completely incomprehensible phenomenon—

Outside, the train station exhibited a clear time distortion phenomenon.

But what about here?

Had time been cut, or had space?

"..."

"Ronald, what do you think?"

Faced with such a bizarre scene, Patricia turned her head to look at the man beside her.

"My school’s ability basically has no way to handle this situation."

"And you?"

"Unfortunately..."

Ronald shook his head as his Magician’s power was still in cooldown; right now, he was helpless:

"My school’s power involves the domain of sin and punishment, not some causal relationship of time or space."

"..."

Outside the archive room, the air grew even more oppressive, so much so that even the winter sunlight seemed to gradually lose its warmth.

The occasional passing station staff even greeted Ronald.

But none of them could sense the strangeness that was so close at hand.

So...

How should they deal with the situation in the archive room?

Faced with this unprecedented strange scene, Ronald and Patricia finally stopped in their tracks.

Although they knew they had to enter the archive room to resolve this incident, the continuously changing scene in front of them deterred any sane human from wanting to step inside.

The danger that was too easy to understand always had an exceptional effect in stopping people’s progress.

In the silent seconds that passed.

"Huff—"

At that moment, Patricia suddenly let out a long sigh.

"I’ll go in and try it first."

Ching—

She glanced back at her companion, and this time the girl proactively drew the decorative sword hanging from her waist, holding the silver gleam across her chest, ready for combat!

"I am physically much stronger than you, capable of handling any sudden incidents that might not be anticipated."

"Ronald, watch from outside."

"If anything unusual happens, make sure to speak up and warn me."

"I swear on my life!"

Ronald nodded in agreement.

He was no chauvinist.

The test Patricia gave him with her sword earlier had fully proved their vast difference in physical stamina and combat capabilities; they weren’t on the same level.

The exploration in front of them clearly made more sense for the person with the physical advantage to undertake.

His role was to just assist with his keen observational skills.

Pat-pat—

Patricia didn’t hesitate for a second.

The slender foot wrapped in tough long boots stepped into the archive room.

Her platinum figure immediately rushed inside.

Then—

Ronald witnessed a very bizarre scene.

After Patricia entered the storeroom, she was fine initially.

As she shifted her body, moving forward with her steps, Patricia inevitably reached the edge of those alternating spaces.

Then, that small part of her body was perfectly divided.

Ronald saw it clearly—

Although the cut was small, the girl’s bones and flesh were still exposed to the air after the spatial shift.

But the next second,

when Patricia left that position, it was also the instant her body left the boundary of the spatial distortion.

The body that was split to the other end of the room.

Ignored the distance and returned directly to her torso.

During the whole process, Patricia seemed completely unaffected as she continued to explore further.

"..."

"Patricia, can you hear me?"

Seeing such a bizarre scene, Ronald immediately spoke up to warn her.

"You just accidentally got too close to the edge of the spatial distortion, and then..."

"And then how to describe it?"

"It’s like a magician cutting a person in half during a magic trick, then completely rejoining the person’s body!"

"!"

Ronald’s hurried description was understood by Patricia.

She suddenly stopped and stood in place.

Her eyes locked onto the nearest spatial distortion, then she cautiously extended her longsword.

Like inserting a chopstick into clear spring water.

At the site of the spatial distortion, the longsword was cut in half and appeared in another location in the room.

Meanwhile, the broken sword tip floated in the air of the archive room.

Mysteriously, floating in the air without any support—

"..."

Then, Patricia withdrew the remaining half of the longsword in her hand.

The rest of the longsword, which had been cut by the spatial distortion and floated in the air, also retracted with her movement, returned through the interval of spatial distortion, and came back to Patricia’s hand.

Thus, the longsword was completely ’drawn’ back from the air.

The blade was intact!

Their gazes met in the air—

Looking at the scene before them, both of them understood the situation here.

The spatial gel in the archive room didn’t physically cut objects.

Rather, it was some kind of anomaly in time and space.

"Patricia?" Seeing his companion was safe and sound, Ronald asked, "Do you need me to go in and help now?"

"..."

"Better safe than sorry."

Turning around to continue forward, the platinum figure shook her head in front of Ronald.

"Let me keep exploring, you move if there’s an issue."

"No problem."

Ronald accepted the suggestion, still standing firmly in his place.

But this didn’t mean he was lowering his guard; his gray eyes closely monitored the girl’s figure, not missing even a detail.

Inside the archive room—

Patricia was gradually getting used to the feel of crossing through time and space.

She understood what was happening around her and knew how to act.

Thus, the platinum silhouette flickered back and forth in the moderately sized archive.

One second she was on the left side of the room, the next she would step into a spatial break and appear at another location.

This process...

was a gradual one, not teleportation.

Even though it was not polite to watch, Ronald continued out of safety considerations.

Finally, after 15 minutes,

Patricia made a significant discovery.

This ancient document, sandwiched among numerous records.

From its appearance, one might even worry that touching it would cause it to fall apart.

But one thing was very clear—

Amid the constant misalignment of surrounding space and the ever-changing situation,

it was the only thing that remained completely still!

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