This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 916 - 440: The Burning Soul of a Chuunibyou

In the deep, dark void, time flowed like water.

"Booming..."

A Steel Rhino, with its massive horn, charged past Mu You like a tank, shattering his already broken body even more.

Following that Steel Rhino, another one came charging in, tossing Mu You into the air once again.

And that wasn’t all. At this moment, this space was filled with over a hundred Rhinos, all endlessly charging at him.

Under the impact of these Rhinos, Mu You’s body had already crumbled to dust, drifting naturally with the updrafts, as light as feathers.

Mu You felt nothing from this, as he was already numb. This wasn’t really a world that existed in reality; it was more like a dreamscape. Here, he wouldn’t feel hunger or weariness, and everything he could see was essentially meaningless. Even if he were shattered to an atom, as long as his consciousness existed, he could still readily wield the Divine Pen to alter the Runes within these Rhinos’ bodies.

Mu You was currently on the 183rd layer, which had grown significantly larger than the first layer.

The 183 Rhinos here each contained 183 flawed Orders, both abundant in number and formidable in the difficulty of repairing each individual Rune.

There was no choice. Mu You should have started from the first layer, repairing Runes from easy to difficult, thereby gradually improving his understanding of the Law of Order.

However, Caesar’s misleading guidance had led him to rush directly to the 182nd layer. In this tower where only advancement was possible and not retreat, he could only start from the 183rd layer, which greatly increased the difficulty of learning.

From what he had so far mastered, there were over sixty thousand types of Order Runes. Just memorizing these Runes would require an unimaginable amount of time, let alone mastering the meaning of each Rune and the meaning when Runes were used together.

Fortunately, Mu You now had ample time.

Through his prolonged contact with Order Runes, Mu You had already begun to vaguely understand the rules of time within this Order Space: The time here, sealed bit by bit after the Divine Pen entered the Lighthouse, was not infinite. Its limit equaled the time the Divine Pen was hidden here, roughly a thousand years.

If he stayed here beyond this thousand-year limit, the flow of time would return to normal. Then, even if he didn’t want to leave, he would have to, because with each passing day, his lifespan would burn away at an exponentially increasing rate.

Luckily, a thousand years was enough for him to master the Law of Order.

Thanks to his previous long-term and extensive experience with time reversal, the feeling of focusing on one thing in this solitary and tranquil space had become as natural to Mu You as eating and drinking.

He lacked neither patience nor perseverance, and he certainly didn’t lack time.

So for Mu You, this was a precious opportunity, allowing him to master the intricate and complex Law of Order at almost zero cost.

In this space, Mu You continued his descent, gradually attempting to remedy the Chaos within these Rhinos.

After the initial discomfort and excitement, Mu You gradually calmed down, forgetting the trivial matters before and behind him, forgetting Caesar, his rival, and even forgetting the original intention of this endeavor. His mind was left with only the desire to grasp more of the Law of Order.

His desire to understand an entirely new and unknown system allowed him to immerse himself even more. Far from being bored by the lengthy passage of time, he found great pleasure, indescribably engrossed in it.

With this thirst for knowledge, Mu You spent a full eighty-six years to finally repair all the Chaos inside the first Rhino.

"Whoo whine..."

The moment the repair was complete, the Rhino raised its two front hooves, emitting a high-pitched cry, then landed with a boom, losing its aggressiveness and looking at Mu You gratefully, bowing its head to him as if to express its thanks.

Mu You watched the first Rhino dissipate into dust upon total recovery, just like himself, and then began the transformation of the second Rhino.

The beginning is always the hardest. The Hellish start might be painful, but there was a benefit: once he had begun, progress sped up significantly.

Four months after the first Rhino was repaired, Mu You managed to fix the second one.

After that, the third, the fourth... his speed ever increasing.

Ninety years after beginning the study of Order Runes, Mu You finally repaired all the Rhinos on the 183rd layer, setting foot on the next one.

On the 184th layer, there was one more monster, and the difficulty of resolving it increased yet again. But by now, Mu You had sufficient foundation and it wasn’t as hard as the start.

A year later, Mu You successfully broke through the 184th layer and continued upwards.

Then came the 185th layer, the 186th layer...

And time, under his continual self-improvement, flew by quickly.

One year...

Two years...

Three years...

...

Mu You was completely immersed in studying Order.

Until the 487th year.

In the void, the tip of the brush moved lightly, sketching out strands of luminescence.

Eventually, all that luminescence wrapped around a massive Black Dragon. The Berserk Black Dragon struggled desperately against the encircling light, but couldn’t escape its entanglement.

In the end, the dense Chaos within the Black Dragon was rectified one by one until fully restored to harmony.