Overall, Quest World connecting with the Southern Region would definitely bring more benefits than drawbacks.
"It's just that the timing is quite a coincidence," Nis murmured.
No one there was stupid. With Nis bringing it up, they too realized something.
"Could this be No. 01's way out?" Angel asked softly.
It had appeared neither too early nor too late, right when No. 01 was courting death. That really was quite a coincidence.
Perhaps No. 01 had deliberately chosen this moment to kill Shiz's young.
No. 01 knew perfectly well that he could never withstand Phantom City's pursuit. He might evade them this time, but not necessarily the next. Unless he leaped directly beyond Legend, Phantom City might have the tiniest possibility of abandoning the hunt—but that was clearly impossible.
No. 01 had not even firmly set foot on the Path of True Knowledge. To reach a level that Phantom City would fear would take at least centuries, perhaps millennia.
In such a hopeless situation, No. 01 really might choose this path.
In Jon's teaching, it was called placing oneself in mortal peril and being reborn afterward.
Death was not necessarily the end. It might instead be another kind of new life.
No. 01 was a formal wizard. Once he died, the chance of a dead soul being born was nearly ninety-nine percent. At the moment the dead soul appeared, Quest World and the Southern Region would connect. He could simply stop resisting the pull and turn straight into Quest World.
As long as he could gain a foothold in Quest World, no matter how difficult it was, no matter whether it was a road of no return, it would still be a road in the end.
As for how No. 01 had confirmed the time when Quest World and the