Dawn was approaching, but the Guer Festival that was originally meant to be held today would never arrive.
It could now be confirmed that the Guer Festival was the greatest secret of this illusion and the most crucial part of this secret realm.
Li Si and Tiya could shake off the illusion's influence and would not have their memories altered.
With the illusion unable to affect them, Li Si and Tiya should no longer face any danger while staying in this small city. But that would be meaningless.
If they could not break the endless seven-day cycle and the Guer Festival could not arrive on the eighth day, Li Si would ultimately be unable to uncover this small city's greatest secret.
The completion requirement for the region-specific quest, Ihaileisi's Persistence, was to fulfill Ihaileisi's request.
He had no idea what this Legendary Mage wished to achieve by creating such a vast illusion.
What exactly was his regret?
Had he watched his beloved die, and thus wanted to use necromancy to revive everyone so he could live with Zhu Ou forever?
Li Si felt that was the likeliest possibility. Otherwise, Zhu Ou would not have been so special within this illusion.
But if that was the case, why had Kazeli Ihaileisi not appeared?
If he wanted to live with Zhu Ou, shouldn't he have stayed by her side and accompanied her all along?
Yet from Zhu Ou and Old Milo, he had learned that Kazeli Ihaileisi had already left the small city with a merchant caravan to travel and gain experience.
That was rather unusual.
Even if Ihaileisi had not yet become a Legend at the time and truly had not been in this small city, as the controller of this illusion, the being secretly manipulating everything, it would have been