"To enrich the details further, let's assume that after escorting the lady away, the journey to the Grey Oak Square was to prevent Nikopolas's resurrection, only that the eyewitness from thirty years ago arrived too late, so we had to combat the Shadow of Nicopolis,"

"Quite possible, but what's the problem?" Recall inquired.

Fang Hong replied, "The issue is that the process doesn't match the outcome. The disaster that happened in Dolifen thirty years ago was actually the resurrection of the Dark Giant Dragon, Nikopolas. We'll put aside the fact that there were too few clues in the first scene. What prompted that day's eyewitness to go to the City Hall to kill another person after battling Nikopolas? Logically, it doesn't make sense."

Red Leaf countered, furrowing her brow, "Perhaps they had their reasons. There's too much missing information between the scenes, and your inference might not be accurate."

But Fang Hong gently shook his head, "I was also uncertain about this point before leaving Grey Oak Square. Until I discovered another piece of lateral evidence that confirmed my thoughts."

"Lateral evidence?" Red Leaf was puzzled.

"Everyone, try to reconsider the scenes from the three tasks. Although I wasn't present, based on the descriptions of others, I could still spot the issues," Fang Hong suggested.

Gita was the first to react, recalling what she saw and heard at the Grey Oak Square and couldn't help but exclaim, "Right, the celebration!"

The rest looked puzzled at the two of them.

Meanwhile, Fang Hong cast an approving glance at the young girl. "Yes, before the battle at Grey Oak Square, the scenes clearly showed that Dolifen was preparing for a grand celebration. However, the scenes from Madam Tengye's inn in the Phantom Realm were not like this. Do you remember the sea of fire in the dream?"

As he spoke, the fire light in the sky was actually reflecting on his face, solemn as if he were a prophet.

"So, it can be confirmed that the scene at Madam Tengye's inn was definitely after the battle at Grey Oak Square. The displacement of time and space is the crucial clue hidden behind all these puzzles—"

At this revelation, everyone's faces showed sudden comprehension.

Especially Recall, who looked at Fang Hong somewhat surprised, "You even noticed that."

"What about here then?" Tianlan couldn't help but ask at this moment.

For some reason, when this question was raised, the first thing that came to Fang Hong's mind was the image of the girl named Hes.

He sighed and said, "The answer is already there, isn't it?"

"Wait, what answer?" Tianlan was still confused.

"The fire will only reach the Lower City Area—"

"So, the scene at the City Hall was before the Grey Oak Square," Red Leaf replied gravely.

Tianlan was stunned for a moment before realizing, "So, the sequence is actually reversed?"

Recall nodded, "That makes sense now, although we still don't know what happened at the City Hall. But after the battle with Nikopolas, failing to prevent the resurrection of the Dark Giant Dragon, Dolifen was engulfed in a sea of fire, the lady they last escorted away must be hiding some crucial secret."

Hearing this, Tianlan couldn't help feeling a bit annoyed, "My god, Brother Ade, how did you notice all this? Why didn't I think of it at all? Am I really not cut out for adventures?"

Fang Hong shook his head, "Don't think like that, Tianlan. Everyone has their own strengths, I just tend to pay more attention to these things. The tasks described in the community also gave me a lot of hints,"

The young girl from France finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But Red Leaf was frowning and said, "That means, the tasks of the Dragon Worship Sect believers are to complete this reverse process in order, and then they can free the Dragon's Golden Eyes? While what we need to do is to find the real order and activate the tasks?"

Fang Hong nodded.

"There is one problem, Brother Ade," Gita spoke up, "In the past Phantom Realm, the normal process has been completed countless times by countless people. If our judgment is correct, Nikopolas should have been resurrected long ago, right?"

Recall added, "Indeed so. Many people have also tried to trigger the task from the City Hall, but nothing ever came of it. It seems that the task here must be triggered after obtaining the Blade of Victory, just like the scene at the Grey Oak Square must be triggered after someone takes away the Martyr's Mark,"

But Fang Hong shook his head.

Red Leaf looked at him curiously.

"Do you all know about chess?" Fang Hong began slowly: "On a chessboard, the pawns reaching the other side become 'queens' that can dominate the game. In technical terms, this is called promotion."

"In this chess game, we are like such pawns. The reason people have never managed to complete this game that has lasted thirty years is that they have always failed to find the true end of the board."

Having said that, Fang Hong deliberately paused.

He seemed to be organizing his thoughts, contemplating where in the mist the key lay.

Then he finally answered softly, "So, in the Phantom Realm of Dolifen, there actually exist four scenes. Not the three that people believe."

"—So, the real name of this Phantom Realm should be the 'Four Matters of Dolifen', not 'Three',"

"What?" His words surprised everyone.

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