Kanzaki Rei held the test tube containing the synthesized potion in his hand.
If he rembered correctly, at this point in ti he should have been refining the Limit Perception Potion.
Using the eyeball of the Abyssfall Eye as a catalyst.
But just monts ago, he had clearly been practicing The Seventh Forbidden Magic — Elent.
And yet the state of God-Tier · Future Simulation had been forcibly terminated.
There had been one ti before when he could not tell whether he was inside a simulation or outside one.
But that had been in the Deep Earth.
His consciousness had been muddled then, so blurred he could not distinguish illusion from reality.
Now, however, he was fully in the real world.
The instant he was pulled out of Future Simulation, Kanzaki Rei realized it.
After all, this was his talent.
Reality or simulation—he could tell with a single thought.
But for sothing to directly terminate his simulation state—
That was completely beyond anything he had expected.
[Cryptic Scholar Level: 5]
At this very mont,
his Cryptic Scholar level was no longer Level 6.
Because advancing to Level 6 happened after this point in ti.
Which also ant the corresponding talent no longer existed.
"No way..."
Kanzaki Rei set down the test tube, already unable to focus on potion refinent.
If what he was seeing was real—
Then perhaps this wasn’t a one-ti occurrence.
Ti...
might continue rewinding forward into the past.
"Kid, what’s wrong?"
"You look rather horrified."
Without that talent,
Kanzaki Rei was beginning to lose track of which thoughts in his mind were foreign intrusions and which were truly his own.
The contamination.
Lottie’s interference.
His own intentions.
All mixed together.
"Ansu."
"My ti is resetting backward..."
"What do you think?"
Though his words were brief, in an instant he transmitted massive amounts of information through his sea of consciousness into Ansu’s mind.
Ansu pressed a shriveled hand to his temple.
"You’re saying you’ve already been to that ruin."
"And the temporal reset effect you described is still attached to you?"
Ansu sneered.
"Heh. Most people could never even dream of such a blessing."
"Ti is rewinding for you?"
"If I were you, I’d treasure the opportunity and see whether you can return to the past and alter certain events."
"But if you ask ..."
"No matter what, ti doesn’t truly change. What you think you’re reliving as a reset past may simply be a future that hasn’t happened yet."
"It’s just being realized through a thod stranger than I imagined."
"But the situation seems clear enough."
"The cause is that door."
"Go back."
"Open it."
"Perhaps this ends."
"Or perhaps..."
"sothing happens that you’d want even less."
After hearing Ansu’s analysis, Kanzaki Rei fell silent.
It seed...
he had no choice.
This reset had already sent him back to before he advanced into a Level 6 Cryptic Scholar.
His strength increased continuously with ti.
Which also ant—
the farther back ti moved,
the fewer thods he possessed.
The weaker he beca.
And he had no idea when the rewinds would stop.
In the worst case...
they would never stop.
All the way back to the origin of ti.
To the origin of his own life.
The worst possibility—
was death.
How could he possibly allow this to continue?
It seed the only option was to find a way to open that door.
No matter what—
preserving himself ca first.
"Understood."
He cald himself again.
Then resud refining the potion.
Even if ti had returned to this point,
none of the steps he should go through could be skipped.
Enhancing perception was necessary.
After that, advancing Cryptic Scholar was necessary.
Only by reclaiming his talent and re-entering the ruin would he have greater confidence.
...
Another full day passed.
This reset had thrown him back this far?
An entire day.
At last the potion was complete.
This ti he did not hesitate.
Kanzaki Rei imdiately drank it.
After waiting in place for a while—
he once again felt that roaring sensation,
as if ten thousand voices were calling his na.
The sensation of impending advancent.
It was ti to advance.
The following process was largely the sa...
At the wishing phase, he chose the sa wish again.
To unravel the mystery of the ruin.
But this ti, unlike before—
his first wish slot was already empty.
The wish that originally should not yet have been fulfilled
had been completed the instant ti reset.
Bzz—
As the Cryptic Scholar advancent ritual ended,
the class mastery and talent he obtained
were exactly the sa as last ti.
Once the advancent was complete,
he headed straight for the ruin.
The third ti here...
And still that spiraling entrance.
Though it stood unmoving in one place,
Kanzaki Rei sohow felt as if it could never be exhausted.
As though the ruin itself kept seeking him out.
Three visits already.
Like paying three visits to the thatched cottage.
Whoosh—
Kanzaki Rei stepped inside again.
He passed the first region with ease.
And when he entered the second region again,
all that remained before him
was emptiness and blackness.
Ispalut did not appear.
This place no longer seed to be the Realm of Secret Knowledge.
It felt more like a fracture in ti.
He had questions for Ispalut.
Yet this ti he was absent.
Troubleso.
Every passage through the second region
changed.
Kanzaki Rei confird it with Ansu.
Yes—
this truly was a temporal fault line.
aning—
follow the direction where light existed,
and he would once more reach the corridor with the great door.
Tick—
Ti passed second by second.
The search went smoothly.
Soon,
Kanzaki Rei once again arrived at that corridor,
once again saw the mysterious colossal door in the distance.
Behind it seed to echo a girl’s voice—
and voices like restless dead.
Crying.
Whispers.
Sorrow.
Kanzaki Rei stood before the door once more.
He did not know what opening it would unleash—
but he had to try.
He pressed the Core against the door.
Previously, even trying to open it,
the door had not budged in the slightest.
Who knew—
if giving everything he had
might move it.
At least this ti he had not fed his soul to Ansu.
He had soul power to spare.
"Ansu."
"What do you think this door is?"
Kanzaki Rei did not force it open imdiately.
He questioned first.
"What else could it be?"
"Open it."
"But if your strength isn’t enough..."
"Leave it to ."
"With just a little soul power,
I should be able to help you open it."
Hearing Ansu ask for souls again,
Kanzaki Rei almost laughed inwardly.
It gave him the feeling of watching a dog unable to quit eating filth.
Future Simulation still could not be used inside this ruin.
Divination also could not reveal what lay beyond after opening the door.
"Ansu."
"What do you think is behind it?"
"Based on what I understand, this door is a prison containing ti itself."
"What do you think it ans to imprison ti?"
Ansu replied,
"Ti can be imprisoned?"
"But if I follow your aning..."
"Maybe it ans many people like you have their ti stored inside."
"Every stretch of ti you lost through reset has been preserved there by so special ans."
"Ti must be conserved."
"You cannot simply lose a portion of ti for nothing."
"If you keep resetting,
then perhaps the ti you lose is filling sowhere else."
"Maybe..."
"behind the door."
His words were profound, almost mystical.
"But you can’t be the only one who entered this ruin."
"Maybe others who entered it, like you, went from ti moving endlessly forward..."
"...to endlessly backward."
Kanzaki Rei thought.
Back when Ewin had shown him the intelligence,
soone had indeed returned alive from the third region.
She had ntioned ti there continuously reset.
But if one waited a while,
one could co back out.
...
Thinking about it now—
Was the one who returned really herself?
"How many souls would you need to open the door?" Kanzaki Rei asked.
Ansu answered again,
"I can’t be sure."
"I can only try."
"The laws on this door are strange."
Kanzaki Rei replied,
"Then forget it."
His thoughts gradually clarified.
At the sa ti he made a wish.
I return to normal spaceti.
The wish was not fulfilled.
So he was still inside the temporal cycle of resets.
With the wish as a safeguard,
Kanzaki Rei raised one hand.
This ti—
he touched the door directly.
The previous attempts had used the Core,
or not touched it at all.
Though the Core was himself,
an inseparable part of him,
the sensation was different.
Bzz—
The mont his palm touched the door,
he felt endless vibrations.
A humming traveled through the gateway into his flesh,
making even his body go slightly numb.
And from the door
he felt warped spaceti itself.
Like the groggy haze of being forced awake at dawn.
Dream and reality overlapping.
The instant of contact—
his perception seed to see countless afterimages of himself.
Each subtly different.
One of them...
seed to be himself from his previous visit,
using the Core against the door.
Then what were the others?
Future scenes?
Would he co before this door so many tis?
This was already the third visit.
He thought that was many enough.
But...
there would be more?
No—
perhaps they were only possibilities.
If brute force was needed to blast open this door,
ordinary death magic would not do.
Then there was only one thing to try—
Kanzaki Rei opened his eyes again.
Within his pupils swirled ten thousand iridescent colors.
The Seventh Forbidden Magic — Elent
His greatest killing move.
Unfortunately,
with the Ti Forbidden Magic,
he t only the first condition.
And it was useless here.
So—
he would try pure destruction.
See if he could blast the door open.
Initiation Form: Elental Genesis
Whoosh—
In an instant,
everything around him disintegrated.
All that remained
was brilliant elental color.
The corridor vanished completely.
Only the lone door remained.
"Kid!"
Ansu shouted in shock from within his sea of consciousness.
"The Primordial Forbidden Magic."
Not only was he shocked Kanzaki Rei had learned a Primordial Forbidden Magic—
he was shocked he could use its ultimate form at all.
Because Ansu knew.
To use any Primordial Forbidden Magic,
the price was enormous.
Astronomical.
Not sothing ordinary mages could bear.
And yet—
after the First Form ended,
the door still remained.
It did not beco elental matter.
It was unaffected.
It was no ordinary thing.
Its laws transcended even the Initiation Form.
And within the elental field,
Kanzaki Rei vaguely sensed—
the door was not composed of elents at all.
Sothing in this world
not made of elents.
Truly eye-opening.
Then—
let’s try this.
Release Form: Elental Kaleidoscope
Flash!
The whole domain lit up.
After over an hour of practice,
he could sustain Elental Kaleidoscope longer.
At least—
one full second.
And in that one second—
at least four Ninth-Tier elental spells fully ford.
The entire corridor
ceased to exist.
This space beca only a swirling iridescent vortex.
...
Kanzaki Rei’s mana was drained instantly.
Inside his consciousness,
Ansu was speechless in shock.
No...
Why could this child
use the Second Form of a Primordial Forbidden Magic?
While the existence of the other Primordial Forbidden Magics was uncertain,
Elent was comparatively widespread.
With Ansu’s experience,
he had seen it.
Understood its release conditions.
Its price.
But...
why could Kanzaki Rei cast it?
A sudden terror gripped Ansu.
Though he had spent day and night beside Kanzaki Rei,
knew he far surpassed others his age—
No.
Far surpassed all beings at the sa rank—
there should still have been a limit.
And until now,
Ansu had believed his strength remained within what he could accept.
Until now.
Watching the iridescent eruption—
watching Ninth-Tier elental magic bombard the colossal door—
Ansu realized
Kanzaki Rei’s strength had surpassed the limits of his comprehension.
BOOM!
The giant door rang violently.
A massive feedback wave exploded outward—
Enduring backlash-induced vertigo,
Kanzaki Rei focused his senses on the colossal gate.
It had not opened.
Even Ninth-Tier elental magic had failed.
At the sa ti,
rippling currents of ti surged backward through the impact—
rushing into his body.
Tick—
Another faint click.
The sound of a dial being turned.
Damn...
Just hearing it made his scalp go numb.
He lifted his gaze again.
What he saw—
was a dark, cramped basent.
Painfully familiar.
This was...
Miseru.
In Atlantis City.
He was being sent farther and farther back.
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