Was this maybe taking the phrase "leave nothing behind" a little too far?
But that was no longer sothing Kanzaki Rei needed to worry about.
After all—
He was about to leave.
And after personally witnessing the Tree of Wisdom, Kanzaki Rei also felt that one of his long-held wishes had finally been fulfilled.
Through his talent, he had personally uncovered the secret hidden within the Ti Relic.
But why was the secret of the Ti Relic connected to witnessing the Tree of Wisdom?
Could reaching the end of one’s own tiline also count as part of the Ti Relic itself?
And was this the true core secret of the Ti Relic?
The path to fulfilling that wish had certainly been complicated.
"Echkatel, send back," Kanzaki Rei said.
As for how to leave, he had already asked about it before.
According to Izparut’s thod, it was actually possible to leave even without relying on Echkatel.
All he needed to do was fully live through an entire lifeti within this cycle of spaceti. Then, when the reset arrived on May 18th at the very end, he would maximize the spell Leap Through Ti and jump to the farthest possible point in spaceti.
That should allow him to completely escape this tiline.
The only drawback—
Was the amount of ti required.
Every second would need to be personally experienced.
To completely live through an entire life ant enduring twenty-nine full years.
"So you’re finally ready?"
"In that case... I’m starting now."
Echkatel slowly raised her hand.
"Anyway, thank you for freeing from that place. Without you, I might have remained trapped there for a very, very long ti."
"Perhaps I might have even disappeared alongside the destruction of an entire tiline."
A gentle smile appeared on Echkatel’s face.
Then—
Whoosh—
The scenery before his eyes began to flow rapidly past.
In a single instant, Kanzaki Rei no longer saw the Tree of Wisdom.
Instead, he saw a familiar woman.
Then a nervous, anxious man.
...His father.
Ti flashed by almost instantaneously.
Whoosh—
In re monts, Kanzaki Rei watched his infancy, childhood, adolescence, and youth pass before his eyes.
Ti flew by...
If he could do it all over again—
There were so regrets...
No.
Many regrets that could have been fixed.
Unfortunately, this was not truly his own tiline. He could only watch the scenes before him fast-forward at ten thousand tis speed.
Almost instantly, the mont he was blown away at the airport had already passed.
Click—
At that mont, Kanzaki Rei suddenly rembered sothing critically important.
He should have searched for them!
That’s right—
He still hadn’t discovered who the real culprit was behind the ritual that sent him to the Secret Sea!
How could he forget sothing like that?
Was it the influence of the Forgotten Moon?
Even within his mory Palace, the priority level of that matter was extrely high!
Buzz—
But by the ti he snapped back to attention—
He had already arrived at the Secret Sea.
"Echkatel, can we go back and look again?!"
"You really are troubleso," Echkatel complained as she halted the fast-forwarding flow of ti.
"What mont do you want to review?"
"The mont right before I was blown away from the theater. Before that happened—who was the one setting up the ritual there?!"
Echkatel froze briefly.
...Right.
That incident had been so bizarre, yet she had unconsciously treated it like so ordinary, insignificant matter.
There shouldn’t have been a ritual appearing in that location at all.
And while observing Kanzaki Rei’s life, she had also felt sothing subtly strange.
His life sohow felt different from ordinary people’s.
But perhaps that was simply due to the changes that had occurred over the past hundred million years.
After all, Echkatel had no idea what kind of lives people in the current era actually lived.
Maybe it was because of common sense.
Because of that, she had never consciously questioned it.
"Hold on. I’ll rewind and take another look."
With a sharp whoosh, spaceti replayed itself before them.
Foreseeing the future and observing the past both belonged to the domain of ti.
The past consisted of events that had already happened—completely fixed and certain.
Because of that, observing the past was generally far easier than predicting the future.
The scene before them once again beca the airport.
"Even I can’t return to the true past tiline."
"This place is rely a reenactnt based on everything you personally experienced."
Kanzaki Rei nodded.
Imdiately afterward, his perception swept across the entire Earth.
Yet despite scanning everything—
He found nothing.
At the very least, he discovered no suspicious individuals.
However—
Deep beneath the planet’s crust, he found the sa ritual he had once discovered on Earth within the Sea Abyss.
The ritual that had teleported him there.
It hadn’t been arranged recently.
Kanzaki Rei touched the ritual again, tracing the source of its origin.
Buzz—
His Hidden Origin Trace instantly locked onto a figure wearing a black hood.
But the figure appeared unreal.
Hidden Origin Trace failed to capture any information whatsoever.
It was almost exactly like encountering one of his own unsolvable mysteries.
No useful feedback ca back.
No information at all.
"Echkatel, can you determine when this ritual was created?"
"When was it set up? Can we travel to the mont it was constructed?"
Echkatel glanced at the ritual.
She was extrely sensitive to ti itself.
"The ritual seems to have been established shortly before your birth."
"It wasn’t set up recently?"
"No. Recently, the ritual has undergone slight reinforcent, but that seems to be part of the ritual’s own self-iteration."
"This is a ritual capable of evolving itself over ti to adapt to different situations."
That really was advanced...
It could actually evolve on its own?
"Do you really want to find the person who created this ritual?"
"I feel like if you search for them with your current strength... you might die."
"Anyone capable of creating a ritual like this is at minimum a god, right? It wouldn’t even be strange if they were a Moon-Star existence."
Echkatel was currently an Eighth-Level Ti Controller.
She was probably stronger than most other Eighth-Level class users of the sa rank.
But if she truly encountered a Level 9 existence or a god—
She might not necessarily be able to win.
"...Forget it."
Kanzaki Rei clenched his fist.
He was still too weak.
Even if he found them now—
What could he actually do?
If the other party refused to reveal the truth, Kanzaki Rei would have no way to force the issue.
And there was still the risk of death and forced reincarnation.
Even if he really found them—
Even if they held no hostility—
If they simply ignored him completely, then in the end all he would know was that soone had sent him to the Secret Sea.
Finding them would make almost no difference at all.
"Let’s go," Echkatel said helplessly.
Ti began accelerating once more.
Within only a few hours, more than ten months passed.
In the blink of an eye—
They had returned to May 18th once again.
The very day Kanzaki Rei entered the Ti Relic.
As soon as he arrived at that date, Kanzaki Rei sensed the reset approaching.
He raised his hand once more.
Echkatel mirrored the motion simultaneously.
Light from the spell ignited.
One ring after another ford around Kanzaki Rei’s body.
Leap Through Ti.
Buzzz—
As the magic resonated with ti itself, a clear sensation spread through his body this ti.
Kanzaki Rei could feel it.
He was finally capable of returning to the true tiline—
His own original spaceti.
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