The mont that sensation appeared, Kanzaki Rei considered attempting another future simulation.
But his intuition imdiately sent him a warning.
His instincts told him that if he used Future Simulation at this mont, the outco would only be the sa as before—
He would once again fall into the resetting tiline.
This was not the ti to use Future Simulation...
That was the warning rising from deep within him.
Buzzz—
Runes symbolizing the endless cycle of ti connected one after another, forming rings as the magic of the Leap Through Ti Ring activated.
"So this ans you can finally return," Echkatel said softly.
Kanzaki Rei asked,
"What about you?"
Echkatel’s tone carried a trace of helplessness.
"You know this already. I don’t belong to the spaceti you co from. I have my own place in ti to return to."
"Of course, it’s not here either."
"It’s sowhere else. A place that belongs to ."
Echkatel brushed back her ivory-white hair, tucking the pale strands behind her ear. Her snow-white translucent eyelashes made her seem incomparably pure and sacred.
"Although our ti together was short, I’ll definitely rember you forever—the person who brought out from behind that door."
"And of course, I won’t forget your companions either," Echkatel said with a faint smile.
Kanzaki Rei nodded.
"Yeah. I’ll rember you too."
"You really did help a lot. If we ever et again in the future, I’ll definitely treat you properly."
Without Echkatel, he probably would have needed far, far more ti to reach this place.
At minimum, it would have ant enduring another twenty-eight years.
That kind of ti was difficult even to imagine.
Pfft—
"You humans really have loved saying polite formalities since ancient tis."
Kanzaki Rei looked slightly puzzled.
"Formalities? So humans were already saying things like that a hundred million years ago?"
"More or less. At least, that’s how humans have always been in my mory," Echkatel replied casually.
"It’s getting late."
"You should get going."
Kanzaki Rei looked up toward the sky while simultaneously sensing the current flow of ti.
There truly wasn’t any ti left.
"Then... goodbye."
Kanzaki Rei waved toward Echkatel.
A final farewell.
Tick—
That extrely familiar sound rang out beside his ears once more.
The sound of a clock reversing.
It was the sa sound he heard every ti spaceti reset before.
But this ti, it sounded slightly different.
This ti, the sound was clearer.
It no longer carried that forced, rigid feeling.
If he had to describe the difference—
It was like the distinction between forcibly turning clock hands and a clock naturally operating on its own.
The scenery before his eyes was no longer any landscape he had seen before.
Only endless azure blue remained.
Kanzaki Rei stood alone upon a vast expanse of empty blue water. Ahead of him stretched a wide, radiant passageway.
"I..."
Kanzaki Rei slowly opened his mouth.
The mont he spoke, he realized his voice had beco far more mature.
He lowered his head to examine his hands while his perception swept across his entire body.
Only then did he realize—
He was no longer the child he once was.
He had beco a handso young man.
One hundred eighty-five centiters tall.
His hair had grown long enough to reach his waist.
The youthful softness had vanished from his features, replaced instead by sharp, defined edges and a resolute aura.
He was no longer a child.
And this appearance was not created through any spell.
Nor had he altered the structure of his body.
This—
Was his true self.
Kanzaki Rei activated his God-Tier Talent—
Deepest Reality.
He could clearly determine that everything before him at this mont was completely real.
And both of his wishes had fully returned.
The wish to return to the normal tiline had been fulfilled.
"So ti in the real world really did pass..."
Kanzaki Rei’s perception probed his own bones, calculating his age.
Eighteen years old.
His current self was an eighteen-year-old young man.
If judged purely by physical age—
Did that an ten years had already passed?
Even though, counting everything, he had spent less than four years within the resetting tiline.
Was there a temporal discrepancy causing the flow rates between the two sides to beco unequal?
Or—
Had the ti spent in Future Simulations also been counted?
No...
Not necessarily.
His body’s age did not automatically equal the amount of ti that had passed.
Perhaps he had simply grown older physically.
That didn’t necessarily an ten years had truly elapsed.
Kanzaki Rei looked toward the door ahead of him.
He stepped forward.
Almost instantly, he adapted to the new body.
And this adaptation did not rely refer to ordinary movent.
It also included his combat techniques and control over magic.
Different body structures naturally required adjustnts to combat arts.
Even magical mana circuits required modification.
That was precisely why combat techniques and spells could never simply be copied perfectly.
Even if soone completely learned them, they still could not unleash the creator’s full power.
Because those techniques and spells had originally been created according to the creator’s own body and condition.
Slash—
A faint wind blade swept past.
Kanzaki Rei cut away his overly long hair, leaving only the portion reaching his waist.
Then he walked toward the passage before him.
His perception had already touched the corridor.
That perception was practically tangible now, like extensions of his own limbs.
At the sa ti, it triggered the Hidden Origin talent and returned feedback.
This—
Was the passage leading to the outside world.
The Blessing of Temporal Immortality had ended.
Leaving through here ant returning to the outside world.
However, while still standing here, Future Simulation remained unusable.
Kanzaki Rei stepped directly through the passage.
Crash—
Sea water.
Cold wind.
Bright moonlight.
The mont he erged from the passage, he found himself standing alone upon the ocean surface.
This place should originally have been the Hollow Valley Region.
But now—
It had completely disappeared.
Had the location of the relic shifted?
Or had the island itself vanished entirely?
Kanzaki Rei slowly shook his head.
At the sa ti, he looked down over the sea.
This ocean should once have been bright and clear.
Under moonlight, it should have reflected the silver glow of the moon.
But now—
All he saw was endless blackness.
The ocean had turned dark and abyssal.
A faint stench of decay even seeped from the sea itself.
Was this really still the ocean?
No...
Based on the knowledge Kanzaki Rei possessed—
Based on the theories of Abyssology—
This sea had already been contaminated by the Abyss.
The disaster feared by that Level 8 Scholar had ultimately happened after all.
The Abyssal Collapse had fully erupted and polluted the Moon Sea.
And the mont Kanzaki Rei appeared—
He vaguely sensed waves of agitation rising from below.
Splash!
Large numbers of monsters burst forth from the pitch-black ocean.
They raised their heads to stare at Kanzaki Rei.
Wild arrogance filled their expressions.
Yet mixed within that madness was unmistakable conceit.
Unlike the primitive instincts of ordinary monsters, this sort of arrogance should only appear in intelligent lifeforms.
One of the creatures had the head of a toad and the tail of a tadpole trailing behind it.
"A human?"
"Weak! Submissive! Defeated race!"
"A human actually ca here to die!"
"Hahaha—! Kneel and beg for rcy right now! Entertain a little, and maybe I’ll spare the worthless life of your human kind!"
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