A strange, singular space existed outside the past, outside the future, and outside any particular mont in the world.
It was a realm of darkness and silence, bordering on eternity.
And here,
two people who looked almost identical walked side by side through the darkness.
"Did you tell him?"
"I am immortal. I cannot be extinguished."
"No matter how you kill , I will always exist." Ahekator’s tone remained calm, as if she had not been killed at all.
She had simply traveled temporarily to a new place.
Nahelkato walked beside her, her voice cool and indifferent. "I didn’t tell him."
"I know what you want to do," Ahekator said, still sounding relaxed.
"But if you do this, you will never see him again. Don’t you think that’s cruel to yourself, who has finally gained freedom?"
Snap—
Ahekator’s neck was seized by Nahelkato, who lifted her high into the air.
Even while held suspended like this,
her eyes remained filled with contempt and mockery. She had always been the lofty Ahekator.
Nothing in the world was worth her concern.
"Ahekator..."
Holding Ahekator by the neck, Nahelkato’s eyes seed to hold a thousand unspoken words, yet in the end all of them converged into that contemptuous gaze.
She simply continued staring quietly at her counterpart.
There was no fear, no panic.
Her expression remained unchanged, carrying neither anger nor condemnation. Even this lofty superiority did not feel like a superior pitying mortals—it was rely the cold observation of a stranger.
"I have nothing to say to you."
Silver-white patterns extended along Nahelkato’s arm, spreading onto Ahekator’s body. Countless silver-white branches appeared throughout this empty, void darkness.
Silver-white threads began manifesting from thin air, wrapping around both of them like a cocoon.
...
Hiss— Crackle—
Kanzaki Rei gazed at the scenery before him.
Tenth-tier magic...
This was the legendary realm.
A level no one in legend had ever reached—Level 10, a realm existing only in fantasy. It was said that reaching this level ant directly replacing the origin itself.
It was also said that reaching this level ant transcending the job class entirely.
But in the end, they were all just hearsay.
No legends recorded this realm in detail.
"Iz..."
Kanzaki Rei was about to speak.
Suddenly, the entire world twitched.
Crackle—
It was like an old television flickering. The whole world began twisting horizontally left and right with white noise.
Kanzaki Rei had just opened his mouth.
Hiss!
The scenery before his eyes changed once again!
What he saw now was a boiling sea of flas. The ocean itself burned with raging infernos. Even for soone of Kanzaki Rei’s level, the temperature felt slightly scorching.
He snapped back to his senses.
Only to find that Izparalt beside him was also beginning to fade.
Hiss—
Kanzaki Rei abruptly looked toward the changes in ti. After studying ti laws with Nahelkato for so long, he could now perceive many things related to ti.
Kanzaki Rei suddenly saw it.
An extra, long temporal branch was peeling away from one of the lines!
It was like a long thread of yarn being pulled, suddenly splitting off into another thin strand.
Though thin, this line still represented the tiline of an entire world.
"These tilines... have existed from the very beginning."
The words suddenly echoed in Kanzaki Rei’s mind.
Boom!
With Ahekator’s disappearance, Kanzaki Rei’s gaze suddenly caught sight of the Moons, of raging wars, of collapse and destruction!
This was what should have originally happened.
This was what would occur across these tilines when uniqueness was lost!
...
"Kanzaki Rei!"
"Kanzaki Rei, it’s ti to leave..."
"This is not your ho."
Tap—
A hand rested on Kanzaki Rei’s shoulder. He turned and saw Nahelkato.
Behind her was a silver-white, twisting passage.
"Ahekator has been dealt with."
"You can go back now."
"That side is your world."
Kanzaki Rei glanced at the world he saw before him. "Then what about you?"
"I belong to this tiline, of course."
"If anything, I was actually here from the very beginning."
"Are you worried about ?"
Nahelkato covered her mouth and let out a soft laugh. "You’re one to talk—your side isn’t much better off. It’s like the pot calling the kettle black."
Kanzaki Rei smiled wryly. "Fair enough."
He simply hadn’t expected the situation to devolve into such a catastrophe.
For a mont, it made him reflect on whether what he had done was right or wrong.
Never mind... no need to overthink it.
Did he even have a choice?
"Nahelkato, thank you," Kanzaki Rei said suddenly.
Nahelkato’s face flushed red. "Thank for what? I needed to deal with Ahekator too. If she were still alive, I wouldn’t have any peace either."
"We simply helped each other."
Kanzaki Rei smiled. "Yeah."
"What are you smiling at..."
"Once my world is safe, you are welco anyti."
Nahelkato: "I know."
Kanzaki Rei moved toward the white passage. After his perception touched it and read the information, he strode inside.
Before leaving, at the very last mont,
Kanzaki Rei turned back to look at Nahelkato.
He could sense an atmosphere of lonely parting from her.
Kanzaki Rei had opened his mouth to ask.
But... he was afraid that if he asked, he wouldn’t be able to resist staying...
Kanzaki Rei feared he might not return at all.
He still had things he wanted to do, and more attachnts waiting in that other world.
"Goodbye, Nahelkato."
Kanzaki Rei: "We will et again soday."
...
[Main Tiline]
Whoosh—
Gray mist, thick and hazy, had risen at so unknown point.
The mont he returned to the tiline of his birth, his eyes were filled with dim, purplish-pink fog. It sowhat resembled the mist of the Forgetful Moon, but if his timing was correct, it should currently be the July Dark Moon.
His absolute sea of magic power extended in all directions.
Yet even after expanding for a full half hour, he still could not find the edge of the mist.
He did, however, sense many human presences within his perception. From their appearances, they seed lost within the fog as well.
This mist possessed perception-isolating properties.
Even a seventh-tier job-changer would likely have their perception range reduced to less than a hundred ters inside it—essentially rendering perception useless.
Whoosh!
But Kanzaki Rei paid it no mind.
He tore open space directly and traversed the phases.
In a single step, he arrived at a point he had previously marked.
Whoosh—
Kanzaki Rei appeared in the skies above the Moonsea.
To the east of the Moonsea, a golden sea of liquid light surged forward in waves, while the sea surface beneath his feet had turned pitch black as ink.
Between the realms of light and darkness lay a frenzied boiling sea!
The entire ocean was burning.
Above this seething, blazing sea floated crimson legions. These legions were locked in fierce combat with invisible foes!
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