"How could this happen? How is this possible!" Igor cradled his head, muttering to himself in disbelief.
A punch landed to his left, a kick to his right. Igor was being hit all over his body, hardly able to catch his breath.
"We are in the Ti Gap; you and I are both in the Spirit Power State. In such a state, anything is possible here," Arnold said. Continuing his monologue like a nagging lecturer, he offered Igor a lesson each ti he appeared.
He never cared whether Igor, who was currently being beaten up, could absorb his words...
Although Igor, in pain, was filled with questions, he still listened to every word Arnold had to say.
This was an ability in itself. Managing to concentrate on the other person's words while enduring severe pain showed Igor was quite a talent.
"You should feel honored to have made traverse space here, Igor. No one has ever driven to use this ability; you're the first!"
"I... I do feel honored, but there are so things I still don't understand," Igor replied to Arnold, stifling his pain as he struggled to answer.
"I can give you a straightforward explanation before you're eliminated," Arnold said, having stopped his assault and now standing to the side.
"Why can you traverse space, but I can't?" Igor asked directly, without hesitation.
"Because in this Ti Gap, I am the master of ti. I can do whatever I want."
Arnold suddenly beca a lecturer again, an impulse rushing over him to deliver endless explanations.
"Then why could I react during the Ti Leap, but I haven't felt anything during this spatial traversal?" Igor asked, catching his breath. He couldn't comprehend these things, and this lack of understanding made him uneasy; the ntal anguish was worse than his physical injuries.
"That's because you're not a Ti-Leaper Person." Arnold's answer was baffling. If this counted as a straightforward explanation, then all explanations in the world were aningless. This content belongs to noⅴelfire
This explanation left Igor flabbergasted.
"You have your own Tiline. In this Ti Gap, you can master the thod of Ti Leap by controlling your Tiline. But you can only accomplish simple leaps—that is, leaping from one point in ti to another. Your location won't change at all." Seeing Igor's bewildered expression, Arnold explained again, this ti in more depth.
This explanation, though a bit lengthier, was rather obscure and not easily understood—at least not for soone like Igor, who would need so ti to ponder it.
"In this Ti Gap, you can only leap along your own Tiline; you cannot transcend spatial boundaries. But as the controller, the one who created this Ti Gap—that is, —I'm not restricted by this rule."
This explanation only made Igor feel more confused.
The strange scene remained at a stalemate. Igor was no longer being attacked by Arnold, but he felt even worse than when he was being hit. He earnestly desired to understand, but Arnold's esoteric explanations were completely beyond his comprehension.
He felt like a blank slate, waiting for soone to fill it with colors. Since he understood nothing, he could only be fooled by all sorts of pronouncents.
He also felt like a lamb for the slaughter, already on the butcher's block, just waiting for the cleaver to fall. Since he understood nothing, he had to accept whatever was said to him, unable to question any of it.
Even if he had doubts, what good would they do? He couldn't change anything; he could only accept defeat. He didn't understand how he had ended up in this Ti Gap, nor did he rember entering it. He didn't understand why he was fighting this person before him, nor could he fathom the reason for any of this...
Igor had a million questions, but they were pointless. He had so little ti he could call his own, and even his current position might have been arranged by soone else...
"You should understand now, right?" Arnold asked. He felt his explanation had been very detailed. Indeed, he was pleased that Igor, this young man, had actually listened to everything. This was unexpected because usually, whenever he started explaining these things, most people would find excuses to slip away, unwilling to hear another word from him.
"I haven't understood, but I generally grasp the aning," Igor said, scratching his head. It was only at this mont, in his Spirit Power State, that he fully adapted and realized he wasn't his true self but rely a projection within the Ti Gap.
"So do you understand or not?" Arnold disliked this answer; he loathed such equivocal responses.
"Even if I don't understand, there's nothing I can do, is there? This is your domain, your space. Whatever you say goes, doesn't it?" Igor replied. He no longer even had the strength to resist; there was no way to fight back against such a powerful Ti-Leaper Person.
"Ti is about up. I don't have much more ti to spend with you here explaining the leap of space and ti," Arnold said, shaking his head. He felt like a failed lecturer all over again; not only had he failed to make Igor understand, but he seed to have confused him even more.
But Arnold didn't dwell on that. He felt he had already given Igor plenty of ti.
"You should know, you're actually quite remarkable, Igor. I feel it's necessary to tell you this before I send you away," Arnold said softly. His feelings toward Igor were complex. He very much wanted Igor to pass the test, but out of responsibility to the Great ntor, he couldn't go easy on him, no matter how much he admired this Igor.
"To send away soone who made use spatial traversal... I'm actually a little reluctant, but it can't be helped."
Igor rely listened quietly. What else could he do but listen?
"Alright, enough talk. Let's leap out of this Ti Gap together. Let personally see you off," Arnold said, extending his hand with a smile, although the smile on a face that was half-infant, half-old man looked sowhat terrifying.
Ti trickled away, mont by mont. Whether in the Ti Gap, outside it, or at the crossroads where two Tilines collided, ti always marched ceaselessly forward. Whether you wished it or not, it had already traveled very, very far...
And over this vast distance of ti, every Living Being experienced ti in its proper course.
But there were exceptions.
"We need to help Igor," Kadi had said to the Spirit Book a short while before. They hadn't entered the Ti Gap like Igor; they could only wait outside, where the moonlight was hazy and the night grew ever darker.
Just as Arnold extended his hand within the Ti Gap, Kadi and the Spirit Book, from the outside, sent Igor a crucial piece of information—information that might just be able to help him.
"The rest is up to Igor," Kadi muttered to himself. Next to him, the Spirit Book had already fallen into a deep sleep from exhaustion.
This contest wasn't just fought by Igor alone.
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