Chapter 579: Chapter 579
Kanzaki Rei possessed the fate of always observing the enemy first. The moment Ahekator appeared, Kanzaki Rei saw her before she saw him.
However, this time difference was extremely brief.
So brief it was nearly simultaneous.
Crack—
[Ahekator — Gap in Time]
[Nahelkato — Gap in Time]
Both entered the gap in time at the same moment. In this instant, all things froze. Even Kanzaki Rei was rendered completely motionless.
Kanzaki Rei, powerful enough to slay ninth-tier monsters, could not move a single inch.
Ding!
Ahekator’s footsteps turned illusory. In a flash of thought, she had crossed from a scale of hundreds of billions of kilometers to appear directly behind Kanzaki Rei...
But when she struck out with her palm, it was met by Nahelkato’s counter.
Snap—
The two girls moved with light, gentle motions, yet their collision stirred ripples across time itself.
A fluctuation of time transmitted into Ahekator’s body, attempting to knock her out of the gap-in-time state.
Their movements resembled slow motion.
But in the next instant!
Boom!
Countless time ripples bloomed around them. The ripples exploded outward, and with the two at the center, the entire scenery was completely distorted...
Within this distortion,
the two nearly simultaneously exited the gap-in-time state.
Crack—
Only from this moment onward could Kanzaki Rei perceive normal time. In that single instant, heaven and earth twisted, and time reverberated!
It seemed as if the entire world was on the verge of falling apart.
Golden light gradually rose from Kanzaki Rei’s body as he gripped the Supreme Luck Scepter in his hand!
Tap—
Another instant passed.
Boom!
A slender line streaked across the entire world. Immediately afterward, the continent and ocean at one end of the line sank violently downward!
This single strike seemed to have sliced the world itself into a fault line!
Even more terrifying was the fact that
Kanzaki Rei could not see the attack.
The battle between the two was occurring entirely within stopped time...
Merely the aftershocks were enough to destroy everything, yet Kanzaki Rei, protected by Nahelkato, remained alive.
"Why have you come here?"
Ahekator appeared completely at ease, while several silver-white wounds had appeared across Nahelkato’s body. These wounds showed no signs of self-healing and continued expanding as time flowed.
The two had temporarily left the gap-in-time state once more.
"You really are a foolish version of me. I naturally have my own methods," Ahekator replied dismissively.
Nahelkato paced through the air, light and time swirling around her.
She asked, "Was it Yogg?"
The corner of Ahekator’s mouth curved slightly upward. "You’re quite clever."
Nahelkato sneered coldly. "Hah. Do you know why I was able to save him from your hands? The timing of his rescue was also something Yogg told me."
"It helped you, and it helped me as well."
"What do you think its goal is?"
"You’ve been schemed against by it."
Ahekator remained utterly calm, completely unconcerned by Nahelkato’s provocation. She responded slowly.
"I never thought I could out-scheme the God of Knowledge and Wisdom."
"You also know I hate all this scheming and calculating."
"But I understand one thing even more clearly."
"Between two evils, choose the lesser one."
Ahekator’s gaze shifted onto Kanzaki Rei. "This guy is the aggregate of spirituality. I have already seen his potential and growth speed."
"Yogg told me about him."
"To allow someone with such terrifying growth potential to remain with you, plotting how to defeat me..."
As Ahekator spoke, she slowly lowered her eyelids, her gaze moving to the pendant at her chest. Her fingertip gently stroked the reversed hour hand.
"Do you think I should simply sit and wait for death?"
Crack—
[Reverse Time]
Ahekator descended upon the world.
The moment she arrived, she saw Kanzaki Rei’s existence. She saw him directly before he even noticed her.
Clang!
In the very first moment,
Ahekator clashed with Nahelkato once again.
But this time, an additional weapon appeared in Ahekator’s hand—a silver-white short sword. Nahelkato caught the blade with one hand, silver-white ripples spreading across it.
"Sister."
"Why are you fighting so desperately to protect him?"
"Could it be... that you’ve developed feelings for him?"
A contemptuous smile played across Ahekator’s lips.
Click—
[Reverse Time]
Splurt!
With a simple change in the direction of her attack, turning the downward slash into a straight thrust, the strike bypassed Nahelkato’s defense and stabbed directly into her abdomen.
The silver-white wound sank deep, tearing through time itself.
[Divine Artifact: Sword of Time Erasure]
Any part struck by this sword would be erased from time.
The resulting wounds could not be healed.
Nahelkato’s figure flickered repeatedly, but Ahekator was faster. She had already completed her movement even before Nahelkato could shift.
As fellow time controllers,
Ahekator had predicted her future.
Clang!
With the collision of their laws, mountains and seas collapsed once more!
Whoosh!
Yet during their exchange, a silver wound suddenly appeared on Ahekator’s shoulder.
Ahekator gazed into time.
This timeline was under Nahelkato’s rule. She herself was merely an invader. It was precisely because of this that Nahelkato, a mere ninth-tier time controller, could trade blows with her on somewhat even terms.
And even inflict some injury upon her.
Ahekator halted her pursuit, a smile on her lips as she lightly touched the pendant once more.
Ding!
[Reverse Time]
Time rewound once again to the moment she had just descended.
The instant Ahekator arrived, she attacked directly! And Nahelkato once again blocked her in the first moment.
But this time, before Ahekator’s sword even touched Nahelkato,
a silver-white wound had already appeared on Nahelkato’s body.
Whoosh—
Time tore apart!
The wounds from the previous spacetime erupted this time. Ahekator had barely attacked at all, yet as time flowed, more and more wounds burst open across Nahelkato’s body.
Every single one of these wounds
was an old injury left from their previous two exchanges.
"Sister, you should understand, right?"
"The gap between us."
"I am the sole Time God—the only Time God in the Myriad Hour Observatory—while you are not... You are merely a reflection of me across infinite timelines."
"You also know you are unworthy of the name Ahekator, which is why you chose to flee from my existence."
Ahekator pressed down with her small hand, and silver-white ripples surged once more!
By now, Nahelkato’s body was covered in silver-white wounds. She had sustained at least thirty time injuries, with the aura of time leaking outward. Her entire being had clearly reached the brink of complete collapse.
And at this moment, Kanzaki Rei remained frozen in place.
The battle between the two Time Gods seemed to have nothing to do with him... By the time Kanzaki Rei could actually move, Nahelkato would likely already be dead.
Just as Ahekator prepared to deliver the final sword strike,
the one that would end Nahelkato’s life,
Whoosh—
Hidden chains suddenly rose within the space, completely enclosing the area where the two stood.
[Divine Artifact: Soul Severing Chains]
This divine artifact had actually taken effect even within the stopped gap in time!
In the instant before Ahekator’s sword could bisect Nahelkato, Ahekator’s soul was directly extracted!
