Chapter 580: Chapter 580
Click—
It was in this very instant.
Time reversed!
Reverse Time activated. The moment Ahekator’s soul was extracted, [Reverse Time] triggered once again!
[Original Timeline]
Ahekator returned to the spacetime before she had gone to find Kanzaki Rei and the others.
She looked at the passage before her, then turned her gaze toward Yogg behind her.
In this instant, she entered the gap-in-time state once more.
She pondered slowly within stopped time.
[Reverse Time] was Ahekator’s true source of confidence.
Schemes? What schemes?
No matter how others calculated against her, she simply needed to return to the time before the scheme took effect, and all those plots would become as laughable as a child’s tantrum.
Ahekator remained in her peak condition.
After a brief moment of thought, Ahekator dispelled the time stop.
Yogg: "What’s wrong? Have you decided not to go?"
"Or did you see something in the future? Though I imagine whatever you saw shouldn’t interfere with the trust between us."
Yogg’s fingers tapped and interlaced, smiling as it looked at Ahekator.
Ahekator’s perception extended behind her. She let out a cold snort. "Yogg, you’re no good thing yourself."
Yogg continued smiling. "Certain goals can only be achieved through cooperation with different parties, but that does not mean our interests conflict."
"You obtain what you desire most, and I obtain what I desire most."
Ahekator: "Too much nonsense."
The girl lingered for a few extra seconds before the passage of time...
[Kanzaki Rei’s Timeline]
While fishing, silver-white wounds gradually spread across Nahelkato’s body.
Splurt!
Lines of sword wounds from beyond spacetime appeared on her body. No one had attacked her—the injuries simply manifested out of thin air!
"Na!" Kanzaki Rei’s pupils contracted.
He maintained constant foresight of the future at all times, yet in his perspective this scene had appeared so suddenly.
There had been no prior warning at all.
"She’s here," Nahelkato said. Her body was covered in unhealable wounds, yet she offered only this light, understated warning.
Kanzaki Rei looked toward the sky, but there was no sign of Ahekator.
Then, Nahelkato and Kanzaki Rei’s eyes met. In that single glance, they understood each other’s thoughts perfectly.
Whoosh!
Kanzaki Rei vanished from his original spot.
Almost in the next moment—
Rumble!
Heaven and earth fractured apart once more! A blade capable of severing souls appeared in Ahekator’s grasp... Powerful time laws had frozen the divine artifact in time.
A divine artifact whose time had been completely stopped could not exert its power.
"He gave this to you, didn’t he?"
"Gifting you a divine artifact is indeed a method. But relying on such a weak divine artifact..." Ahekator’s smile appeared innocent and pure, yet her tone was filled with contempt. "How interesting."
Clang!
The [Soul Severing Chains] were directly frozen in midair.
Ahekator’s figure vanished once again.
"You seem to value him quite highly."
Ding!
The next instant.
Kanzaki Rei, who had already disappeared, reappeared before Ahekator—this time held by the throat.
Kanzaki Rei’s hands gripped Ahekator’s wrist.
His immense strength twisted the surrounding space, yet he could not pry her wrist open.
Tch...
He had grabbed others by the neck so many times. Now it was his turn to have his neck gripped.
Kanzaki Rei’s gaze shifted with difficulty to the side.
What he saw was Nahelkato pinned to a massive mountain by a silver-white longsword. Everything around them had collapsed, yet this single mountain remained intact amid their battle.
No...
It could not truly be called intact. The mountain had already been shattered during their fight.
But in order to pin Nahelkato against it, Ahekator had restored and reinforced the mountain at the same moment she hurled the sword.
The outcome was obvious.
A complete victory.
Ahekator had sustained virtually no damage while successfully pinning Nahelkato and recapturing Kanzaki Rei.
Nahelkato clutched her abdomen.
An emptiness assaulted every part of her body, as if those parts had never existed from the very beginning.
"Ahekator..." She struggled to raise her head, gazing at the girl who looked identical to her yet whose circumstances were entirely different.
"You truly are powerful to a despairing degree."
Ahekator looked at Nahelkato with pure eyes while still holding Kanzaki Rei. "You know it as well—the one who is strong is me, not you."
"I have already ceded this timeline to you for far too long. If you had not interfered in this matter, I might have taken even longer to reclaim you."
"But bringing him away was your greatest mistake."
"Unstable factors should be brought to an end..."
"He has stolen too much spirituality. That spirituality should belong to the entire world, to different people across the world. With that spirituality, they would bloom into different talents."
"It must be said that if he were allowed to grow and suppress it all, even I would need considerable effort to deal with him."
"Entrusting all the world’s noble spirituality to a single person is far too childish. Moreover, he has colluded with the filthy source nest."
"He might very well become the greatest calamity in existence."
"And you... have even developed feelings for such a calamity."
Ahekator’s tone remained calm and indifferent. From beginning to end, she had never shown the slightest tension, as if everything she did was completely under her control.
There was nothing in this world worthy of her full seriousness.
Her words carried the weight of judgment and condemnation.
Nahelkato’s life was visibly fading. Her hair hung down limply. A trace of pity flashed across Ahekator’s face—she could see that this "sister’s" death was not far off.
"Just watch."
"Before you die, I will let you witness my judgment."
Silver-white ripples spread beneath Ahekator’s feet, expanding... Vaguely, countless chimes echoed, the sounds of morning bells and evening drums reverberating!
Yet the moment she was about to unfold her divine kingdom,
Splurt!
The divine kingdom uncontrollably burst apart and exploded!
A fleeting, almost imperceptible flash of surprise appeared in Ahekator’s eyes. At the same time, she once again entered the gap in time where Kanzaki Rei could not move!
Within stopped time, she had infinite time to understand what had happened and decide her next actions.
And Kanzaki Rei remained completely at her mercy during this period.
However, the instant she entered the gap-in-time state!
A straight silver war spear suddenly pierced out from behind Ahekator, stabbing straight through her heart! The spear penetrated her heart and made contact with the pendant on her chest—[Reverse Time].
Kanzaki Rei reached out and grabbed it!
[Martial Dao — Path Five: Resonator: Change of Ownership!]
[Level 6 Blacksmith Talent — God-Tier · Dominion Over All Artifacts]
"Aelora, I owe you one."
The moment 「Nahelkato’s Spear」 pierced through Ahekator’s chest and pushed Reverse Time forward, Kanzaki Rei made contact with it!
An extremely minute time difference!
And the supreme luck began to exert its proper effect.
Kanzaki Rei and Ahekator contested control of the divine artifact. As long as Ahekator could react in this instant, she could return to the past once more and start over!
What they were betting on was whether a Time God could react in time.
In ninety-nine percent of cases, Ahekator should have been faster than Kanzaki Rei, foreseen what was about to happen, and immediately reset spacetime to try again.
But this time...
She faltered!
She had foreseen a more distant future, foreseen irrelevant futures, and diverted her attention to countless trivial matters. She should not have done so, yet at this critical moment, she had.
Kanzaki Rei touched [Reverse Time].
He held contact for a full one ten-thousandth of a second—a vast span of time.
And in that vast span,
Kanzaki Rei seized complete control of [Reverse Time].
Ahekator finally regained her senses.
Yet what appeared before her was Kanzaki Rei’s brilliant smile of survival against impossible odds...
"Ahekator, it seems even you cannot win forever."
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