Chapter 605: Chapter 605
All timelines had existed from the very beginning.
Yet among these infinite timelines, only a single Ekhator had appeared. Just how special and fortunate was that?
And because of Ekhator’s birth, another thing was destined: in all other timelines, anything and everything could happen.
But the one thing that would never occur was crossing timelines.
Every parallel world might contain a Yug, scheming over all things in existence.
Their wisdom could know everything that was known.
But the problem was...
Other timelines were like black boxes. They did not exist within the realm of the known, because without Ekhator, they could not know the very concept of other timelines.
Only in the timeline where Kanzaki Rei existed could Yug know.
Yug could not only know that other timelines existed, but through that knowledge, he could access intelligence from every parallel world.
January 5037.
Kanzaki Rei had already become a Level 9 Blacksmith, Level 9 Alchemist, and Level 9 Enchanter.
Under the effect of his Alchemist talent, potions had no resistance and could exert their effects perfectly. Using the Potion of Ascension, Kanzaki Rei stacked it infinitely.
The difficulty of advancement was instead reduced to a level even simpler than normal circumstances.
The Moon Gods gathered once more.
The Moon Gods of today had undergone enormous changes compared to ten years ago...
"The position of January..."
Kanzaki Rei saw a woman with black bangs covering half her eye, sitting quietly in the January chair.
Oh...
So she had always been there. He simply hadn’t been able to see her before.
Only after reaching Level 9 as a Cryptologist could he perceive Tihi’s figure.
Tihi of Oblivion and Secrets.
The one who had helped him resist Ekhator together in the second timeline.
Kanzaki Rei had found it strange.
Why had someone who could become a Level 9 Assassin and a Level 9 Class Changer even under those harsh conditions in the second timeline remained obscure and unheard of in his own timeline?
He had thought she was dead.
He never expected that here, she was directly a Moon God.
"Everyone..."
"I’m glad that during our last exchange, you all agreed to my proposal."
...
"Go conquer other timelines?" "Go destroy other people’s worlds?" "Parallel worlds? Laughable. What you’re doing is no different from what I did. I simply wanted all the spirituality in this world to transform into an essence consistent with my own." "I didn’t even kill them. I only made them more obsessive in their pursuit of the origin." "Their lives are still intact." "But what are you going to do?" "You’re going to bring the fires of war to other worlds and have Moon Gods invade those innocent, tragic worlds!"
The consciousness of the polluted origin nest had long fallen silent, sealed away for a very long time.
It had even been partially worn down by Kanzaki Rei through the fantasy of the depths—eroded via fantasy itself.
Unfortunately, the quantity of the opponent’s consciousness was too vast. Completely eradicating it would take at least tens of thousands of years.
And these Moon Gods would not wait that long.
Still, what he could do now was information separation. The things Kanzaki Rei saw and heard would not be known to the separated consciousness of the polluted origin nest.
It only vaguely sensed that something was off.
Kanzaki Rei calmly responded to the voice within his mind: "You’re mistaken."
Yug braced all four arms on the table and revealed a eerie smile. "Everyone."
"Please look..."
With a pinch of two hands, Yug drew out a thin, elongated thread. His dexterous hands then grasped both ends of the thread.
He pulled it up and down, stretching it into a long, narrow rift.
Every Moon God present could see, through the rift, the existence on the other side...
The world was filled with pollution.
Contaminating auras had infected the entire planet. One could see Julia with eyes thick with pollution treading upon the world. The entire world was a sea of light, yet it was also light brimming with filth.
The scene made Julia frown slightly.
"A Julia polluted by the origin nest—a world that has completely collapsed... I believe no one will object to ’saving’ such a world."
Yug’s tone was calm.
Yet it seemed directed at certain individuals. His gaze turned toward Izparut.
As the current April Moon God, a Level 10 Mage, and the Origin itself, his stance carried immense weight—especially since his camp was tightly bound with Kanzaki Rei’s.
Izparut’s moral standards did not permit indiscriminate killing.
Therefore, when it came to invading other timelines, Izparut had always held a slightly opposing attitude.
But...
Yug had his ways.
All Izparut needed was a just reason to act.
Finding such a reason was not difficult.
With so many parallel timelines, there were always some that were beyond saving... and those timelines happened to be the perfect choices to satisfy these moral benchmarks.
One could even say...
Morality was a good thing. Without morality, there would be no constraints.
Yug preferred powerful beings who imposed constraints upon themselves over those without any.
"As you can all see."
"It has been completely devoured by the polluted origin nest. The spirituality of the entire world has also been photofied. From this timeline, we can collect very little spirituality."
"But... it might be a good choice for Julia."
A world that had already been photofied only needed purification of the pollution to become usable.
It was undoubtedly an excellent medium.
It would allow Julia to complete her binding and break her seal.
Julia remained silent for a brief moment before asking seriously, "When?"
Hearing the slightly urgent question, Yug slowly rose from his chair, bowed, and replied, "As long as everyone is willing, we can act right now."
"There is only one enemy, and its weaknesses are already fully known."
The moment these words fell, Julia’s expression clearly flashed with displeasure.
Because the enemy whose weakness was known was "herself."
"With the strength of Kanzaki Rei, Izparut, and White, victory should come easily."
Julia snorted coldly. "Easily?"
Yug offered a helpless smile. "If it were you at your peak—the perfect Julia—then it would be a different story."
Yug never lied.
But he did not finish explaining what kind of "different story."
Yug continued elegantly and calmly, "Once they achieve victory, you may take over that timeline’s world and complete your binding."
This was the promise Yug had made individually to every Moon God.
Guaranteed by his own existence.
He would help every Moon God break their bindings and allow them to fully dominate at least one entire world.
Compared to endlessly struggling over this cramped little realm, Yug’s proposal offered no reason for refusal.
After his words fell, Yug drew an extremely complex ritual on the ground with black ink, one end connected to Kanzaki Rei.
Only Kanzaki Rei maintained his connection with Neherkato.
A single wish...
Linked Neherkato through fate, allowing Kanzaki Rei to borrow many laws of time and space.
On the other side, Izparut perfected the magical aspects of the ritual.
Izparut could use time magic as well.
The reason Rona had been able to trade with Izparut was because Yug had introduced them.
And because of Rona’s contact with Izparut, he had gained precious time to think, reshaping the origin, breaking his binding, and ascending to a higher realm in a much shorter period.
Whoosh!
The complete ritual was fully outlined within the space.
A... ritual capable of traversing timelines.
The first to step through the ritual was none other than White.
White of Death and Destruction.
Kanzaki Rei glanced at Izparut. Izparut nodded and followed after her.
Kanzaki Rei closed his eyes lightly after the two had entered.
Every possible future change appeared in his mind.
Only then did Kanzaki Rei step inside.
Whoosh!
The moment he entered the space, he was greeted by light filling the entire world!
Crack!
Time stopped. Even light moving at infinite speed halted as well.
"Izparut, White."
"Let me handle this."
The moment Kanzaki Rei spoke, Izparut’s and White’s bodies were briefly immobilized.
Azure Path—Path Eleven: Fate Designation.
At his current realm, Kanzaki Rei’s words had essentially become law. Speech itself was command, was predetermined fate.
The light surged toward him.
Kanzaki Rei saw hundreds of billions upon trillions of possibilities stretching into the future. Among the infinite futures, he identified the few scant possibilities where he could lose.
And then...
With a single thought, Kanzaki Rei denied all of them.
From that point on, no matter how absurd the battle against the polluted Julia became, it would inevitably lead to the sole outcome of victory.
Whoosh!
Kanzaki Rei lifted the time stop.
The light had already begun to envelop everything, but one second before it fully covered them—before Kanzaki Rei and the others had even entered this parallel timeline...
Slash!
A single slash tore across the entire world!
BOOM!
In an instant, it carved an extremely long fissure through the sea of light filling the world!
Within that fissure: no light, only void!
Click—
Time seemed to flow backward.
It was now two seconds before the countdown to the trio’s arrival.
Kanzaki Rei instead appeared within the yet-to-be-slashed fissure.
Existing in an extremely bizarre posture.
Appearing in the future while simultaneously existing in the past... This Kanzaki Rei was the one from three seconds after arrival.
Yet right now, his physical form made contact with Julia’s body.
A colorful war spear had already pierced straight through the polluted Julia’s body...
At the same time, a light spear coalesced in his left hand.
The light flow of this spear continuously trickled and converged into the colorful war spear.
The war spear in Kanzaki Rei’s hand had now fused nearly a hundred different divine artifacts.
...
Buzz—
After the polluted Julia died, the chaotic chains of causality finally began to settle!
All kinds of distortions and causal links collapsed like dominoes, linking together until finally...
Kanzaki Rei, Izparut, and White were once again seated in their respective chairs. Yug had just stood up and bowed.
With an ambiguous smile, he said to Julia, "Julia, you may now claim your spoils..."
"She has been terminated."
Julia fell silent for a moment upon hearing Yug’s response.
Her gaze turned toward the rift that allowed a view into the other timeline.
Within the rift, the polluted version of herself lay collapsed in a pool of radiant blood.
It had clearly been only a light wound piercing the chest.
Yet she had already lost all signs of life.
Just a moment earlier, when Julia’s perception had looked toward her, she had still been completely unharmed and alive.
...
Kanzaki Rei turned toward Julia and offered a gentle smile.
At this point, it was no longer a matter of not fearing Moon Gods, but rather... completely surpassing them.
Twelve different divine artifacts.
The instant he saw Tihi, Kanzaki Rei had completed the set by extracting her divine artifact as well.
Now he did not even need to touch them with his hands to extract divine artifacts.
He only needed to see them with his eyes and assume in the future that he had touched her to complete the extraction.
Extracted from twelve different Moon Gods, each divine artifact could exert power equivalent to a Moon God at full strength when fully utilized.
As an Enchanter, he had turned every Moon God’s characteristics into enchantment effects and applied them to himself.
As an Alchemist, he had nearly fused the effects of every positive-status potion in the world, and merely by touching an enemy, he could inflict every poison and every negative potion’s damage upon them.
Level 9 Death Priest mastery over all souls, with no consumption whatsoever when using them now, allowed Kanzaki Rei to make any action, any attack, any defense equivalent to the sacrifice of the entire world.
A single perfectly fused divine artifact already concentrated the power of twelve Moon Gods.
Every action was equivalent to sacrificing an entire world.
Against Moon Gods...
It had long since gone beyond mere lack of fear.
Julia raised her hand toward the rift. Pure light flowed into the other side.
That side was Julia.
This side was also Julia.
Both sides drew from the same origin of power, and that world had already been fully occupied by pure light—a world completely purified by radiance.
The only issue was that those forces carried a trace of pollution.
But now that the main body was dead, such minor pollution meant nothing to Julia, who possessed purification methods.
As a single strand of light connected to that world, it was like a tiny stream merging into the ocean. From then on, that tiny stream had become the ocean itself.
Julia completed the purification of the entire world.
She had photofied a complete world.
Her binding was fulfilled.
A faint sound of bindings snapping could be heard.
The current Julia, like White, had become one of the unconstrained Moon Gods.
"Hehe, congratulations."
Yug offered his congratulations to Julia with that same eerie smile.
Immediately afterward, his six different arms began moving in a blur, pulling open one rift after another. He allowed every Moon God present to witness scenes from different timelines.
Because Ekhator did not exist, different parallel worlds had developed different divergences.
The slightest subtle detail could influence an enormously grand future.
Some worlds were bright and beautiful.
Some worlds had already met complete destruction.
But the vast majority existed in a state of dangerous chaos.
Because of the Moon Gods’ influence.
The very existence of Moon Gods ensured the world could never know peace.
As long as they had not broken their bindings, their mandatory actions were destined to affect the entire world, and such outcomes most often led to destruction.
"I’ll take this one." Julia gazed toward a world of pure darkness.
It was Naraku.
Julia could tell that Naraku had suffered heavy damage.
Within the darkness, there were still traces of light that only Julia could detect.
This light had been left behind by another version of herself.
In this world, after a brutal struggle, Naraku had emerged victorious and inflicted heavy wounds upon Julia.
"I’ll go deal with her."
Yug lightly tapped his finger and looked toward Izparut.
The two joined hands once more to construct a time corridor.
In less than the blink of an eye, everyone saw the world on the other side transform from complete darkness into pure light in an instant.
It was as if a black canvas had been torn open, revealing the pure white board beneath.
The battle was swift. Extremely swift.
After that world turned into pure light, Julia returned to her original position.
It was as if she had merely flickered for a moment.
She had never left her seat.
Only Sophia’s eyes carried a hint of playful amusement. "Julia, you’re injured."
"Would you like me to heal you?"
Julia shot Sophia a displeased glare and said coldly, "No need."
Beside her, Naraku mocked, "Even against such a crippled version of me, and with prior knowledge and intelligence, you still got injured?"
"Julia, it seems you’re still inferior to me~"
Naraku was in a good mood despite seeing herself killed.
This world proved she had become the greatest winner and that she had defeated Julia.
Even while heavily wounded, Naraku cheerfully took control of the world refilled with light, once again shrouding it in darkness.
That world still retained a large amount of spirituality, now wrapped within the darkness.
Naraku released all of it.
The spirituality passed through the world and converged toward Kanzaki Rei.
Spirituality that had not merged with souls or gone through reincarnation could not be considered life.
Kanzaki Rei’s spirituality rose once more.
The effects of every talent were strengthened even further beyond their original God-Tier level, beginning to fuse with one another again.
Kanzaki Rei could sense it.
The next fusion would be the ultimate grand unification.
...
Eltimi raged with unwillingness.
She did not understand how this situation had occurred. She had clearly survived the final Moon God battle.
She had clearly become the last winner.
She had clearly reached the pinnacle.
So why?
Where had this guy come from?
Why did he possess combat power that far surpassed Moon Gods?
Dying like this—she was unwilling!
Anger, unwillingness—none of it became hope for reversing the battle.
Kanzaki Rei effortlessly and mercilessly tore her apart.
Even the skin puppet she had kept in reserve was casually ripped apart and tossed to the ground.
The spirituality of the entire world converged toward Kanzaki Rei once more.
Kanzaki Rei absorbed the spirituality with intoxicated delight.
...
Sophia finally completed her life evolution. She left the Moon God position and became a new kind of "life."
Kumironi took over Sophia’s position and became the new Life Moon God.
Julia and Naraku left this timeline and settled in timelines of their own preference.
Kanzaki Rei continued absorbing more spirituality.
One hundred timelines, one thousand timelines, ten thousand timelines.
Click—
He no longer needed Yug to set up rituals.
Kanzaki Rei could naturally walk between different timelines on his own.
Upon encountering Moon God-level combatants again, he only needed to glance at them.
Their life countdown immediately hit zero.
A single look meant instant death.
There were also some special timelines that sensed Kanzaki Rei’s existence through certain means.
For timelines without hostility, Kanzaki Rei simply ignored them.
For those that tried to travel against time to subjugate him, the polluted existences vanished with a single glance from Kanzaki Rei.
For others that attempted to make contact and probe him, Kanzaki Rei casually waved his hand, sealing their timelines and sending them back to their original times.
Yug’s words had not been absolute.
Among so many parallel worlds, there were ultimately things he had not seen. Now, Kanzaki Rei had seen them.
There was a contract between Kanzaki Rei and Yug.
Kanzaki Rei would help him see the things he had not seen and learn the knowledge he did not understand.
And tell him about them.
"Indeed, there exist other... methods to traverse timelines."
After walking through a hundred thousand timelines, Kanzaki Rei’s body had become stained with the colors of different worlds.
If previously his life essence had been that of the polluted origin nest, now that essence was beginning to dilute.
Kanzaki Rei’s life contained many more "impurities."
Spirituality from various worlds—even some carrying considerable pollution—had all been absorbed by him.
As for the portion originally belonging to the polluted origin nest, less than one-tenth remained.
...
After more than a year, Kanzaki Rei had walked through a million parallel timelines.
Meanwhile, Julia and the others from his original timeline had also begun branching out into other timelines.
Kanzaki Rei’s essence had long since become that of a Moon God.
The classes he mastered had far exceeded nine.
There were now hundreds of classes, each reaching Level 9.
Even his Creator class had risen to Level 2.
No longer limited to traversing timelines, he could use the power of creation to generate entirely new timelines from nothing, splitting off additional Divine Kingdoms that became self-contained new worlds.
He could even autonomously differentiate portions of spirituality and transform them into brand-new lives.
...
Decades passed. After experiencing tens of millions of parallel timelines...
Kanzaki Rei glimpsed the ultimate of spirituality.
It was a supreme realm that stood above all else.
