Another World: My life is on the hook!

The Violet World.

Winterspring Valley.

Stepping once more onto that land covered in frost and snow, he raised his head and gazed at the magnificent, towering towers, as if they were all shattered illusions from an ancient dream, so unreal, so disillusioning.

He strolled leisurely across this ancient land, his black robe contrasting against the white snow, like a ghost that did not exist in this era.

He stepped over those towers one by one.

It's like a remembrance.

It's as if she's reminiscing.

Finally, he stopped.

The howling wind billowed his robes, and outside that secluded mage tower, he saw two potted plants nestled close together inside the snow-covered windowsill.

The cold wind howled outside the window, and one of the flowers had already withered, its yellow petals falling to the ground, its branches seemingly dry and withered as well.

He paused for a moment.

He seemed to chuckle slightly, and he reached out his hand as if to pluck it off.

hum-

But almost at that very moment, time seemed to freeze, as if someone had pressed the stop button on a movie. The cold wind stopped blowing, the snow stopped falling, and everything was frozen in that instant.

As he suddenly dodged and retreated, the black blade burning with raging flames almost cleaved the time around him in two.

The raging flames whipped his robes around his neck.

Sonorous——

The hum of the swords forced him back hundreds of meters in an instant.

As he steadied himself and slowly rose from the ground, a faint smile appeared on his face. There was no urgency or surprise, as if he had always known they would come; they were never late.

"You've come, Lynn. It's so nice to see you again."

But when Lynn landed...

As the azure-blue girl brought with her a chaotic, overwhelming color that enveloped the entire sky, the moment she saw him, all the color drained from her face, turning her ashen white as a skeleton.

The gale is frozen in this distant time and space.

His eyes remained gentle, and he wore the black raven clothing, with a face exactly like all ravens.

But the look in his eyes at that moment.

But it made the painter's desolate heart seem pale and empty in that instant.

"How... is this possible..."

Lynn was panting, her gaze fixed on him, but at that moment, the frost in her heart spread rapidly.

The figure in black robes smiled at him and said:

"That's why I told you I came to witness your failure. Although I wanted to do this the first time I saw you, I was also worried that relying on this single cause and effect might not be enough to really kill you. But now it's different. With your arrival spanning the entire timeline, I know it's time for me to close the net."

“I’ve done the statistics. The raven that I’m descending into now is the vessel you’ve used the most throughout this endless time. Although the effect is certainly not as good as the past you, it’s still the best choice for me.”

this moment.

Even Zuo Zuo was already trembling and speechless.

They came in pursuit of the last raven that hadn't yet returned, but how could this be...?

how come……

At that moment, a huge guess, a thought so terrifying that it sent chills down his spine, quickly took root in his mind.

"Who the hell are you?!"

Lynn stared intently at him, the fire on the blade in his hand burning fiercely.

The figure in black robes smiled at him, then his gaze swept past him and landed on the face of the pale blue girl not far behind him. A moment of tenderness seemed to flash in his eyes as well.

"Because you are not the only one who can use a raven as a vessel, and because I have greater authority than you, although at the beginning I considered whether to use other methods to deal with you, your growth rate was too fast, so fast that the power I control was no longer enough to kill you. Therefore, I had no choice but to choose this method."

He turned to look at the painter, his gaze as gentle as ever.

"Are you alright, Nanako?"

hum-

At that moment, the immense desolation and disillusionment felt like the crushing weight of Mount Tai.

That terrible truth was like a spear, piercing her heart in an instant, and confirming her ironic and terrifying suspicion.

The pale blue girl didn't speak; her face was already ashen, and her blue eyes trembled violently, as if she might lose control at any moment.

Her eyes welled up with tears.

But she didn't say a word.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you until now."

The figure gently rubbed his eyebrows and strolled easily across the frozen snow.

"Actually, for me, I really don't want to fight against any of you, because you all have huge karmic connections with me. One of you represents the past that I can't let go of the most, and the other represents the future that I have pinned my hopes on... So what I really want to see is that you can all accept this ending with equanimity."

"But you are unwilling, no matter what... you are unwilling."

Zuo Zuo, pale-faced, suddenly raised her hand and looked at her head.

She wanted to ask him.

This is not true.

But all his words, and the fact that he could descend into the raven's body, told them an incredibly terrifying answer.

"Are you the Great Khan?"

Lynn's gaze was as turbulent as a storm.

The figure smiled at him and said:

"What do you think?"

Silence, like the silent falling snow.

At this moment, it seemed that everything had an answer, because he had said that he was the only nightmare born in this dream, and he was the first of the seventy-two pillars. In fact, when he took out that halberd and was able to fight him, it already explained a lot of things.

But he kept it hidden all along, and only when he was truly certain of victory did he choose to tell them the answer.

At this moment, Lynn finally understood everything.

He forced him to descend time and time again, using that unlimited invasion to personally create such a trap for him, because from the very beginning, he held the button to detonate it all.

Yes.

If he could have descended in the ravens of the past just like him, then he had the victory firmly in his grasp from the moment this game was over.

And as long as he erases the raven that descended upon him, the entire river of time that extends into the endless future, all the facts of Lynn's descent within that raven, will become an undeniable paradox, and all these paradoxes will, in an instant, completely erase his existence in this time.

"But if that's the case, why don't you just descend into my past self?"

Lynn's eyes were filled with pain.

The figure smiled and shook his head, his tone calm.

"Because the power of time is not with us, or rather, the long river of time originated from you. It is too difficult for me to cover you up. And if I fail, you will immediately notice. If that happens, there will be many variables and accidents, and neither you nor I like accidents."

Because of their nature, they want to control everything, and every unexpected event will leave them exhausted and have to do their best to make up for it.

He doesn't like it, and neither do they.