Another World: My life is on the hook!

In an instant, the concepts emanating from him suppressed the raging black flames.

The illusory image that Zuo Zuo transformed into was almost instantly shattered by his attack.

Step out.

All the fires were extinguished.

Despite possessing a larger size, those things crumbled at the slightest touch.

No matter how Zuo Zuo controlled and drove the raging black fire toward the phantom, it could no longer stop its forward momentum. Just as even the strongest power cannot be shaken in the slightest when the difference in control is too great.

Just like the same power of the Firstborn, the difference between the God-King's power and his power is like heaven and earth, an insurmountable gap.

"Lynn."

He approached step by step, then looked up and said.

"I'm very sorry."

Without any hesitation, he unleashed a killing move almost the instant he raised his hand.

But at that very moment, like a silent thunderclap, a tremendous roar erupted within his will, and his impending killing move suddenly dissipated.

He realized the reason almost instantly. He turned around abruptly and stared blankly at the rumbling entity of calamity behind him. In the chaotic surge, in the source of his power, there seemed to be a moment of azure that shook the foundation of his power.

"Nanako..."

boom--

Zuo Zuo roared and seized the momentary opening, instantly engulfing the figure in the endless waves with its pitch-black flames.

When he realized what was happening, his projection in reality was already severely damaged by the black fire and burning fiercely.

But he smiled and wiped the burning ashes from his face into the void.

"So you haven't been completely digested yet. But even if you remain stubborn, it won't change the predetermined outcome."

He looked up, his smiling eyes gazing at that figure in the endless flow of time.

"because……"

His lips moved slightly.

And almost at that very moment, just before the explosion of paradoxes spreading from the past threatened to obliterate his consciousness, he hysterically mustered all his remaining strength and took that final step towards the figure at the end of time.

Amidst the constant breaking and disintegration, his gaze reflected the withered skeleton shrouded in the tomb of time.

With his last ounce of strength, he reached out his hand to him.

In the endless torrent of time.

The figure also came toward him.

The moment of contact.

It's like a drop of water falling into a pond.

The whole world seemed to stand still at that moment.

The paradox of history seems to have been frozen in time, as if everything in the river of time has been frozen at this moment. After exhausting all their efforts, they from different histories finally connected with the times at this moment.

His pupils dilated dramatically, and the touch of his fingertips felt like the fleeting light of time.

In an instant, it felt like a misty downpour.

A barrage of thunderbolts ripped through the dark sky.

It was as if she were on a muddy, isolated island, or as if she had suddenly found herself in a hazy dream. When Zuo Zuo looked up, she saw the girl standing in front of her in a daze. She was wearing a black dress and had a delicate and petite face just like Zuo Zuo's. She was like a sister who was cut from the same mold as Zuo Zuo, but they seemed to belong to different historical paths.

In just a moment, she understood.

Because his head had told her that at the end of time, on the other side of history, the one he couldn't let go of the most was her, and she was the only one who stayed with him in that final place.

History... converges at this moment.

And what she was facing was the original, vanished historical trajectory... her.

"you……"

But when Zuo Zuo opened her mouth, she couldn't say anything.

Because she saw the tears in the girl's eyes, and saw the tear tracks running down her cheeks, dripping from her chin.

She shook her head vigorously, as if she had countless words to convey. The sadness and disillusionment in her eyes were almost tangible, but the vast torrent of time, even at this moment when they had already come into contact, still prevented her from conveying any information.

She was simply heartbroken and in pain, tears streaming down her face as she shook her head.

But finally.

She heard that fiercely resisting voice.

"Don't...align...time...has suppressed...my..."

hum-

The moment the illusion vanished, Zuo Zuo saw a sorrowful smile on the face of the black-robed figure in the void. When she turned around with all her might and looked tremblingly at his head and figure that had merged in time, she clearly saw the radiance of the divine essence temporarily placed between the figure's brows.

That was the beginning of time, and also the end of time; that was the eternal core and authority of this vast expanse of time.

That moment of blankness felt like suffocation in the deep sea.

In an instant, it seemed to overwhelm all your reason.

Zuo Zuo understood everything almost immediately. She tried her best to convey this information to his mind, but it was already too late.

"My head!! No!!!"

hum-

The skeletal figure that had been connected with Lynn opened its eyes, like two beams of light piercing through time, accompanied by the blooming of the authority between its brows, resembling an eternally cold snowfield.

That was the weight of time, a duet of loneliness and numbness.

That was an eternal numbness that was even more desolate than endless reincarnation.

The moment Zuo Zuo returned to Lynn's body, she was powerless to stop it. All the screams and cries were frozen in the silent eternity, and Lynn's consciousness gradually became blurred and chaotic amidst the constant roar of the paradox.

But at that moment, he seemed not to see that other self.

Instead, what lies before you is a massive figure that sweeps in with a thunderous roar, threatening to crush and replace you. It carries a hint of familiarity, yet also a hint of strangeness, just as its gaze is as numb to the bone and indifferent to nothingness as that of someone you once knew.

He couldn't hear anything anymore.

But it's as if you can hear Zuo Zuo's heart-wrenching screams and her tragic cries of pain.

His eyes were cloudy, and his eyelids drooped.

But in that final moment of loss, as if subconsciously, he forcefully detached the most important person from his body.

Let her go far away...

I just felt...

I should do this.

It's like no matter when, no matter when, your brain is always lying. It really doesn't want you to die with your brain, even if it really is the final moment that determines your fate...

I still can't bear to part with you.

Because my Zuo Zuo... still has to bring his head home.

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hum-

At that moment, the two figures kept overlapping, like the final curtain falling in this endless time.

Zuo Zuo's desperate cries became the only sound in the world, and then only the endless wind remained, like a dying dandelion, sweeping across the vast world.

The figure in black robes smiled, but there was a hint of sadness and fate in the corners of his eyes.

That sentence he hadn't finished saying.

Just like this final curse.

"Lynn, do you know why we were able to leave that Great Tomb of Time? It's because what is stolen must always be returned, because time is never on your side. Do you know why I opened this curtain at this moment?"

"Because in the struggle for dominance with him... you can no longer have the upper hand."

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