Godslayer: My Girlfriend Red Tassel

"Come on, everyone! It's rare for us to get together like this, so don't let me eat all by myself! Everyone should have a share!"

Under Su Yan's enthusiastic arrangement, Xia Simeng looked at the three extra chicken butts on her plate and sighed deeply.

Su Yan is a real dog!

He carried a large bowl of chicken butts around the canteen, handing them out to everyone he met. Given his reputation and popularity among the Night Watchmen, who wouldn't want to chat with him and try to get on his good side? As a result, chicken butts, which were usually disliked by everyone, suddenly became a hot commodity.

Those who received a share beamed with joy, considering it an honor; those who didn't were filled with regret, wishing they could snatch it from their comrades' plates.

For a moment, the entire cafeteria was in chaos, a truly lively scene.

"But I don't want to eat it, and I don't care about it." Xia Simeng pouted in frustration, then turned her head and burst out laughing.

"Xiao Nan, this chicken butt tower on your plate has a rather unique shape, hahaha!"

Si Xiaonan: ...

Amidst the commotion, Wang Mian noticed Su Yan looking around and then gradually turning his gaze towards him, clearly not ready to fart. He quickly put down his chopsticks and changed the subject:

"If the 'growth rings' truly form a time cycle on their own, perhaps I can break it. Why don't I accompany Xia Simeng on that journey?"

You're in for a tough time.

Su Yan scooped the last two chicken butts into the swirling plate, sat back down, and said:

"Captain Wang, if I remember correctly, your [Time Thug] is essentially a self-constructed time loop, which cannot truly break the external time ring. Against those parasites, you might be able to use brute force to overcome their tricks and crush their 'annual rings' with your time loop. But when you face the Mbawa Tree Spirit in its true form, this trick won't work. It will most likely turn into you each manipulating time to see who has a longer lifespan."

"Are the Mbawa Tree People also god-level?"

“As far as I know, in this pantheon, anyone with a name is at least a god. Those with even greater power will have a certain ‘cause’ formed simply by someone mentioning their name, and a ‘effect’ will naturally arise from that. As for whether the result will be good or bad, that’s hard to say,” Su Yan explained.

"I see. Then I really can't defeat him." Wang Mian readily admitted defeat.

Even Ye Fan, who was usually unsmiling, couldn't help but furrow his brows at this moment.

Logically speaking, when the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up. The conflicts and survival between the pantheons should be resolved by the Heavenly Court first. However, now that the gods of the Heavenly Court are trying to restore their divine power, almost all of them are tied up with important matters and cannot move.

Otherwise, the previous trip to Atlantis would not have only sent moon goddesses, who held relatively minor positions.

Even so, it was only through the connection with the Queen Mother of the West that she learned that Chang'e possessed a special treasure, which allowed her to get away with it. This shows just how desperately the Heavenly Court is now.

While I understand the situation, the risk of sending the Night's Watch to confront a pantheon that even the gods struggle to deal with is simply too great.

Ye Fan looked up, his gaze slowly sweeping over the special teams in front of the table, and sighed inwardly.

Don't be fooled by how easily the team members talk about their narrow escapes; only they know the dangers involved. To put it bluntly, in this past month, Da Xia almost lost four special teams at the same time.

This is no longer an ordinary crisis.

Something must be done to deal with the unknown crisis.

Seeing the solemn expressions on everyone's faces, Su Yan felt a sense of relief. Clearly, everyone had taken the threat of Cthulhu seriously. Having achieved his goal, he stopped being coy and turned to Xia Simeng, saying:

"Actually, I know of a divine artifact that can perfectly counter the Mbawa Tree People. Once we get it, the problem will be solved."

Xia Simeng's eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but slam her fist on the table, collapsing the "chicken butt tower" that Si Xiaonan had just built:

"A divine artifact? Tell me quickly, what is it, and who has it? I'll go borrow it right now!"

Su Yan was straightforward:

"The artifact is called [Yimiao]."

"One second?"

“No, it’s ‘a tiny speck,’ meaning insignificant.” This time, it was Wang Mian who spoke.

He spoke with a hint of surprise: "[Yimiao]...Isn't that the pocket watch of Cronus, the god of time? Legend has it that this artifact can extract 'one second' from any life's 'day' and store it in the pocket watch."

"What happens to the person whose time is taken away?" Xia Simeng raised an eyebrow.

"It won't matter. You usually don't even notice if you lose a second in your day, and even if you do, would you care? So this one second is 'insignificant'."

A hint of envy flashed across Wang Mian's eyes as he slowly explained:

"Although a second is insignificant, its accumulation can lead to a qualitative change. It is said that Kronos once accumulated over two hundred years of time in his pocket watch, which he could squander when unleashing his 'Time Thug,' without having to consume his own lifespan. If this artifact were in my possession, after accumulating for a period of time, my strength would likely undergo a dramatic transformation..."

"Speaking of which, this artifact is only useful to our 'Time Law' lineage, so why does Xia Simeng need it too?"

Su Yan nodded slightly:

"This brings us back to the Mbawa Tree People. According to Sauerkraut... well, according to my calculations and deductions, the Mbawa Tree People's ability to manipulate time doesn't actually belong to the 'time' law. Its annual ring cycle is a characteristic inherent in its life essence."

Su Yan paused, his gaze sweeping over everyone, before continuing clearly:

"This precisely means that if we were to remove even a single second from it using [a wisp of light], its growth rings would not be able to close completely. Once a gap appears in the rings, the entire growth ring structure will..."

“Complete collapse from the breach!” Wang Mian replied in a low voice, a flash of understanding in his eyes.

"exactly."

Wang's understanding of the time ring is far deeper than that of others.

If the function of [Yimiao] is to "steal" a second from a life, its effect on the time ring is actually to briefly accelerate the ring, skipping that second, rather than actually removing that second from the ring.

Because the latter is simply impossible to achieve.

Since Kronos couldn't do it, he certainly couldn't either.

...But if it could really be done, then the time loop wouldn't just be "missing a second," but would completely collapse at that gap.

All time that flows through this point afterward will endlessly slip away at the gap, at the cost of countless "seconds," until the time ring itself completely perishes.

And the annual rings are precisely that special 'time ring' that can have one second taken away from it!

"That's a brilliant solution!"

Wang Mian stood up excitedly, paced back and forth a dozen times, then looked dejected and said:

“But I remember Kronos telling me that the pocket watch was stolen a long time ago and its whereabouts are still unknown.”

"Then why don't you hurry up and make a bet with him?"

Su Yan smiled, reached out with her chopsticks, and put the chicken butt that Si Xiaonan had secretly removed from her bowl back into her bowl. She looked up and smiled.

"For example, a bet: if you find the pocket watch, it's yours. But if Cronus wants to use it, you can lend it to him... these kinds of bets."

Meeting the sudden gaze that the king cast upon him, Su Yan slowly added:

"Because I know where that pocket watch is."

"This is the last thing the commander wanted to do by bringing us all together—a good thing!"