Chapter 1851
by 林方方Chapter 1851 The End of the Future
Only to see Lina holding the sword in the stone, her figure flashing to Lin Qiye’s side, enduring the aftermath of their collision as she continued to move upward.
“Are you crazy? Quick, go! I’ll hold him off here!” Lin Qiye exclaimed when he saw Lina actively stepping forward, while resisting the attacks of the smiling Vishnu.
Lin Qiye was at least at the level of a main god, but Lina was just a proxy. For Vishnu, killing a human who hadn’t ascended to godhood would be all too easy.
Lina gritted her teeth, seemingly deaf to Lin Qiye’s words. She gripped the sword in the stone with both hands, and a dazzling light burst forth from her heart!
The next moment, an ancient silhouette rapidly took shape around her!
It was a tall, armored giant figure. The moment it appeared, an ancient and powerful aura descended upon the world, even more robust and formidable than the Vishnu before them!
His silhouette overlapped with Lina’s, both hands raising the sword in stone high above their heads. Ribbons of time broke through the shattered stone at the hilt, as if joining two pairs of hands across time. A pillar of sacred divine light shot into the sky!
The light pillar transformed into a blade, striking the vajra together with Lin Qiye’s Ame-no-Murakumo sword. Three distinctly different divine powers instantly caused this fragment of time to rumble and shake!
“You’ve got to be kidding me… is this the God of Trickery??”
No. 22 crossed the time barrier to reach this fragment, and seeing the dazzling divine power fluctuations in mid-air, astonishment appeared in his eyes.
Which Trickery God had such formidable direct combat power?!
As the three divine power waves spread out simultaneously, the world-destroying vajra was forced back into mid-air. The two Vishnus merged back into one, stabilizing the vajra, with an extremely gloomy expression.
As the divine power scattered across the sky, the two figures had already vanished without a trace.
“Let’s see where you can run to,” Having failed to capture Lin Qiye twice, Vishnu, the “One Supreme,” was losing face. He flashed forward, continuing to chase toward the time barrier ahead.
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Lin Qiye carried the unconscious Lina with one hand, his wings beating continuously as he passed through two time barriers in succession, reaching maximum speed.
While flying along the trail of marks he had left, he glanced at Lina from the corner of his eye, his expression somewhat peculiar.
He had seen many divine proxies, but at most they possessed only a portion of divine void abilities. Yet Lina could directly summon the phantom of King Arthur’s past… The former was like a worker who went out to make a living with a small salary, while the latter could summon the company’s CEO with just a phone call. The two weren’t even on the same level!
So this is what it means to be an heir…
Looking at it this way, it was indeed natural for Lina to become the first of the “Ten Imperial Guards.”
However, judging from her current state, summoning the CEO… no, summoning King Arthur consumed a tremendous amount of energy, and he wasn’t sure if there would be any side effects.
Lin Qiye passed through two time fragments in succession, but the feeling of being locked onto hadn’t disappeared. When he arrived at the third time fragment, Vishnu’s figure appeared behind him again, seemingly about to catch up.
This couldn’t continue… he had to find a way to shake him off.
Lin Qiye’s gaze swept across the ice plain in the distance. Several sword marks appeared in his vision, and Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes before choosing a direction to fly toward.
“-102.5”
“-83”
“-58.25”
“…”
As Lin Qiye continuously changed directions, he got closer and closer to the entrance of the time maze. The time fragments around him visibly shrank, from the original hundreds of meters wide to tens of meters, then to just over ten meters…
Vishnu, following behind him, could only continuously shrink his enormous body, eventually becoming about the same size as Lin Qiye, frantically shuttling through the dense time fragments.
As the numerical sword marks under Lin Qiye’s feet returned to “-10,” everything reverted to the one-step-one-time phase. On the boundless ice plain, Lin Qiye carried Lina, maneuvering through the broken time fragments, traversing seven or eight different times in just one second.
In such densely fragmented time, even Vishnu couldn’t keep up with Lin Qiye’s speed. In the blink of an eye, Lin Qiye had disappeared to some unknown time.
Vishnu stopped on an ice surface.
He frowned as he scanned the surroundings, his expression somewhat unpleasant… He knew that Lin Qiye was no more than a few hundred meters away from him, but they were in different times.
It was manageable deeper in the maze where time fragments were very complete, with only a few times to hide in. But now, finding Lin Qiye’s location among the vast sea of time fragments was as difficult as ascending to heaven.
“So he’s using these marks to confirm positions…” Vishnu also noticed the sword marks on the ice surface below and snorted coldly.
He stomped down, shattering the ice layer into pieces, but the sword mark remained clearly imprinted in the void. No matter how the terrain was destroyed, it remained immovable.
Not only could he not catch Lin Qiye, but he couldn’t even erase a sword mark. Vishnu’s chest heaved violently, his eyes filled with anger.
After standing still for a long time, he turned and walked back toward the depths of the maze.
“Father, did you kill him?” No. 22 asked expectantly when he saw Vishnu return.
“No, he figured out the pattern of this maze and escaped quickly,” Vishnu said in a deep voice.
A barely perceptible trace of disdain flashed in No. 22’s eyes, but he still respectfully said, “Father need not be angry. That Lin Qiye has always been cunning; killing him won’t be easy.”
“Just an insect who luckily escaped by using the terrain,” Vishnu said indifferently. “As long as we occupy the time fragments near the Gate of Truth, we’ve sealed the exit of the maze… Unless he’s willing to be trapped here forever, he will definitely show himself.”
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On the ice surface marked with the sword mark “0,” Lin Qiye slowly laid the unconscious Lina down.
As he expected, even Vishnu couldn’t find his position among such dense time fragments. They were safe for now.
“Since the chase failed, No. 22 won’t give up… He will definitely wait for me at the exit of the maze,” Lin Qiye rubbed his chin thoughtfully. “This can’t continue.”
Lin Qiye’s gaze swept across the surrounding ice surface. Among the dense “-” marks, he seemed to remember something, his eyes narrowing.
Currently, Lin Qiye had established the time number axis using this ice surface as the reference point. All positive numbers represented times after this ice surface, which was the “future” direction… But Lin Qiye had marked a circle nearby, with the largest number being just “3.” As for whether there were numbers larger than “3” further away, he himself wasn’t certain.
At this moment, a thought suddenly flashed through Lin Qiye’s mind.
If the deepest part of the “past” was the Gate of Truth… then what lay at the end of the “future”?