Chapter 883

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Chapter 883 Temporal Thug

Twelve days ago.

Seven figures wearing gray cloaks passed through the beast’s esophagus, arriving before the pitch-black stomach wall.

The gray-cloaked figure wearing a spiral mask raised their palm slightly, and two massive purple vortexes opened simultaneously. One swallowed all the seawater within the stomach wall, while the other blocked the esophagus, preventing outside seawater from rushing in.

In a matter of seconds, the seawater inside the stomach wall was completely drained.

King Mask looked up, staring at the [Yi Yuan] deeply embedded in Chen Yangrong’s chest, and the slowly rotating light ring at its end, his eyes narrowing slightly…

“Captain, that blade looks exactly like yours?!” Spiral glanced at the blade in Chen Yangrong’s chest, then at the [Yi Yuan] at King Mask’s waist, exclaiming in shock, “Don’t tell me your blade comes in couples?”

“…” King Mask replied helplessly, “That is [Yi Yuan], but it doesn’t belong to this time.”

Balance frowned in thought for a long while, “Could that blade be…”

“Yes, it should be the blade carried by my ‘future self’ that the [Night Curtain] team encountered before.” King Mask nodded.

“That’s amazing, Captain!” Rose said excitedly, “Doesn’t that mean you’ll definitely become a god in the future?”

“Of course, Captain is already about to break through to become humanity’s ceiling, how far can godhood be?” Moon Ghost agreed.

“It’s hard to say, as the timeline changes, the future can change too.” King Mask shook his head.

“You mean, your future self coming back to the present to change the timeline will affect your future?” Balance asked puzzled, “But if the present is changed, the future’s trajectory will also deviate. What if he doesn’t become a god in the end and doesn’t come back to the present, then the present wouldn’t be changed… wouldn’t that create a paradox?”

King Mask shook his head, “What you’re talking about is the traditional ‘grandmother paradox’, which is different from my [Time Sequence Rogue] principle.

Every pantheon has time gods, but their divine domains all have some differences. The [Time Sequence Rogue] given to me by Chronos is ‘the disordered rogue outside of time’. After obtaining this divine domain, even if I go back to the past to change history, timeline changes won’t affect my established past.

Using the grandmother paradox as an example, even if I went back to the past and killed my grandmother, I wouldn’t disappear because of her death…”

“Then couldn’t you go back to the past and change history recklessly?” Spiral asked, mouth agape in shock.

Balance walked behind him, smacked the back of his head, and couldn’t help but scold, “What nonsense are you talking about? Captain has only gone back to change history twice, and he’s already become… how could there be no price?”

“There is indeed a price,” King Mask nodded slightly, “The karmic backlash force produced by tampering with the timeline greatly reduces my lifespan. The further back I go, and the greater the butterfly effect caused by changing the timeline, the more terrifying the reduction in lifespan becomes.

Those two previous time reversals, although they were both less than a day, caused such strong butterfly effects that combined, they reduced my lifespan by nearly twenty years.”

King Mask’s two time reversals were both to go back several hours into the past to warn the Night Watchers of approaching enemies in advance. Although the time reversed wasn’t much, because of his early warning, tens of millions of people survived. Such massive karmic backlash force concentrated on him naturally resulted in a terrifyingly large loss of lifespan.

Looking at King Mask’s graying temples and his haggard, weathered face, the members of [Mask] team fell silent.

When King Mask performed his first time reversal, he was not yet twenty years old, and even though his lifespan was reduced by several years, he was still young and vigorous, so they hadn’t noticed. But after King Mask performed his second time reversal recently, they found that he had visibly aged…

They had guessed that this might be a side effect of King Mask’s time reversal, but they never imagined that the price would be twenty years of life.

How many twenty-year periods does one have in life?

After two time reversals, King Mask, who should have been only twenty-six years old, jumped directly to the age of nearly fifty. His best and most precious years of youth vanished in an instant.

Seeming to notice the heavy atmosphere among everyone, King Mask smiled slightly and said:

“Don’t be so pessimistic, I am the time god’s proxy after all. Perhaps after I become a god, I’ll be able to have endless life.”

King Mask’s consolation didn’t seem to dispel everyone’s low spirits. Spiral glanced at everyone from the corner of his eye, and after a moment of silence, scratched his head and laughed: “Captain, don’t forget about us after you become a god!

You don’t necessarily have to make us eternally young or anything, but extending our vacation by a few days shouldn’t be too much to ask, right?”

Hearing Spiral’s joke, everyone rolled their eyes, and the previously heavy atmosphere became lively again.

Just then, the old man pinned to the stomach wall by [Yi Yuan] slowly opened his eyes.

“Some rats have snuck in…” Chen Yangrong spoke calmly, “If you want to live, pull this blade from my chest. After I get out, I’ll properly reward you…”

The moment his voice echoed in the dark space, the [Mask] team members immediately tensed up. They exchanged glances, and King Mask’s voice silently appeared in everyone’s minds.

“My future self stabbed [Yi Yuan] into his chest, this old man must be problematic… Let me sense the timeline contained in that closed loop, you help me buy some time.”

As his words fell, King Mask slowly closed his eyes, connecting his divine domain with the [Yi Yuan] in Chen Yangrong’s chest, quickly reviewing the timeline within that ring of flowing light.

Spiral nodded imperceptibly, turned to look at the old man on the stomach wall, and spoke while playing dumb:

“Reward? Really? What kind of rewards?”

Chen Yangrong was stunned, as if he hadn’t expected someone to actually believe such nonsense. A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Ha! Found an idiot!

“Supreme power, endless life… whatever you want, I can give you!”

“Supreme? How supreme? Higher than ‘Klein’?”

“Much higher than that.”

“Wow, you’re amazing!”

“…”

During their meaningless conversation, King Mask’s brows furrowed deeper and deeper. After who knows how long, he suddenly opened his eyes, his expression more serious than ever before.

“This is bad…” he looked up at the pitch-black stomach wall, muttering.

“What’s wrong?”

Rose noticed King Mask’s change in expression and asked worriedly.

King Mask turned around, took a deep breath to calm his chaotic thoughts, and spoke seriously:

“Listen carefully to every word I’m about to say…”