Where does the time start?

Where does time end?

Did I choose this world?

Or did the world choose me?

Chapter 1: The Land of God

"Time begins here, time ends here, there is a kingdom of time where time meets, and I live here. ”

According to what Master told Akasu, he was found by Master on the Great Snow Mountain to the north of Snow Mountain City, after a great avalanche that had been rare in a century. When Master found him, he was still a baby, and no one knew who his parents were, because it was a snow wolf breastfeeding him and not a woman.

The Master took him back to Snow Mountain City and named him 'Akasu', which means son of the goddess of the Snow Mountain in the language of time. Akasu had always thought that perhaps it would be better to call him the Wolf of the Snowy Mountains, to appear more manly. When Master heard these strange thoughts of him, he always sighed again and again, regretting that he should not have rescued him in the first place, and Master always worried that one day he would cause trouble for himself. Master said that the snow wolf was the messenger of the goddess of the snow-capped mountains, and it was the goddess of the snow-capped mountains who favored Akasu to keep him alive. In this way, Akasu grew up in Snow Mountain City with his master, and he was not only Akasu's master, but also like Akasu's father, and Akasu's only relative.

The city of the Snowy Mountains where Akasu and Master live is a city-state directly north of the Kingdom of Time. The city-state was originally under the administration of the Snow Mountain King, but now the city-state is directly under the king's administration, just like the Time King's City. According to the annals of the Kingdom of Time, three hundred years ago, the King of the Snow Mountain betrayed the God of Time and set off a great battle for the throne. Originally, the old priest of the master's master wanted Chu Xiong, the king of the Snow Mountain, to be the king of time, but in the end, the result of the alliance vote was that the royal families of each city-state thought that Chu Xiong was too irritable and preferred to rule Henkel, the city lord of Sunshine City. Chu Xiong was furious, and with one punch smashed several cases of the parliament in front of him, and left. After returning home, he summoned the Snow Wolf Warriors of Snow Mountain City, raised 500,000 troops to attack Shahai City and Moonlight City, which first opposed him as king, and then threatened that a strong man should be the king, and launched an attack on the entire Time Alliance. The war lasted for twenty years, and in the end, the Kingdom Alliance army defeated the elven forces and orc forces colluded with the Snow Mountain King. All the descendants of the Snow Mountain royal family and the rebels were killed under the goddess peak of the Great Snow Mountain, and the blood flowed down the stream on the Snow Mountain for more than a month. Since then, there has been no Snow Mountain Royal Family in Snow Mountain City, and the management of the people has been directly returned to the King of Time.

Every time Master told the story of the King of the Snow Mountain, he always sighed deeply, and he said that the King of the Snow Mountain, Chuxiong, was a hero. In the tens of thousands of years of the Time Kingdom, the only warrior whose courage and mana can catch up with the founding monarch Taisar. It's just that Chu Xiong is too simple and too proud. But what hero does Akasu think is not proud? How can pride not be king? Who among the commanders of the armies, the powerful mages of the city-state, is not proud! That night Akasu had a long dream, in which he became Chu Xiong, a young man with long white hair, a handsome face, and melancholy eyes. Akasu rode on the legendary Ice Lion, armed with a broken sword and bloodied armor. He stood alone on the hill, and looked out over the valley to see the bloody corpses of mages and warriors from various city-states, as well as the corpses of dragons, giants, and creatures he could not name. After waking up from the dream, Akasu was frightened and hurriedly used the nebula card left by the priest of Salman to divination, and the oracle of divination was that "what is lost will be gained, and what is gained will be lost". Akasu asked the master what he meant, but the master just smiled and drank the wine, telling him not to think nonsense, everything was doomed, and the great god of time had already arranged everything.

Master is the High Priestess of the Time Kingdom, and holds the most mysterious power of the Time Kingdom. Don't look at the fact that he is always drunk and drunk on weekdays, but even so, no one, including the king, dares to snub the master in the slightest. In the Kingdom of Time, kings are chosen by a coalition of eight city-states, and each king may not rule for more than sixty years. The High Priest, on the other hand, is a permanent being. If the high priest returns to heaven, other mages and royal families can never succeed the priest, only the apprentice of the high priest can succeed as a sacrifice, and if even the apprentice dies, the reincarnation of a certain high priest must be found by using the more mysterious reincarnation divination. These rules were written into the Code of Time by Tesar, the founder of the Kingdom of Time, and have been in place for more than 59,000 years.

According to the history book of the Kingdom of Time, "The Legend of King Tesar", 59,925 years ago, the human race was at the bottom of society on this continent, and was enslaved by other races for generations. Until one day, King Tessar and his good friend Salman, the High Priest, appeared from the Great Snow Mountain. Both of them are said to be incarnations of the god of time, possessing infinite mana that can dominate the world. They led the Terrans to defeat the Orcs who ruled the land, the Dragons who ruled the lakes and skies, the Elves who ruled the Dark Forest, and the Quicksand who ruled the Kingdom of Quicksand, and established the Terran kingdom of time with their followers on this land.

Tessar and Salman promulgated the Code of Time so that the descendants of the Terrans could rule the newly occupied kingdom for eternity. The Code of Time divides the Kingdom of Time into nine parts, with the King's City of Time in the center with an army of millions and surrounded by eight independent city-states with an army of 500,000 each. The reign of the Time King City was completed by the Time Alliance, which was composed of the High Priest and the eight Time City Lords. Every sixty years, the Time Alliance elects a ruling king, who is responsible for managing the city's people, taxes, land, and army, as well as the security of the eight city-states. The eight city-states had to pay a fixed tax to the royal city every year according to the regulations, and all armies had to be unconditionally at the disposal of the ruling king to protect the kingdom for the entire time. However, the land, taxes, and subjects in the realm of the time royal city were only held by the king during his reign, and did not belong to any city-state. When the previous king leaves office, he will return to his original city-state, and he will not take any wealth from the royal city, and the new king will take over everything in the royal city. The Code of Time also stipulates that the status of the Great Sacrifice in the Kingdom of Time is extremely high. The High Priest is a messenger of the gods, does not belong to any city-state, and has the right to convene a council of alliances to abolish the king, but the high priest can only be in charge of the Temple of Time and cannot hold any position in the king or the kingdom.

After completing the Codex of Time, Tessar gave the eight city-states to his three sons and daughters. In order for the future ruler of the city-state to have the ability to ensure the safety of the city-state, Tessar deterred the remnants of the enemy who were lurking. Tessar also stored the Supreme Law of Energy in different rings and gave it to his children. At the same time, a large number of mages are trained in each city-state, and the children of the royal family work together to study the energy laws belonging to their own city-states. And give the archmage the same status as the lord of the city, and the city-state provides all the mages with all the offerings they need. These measures have made the Time Kingdom unprecedentedly stable, and the wandering human races from all over the country have invested in the Time Kingdom, and a large number of outstanding talents have joined the ranks of armies and mages to jointly build the Time Kingdom that is still thriving today.

Akasu and Master usually live in a very ordinary courtyard in Snow Mountain City, but as for the Temple of Time managed by Master, Akasu rarely lives and leaves it to the sacrificial group to handle daily affairs. Master said that he felt that the bigger the house he lived in, the more lonely he felt, and in this small courtyard at the end of the city, he could feel alive. Akasu didn't quite understand Master's words, but Akasu didn't like to live in the Temple of Time either. The temple is too tall and too big, and the passage to the end of the temple is particularly long, and when walking alone in the temple, Akasu always feels that the end of the temple seems to be a monster's bloody mouth, which makes Akasu stand upside down.

As the only apprentice of the High Priest of the Time Kingdom, Akasu's daily job was to read the revelations of the stone fish in the River of Time. The stonefish is a special fish that can only live in the river of time and will be petrified immediately when it comes out of the water. Its scales are said to contain the records of the history and future revelations of the time kingdom by the god of time. The memory of this fish is said to never die, and as its reincarnation memories will be transferred to the body of the next generation of fish. Therefore, the god of time chose to use such a stone fish to record the history and future revelations of the kingdom of time. Akasu's task was to extract the new revelations that appeared on each stone fish and have them interpreted by the Master, who would then compile the revelations into a book and present them to the King for reading. Because most of the time it was Akasu who was reading the revelation of the stone fish alone, the progress had been slow.

Sometimes Akasu wondered if he would be engaged in such a boring thing for the rest of his life? When would he be able to read the revelation of the stone fish? Why didn't the master find more apprentices, wouldn't the progress be faster, and he could be a little more relaxed. However, the strange thing is that each generation of the High Priest of the Kingdom of Time is a single transmission, that is, only one apprentice is accepted. Unless one of the apprentices dies first, new apprentices will be accepted. And Akasu is the fourth apprentice of the master, and the first three apprentices are all dead, and no one tells Akasu how those disciples died. Every time Akasu asked Master why the previous brothers were no longer there, Master just lamented but never told Akasu why.

The Master was already very old, probably more than a hundred years old, while Akasu was less than twelve. Akasu was worried that the master would suddenly die one day, so that he would live alone in the kingdom of time. Although the souls of the people in the legendary Time Kingdom will never disappear, each soul will only be reincarnated. That is to say, every flower, every animal, every person, their soul is just in rotation, just forgetting the memories of the past life and living in another form in this life. In this way, although the master's soul is still there, it is no longer his own master, and the master he is familiar with may become a lamb or a big tree, Akasu really can't imagine. But what worries Akasu even more is that according to the "Time Code" of the Time Kingdom for thousands of years, after the death of the High Priest, his only apprentice will inherit his position and become the new priest of the Time Kingdom. Akasu didn't want to succeed him, and he became a priest like a master, and every day he did something that he couldn't fully understand, and read some revelations of God that seemed to be the voice of the heavens. Akasu thought that maybe one day he would escape from the kingdom of time and escape to a world that no one knew about, and live freely. However, Akasu didn't dare to say such thoughts to the master, he was afraid that the master would be sad.