Earthly.

The Iberian Radot Sea.

In the vast sea of Ratuo, a thick fog covered the whole world like a veil of mystery, and the waves quietly crashed against the rocks on the shore, as if calling for something. And in this mysterious fog that obscures the sun, there is a huge ship that floats slowly, like a moving castle.

With a length of 106 meters, a width of 32 meters and a height of 21 meters, it is a unique ship in the seas, with no additional armor protection, but four 950 mm short-diameter guns around the ship.

At the front of the ship, there is a set of huge de-icing shovels and steel structures, making it look like a huge forklift walking in the sea.

Buzz –

A brief humming sound sounded, and a twisted Möbius ring appeared in the mist, and the space began to distort, stirring up layers of ripples.

A blond-haired, golden-eyed young man dressed in a black trench coat and a bowler hat walked out of the ripples.

"Finally found something in the Land of the Sea of Fog." Xia Xiu stretched out his hand and pressed the top hat on his head, and said secretly in his heart.

Originally, Xia Xiu was exploring the strange sea of fog near the Balearic Islands, and when he stepped into the sea of fog, he felt the taste of the most familiar—the smell of divinity. Needless to say, he knew that what he was dealing with this time must be related to the gods, and as he went deeper into the sea of fog, he found that the fog around him was polluted with mythical elements, elements that were beyond the scope of understanding in three-dimensional space.

Although it is very slight, these pollution are undoubtedly fatal to ordinary people and ordinary thaumaturgists, only a [crowner] like Xia Xiu can move freely in the sea area without scruples, and he flew all the way, thinking that he would find the information of the lost island in the Balearic Sea, but unexpectedly, he actually crossed the Balearic Sea and the Alwo Sea all the way to the Ratuo Strait at the junction of the Lost Land and Youyang.

He is not walking on the safe passage that has been carved out, but the danger zone where the [Divine Sin] often haunts.

"I didn't even encounter a [god] along the road, not even the ocean aberration monster, which is really quiet and a little scary."

Under the shroud of mist, a gentle breeze with a moist breath rushed towards Xia Xiu on the deck.

He calmly and intently surveyed the ship's surroundings, his eyes set with two golden gems catching every detail that could be found on the ship.

His eyes first swept over the short-gauge guns, frowning slightly, as if analyzing the function and state of the weapons, and then looked down to see some marks on the deck, caused by rust and long-term weathering.

He crouched down and gently stroked the marks, his golden eyes revealing a strange rune containing two intersecting triangles and an inverted half-moon pattern, which began to read the passage of time around him.

『Time Slot, Time Insight——』

"Turin Type I Module: Loading Operation——"

"It's not normal, it's so abnormal." Xia Xiu looked around carefully.

The temporal nicks he observed through [Time Insight] were not normal.

The [Palm Tree Man-Made Base], known as one of the great marine projects, has only been missing for more than three months, and the corrosion shown by the time nicks on this ship has been well over three months.

Plastics, rubbers and insulating materials are severely deteriorated and lose their original properties and functions; Seaweeds, shells, and other marine organisms are heavily attached, exacerbating corrosion and material deterioration; Crack propagation and metal fatigue in the structure itself greatly reduce structural integrity and safety, and large amounts of sediment and sludge can accumulate inside and outside the ship.

This level of corrosion is only possible when exposed to a wet and highly salinity marine environment for a long time.

"Reality Distortion Effect Field from High-Density EVE? By controlling the Arad field, create a passage to another place or point in time? Or speed up the passage of time in a specific area? Xia Xiu quickly flashed triple guesses in his heart.

Huhuhu~

A strange yin wind blew from the ship, Xia Xiu's eyebrows raised slightly, and his spirituality was touched.

The golden eyes looked around, and as far as the eye could see, every corner of the ship seemed to hide unexplained secrets, and every trace revealed ominous and malicious intentions.

With a thoughtful expression, he continued to wander around the ship without hurrying.

Crunch~

Crunch~

The footsteps on the corroded deck made a creepy sound.

The Fourth Sword Bearer of Heaven didn't seem to care about this, and continued to investigate the surroundings.

And between the dusty ancient memories and the slit of reality, on the shadows of the ship, like a nightmarish existence, opened its eyes.

Their appearance is so indescribable that human language seems so pale before them, their figures seem to be woven from endless darkness and suffocating fear, each silhouette flowing with unknowable malice; Their bodies are not fixed, sometimes elongated, sometimes curled up, as if the distortion of time and space has been embodied in them; Their skin appears to be incorporeal, yet has a disgusting stickiness, as if it were condensed by the darkness of the night sky.

The eyes of the abomination are bottomless, with sparks of greed and madness shining within, and every look can tear human reason apart.

In front of them, time seems to no longer flow and space becomes unstable.

Step –

The blonde youth stopped.

Click-

Suddenly, the structure of the space began to distort, Xia Xiu felt that everything around him seemed to be stretched and distorted, he turned around, only to see that the space around him was repeatedly unfolding like a mirror image, and there was a figure of him doing different movements in each space.

"Turin Type I Trigger Detection—"

[You're under a deep warp attack!] 】

The linearity of time is distorted, and the Fourth Blade-wielder of the Heavenly Kingdom is subjected to a real-life, conceptual-structural attack that directly distorts or destroys the target.

The module operation of up to [trillion aether floating point operations per second] brought Xia Xiu an angle beyond mortals, but in less than 0.001 seconds, his perspective, his thinking, and his spirituality had already observed the distorted foundation, crossed the barrier of the unknowable, invisible, and unobservable, and gained insight into the strangeness of the depth beyond the cognitive boundaries of ordinary people.

"Being able to accurately replicate the structure of the surrounding space and move through these replicated spaces makes it impossible for the observer to determine which space is real and which is false."

"When trying to approach it, one will find that it is always in the wrong direction, as if its existence has a singular directional error that makes it impossible for the observer to approach it, and is always misled to other places."

It was only in less than a split second that he sensed the other party's [Path Anomaly] and [Spatial Anomaly] abilities.

His heart was beating rapidly, not because of fear, but because of the "respect" of his non-[apostolic mode] bodily functions for transcendent thinking and certain rules of reality.

"Interesting, plane-seizing in front of me?"

Xia Xiu smiled unconsciously, he broke away from the transcendent thinking of [Turin Type I].

His figure unfolds like a mirror image, and his figure is doing different movements in each space

And in these mirror spaces, the terrifying monsters, the paradoxists of space, are bouncing back and forth, their hateful, twisted faces opening the mouths of the most monstrous voids.

In the constantly distorting overlapping space, the shadow of the blonde youth was eerily tugged at as if to drag his entity into the boundless abyss.

"Tyndaros Hounds: Trappers of Angles—"

In the shadows, his legion began to roar as the blonde youth sneered, and the vague, too filthy, indescribable geometric monster that inhabited angular space, the Tindarus Hound, opened its eyes.

The Tyndallus Hounds, numbering six hundred and sixty-six, erupted from the shadows in an ugly crowd and rushed towards the spatial paradoxists who had broken between space and time.

"Roar—"

With dark shadows and invisible murmurs, it gradually spreads, and the space begins to crack, and time becomes distorted.

"Trait Twister" VS "Spatial Anomaly"

Click!

Every movement of the Tindarus Hound crossed the boundaries of time and space, and they and the space paradox tore at each other in this distorted time and space, and the malice of the battle seemed to tear the entire ship apart, and dense craters appeared on the deck and inner walls of the ship.

"Roar—"

The geometry of the Tindarus Hound, cutting into the essence of the paradoxes of space at every angle, trying to remove them from the limbs of this universe, and in the deep shadows, an ancient and terrifying power is touched.

The paradoxists try to find a flaw in the flow of time and fight back against the unknowable beasts.

Hundreds of Tyndalus hounds flickered wildly with a cold and ancient light,

Every bite, every impact, makes the mirror structure of the mirror space-time tremble.

Those indescribable forms have left indelible traces in the distorted space, tearing each other apart in the ever-changing space, and their strange forms have become even more strange and terrifying in the abnormal time and space.

Bang –

Click!

Like a wave, the shadow tide smashed the overlapping space in front of Xia Xiu, breaking the unreachable paradox zone.

The shadow under Xia Xiu's feet continued to expand outward, and the terrifying angle legion tore at the monsters in the sea of fog, and the legion showed an overwhelming advantage.

But Xia Xiu was not happy about this, on the contrary, his eyebrows frowned slightly, and his golden eyes began to be covered with pure white.

"Perfect Prosthetic Eye: Open-"

"Nothing at all?" The fourth sword-wielder in the kingdom of heaven was slightly surprised.

These bizarre space paradoxists have no checkmate on them, they have been torn to pieces by the Tyndalus Hounds, but their "death omen" has not shone.

As the last of the Shadow Paradoxes vanished under the monstrous onslaught of the Tyndallus Hounds, the ship regained its calm.

However, Xia Xiu sensed an abnormality, and [Vashak] appeared behind him, and the [Triple Crown] was suspended behind his head, and the authority in his body began to run wildly.

Tick~

Tick~

Time on board the ship seems to be beginning to move towards intricate chaos.

Xia Xiu could feel the fluctuations of time, everything around him seemed to fall into an unstable state, and his movements and thoughts were affected by the distortion of time, becoming an elusive shadow.

He looked back and saw the Tyndalus Hounds dissipating in the warp of time, their presence seemingly intimately linked to the stability of the plane.

He still retains the shadow of a paradox on his retina, and the constant lingering effect makes him feel slightly dizzy, and he concentrates, but the deviation of time and the lingering of vision make every thought difficult.

In this chaotic space-time, the past, present, and future seem to begin to intertwine.

His memory began to blur a little, and the wreckage of the ships around him, the twisted metal and the drifting mist, seemed to begin to recede frame by frame.

The images of the paradoxists being killed began to be erased as if they had been deliberately cut out.

"Flashback Reality Reconstruction······

Through the authority of [Time Sink], Xia Xiu quickly understood what was going on with these paradoxes.

This kind of [flashback reality reconstruction] refers to the fact that a person/object at a certain point in time in the past has been in two states of existence and absence due to some anomalous reason, and the butterfly effect caused by it is also in both states of occurrence and elimination.

This fast-paced reality warping function changes so quickly that it's hardly observable.

In fact, everyone has a time slot, but the average person's time slot will only "save their time independently of the overall time", and those who have the authority of time can "read" the "preserved" time in the time sink, that is, observe themselves and anchor the scale of time.

Powerful superhuman wills are able to warp pause time, while non-human beings are able to clip time clips (delete time).

The finer you want to observe, the more you need to get close to it; And getting close to the time anomaly is undoubtedly more terrifying than getting close to any beast or disaster.

Relying on the [Aetheric Ocean], this kind of temporal distortion does not require large-scale physical laws, all they need is the adjustment of "memory" and "narrative", so as to reintegrate the information state in the overall material world.

First of all, it is memory, memory is related to [time stickiness], which means that human beings (intelligent creatures) fit the current time information, and the time stickiness value of normal human beings ensures that they will be obedient in the face of time anomalies, without resistance, and without detection, whether it is the memory of time stop or the memory of time deletion.

After that, there is the narrative, through the [Aetheric Ocean], everything is given a high-dimensional perspective of narration, a thing can be compiled into a [narrative state], such as a glass, the basic state is between the "intact" and "broken" straight line, you can slide on this straight line to determine its state.

Once both are changed, then the reality of the message will begin to change as well.

Based on the three laws of thaumaturgy, as long as the memory and state of death are changed, then the information state of reality will also begin to distort the basis of the present world with this change.

Like-minded begets like-minded.

Part affects the whole.

Observations change reality.

Deceive the world and distort the foundation.

At this moment, Xia Xiu's [Time Stickiness] began to be deliberately deleted, and the surrounding [Narrative Status] began to flow back.

"Looks like I've met the same type of enemy this time."

A big smile spread across the blonde youth's face, and he reached out to shake it into the void.

Flames of data burned, countless geometric blocks were suspended around him, and the key shaped like a sword blade was held in his hand.

He casually thrust his hand into the void, and then, with a slight twist, dense red-gold distorted patches began to spread outward from the occult circle around the key.

"My authority is above you."

[The Key to Authority: The End——]

【Start loading——】

[Begin to parse the world——]

[High-latitude sensing and analysis completed!] 】

[Real-time thaumaturgical compilation, complete loading!] 】

[Fragments of Reality: Start Deciphering!] 】

Whoa—

When the [Key to the End] was drawn out by the Fourth Sword Bearer of the Heavenly Kingdom, the backward image suddenly froze, and then, motionless.

It looks like a progress bar that can't be loaded because there's too much text.

The paradoxists who were halfway through the resurrection were too late to escape again, because the purple eyes of the time god behind the blonde youth burst into blazing fire.

Buzz –

Time is frozen.

"Goodbye."

Xia Xiu put away the authority in his hand, and at the same time, the Möbius ring began to appear, and [Sisyphus] swung his fist wrapped in vectors and slammed into the paradoxists.

Bang bang!!!

These beasts who are trying to challenge the King of Time.

He was frantically beaten during the stoppage, and then completely annihilated.

(End of chapter)