[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-with-infinity-skill-points-i-enslaved-all":3,"chapter-reborn-with-infinity-skill-points-i-enslaved-all-reborn-with-infinity-skill-points-i-enslaved-all-chapter-457":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Reborn with Infinity Skill Points, I Enslaved All Universes",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1414609,1871,"Chapter 457 -457-The Long Journey","reborn-with-infinity-skill-points-i-enslaved-all-chapter-457",457,"\u003Cp>A dignified Fake God of the Time Domain — needing his protection?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daniel couldn’t help but let out a quiet, helpless laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If danger truly appeared, shouldn’t it be Kartora protecting him instead?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shook his head at the irony, then followed her without hesitation, stepping into the radiant portal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the portal’s inner corridor was much wider than before — perhaps a reflection of Kartora’s recent growth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her increased power had clearly expanded the structure of the timeway itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as Daniel moved forward, he felt it — the resistance of time thickening around him, slowing the motion of his body and mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air was heavy, viscous, as if made of layered glass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All around him, the walls of the passage shimmered with fragments of reality — flickering scenes, moments from countless eras that had once truly existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw ancient gods in battle, their colossal forms tearing apart dimensions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw the birth and death of god ranks, civilizations that rose and vanished within heartbeats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw weak races destroyed before their wisdom could even blossom, erased from existence by the careless hand of stronger beings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he saw newly born demigods, eager to harvest faith and ascend — only to be devoured by greater powers the instant they succeeded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Land of Origin, he thought, was truly a world ruled by the law of the jungle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you were strong, you could do anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you were weak, your survival depended on the mercy — or the mood — of those above you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why every living being in this world carried the same obsession: to become stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because only the strong could protect their families, their homes, their dreams — the fragile things they loved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So generation after generation, more and more intelligent creatures awakened, chasing power no matter the cost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even knowing that most would die as cannon fodder, they persisted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daniel understood them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was no different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason he kept pushing forward, honing himself, facing gods and monsters — it wasn’t for conquest or glory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was simply to survive, and to protect the people under his care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this world, there was no other way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even now, after everything he had achieved, Daniel could feel it — that faint but unrelenting sense of insufficiency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His power still wasn’t enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, Kartora’s clear, musical voice broke through his thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lord Crossbridge, over here!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daniel blinked, returning from his reflections, and hurried to catch up. Kartora was already some distance ahead, moving gracefully through the corridor’s endless glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He increased his pace, stepping quickly to match hers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside, time itself froze completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flow of the world beyond — every clock, every heartbeat — had come to a halt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even within Daniel’s own mental world, the Land of Origin itself hung still, motionless like a painting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He found himself half amused at the thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If only those inside could continue acting freely while everything outside was frozen — the human race could have all the time it needed to grow stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Imagine it — centuries of progress in the span of a single moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of unimaginable empire would that produce?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no. Inside this tunnel, everything was still. The price of timeless travel was absolute stagnation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time slipped by quietly, though Daniel could no longer tell how much had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A day, perhaps. Maybe more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, the tunnel had no visible end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kartora,\" he finally asked, his voice echoing softly in the emptiness, \"how long do you think we’ll have to travel before we reach the destination?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kartora furrowed her delicate brows, thinking for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To be honest, I’m not entirely sure,\" she admitted. \"I think... when it’s time for us to arrive, we’ll arrive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Days blurred into weeks, and before Daniel realized it, a month had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had stopped counting the hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The journey had become something else — not a mission, but a quiet, endless voyage through the river of existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had even learned to enjoy it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He watched, calmly, as civilizations rose and crumbled in flashes of color beyond the timeway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worlds were born and destroyed like sparks from a fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whole ages flickered by faster than a heartbeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each passing vision deepened his insight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His thoughts grew heavier, more reflective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He continued his Mental Deduction as they traveled, dividing his mind into two threads — one calculating and observing, the other engaging in light conversation with Kartora.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their talks stretched across days, sometimes across what must have been years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They spoke of time and memory, of faith and evolution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They shared stories of the countless ages they glimpsed passing by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in that way, a year slipped quietly into eternity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During their journey, Daniel began to notice fragments of something strange floating through the current — shards of condensed light, each containing whispers of ancient memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were time fragments, remnants left behind by gods from forgotten epochs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most were chaotic and incomplete — moments of laughter, war, creation, despair — but Daniel’s keen mind could still glean patterns from them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Combining the fragments with his deductions, he began to see the greater picture — the history of the Old Gods, the ones who ruled before the modern pantheon even existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He realized something startling: from a certain point in history onward, the modern god system simply appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before that, everything belonged to the ancient gods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"current\" divine order wasn’t born gradually — it was replaced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That revelation deepened his curiosity, and he followed Kartora onward, eager to learn more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten years passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The further they traveled, the fewer modern gods he saw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their echoes faded from the timeway, replaced entirely by the lingering power of the Old God lineage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twenty years. Thirty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fragments grew sparse, dissolving one by one until the corridor was filled only with silence and the dim hum of spacetime itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tunnel began to distort — twisting at impossible angles, folding back on itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daniel could feel the pull of the void, the raw drag of collapsing dimensions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It tugged at his body like invisible tides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he was far too strong to be affected by such forces now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kartora didn’t even seem to notice them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her confidence was absolute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifty years since they’d stepped into the portal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, there were no more fragments, no more echoes of life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only darkness and colorless light remained — a mixture of deep blue and black that swallowed everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deeper they went, the more suffocating it became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The structure of time unraveled here, turning chaotic, harmful to all living things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even divine beings could be torn apart by the turbulence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But under Kartora’s protection, Daniel remained untouched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had layered his own defenses as well, surrounding himself with a reflective barrier, a luminous shell that turned away temporal distortion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Years continued to bleed together — sixty, seventy, eighty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until at last, Daniel realized something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ahead of them, there was nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mind power stretched forward and met pure void — a blank expanse with no movement, no energy, not even the faintest pulse of existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The roaring torrents of time that had accompanied them for decades were gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire corridor had gone silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No more light, no more color.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the endless black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that infinite stillness, only two figures remained — Daniel and Kartora.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every other trace of reality had vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the long, timeless journey pressed on, deeper into the unknown.\u003C\u002Fp>",1253,"2026-06-06T00:12:00.792Z",1,"novelbin.me","367e79567eafa1a076e6c524d2d0a3f6b262da7bc9cebacba71bbef929b84638","reborn-with-infinity-skill-points-i-enslaved-all-chapter-458","reborn-with-infinity-skill-points-i-enslaved-all-chapter-456",650,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-with-infinity-skill-points-i-enslaved-all-cover.jpg"]