Chapter 513

The accident of time, and the accident of 【Time】!

"Whoosh whoosh—"

The cold wind whistled, biting and piercing.

The snowflakes raised by the gale were not soft; ice shards swirled and poured down, looking more like invisible plows scraping the earth wantonly, plowing out thousands of gullies and ravines in this vast whiteness.

Cheng Shi shivered.

How come this scene... is a bit familiar?

Cheng Shi froze abruptly, and then a chill rushed from his tailbone straight to the top of his head, making his whole scalp tingle.

It wasn't from the cold, but from being shocked.

"!!!!!"

When he saw that it wasn't the dark, boundless Dolegede Assembly Hall before him, but the vast white Luo Sina Recruitment Square, he was shocked and stunned in place, his pupils shrinking to the size of needle points, and goosebumps broke out all over his body!

Because Cheng Shi suddenly realized one thing: the Self-Sinner's Remorse did not seem to have been activated successfully, and the reason it hadn't been activated was that someone had... reset time before he took action!!??

How was time reset, how was it reset?

Could it be that someone had quietly opened a 【Time Battlefield】 behind everyone's back at the moment the trial started?

Who was this person?

Who else could this person be!?

Cheng Shi looked with shock at the refined teammate on his right who was climbing the roof beam, feeling no fear in his heart, only emotion and admiration.

There are truly no mediocre hands at the peak.

This Jiang Chi... is truly a good time traveler!

It all matched up; everything matched up.

Cheng Shi took out his pocket watch to confirm the current time; it was exactly just past twelve noon.

He had noticed this detail when time hadn't been reset, but the problem was that he had overlooked one point at the time: Jiang Chi, who had already climbed onto the roof, must have woken up earlier than him, which meant the other party had the opportunity to open the time battlefield right on the hour!

No wonder, no wonder this Pointer Knight could freeze time in the entire space; no wonder this Pointer Knight lacked strength despite being a warrior; no wonder this Pointer Knight had many tricks during battle but was not as violent and crude as a warrior; no wonder he had drawn wisdom and erudition from Poison!

Because he wasn't a Pointer Knight at all, but a 【Time】 mage, a time traveler capable of opening a time battlefield!

Good, good, good; he had successfully disguised his identity with a broken sundial needle, and had not mentioned a word about it throughout the entire trial. Not only that, this "Pointer Knight" had perhaps put a lot of effort into the disguise; he might even possess some combat-type talents that even mages wouldn't choose!

He had used all his strength to disguise himself as a warrior, perhaps the ultimate goal was just for this moment!

A reversal that stole the sky and changed the sun, a chance to start over!

Amazing!

This act and deed were not inferior even to a peak 【Deception】 believer!

Truly amazing!

But Cheng Shi was not the caster of the time battlefield, nor was he the carrier of a special 【Time】 talent. As a 【Void】 traveler, how did he discover all this when the time battlefield was reset?

This time it wasn't because of that die.

As a steady player, Cheng Shi had indeed deliberately maintained the points of his 【Fate】 die as a marker for time after seeing that he had a 【Time】 teammate.

But this method could only make him realize that time had been reset, but it couldn't allow him to retain the memories from before the reset.

And this time, he hadn't been dissolved by 【Time】 at all, and had even retained his memories!

Why!?

Actually, Cheng Shi was also very confused. Only a small part of his shock just now was directed at Jiang Chi's identity; after all, he had some suspicions about Jiang Chi's identity, and although the result was unexpected, it wasn't unacceptable. As for the remaining major part of the shock, it was all directed at 【Time】!

That's right, 【Time】!

It was the power of 【Time】 that saved him from memory dissolution and allowed him to see the reset time, but before this, Cheng Shi didn't even know he was carrying the power of 【Time】!

But where did this power of 【Time】 come from?

The answer is actually very simple; since it is the power of 【Time】, it naturally comes from 【Time】.

And coincidentally, Cheng Shi had seen 【Time】 in Aflos's Evil Infant Tribunal!

It was at that time that this eternal 【Existence】 radiated heart-shaking brilliance. These rays of light merely shone upon Cheng Shi, and it pulled him out of the current dimension, allowing him to see the true appearance of the time cage where Aflos was located.

Do you remember what that cage looked like?

"Time circles around, twisting into knots, letting countless time trajectories of the universe pass by; this independent knot of time always floats quietly in the 【Void】, silent and lonely."

In that huge time loop, Cheng Shi saw the true essence of time connecting before and after, so in this "loop" that could hardly be called a "loop," Cheng Shi... was completely unaffected.

Or rather, he would never be affected again.

Because the moment time was reset and the loop began again, an ancient ring flowing with the vicissitudes of time appeared on Cheng Shi's finger.

And that position should have been wearing 【Existence】's other ring, 【Dream of Memory Sea】.

But because the three 【Memory】 abilities had all been used up, Cheng Shi had long since taken it off, and now, that position had been filled by a ring of 【Time】!

This was a ring made of a slender, complete time needle twisted and wrapped into a double ring. Two ring bands were tightly fastened on the finger, and floating between the two bands was a knot that looked like an infinity symbol or a Möbius strip.

At first glance, the ring seemed a bit old and rusted, but if you took a closer look, you would find that the light of 【Time】 was clearly flowing within it.

Time of Eternal Imprisonment (SSS): A relic from a god, a ring born from the sigh of 【Time】, witnessing the closed loop of time.

Special Effect 【Self-Awakening of the Time Prisoner】: All time resets, backtracking, and loops caused by the power of 【Time】 will not dissolve your concept of time, nor will they affect your consciousness and memories.

Special Effect 【Shout of the Self-Awakener】: All positive effects produced on you due to time resets, backtracking, and loops will have a small bonus.

"..."

A relic from a god, another relic from a god!

Looking at the description of this ring, the anger Cheng Shi had been holding in his heart almost extinguished.

"What is this, compensation?

Hit me with a stick and give me a date to eat?"

Could it be that He had long anticipated that His believer would anger him, so He prepared the compensation in advance?

Is 【Time】 this generous?

Cheng Shi was confused; this ring, in any sense, could be called a divine artifact, especially for a 【Fate】 believer...

You must know that 【Time】 is always playing games with 【Fate】, and their believers do not get along, so what does it mean to let the opponent's believer get a ring that can break most 【Time】 mysteries?

If Jiang Chi knew about this, wouldn't he be so angry that he would point at the sky and curse: We ministers were just about to fight again, why did Your Majesty subsidize the enemy!?

Cheng Shi couldn't figure it out, and didn't want to continue thinking about it. Compared to these things he couldn't wrap his head around, he knew very clearly what he had to do now.

Whether this ring was a "compensation" prepared by 【Time】 in advance, or some warning to stop here, it was impossible to make him give up his ideas.

After being "toyed with" again and again, Cheng Shi "broke his defense." He had to find a vent for his grievance, and right now, with everything reset, it was undoubtedly the perfect opportunity.

At this time, Gong Yangjiao hadn't rebelled, Poison hadn't died, and Jiang Chi had just found the sundial needle that disguised his identity and was walking back. The other party probably didn't know that he hadn't lost his memories. Looking at him, this time traveler might still want to stage the previous plot again.

Only this time, he probably felt that he could avoid all the pitfalls and walk to the end.

So, this was the secret to this "knight's" ranking up.

Little did he know that the moment Cheng Shi saw him, his ending had already been rewritten.

Jiang Chi walked back leaning on the sundial needle against the wind and snow. When he looked at Cheng Shi, a strange light flashed in his eyes, but he soon smiled and greeted:

"The road is slippery after the snow... it's necessary to find a cane to assist in walking... ah, ptooey ptooey, sorry, the wind is too strong...

I hate the north of the Continent of Hope, even though I am a northerner myself.

How should I address my friend?"

He reached out his hand toward Cheng Shi again, a brilliant smile spreading across his face. Everything looked so friendly, as if that five-on-one hunt just now had never happened.

This time, Cheng Shi didn't take out a fur coat to block the wind. He looked at the hand the other party extended, returned a brilliant laugh, and enthusiastically went up to meet him, holding Jiang Chi's hand with both of his, shaking it fiercely and saying:

"Cheng Shi, nice to meet you."

Jiang Chi was stunned, a flash of suspicion crossing his eyes. The other party's personality seemed different from when they first met; at that time, Cheng Shi was very resistant to getting close to him, but this time... why was he so enthusiastic again?

Although there must be a demon when things are abnormal, the problem was that in Jiang Chi's eyes, no one here should know what happened in the previous loop, because no one had seen through that he was a time traveler.

This act of disguising as a Pointer Knight had allowed him to climb to the peak, never failing, and had also created his thin reputation for wisdom and reliability. But who could know that this Pointer Knight was actually a mage who kept imitating a warrior under his skin.

Although he had doubts in his heart, Jiang Chi did not refuse Cheng Shi's enthusiasm. He knew that this person's identity was not simple, so instead of choosing to become enemies with him, it was better to stand firmly by his side from the beginning.

Survival never relies on hatred, but on wisdom. Jiang Chi's wisdom might not be high, but fortunately, he had trial-and-error opportunities.

So he took two more steps closer, smiled and gripped Cheng Shi's hand tightly, raising his eyebrows and joking:

"Your name is the same as a friend of mine, what a coincidence. I don't know if you know him; he is a Fate Weaver, a very famous one."

Cheng Shi also raised his eyebrows and smiled:

"Oh? How famous?"

"It seems you don't know. Hmm, then where should I start..."

It was the familiar dialogue again, but this time Cheng Shi interrupted him very quickly. He looked at Jiang Chi with a playful expression and couldn't help but sneer:

"How about...

we start from the moment you reset the time battlefield, how about that, Mr. Knight?"

"!!!!!!!"