Chapter 2490: Chapter Two Thousand Five Hundred Thirty-Four: The Fourth Candidate of Time

Click~

A clear sound of a hand turning came from the void. Xia De looked around suspiciously; he always felt that recently, when he used time-type miracles, the "click~" that had never existed before was becoming more and more real.

Miss Jia Lin Na looked at the pocket watch Xia De had not hidden this time. Of course she knew what it was, and so finally understood exactly where Xia De's "Time Pause" had been learned. But then she suddenly looked toward the completely "frozen" Wang Hou:

"Careful, what is that!?"

At this moment only Xia De and Miss Jia Lin Na remained in the room; even Ajerina had not stayed, and the Duchess, who had pulled Xia De back quickly, had noticed something abnormal about Queen Diana.

This did not refer to the undignified appearance of the Queen during childbirth, but rather that her swollen belly, while her body was frozen, was actually bulging upward from within, and trembling like waves.

It sounds simple to describe, but actually seeing this scene made even Xia De's scalp tingle.

And what happened next made the corners of his mouth tremble even more, because a tender hand tore open the Queen's belly, and amid the gurgling flow of blood, two infants connected by umbilical cords and covered all over in filth crawled out of Queen Diana's belly by sheer force.

Xia De did not really want to describe the appearance of these two infants; the newly born twin princes were truly ugly, and even their eyes were squinted shut from having just been born and could not open.

The witch beside him was taking deep breaths to steady her emotions; she had a very good relationship with Queen Diana, and this scene was a great shock to her, while Xia De realized something else:

"They're immune to my Time Pause? No, wait—you two are Ring Mages? Wait, six rings? Is the bloodline of this generation of the Cavendish family really this good?"

An extremely illusory, translucent, delicate Fate Ring had now appeared behind the two children lying on the corpse. Xia De had never seen such a fragile Fate Ring, nor did he understand why the Fate Ring of a living person would be translucent.

"Willing to talk?"

He stepped forward and stood in front of Miss Jia Lin Na, softly asking the two children beneath the blazing surgical lamp. The lamplight was very bright, and the slowly rotating two six-ring Fate Rings had dim spiritual light, with no trace of an imminent spell:

"Y-you, hello."

The newly born twin princes did not speak, but a childish voice with a slight echo automatically rang out in the room:

"May we ask, can you, kill us?"

Miss Jia Lin Na knew this question was directed at Xia De, but she still opened her mouth and asked:

"Why kill you?"

"Grandaunt, because, we don't want, to be born."

The Silence Talisman Fu Zhou, long since cast, ensured that the strange childish voice would not carry outside, and the Outsider who knew many stories had already furrowed his brow tightly:

"Don't tell me you possess the ability to travel through time and have toyed with time many times, and now you've discovered that not being born is what's best for everyone."

The newly born twin princes crawled blindly atop their mother's corpse:

"No, we don't have, that kind of power. Time, is already not enough, see you next time."

"Wait......"

A burst of Bai Guang completely filled his field of vision. The dizziness and nausea once again made Xia De cover his head and shut his eyes, but this time the discomfort was weaker.

"Time really is wondrous; many years ago, I too once......"

By the time he heard Miss Jia Lin Na's familiar sorrowful and wistful sentence and Ajerina's concerned inquiry, he even wanted to cover his face and sit quietly for a while before speaking again.

But time waits for no one. Xia De could only once again, under the earnest listening of the two Cavendishes, recount the gist of what had happened. This time too he could produce no evidence, but they still believed him without reservation.

"Same as last time, we set off for the delivery room now."

Miss Jia Lin Na stood up at once, while Xia De looked toward Ajerina and Miss Miss Difa:

"You two come with us."

And so eight minutes later, the three of them were once again standing before that bed in the delivery room. Only this time Xia De did not directly cast the spell to freeze time; instead he first soothed Queen Diana, then Miss Jia Lin Na reached out and cut open Queen Diana's belly, and Xia De lifted the two princes out as if picking up rabbits.

Miss Miss Difa was responsible for cutting the umbilical cords and performing the subsequent suturing, while Ajerina helped nearby with reddened eyes.

Of course, everyone was wearing gloves and masks.

"Since time is short, don't waste time."

Xia De could not be bothered to wipe the two fragile infants clean, and directly placed them into the cradle that had been prepared long ago, then raised his hand upward:

"Sunlight Healing."

The warm sunlight ensured the princes would not perish from the Outsider's rough handling. He spoke quickly:

"You must have retained the memory from just now.

Now continue the topic from just now: explain clearly what exactly is going on? The souls of you two are indeed newly born souls; what exactly do you know?"

Not only their souls—under Xia De's examination, their bodies too were genuine infant bodies.

"We experienced the Chosen One War in the future."

The princes, squinting their eyes, nestled together and curled up in the cradle's blanket:

"We are one of the candidates for the Chosen One of Time, ranked fourth.

We jumped through time for certain reasons and became adults, then participated in the Chosen One War of Time; that war was too terrible.

We lost, and the monsters that twisted the timeline are hunting us. Only by erasing us at the source of our birth can our tragic future fate be completely avoided.

Only five times are needed—only five regressions to the moment of birth, and time will completely erase our traces; when that happens, everything will be over."

Xia De and Miss Jia Lin Na exchanged a glance. The latter tacitly understood what Xia De wanted to say, so she asked:

"Do you know me?"

"You are Grandaunt Miss Jia Lin Na Cavendish, and also the Great Witch of the Witches' Parliament."

"Then do you know her?"

Xia De pointed at Ajerina, who was quietly communicating with her own mother, but Queen Diana did not seem particularly lucid.

"Ajerina Cavendish, our elder sister, a witch apprentice."

"Then who am I?"

Xia De asked finally. The voice that had been answering questions paused for a moment before reappearing:

"We should have seen who you are, but you, blessed by time, are protected by time. The true identity information of you exists in our memory, but we cannot now determine exactly who you are."

Miss Jia Lin Na looked at Xia De:

"Is what they say true?"

"They believe it to be true."

Xia De placed his hands on the two princes' heads, and the newborns tried to dodge but couldn't evade at all:

"It's just that their fragile brains clearly cannot withstand the impact of these memories and spiritual power. Your heads are about to explode."

"Sorry, what do you mean by 'we believe we are telling the truth'?"

The princes asked, and Xia De pressed his hands over their eyelids:

"To put it simply, you don't have any ability to travel through time, nor did you come back from the future."

"That's impossible!"

But the power Xia De felt beneath their eyelids told him the truth:

"Princes, you simply possessed the ability to see the future from the moment you were born. This is your talent as Chosen candidate."

Therefore, when you, possessing only an infant's consciousness, looked downstream along the river of time, you truly did see something, and then took the future you saw as the lifetime you had already lived."

The "she" by his ear seemed to laugh, but certainly not at Xia De.

"Memories bring spirit and elements to form a Fate Ring—this is the power of knowledge—but the soul does not lie. Your souls really are only newborn infants' souls, not the souls of adults who have been through many things. Trust my perception; this point cannot be wrong.

You observed the future, that you would for some reason become adults, take part in the coming Chosen battle, and then fall into an unlucky fate. So you overdraw your own souls again and again, trying to detonate your own time talent to form a paradox and completely erase yourselves—I think the truth of the matter should be this."

"So, they have future sight?"

Miss Jia Lin Na asked, and Xia De nodded while feeling the changes in the twin princes' souls:

"Yes, and it's even more advanced than 'future sight.' This is a fragment of an ancient god's power; I can't simply describe it in words, but it's only 【Observation】. Their eyes and souls do indeed have unique aspects, fully formed only at the moment of birth."

Xia De understood only the moon and time:

"The material world's time is watched over by the Tree Father's shadow and the so-called 'Time Guardians.' Even a Chosen cannot casually travel through time and affect the past, so they really aren't time travelers."

Xia De used the Time Key, which was permitted by the Tree Father, but these infants did not possess that kind of ancient miracle element.

"Besides, they're only the Fourth Candidates, and the Fourth Candidates generally wouldn't have such outstanding talents. If they were the First Candidate of time, I might still have some doubts. Think about it—what special abilities could the other Fourth Candidates have?"

The twin princes fell silent.

"But didn't the little brothers themselves realize that they have never used the power of time travel?"

Ajierina, holding Queen Diana's hand, asked Xia De, who gave her a reassuring smile:

"These two little brothers of yours are only infants. Even if they glimpsed a possible future in an instant, their way of thinking and logic cannot compare with that of a true adult washed by time. In other words, they... aren't very mature or logically rigorous.

But don't worry about the future they described. I've taken classes on this—once a 'future sight' ability truly observes the future, the future becomes uncertain. What they saw was only a possible future at that time. Now, everything is different."

The princes remained silent. Ajierina was reassured by Xia De's comfort and felt at ease. What Miss Jia Lin Na cared about was a more direct question:

"So how is this matter to be resolved? Although I don't understand the mysteries of time, I do know that any trouble involving time cannot be solved by ordinary means."