Chapter 662 - 420: Become Me

Chapter 662: Chapter 420: Become Me

’Good thing this isn’t real. Otherwise, I doubt I’d be able to stay calm right now.’

’If Kumironi really died in front of me...’

’I’d definitely be heartbroken.’

’But the reality is, this timeline is just one that constantly loops and resets. It has nothing to do with me.’

’But it seems if I’m too calm...’

’...it will look strange.’

Lu Cang witnessed this, his voice trembling slightly as he asked, "How can you control Kumironi so easily?"

However, Kumironi’s eyes were compassionate yet cold. With detached pity, she said, "Child."

"Your disguise is far too clumsy."

"I can’t smell the slightest hint of fear on you. When a living being is truly afraid, the scent it gives off is nothing like this."

"I can feel it. You’re not afraid of me."

Like a specter, Kumironi drifted closer, her form ethereal and soft. She drew near to Lu Cang, lightly sniffing his scent.

Then, she gently placed her hand on Lu Cang’s chest.

Her pitying gaze held an omen of Lu Cang’s impending death.

But at almost the same instant, Lu Cang vanished from before her eyes, disappearing completely.

"Oh?"

"Time."

Sophia hadn’t seen the process of Lu Cang’s disappearance. In fact, she was certain there was no process.

There were only two possibilities in the world that could happen right under her nose, so fast that she couldn’t even react.

One was Light—Light moving at infinite speed.

The other possibility was Time.

And Lu Cang was clearly not Light.

WHOOSH—

Lu Cang had used the time-stop of the Heaven-Ascending Realm of Perfection to escape.

And within this frozen time...

Lu Cang instantly activated the Second Forbidden Magic—Time.

Under the effect of a ten-thousand-fold time deceleration...

One second became ten thousand seconds.

This meant that within this single second of frozen time, Lu Cang could move freely for ten thousand seconds.

However, Lu Cang didn’t linger that long.

Instead, he reappeared two million kilometers away. At the same time, Lu Cang also unleashed the Seventh Forbidden Magic—Element.

BZZT—

Startup activated.

In an instant, a radius of one million kilometers centered on Lu Cang transformed into pure Element!

Kumironi narrowed her eyes slightly.

She gazed in Lu Cang’s direction.

Microwave-like ripples of Element and Time spread through the air.

"To have mastered two Forbidden Magics at the same time."

"I’ve really met an interesting one."

"Mastering Time Taboo Magic... your relationship with Aikator must be quite close~"

"Are you her subordinate?"

"Oh~ So that means this isn’t your main timeline, is it?"

Although Lu Cang himself was an Unsolvable Mystery, the temporal fluctuations he emitted when using the Forbidden Magic—Time were enough for Sophia to form a theory.

And she was almost spot on.

"No wonder you’re so indifferent to your friend’s death."

"Because you don’t think any of this is real."

Kumironi walked slowly toward Lu Cang, one step after another.

Each step crossed hundreds of thousands of kilometers. In the time it took to take just a few steps, she had already reappeared before Lu Cang.

"Alright~"

"Since you have Aikator’s protection, I imagine you won’t be so easily killed by this little avatar of mine."

Kumironi licked the corner of her mouth.

"However, you’re curious about me, and I’m very curious about Aikator."

"How about this."

"I’ll answer your questions, and you tell me what I want to know."

"After all, when the time comes, you’ll return to your timeline, and I’ll stay in mine. We’ll each go our separate ways."

"We both get what we want~ How about it?"

"This should be the best arrangement for you."

Sophia’s tone was always filled with compassion, as if Lu Cang were a pathetic creature in desperate need of pity.

An Su, in his mind, couldn’t help but feel a little shocked.

’This child is actually connected to the legendary Aikator.’

’No wonder he was able to lay a trap for me in advance.’

’It makes sense... how could an ordinary person have possibly predicted my movements?’

An Su finally understood.

’It seems all of this has already happened once before.’

Lu Cang frowned internally.

But his expression remained completely unchanged.

He spoke, "And how are you so certain I’m connected to Aikator? What if I told you I know nothing about them?"

Kumironi let out a helpless, pitying chuckle. "That doesn’t matter either."

THUMP—

His Final Sense was suddenly struck with an extremely profound fear!

It had been a long, long time since he had felt such a deep-seated terror!

"I... replace all life."

SPLAT!

Almost instantly, a head sprouted from Lu Cang’s neck, hands grew from his arms, and new legs grew from his legs! It was as if a new person was growing out of him!

Kumironi’s emerald hair whipped through the air, wild and domineering.

CRACK!

At that exact same second, Lu Cang’s body exploded, bursting apart like an empty shell—

And then!

Kumironi’s body erupted with billions of dazzling rays of light!

Within the frozen time!

Lu Cang had also launched his attack!

He slammed all the Elements into Kumironi’s body!

"Elemental Wanhua!"

BOOM!

In all directions, the hollow, dark Abyss of the Sea erupted with a myriad of colorful lights!

The Elements boiled!

Kumironi’s body shattered in an instant!

BANG—

Yet amid the endless destruction...

Sophia’s voice echoed between heaven and earth.

"Such an interesting, foolish, ignorant little wretch."

"To actually attempt to kill a Moon who presides over life? Just because you’ve mastered a Forbidden Magic, you think you can do as you please?"

"It’s just... so pathetic."

’Can’t be killed—’

Lu Cang came to this conclusion in the very first moment.

SQUELCH!

Kumironi’s body—which had been turned into Elements, incinerated, and utterly destroyed—completed its Rebirth directly in the empty Void.

Meanwhile, more torsos continued to sprout from Lu Cang’s body.

SWISH!

SWISH SWISH SWISH SWISH SWISH—

Lu Cang instantly sliced off the excess torsos growing from him, but the growth showed no signs of stopping.

Kumironi’s body had now fully regenerated from complete annihilation.

She bathed in the raging Elemental Sea, gazing at the distant Lu Cang.

SNAP!

In her eyes, Lu Cang would appear for an instant and then disappear.

He was basically teleporting.

’But what’s the point of running around like this?’

"Weren’t you curious about what I want to do?"

Sophia could feel Lu Cang’s limbs, could feel his torso.

She didn’t need to touch him at all.

The moment Lu Cang appeared before her, his fate was sealed.

"Life... requires an ultimate interpretation."

"The Mystical Technique of life is not a love for life, nor is it pity for the weak."

"Rather, it is to become something truly great."

"The sum of all life. Perfect and flawless."

HUMMM—

Sophia looked up at Lu Cang, who had appeared in the sky, then glanced at Rhine and reached a hand out toward Rhine.

THWAP—

Rhine was instantly pulled over to Sophia.

Like a magnet, Rhine slammed into Kumironi’s body. Then the two of them, like a pair of clay lumps, stuck together and gradually fused into one.

"Just like this... becoming the sum of all life."

"You are quite good. Even better than my dearest Kumironi. Although you’re not a perfect vessel like my dear Kumironi, you are definitely not some trash-like life form."

A compassionate voice sounded in Lu Cang’s mind.

"Come... become me."

"I am you, and you are me. All life in this world, without distinction."