Reincarnated Hero System - Chapter 1115 - 1115: Labyrinth of Space and Time
The man asserted control over the surrounding cosmic energy, bending it to his will and forcibly dispersing the cosmic energy within Arthur’s sword.
As a result, when the blade struck the ground, it lacked the power to fully destroy the teleportation circle, only managing to inflict minor damage.
That small amount of damage was insufficient to disrupt its activation.
The man then turned his focus to Arthur, using his cosmic energy and spatial manipulation to lock him in place, fully aware that a Temporal Stop would be ineffective against the boy.
His goal was to prevent Arthur from making any further moves, particularly with Lostvayne in hand.
But Arthur wasn’t so easily restrained.
His sword’s cosmic energy coursed through Arthur’s body, and he channelled it to break free from the spatial lock. He activated his Pseudo-Authority of Space, stalling the teleportation for as long as possible.
Arthur faced a choice—he could attempt to escape, moving faster than the man could react. After all, the man seemed immobilised during the teleportation circle’s activation.
But Arthur didn’t run.
Instead, he fixed his gaze on the approaching High-Rank demon presences.
Arthur, Evan, and Beatrix had been pursuing the man for kilometres, fighting, deploying bounded fields, and causing explosions.
There was no way the High-Rank demons overseeing the battlefield clean-up nearby could have missed such commotion.
Those who sensed Arthur’s presence quickly traced the blasts back to him, detecting his destruction energy and Evan’s prismatic flames as they hurried toward the scene to assess the situation.
But it’s important to note that the teens and Artemisia’s captor were moving at supersonic speeds.
From the moment Artemisia had been incapacitated to the instant they stepped into the circle, barely 90 seconds had passed.
The High-Rank demons, stationed much farther away, required more time to reach the four teens.
On top of that, their pursuit had been delayed when the kidnapper used Carnage Deception.
Some demons eventually managed to break free from its influence and resumed their chase to uncover what was happening, while more rushed over after sensing the overwhelming bloodlust, including several Superior Transcendents.
However, they arrived only in time to witness the light of the teleportation circle engulfing Arthur, Evan, Beatrix, and the unknown man, with the unconscious Artemisia slung over his shoulder.
It was unmistakably a kidnapping.
A few demons attempted to intervene, hoping to stop it, but Arthur knew such efforts would be pointless.
No matter what they did, they would never succeed in halting the teleportation.
His gaze immediately locked onto Aravae, one of the demons who had arrived when Artemisia was experimenting with corpses, and he shouted two words to her.
|¬GET ALVEY! ¬|
As the words left his mouth, his hands dipped into his subspace and pulled out one of his anti-divinity missiles.
It was something he had created on a whim with Alvey and Jamie, an experiment to see just how much cosmic energy he could pack into a single anti-divinity missile.
The kidnapper attempted to use his cosmic energy to restrain Arthur once more, assuming that Arthur intended to destroy the teleportation circle with the missile.
But that assumption couldn’t have been more wrong.
With all his strength and control over gravity, Arthur launched the missile high into the air.
Time power accelerated it instantly, sending it skyward at hypersonic speed before detonating in a brilliant explosion of energy.
Simultaneously, Arthur lost his ability to delay the teleportation.
His Pseudo-Authority of Space could no longer halt the process, and the light of the teleportation circle engulfed his body.
In a flash, all five of them vanished from sight as the circle completed its activation.
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As Arthur, Artemisia, Evan, Beatrix, and the Unknown Man disappeared from sight, the High-Rank demons were left reeling in shock.
Their attacks and energies cut through the empty air in a futile attempt to reach them, but it was already too late.
Immediately, Aravae spun around and shouted to the others,
“Contact High Command now! General Vaughn has been kidnapped!”
The High-Rank demons sprang into action, fully aware of Arthur’s importance to the Demon Kings.
Now, he had been kidnapped, not alone, but with Evan.
Those versed in the interstellar hierarchy instantly recognised Artemisia and Beatrix as the daughters of the ‘Supreme’ god Rulers.
Did anyone question why the two girls were present? No.
What mattered was that they had been abducted, alongside figures valued by the 72 Demon Kings despite their rivalries.
Without hesitation, the demons began transmitting urgent messages to Militopolis and the Rhigor continent.
Aravae activated a Spatial Gate Artifact and leapt through the conjured portal, heading directly toward the Demon Army Headquarters in Southern Gledea.
But the spatial transit wasn’t instantaneous. It would take several minutes to reach Militopolis.
Who knew what could unfold in that time?
What if they were too late?
Fortunately, Arthur had mitigated that concern to some degree.
He had fired an Anti-Divinity Missile into the sky.
The kidnapper had been baffled by the action. In fact, no one truly understood why Arthur had done it, not even the High-Rank demons, nor Evan or Beatrix.
Only Arthur himself knew the reason.
It was a signal.
A signal he knew would not go unnoticed by a particular individual on this planet.
In the heart of Militopolis, in Southern Gledea, a certain Demon King sensed the burst of cosmic energy detonating in the sky.
He turned toward the source, instantly noticing it was mixed with Anti-Divinity, a power he had only ever seen emanating from Arthur.
“What’s Arthur up to this time?”
He raised an eyebrow in confusion, then extended his spatial perception to locate him.
But when he scanned the site where the energy had originated, he found not Arthur, but a bunch of High-Rank demons scrambling about, one of them attempting to traverse space toward him.
There was no trace of Arthur, Artemisia, Beatrix, or Evan.
Vast stretches of land lay in ruin, devastated by attacks infused with Arthur’s lingering energy.
Jamie sprang to his feet, his expression shifting as he expanded his perception. He first scanned the entire continent, but could detect none of the four teenagers.
Then he extended his reach to cover the entire planet, yet still found no trace of them.
Without hesitation, Jamie ripped space apart, creating a spatial gate and leaping through it.
Alvey and McEnda, who had been speaking with him moments before, were stunned by his sudden action. Then they recalled Jamie’s earlier mention of Arthur and realised that something had gone terribly wrong.
They wasted no time and followed him into the gate, which Jamie had left open in his haste.
In an instant, Jamie emerged at the other end, arriving amidst the area where the High-Rank demons were struggling to understand what had transpired.
He ignored all the demons and rushed toward the spot where the teens had vanished.
Almost every trace of the teleportation had been erased, so thoroughly that even Deities with Mid-Rank Spatial Authorities would have been unable to track them.
But Jamie was an Ultimate Skill-wielding High-Tier Deity, his primary affinity being Space.
He moved his hand, and cosmic energy followed.
The energy pierced a small gap in the sealing space, and Jamie began tearing at the fabric of space to locate where Arthur and the others had been teleported.
But as he attempted to rip the space apart, a force pushed back, keeping it shut.
Instantly, Jamie realised who, or rather what, was responsible.
The planet itself was attempting to seal the space, a sign that ‘Aramis’ might have been involved in the kidnapping.
Jamie’s eyes glowed with intensity, and his power erupted outward, engulfing the entire planet.
|DON’T GET IN MY WAY, YOU INSECT. |
Void energy poured from him, mingling with his cosmic energy, shattering the land and reducing it to dust.
The nearby High-Rank demons immediately fled the area, desperate to avoid death as Jamie’s power pierced the ground and struck the planet’s core in the blink of an eye.
He plunged his hand into the fabric of space and tore the Incarnation of the Planet’s Consciousness from its core dimension.
Using his Authority of Knowledge, he quickly scanned the planet’s records, only to find that even the planet itself had no information on where the teenagers had been taken.
Recognising the effort as futile, Jamie clenched his fist, and void energy coiled around the humanoid form of the planet’s Consciousness Incarnation, compressing it from all directions and scattering it in a brilliant eruption of light and void power.
And just like that, Jamie killed the Incarnation of Aramis’ consciousness.
He stopped just short of erasing it entirely, fully aware of the catastrophic consequences such an action would have on the planet’s inhabitants.
Still, he had neutralised it… for millennia.
Without hesitation, he continued his search through the spatial fissure, determined to locate the teenagers.
But soon, something unusual caught his attention.
“This power…!”
Space and time were intricately intertwined within the fabric of reality. Altering one inevitably affected the other.
As Jamie traced the path the teenagers had taken, he realised just how meticulous the one responsible had been.
The spatial channel had been twisted after they passed through it, branching into a complex network of diversions that led to multiple locations across the galaxy.
To discover where they had actually gone, Jamie would have to navigate this labyrinth of spatial channels to locate the true exit.
On top of that, time had been distorted, meaning that moving through the maze required pushing his cosmic energy not only through space but also through time.
What astonished him even more was the source of the temporal distortion.
There was no mistaking that power, as he knew exactly who was responsible for giving it out.
“Candidate Sigil?! What the hell, Ranus?!”
It had been stated before that, as of Year 1054 of the 50th General Calendar, there was no EOTD.
The one who had taken the four teenagers…was one of the Candidates vying for that position.
This revelation only made the situation more complex.
Even with his Ultimate Skill, Jamie would require considerable time to navigate the labyrinth and pinpoint the teenagers’ location.
|Fuck! Azure Void Authority! Imperial Privileges: Fourth Privilege: Time! |
He activated one Ultimate Skill along with another power of comparable magnitude, but almost immediately, a sharp pain shot through his head, causing his body to stagger.
Jamie clicked his tongue in frustration.
“Why now of all times?!”
Why did this mess have to happen just as his vessel in this universe neared its expiration?
But there was no time for regret.
He shoved the thought aside and focused on pouring every ounce of his cosmic energy into tracing the location where the teenagers had been taken.
