Timeless Assassin - Chapter 1098 The Ultimate Move

Chapter 1098 The Ultimate Move

(Meanwhile, within the Time Stilled World, isolated training grounds, Leo’s POV)

Leo had a faint idea about the move he wanted to create, and yet, he wasn’t sure about how exactly he could get there.

Having observed both the Timeless Assassin and Soron’s [Seconds Walk] closely, he knew what kind of a move he needed to create to achieve combat supremacy against Gods, and thanks to his

knowledge about the laws of the universe, he even had a foundation on how to do so.

However, the only problem was converting the theory into practice, as although he knew the core concepts that made the [Seconds Walk] possible, what he did not know was the fine tuning that he needed to do to make it a reality.

“I know that the [Seconds Walk] is connected to the divergence in the time stream.

The momentary anomaly where the time stream splits into two, before merging again, however, what I don’t know is how to induce that anomaly purposefully?

And how to affect which of the two streams takes hold, after the re-merger occurs?”

Leo wondered, as he stroked his chin and tried to think about how he wanted to make this impossible theory into a practical move.

“I know divine essence is probably the solution to this.

However, I’ll need to fiddle around a lot with it to understand how precisely to control the time stream…”

“Also, I need to ask myself if that’s all I want from my move?

Or like the Timeless Assassin’s Projection said, do I try for something even greater?”

Leo asked himself, as he thought about an interesting theory that seemed extremely appealing, at least on paper.

Because if he was going to spend months, or maybe years, trying to forge a move worthy of becoming the foundation of his future combat style, then creating a lesser imitation of the [Seconds Walk] felt wasteful.

A copy seemed to be bare minimum, as it would be something that had a proven track record against the universe’s finest.

However, Leo did not want to bet on track record alone, as what he needed was a move that fit his own body, his own temperament and his own grasp of the laws.

The first pillar had to be time.

That much was obvious.

If he could force a divergence in the time stream, then for that brief instant, two simultaneous outcomes could coexist, as one version of him could be struck while another simply was not there.

And if he could influence which stream became real when the two merged back together, then in practical terms, enemy attacks would keep losing their target without understanding why.

That alone would already be monstrous in battle.

Because to an outside observer, it would look as though Leo had

slipped through attacks that should have landed, as though causality

itself refused to pin him down.

However, Leo understood that time alone would not be enough to make this a complete move.

Dodging attacks through temporal divergence was excellent for survival, yet survival was only one half of combat supremacy, as eventually he still needed a way to turn that advantage into pressure, and pressure into death.

That was where the law of space came in.

If the law of time gave him the window in which two outcomes could coexist, then the law of space could decide where he reappeared after the re-merger, as it would allow him to convert evasion into sudden displacement.

In other words, he would not simply be avoiding attacks.

He would be vanishing from one point in battle and reasserting himself from another, as the split in time would deny the enemy certainty, while the bend in space would deny them orientation.

That combination alone was already terrifying.

Because if an enemy could neither confirm whether Leo truly

occupied a given point in time, nor predict where he would re-enter space once the split collapsed, then every exchange against him

would become a gamble.

And gambling against a superior fighter was the fastest path to death.

Still, Leo was not satisfied.

Because even that only solved mobility and survival, and while mobility and survival formed the skeleton of an excellent divine movement technique, they did not yet give it enough bite.

So the third pillar had to be creation and destruction.

Arguably, it was the hardest law to integrate elegantly, because unlike

time and space, which naturally complemented movement, creation and destruction could easily become clumsy if applied without

restraint.

Yet Leo saw a path for it.

If time divergence made the enemy uncertain, and spatial

displacement made him hard to pin down, then creation and

destruction could be used to poison the battlefield itself, as he could leave behind unstable phenomena at the points where the split

occurred.

For example, if he vanished from one stream and reappeared from

another, then the “false” location he seemed to occupy could be seeded with a destructive construct, something compact and heavy that formed through divine essence and collapsed a moment later.

A gravity sphere, perhaps.

A compressed ball of distortive force that dragged at everything around it for a heartbeat before bursting outward.

That sort of phenomenon would be perfect.

Because the enemy would be forced to react twice.

First, to his uncertain location.

Second, to the destructive anomaly left behind by the point where

reality failed to keep him anchored.

That was what truly appealed to him.

A move that was not merely evasive, but oppressive.

A move that turned confusion into positional control, and positional control into forced error, as the enemy would be dragged, displaced, destabilized, and punished just for trying to keep up.

And the more Leo thought about it, the more beautiful the idea

became.

“If I really want to make something worthwhile, then this is it….”

Leo muttered, as just imagining it in actual combat gave him chills.

He could see it, a God swinging at him, as he himself entered a moment of divergence, where one stream held him in place and the other did not.

As at that moment, while he manipulated the merger through divine

essence…

One stream collapsed while the other stabilized, as the version of him that had already been struck ceased to exist while the untouched

version carried forward.

Space followed immediately after, bending just enough for his position to shift at an angle that would be impossible under normal movement, as his presence slipped away from the original line of attack without resistance.

At the point where he had originally stood, a dense gravitational construct formed under extreme compression, as the surrounding space warped inward and pulled at the enemy’s footing, dragging their body slightly off balance at a critical moment.

While at the end, the construct detonated an instant later, releasing that pressure outward in a controlled burst, as the disruption forced a lapse in the opponent’s awareness at the exact moment it mattered most, giving him the chance to attack from behind and behead the

enemy.

*Goosebumps*

He could see it clearly now…

The vision of the ultimate move he wanted to create.

“It’s worth aiming for….”

He muttered, as he understood that he was not a dreamer sitting in a

library anymore.

He was a warrior trying to build something real, and real moves were

not born from beautiful ideas alone, as they had to withstand the brutality of repetition, testing, failure, and correction.

Which meant this problem had to be approached in the only way that made sense.

One piece at a time.

He could not create the full move in a single leap. There were too many moving parts, too many unknowns, and too

many layers of interaction between the three laws for that to be

realistic.

So instead, he needed to isolate each minor problem and solve them one by one.

First, he had to determine how to even sense the divergence in the

time stream reliably enough to act around it, because if he could not identify the anomaly at will, then everything else was meaningless. After that, he needed to understand how divine essence influenced

the merger, because sensing a split and controlling a split were two entirely different levels of mastery.

Then, once that was stable, he needed to test how spatial relocation behaved during and after the merger, because forcing displacement too early or too late could collapse the sequence entirely.

And only after those pieces were working would it make sense to

layer in creation and destruction, as trying to attach battlefield constructs to an unstable movement technique too soon would only create chaos without purpose.

Leo understood all this clearly.

Which was why, despite how grand the end goal looked in his mind, he did not allow himself to become intoxicated by it.

He respected the scale of what he was trying to do, as he knew that divine techniques worthy of legends were not built through excitement, but through discipline.

One minor problem solved today.

Another tomorrow. And then another after that.

If he kept moving that way, steadily and without losing sight of the

final shape he wanted the move to take, then eventually the pieces

would begin to fit together.

And when they did, what emerged would not be the Timeless

Assassin’s [Seconds Walk].

It would be his own.

A grand move forged from his understanding of battle, his instincts

developed over his lifespan, and something that would complement his style of battle, allowing him, Leo Skyshard, to stand before hostile Gods and make them question whether they were truly safe from death or not?