A river suddenly appeared out of thin air. The moment Tokisaki Kurumi saw it, her eyes instantly grew unfocused, as though she had glimpsed something incomparably beautiful.
It was not until Sparkle raised a hand in front of Tokisaki Kurumi that she came back to her senses.
A figure stepped out of the river.
A delighted expression appeared on Chen Luo's face.
It was a figure identical to Chen Luo. Yet just as it emerged from the River of Time, it suddenly collapsed, turning into a puddle of Time River Water.
"Tch. As expected, using the River God Ability to imitate Zafkiel's mechanism and summon my future self is still too much of a stretch," Chen Luo said unhappily.
[There's no way that could have worked! You already possess an almost complete Wish Authority, and the River God Ability can't fully replicate an Authority, so failure is perfectly normal.]
Chen Luo really was making things too difficult for Zafkiel and the River God Ability.
"Chen Luo, did that... fail? Come to think of it, you can't use the River God Ability on yourself, can you?" Sparkle watched Chen Luo with interest.
"That's right, I couldn't before. But let me correct one thing: just because I didn't successfully summon him doesn't mean I failed. I only couldn't summon my future self because my future self is too powerful," Chen Luo said.
Chen Luo was ultimately only a River God, not the god of the River of Time.
Perhaps only a Transcendent who had transcended through the Authority of Time could use the River of Time's power to summon their transcendent self?
If Chen Luo wanted to summon his transcendent self, he could not do so yet. And he could not use the power of time, either. He should use