Chapter 1405: This Time, I'll Help You
Hearing this, you must have been completely bewildered.
Everything I just said seemed not to have happened in the past or present.
It happened in... the future, close enough to touch.
And hadn't I already died?
Could the whispers lingering in your mind all be the murmurings of the dead?
Heh. That was why I hadn't explained the truth to you along the way.
Because the most unbelievable thing in the entire universe had happened to me.
Without conclusive proof, neither you nor anyone else could possibly believe it.
When that beam of holy light that destroyed everything descended from the sky, every cell in my body blazed amid the explosion of ten thousand suns. Even as my soul was torn to pieces, I had truly died.
Yet when I opened my eyes again, the boundless agony of my soul flying apart still echoed in my mind. To my indescribable horror, I found myself lying in the cold sludge deep within the Ancient Battlefield Ruins.
I discovered that not only had the holy light failed to burn me to death.
The scars left over from decades of experiments, modifications, and blood-soaked slaughter—scars that had crisscrossed every inch of my body—had vanished without a trace.
My hands and feet had shrunk, becoming slender and tender, like those of a... poorly developed child.
I crawled out of the sludge on all fours.
Then I stared at the reflection in a pool of filthy water, familiar yet strange, and felt as though a lifetime had passed.
Only after three full days and nights of daze did I understand and accept an astonishing fact.
I had been reborn.
I had returned to the years, decades ago, when I had been a slave, a tomb raider, and an