King Mask froze where he stood.
"If it were possible, I would have wanted to save them even more than you did," the elderly King Mask continued. "On my timeline, everything was not as you see it now.
More than fifty years ago, the corrupted mad gods within Takama-ga-hara swarmed out, becoming a catastrophe that struck Great Xia. Archangel Michael attacked from the moon, killing some of the mad gods from afar. Together with Kronos's obstruction, although that mad god calamity did not destroy Great Xia, it still left the nation severely weakened.
In that catastrophe, nearly every Human Apex of that era died in battle. The Night Watchmen suffered countless casualties, and Great Xia's coastal regions were devastated. Even decades later, they still had not recovered.
On that timeline, due to the chain reaction caused by the catastrophe, Great Xia never produced the Sword Immortal Zhou Ping, nor Lu Wuwei... Only three Human Apexes remained to defend Great Xia.
Ten years ago, Loki and Gaia invaded Great Xia. The three Human Apexes failed to stop them, allowing them to seize Shiva's Grudge and destroy several cities. Two years ago, the Ennead of Egypt successfully took Fengdu, preventing the Great Xia Gods from returning...
On that timeline, Great Xia had always been in an extremely passive position, ultimately losing the full-scale God War.
And the source of it all was that catastrophe."
Several bursts of blood mist erupted from the elderly King Mask's body again, turning into white threads that drifted away. But this time, his Time Reversal failed to restore all of his flesh and blood to their proper places, and his figure became slightly more translucent.
He closed his eyes, fell silent for a moment, then continued:
"Fortunately, I ultimately became the new God of Time. Standing amid