"Wheeze, wheeze, wheeze..." The First Lantern gasped for breath. Crossing the history of the Over-Time Stream had stolen a massive amount of his lifespan in an instant, making his already aged face look even older.
The Seven-Colored Meridians that had shone brightly across his semitransparent body now looked as though they had faded. Even his semitransparent body could no longer conceal the wrinkles on his face.
This was impossible.
No, what the First Lantern meant was that even if he restarted the timeline, he should not have aged so quickly. He should still have had plenty of time to try restarting his own history and changing the Nameless Old Dragon's plans.
But none of that had happened. Someone had used some method to accelerate reality after he restarted the timeline, causing him to age abnormally fast—the Nameless Old Dragon had arranged everything!
His mind was filled by the Over-Time Stream in an instant. He had suddenly experienced hundreds of thousands of journeys through the five-minute timeline, even though he had never undergone them before. The Nameless Old Dragon had left a trap for him: the moment he tried to restart the timeline, he would experience thousands upon thousands of five-minute cycles in an instant, until his lifespan was burned away.
These tens of thousands of five-minute cycles were not something he had truly experienced. They had been built into the Over-Time Stream and overwritten onto him the moment he crossed through it. Before he could even react, he had already grown so old that he began to lose his abilities.
Thus, he became utterly ashen and decrepit in an instant.
Then the First Lantern saw Batman Dragon walk over. (Note: This connects to the events of Chapter 807.)
"Are you all right? Your current condition seems a little off. Do