Losses on All Sides

In reality, a temple in Unknown Province and City.

The moon is bright and the stars are few; frogs croak and insects chirp.

When the alarm clock on the offering table rang on the hour, Jiang Chi, who was sitting on the prayer cushion, suddenly opened his eyes.

He bent over, panting heavily, his eyes filled with unwavering horror. He was drenched in cold sweat as if he had been pulled from the water, and his head felt like it was being pierced by countless silver needles, causing him excruciating pain.

"Ouch... it hurts..."

He clutched his head and rolled to the ground, his consciousness and Memory becoming fragmented and hazy. The scene of Cheng Shi's smirk played repeatedly in his mind, but as it played, the other person's image suddenly Change.

Cheng Shi stopped smiling and instead looked serious.

Jiang Chi vaguely remembered that the other person did indeed hold his hand tightly, but the background did not seem to be in the snow-covered Kannaal City. Where was this?

He paused for a moment.

Soon, the excruciating pain in his head gradually subsided, and Jiang Chi, covered in sweat, slowly sat up from the ground. He rubbed his face to clear his mind and wondered: Could it be that the Thunderbolt actually had the effect of tearing apart consciousness and confusing Memory?

That's terrifying!

He looked at his right hand, which had been struck first by the Thunderbolt, and the terrifying destructive power still made him shudder.

"Cheng Shi... Cheng Shi... What a Cheng Shi, what a Fate Weaver!"

How did he retain his Memory in the Time Battlefield?

The power of Destiny?

But if it is Destiny at work, why has it never been exposed by His Believer before?

Jiang Chi was completely baffled. There was no way he could solve this problem, because no matter how hard he tried, he could never have imagined that what shattered the illusion of "time" was not the opposing "Destiny," but rather his own Lord of Grace, "Time."

His Lord of Grace betrayed him.

Of course, the saddest thing is that time may not care about this.

Even so, Jiang Chi still had to offer his devotion to Him, because He was his only source of power.

No! No!!!

Jiang Chi pounded the ground in frustration, thinking that once Cheng Shi revealed this, his secret to ranking up would be exposed, and no one would believe he was a Pointer Knight anymore, or that he was a Time Walker who could turn the tide by resetting time!

But once everyone becomes wary of him...

That would completely ruin the combat system that had been developed over several months!

No one is afraid of a Time Walker without the talent of Mage, because once others know you are Time Walker, you will never have the opportunity to start your own Time Battlefield on a peaceful hour!

This is far more painful than killing him; at least the dead don't Despair.

"No, we have to find a way. We've used up our only backup plan for resurrection. We must find a way to make up for it as soon as possible before this is exposed!"

Reality, unknown space.

Fear continues to build.

For a remnant soul capable of reviving through fear, the concentration of fear in this space has clearly reached the required level, or even been dense enough to allow for ten rebirths.

But a recovery has not yet occurred.

Because there seems to be an invisible rule in this space, preventing any life from reviving itself. It feels like someone who worships fear has stumbled upon the Fear Mother Tree of Fear, which absorbs all the fear in the Cosmos. Even though the fear flows like a sea beneath their feet, outsiders can only watch and cannot compete for it. All the fear flows to Him.

This is a trap!

The Believer in "Destiny" set a trap with a ring that perfectly matched his fear!

Once you step inside, getting out becomes a pipe dream.

The remnant soul was in Despair, and so...

Fear continues to build.

In reality, in a basement in an Unknown Province and City.

Nangong slowly opened her eyes. A hint of confusion flashed in her eyes at first, and then a slight fear gradually rose up.

She's scared!

She feared that everything she had just experienced was nothing but a beautiful dream, that the "Decay" had not yet left her, and that the "Gift of Scars" was still lying in her personal space, "Crying for nourishment."

She sat on the ground, not daring to move. She stiffly turned her neck twice, and after no longer feeling the pain of the scar rubbing against her collar, her eyes suddenly shone with a dazzling light.

Nangong moved. She stood up abruptly, rolled up her sleeve, and when she saw that her arm was as perfect as it had been during the Trials, tears instantly streamed down her face.

Overjoyed, I wept; overjoyed, I wept again.

An excited buzz echoed in her mind, and her heart beat faster and faster. She took off her long dress and long pants, and kept turning around to examine her body, touching and pinching it until her limbs turned red before she finally confirmed that this was not a dream.

She has truly escaped that eternal nightmare!

"Mirror! Mirror!"

Nangong shouted excitedly, wanting to see what she looked like now, but when she rushed into the cubicle, she remembered that all the mirrors in the basement that could reflect her image had been... thrown away by her.

Nangong's smile froze on her face, but she was not discouraged. Instead, a glimmer of hope rose in her heart.

She had never been so eager to participate in a Trials, and the content of this Trials, which was quite funny, was for a mirror.

Thinking of this, she laughed again, slumped to the ground, and slapped her cheeks repeatedly, muttering:

"You've gone mad, Nangong. You've only escaped the current suffering, but the road ahead... is still difficult."

You're just an ordinary person without Faith, and you still want a mirror...

Suffering... Faith... Decay... prosperity...

As she continued reading, Nangong curled up her legs and hugged herself slightly.

"I need to make a vow to a Faith first, Cheng Shi said He will accept me..."

Will He really accept me?

"Hmm? Cheng Shi!"

Nangong suddenly trembled, as if she had remembered something. She hurriedly took out the notebook neatly filled with countless names from her personal space, then skillfully turned to the page containing the name "Cheng Shi." After carefully considering it for a long time, she gently copied the name "Cheng Shi" again into the blank space between the other names...

Twice.

Now, there are three Cheng Shi in this ledger.

Saving a life once, breaking the contract of the "Gift of Scars" once, redeeming suffering from "Decay" once...

Each of these three acts of kindness was greater than the last, but there was no space left in the notebook filled with names for her to write larger, so she could only emphasize and make the three names more prominent.

"Cheng Shi... thank you, thank you, thank you."

In reality, on the rooftop of a building in Unknown Province and City.

The moment Cheng Shi returned to the rooftop of the Rest Area, cold sweat poured down his face.

This wasn't because they were terrified by the world- Annihilation power of annihilation before they "escaped," but because...

His boss, the old friend who shouldn't have been there, stood before him once again.

"Cheng Shi".

"..."

When Cheng Shi saw the expressionless boss call out his name, his heart sank.

Broken!

He has come to collect his "debt"!

His words, "I hope you won't refuse me a third time," still haunted Cheng Shi like a nightmare. For the first two weeks, when He didn't come, Cheng Shi thought he had been forgotten...

But now it seems I was overthinking things.

[Memory], it is probably never forgotten.