Thankfully, this wasn't reality. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't be able to stay calm right now.
If Kumiloni really died right in front of me,
I'd definitely be heartbroken.
But the truth was that this was merely a timeline that kept looping and resetting. It had nothing to do with me.
Still, perhaps being too calm
would seem strange.
Seeing this, Lu Cang asked in a slightly trembling voice, "Why can you control Kumiloni so easily?"
But Kumiloni's gaze was both compassionate and cold. She spoke with a cool, pitying air. "Child."
"Your disguise is far too clumsy."
"I can't smell even the slightest hint of fear on you. When a living being is truly afraid, the scent it gives off is nothing like yours."
"I can tell you're not afraid of me."
Kumiloni approached like a ghost, her figure drifting lightly and unpredictably. She drew close to Lu Cang and sniffed at him.
Then she gently placed a hand on his chest.
In her pitying eyes lay the omen of Lu Cang's impending death.
But almost at the same moment,
Lu Cang vanished before her eyes, disappearing completely.
"Oh?"
"Time."
Sophia hadn't seen Lu Cang disappear. She could also be certain there had been no process.
There were only two things in the world that could move so fast under her very eyes that she couldn't react at all.
One was light.
Light moving at an infinite speed.
The other possibility was time.
And Lu Cang obviously wasn't light.
Whoosh—
Lu Cang used the time stop of Ascension to Extreme Realm to escape.
And within that frozen time,
Lu Cang instantly activated the "Second Forbidden Magic—Time."
Under the effect of time slowed by ten thousand times,
one second became ten thousand seconds.
That meant Lu Cang could move freely for