Kallen looked down at her uninjured abdomen: Was the danger she had clearly felt just an illusion?
"Rewrite cause and effect..." Tian Hen said, "Let the fact of 'being injured' itself..."
"... erasure it from history," Ye Yinzhu continued.
In the video, the wound has completely disappeared.
It wasn't healing, it wasn't recovery, it was... it had never existed. Kallen's abdomen was completely intact, her skin smooth as ever, without even a single scar. Even her bloodstained clothes were restored to their original state under the golden light; the blood disappeared, and the torn fabric was whole again.
"Even the physical traces..." Zi's eyes widened, "Have been erased."
"It's not just the wound itself..." Ji Dong said, "But also all the consequences of the wound, all the evidence."
"The bloodstains have disappeared..." Lie Yan said.
"Restore the clothes..." Rong Nianbing said.
"She might not even Remembrance what just happened..." Zhou Weiqing stared at Kallen's face.
"Because on the new timeline..." the Dragon God said in a deep voice, "None of this ever happened."
boom...
Time and spacetime suddenly resumed their flow.
The scene sped up instantly, and the static world came to life again.
But everyone noticed... that everything was different.
"Collapse Beast..." The Dragon Prince suddenly pointed at the Light Screen, "They're gone!"
In the scene, the Collapse Beast that should have pierced Kallen's abdomen is now dissipating into golden specks of light. Its claws are still in an attacking stance, but the target is no longer there... because in this new timeline, its attack missed from the very beginning.
"It wasn't just disappearing..." Bei Bei stared at the way the Collapse Beast dissipated, "It was erased by Spacetime Correction."
"In this new history..." He Caitou said, "This Collapse Beast either didn't appear, or it was killed beforehand."
"In short..." Xu Sanshi said, "It will no longer attack Kallen."
The camera zooms out, revealing the Execution Ground.
Everyone saw... the people stood unharmed, the fear on their faces fading. The Little Girl stopped screaming and looked curiously into the distance, as if the danger just now had been a false alarm.
"Public safety..." Xiao Xiao said softly.
"Because on the New World Line..." Tang Ya said, "That attack was smaller, or it didn't happen at all."
"All threats..." Niu Tian said, "Have been eliminated in the process of Historical Correction."
The camera focuses on Kallen.
She stood unharmed in the center of the execution ground, the Oath of Judah still held in her hand in a guarded posture. She looked down at her abdomen... it was completely intact, without wounds, without bloodstains, and not even a tear in her clothes.
"Just now..." Kallen murmured to herself, a look of confusion crossing her face, "I clearly felt there was danger..."
She looked around and saw that the people were safe and sound, and that the Collapse Beast had disappeared.
"Was it just my imagination?" She shook her head, putting away the Oath of Judah. "Never mind, it's good that everyone is alright."
She turned and walked towards the Little Girl, knelt down, and said gently, "Don't be afraid, the danger has passed."
The Little Girl nodded, the fear in her eyes fading, replaced by a trusting smile.
"She doesn't remember," Tai Tan's voice was deep, "She has absolutely no recollection of what she just did..."
"... I died once." Ning Rongrong's eyes reddened.
"It's not just that she doesn't remember..." Ning Tian said, "In her mind, that incident never happened."
"Because history has been rewritten..." Dai Hao said, "In the new World Lines, she was never injured, never near death."
"So she might have thought..." Xue Ye said, "That it was just a false alarm, just an ordinary Collapse Beast attack that she easily dealt with."
"I never imagined..." Tang San's voice was tinged with bitterness, "That someone would sacrifice everything to make this 'ordinary attack' a reality."
The scene shifts again, the perspective rising to a high altitude, overlooking the entire city.
Golden light was spreading outwards from the Execution Ground, rippling outwards in concentric circles. Wherever the light passed, space and time were subtly altered... There were more pedestrians on the streets who weren't there before, the details of the buildings were slightly different, and the shapes of the Cloud Layer in the sky were changing.
"Historical Correction..." Huo Yuhao's pupils contracted sharply, "... not just changing that one moment."
"It's about changing the entire Timeline..." Tang Wulin said, "From that moment on, to every second of the future."
"Because Kallen survived..." Gu Yuena said, "So her life will be completely different afterward."
"The people she saves will be different..." Chang Gongwei said.
"The events she influences will be different..." Lei Xiang said.
"Even everyone she meets..." A'Dai said, "Could be changed because of this."
"This is the butterfly effect..." Hai Long said, "Change one key point, and the whole world will be reshaped."
The scene speeds up, showing the changes in the World Lines.
After saving the Little Girl at the Execution Ground, Kallen continued her life Schicksal Knights. In the years that followed, she saved more people, prevented more Honkai, lived longer, and had a wider impact. Everyone she saved went on to save others; every event she changed triggered a chain reaction.
"New World Line..." Tian Hen murmured, "Is generating."
"Starting with the premise that ' Kallen Did Not Die '..." Ye Yinzhu said, "Countless possibilities are unfolding."
"And the price of all this..." Zi looked at the image of the Imaginary Tree, at the golden branch, "Was his existence."
The image suddenly freezes.
The image freezes on the moment when Kallen stands on the execution ground, unharmed and smiling.
A line of Golden Text appeared on the Light Screen:
[The incorrect history has been overwritten]
[The New World Line ' Kallen Kaslana is alive' has been fully stabilized]
[The death that was originally destined... no longer exists.]
[The future that was once lost... is reborn.]
After the Light Screen went out, the Temple -like space did not return to calm.
The Void where Otto once stood still retained faint golden light. Instead of dissipating, it seemed to be drawn by an invisible force, converging once more into a slowly flowing river of light before everyone's eyes.
In the center of the river of light, a new line of words appeared.
[Please note: A change in the World Lines does not mean the disappearance of the cost.]
Tang San's gaze sharpened slightly.
"The cost isn't over yet?"
"Or rather," Huo Yuhao raised his head, his purple-gold eyes reflecting a river of light, "What we saw before was merely the result."
Tang Wulin clenched his fist and whispered, "What exactly will Otto leave behind after paying that price?"
No one answered.
The next moment, the river of light suddenly unfolded.
This time, the scene did not return to the Execution Ground, nor did it show Kallen's smile again. Instead, it presented a vast and boundless starry sky.
Countless World Lines, like intersecting silver threads, extend, split, and collide in the Void. At the end of each World Lines, a blurry figure hangs.
Some people are crying, some are fighting, and some are falling in pools of blood.