Time began to flow again.
Klein found himself holding a half-height silk top hat. He froze on the spot.
Where had this thing come from?
The Evernight Goddess kept her eyes firmly fixed on Edwin, confusion showing on her face.
Her intuition told her that something had definitely happened just now.
Edwin ignored the Evernight Goddess's stare and simply extended a hand toward Sefirah Castle.
The future Klein had shown him the authority of the Lord of Mysteries.
It was the power to crush reality and falsehood together before reassembling them, the lever with which to steal fate.
But that still wasn't enough.
To forcibly replace a branch timeline with the main timeline, the authority of the Lord of Mysteries alone wasn't sufficient.
He also needed to serve as an anchor—a watcher from outside this world.
During the process, the other party had linked him with Sefirah Castle, which symbolized the authority of the Lord of Mysteries.
In other words, he had now obtained partial administrator privileges over Sefirah Castle.
Edwin slowly curled his five fingers inward.
With his movement, the sky of the Spirit World let out a deep rumble.
The enormous cracks cleaved open by Hell Sword and the palace domes torn apart by tentacles began visibly retreating and reassembling.
The grayish-white mist was like a living mason, filling the shattered bricks back into place piece by piece.
In less than ten seconds, the magnificent grayish-white fortress had been restored to its original state.
"How... how is this possible?"
The Evernight Goddess stared blankly at the scene.
She couldn't understand.
Sefirah Castle was an inheritance left behind by the Celestial Worthy. Only those chosen by him and placed within a Luminous Cocoon were qualified to inherit it.
No matter how powerful Edwin was, it was impossible for him