Our Ending Was Decided Long Ago

"I... returned to the Time Realm Space?"

Li Ran stared at the expanse of white before him, confusion rising in his heart.

Zeref had sent Indra back four thousand years with the resolve to die, and in the end, he had given him the remaining power of the Source of the Time Mirror.

He had thought he would return to the abandoned Jinling City of the future.

Yet he had appeared in the Time Realm Space instead.

This time, the Time Realm Space was a boundless white expanse.

But at the center of this space was an energy black hole.

The energy black hole hovered silently.

Li Ran stepped forward and looked at the energy black hole in confusion.

This time, there was not a single door in the Time Realm Space.

There was no pull, nor were there any energy fluctuations.

It resembled a black orb of light devoid of any elemental energy.

"What is this?" Li Ran asked doubtfully.

He did not rashly reach out and touch the black orb.

Instead, he examined it carefully.

Could the Time Realm Space have collapsed because I've traveled through time too many times? Li Ran thought.

After observing it for a while, he found that it did not seem dangerous.

Strangely, when he tried to examine it with the Heart of Chaos, he saw no prompt at all.

It looked like a black hole, yet also like a hole in the void.

Li Ran cautiously reached out and touched the surface of the black hole.

The instant his hand made contact—

The black hole before him suddenly split apart to both sides with a whoosh.

In an instant, more than a dozen black holes appeared, surrounding Li Ran in a ring.

Li Ran looked around, shock filling his heart.

"Twelve black