Lin Yi's gaze fell on the familiar yet unfamiliar figure below, and a complex emotion surged through him, impossible to put into words.
Elizabeth.
In his memories, she had been elegant and capable, clever and decisive. In private, she would sometimes joke around with Chen Yu and the others, but when it came to carrying out missions, she was always serious.
But the woman before him had a hideous scar running across her face. Her eyes held nothing but the ferocity and grim determination of a cornered beast, and her entire being radiated the harrowing aura of someone who had crawled out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Her battle armor was shattered, her body covered in wounds, yet she still gripped her weapon tightly, like a lone wolf defending its last stronghold.
What on earth had happened in the outside world over these five thousand years to temper her into this?
Lin Yi fell silent for a moment. Then he turned to the clone beside him, who was maintaining the battle array, and ordered, "Take over the battle array's core. From now on, if any more enemies enter, don't hold back. Erase them outright."
"Yes." The clone answered. Silver-gray light from the Time Law shone in sync with Lin Yi's true body, seamlessly taking over control of the entire Multi-Law Battle Array.
Then Lin Yi's figure flickered, and silver-gray ripples of space spread outward. The next instant, he appeared inside the battle array, hovering above the more than sixty thousand Human Race soldiers.
He didn't waste a word. He didn't even give the Star Realm Army soldiers below, who were bewildered and instinctively wanted to prepare themselves or attack, any time to react. He simply raised a hand.
An intangible, boundless force of time, vast