Xia Yuan looked down at the little girl Boss, tiny as an ant, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly as he suddenly asked:
"Is the raid not over yet?"
"This is already your twenty-fourth time, isn't it?"
Mo Shiyu looked utterly bewildered, having no idea what he meant.
Zhao Wenguo and the others were equally baffled.
Twenty-fourth time?!
Only Future's pupils constricted violently. The madness faded somewhat from her face as she staggered back several steps, filled with terror.
"You!"
"You knew all along?!"
Xia Yuan folded his arms, his face full of amusement.
"Who do you think allowed you to turn back time?"
Through the shared memories obtained from the Star of Creation and Destruction of Gilgamesh's clone, he had already learned the full course of this encirclement.
This world-level bounty Boss named "Future" possessed the power of temporal reincarnation.
She had challenged him twenty-four times already.
Many times, he could have interrupted her temporal reincarnation.
But because the endings of many of those attempts were not what he wanted, he had deliberately allowed her to turn back time and escape.
Over those twenty-three cycles—
Either Mei Mei had not died by his hand, leaving him unable to revive her with the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique.
Or he had failed to discover Mei Mei's identity. After killing her, he only realized it afterward, leaving him without enough time.
There had also been many times when—
Dumb Dragon and Censor had gone to support him, only to be ambushed and killed by other world-level bounty Bosses on other battlefields. He had not had time to save them at all.
Those two had died the most.
Their strength was clearly weak, yet they charged ahead more eagerly than anyone.
If not for Future, this world-level bounty Boss