"What's with that look on your face?" the giant beast's phantom barked.
"As Zhou's successor, you're not allowed to look like that! Our lineage charges straight into battle!"
"I died back in the last era. All I'm doing now is fulfilling my last wish. I'm happy about it, so what the hell are you sad for?"
The giant beast's phantom spoke like thunder.
"Enough. One last step!"
Endless crimson-white light burst from its body. Divine power surged out like the Milky Way pouring down across the Orion Arm.
"Get ready!"
"To keep the powerful beings of this reincarnation era from noticing anything amiss,"
"I'm going to burn my energy to send the Time Fortress into your Inner World and disrupt the spacetime here!"
The giant beast's phantom suddenly took solid form, and its divine power, befitting a top-tier powerhouse, enveloped Leon.
It felt as though ages had passed, yet also as though only an instant had gone by.
When Leon opened his eyes again, he was back beyond the Moon.
The space around him was empty. Looking back, he could still see thousands of human spacecraft flying toward the Moon.
It seemed to be the very moment he had first arrived.
If not for the fortress standing like a pillar of heaven in his Inner World, and the new knowledge in his mind reminding him otherwise,
Leon might have thought everything that had happened was nothing but a dream.
"Time acceleration... So this is what the universe's greatest powerhouses can do."
Leon took one long look back at the Moon, then prepared to return to the base where his two disciples were.
Suddenly, a vast presence descended.
The World Consciousness reached out to him of its own accord: [You have three days left.]
Leon paused. "Three days? That's enough... But