He instantly summoned all his firstborn power, converting it in surging waves into the laws of time, intent on advancing and breaking through this imprisoned space-time.
But he immediately felt an indescribable, invisible pressure.
Time was like a lock welded shut.
It barred his way.
But he refused to accept it.
He tried to blast through the temporal barrier ahead and glimpse the future.
He wanted to understand what all of this really was!
All along, an invisible hand had been leading him around by the nose, but this time, he did not want to leave himself with endless questions. He did not want to come here knowing nothing, only to return knowing nothing!
Even the mildest person had a temper. Today, he would uncover the truth of this place, no matter what!
Boom-
He attacked with the time laws, his gaze bloodred.
Again and again, he battered his way forward, breaking through.
Until, at the very last moment,
he almost burned his own soul, turning all of it into the power of time, trading injury for a breakthrough.
Finally,
a tiny crack seemed to open in time before him.
The moment he violently broke through time and advanced, however, he heard a weary sigh from the end of the path ahead.
"Go back."
His pupils abruptly contracted.
Because beneath the binding chains formed by surging time, he finally glimpsed a corner of what lay beyond this imprisoned time.
He saw someone standing at the end of the River of Time.
Blocking time's onward flow.
The River of Time split behind that figure, becoming countless densely packed tributaries that spread toward the distant past, while the figure became the endpoint of the entire River of Time.
"What on earth..."
His gaze abruptly landed on that hazy figure standing at the