At that moment.
Silence and suffocation came from nowhere, as though he had suddenly been plunged into the bottomless depths of the sea.
Lynn looked frantically at the girl she had once been, his hands and feet turning cold in an instant. She still wore that warm smile, filled with the heartache and relief of finally seeing him return. But her white hair had long since begun to fall out. She still wore that long, pure-white dress, but her withered body and wrinkles seemed like an omen of pain.
"How could..."
Lynn stared at her in a daze.
He rushed over almost instantly, but the moment his hand touched her body, it trembled violently.
Because at that moment, he could clearly feel that the Goddess of Fate he had once known was gone.
She had become a mortal.
The laws within her had deteriorated almost to the point of death. Perhaps even the slightest touch would make her vanish before his eyes, like a drifting ripple swept away by the wind.
"What on earth..."
He trembled.
He knew that the great decline would affect her too, because she was, after all, a goddess who embodied the laws.
That was precisely why he had brought her into this void beyond time, hoping to avoid it. But why could that decline still affect her? Why couldn't she escape it even outside time?
No! That wasn't right!
Even if the effects of the great decline persisted, given her rank, she should not have reached the end of her life so quickly.
Unless... unless...
Lynn's trembling gaze turned toward the girl she held in her arms. His Zuo Zuo.
But just as he was about to speak, Feather Pen reached out and covered his mouth. She gently shook her head, as tender as she