In an instant, the entire End of Time shook. All the Nightmares barred outside the Isolated Island were disturbed by those ripples in time. They immediately understood what he intended and launched a frenzied barrage of attacks toward them.
But everything was held outside time, because he was advancing toward the past.
Within the surging River of Time.
Lynn gritted his teeth and pressed forward, staking everything as he held up the entire River of Time and carried it onward.
And the figure at time's end came toward him as well.
This had always been the final choice that left him no choice.
Because they would not wait for him to converge with that future. Everything they had done was meant to strike him down before the End of Time.
"Brain!!"
Zuo Zuo screamed.
Because in that moment, she saw more and more indistinct scenes emerging across Lynn's body.
They signified that changes in the past were beginning to affect him, little by little.
And finally.
Boom-
Like a soundless explosion, it erupted within Lynn's pupils, even shaking the entire reality he held aloft.
And when Zuo Zuo trembled and looked back at the river of history, she saw the ripples rising through those bygone years. A tremendous explosion had erupted, disrupting past history and shifting time's course, like a vast, bottomless hole suddenly appearing upstream in that endless river. The currents it unleashed set off a chain reaction throughout the entire river of history almost instantly.
And this also signaled that Painter's final effort to buy time had failed.
Raven was dead.
And with that raven's death, one terrifying paradox after another would emerge within time.
"There's no time left! Brain!!"
Zuo Zuo warned him hysterically.
At that moment.
Lynn clenched his teeth and pushed against the endless flow