[Stagnation] curled his lips and suddenly attacked.
Amid flying sparks, he pressed on with his questions.
"Is there really nothing in your hearts that you want to last forever?"
[Cycle] tugged at his bandages and charged at Song Yi and the others.
"Is there really no point in time you want to return to, not even the slightest regret?"
When people were happy enough, they always thought how wonderful it would be if that moment could last forever.
Living beings were also always bound by regrets from their past. No matter how freely they lived, that deeply rooted fixation would still quietly surface someday.
They would then find themselves thinking that if they could start over, they would have a better future.
Those yearnings and hopes had shaped them. People longed to be happy forever, so [Stagnation] could freeze a moment; living beings always hoped to change their regrets, so [Cycle] could start over.
When those two powers combined, the embryonic form of another calamity appeared: [Eternity].
But [Eternity] could not be born. It was merely a fantasy. Even the universe would expand and collapse, so other things had even less chance of lasting forever.
Change was always present in all things, like regretting a wish a second after making it, hesitating after reaching a decision, or hoping for greater happiness after becoming happy.
[Stagnation] struck again, freezing Gong Jieyong and the others for an instant. His heavy iron fist smashed down, bringing an exhilarating rush of pleasure.
"Some say love, some say ideals, some say will, some say civilization...
There are hundreds upon thousands of different answers, but in the end, none of them remained. They were all buried in the river of time."
He abruptly raised his head, his expression more savage than ever. Like a child, he