Time Reversal

To become a god in a virtual world, wielding absolute power over life and death.

When a mortal in the real world, and this mortal is very likely to be imprisoned.

This is a very philosophical question.

Xiao Yu was deep in thought, while Shen Yuan and Li Mingfei were still using their persuasive skills to convince Xiao Yu to side with them.

Shen Yuan: Listen, Xiao Yu, do you think returning to reality makes things truly real? Actually, reality is also a game, a game built by beings from higher dimensions than us. They descend into the bodies of people in our world and play around with it, so there's no point in you going back.

Li Mingfei: Damn, you're making up lies without even thinking. This is clearly a plot from the movie "Cube".

Shen Yuan: Okay, actually our world isn't a game, but a prison. The real world was destroyed by nuclear war long ago. We're locked up in the prison. In reality, we've become biological batteries, providing bio-energy to the supercomputers that destroyed us.

Li Mingfei: This is the plot of The Matrix, right?

Shen Yuan: Hey, stop undermining me, okay? Let's not even talk about whether reality is true or not. Just talk about going to jail. Do you know how serious your crime was this time? Once you return to reality, you can forget about getting out for the rest of your life.

Li Mingfei: Don't worry about Xiao Yu, I will use all my resources to ensure you are safe, as long as you help me this once.

Shen Yuan: Help you? Haha, what a joke! How can he help you? Even if he did, at most he could bring control of the game back to the game company. But what about the hundreds of thousands of players who are being controlled? Their control codes have been altered. These adventurers will never be able to recover on their own. In another 24 hours, they will be automatically trapped in the game. Think about it, with these hundreds of thousands of victims, do you think you can ever return to reality? Can this game continue to operate?

Li Mingfei:... That's not entirely impossible.

Shen Yuan: It's not like there's no way? Haha, of course I know what you mean by "solution." There's only one way to get out of this predicament: the Time Rewind function of the Hourglass of Time can roll back a character's data. But if you add the divine power of the Scepter of All Gods, you can reverse time in the entire Sky World, rolling back the entire game. Theoretically, no data can escape such power. All infected adventurers will recover. Is that what you're talking about?

Li Mingfei: That's right, that's the method.

Shen Yuan laughed loudly, "That method might work, but it's impossible right now because the Sands of Time have already run out. Without the Sands of Time, you have no chance unless you Sands of Time to roll back the entire game."

"Uh, really? If Sands of Time, we could rewind time." Hearing their conversation, Xiao Yu suddenly asked.

"That's right, it's a pity the Sands of Time are gone. I'm one of the game's designers, and as far as I know, the Hourglass of Time is the only story item, there's only one in the entire game, and the Sands of Time can only be stored in the Hourglass of Time."

Shen Yuan said smugly, "So I think you should listen to me, hurry up and confer the titles of gods, then change the rules of this game. You can become the King of All Gods, and I'm willing to be your deputy. Just confer me a minor god title."

To become the King of All Gods? A bitter smile appeared on Xiao Yu's lips. He glanced at Esmehalda, then at the others.

He had been somewhat hesitant before, but now he suddenly understood that he didn't need to struggle at all. In fact, he had already made his choice. Wasn't the future version of himself he had met back then the result of that choice? The future Xiao Yu he had met back then had clearly used the Hourglass of Time to rewind time, which meant that he had ultimately chosen to revert the game's progress?

As he pondered this, Xiao Yu took out an Hourglass of Time from his package.

"What! How is this possible?" Shen Yuan stared at the Hourglass of Time in Xiao Yu's hand in shock. Even Li Mingfei was speechless with astonishment. As the game's creator, he naturally knew the uniqueness of the Hourglass of Time, and the current situation was beyond his comprehension.

Xiao Yu casually picked up the empty Hourglass of Time from the ground as well.

Then he glanced at the people around him.

"Friends, I know you desire freedom and complete isolation from the outside world, but I must save my companions. However, I will grant you your freedom as well."

Now I will use the Time Rewind function to go back to the past. However, since I have exhausted my divine power, it also means that no more gods will be born. Your fates will be in your own hands. Everything will return to its source. I will go back to several years ago, the exact time determined by the time-reversal power of the Sands of Time. In other words, all the tragedies that happened will disappear, and you will return to your respective starting points to begin a new life. This time, no one will be able to control your future.

After hearing Xiao Yu's words, the BOSSes and heroes present nodded in agreement; this was acceptable.

"Please don't do that, brother! If you really do this, we'll all end up in jail," Merlin and Shen Yuan pleaded together.

Xiao Yu shrugged and said, "Sorry, buddy."

As he spoke, he abruptly merged the Hourglass of Time and the Scepter of All Gods together.

At the top of the Scepter of All Gods is a circular groove, into which the Hourglass of Time can be placed. When the two are combined, they immediately become one.

A new effect has been added to the Scepter of All Gods's item effects.

Time Reversal: Use your powerful divine abilities to reverse time and return everything in this world to what it was before.

Xiao Yu slammed the Scepter of All Gods down on his feet, and with a boom, golden power of time rapidly spread throughout the surrounding space.

Everything around him seemed to be playing in reverse, constantly changing faster and faster until the surroundings turned into a pure white color. Suddenly, something like a fragment appeared in the distance. He saw himself from a few hours ago, running in a pure white space. That's right, at that time, he was trying to escape from the Time Storm.

Damn, I actually ran into my past self.

If Xiao Yu had some doubts before when he encountered his past and future selves in the Time Storm —that a game couldn't possibly have a time-reversal function—now he was completely convinced.

The only problem was, how could this game include time travel? A thought suddenly popped into his head: what would happen if he didn't follow the original path? Would there be any time paradoxes, would it destroy the entire universe, or would it create parallel worlds?

However, time was of the essence, and he had no time to think. Xiao Yu could only strive to avoid any mistakes. So he connected the two hourglasses together, poured some Sands of Time into the empty Hourglass of Time, and glanced at it. It had exactly 1724 units of sand.

Then he slashed the bubble-like thing with the Scepter of All Gods, creating a crack at the edge of the space.