Still unable to stop time.

This was the first time Kanzaki Rei had ever so desperately wanted to buy time to think.

Ekhator’s voice kept pacing behind him, like the tolling of evening bells sounding at his back...

"You’re also very fast at escaping. You truly continue to surprise me."

Ekhator didn’t seem to be in any hurry to kill Kanzaki Rei. The End Sense kept warning him, yet Kanzaki Rei couldn’t feel any means by which he could evade Ekhator.

The End Sense could Foreknowledge danger in advance and let Kanzaki Rei directly realize how to avoid that danger.

「Sōdō — Path Four: Eternal Void Displacement · Oblivion」

The Moon Calendar artistic conception of oblivion enveloped Kanzaki Rei.

Yet a pair of eyes pierced through past and future. She did not forget Kanzaki Rei.

"Delete my memories?"

"But..."

Whoosh!

Kanzaki Rei’s vision went black again. Once more, he found himself in someone’s womb.

"What does deleting my current memories have to do with my past?"

Ekhator’s voice still existed.

Kanzaki Rei’s perception swept outward!

Fortunately, 「God-Tier · Hidden Origin」 captured information and finally provided some meaningful hints.

This voice—

Was placed by Ekhator in the past, aimed at the future.

Click——

With another step, Kanzaki Rei landed on the Secret Sea. From an infant’s body, his flesh instantly grew and transformed back into Kanzaki Rei’s original form.

Kanzaki Rei Cohesioned the Emperor’s Sword in his right hand again.

This weapon had been specially forged by him and was now soul-bound to him. Even if he lost it somewhere, as long as the Prohibition on it wasn’t erased, he could still summon it back.

The same was true for the 「Supreme Luck Scepter」 .

"Ekhator, even if you kill me, what can you change?"

Before Kanzaki Rei, Ekhator appeared again.

She propped her face on one hand, watching Kanzaki Rei with interest.

Kanzaki Rei now understood why she hadn’t cared about his initial hostility at all...

This woman’s strength was so overwhelming that she didn’t seem like a normal god at all.

Kanzaki Rei even had to wonder if she was on par with the Moon Calendar.

And what terrified Kanzaki Rei the most was that she could move freely.

Coming and going in the world as she pleased.

"Killing you... it really doesn’t seem to change much."

「Time of Death: Infinite」

Infinite.

Was she joking?

Aside from Kuronium, this was only the second person Kanzaki Rei had seen without a time of death.

No—precisely, the third.

Yakatikutō’s time of death could be seen, but it was a constantly changing, chaotic number.

"But if I don’t kill you, it seems something even worse will happen."

"Truthfully, I don’t like meddling in these affairs."

"But you... have gone far too far."

Ekhator’s face showed no obvious anger. Kanzaki Rei watched as she lightly raised her finger. Ripples of time gathered at her fingertip.

Kanzaki Rei felt time slow down.

His vision became very clear.

His spirituality leaped. A feeling of entering the Dao cheered in Kanzaki Rei’s mind. This feeling... was that of comprehension. Now, facing a life-or-death crisis, this long-unfelt sensation had appeared again!

Yet—

"Tch. Who gave you permission to comprehend?"

A thought earthquake in Kanzaki Rei’s mind!

Boom!

Kanzaki Rei’s vision went black again.

But this time, it wasn’t the feeling of returning to a sticky womb... It was returning to a bare, empty cave.

"You’re very good at reincarnation, aren’t you? Time and again..."

Kanzaki Rei looked at his own hands.

His hands—were tiny little hands.

And behind him was a girl with ivory-white hair.

Perception no longer worked.

Kanzaki Rei realized that he currently had no perception. Moreover, his body felt an extreme fatigue—a physical exhaustion that Kanzaki Rei hadn’t experienced in a very long time.

Through constant body refinement, Kanzaki Rei’s body was almost always in peak condition.

Never tired.

But now... completely different.

This cave—was the cave from when he first arrived in this world. The cave where he had met Iz and the others.

This was a dungeon.

"At this point in time, you probably can’t reincarnate anymore, right?"

Ekhator came up behind Kanzaki Rei and placed her hand on his back.

"Time to end this."

Boom!

But just then, Kanzaki Rei felt a heat around him. The hand that had been on his back disappeared.

Kanzaki Rei whipped his head around.

And saw a being draped in a black cloak standing behind him, facing Ekhator.

Ekhator put some distance between herself and this being.

Kanzaki Rei had no perception at this moment. The black-cloaked being had its back to him, so he couldn’t see who it was.

But Kanzaki Rei’s heart filled with an even more ominous Premonition

He saw Ekhator smile coldly, a slightly disdainful grin on her face.

"Fine. I understand now. No wonder... no wonder you wanted to destroy the world’s Integrity

"So you’ve attached with this kind of evil existence."

"You’ve actually collusion with the Source of Filth Nest."

Ekhator touched the pendant on her neck. It was a clock pendant whose hand spun counterclockwise.

"Filth... do you think you can protect him?"

"Or do you think I’m afraid of you?"

Though Ekhator’s figure was small, her words carried an air of looking down upon the world.

As if there was no existence in this world that she would fear.

As if she already stood at the very apex of the world.

The being before her did not speak.

Kanzaki Rei wanted to say something, but for the current Kanzaki Rei—who had no perception and no Profession—it was impossible.

High-level battles—almost everything happened in a single thought.

The idea and the process of battle were flashes of thought lasting one hundred millionth of a second.

If he had to use his mouth to explain the whole situation, years would pass.

Damn!

This was the first time he had encountered such a passive situation.

The cloaked being stood in front of Kanzaki Rei.

Just then, a force came from behind him. A hand grabbed the back of Kanzaki Rei’s collar!

Before Kanzaki Rei could react—

Whoosh!

The next second, Kanzaki Rei was yanked backward!

The feeling of power returning instantly surged through Kanzaki Rei’s body!

Kanzaki Rei immediately realized that he had finally escaped from that bizarre Time and space

And the End Sense’s warning had disappeared.

But when he looked before him—

Before him was still a girl... still the girl with ivory-white hair—Ekhator.

Sweat beaded on Kanzaki Rei’s forehead.

His heart pounded wildly, but at the same time, he forced himself to stay calm.

No matter what, he had to try to fight back.

Fleeing further wouldn’t work.

Yet the girl before him showed him a smile. She let out a long sigh and said with a smile: "Finally... I found a chance to save you."

"Why are you looking at me like that? Don’t you recognize me?"

"I’m not the Ekhator who was trying to kill you just now. Take a closer look—aren’t I different from her?"