Reincarnated As A Lion In Another World-Chapter 656: Chrono Signature

"Where...or when...do you want to go to?" Memphis asked with a cocky smile.

She was secretly happy that Kael had not come with any of his other consorts. It was just the two of them.

Just the two of them.

"Isn’t it your Time Shuttle? Why can’t you pick a place?" Kael asked, still looking around at the hall and the dome-shaped ceiling.

"Yeah, but I’ve practically searched through most of the last one hundred thousand years already.

I was wondering if there was a specific event in the past that you would actually be interested in..."

"Hmm," Kael looked at Memphis while he thought about it.

Indeed, there were some past events that he would actually like to observe from a different perspective to understand some things.

"How does this work? How do you plan on using this to evolve?" Kael asked, already picking a particular point in time that he would like to explore.

"The farther we go back in time, the more distorted the boundaries become. I belong to the timeline of the current era which has a completely different chrono signature than the other eras.

If we move back in time, you might not be able to sense it because you don’t have any affinity for time, but I would. There is a friction that occurs when my own Chrono Signature clashes with the Chrono Signature from other eras.

This Time Friction is what I wish to use to comprehend time better.

The Chrono Signature is what we will use to pinpoint the point in time we would like to travel to.

Whereas Space requires Spatial Coordinates, travelling back in time requires Chrono Signatures.

I’ve tried it before and I could always feel like I was just one step away. It felt like the immortal tier was just at the top of my fingertips, yet I couldn’t catch it.

Maybe with you coming along, things will be significantly better," Memphis said.

Kael absorbed the knowledge he had read through the surface data files from the monkey ruins concerning time travel, but he didn’t read it in detail.

"I know the perfect place to go," Kael said.

Memphis nodded.

She waved her hand in front of her, taking full manual control of the whole time shuttle.

This hall, which was a real time machine, got activated.

The white metallic-marble walls began to glow with the power of time flowing through them.

Kael looked around as Memphis began the process of time travel. He made sure to pay serious attention to everything she was doing.

He had been under the impression that it was the whole time shuttle that would be moving through space and time to travel to a different era.

But from what he was seeing and sensing, only the hall, or at least the entities within the hall, would be travelling back in time.

The monkeys must have had monstrous intelligence for them to not only develop the formula for this technology to work, but also build this machine that could actually still work after so many years.

Memphis picked at her fingers, closing her eyes as invisible streams of time flowed toward her and circled around her waist.

In a way, the only reason this time machine could work was that Memphis was a time lioness. Maybe that was why many civilizations always failed at time travel.

It was beyond just a technological wonder. There needed to be an entity with sufficient comprehension of time taking the reins, just the way Memphis was doing right now.

Slowly, the environment of the hall began to change. Kael was being overwhelmed by a strong suction feeling as he was thrown into an uncontrollable state of weightlessness.

The white metallic marble walls slowly vanished, replaced with the speeding flow of visible time.

Even the floor vanished and Kael became truly weightless.

"Use your spirit power to connect to the mind so that you can see how far I am going," Memphis said.

"Okay," Kael did just that. A vertical eye opened in the center of his forehead.

He saw that Memphis did not put up any mental blocks, allowing him easy access to her mind.

Wasn’t this too trusting? Kael thought.

He might not be able to control her mind but he could definitely plant spiriseeds that would influence her behavior for a long time. It would be hard to remove these spirit seeds if Kael actually did so.

Since Memphis had revealed a glimpse of just how much she was willing to trust Kael at this point in time, he decided to acknowledge trust.

He didn’t do anything harmful even though the thought appeared in his mind.

He just connected to her mind and was able to see what she was seeing.

Memphis did not see or read the glow of time the way others did. Even when the flow of time became visible to ordinary eyes, it still looked like a semi-invisible stream of liquid.

However, to Memphis whose eyes were covered in reality filters, she could not just see the flow of time, she could see images, events, and mathematical models flowing through them.

The space Kael and Memphis were existing in at the moment was like a whirlpool for the Flow of Time.

Through Memphis’s eyes, Kael could see scenes of the past that had been recorded by the universe.

This led to the question, was time linear?

Was everything predestined to happen or was the future still uncertain? If it was, it would explain why time machines could only travel back in time, not to the future.

As Kael observed, he overlaid the memories of Noel in his mind so that he could find what he was looking for.

There was a particular moment in time that Kael was very curious about. He wanted to see it happen from a different perspective because even the memory he had was not clear.

"Kael?" Memphis called with a crease between her brows.

She had been rowing the time machine I to the past now and Kael was yet to ask her to stop.

She had already gone beyond one hundred thousand years in the past and it seemed like Kael had not yet found what he was looking for.

"Continue, move to three million years," Kael said casually, not regarding the stress Memphis was going through.

"What?!" Memphis, "I can’t," She said.

Kael glanced at her, "You’ve already started this, no stopping now. Didn’t you want me here so that you could be pushed beyond your limits? It’s not going to be easy.

Isn’t the intense time friction what you want? Just do it, don’t worry, I’ll help you out when you need it most."

Kael’s words assured Memphis a bit but she was still skeptical, not of the All-King, but of her own abilities.

She was skeptical because she already knew her limits and it was going to cost her a lot to go beyond.

It could literally cost her life.

Memphis sighed, she was already here, she might as well do it and reap some benefits in the process.

She continued to surf through the annals of time with a detached look while Kael observed everything through the connection he had with her mind.

Memphis was supposed to fast-forward all the way to three million years ago, but she couldn’t.

Memphis had only gone past five hundred thousand years when she started to feel her power fading.

It was like she was being ground to dust from the inside out as her body operated at an era with a harshly different Chrono Signature than hers.

Blood began to drip from her nose and her outstretched hand trembled.

"Kael...I can’t," She stammered. She was already looking for a point in time where she could drop off and begin her meditation.

But...

"It’s not enough, it has to be three million!" Kael demanded, highly dissatisfied. It was as if this whole thing was no longer about Memphis’s evolution and more about what he wanted to know with the time machine.

Memphis wouldn’t listen to him though. Just because she liked him didn’t mean she would kill herself to satisfy him, it wasn’t like she had signed any loyalty pact with him.

Unfortunately for her, Kael was now hell-bent on finding that particular event that happened three million years ago.

Kael’s eyes glowed brightly, followed by a flash.

Memphis discovered that Conquering Essence was pooling into her body and circulating in a certain type of way that caused her power level to start spiking.

Kael’s invasive consciousness was not strong enough to move Memphis, but the change in her power level brought her immense confidence.

Her aura settled once again for Memphis to find that she was now at the immortal tier. Although it wasn’t a power that belonged to her, it was very real.

But this was the weakest level of the immortal tier though. Even Emperor Zain was much stronger than this.

But it was enough.

"Continue," Kael commanded authoritatively, determined to see the end of this.

Memphis silently obliged and continued steering the time machine further back in time.

Unbeknownst to her, her blonde hair was starting to gain a grey hue and her face was starting to look slightly older.