Welcome to Rewind World Game-Chapter 1507 - Finale·Shoreguard Arc [11]: "Death Rebounder, Number One Player Su Ming’an.
This sword is not aimed at the Radiant Mother God, but at Su Ming’an!
The blaze slashed through, and the blade penetrated firmly into Su Ming’an’s chest. It was as if Su Ming’an had anticipated the arrival of the Cloud City God; at the same moment, he activated the "Eternal Dawn" skill, and after three sword winds, his aura dissipated.
At that moment, Kritchens, through the decisive killing action of the Cloud City God, finally confirmed with one hundred percent certainty that Su Ming’an’s authority is Death Rebound.
"There is actually such a skill, forced death..." It quickly realized the effect of Su Ming’an’s skill: "So the Cloud City God was pretending to betray..."
The panic lasted only for a moment, and its mindset quickly steadied. What does it matter if time has been rewound, what will another attempt change? Under absolute force suppression, how can Su Ming’an transmit the coordinates to Huan Jiala within ten minutes?
It’s impossible, just like now—As long as Su Ming’an obtains the coordinates, the Radiant Mother God will surely hold him back, no matter how many times, he will definitely be unable to transmit the coordinates back.
"Even if you start over countless times, the result will still be the same..." Kritchens coldly watched Su Ming’an lose his breath.
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Sixth cycle.
Su Ming’an opened his eyes, in front of him was the noisy teahouse... no.
Not a teahouse.
This time, in front of his eyes was no longer a teahouse.
Su Ming’an greedily breathed in the fresh air of the Forest of Moonlight and turned his head—
The Elf King with flowing purple hair, eyes like the moon, and an indistinguishable gender, sat quietly on the tree branch beside him. Moonlight hung low, and the evening breeze scattered ripples of lilac color.
The wristwatch displayed the time:
Nine twenty.
And in the previous cycle, the time Su Ming’an obtained the coordinates was nine twenty-seven.
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[Su Ming’an asked: "How long will it take for the coordinates to change?"]
[Huan Jiala closed their eyes, seemingly asking Starfire, and after a moment said: "About ten minutes."]
[...After obtaining the coordinates, the coordinates must be handed to Huan Jiala within ten minutes.]
[Su Ming’an simulated in his mind; in the previous cycle, they took more than forty minutes to leave the Temple area, reducing it to ten minutes is almost impossible.]
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A long time ago, Su Ming’an figured out the pattern of Death Rebound—the time node of Death Rebound would fall on key time nodes.
Most of the time, it would fall before the disaster happens. On very rare occasions, it would fall during the disaster, such as his thirty-third cycle; because the rebound time point was already during the disaster, it was too late to set up, making his action to save Yuanyuan incredibly difficult.
The save points rarely stayed during peaceful times, and what followed was sure to be a relatively difficult situation. Just like "there must be a supply before a great battle, there must be a save point before a boss battle."
Su Ming’an couldn’t guarantee that these speculations were one hundred percent correct, but they were reasonable assumptions after he experienced hundreds of rebounds.
——Then, since he had grasped the basic patterns through numerous rebounds, could he go a step further... trying to turn this passive save into... active?
This was an extremely bold idea, and upon thinking about it, it even made his heartbeat quicken for a moment. Imagine if he could indeed control his save points to some extent, how much of a bug of an ability it would be.
But he didn’t attempt it recklessly. First, this attempt needed to be done under a dangerous situation to verify the speculation. Second, the side effects of death were severe, and being under the high-pressure environment of the instance, it was hard to stop for repeated experiments.
And now, he happened to meet the prerequisite condition of "in a dangerous situation," fully able to try!
So, he tried.
First, during the first and second cycles, he figured out the hostility of the Radiant Mother God.
Then, in the third cycle, he knew that the Radiant Mother God would make a move at nine-thirty in the morning. He confirmed that even if he didn’t go to the Radiant Light Temple, the Radiant Mother God would send someone to attack him, trying to plant a curse on him.
In the fourth cycle, he bought four items: a bunch of Manzusha Flowers, a small knife, a potato, and a pocket watch pointing to nine twenty, and showed them to the Cloud City God.
In the fifth cycle, let the Cloud City God know the above information through the yellow gemstone reading in the soul.
Then came the critical step.
——After obtaining the coordinates, how should Su Ming’an deliver them to Huan Jiala within ten minutes?
After the Radiant Mother God gave him the coordinates, she would definitely cut off any means for him to contact Huan Jiala. That was the case in the first cycle, where Su Ming’an, after obtaining the coordinates, fell into a dream meticulously arranged by the Radiant Mother God, dragging out the ten-minute validity period.
So, he couldn’t go to the Radiant Light Temple and step into the Radiant Mother God’s trap. He could only find a way to make the Radiant Mother God come to him voluntarily.
However, the Radiant Mother God is no fool. Even if she comes to him, it will definitely be in a scenario where "Su Ming’an cannot find Huan Jiala within ten minutes." For example, now, Huan Jiala is severely injured and unconscious, and Su Ming’an has fled to the edge of the Forest of Moonlight, gravely injured and on the brink of death, unable to report the coordinates to Huan Jiala in any way.
In the following ten minutes, he would inevitably not see Huan Jiala.
But...
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What about the ten minutes before?
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["...Will the world coordinates change?" Hearing Su Ming’an’s question, Huan Jiala said, "Yes. Starfire told me it depends on the landing point, which is my location. Once a certain time elapses, the coordinates will change."]
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The coordinates are determined by the real-time situation of the descender, specifically by Huan Jiala’s circumstance, not the Radiant Mother God’s, so the time when the Radiant Mother God obtains the coordinates is not when the coordinates are generated. The coordinates existed long before the Radiant Mother God observed them!
It stands to reason that Huan Jiala only mentioned "give it to me within ten minutes of getting the coordinates," ignoring the possibility of "give it to me within ten minutes before getting the coordinates." But taking the acquisition of the coordinates (around 9:30) as the origin, extending a floating time range to the X left axis (9:20) and the X right axis (9:40) is completely feasible.
In summary, Su Ming’an concluded that as long as the critical point of the Death Rebound changes and falls within ten minutes before he acquires the coordinates, he can achieve the impossible act of "giving it to Huan Jiala within ten minutes before getting the coordinates"!
So, the most difficult part is figuring out how to let the critical point of the Death Rebound fall ten minutes before acquiring the coordinates, that is, 9:20?
Su Ming’an began to attempt.
—In the fourth cycle, he left hints for the Cloud City God of the fifth cycle.
A strand of Manzusha Flower, a small knife, a potato, and a pocket watch set to 9:20.
Their meanings are easy to understand.
The Manzusha Flower indicates: Death. Specifically referring to the death caused by the Cloud City God to Su Ming’an, based on information from earlier cycles.
The small knife signifies: Attack.
The potato implies: Master of the End of All Things... Actually, Su Ming’an wanted to buy fries, but there were no fries available beside the old grandma’s shop.
The pocket watch, this is very straightforward, indicates the time of action.
The hint Su Ming’an left for the Cloud City God in the fourth cycle was—"Cloud City God, please ally with the Master of the End of All Things, attack me at 9:20 to the best of your ability to ensure my death without holding back."
Of course, there could be other interpretations, such as the Cloud City God misinterpreting the meaning of the small knife as an attack on the Master of the End of All Things. In that case, Su Ming’an would further refine these items based on the Cloud City God’s subsequent reactions. Fortunately, the Cloud City God was intelligent and immediately understood Su Ming’an’s intent.
After all, from the situation earlier, attacking the Master of the End of All Things was meaningless, while attacking Su Ming’an to draw out the Radiant Mother God was more strategic. Given the Cloud City God’s wisdom, this point would not be lost.
Four simple items, under the understanding of two intelligent individuals, smoothly conveyed a complex intention.
At 9:20 in the morning, Su Ming’an welcomed a relentless attack from the Cloud City God, their communication coming from the previous cycle, with no one in this cycle aware that the Cloud City God’s apparent betrayal was fake. On the surface, the Cloud City God was fully committed to killing Su Ming’an.
Even the Cloud City God himself was sincerely trying to kill Su Ming’an based on Su Ming’an’s hints from the last cycle.
This was a precise, undisguised, ruthless killing attack.
It was the most dangerous and fierce encounter from three in the morning till now.
—This was a "Desperate Point" intentionally set by Su Ming’an.
After all, the Cloud City God at this point truly intended to kill him, with no chance of regret, pause, or hesitation. Only Su Ming’an’s death could bring it to an end. This was essentially no different from the attack encounter in the Fifth World initiated by Holy Initiation or by the Cloud City God in the Seventh World at Pulaya, both being scenarios where formidable foes were determined to kill him.
This was indeed a "Desperate Point."
And the critical point for the Death Rebound, according to the above theory, would occur before the "Desperate Point."
In other words,
—Su Ming’an deliberately created such a "Desperate Point" of betrayal and attack by the Cloud City God, attempting to cause the Death Rebound point at the tea house (three in the morning) to shift, occurring before the Cloud City God’s attack (9:20 a.m.).
Su Ming’an couldn’t be sure of success, and there was indeed a probability of failure. Firstly, the Death Rebound point might still fall at three in the morning if its update conditions are unaffected by the "Desperate Point." Secondly, the Death Rebound point might fall before 9:20 a.m., even at seven or eight in the morning, causing the ten-minute validity period for the coordinates to expire, which would still be a failure.
However, Su Ming’an also had a second rule at his disposal!
—The "Six-Hour Crossover Rule of Death Rebound"!
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This rule had been proposed by Su Ming’an even before the Tenth World: the interval between two Death Rebound key points is generally no less than six hours. This is based on data collected from hundreds of reverts so far.
If there is indeed a change in the Death Rebound point, 3 o’clock + 6 o’clock = 9 o’clock, it’s highly likely that the key point will be set after 9 AM, and not advanced to 7 AM or 8 AM.
These are purely speculations, yet they are rules summarized from hundreds of deaths. Su Ming’an himself found it somewhat amusing that his number of deaths had actually become a kind of "big data".
Therefore, in this cycle, Su Ming’an stayed long-term beside Huan Jiala, trying his best to make his key save point fall in this spatial position – the Forest of Moonlight, by Huan Jiala’s side.
In this way, no matter where Su Ming’an is when obtaining the coordinates, regardless of the distance from Huan Jiala, it won’t matter, because as long as he reverts, he will definitely be by Huan Jiala’s side!!!
Once Su Ming’an obtains the coordinates, he can immediately report the coordinates to Huan Jiala after the revert!
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To achieve——"trade time for space".
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Hints of crossing cycles, the trickery of "Eternal Dawn", artificially set Desperate Points, the six-hour system, active change of Death Rebound key points, trading time for space.
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All actions have been completed. Finally, Su Ming’an just needs to report this coordinate to Huan Jiala beside him.
This, on the contrary, is the most dangerous move in the entire operation.
——This means that he suddenly announced information he currently couldn’t possibly know.
——This signifies that he is nearly making a move similar to "Noel reporting the Dawn Code in the Ninth World".
——This denotes that he is brazenly declaring himself to have death-rebound-level Authority.
But this moment, there is no Noel Agnini to assume his identity and help him report this coordinate.
But this moment, he also knows clearly, Cloud City God won’t assume this identity for him, their cooperation hasn’t reached that level of familiarity.
But this moment, he understands even more clearly——he can report this identity openly, honestly, and by himself, without relying on anyone else!
Because this is different from the Ninth World. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
——Because he has severely damaged the true Organizers, the Sixth Thrones Theselotis!
——Because he has witnessed the world beyond the Universe, repelled the Cosmic Adventurer Dieying, became friends with the Shepherd of Time and Lights, the Second Thrones Sique Olivius, and is even a soul mate of the Twelfth Thrones Spiritual Dream-Maker, and has even confronted the Supreme Lord Tosolius face to face!
——Because he has seen the consciousness of the World Game, pushed open the white door, and seen Xiao Na!
——Because he has become a true Deity, holding a whole World in the true sense!
He no longer needs to be frightened, no longer needs to be overly cautious, no longer needs to hide. What if confronted with the situation where the Ninth World Noel was interrogated by the Organizers, so what?
Would he panic?
Does he need to be afraid?
Would he be caught as a result?
He has the support of the Fifth Thrones Starfire and the Eleventh Thrones.
He has been through eleven full instances of training.
He is well-versed in the rules of Death Rebound.
He has the support and cover of hundreds of millions of Adventurer Players behind him.
He holds the power of a Deity.
He holds the "World Book" and the "Supreme Feather Pen" given by former Olivius of Luowasha; with a stroke of the pen, he can make time flow and space turn upside down!
He has no need to be afraid whatsoever.
This is not the Main God World; this is his—Su Ming’an’s home ground.
He has always been cautious by nature, unwilling to expose Death Rebound without necessity, but this doesn’t mean he must hide it at all costs; now this matter is tacit and obvious, except that the audience is still in the dark; most of the high-levels have some guesses, many organizers have guessed openly, not to mention the Master of the End of All Things and the Supreme Lord who are already certain.
Now, reporting the coordinates leaves nothing hidden.
Nothing can be hidden anymore.
Then,
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——no longer hide it!
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This time, he himself is the Noel Agnini at that moment in the Ruined World, no longer needing anyone to sing praises in front of him.
This is the last instance, the final battle, the last journey. Su Ming’an is determined to announce it openly and to tell everyone——
I know secrets that shouldn’t be known at present.
I possess authority of the death-rebound level.
So what?
If you want to capture me, then come to Luowasha!
See what enormous price you will have to pay to seek me out as Starfire did. After coming here, what kind of challenges will you face before you can touch the hem of my garment in the long river of time?
Su Ming’an gave Huan Jiala a slight smile.
The Elf King blinked with confusion, showing a pure and puzzled smile to Su Ming’an, as if wondering why Su Ming’an was smiling.
Then, Huan Jiala saw it.
In this "game" where everything was bet——
He seemed to see a shadow behind the young man with black hair, a shadow that shattered its mind repeatedly, dismantled its bones repeatedly, ignited its internal organs repeatedly, tore apart its soul repeatedly, once, twice, ten times, a hundred times... Then, it raised the torch high, with dry blood boiling and a shattered heart racing, its arm holding the torch pointing to the sky, its gaze clear as the clear sky, as gemstones, as flowing water.
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"(y2831, x2129, uj3718)." At this moment, Su Ming’an’s voice was trembling yet clear.
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He raised the fire of declaration of war towards the distant Deities.
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"Whoosh" sounded softly.
The "torch" raised high was lit.
Suddenly and strangely.
Muddy and stagnant.
Descending, birthing.
The scent of scorched Joss Paper filled the air, and blood-colored, deep, viscous figures surged.
At this moment, when Huan Jiala received the world coordinates, he heard the young man softly murmuring:
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"...[Can I become the person I aspire to be?]"
"[Keep digging until I see the dawn again...]"
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