Chapter 67 Independent from the timeline

No matter how much Kiran explains, Runesia's hatred for Icathia will not diminish even a little bit.

After all, if Zilan can live in a tower of this size, he must be one of the elders of Icathia's governing council. He has declared war on Shurima and naturally has his will.

And this is indeed the case.

If it weren't for Icathia, Shurima would not have fallen from its peak to its bottom.

Even though Azir, the last emperor, expanded his territory, vigorously developed people's livelihood, attacked the decadent old aristocracy, and once again pushed Shurima to a post-peak period, it was still not one-tenth of the peak period of the Ascended Order.

The probability of ascension was low to begin with. Thousands of celestial warriors who died in battle could not be resurrected. The grand ambition to conquer the world was delayed for five hundred years, and was eventually destroyed by a slave betrayal.

Looking back at the past and present, in addition to hating the traitor who stole the power of Ascension and was sealed long ago, looking back at Shurima through the ages, most Ascended people believe that Shurima fell rapidly due to the Void War.

As a guardian of time, Kieran has an overview of the past and present and the timelines of parallel universes, and naturally understands this. He also knows the hatred in the hearts of the ascended ones who are derided as "dark descendants" and sealed by the protoss and humans.

Kieran had already looked away and completely let go of the hatred between his family and his country.

He just wants to save his people, save his hometown from being destroyed, and prevent Runeland from being destroyed in the future.

But the dark descendants are different.

Lunisia was still cursing, but Josh stopped paying attention to her and Kieran couldn't hear her. After venting for a while, Lunissia simply became silent.

Kieran took Josh back and forth through towers that were not as complex as the Shimmering Tower, and finally arrived at a room with unusually simple decoration.

There are many golden discs of different sizes covered in emerald green suspended here, like the delicate dials and gears on a clockwork clock, containing the mysterious power of time.

"Time is an eternal constant that everything in the world cannot escape."

Kieran pinched his fingers, and the emerald disk behind him glowed brightly, urging the small gear in the room to drive the large gear to rotate, making a clicking sound of metal friction.

"At first, I thought that the linear passage of time was just an illusion. But when I was really trapped in the cracks of time and studied the mysteries of time for decades, I discovered that it is just a prism with countless choices. Any simple

Every choice will lead to a completely different time and space."

As Kieran spoke, he continued to cast spells in his hands, and the environment of the originally simple little house quickly changed.

The walls and floors disappeared, and instead, Josh found himself in front of the Kiran Tower, traveling through a chaotic and disorderly dark space where he could not remember the year.

Before the vast power of time, even Lunessia was attracted by it, feeling as if a grain of sand was insignificant in the face of the vast ocean.

For a moment, Kieran's hair and beard and the clothes of the two were fluttering in the wind, as if they were suspended without gravity.

The largest disk behind him suddenly split into rings. The emerald green on the surface was dazzling, and it spun faster, presenting a hollow appearance like a planet.

Then, Kieran's left and right hands made a point out of thin air, and a blue and white time disk appeared on the fingertips, with the hands on it running at high speed.

At the same time, the central area of ​​those small disks of different sizes suddenly turned calm, like another scene on the water, like a holographic display screen, projecting different pictures.

"I've been watching you, Josh Russell." Kieran's voice was mixed with some indescribable etherealness, as if he was in a different time and space from Josh.

His eyes that were completely filled with emerald color turned to Josh, and he tapped the chakra of time with his right index finger. A golden disk soon floated in front of Josh, projecting everything that had happened on Blessed Island in the past six months.

"From the moment you came into contact with the dark descendants, the entire timeline of our world has undergone some unpredictable shift.

"I felt strange, so I checked the situation about you carefully, and the facts surprised me."

As Kieran said, the picture shown to Josh suddenly changed and turned into another world. It passed quickly like a slideshow, but the content and information displayed could be instantly reflected in his mind.

"Not every timeline has the existence of Josh Russell, and in your timeline, most of the time, you will die while still staying in the Noxhi tribe.

"On a rare occasion, your master Tyrus did adopt you, but due to various reasons, you would return to the spiritual realm before arriving at Blessed Island or not long after."

Among them, Josh saw the tragic scenes of various deaths of "himself".

Including but not limited to being starved to death in the Nokhi tribe because both parents died and there was no one to take care of them;

Infected with a terrible disease, he was expelled from his tribe and eventually died from the mouth of a wild beast;

He was brought back to the Seer by Tyrus, but he contracted septicemia on the way back and his organs all over his body failed rapidly...

Even if he returns to Hylia normally, he will either be swallowed up by arcane energy and turned into a scorched corpse while secretly practicing magic.

Either he will be angered by his "barbarian" nature, be expelled from the island, become a pirate, and die from the opponent's counterattack when he attacks other merchant ships.

The only time that was similar to Josh's current situation was when he came into contact with the Dance of Death, and was instantly swallowed up of flesh, blood, and soul, and became the vessel for the Dark One to awaken.

Subsequently, Lunessia awakened the dark descendant Talosh and most of the dark descendants outside Blessing Island, starting the second dark descendant war in advance...

Any small choice, such as whether you have breakfast in the morning, what food you choose to eat, and how much you eat, will lead to a completely different fate in the subsequent series.

Not only Josh was surprised, Lunessia couldn't help but said: "Strange, why are you the only one with such good luck?"

On this point, without waiting for Josh to answer, Kieran took the initiative to explain: "I spent several years studying more than 10 million ways of your destiny, and finally came to a conclusion."

The light in Kieran's eyes danced, as if he had seen something, but he did not take the initiative to point it out, but put it another way: "You seem to be transcending the timeline, existing in the past, present and future."

"Huh? This..." Josh was stunned, "How is this possible?!"

Kieran is the guardian who transcends the timeline, but his approach was to erase himself from the long river of time and no longer be able to affect the realm of reality, in exchange for the opportunity to observe the timeline.

[Isn’t this old man out of his mind?] Lunessia was also puzzled, [How can you be independent outside the timeline?]

Kieran saw Josh's doubts and did not give him a chance to ask. He explained: "You will feel that you have not learned time magic, and only the world runes of the enlightenment system can bend the rules, and you cannot erase them at all.

On your own time, right?”

Josh frowned and nodded.

"You have not been erased from the timeline, but the fact that you are transcendent from time is indeed true. Time and cause and effect are mysterious and philosophical. I have studied them all my life, but I have only scratched the surface.

"I don't know what method I used to create this anomaly, but it's normal for you to be able to create miracles like me... I think this should be related to your identity."

Kieran didn't make his words very clear, or perhaps even he himself didn't understand the mystery behind it.

He just waved his hand and moved away the golden disc that projected the parallel timeline, walked up to Josh, stretched out his hand, and pulled out a luminous straight line representing time.

"If the time we live in is this straight line..."

Then, Kieran clicked again, and the straight line suddenly split into countless chaotic lines from certain abnormal points, and then extended forward in parallel, with a lighter color, different from the parallel lines of the main time.

"Then such messy straight lines represent parallel worlds that are intertwined with ours but unrelated to us."

Kieran focused on pulling out the main timeline, drawing a circle with his finger, and a new spiral curve surrounding the main straight line extended forward.

"And you, Josh Russell, your existence has divided our original reality into a new and distinctive branch of time, or in other words, this is our current branch of the main world.

"It is closely intertwined with the original main world line, but it is covered by the shadow of time and cannot observe the future."

"Unobservable? Doesn't this mean..."

Josh probably figured something out, and his thoughts coincided with Kieran's.

"That's right!" Kieran finally showed a smile on his face, "We will have the opportunity to change our established destiny..."

He took a long breath and said, "Great extinction."
Chapter completed!