LOL: The dark goddess covets me!

Chapter 67 Independent of the Timeline
No matter how much Kieran explained, Lunisia's hatred for Icacia would not decrease one 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. It is natural that he had his will in declaring war on Shurima.

And it is.

If it weren't for Icathia, Shurima wouldn't be falling from the top to the bottom.

Even if the last emperor Azir expanded the territory, vigorously developed the people's livelihood, attacked the corrupt old nobles, and once again pushed Shurima to a post-peak period, it was still less than one-tenth of the peak period of the Ascension Group.

The probability of ascension was already low, and thousands of god warriors who died in battle could not be resurrected. The ambition to conquer the world was delayed for 500 years, and finally destroyed in a slave betrayal.

Recalling the past and the present, apart from hating the betrayer who stole the power of ascension and was sealed long ago, looking back at Shurima for thousands of years, the vast majority of ascensionists believe that Shurima fell at a rapid rate because of the void war.

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

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

He just wants to save his people, save his hometown from being destroyed, and avoid the future of Runeterra from being destroyed.

But the Darkborn were different.

Lunicia was still cursing, but Josh stopped talking to her, and Kieran couldn't hear her again. After venting for a while, Lunicia simply fell silent.

And Kieran took Josh back and forth in the towers that were not complex enough to belong to the Shimmering Tower, and finally arrived at a room with extremely simple decoration.

There are many golden discs of different sizes covered by emerald green floating here, like the fine dials and gears on a wind-up clock, containing the mysterious power of time.

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

Kieran pinched his fingers, and the emerald light on the disc behind him ignited, urging the small gear in the house to drive the big gear to rotate, making a rattling 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 realized that it is just a prism with countless choices. Any simple Any choice will lead to another completely different time and space."

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

The walls and floors disappeared, and instead, Josh walked through the chaotic and disordered dark space that could not remember the years before he found the Kieran Tower.

Before the immensity of time, even Lunisia was attracted by it, feeling the insignificance of a grain of sand facing the vast ocean.

For a moment, Kieran's hair and beard and the clothes of the two fluttered in the wind, suspended as if they had lost gravity.

The largest disk behind him suddenly split into rings, the emerald green on the surface was dazzling, and it rotated at an accelerated speed, presenting a hollowed-out appearance like a planet.

Then, Kieran's left and right hands clicked out of nowhere, and a blue and white time disc appeared on the fingertips, and the pointer on it was running extremely fast.

At the same time, the central area of ​​those small discs of different sizes suddenly transformed into another scene that was calm and resembling the water surface, like a holographic display screen, projecting different images.

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

His emerald-colored eyes turned to Josh, tapped the time chakra with his right index finger, and a golden disc quickly floated in front of Josh, projecting everything that happened on Blessed Island in the past six months.

"From the moment you came into contact with the Darkin, the entire timeline of the world we live in has undergone some unpredictable shift.

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

As Kieran spoke, the picture shown to Josh suddenly changed, and it changed into another world. It quickly passed before his eyes like a slide show, but the content and information displayed could instantly come into mind.

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

"On a small number of occasions, your master Tyrus did adopt you, but for various reasons, you will return to the spiritual realm before or not long after you arrive at Blessed Island."

Among them, Josh saw the tragic death of "himself".

Including but not limited to being starved to death in the Nokshi tribe because of the death of both parents and no one to take care of them;
Infected with a terrible disease and was expelled by the tribe, and finally died at the mouth of the beast;
Brought back to the Brilliant Seener by Tyrus, he contracted septicemia on the way back, and his organs collapsed rapidly...

Even if he returned to Hylia normally, he would either be swallowed by arcane energy while secretly practicing magic, turning into a charred corpse.

Or because of the irresistible nature of the "barbarian", he would anger the elders of Shuoguangta, be expelled from the island, become a pirate, and die in the counterattack of other merchant ships when they attacked them.

The only time that was similar to the current situation of Josh was when he came into contact with the Dance of Death, and was instantly devoured by it, flesh and soul, and became a container for the Darkborn to wake up.

Afterwards, Lunisia awakened the dark-born Tarosh and most of the dark-born outside of Blessed Island, and set off the second dark-born war in advance...

Any small difference in choice, such as whether to eat breakfast in the morning, what food to eat, and how much to eat, will lead to a series of completely different fates in the follow-up.

Not only Josh was surprised, but Lunisia couldn't help but say: 【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 and studied more than 1000 million kinds of your fate, and finally came to a conclusion."

The light in Kieran's eyes danced, as if he saw something, but he didn't take the initiative to point it out, but put it another way: "You seem to be detached from the timeline, existing in the past, present and future."

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

Kieran is the guardian beyond the timeline, but his method is to erase himself from the long river of time, and can no longer affect the realm of reality, in exchange for the opportunity to observe the timeline.

[This old man can't lose his mind, can he? 】Lunicia was also puzzled, 【You guy, how could you be independent of the timeline? 】

Kieran saw Josh's doubts and didn't give him a chance to ask, explaining: "You will feel that you haven't learned time magic, and only enlightenment world runes can distort the rules, and you can't erase them at all. Your own time, right?"

Josh frowned and nodded.

"You have not been erased from the timeline, but the fact that you are beyond time is true. Time and cause and effect are obscure and mysterious, full of philosophy. I have studied it all my life, but I have only learned the superficial.

"I don't know what method I used to create the current anomalous point, but it's normal for you to be able to create miracles like me... I think this should have something to do with your identity."

Kieran didn't understand what he said, or in other words, even he himself didn't understand the mystery inside.

He just waved away the golden disc projecting parallel timelines, walked up to Josh, stretched out his hand, and pulled out a glowing straight line representing time.

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

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

"Then such a messy straight line represents a parallel world that is intertwined with us but has nothing to do with it."

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

"And you, Josh Russell, your existence has split our original reality into a new and distinctive new time branch, or this is our current main world branch.

"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 that mean..."

Josh probably wanted to understand something, 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, "Great extinction."

(End of this chapter)