Chapter 1089: 76. Action
“What do you mean, cracks of time? What does hiding in the cracks of time even mean?”
Muen was still stuck in confusion over Hamreign’s words, because he had no idea what the cracks of time were, nor how one hid inside something that sounded so profound at first listen.
But before he had time to obtain an answer, he saw Miss Dragon, who had been floating in the lake, suddenly soar upward.
The bright sunlight was covered in the blink of an eye. A massive shadow instantly blanketed the entire lake. Muen raised his head blankly and saw those pitch-black scales, as if cast from steel, and that elegant yet ferocious body stirring up wild winds!
“Wait. Don’t tell me...”
Muen’s voice trembled. The instant he saw this scene, he had already realized something, and his body moved on its own.
He turned and ran!
Unfortunately...
How could two legs on the ground compare to something flying in the sky?
Hamreign gave Muen no chance to struggle at all. One enormous dragon claw descended directly from the sky and grabbed him in its palm like a claw machine picking up a toy.
“I #$%@%%&...”
The sudden pressure made Muen subconsciously curse, but before those filthy words could even be spat out, they were scattered by the airflow sweeping violently over him.
Hamreign merely gave a light flap of her wings, and in the blink of an eye, her enormous dragon body had already appeared ten thousand meters up in the sky. With such a massive body, her speed was still something even Muen could not hope to match.
Everything on the ground became extremely tiny. The edge of the world seemed close at hand. Muen felt as if he could already see that semi-transparent outline of the atmosphere.
This time, the “dragon carriage” hanging seat was still not very comfortable. Muen was soon shaken until his head spun. Fortunately, Hamreign’s voice could still appear in his mind.
“Hold tight.”
She was still so “considerate” as she reminded him.
“Hold... who the hell... exactly who’s holding who... oh, damn.”
Muen barely managed to make his consciousness catch up with his body, which had suddenly flown away, so that he would not be turned into an idiot by this sudden acceleration ten thousand times more exciting than a roller coaster. And when he finally caught his breath and opened his eyes, he discovered that a spatial rift had already appeared before him. Hamreign still gave him no time to react. Her dragon body twisted, and she drilled straight into the rift.
“Miss... Miss Dragon, could you be a little gentler?”
Muen finally could not help shedding weak, helpless tears. “At this rate, I don’t know whether those revived fellows will be killed or not, but I’m about to die here first.”
“Useless.”
Hamreign snorted coldly, sounding extremely displeased.
But Muen still felt that the dizziness that had almost shaken his brain into mush quickly eased by quite a bit. There was even a dedicated barrier that appeared around him, silently protecting his safety.
This time, she really was considerate.
“...”
...Damn it. What was with this humiliating feeling, as if he had failed to perform at a critical moment and was being gently encouraged by his wife?
“We continue forward.”
Hamreign naturally had no idea what complicated feelings Muen was experiencing at this moment, and directly entered the spatial rift completely.
A dreamlike, chaotic haze once again covered Muen’s vision. It was as if he had sunk once more into that blurred and drifting dream.
But this dream was not beautiful. All kinds of distorted, blurry points of light wandered through the deep void. Even Hamreign had to flap her wings to evade them. Pitch-black lightning and terrifying astral winds swept directly past Muen’s side, and even through the barrier, that terrifying force made his hair stand on end.
Compared to last time, with Hamreign’s help this time, Muen could clearly see the surrounding environment much better. But he still found it difficult to distinguish what the hell those things were in the boundless void around them. Especially those blurry points of light. Even with the naked eye, he could not make out their substance, yet his intuition told him they were definitely something extraordinary.
Hamreign brought Muen forward through the void.
No.
It could not be called forward.
There was no distinction between up, down, left, right, front, or back here. Muen could only sense Miss Dragon constantly crossing the void, but he had no idea of the actual direction.
“Next, it depends on you.”
That cold, aloof voice sounded again.
Although there was lightning and astral wind, compared with the ten-thousand-meter altitude, this place was unbelievably quiet. Without needing to use magic, Hamreign’s voice could directly enter Muen’s ears.
She suddenly stopped moving.
“Depends on me?”
Muen widened his eyes, thinking he had heard wrong.
“Otherwise? If I were not depending on you, why would I bring you here?” Hamreign snorted coldly. “For tourism? I can let you down right now, but as for exactly where you’ll be sent to ‘tour,’ I won’t care.”
“...”
Muen was speechless.
No, lady. This was only his second time in this place. Could she please not act like this was an ordinary longsword, this was an ordinary illumination spell, all right, now hurry up and go kill that Evil God who was about to destroy the world?
Although he did have a little ability to infer one thing from another, that ability had not grown strong enough to predict things outside his own understanding!
“What exactly am I supposed to do?”
After thinking for a moment, Muen still decided to ask humbly.
After all, if he did not ask...
He genuinely had no idea how he was supposed to help a mighty natural disaster.
“She didn’t tell you?” Hamreign’s tone carried doubt.
“Who?”
“That thousand-year-old flat-chested fossil.”
“...No.”
The corner of Muen’s mouth twitched, and an ominous premonition surfaced in his heart again.
Don’t tell me that wicked old hag who had sold him off...
While selling him, she had actually forgotten to mention something important?
Selling him once on the economic level was not enough, she also had to sell him out again on the level of being a useless teammate?
No.
That woman had definitely done it on purpose. Right now, she was surely hiding in the Flower Sea, secretly laughing to herself as she imagined him panicking!
Too vile!
Sooner or later, he would make that wicked old hag who weaponized cuteness taste the same humiliation!
“Forget it. That person being unreliable is not a new thing.”
Clearly, Miss Dragon also knew how infuriatingly treacherous that annoying little brat was, and did not dwell on this issue for long. She went straight to the point.
“What you need to do is very simple. Take out the most important thing you obtained from that person and use it.”
“The most important thing?”
Muen thought seriously. “A strawberry-flavored lollipop?”
Creak.
Whether it was an illusion or not, Muen immediately heard the sound of his bones about to be crushed.
“I’m joking! Joking! The Eternal Clock, right? I’ll use it now, I’ll use it right now!”
Before his bones were truly crushed in one claw by Miss Dragon, Muen hurriedly closed his eyes and focused, instantly pouring a large amount of magic power into the alchemical core on his back.
Even now, Muen still had not truly been able to bear the main body of the Eternal Clock. In fact, to him, that matter was still very far away. After all, although his strength had improved enormously now, he was still within the category of a flesh-and-blood body. Wanting to completely bear an Artificial Authority at this level was still somewhat wishful thinking.
Fortunately, after everything he had experienced before, especially the thousands of time reversals he underwent while facing the Salvation Society, his understanding and control of the power of time had clearly made tremendous progress.
During that final reversal, he could distinctly feel that his connection to the Eternal Clock had grown far tighter. In fact, among all the alchemical cores on his back, only the final one had yet to light up.
Muen did not know what kind of change would occur once the final alchemical core was lit.
But now, he could already clearly sense the existence of the Eternal Clock at any time through the alchemical cores.
Therefore...