Time in a collapsing world

Earth.

Theophel stood at a certain spot that he had told her before, waiting quietly.

This place is in ruins, and it seems to be no different from other places. Theophel doesn't know Li's intention, but she still guards here dutifully.

There was a pattering of rain falling from the sky, dripping on Theophel's nose, shoulders, and eyes that had been looking up to the sky.

After an unknown amount of time, Teofel suddenly became energetic, his pupils shrank into the shape of a needle, and he looked at the falling figure in the gray sky.

……

Huhuhu————!

When Li came out of the dimension of [Cocoon of Finality], her body was already on the verge of reaching its limit. However, it would be nice to be able to drag a planet into [Reincarnation] with all the power of [Time] on herself. It would be nice if she could not die instantly. .

It's just that Li's current situation isn't very good either.

I only remember that he flew towards the earth with all his strength from space. It was not until he entered the earth's atmosphere and arrived at the predetermined fall position that he fell hard under the pull of gravity. Only then did Li relax. , passed out.

Now Li wakes up again because of pain. Although he can fight against [Herrscher of the End], he is still a mortal body. When he was unconscious, he had no time to take protective measures for himself. He fell from outside the earth and experienced After being exposed to the atmosphere for a long time, most of his body had been melted and turned into a fireball, falling in the designated direction.

I woke up just in time...

Li has been holding a transparent sphere in her hand since the beginning, and she never let go even after she passed out.

Li put her mind into it and saw many sleeping bodies of Ying Jie, and finally her eyes were fixed on the pink-haired girl who was left alone.

Today, she is no longer just a shell like before, but has breathing, heartbeat, and even her eyelids are trembling slightly, as if she will wake up at any time.

Li smiled, stretched out her hand and wiped Alicia's face. The next moment, she who should have woken up suddenly became peaceful again, but her brows were slightly furrowed, as if she had a nightmare.

Let's sleep a little longer...

Li looked at Alicia whose soul had been stuffed into her. The smile on her face became more and more tired. Finally, her entire mental body shook violently, like a small flame washed away by a heavy rain. It would break out at any time. extinguished.

Now he is dead...or in other words, he who controls the power of [Concept] is dead and was killed by the power of [Time]. The only thing left now is himself as the [Herrscher of Man].

But... even so, the vitality of [Herrscher of Man] cannot last long. The power of [Time] is like a maggot attached to the bone. As long as the existence of [Li] is still alive, it will not stop halfway.

Eat, erode, kill...

Alas... Li Xin sighed tiredly.

Sure enough, is it still unavoidable?

Your own death?

Although there are coping strategies, they are troublesome and involve too many uncertainties.

The most important thing is that I don’t know if He will take action.

Probably... I feel a little flustered.

Li's mind returned to his body, and the pain hit his mind again. Now he had been burned out. Only a sparkling strange gem and the transparent sphere still maintained their brilliance in the flames, just like after being burned. The residue left behind was suddenly picked up by a hand as it approached the ground.

Snapped---!

Theophel jumped directly to an altitude of more than fifty meters to catch the gem and the ball, and then suddenly fell and hit the ruins, stirring up a large amount of dust and smoke.

But soon, Teofel walked out of it. Looking at the two objects in his hands that were full of the smell of glass, tears actually flowed from his blood-red pupils, and he felt the pain as if his heart was being torn apart.

Li, dead?

This fact overwhelmed her beast-like heart for a moment, but then she thought of some of Li's previous instructions, and her eyes shone with hope.

White silk threads came out of his mouth, wrapping the gem and the transparent sphere, getting bigger and bigger... until it turned into the shape of a complete cocoon and then stopped.

Theophel just stopped, and then she felt a greater crisis from the sky, which stimulated her to directly change into the beast form, revealing the fangs in her mouth.

Then she suddenly looked at the ground, no matter what, she quickly dug down deeper and deeper at a very fast speed. When she felt that it was almost done, she buried a lot of soil again and covered herself, and she Holding the giant cocoon wrapped in gems and balls, she closed her eyes and began her waiting.

……

After an unknown amount of time, there were explosions on the ground, the sound of houses collapsing, and the frightened shouts of a few humans, and then silence fell.

The cleanup of [Endgame] has ended, and the former civilization has also come to an end.

But in this world that should have lost all life, a sound different from the sound of wind and rain suddenly came.

Dong Dong, Dong Dong——!

A sound like a heartbeat, or... this is the sound of a heartbeat.

The source of the sound was unknown, and it suddenly appeared in just a blink of an eye. In this era of silence, no living thing was aware of its existence.

Even the [Herrscher of the End] is the same.

He completed his mission and [reset] the earth. At least, on the surface of the earth, he could not see any biological existence at all.

Now [Herrscher of the End] has returned to the moon, back to the position where it fought against humanity.

Just like the current Earth, the huge Shadow of Destruction has lost all mobility and life indicators, and is dying silently in this quiet and lonely environment.

In contrast, that guy who should have died early under the wash of His [Time] power miraculously opened his eyes again at this time.

From [quiet] to [motion].

From [death] to [life].

And all of this is due to what’s in front of me——

祂。

A huge black sphere floated quietly in front of the boy's eyes, and the surrounding area was pitch black. Even the boy himself didn't know how he saw it.

"As expected, you're here... I know you won't stand idly by."

【…】

"This must be the number of times we have met, right? How many times have I met you in the past? Do you have any statistics?"

【…】

"That seems to be quite a lot. After all, has it been tens of thousands? Millions? Or hundreds of millions of years? It's been so long. I probably don't have the patience to count..."

【…】

"Stop being silent and learn from the newly born [Herrscher of Finality]? Oh, sorry, I forgot, you and [Cocoon of Finality] are equal beings."