Chapter 4016: Weird Strength Recovery Plan

’Stay here?’ Xyrath wasn’t very happy with the idea. ’This is not a place where I can recover well. I cultivate time, you know? The best places for me to recover are places where great time shifts happen. Once I’m set free, the first thing I’ll do is leave the Divine Realm and look for a Black Hole.’

Celis understood that. ’Yes, but if you do that straight away, you will be pursued. If you are truly as weak as you say, then the Tombassin Sect definitely has the experts to take you down.’

’Hmph!’ Xyrath was confident. ’Even if my overall strength has fallen to this level, capturing me is another thing altogether. I can just select a different future and pull it into our time branch. No one will be able to capture me anymore.’

’From what Laiana said, to capture you, one would need to exhaust all escaping possibilities displayed by your Time Plates, correct?’ Celis asked back.

’So?’ Xyrath didn’t deny that.

’After this long, I refuse to believe the Werdlem Empire and the Tobassin Sect in A1 don’t have a contingency plan for that,’ Celis explained. ’They definitely know that you lost most of your combat power, that all you can do is prevent yourself from being captured. Do you see the problem here?’

’How can preventing myself from being captured be a problem?’ Xyrath still didn’t understand.

Roan knew where Celis was coming from, though. ’Simply put, you can escape, but not hide. They will pursue you nonstop. As long as they pin down your location, you will spend your life bringing different futures into our time branch just so you don’t get caught.’

’Exactly,’ Celis confirmed Roan’s words. ’So, Xyrath, do you have a way to escape from that?’

’This...’ Xyrath would be lying if he said he did. ’It would ultimately be a test of resistance. To see who would last longer. Either my different futures would be all used up, or they would give up. But...’

Xyrath said that, but he already knew which one would happen first. The reason was the fact that the Primordial Beasts were imprisoned even though they were already inside the Bubble. There has to be a reason for the Primordial Beasts not to be allowed to roam free.

Besides, if it comes down to resources and personnel, how could Xyrath rival the entire Werdlem Empire? It would be one thing if he had his full power, but that obviously wouldn’t be the case here. Much stronger experts would be on his tail nonstop. Eventually and certainly, Xyrath’s Time Plates would run out of possible futures where he could escape. At that point, he would be imprisoned again since he couldn’t be killed.

’However, staying here won’t be of any use for me,’ Xyrath insisted. ’I will never recover my strength in this place. Well, there is still time power here, so it can be used. It’s just that it would take countless years before I could do anything.’

’For that, I have a plan.’ Celis didn’t bring this topic up without a reason. ’Outside, the Future Realm only stays open for a hundred years. After that, the formation of the Werdlem Empire teleports everyone out, and it only opens again nine hundred years later. So, the Future Realm only opens every one thousand years.’

Xyrath immediately understood. ’I see... I should use the time when the Future Realm is closed to leave and then come back when it is about to open.’

’Yes,’ Celis confirmed. ’There is only one problem, your Time Plates.’

Once Xyrath is put back together, the Time Plates spread all over the Future Realm will not be spread anymore. They will gather together to make Xyrath’s Chronoblade Serpent’s body. The next batch of experts that enter the Future Realm would obviously notice the disappearance of the Time Plates, even if the Future Realm were still here.

Xyrath could see the problem with it, but he wasn’t worried. ’There is a way to counter this problem. The reason I can’t put my Time Plates back together is that they are showing different starting points in the future. So, if I don’t want to be caught by the Werdlem Formation anymore, I can’t allow my Time Plates to show futures that start at different points in time. That’s why I’m using your Dimensional Realm to catch up to those different times.’

’Simply put, as long as I keep all the futures that are displayed in my Time Plates starting from the same point in time, aka the present, the formation will have no effect on me. I can spread my Time Plates all over my Future Realm just before the next opening. Then I wait for the Future Realm to close and leave for another nine hundred years. Repeat, repeat, repeat until I get strong enough. If I find a nice Black Hole, I reckon I can recover to something equivalent to a Peak Stage Celestial Realm in three thousand years, tops.’

Celis and the others were happy to hear that. The formation prevented Xyrath from synchronizing the plates, but if the plates are already synchronized, there was nothing to fear. Xyrath only had to be careful after spreading them.

Still, Kentucky thought of something. ’Guys... this plan looks good and all. However, if Xyrath leaves, the Future Realm disappears with him, doesn’t it? Various pieces of equipment at Riquicious Capital use Xyrath’s Future Realm Power to function. Without him, those pieces of equipment would stop working, too. Not to mention, I find it hard to believe the Werdlem Empire and the Tombassin Sect haven’t left some methods to warn them of Xyrath’s exit.’

[That’s where I jump in,] Sister Orb finally had a chance to talk. [How long have we been inside the Future Realm? Over five thousand years! I have long since hacked into all the formations here. The only ones I can’t do anything about are the ones that keep Xyrath’s Time Plates out of sync and that Storm Wall. Those have cores elsewhere outside the Future Realm, so I’m powerless against them. Anyway, there is nothing in the Future Realm capable of warning the Tombassin Sect of Xyrath’s exit.]

’Oh!’ Kentucky nodded. ’I almost forgot Sister Orb existed again.’

[First, fuck you! Second, I can only prevent others from knowing about Xyrath’s escapades. However, I can’t emulate his power with the formations. For this plan to work, Xyrath needs some way of keeping his power from disappearing from this place. Otherwise, even if the formations say he is still inside, the things that rely on his Future Realm’s power outside still won’t work anymore.]

-Time-soul link?- Laiana suddenly asked through the CD.

And Xyrath nodded. ’What else? It has to be.’

Seeing everyone’s confused expressions, Xyrath explained. ’Why do you think I can detach and spread my Time Plates? That’s because it allows me to create more possible futures from different locations that I can use. Still, I’m always connected to my Time Plates.’

’Simply put, I can leave a single Time Plate in this place, which would keep the Future Realm going and wouldn’t cause any changes in its power. The Future Realm uses a very tiny amount of my innate ability’s power, so a single Time Plate is more than enough. I’m connected to all my Time Plates through my soul and time. As long as I’m not too far away, like outside the Universe, I can control it remotely.’

[Then that’s it! We have a plan set to fool the Tombassin Sect and the Werdlem Empire while Xyrath can focus on recovering his power. It’s all thanks to your beloved Sister Orb. No need to mention it. I’m just that good.]

That was actually the system’s power she was using, but Rean and Roan didn’t mention that.

Well, no one knows if this plan will work anyway.

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