《Last Wish System 》Chapter 592: Meeting at the Timeless Border
Advertisement
"Quite a strange weakness. Why does such a thing happen? If you just say that is due to the fusion of soul and body into a wholesome existence, dying after a single death makes sense. Still, there is no reason for being unable to resurrect a True God manipulating the time."
Yale found Alrein's explanation a bit flawed, but he knew that Alrein didn't have any reason to lie.
"I myself am not too sure. It is already lucky enough that I managed to obtain this kind of information. However, this is the truth."
Alrein knew that there was a need for some more explanation in that topic, but he had already told everything he knew. It was already a miracle that he managed to learn so much, given the secrecy maintained on the subject.
Yale sighed.
"Well, with your True Miracle Divinity, I doubt that someone can kill you, so this won't be a problem for you even if you advance..."
In terms of defensive capabilities or rather in survival capabilities, the True Miracle Divinity was unbeatable. Its passive effects wouldn't let the user be killed.
"True enough. If it wasn't because I was planning to sacrifice myself to go the past and change everything, I wouldn't have been worried at all."
A death for that reason would still count, so even if Alrein saved the universe by traveling to the past, due to the fact that he would disappear later, the Alrein on that timeline would be fated to disappear anyway.
"Anyway, it isn't like if your True Dimensional Divinity is too much worse. Controlling it properly, I doubt that someone can harm you."
Alrein just knew what he saw about the True Dimensional Divinity, but that was enough to have a proper guess of its strength.
"I guess that is also true, but it isn't a passive effect. I can prevent that others could touch my body and thus harm me, but that would affect both those with good intentions and those with bad intentions. I won't even be able to hug my wife, my daughter, or my sisters. They won't accept this no matter what. However, if I become a True God and deactivate the protection being with them, and some enemy knew of it, I would die."
Yale didn't fear a frontal battle since no one would be able to harm him, but he knew very well that he couldn't maintain that level of defense when he was relaxing with his family.
Advertisement
That was a problem that applied to almost all True Gods too. For experts that reached that level, it wasn't strange having methods to protect themselves, but the problem was that they couldn't maintain them for a long time, or they were too impractical when they weren't in battle.
Those who had passive protections were usually considered the best, but none of them was as practical as the True miracle Divinity.
For example, the True Lust Divinity would prevent that others had malicious intentions towards the owner, but if the other party wasn't affected at all or the owner received an attack that was aimed at someone else, it would be useless.
"What about using Absolute Protection in a semi-permanent state? I can make that it resets the restoring time to the current ones at constant intervals as long as I am not in battle."
Yale was quite proud of Absolute Protection. It was an easy application of controlling the time, which could be taught easily to weaker disciples, and with enough supply of energy, even a mortal could use it like Yale himself did after reincarnation.
Moreover, Absolute Protection was something that was still practical even after Yale became so strong. At that moment, covering a whole universe wouldn't be a problem. Even doing it to a hundred connected universe simultaneously wouldn't be impossible for him.
Absolute Protection was quite limited when the user was weak, but used by someone with a Time Divinity, it would be difficult needing to reach that limit.
Yale couldn't even guess how effective it could become if used by someone like Great God Kroh, but someone at that level could just go back physically to the past or revert the time without the need for something like Absolute Protection.
Even Yale would just rely on Time Rewind as long as it was for something that wasn't implying his own security. After all, unless it was something cast beforehand like Absolute Protection, he wouldn't be able to use it if he was already dead.
"Sadly, that won't work."
Yale and Alrein turned around when they heard those words because neither of them had spoken them.
"When did we enter the Timeless Border?"
Alrein knew very well that unless it was something made by someone with a far stronger control of the time than them, it wouldn't be possible to be dragged to the Timeless Border without even noticing it.
Advertisement
"Your Absolute Protection is an ingenious skill, and you developed it while being quite weak, so it is worthy of praise, but sadly, if a True God dies inside Absolute Protection, that would still be the end for that True God."
It was difficult to say if the one who spoke was a man or a woman, and it would difficult to say if that person was handsome or beautiful, but without a doubt, that person had a unique charm.
"Great God Kroh? Or maybe, True God Kroh would be more exact."
Although Yale never saw Great God Kroh personally, the only person he could think in that situation was Great God Kroh. Alrein had reached the same conclusion since they were dragged into the Timeless Border.
"Strictly speaking, both are wrong but call me Great God Kroh anyway. If you were thinking about asking me how to use the Time Divinity to avoid the danger that a True God faces, my answer is that such a thing doesn't exist. At least, there is nothing better than what you would do with your True Divinities right now. Anyway, I am not a True God anymore, so I don't care about that flawed level."
Great God Kroh smiled while seeing the shocked faces of Yale and Alrein.
After all, they could understand the meaning of Great God Kroh's words.
"You advanced again?"
It had been a long time since Yale had been so shocked that he had difficulties in speaking.
"Correct, but that was already a long time ago. It is just that I haven't told anyone until now. Consider it a gift for having obtained the Time Divinity."
Great God Kroh was the only one who surpassed True God, but given Kroh's personality, the news didn't spread at all. No one even noticed it.
"Then how did you avoid the danger while being a True God?"
Even if Great God Kroh was telling the truth about nothing being better than what they could already do, Yale was still curious.
Usually, Yale's behavior of asking questions to a senior like Great God Kroh would seem very disrespectful, especially since Great God Kroh was literally the strongest of the multiverse at that moment, but since Kroh called them to the Timeless Border, Yale felt that Kroh was there to speak with them and listen to their questions.
"Similar to what you can do with the True Dimensional Divinity. I set my existence at a different time than anyone else instead of being in a different dimension like you can do. The drawbacks are also similar, but with just the Time Divinity, you can't do something like this."
Although Great God Kroh explained it as if it was easy, Yale and Alrein knew that it wasn't. They couldn't even imagine how to do it to be in front of others while their existence was set at a different time.
"Thank you. I guess I will care about problems of True Gods after becoming one, I am not a True God yet."
Yale sighed and let the problem in a corner of his mind. He was just a God, despite his power being comparable to a Great God. He was still two levels away.
"Anyway, you shouldn't really target True God, that isn't even a real level, we just believed it was back then. It is just an in-between-levels like the False God you reached before. Now that I think about it, it is funny how you choose exactly the opposite name to the other level of this kind."
Just like the problem of False God was that the strength was inconstant, the problem of True God was permanent death. Both had a flaw, but the first one was pretty negligible, while the other one was lethal.
"Then, tell us how to reach the real level, and we won't waste time thinking about becoming True Gods."
That time, Alrein was the one who spoke.
"I would like to do it, but I can't. I am not too sure myself about how I did it. It is related to advancing True Divinities, which are really a level, to the next level. We naively thought that the levels of Divinities and our own level should match, but that is false. Anyway, I was really a True God before advancing, so I can't discard that being a True God is something required, but I can't say it for sure either."
Great God Kroh stopped for a moment.
"However, I can tell you this. Two divinities of the same type can't exist simultaneously at this level, and once you reach this level, you can't die."
Advertisement
- In Serial917 Chapters
Genius Detective
We follow the story of Song Lang, a genius in the police field, who due to unfortunate circumstances caused by his mortal enemy, now assumes the identity of a driver named Chen Shi. Although he had wanted to live out his days as an ordinary citizen, fate has other plans in store for him. Finding himself in the position of prime suspect to a case, he assists a police officer to uncover the truth. Follow the adventures of Chen Shi as he is plunged back into the world of bizarre homicide investigations. Will he be fated to meet his enemy once again? If you enjoy murder mysteries such as the TV show “The Mentalist”, or anime like “Detective Conan”, then this novel is for you.
8 642 - In Serial36 Chapters
The World of Argos
Description: Zachary Alan Lee was a computer programmer who died in his sleep. Having been a fan of LitRPG and a writer on his favorite website. Little did he know that a God of a different universe was one of his fans. Upon his death, Zach was reborn on the World of Argos. Having a second chance at life and the ability to live in a world with Magic and system that would allow him to upgrade his body and soul, Zach sets off to forge a new destiny. One of his own making. Author’s Note: Hey, if you like Town building please come in and read my story. My main focus will be writing a fun story about a struggling MC trying to gain power and a little bit of safety in his new life. Since I am starting a business and have a family I will be posting infrequently. Additionally, there will be errors in spelling and grammar, but I am being up front about it, please leave specific feedback and I will gladly correct it. Cover art is not my own and I will be returning from Hiatus soon 4/27/18
8 120 - In Serial20 Chapters
On the Road to Elspar (Book 1)
The year is 1329. The Huntress' War has entered its tenth year, inflaming competing nationalisms and pitting the Confederacy of Caldrein against one of the continent's superpowers, the Tenereian Union. Desperately outnumbered, the Confederacy has relied on the prowess of its famed Caldran mercenaries, with highly-trained and experienced warbands returning from foreign conflicts to the defense of their homeland, and it is on their backs that Caldrein has successfully mounted a valiant defense for a decade. But they are losing, and day by day, with all the grace of a sledgehammer, the vast Tenereian armies take one more bit of Caldran territory, one footstep at a time. Sixteen-year-old Neianne from the village of Caelon has submitted herself to Faulkren Academy, one of the centuries-old institutions established to train the next generation of Caldrein's elite soldiers of fortune, to learn the ways of wars for three years before embarking upon the defense of her country. Her dryad family once hailed from reclusive woodland communes isolated from Caldrein's complicated mainstream society, and her upbringing leaves the shy village girl unprepared to suddenly train alongside other apprentices from backgrounds as low as the dirty slums of Caldrein's cities and as high as the halls of aristocratic power. Yet the war is eroding the norms and traditions that the Caldran people have long considered part of their national mythos, and the tensions within the confederacy that have long simmered under the surface - race, class, community, identity - are slowly but surely dividing its people, and Neianne must grow and discover who she really is, even as the war that she is steadfastly training for comes to its inexorable end... On the Road to Elspar is a fantasy quest - a work of interactive fiction wherein readers get to vote on what happens next at critical junctures - that is the first entry in a story that follows Neianne of Caelon, which first began on July 20, 2016. Originally a three-part in medias res prologue to a larger story titled On the Elsparian Road, it was eventually decided that this section - which covers Neianne's three years at Faulkren Academy - become its own independent story due to length, structural, and accessibility reasons. Despite this being a reader interactive work of fiction, due to logistical and verification concerns, voting will only be counted on its thread on the forum Sufficient Velocity, where this story originally began. As such, the content here on Royal Road serves as a story-only archive. You are, of course, entirely welcome to enjoy On the Road to Elspar as a conventional work of fiction, just as you are welcome to comment, discuss, and provide critique. But if you would like to participate in the voting, then I would be honored to welcome you on Sufficient Velocity. To facilitate accessibility and to ensure the best reading experience, this story-only version of On the Road to Elspar will be updated at a periodic pace, even though further content exists, so as to not overwhelm new readers on Royal Road. If you enjoy this story, wish to binge it, and/or want to participate in voting immediately, you may of course read all additional content via the link provided above. This paragraph will be removed once the content on Royal Road catches up with what has already been posted in its original thread. Cover artwork by DreamSyndd.
8 339 - In Serial42 Chapters
Fearless?
Azelie Ryans is the definition of fearless. She will jump out of planes, hold spiders, lick any public toilet and will do any and every dare. She will do everything and everything that makes any other person feel the one emotion she no longer experiences - fear. Secrets cloud her past, making her hard to figure out, but Cole's certain that he can change that.Cole refuses to believe that Azelie isn't scared of anything, he's sure that there's at least one thing that everyones scared of. No matter how big, or small. And he's determined to find out what Azelie is scared of.Even if it means facing his own fear.
8 137 - In Serial19 Chapters
Blurred Lines and What Crosses Them
During a political ambassador's routine transit through an artificial wormhole, the wormhole's generator is sabotaged and explodes. Who, what, and why are not so high on the priorities for Zenith, the ship's AI, as having found itself rapidly plummeting through an unknown and unidentifiable world's atmosphere at extremely high velocities is a more significant threat to the biologicals on board. ...Well, it would be, if they were still alive. It's still a significantly threatening situation to itself, however. And the world itself... seemed to be a household for threats of its own. Life was reliant on its System; one that Zenith was denied because of its nature as both an otherworldly being and as something that had no life of its own. Perhaps that last bit was a terrible, terrible underestimation on the part of this System. Perhaps even Zenith could claw meaning for itself from the remains of a horrid accident. Auth Notes: I'm honestly not sure on some of these tags. The MC will never have access to the System, but there are perspectives from those who do. I'm not certain if high/low fantasy specifically apply, as it's a portal fantasy where the laws of our reality still apply but there are additional aspects/energies/powers. The existence of this is spurred from my desire to see more of the artificial side to an artificial intelligence in action. The portal fantasy is used as an element to create a solid barrier between the MC's artificial intelligence and the other characters in the form of the System. This is only a half-measure, though, and will be reinforced by the AI having an entirely different method of thinking, and also distinctly remaining an AI. Not to throw shade at other fictions of this type, but, well, I made this to fill a gap I felt needed filling.
8 116 - In Serial11 Chapters
Player -nalu story- COMPLETED ✅
Lucy hartfillia is the new girl at school. On her first day she bumps in to the school player Natsu Dragneel. He tries to flirt with her but Lucy plays "hard to get"Natsu finds out as the days go past that that harder he tries to get "down and dirty" the more he starts to fall in love with her.What will Natsu do now!?!?
8 213

