Free Web NovelChapter 2433: Chapter 2434: Time and Fate
Both sides excel in the Force of Fate, thus even though Gladys is more powerful, she remains in a stalemate with the other party; even Agunas’s joining can’t break this deadlock.
The dark arrow in his hand is aiming at the opposing position. Feng Yuan can feel that the other side is also gathering energy for the strongest strike. With a slight curl of his lips, Feng Yuan slowly adjusts the arrow’s aim, as visible energy bands converge onto the arrow—an obvious manifestation of highly concentrated energy.
With the appearance of bands, Feng Yuan’s energy charging speed has been further enhanced. At the same time, Gladys discovers that her ability to interfere with and guide the disaster is rapidly declining.
Those guys... No! No, this interference is coming from behind, Feng Yuan?!
Without looking back, and based on Agunas’s reaction, Gladys quickly identifies the source of the anomaly. It surprises her; Feng Yuan is influencing the power of the disaster.
Could it be that he is also using the power of the disaster to launch a counterattack against those people? Gladys thinks to herself but doesn’t ask. What she needs to do now is to buy time for Feng Yuan, no matter what he intends to do, he is their best chance to break through this defense line.
With a cold hum, Agunas’s two doppelgängers appear from behind it. Before entering the Imperial Timeline, it had already retracted all its doppelgängers. Unlike conventional doppelgänger ultimate moves, Agunas’s doppelgängers resemble two of itself from different timelines, relatively independent but belonging to the same entity.
Due to its uniqueness, Agunas’s doppelgängers directly enhance its combat power. After all, the doppelgängers do not sap the original body’s power, causing the main body’s strength to diminish; instead, they inversely boost the main body’s actual combat capability.
The three Agunas stand in three different directions around Feng Yuan, and with a wave of a little claw, the Power of Time descends, forming a solid time barrier. The attacks from Mordan soldiers create ripples on the time barrier.
"Although I don’t know what you plan to do, you better hurry. I can feel that the force gathering over there is extraordinary."
Gladys warns Feng Yuan, eyeing the nearby strike team. Although she can’t guess what the soldiers forming the array intend to do, she suspects they are preparing a formidable combined attack that could twist even time itself.
"No worries."
Carefully aiming, Feng Yuan confidently says as he senses the energy converging to threshold, his eyes narrowing, releasing the grip, the black arrow acts as a dark deathline connecting the longbow and the enemy formation.
The wind stalls for a few seconds, the terrifying disaster force trapped like high-pressure water finally finds a vent, bursting towards the enemy lines. The soldiers have no choice but to hastily unleash their incomplete combined ultimate move.
A black-robed apparition emerges out of thin air, its head bowed, and palms facing the sky. Above its left and right hands hover an hourglass and a clock, time-force roaring. The terrifying disaster power hits a colorless time barrier head-on, solidly absorbing the catastrophic force that could destroy the entire capital.
The clouds that originally shrouded the entire capital are drawn like a tornado towards the point obstructing the arrows. Sand in the hourglass rapidly falls, and the clock’s hands spin fast like fan blades. Both parties’ ultimate moves cancel each other out; if it were the complete disaster power gathered on the plains, this apparition couldn’t have held it back.
Yet, the terrifying disaster power had long dispersed across the entire Mordan region, and even the capital was just a small part of it, allowing them to hold it at bay.
"Do you think I’ll let you block it just like that!"
Before Feng Yuan could act, Gladys dashed forward, divination cards floating at her side, constantly interfered with by the power of time. Though her strength is far from Legendary Level, the card’s power keeps escalating, stopping only when reaching the Sacred Beast Level.
Wagging its tail, Agunas understands what just happened; the apparition didn’t just block their attack—its presence has endowed the area with a special temporal field effect.
Not knowing the details, it’s visible that one effect is akin to the White Wolf Deity’s Coming of the Future. No, that’s wrong; this power is beyond what those people can invoke.
Gazing at the distant palace, Agunas realizes it’s them who’ve intervened.
Inside the Ritual Hall, besides Imperial Lanadi, many high-ranking officials in priestly garb are present, maintaining the City of Time’s power alongside Imperial Lanadi.
This is a special defense measure of the capital; once activated, the time-force envelops the entire capital, endowing all imperial soldiers with future power and negating side effects from ultimate moves while restoring time.
Though the effect is limited to imperial soldiers, Gladys, being of Mordan Clan lineage, taps into the traditional knowledge behind the City of Time, successfully harnessing a portion of its power.
The City of Time can remove the cooldown of ultimate moves but does not change the energy charge time, let alone boost the time attribute ultimate moves used by the soldiers at the front lines.
Using temporal power makes accelerating time attribute ultimate moves difficult, an issue even Feng Yuan can’t easily resolve.
But their goal is to increase their victory odds; the front line isn’t their entire hope. Even understanding their hopes are slim, they refuse to give up.
"Special temporal power domain? Previously masked by the disaster force, I didn’t notice they secretly did this."
Agunas says with a tail wag, looking at Feng Yuan. Even it can’t instantly break this; Feng Yuan glances at Gladys, charging ahead, and says
"Realm Breaker works wonders in fancy battlegrounds like this, but for now, it’s unnecessary."
Feng Yuan naturally sees that Gladys has also borrowed this power, and even skill-wise, she might have an edge. As for what the City of Time does to them?
He doesn’t see it as much trouble; even if issues arise, it’s not a big deal.
The main focus of City of Time’s blessing is boosting soldier strength. But for Feng Yuan and his ilk, such boosts barely affect them. If Feng Yuan weren’t just warning beforehand, he might have surged into the capital’s core already.
Using the City of Time’s power, Gladys ferociously enhances the cards’ strength, only barely managing to keep the cards from exploding.
Disaster power and time power clash, and even Gladys can only choose to sidestep the incoming disaster power, creating considerable trouble for her advance.
However, due to the confrontation, the soldiers in the array cannot extricate themselves, while the strike team, having previously focused their target on Feng Yuan, fails to react as Gladys charges out.
As they realize they need to intercept, Gladys has already created distance, and Feng Yuan, after being freed, attacks alongside Agunas.
Unlike the soldiers in formation, Feng Yuan doesn’t need to maintain the guidance of disaster power. Rather, once the arrow is released, disaster power will naturally target its destination.
"Where there is time, there must be destiny~"
Squinting with a gentle smile, Feng Yuan quietly murmurs, pressing his palms together. An ancient scroll unfurls behind him, a mysterious force expanding outward with Feng Yuan at its center. The strike team, originally planning to break out and support the formation once Feng Yuan ceased his attack, finds their ultimate moves, meant to stop Agunas’s pursuit, unexpectedly thwarted under the mysterious power.
The force of destiny, one that even the Mordan Clan can only superficially utilize, is what Feng Yuan leverages by defining a predetermined end with the destiny power.
This is not a unique effect generated solely by destiny; it holds distinctly domineering traits. Unless broken by special means, within time flow, regardless of evasion, all must inexorably move towards the defined conclusion due to unforeseen incidents.
Time power can achieve similar outcomes, but time power won’t cause unexpected events. When sealing a fatal future, time power only charts a path to a deadly conclusion, rendering any change impossible for entities caught within the Time River. Even if one step succeeds in creating a different future, they face time correction, forcibly aligning with the predetermined status at a new time node.
Sensing the destiny power from behind, Gladys accelerates once more; otherwise, this time, she might again have made her move in vain.
