Chapter 176: Otherworldly Heavenly Anomaly…

After so long the big reveal is finally here… haha.

“Kranos! Do you not wish to know what an anomaly is and why they call me one?”

“Do you truly believe it is simply because of my strange powers?”

Kranos’s strikes paused slightly the moment he heard Kathryn’s words.

He was curious.

There was also a particular group of immortal people who were curious about what an anomaly was.

Having heard the mysteries of an anomaly for a while, the curiosity had already been building for some time.

Seeing Kranos’s attacks pause slightly, Kathryn was overjoyed.

’Kranos! Don’t worry, all I need is a few minutes so the Soul Healing Fruit can completely take effect and I will seize full control of your soul!’

Once the time is up, I will have no need to keep speaking to you.

However, for now, she knew she could only answer Kranos.

“What do you mean by… anomaly?” Kranos’s cold voice rang out into the skies.

Hearing his words, Kathryn paused slightly, taking as much time as she could.

But she knew that she could not take too long because Kranos would begin suspecting something was wrong.

After a while of silence, she finally spoke up.

“We are called anomalies, but we go by a couple of other names.”

“The reason anomalies are marked by the Heavenly Dao and are destined for endless pursuit is because…”

“Exactly as it says, we have gone against fate and the heavens itself.”

“What?” Hearing her vague words, Kranos was puzzled. He felt Kathryn was still being mysterious and unwilling to reveal the complete truth.

Coming to this line of thought, Kranos began accelerating the cracks within his Time and Dao Palaces.

Feeling the dreadful aura spread out once more, Kathryn frowned and quickly spoke up.

“I’m still explaining! Just be patient!”

As she spoke, she let out a faint sigh and slowly began speaking.

“There are multiple kinds of anomalies. However, I only know about three.”

“Otherworldly Heavenly Anomalies. These are travelers from other worlds who take over the bodies of others within this world and are marked by the Heavenly Dao.”

“The second kind involve powerful cultivators seizing the bodies of others and taking over them.”

“As for the third kind, and also one of the most terrifying kinds, which I belong to…”

She paused. Then her playful voice once again resounded.

“That’s because I… regressed!”

Boom.

Kranos felt as though he was struck by lightning.

His mind buzzed and everything around him turned blurry.

Regressed?

Also, the concept of Otherworldly Heavenly Anomalies…

Wasn’t that basically describing his reincarnation?

Why wasn’t he marked then?

What was so different about him?

Was it because he could control time?

Kranos felt there were so many things he couldn’t understand. He felt he had touched upon some sort of secret about himself.

Something that should never have been told.

Not to him… and definitely not to the readers.

Kranos just remained silent as Kathryn continued speaking.

“As for how long I regressed? In my previous life, I reached a very high cultivation, one not many people might reach in their lives.”

The image of the Empress from before surfaced in her mind.

Facing the calamities… that was a memory from her past life.

“After being betrayed, I died. However, by then I had already experienced many things. By using a few treasures and a secret technique I cultivated, I was able to regress so far and become an anomaly.”

“With my knowledge of the future, I can easily access so many things that very few know about.”

Hearing her words, Kranos was filled with immense shock.

“Is that…”

“Yes, Kranos… yes. That is the reason I chose to make you my chess piece, because I know how important you are. However, I didn’t expect you had the ability to control time. If I had known, I would have been hasty with my preparations.”

Kathryn’s words were filled with regret. However, things were not so unfortunate. In the end, she had still won.

Kranos’s heart shook at her words.

He understood now the reason why he did not control time in Kathryn’s timeline.

That was because then he had not reincarnated into the previous Kranos.

The whole situation immediately became complicated.

Did someone reincarnate him?

For him to be in this specific timeline and not the previous one, there should be someone at play.

But why and how?

Kranos felt complex emotions.

And just what is the Time System?

Where does it come from?

Previously, Kranos felt he was someone’s pawn. Now that feeling just grew stronger.

There was definitely someone behind the scenes controlling everything.

The person who gave him the technique and everything else, along with the Time System.

The mysterious figure behind the scenes pulling everything together like a piece of paper.

The enigma.

A wave of dread filled Kranos’s heart.

Since he was already a pawn to that person, was there still a chance of fighting against fate?

He hated being shackled.

Since the person chose Kranos as a pawn, Kranos had a thought.

’If I choose to kill myself and destroy the chessboard, will the mastermind stand by and watch everything play out?’

Kranos was itching to give it a try.

There were two results. One, he would see who was controlling everything behind the scenes before his demise.

The second was that he would still discover the identity of the person, but he would end up living. Either way, Kranos would still achieve his goal.

As thoughts continued to glow in Kranos’s mind, the destruction of his Time and Dao Palace became more unstable.

Seeing this, Kathryn’s expression changed drastically.

“Kranos, I have told you everything. You cannot kill me.”

“If you do, then this world is doomed. You can never survive the twelve calamities. Even I only lived long enough to encounter the eighth calamity!”

Kranos was stunned hearing her words. However, he could no longer pause the destruction of his Time and Dao Palace.

It had become too unstable.

At this moment, the time Kathryn had been waiting for finally passed.

Kranos was finally under her control.

Just as he was trying to stop the destruction of his Time and Dao Palace, he felt his movement freeze.

His body was no longer under his control.

“What?” Kranos’s gaze turned sharp.

What exactly was wrong?

It only took a moment for him to realize.

“You!” Kranos had blindly trusted Kathryn once more, thinking she would keep her words, not knowing she was plotting something else.

“That’s right, Kranos! You are now completely under my control! Now you can no longer rebel against me. I command you to deactivate…”

Just as Kathryn’s voice reached this point, she was stunned.

Kranos could no longer be controlled.

Cracks appeared faintly in the skies and soon a dreadful aura permeated throughout the surroundings.

“What’s going on?” Kathryn was stunned. She tried giving Kranos the commands to pause his attacks but realized he could no longer pause the explosion.

It was already too late.

Her eyes widened as a wave of time distortion and a mana whirlpool spread out everywhere in the world.

Above in the skies, the eye finally caught sight of the disturbance.

In its gaze, a faint look of disbelief surfaced.

Glancing around, the eye stared deeply at the scene as, in a bang, Kranos was shattered along with Kathryn and everything else.

The whole planet collapsed without hesitation, erasing Kranos, Kathryn, and everyone else within the entire world.

Luka, who was still racing out of the Immortal World, was also caught in the blast. However, at that moment, a gap mistakenly appeared in space and dragged him into it, taking him to a different location entirely.

Everyone else was not so lucky.

Kathryn’s heart was filled with anger as she felt the explosion engulf her.

She knew that no matter what she did, she could not survive an attack of this magnitude.

Time passed and everything slowly grew silent.

There was no ripple in the void.

The planet had become a thing of the past.

This was practically the end of Kranos’s journey.

He had tried to control time like the others but had ultimately failed just like them.

It was time for a different time cultivator to begin his journey. After all, there was nothing special about Kranos, right?

Being chosen by the entity might have just been his luck. Having wasted that chance, it should fall onto someone else.

Given a second chance to rewrite death and fate, what could Kranos possibly do? How would he escape this?

There was no need thinking about it. He couldn’t.

The highest Kranos could regress was twelve hours. By then, with how strong Kathryn was, the same scene would only repeat itself.

Everything slowly grew silent, and the aftereffects of the death of most geniuses of the new generation were being revealed on the surface.

Feeling the trace of his son’s aura vanish, a horrible pressure leaked out from Raphael.

His origin body was descending onto the pitiful Immortal World.

Since the Immortal World could not keep his son alive, what was the point of it surviving?

It was not just him.

There was a particular mysterious entity who cultivated the essence of nothingness.

Sensing the death of Aurora, a similar dreadful and horrifying aura leaked out from her.

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