Ultraman cubs begin to wreak havoc.

The Land of Light has extremely advanced technology; I should go there and try to learn some tricks of the tech tree to bring back to Earth.

So...should we acknowledge them as relatives?

Thinking about this question, Gen Subaru remained silent for a long time before finally shaking his head silently.

Forget it, how much longer do I have to live? Can the Land of Light save me? Maybe not. I never have much hope in this matter, so why bother making such a fuss?

Besides, my body has collapsed, and my so-called bloodline has vanished. Now I am just a lonely ghost who has survived by sheer luck. My only wish now is to return to my homeland. If I can see the rise of a new Nexus at the end of my life, I will be able to rest in peace.

Furthermore, his actions clearly did not comply with the laws of the Land of Light. If he were to become a citizen of the Land of Light, he probably wouldn't be able to act so recklessly. Hmm... right, before going to the Land of Light, he should first fully charge his [Cascade Energy]. If something unexpected happens, he can still fight his way out, if Mr. Tartarus isn't too busy...

No, no, no, it's best not to trouble them with this matter. After all, they represent a 'kingdom'. If we ask them for help, it might cause hostility between the two civilizations, and wouldn't that just be causing trouble for Mr. Tartarus?

However, I shouldn't think of things as so bad. The people of the Land of Light seem quite kind. If I plan carefully, I might be able to bring new reinforcements to Earth in TLT.

Yuan Mao habitually pondered many things, but what interrupted his thoughts was the abnormal spacetime fluctuation. The child looked down in surprise and saw a fist-sized hole of light in his abdomen. This did not cause any pain; it simply existed there.

Furthermore, it was glowing from within, and the hollow interior did not reveal Subaru's body, but seemed to connect to some other place.

Before Genjo could react, he was already suspended in a strange space through the void of light—

A faint golden light shimmered around them, and golden particles of light, like bubbles moving towards the water, floated in the air from bottom to top.

Gen Subaru carefully examined his surroundings. On the other side of this translucent golden light was the universe he had just been in.

But the scenery over there lost its color and turned into a black and white world. At this moment, a sound like a strong wind blew behind Gen Subaru, but Gen Subaru himself did not feel that he was being pushed somewhere.

At this moment, the surrounding environment changed again. Gen Subaru looked around and found a thick stream of light in the distance. Upon closer inspection, he realized that this thick stream of light was different from other light particles. It flowed from top to bottom, and its landing point was too far away to be identified.

Gen Subaru looked up curiously at the top, where there was a black void. Light particles were constantly being born from the center of the void and then falling down. The edge of the void seemed to be absorbing the surrounding light, and collapsed above Gen Subaru.

Suddenly, a sound like the roar of a waterfall came from the center of the cave.

"Welcome to Timefall, new visitor."

180 Subaru - The Beginning of His Birth

Time Waterfall?

While marveling at the wondrous scenery, Gen Subaru recalled where he had heard this term before. It seemed that Zero's golden form had grown in this very place. At the same time, he warily surveyed his surroundings at the sudden appearance of this majestic, low-pitched voice. But there was no one around.

"It's no use, I exist only as sound, I can't see."

"Were you the one who brought me here?"

Gen Subaru asked with some curiosity:

"Is there something you need from me?"

"That's right. You... don't be so nervous. I have no intention of hurting you. Even if I wanted to attack you, I don't have a body that can cause harm."

The owner of the voice said calmly:

"I'd say I'm the guardian of this place. I don't have a name. I was here when I came to my senses, and I've been guarding this place ever since, driven by the will to protect it."

"Then... may I call you the Waterfall Guardian?"

Gen Subaru cautiously asked, and upon hearing the child's words, the mysterious voice paused for a moment before softly saying:

"Just call me the gatekeeper. Guarding the waterfall or something sounds a bit strange. Anyway, to make a long story short, I called you here..."

According to the gatekeeper, someone in the future triggered a massive explosion that destroyed spacetime, which also significantly impacted this place. Fortunately, the cosmic destruction caused by the explosion was abruptly halted, but due to the shockwave, the gatekeeper's body and spirit were separated, and his body was transported to an unknown era.

Previously, Zero was drawn here because of the power of 'Radiance'. The gatekeeper asked him to help him find his body, but Zero was caught up in a series of events and didn't have time to put it on the agenda. So the gatekeeper went to Subaru again because he had a bad feeling.

"Um... Gatekeeper-senpai, Zero only caught your attention because of the power of 'Radiance,' so should I...?"

Listening to the gatekeeper's words, Gen Subaru's eyes gleamed slightly. To be honest, Zero's 'Radiance' power was something he really coveted. It could be said that the 'Radiance' power of time could form a closed loop of power. If he could also have such an ability, he was confident that he could deal with any enemy.

"you have not."

However, the goalkeeper immediately refuted Gen Subaru's idea:

"The reason I noticed you is because you seem to have blown up the spacetime layer more than once. Where did you learn such dangerous moves, you little kid?"

"Ah... I'm sorry, but... well... it's quite useful after all..."

Gen Subaru hadn't expected this answer. For a moment, unsure how to react, he could only lower his head with a subtle expression and softly say:

"So, Senior Gatekeeper, you want me to retrieve your body? I have no problem with that..."

"No, no, no, I hope you can urge Zero to hurry up."

The gatekeeper quickly interrupted Gen Subaru. His body was still in considerable danger. If it weren't for Zero's special 'Radiance' power, he wouldn't have asked Zero for help. Furthermore, although the Light of Nexus was also related to the power of spacetime, the gatekeeper could see that the 'Light of Nexus' inherited by this child was incomplete. To complete it, it would take at least several thousand years. He wasn't so heartless as to let such a child go out and work for him.

"Wait, what do you mean by 'the incomplete Light of Nexus'?"

Upon hearing the gatekeeper's words, Yuan Mao hurriedly asked, as he was indeed quite concerned about this. His predecessors had all said that he needed time to complete and develop himself, but he never understood why he had become "incomplete" when he was fighting well with this "light".

"Didn't you notice? The upper limit of this Nexus Light has been locked. Your current state is not a normal manifestation of Nexus evolution."

The gatekeeper looked at the 'Red Youth Form Nexus' in front of him and said softly:

"Clearly, this 'imperfection' was intentionally created by someone. However, the growth of 'light' is ultimately irreversible, and the 'imperfection' will eventually tend to self-complete. But... given your current state, you probably won't live to see that moment arrive."

The gatekeeper's tone held a hint of regret, but that was all. He guarded the Waterfall of Time, and within the infinite 'past' and 'future' lay countless regrets and tragedies; he was accustomed to them all. So he simply said softly:

"That's good too. At least you don't have to fight anymore. Find a place and enjoy your last moments."

"Um, senior gatekeeper, as far as I know, the Light of Nexus also possesses the ability to manipulate time..."

As for his lifespan, Gen Subaru had already come to terms with it. In Shiori Hiraki's words, he had simply given up. Therefore, compared to that, Gen Subaru was more interested in obtaining knowledge about 'developing time power' from this guardian of the Time Waterfall. After all, the 'spacetime power' he currently possessed was mostly just 'space'.

"Manipulating time is a skill that no one should or should attempt to master."

"what?!"

After refusing Subaru's request, the Guardian calmly said:

"I am very clear about the power of time. Let's assume you have this power. What would you do? Would you undo past regrets or end the life of your enemy ahead of time? These are all possibilities. The timeline will also change because of your actions, causing things that should have been born to disappear. This is no different from time stopping. From a broader perspective, the world will face death."

After saying this, the gatekeeper paused, looked at Gen Subaru, and said:

"Whether it's Noah or Zero, they have mastered the power of time to varying degrees through their own experiences. The former knows the danger of recklessly altering the timeline, while the latter can only use the power of time to affect a very small range of distortions. Other controllers of the power of time also avoid conflict with the main timeline by creating parallel universes and other means. So I haven't interfered with their actions so far."

"Then I will..."

Hearing this, Gen Subaru wanted to say that he could also maintain such standards, but the gatekeeper interrupted him, saying in a cold tone:

“You won’t do that. Although there are a lot of gaps in your ‘time’ in the Timefall, someone like you is not after the false things of parallel worlds. If you control the power of time, sooner or later you will try to distort the development of the main timeline, which I will not allow. So, if you want to control the power of time, you can go to someone else, but you will not get any guidance on the power of time from me.”

After saying this, the gatekeeper paused for a moment, then said softly:

“Yuan Mao, I have no ill intentions towards you. Hmm... as an apology for my rather harsh tone just now, let me give you some advice: go and find your body back. You were already an incomplete being, and now you have lost most of your existence, making you almost an 'unreasonable' existence. If this continues, you may be rejected by the plane, which is not a good thing for you.”

"Wait, senior gatekeeper."

At that moment, Gen Subaru keenly sensed something and tentatively asked:

"You seem to know quite a bit about my situation. May I ask, could you tell me how much about my birth you saw in the Timefall?"

"...If you want to know, I can let you take a look."

The gatekeeper paused for a moment, then said softly:

"But be careful, the Timefall is a place where all the passage of time in the world is gathered. No matter how strong your body is, you will be easily torn apart if you are careless."

"I understand, thank you for your permission, senior."

After saying that, Gen Subaru rushed into the waterfall above, following the gatekeeper's instructions.

Hmm... this thing... is indeed... amazing!

The moment he jumped into the waterfall, Gen Subaru felt immense pressure from all directions. Before he could even adjust to the pressure, he felt a crushing pressure from within his body. He felt like an insect caught in a torrent, being toyed with by the flow of time. Gen Subaru could feel that if he relaxed for even a moment, his body would be crushed into powder.

In that instant, which felt like an eternity, Gen Subaru saw golden particles of light rushing towards him on the torrent. The tiny grains of sand gradually transformed into enormous rocks as they moved forward, crashing into him before exploding and scattering into light particles.

However, Gen Subaru was not knocked unconscious by the explosion. If his condition could be presented as data in the game, then his resistance to explosions would definitely be maxed out.

But after the golden sand exploded, Gen Subaru noticed that his surroundings were changing. He suddenly returned to the time when he was unleashing his power in the Land of Light. But this was not a reversal of time. This... should be a fragment of the past presented according to his memories.

However, this scene was quite realistic, and Gen Subaru could also feel everything that happened back then. Therefore, he began to use it as a benchmark to study himself. After all, his outburst in the Land of Light back then was too outrageous. Now that the scene had been recreated, it would be a real pity if he didn't study it carefully.

Unfortunately, this fragment of the past did not last long, and Subaru's abilities were not powerful enough to find complex answers in such a short time. He could only silently save the data he could remember for the next experiment.

The following fragments of past time are quite interesting. Yuan Mao clearly realized that the 'time' recorded in this time waterfall only included his experiences on field missions, and there were no related memory fragments about his experiences on TLT Earth.

But this is good, it can save a lot of effort. After all, I don't need to recall too much. In just four short years, my memory is not so bad that I can't remember these things.

Soon, a new fragment of the past appeared. Gen Subaru looked at the murky liquid, the floating wires, and the constantly flashing indicator lights. Although he had no memory of it, his body reacted instinctively and his muscles began to twitch slightly.

At that moment, Yuan Mao saw a man in protective clothing appear in the laboratory, pouring a mud-like liquid into the culture chamber he was in. Instantly, a violent chemical reaction erupted in the chamber, with puffs of yellowish-white smoke rising from it. At the same time, the man pulled down a nearby switch, and a surge of current from the circuitry intensified the reaction. Yuan Mao saw himself inside the chamber instinctively struggling under this experiment.

"No, no, no, the bloodline of heroes shouldn't be resisted by such filthy genes for so long. Add more, add more."

The man in the protective suit muttered incoherently, then poured several cans of something that Gen Subaru couldn't understand into the culture chamber. Immediately afterward, the 'experimental subject' inside the chamber went berserk, struggling wildly with a ferocious expression. The brute force even caused cracks to appear all over the surface of the culture chamber.

But the man seemed to have anticipated this, showing no reaction whatsoever. Instead, he continued to observe the surrounding instruments. However, the more he observed, the more disappointed he became. Finally, he clicked his tongue in disgust, pressed the button beside him to stop the current, injected new medicine into the incubation chamber, and then left without looking back.

Then, Gen Subaru saw himself in the cabin gradually give up struggling. It has to be said that this body really did inherit Belial's genes. Even when he was about to die, he still had a villainous expression. Gen Subaru never thought that he could put on such a scary look.

Yes, my past self is about to die.

At this moment, Yuan Mao was acutely aware of this: he was a failed test subject, and had lost all reference value to that man. Therefore, if he was not mistaken, he would die from the drug in the next chamber, and his body would disintegrate into a pile of flesh, which would be disposed of along with the liquid in the chamber.

But the closer it got to this point, the more focused Yuan Mao became, because the fact that he was still alive meant that something incredible must have happened at this stage. However, Yuan Mao still had to complain that his life force was so tenacious. Even after being poisoned like this, he was still not completely dead, and he even started trying to climb out of the cabin by grabbing the wires.