I, the final BOSS of the beta test server!

The preset mental suggestion was quietly triggered.

However, just when Grey had made up her mind and formulated her action plan for this timeline, but had not yet actually started to act.

The next moment.

Gray noticed it clearly.

An indifferent and majestic gaze was coming down from the high platform towards where he was.

"I see, Gray."

"They gave up on confronting me head-on and instead started directly with the people participating in the Holy Scripture."

"You intend to pollute the faith of the people and taint the Holy Grail, born of faith, in order to prevent me from achieving the Seat of Death?"

Following the indifferent voice, Gray raised her head in confusion.

Then, he met the gaze that was descending from the high platform.

Those dark eyes were so familiar, yet so strange.

It has long been engraved deep in Gray's soul. Even after a hundred or a thousand years, Gray will never forget the name of the owner of these dark eyes.

how come?

According to my own attempts, after going back in time... apart from myself, who is protected by fate and independent of the long river of time—

Everyone within the range of the flashback should have their consciousness flashed back together, and lose all memories of their experiences in the previous timeline.

Looking at the black-haired boy on the platform, who did not preside over the opening of the holy sacrifice as in the last timeline, but walked straight towards her, Gray felt her spirit stiffen.

The time reversal she currently possesses cannot, of course, directly affect the entire world. It can only reverse time within a specific area, just as it distorted the Frozen Water Town and the surrounding areas.

Moreover, if a legendary expert were to be in this realm, Gray's time reversal would be ineffective due to the huge gap in rank.

Perhaps only when Gray herself becomes a legend can other legends be included in the scope of time travel.

However, if it was due to the interference of the legendary level, then his time reversal should have been blocked from the very beginning and could not be activated.

But at this moment, in Gray's own perception, the time reversal had clearly been initiated smoothly without any hindrance.

The entire world except for himself has clearly been reset to the node ten minutes ago.

In this case, how could Brother Rast, who should have lost his memory of the last timeline and should have continued to preside over the holy sacrifice, discover himself and even fully understand his plan?

Was it because I stood there thinking for too long this time, seeming out of tune with the enthusiasm of the people around me participating in the holy ceremony, and was noticed by Brother Last?

Brother Rast is the King of the Underworld, and the entire royal city is his domain... He has incredible control over his domain.

Even among the thousands of people participating in the holy ceremony, she could notice such a detail as her momentary distraction... Although it sounds incredible, at this moment, this is the only explanation Gray could find in a split second.

As her mind raced, Gray saw a pale, bony hand falling towards her from above her head.

With just one glance, Gray clearly recognized that it was Rast's brother's hand.

With a dim yellow halo, it was not loud enough, but it cut off all possibilities for Gray to dodge and all chances of survival.

At this moment, since he had not equipped himself with any targeted original texts, once he was caught by this pale hand, his life and death would completely fall into the hands of the other party, and he would not even have the possibility of struggling.

Watching the pale hand slowly falling, Gray's mind raced, and then she gritted her teeth.

"Destiny..."

The clear voice echoed across the square again; it was a young girl speaking.

The words were like spirits, creating ripples in the flow of fate.

The dim light stagnated, time flowed backward, and the noise turned into dead silence.

The scene that had happened once before was repeated at this moment, and the direction of the long river of time was rewritten again, surging towards a farther upstream.

……

I felt the turbulent flow of time beside me gradually slowing down and finally approaching a state of stagnation.

Gray's eyes snapped open.

The wooden board beneath them was shaking repeatedly as they traveled along the steep mountain road, causing Gray's body to sway as well.

What comes into view is a simple horse-drawn carriage.

Outside the window, the scorching sun on the blue sky was not yet high in the zenith, but was rising slowly from the east.

"Little girl——"

"You came to the royal city for the Holy Scripture, too?"

Across the carriage, an old lady with silver hair and a noble temperament spoke gently to Gray.

"You came to the royal city alone?"

"Didn't your parents come with you?"

Ignoring the kind inquiry from the old lady in front of her, Gray took a deep breath and came back to her senses from the situation she had just been in.

Another time trip.

However, this time the time span is no longer the ten minutes that Grey used to go back in time last time.

But -

four hours.

Directly from the point where the Holy Sacrifice officially began, it went back to ten o'clock in the morning four hours ago... At that time, Gray was still in the carriage leading to the royal city from the outskirts of the royal city, and had never actually entered the royal city.

This was Gray's most reasonable guess, though she couldn't confirm it completely.

After receiving the Death Star Cup, the entire royal city became the domain of Rast, the King of the Underworld. He had a meticulous observation of everything within his domain.

It is very likely that his identity had been exposed long ago due to some details, and Last had noticed his existence.

That's why Brother Last was able to make many preparations for me in advance. Maybe he had suspected me a long time ago, but just didn't take direct action.

In that case - let's go back in time to the point where everything had not yet begun.

I haven't even entered the royal city yet.

No matter how amazing the control Brother Last has over the people in the royal city, there is no way they will notice any signs of my arrival.

"Little girl, are you sick?"

"Why do you seem a little startled?"

Seeing Gray's gaze gradually shift from confusion and panic to determination, the old lady opposite spoke with some concern.

However, the gray-haired girl did not respond to the other party's kindness.

Gray stared out the window at the end of the distant plain. The carriage was getting closer and closer, and the towering royal city was already in sight.

She was thinking of a countermeasure quickly in her mind.

Should we abandon this operation on the Holy Scripture and return to the Watchtower for help?

No, the situation on the Broken Coastline is very critical. The forbidden creatures in the Endless Sea are stirring, and a war could break out at any time...

Neither Chief Cecil nor anyone else in the Shore Guardian organization supported their own surplus.

Moreover, except for Chief Cessel himself, even if other companions came to support him, the fate of Brother Last would not change in the slightest.

However, this time the holy book in the royal city is his last chance.

If we allow Brother Last to obtain the Holy Grail and collect two of the three bronze door keys that open the path to godhood, then Brother Last's strength will skyrocket and he will become even more difficult to deal with.

He even doubted whether his time reversal could work on his brother Last.

The most crucial thing is that after absorbing the power of the Holy Grail and the faith of all people, Brother Rast's spirit and soul will inevitably be affected by those powers of faith.

From a pure human being, he transformed into a true "God of Death" who looked down upon all living things and held the power over the underworld and death.

From man to God.

From "he" to "Him".

By then, everything may be irreversible.

And the hope of saving Brother Rast from his wrong path, which was already very slim, will become even slimmer.

and so--

No matter what, I must destroy this holy scripture.

However, how can I hide it from Brother Last after entering the royal city and his territory, so that my plan will not be discovered by him in advance?

As her mind raced, Gray couldn't help but gently support her delicate forehead.

She felt a hint of numbness and fatigue gradually spreading from the depths of her soul.

As the only holder of the long stage of the Destiny Sequence, Grey does have the conceptual ability to rewind time, almost like reloading a save file.

but--

Go back in time and reverse your destiny.

How could she, as the user of such a powerful force that could rewrite the rules, not pay a price?

Rewind the time of all living and dead things in a specific area, while retaining all of your memories...

It means letting your soul relive the entire time travel in a very short period of time.

It's like putting a stone into an aging box for an aging experiment. In just a few minutes, the originally hard rock may be weathered and decayed beyond recognition.

This is the price Grey has to pay to go back in time.

Every time she goes back in time, her soul will be worn down to a certain extent by the accelerated flow of time...

If you only go back a few seconds, the wear and tear is not serious.

But if this span is further increased, the "wear and tear" of the soul will continue to deepen.

Just like many immortals who have experienced a long life and thus forgotten their former humanity... it is very likely that their souls will be damaged, their minds will be damaged, and they may even lose some memories and personality.

At this moment, Gray realized that she might have forgotten some of her memories.

But Gray herself didn't know which part was missing.

However, now is definitely not the time to dwell on this.

Whether you fall into the path of Shura or demons, or experience the wear and tear of time, or forget your memories...

These were the choices Grey had already made, the vows she had made in countless midnight dreams.

Besides——

If only I could also withstand the wear and tear of a long time.

Then, perhaps I could also understand a little bit of what Brother Last experienced as an immortal...

Can you truly empathize with him and understand what Brother Rust is facing, the pain and numbness he is experiencing?

With this thought in mind, Gray ignored the surprised looks of the others in the carriage and suddenly stood up from the carriage.

She had to leave here before the carriage actually entered the royal city.

He must stop the Holy Sacrifice, prevent his brother Last from obtaining the Holy Grail, and hinder the opening of the path to godhood... In other words, sneaking into the royal city is inevitable.

However, perhaps I need to find a more covert way to sneak in.

Perhaps his two previous timeline experiences were because he was too conspicuous when entering the royal city in a carriage, and was inadvertently noticed by his brother Last.

but.

That's when.

Gray noticed that the carriage she was riding in suddenly stopped.

This wasn't a pause caused by realizing he wanted to get off the bus...

Because just a second later, Gray heard the exclamations of the other passengers.

"Is that His Majesty the Wise King?"

"I once had the good fortune to see a portrait of the wise king. If I remember correctly, it was indeed His Majesty Rast."

The passengers' exclamations were mixed with a hint of flattery.

"But why did His Majesty Rast come all the way here to welcome us to the Holy Festival?"

Listening to the puzzled expressions of other passengers.