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Therefore, what he was using at this moment was another ability of the "Destiny" sequence -

"Life Rings"

This is a time ability that is not aimed at the entire world, but only at Cecil himself, a single individual, so the consumption when using it is much less.

The specific effect of this skill is actually very simple.

In the soul of every living being that has the concept of "life" are engraved the age and years that have passed since its birth, like the circles of "annual rings" that appear on the cross-section of a tree after it has been cut down.

This is proof of the existence of living things to this day, and it is also the embodiment of the concept of "lifespan".

What the "Life Rings" grant to the user is the ability to move the already completely solidified rings according to their own wishes.

If the annual rings are turned forward, the user will be rejuvenated and his physical condition will temporarily return to his youth.

If the growth rings are turned backwards, the user will grow faster, skip life stages, and obtain a more mature body in the future in advance.

Let the old man, whose body functions are close to decay and exhaustion, and who has great difficulty in moving and can only stay in bed for a long time, regain the strong body of his youth.

It allows the young boy, who is still young and immature and whose body has not yet fully developed, to directly enter the peak state of middle age.

Allowing the user to reach their peak state during combat, regardless of their stage of life... This is the most common use of the "Life Rings", and is closer to a purely auxiliary skill.

Compared to Gray's previous abilities, "Stand Still" and "Time Rewind," it has lower costs, but the upper limit is also far different.

Even if Cecil used it now, it wouldn't be enough to close the huge gap in combat power between the Broken Coast...

That's how it should be.

……

With the passing of time and twisted fate, Cecil's face became increasingly older.

Although Cecil had already shown signs of old age, with his hair streaked with gray, his movements and expressions still carried the majesty and agility of a lion, filling those who saw him with awe, knowing that he was still in his prime, at the end of his prime.

Just like the lion king who is showing signs of old age but has not yet been defeated, the power of time has not been able to defeat his pride. He still has the strength to guard his territory and tribe and tear the throats of all invaders.

But at this moment, Cecil was really starting to age at a speed visible to the naked eye. The last strand of black hair disappeared, leaving only a pure pale head... His waist and back were no longer straight and strong, but slowly hunched over, and his old face was full of wrinkles.

If Cecil was just a lion king who had just walked down the mountain but still had a long way to go downhill, then at this moment he was an old elephant who had left the herd alone, quietly crawling in the elephant grave made of the bones of his fellow elephants, waiting for death to come.

Behind him, the once brilliant sun gradually dimmed and receded. No longer as blazing and intense as the midday sun, it was visibly weakening, its light barely perceptible.

Not far away, Noah frowned slightly, unable to understand the purpose of Cecil's action.

He knew that Cecil would not sit still and wait for death. The "Library of Fools" originally came from the gravekeepers, and Noah would not be surprised at what powerful cards were hidden in it. Cecil's desperate fight would be extremely dangerous.

As for the appearance of the "life rings", it did not surprise Noah.

However, Cecil should have turned his life forward, returning to his youth, with all his body functions at their peak... Although Noah did not think that such an improvement could make up for the huge gap of four to one, it was still a positive increase.

But at this moment, Cecil chose the completely opposite path.

In the spiritual world vision that every legend can open, Cecil's spiritual manifestation is already extremely dense, with rings engraved one after another... representing the annual rings of his current life span of nearly a thousand years.

Instead of being pushed forward, reducing the number of growth rings and returning to youth, it has not been pushed forward.

On the contrary, the age is rotating in a clockwise direction, constantly adding up and becoming more and more complicated.

In fact, the speed at which the annual rings were stacked was constantly accelerating, as if in just a few seconds, Cecil's body had already experienced endless years of aging.

His body was getting older and older. Even the word "old man in his twilight years" was not enough to describe his current physical condition. It should be said that he was a half-dried skeleton buried in the grave, and it was difficult to tell what he looked like in his prime.

And around Cecil, the originally brilliant sun gradually dimmed.

The corona gradually dissipates and decays until it completely collapses and disappears.

finally.

The last ray of sunlight was also taken away by the eternal darkness.

The scorching sun that Cecil transformed into, the huge furnace that emitted light and heat all the time, was extinguished.

Only the core of the sun remained, the illusory core of a star made of pure metal.

Hanging alone in the dark sea, it is like a dark dead star silent in the endless starry sky, drifting in the deepest part of the dark side of the universe, making eternal darkness and coldness the main theme of this silent world.

"There is no option to rejuvenate yourself and return to your peak form."

"Instead, it accelerates the passage of one's own life and makes one age on one's own initiative?"

Noah looked at the dark sea with vigilance. The last ray of sunlight gradually faded away. Cessel, whose life energy and the pressure of the sun had weakened to the extreme, felt even more puzzled.

If this trend continues, he and others won't even have to take action. Just wait a few more minutes and Cecil's own life will come to an end. He will die of old age without any external force.

But, at the same time.

However, an inexplicable premonition flashed through his mind.

At first, it was just a tiny alert, which seemed insignificant in such a legendary battlefield, but soon, the tiny seed quickly sprouted and eventually grew into a towering tree, enveloping Noah's entire soul.

It's not just Noah, there are other legends hidden throughout the sea.

The Black Dragon, the King of the Iron Cross, who revived dragon blood to the point where it was indistinguishable from a true ancient dragon...

These powerful forbidden creatures, all with their legendary beast instincts or so-called intuition, vaguely sensed that something extremely terrible was about to happen.

But no matter how vigilant they are, they can never understand the true source of this sense of crisis.

……

On a rocky beach several thousand meters away from the actual battlefield, Last sat on the rocks, looking at everything that was happening on the battlefield.

At this moment, his life force was so weak that it was no different from that of an ordinary small beast. In addition, he was quite far away from the battlefield and Cecil took the initiative to divert the attention of the combatants. Therefore, all the legends participating in the battle did not notice any trace of Rast.

Among all the living beings present, only Rast, who was watching from afar, saw through the true meaning of Cecil's action.

The long sequence is a way to simulate the laws of the world with the power of the human mind.

The so-called gods are the manifestation of the end of this long stairway to godhood. The powers held by the true gods are all the embodiment of a corner of the world's rules. For example, the long step of the "God of Death" sequence holds the rule of "death", and the long step of the "Abundance" sequence holds the law of "life" corresponding to "death".

The same goes for Cecil's power.

His long-order sequence "Sun" is a simulation and analysis of the shining sun in the sky, or the celestial body called "star", and its existence in the world according to the rules and laws.

Although it is only a simulation and analysis of the principles of stellar composition, the power that the legendary Cessel can actually exert is not even one trillionth of the power of a real star in the real world, but even so, it is already powerful and unique enough.

As for Cecil's unique solar domain as a legend, it is a "pseudo-star" simulated in his spiritual world using his own mental imagery and mental power after analyzing the composition of stars.

It exists in the gap between fantasy and reality, and is a product reflected by the landscape of the mind. Although it is illusory, it can interfere with reality... Its internal structure and form of existence are no different from a real star.

At this moment, under the super-accelerated "Life Rings", both Cecil's own physical lifespan and the stars simulated in his mental world are evolving at an accelerated rate.

From the prime of life, which is full of vitality, to the end of the life cycle, the end of everything.

So--

When a huge star that was once extremely hot and powerful finally enters its twilight years after passing the stable and peaceful main sequence stage of its life cycle, what will ultimately greet this star?

This is a question that no one in this era, in the Sixth Epoch, can answer, not even an ancient legend like Noah who has lived for tens of thousands of years.

However, in the not too distant future, in the world where Rast lives—

This question is printed in the general education textbook, and even elementary school students who have only a little interest in astronomy can easily answer it.

This is the limitation of the times and an insurmountable cognitive gap.

However, in this ignorant and uncivilized age——

This old man named Cecil, however, relied on his own mental imagery and spirit to simulate and deduce the end that no one had ever seen before—

The celestial bodies called stars perform their final performances in the twilight of their lives.

……

"After this battle on the Broken Coast, no more legends will walk the land of the entire Western Continent."

"But that doesn't mean peace. Quite the opposite... Without the suppression of the most powerful, the world will only become more chaotic and turbulent. Every inch of safe land, every opportunity for survival, and every resource will have to be fought for at the cost of blood and bones."

"But I really like the future you described. I like it very much."

The sea breeze carried Cecil's voice, which was so old that it was difficult to distinguish, and echoed in Rast's ears.

"So, we must protect it."

"Little Gray, and Luster—"

"Protect that beautiful world where even the most insignificant mortal can smile with happiness."

Under the dim sky, in the dark ocean that was as dead and cold as the deep space of the universe, a ray of starlight suddenly shone.

At the same time, the core of the star, which was manifested by the old man's mental image and made of pure steel, suddenly collapsed.

A light far brighter and hotter than before burst out from the steel metal core of the star.

That is the eternally burning star, its final swan song at the end of its life.

It is also the most brilliant firework in the entire universe.

Its name is——

Supernova Explosion

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This is the brilliance of millions of suns shining at the same moment.

It is also the most extreme explosion and the most fiery bloom among all the possibilities within the observable universe.

Even if the "supernova explosion" before his eyes was just a simulation created by Cecil using his legendary mental power, a fantasy born from the soul -

But when the scenery of the spiritual world is projected into reality, its power is reduced by a trillion times compared to real stars, but it is still enough to make the mountains and seas tremble.

In the twisted fate, time is constantly accelerating, and the already extremely complicated life rings rotate over and over again, constantly etching the layers of time imprints on them.

In that world of mental images conceived by fantasy—

The process that originally took millions or tens of millions of years to complete can be compressed into tens of seconds, or even a few breaths.

Then, the outbreak.

At this moment, the entire dark sky was illuminated as bright daylight.

Noah's expression finally changed.

Not only him, but also the huge black dragon in the depths of the distant ocean let out a deafening roar.

Wings forged from black scales stretched out, blocking out the sun. Every flap sent thousands of tons of seawater rushing into the sky, stirring up a storm...

Above the sky, a long scarlet river formed by blood and bones also disappeared in an instant. It was the domain of the legendary King of the Iron Cross, a kingdom of flesh and blood condensed from the flesh and blood of countless people it had devoured.

Although they didn't understand how Cecil in the corona managed to do all this, at this moment, the instinct of the legendary creatures to seek profit and avoid harm finally overcame their bloodthirsty nature... They all began to flee into the distance.

However, at the current time point——

Whether it was escaping or defending... it was all too late.

With the stellar core made of pure steel as the origin, the corona, which had been suppressed to the extreme, lost its restraint and was suddenly released and expanded.

Within a few breaths, the illusory glorious corona expanded to thousands of times its original size, and was even expanding further.

All the matter that made up that star was thrown outward in the explosion at this moment -

After iron, whether it is gold, silver, platinum, chromium... all heavy metal elements were born in such a brilliant bloom, and then scattered to the entire world, forming the foundation of this material world.

The star, freed from its constraints, expanded without limit. It was only a few meters high when Cecil first released his solar field, but now it expanded in an instantaneous explosion, as if it were a real mountain, hanging above the dark sea level, representing the battle between the earth and the ocean.

The gushing brilliant corona stirred up a torrent of glory, creating countless whirlpools that engulfed the towering ancient trees, the howling black dragon of the moon, and the flesh-and-blood kingdom of the King of the Iron Cross.

In the instantly evaporating seawater, every molecule of the Black Dragon and the King of the Iron Cross was exposed to the scorching impact, and these majestic legendary creatures also let out shrill screams.

Divine factors rise from their bodies, trying to compete with the all-consuming stellar corona.

However, it is ineffective.

This was the final cry of a supergiant star, the most violent explosion ever recorded in the entire universe.

In the presence of such a brilliant celestial body—

Whether it's the black dragon with wings covering the sky, or the king with the iron cross... these mythical creatures that once reigned supreme in the Age of Gods and were worshipped as totems by early human tribes are now as humble as ants.

Unable to resist even a single breath... the glorious tsunami would incinerate everything.

Whether it was the pitch-black ancient dragon or the king of the Iron Cross, their movements were frozen in the glory.

The supernova explosion had already turned this place into a vacuum, so the magnificent bodies of these legendary creatures did not burn violently, but instead glowed with a fiery red luster, like burning charcoal.