Chapter 322: Teacher and Disciple (2)

Chapter 322: Teacher and Disciple (2)

Everyone on the continent... no, all life, or all existence, is time-dependent. Every existence is bound by time and is based on time. Life is about getting time, and death is the end of that given time. Therefore, time is an absolute bond that entangles even the smallest natural object...

Epherene was not included in the providence of nature, as she was not subject to time, nor constrained. She was a mutant drifting away from the line of time that no one else could escape from. She belonged to interval, not time.

The beginning of that interval was the moment Sophien's Regression entered her. And the end of that interval was... the operation of the Lighthouse. In other words—

The destruction of the continent. An end existed, and Epherene was repeating the time between the beginning and the end of that interval infinitely. You know, like the repeat button on a music player. Epherene had already spent decades alone.

Rustle—

She was somewhere in the empire. A fetid wind blew through the city center, sending a pile of newspapers fluttering around her ankles. Epherene lifted one with only a glance.

[Commander of the Imperial guard, Deculein, on the verge of being kicked out.]

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