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Chapter 748: A Thousand Years
Sometimes seconds feel like years. Other times, years feel like seconds.
In Liora’s perception, she seemed to exist in the second scenario.
Each Evolution Point could buy her one second of power within the white light.
In total, she had eighteen seconds to expand its size.
For Ancient Devils, that was enough time for them to accomplish many things.
Unfortunately, that was not the case this time.
Before Liora could even realize it, her consciousness was forcefully pulled away, separating from the white light and landing in the dark void.
Her figure appeared beside the light once more, a trace of reluctance flashing across her face subconsciously.
It took her several seconds before she suppressed her turbulent emotions.
“Sure enough, there is nothing more addictive than the feeling of making progress. Unfortunately, the fuel for that promotion has been consumed.”
Liora summoned her Panel and glanced at her information.
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[True Name: Liora Veythalis Dranthera Vexira…]
[Rank: Ancient Devil (Antiquity)]
[Race: ???, Origin Sea Prototype, Will of the World]
[Throne: Antiquity, Dragon, Time, Space, Life, Death…]
[Imprinting: 5cm]
[Evolution Points: 0]
…
The Evolution Points had been exhausted.
In exchange, the size of the light representing her timeline had grown from 1 millimeter to 5 centimeters.
The increase seemed minuscule, but it was an improvement of fifty times.
Moreover, this increase allowed Liora to discover something else.
Her gaze moved toward the light.
Although it was tiny and difficult to fully evaluate, she could sense that its previous expansion had not occurred in every direction.
Rather, the light seemed to be the beginning of a path, creating a road that cut straight through the darkness.
She had a hunch.
As long as the path became wide and long enough to pierce through the darkness within the void, she would directly reach the peak of the Ancient Devil stage, reaching the Absolute Beginning.
She still had a long way to go before reaching that point.
And to reach it, she needed one thing.
“Evolution Points!” Liora whispered, feeling that the importance of points was even greater than it was before the System’s upgrade.
Granted, she also had some other options.
“I can feel that I can also merge with the light and expand it using my own strength. But without the support of Evolution Points serving as ‘fuel’, the progress is bound to be abysmal.”
“Rather than wasting time like that, it would be more cost-effective to go outside, kill a few Ancient Devils to accumulate Evolution Points and come back.”
Liora’s eyes narrowed, and she made a decision.
She was planning to use this new function to its limit!
Of course, she didn’t put all her hopes on it.
Before leaving, she split off a wisp of her consciousness and fused it with the light, causing a tiny figure to appear and continue paving the path.
Just as she had expected, the progress was countless times slower, barely any faster than practicing like other Ancient Devils and countless times slower than when she had the assistance of the Evolution Points.
Liora could only hope that she would progress faster once her strength increased further.
Thinking of this, she no longer stayed in the dark void.
As her mind stirred, the vast majority of her consciousness was pulled out, with only a tiny wisp remaining fused with the light.
—
When Liora reemerged in reality, she found herself standing in the River of Time.
The phantom of an illusory river flashed within her pupils as she observed everything that had happened while she was missing.
She had already sensed the changes while inside the System’s space.
Upon returning to reality, she understood them even more clearly.
Her imprints had been forcefully inserted into the past before her birth, existing just like any other imprints.
In total, Liora’s timeline had extended one thousand years further into the past.
“Before its upgrade, the System’s abilities were at most at the Ancient Devil level. Ancient Devils, including me, could mimic them with some effort.”
“After its transformation, the System has already touched upon the level of a Prince of the Demon World.”
In her opinion, only such a being could possibly change the timeline without suffering any backlash.
Moreover, not just any being of that level could do so.
For example, even with the help of the Cosmic Universe, Liora was currently unable to manipulate the timeline like that.
Only beings that had mastered time could.
For example…
A Prince of the Demon World!
“Interesting…” Liora whispered with a smile.
“It seems that the Evolution System has an even greater connection to the Demon World than I originally thought.”
However, that was a matter for later.
For now, what she had to do was “hide her tracks.”
With her current forceful imprinting method, every Prince of the Demon World could see that there was something wrong with her.
After all, her timeline before her birth lacked any continuity, as though she had appeared out of nowhere.
As long as someone investigated her, they would immediately suspect that something was wrong.
Thankfully, the way to conceal her peculiarity was simple: all she had to do was alter the past just like any other Ancient Devil.
But with the System leading the way, it was now many times easier.
“The vast majority of the backlash brought by the River of Time is because Ancient Devils don’t exist in the past and have to ‘smuggle’ themselves into it.”
“However, I already exist in the past.”
“All I have to do is change my identity a little.”
Thinking of this, Liora glanced at the River of Time behind her.
Under her control, several branches extended from her Throne.
They dove into the illusory waters, subtly stirring the past.
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In the depths of the Demon World, a lone figure stood with its eyes closed.
Suddenly, its eyelids fluttered before they parted, revealing an illusory river.
The most “ancient” of Liora’s imprints had awakened.
With a step, it left the Demon World behind it, entering the Origin Sea and diving into its depths.
Countless worlds passed by it.
Some were lower-level, while others were medium-level. Occasionally, a higher-level world could be seen.
Yet Liora did not stop to take a closer look at them.
It was only a while later that she finally stopped in front of a ruined world.
Her eyes flashed.
“This is it,” she said, and her body transformed into a stream of light.
It easily tore through the world’s membrane and entered the devastated world.