Chapter 109: Golden Years
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 109: Golden Years
[Golden Years]
[Quality: Divine Artifact]
[Type: Greatsword]
[Requirement: Lv.100]
[Strength Bonus: 100 Billion]
[Moment: You may record a single instance of the current moment and grant it one stack of "Space-Time Stability Anchor." When a contradiction arises between yourself and the surrounding space-time, priority will be given to locking your state to the moment protected by the "Space-Time Stability Anchor."]
[Severing: You may consume any history to trigger "Time Severing," dealing substantial damage to the current timeline.]
[Transcendence: You may consume any history to launch a Trans-Dimensional Slash, simultaneously striking the target’s past, present, and future. Power is determined by the amount of history consumed.]
[A Divine Artifact born from the passage of time, forged by a long-vanished Golden Age. Theoretically, its damage potential has no upper limit.]
[Exchange: 1 Million Achievement Points]
After a quick scan of the information, Xie Bai clicked the exchange option.
["Golden Years" exchanged successfully!]
[Remaining Achievement Points: 20,000]
In the next heartbeat, a massive golden greatsword appeared in Xie Bai’s hands.
The first thing to catch her eye was the platinum clock set into the center of the blade, with golden gears sprawling out from the timepiece to cover the entire weapon.
Click... clack...
As the gears ground forward, the stalled clock in the center began to tick once more.
["Moment" activated successfully. Current moment recorded. Current moment granted one stack of "Space-Time Stability Anchor."]
Feeling a layer of protection envelop her, Xie Bai held Golden Years horizontally before her.
Griping it with one hand, she flipped open a page of the Book of Truth.
[Branch History]
She had to admit, Falcant was an honest man.
In the branch history he provided, he had even recorded the method for finding his hiding place.
By using an attack targeted at the timeline itself, one could slice a gap into the very concept of history, allowing entry into the Historical Interlayer recorded by Falcant.
As for how to launch an attack against the timeline, Falcant had documented dozens of methods.
The most reliable way was to find his lost Divine Artifact, Golden Years, and directly consume a segment of history to trigger Time Severing.
Though she didn't know which obscure timeline Golden Years had been lost to, Xie Bai could simply exchange for it through the Achievement Shop, forcibly pulling the blade from some distant timeline into her own space-time.
"Come to think of it, how much history does it take to tear open the Historical Interlayer? Whatever, I'll just wing it."
With that, Xie Bai extracted a complete branch history from the Book of Truth and stuffed it directly into the clock at the center of Golden Years.
The clock began to spin rapidly, its surrounding gears whirring in unison. Within moments, it erupted with a flash of pure, blinding white light.
[Time Severing Lv.102]
Guided by this surging power, Xie Bai raised Golden Years and swung it with all her might at the space in front of her.
CLANG—!
As if striking solid iron, Golden Years recoiled violently in Xie Bai’s grip.
As the dazzling white light faded, a golden rift appeared in mid-air.
Unlike a Space-Time Rift, the golden fissure before her was an abstract construct opened directly upon the fabric of history.
The moment the rift appeared, the surrounding environment began to warp and distort to varying degrees.
Only Xie Bai, standing at the center, remained unaffected.
["Space-Time Stability Anchor" triggered. Your "Moment" ignores space-time distortion.]
As the world in Xie Bai’s eyes spiraled toward chaos, the golden rift expanded past her body.
Just as it was about to pull her in completely, the rift suddenly hitched in mid-air.
Simultaneously, a dungeon interface appeared before her.
[Historical Interlayer Lv.300]
[Difficulty: Dusk]
[Entry Requirement: Lv.300 (Ignored)]
[A mysterious space that cannot be found through normal means, where countless histories have settled. Created by the God of Time.]
"Of course, I still have to go through the formalities."
After her brief critique, Xie Bai clicked the "Enter" option on the interface.
The golden rift swept through her, transporting her into a vast expanse where the concepts of "up" and "down" did not exist.
Relying on her status as a True God, Xie Bai quickly grasped the abstract nature of this space and found a place to stand, stabilizing her body.
Her "foothold" was a golden river composed of historical fragments. Unbound by the constraints of space, it flowed wantonly through the vast void.
Where Xie Bai stood was merely a single branch of this river. Looking up, she could see other branches flowing in every direction; looking closer, she could glimpse the individual historical fragments that made up the current.
"It’s got a bit of an Inception vibe, though the sense of weight here is much more pronounced..."
Once she had adapted to the directionless nature of the Historical Interlayer, Xie Bai used the power of Boundless Floating Light to peer further into the distance.
Aside from the Great River of History flowing in the center, there was only an endless, illusory void, though she could faintly sense a golden radiance emanating from far away.
"In a place like this, where would Falcant be hiding..."
The words had barely left her lips when she felt a tremor beneath her feet.
"Hm? What’s happening? Did I disturb this space?"
Before Xie Bai could react, a heavy voice echoed from all directions.
"Young lady who bears the Blessing of Space-Time, what business brings you here?"
Tracing the source of the voice, Xie Bai realized that the entity speaking to her was the very River of History flowing around her.
To be precise, it was the true master of this space.
[God of Time, Falcant Lv.300]
The Falcant of now was entirely different from the image Xie Bai had seen in the branch history.
If the Falcant in the branch could be described as a golden-robed man possessing a "human persona," then the original body Xie Bai saw now was an abstract collective composed entirely of "divine essence."
Much like the Divine Body of Silence she had encountered in the Silent Ruins, the true form of a True God in the main timeline was far more massive and abstract than their human projections in the branches.
In truth, the divine form in the main timeline was the actual essence of a True God; any forms appearing in branch histories were merely human personas projected from that divine essence.
"I didn't expect Falcant’s true body to be even more spectacular than the thousand-meter Silent corpse. If he hadn't spoken, I would've thought he was just the map background..."
Falcant showed no sign of displeasure at Xie Bai’s playful commentary.
On the contrary, he felt a deep sense of intrigue toward this uninvited guest who had broken into the Historical Interlayer.
She had not reached the level of a True God, yet she possessed the status of one, along with power sufficient to threaten a deity.
Furthermore, she carried a complete Space-Time Blessing—something even he, the God of Time, did not possess.
Beyond all that, Falcant sensed an extremely familiar power within Xie Bai.
A terrifying power etched so deeply into history that he could never forget it.
"Wait... this is—!?"
In an instant, the entire River of History erupted in an unprecedented upheaval.
Before Xie Bai could process what was happening, the surrounding river accelerated beyond physical limits, surging away from her in a flash.
By the time Xie Bai realized what had occurred, a vacuum zone tens of light-years wide had opened up between her and Falcant.