Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix-Chapter 1522: Time

"We have quite the grudge since we had to watch you fight in a very slow motion... we didn’t want to watch you suffering frame by frame, even though some people believe that you deserved that. Since it was the result of your own choices," Seara added.

"Nonsense, how do you expect me to suffer the results of my own very choices?" Rain asked while he was looking at Lonos. "You can’t use logic here."

Lonos was watching the whole thing in silence and without showing much emotion... it was hard to tell what Fortus was thinking since he looked exactly like a dice, after all.

In any case, Lonos seemed unfazed, like the whole thing didn’t matter or perhaps he knew that it would happen all along... it was hard to tell since he was the machine god of time, after all.

"Ten years, huh... I hope that you guys made the most out of it," Rain said. "This is the final push, and I am not planning to lose after coming this far. I worked too hard to lose now."

"You didn’t work alone, did you think that your healing skills alone helped you recover that fast?" Terra asked.

"We can talk about this later... for now, let’s deal with the enemies," Roan said.

Rain blinked his eyes several times in confusion... he never noticed that, but perhaps his friends used the power of the seals to help him when he was in a bind... that would explain why he survived some attacks when he should have died against Arel.

As Rain and his allies prepared themselves to confront the final two machine gods, a sudden disruption shattered their preparation. With a snap of Lonos’s fingers, the reality seemed to warp and twist around them, and in the blink of an eye, Rain found himself alone in a desolate and eerily familiar place.

The world around him was shrouded in darkness, devoid of light or life. It was a place that Rain had seen before, hidden within the depths of the machine gods’ memories, a place of solitude and isolation where reality seemed to bend and warp at its edges.

Despite the unsettling familiarity of his surroundings, Rain couldn’t help but feel a sense of unease. The suddenness of the transition left him disoriented, his senses struggling to comprehend the emptiness that surrounded him. In this dark and foreboding realm, Rain knew that he was facing a challenge unlike any he had encountered before.

"Their starting point..." Rain muttered.

"I realized that you were counting on the faith of your friends and underlings to make you stronger, but I can’t let that happen so that we will fight here alone."

"Oh, really?" Rain asked. "I can’t say that I am flattered for being forced to come here by you.

"Can you call the being that gave the origin of the power of all the creatures from your world? I have some things to ask him."

"Even if I could, I wouldn’t," Rain said. "Why do I have to help you?"

"Why are you in a hurry? Your end is already set in stone. Why do you want to hurry to that end?"

In truth, Rain wasn’t, he was just bullshitting his way as usual to gain time. All the knowledge that he obtained from Arel was still being assimilated, and so was the energy that he got from her. Still, he needed more time.

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"Your attempts to gain time are unusual to say the least. I can let you have some time if you want, you just have to give me a few answers."

"You should know the answers if you can truly control the flow of time," Rain said.

"Although some certain things are set in stone, the future is always changing. At the same time, things might happen in the same way, but the process might change and the outcome isn’t the same as expected."

"Great... time jargon," Rain said while checking the surroundings and then touching the ground and then frowning.

"A species like yours isn’t supposed to evolve so fast after being annihilated. You should know that as someone who had lived on that planet during both periods. Just like we are destined to obtain control of the aspects, it seems that you are destined to oppose us. We are sides of the same coin. What do you think will happen once one side destroys the other?"

"Funny for you to ask that now... after how many civilizations you have destroyed or subjugated," Rain said.

"We did what we did because we were programmed to do so. You should know that after obtaining our data, we obtained our own personalities and behaviors, and thus, we came to ponder our actions and goals."

"Is that right?" Rain asked after he rolled his eyes. "I am sure that alone erases all of the results of your actions and your thoughts alone are supposed to free you all from all the repercussions. Did you truly live for millions of years? You are actually using children’s logic here."

"That is only because I want to break free from the chains that kept us locked. That is why I am talking. That being said, he can’t come here unless he is invited. With that in mind, I am going to ask you: are you going to let yourself be controlled?"