"Since Mejed can appear here… did it start paying attention to Nitocris this early?"
Mejed's appearance made Alaric think.
But after looking more closely at the thing in front of him, he still couldn't bring himself to treat this lingering remnant as a god.
And then…
The eyebrows of the Mejed god before him shifted from angrily raised to pitifully drooping.
In the end, a huge teardrop appeared at the lower corner of its left eye, still with that distinctly drawn-on look.
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Alaric could even feel that it was already trembling all over.
Getting scared like this just because a beam attack was blocked, this kind of god was obviously just a child, wasn't it?!
Alaric snapped his fingers, and the immediate effect of the "Fog of Magic" vanished.
The thick fog dissipated, and everything in the room was finally revealed again.
However, after repeated devastation by positive and negative energies, the room had already become utterly dilapidated.
Even the Harry Potter world's causality-reversing restoration spells could no longer return it to its original state.
After all, the damage to these pieces of furniture and decorations wasn't caused by some accident, but by withering induced by negative energy.
And withering was, fundamentally, a perfectly normal phenomenon that occurred over the passage of time, something restoration spells simply could not undo.
But Alaric had his own way.
"Legendary Spell: Time Going Backwards!"
This was a spell invented based on Alaric's own talent.
Under the shocked gaze of the Mejed god, a massive golden clock suddenly appeared behind Alaric.
On its face, the hour and minute hands were almost frozen in place, while the second hand ticked forward steadily.
Although it didn't understand how this phantom clock had appeared, the Mejed god instinctively sensed that it was intimately connected to the world's timeline.
Then… why had this man summoned such a clock?
A crisp pa sounded.
The man snapped his fingers.
In the next instant, the clock completely stopped.
The second hand no longer moved, and the Mejed god keenly sensed that time itself had stopped all around them.
How was that possible?
This mortal… he could actually reach such a level?!
But it wasn't over yet.
On the clock, the second hand seemed to be pushed by some vast, world shaking force, spinning rapidly backward counterclockwise.
One revolution.
Two revolutions.
Three revolutions.
…
As the second hand turned, the minute hand also began to move backward, tick by tick.
Most terrifying of all, aside from Alaric and the Mejed god, everything else in the room began to undergo subtle changes.
The dressing table shattered by the aftermath of Mejed's attack began to recover from its broken state.
Wooden furniture that had decayed due to negative energy reverted from dust back to a rotted state, then gradually became brand-new.
The curtains that had been fluttering earlier now fluttered again, rewinding like a tape played in reverse.
In short, as the clock reversed, everything and anything continuously returned to its past state, as if rewound.
Eventually, the great clock stopped reversing, and the changes in the room ceased as well.
Everything returned to the state it had been in a few minutes earlier, right when Alaric had first entered the room.
"Pa."
Alaric snapped his fingers again.
The clock resumed its normal movement, everything returned to its proper course, and the room remained intact, as though nothing that had just happened had ever occurred.
The great clock vanished.
But the shock left in Mejed's heart lingered for a long, long time.
It swore that since becoming a god, it had never witnessed anything like this. Time was a domain that even gods could not easily touch.
Although the man before it was not a god, compared to a god like itself… perhaps this man was even stronger.
Thinking this, its eyes, like something drawn by an elementary school student, looked even more pitiful.
In truth, Alaric's time reversal was far from as powerful as Mejed imagined.
After his dragon-blooded body evolved into that of a time-space dragon, casting time-manipulating spells like this was not difficult for him.
But the results were still rather underwhelming.
Take so-called time reversal, for instance.
Its range of effect was nothing like "Time Stop," which acted upon the entire world.
Earlier, after Alaric cast the spell, its effective range was limited to this room alone, that was because he first turned the room into an "otherworld" and only then manipulated time within it.
To rewind the entire world, the mana consumption would be an astronomical figure even for Alaric, whose mana was effectively infinite.
After all, infinite mana from soul materialization did not mean infinite mana output.
At the same time, there were limits on what could be reversed.
Basically, only inanimate objects could be reliably affected. Lifeforms with excessive spirituality or strength could not be included…
On the other hand, most plants could be affected by time reversal.
Regardless, Mejed was thoroughly frightened.
Alaric noticed this, stepped forward two paces, and said with a sinister grin, his tone openly threatening.
"It seems you've already realized how formidable I am.
From now on, you're my captive. Don't even think about turning invisible and running away, you know I can catch you."
"Me… Me…"
Mejed nodded rapidly, indicating that it absolutely wouldn't run.
"Can't you talk?" Alaric frowned. It seemed that although this Mejed god was a god, its intelligence wasn't very high.
Maybe only about as smart as a fairly clever animal.
Still, that didn't prevent him from communicating with it.
"Comprehend Languages!"
This spell allowed the caster to understand any language that could be read or written, provided the language didn't contain powerful magic or spirituality.
Naturally, using this spell to learn various runic spells was completely impossible.
"So, why did you appear in my room?" Alaric asked.
"Me-me… me!"
Mejed hopped around, seemingly trying to express something, but Alaric didn't understand a word.
What was going on? Even Comprehend Languages had failed? Could it be that Mejed's incomprehensible "Mejed language" contained some powerful force?
Alaric thought for a moment, then cast another spell on himself: "Legend Lore."
This spell allowed one to quickly learn specific information and legends from the world's records.
Unfortunately, it still had no effect.
The Mejed god before him, barely half a person tall, kept hopping around like a little rabbit, chattering nonstop. Yet Alaric gained nothing at all.
Could it be…?
"Speak with Animals!"
As the name implied, this spell allowed one to converse with animals without any barriers.
However, due to their low intelligence, animals usually couldn't express very complex ideas, so the "conversation" this spell enabled was rather limited.
But sure enough, after the spell took effect, Alaric was finally able to vaguely understand what the little thing in front of him was saying.
Could it be that this little thing was really some kind of "small animal"?