"Jinhsi..."
Noah's gaze trembled, filled with disbelief:
"How did you suddenly recover completely, and also..."
"For this matter, allow me to explain."
Jué let out a long roar, the sound carrying unprecedented exhilaration.
She sensed that the missing link in Her time sequence power had finally been restored when Jinhsi awakened.
It was back—Her power was back!
Jué adjusted Her form in the air, Her enormous dragon head slowly approaching. Her nostrils flared, as if not yet fully recovered from the earlier pain of injury.
"Honored guest of Jinzhou, I know you harbor many doubts. No harm— I can explain slowly."
"As you see, Jinhsi is my Resonator, harmonizing with my frequency."
"Therefore, I had always believed that only Jinhsi and those Chronosorters could achieve secondary resonance with me. But this view was shattered by your arrival!"
Jué lightly swung Her dragon tail, Her gaze full of appreciation:
"Your resonance ability is very special—it can perfectly replicate and use Jinhsi's abilities, even more powerfully than Jinhsi herself."
"When you use Jinhsi's abilities, your frequency meets the conditions for secondary resonance with me. And you are strong enough to bear more of my resonance power."
"Moreover, because your frequency is completely identical to Jinhsi's, when your frequencies collide with mine and vibrate, Jinhsi will also sympathetically resonate in sync."
Listening to Jué's explanation, Jinhsi nodded and spoke:
"This sympathetic resonance allows me to achieve secondary resonance with the Sentinel without fighting Her or bearing any cost."
"..."
Hearing the explanations from the person and the dragon, Noah gradually understood the situation.
From the moment he switched his character from Rover to Jinhsi and pulled her to six fates, Jué's deductions had undergone massive changes.
If he had kept using the Rover character, the deadlock would remain unbreakable—Jinzhou would fall into time stasis, and Jinhsi would die.
But when he used the Jinhsi character, he could sympathetically resonate with Jinhsi, fighting in her place against the Sentinel and assisting Jinhsi in secondary resonance.
This became an extremely crucial variable—one significant enough to break Jinzhou's deadlock!
"This..."
Noah glanced at the restored red dragon-shaped mountain range, feeling a bit sheepish.
"Uh... Sentinel, sorry. I might have been a bit heavy-handed just now. If there was this way to break the impasse, you could have said so earlier."
"No need to apologize."
Jué's expression darkened, as if recalling the unpleasant experience of being beaten just moments ago:
"If anything, I should apologize to you. From the start of my deductions, I did not tell you the truth but instead continually guided you to act against me."
"Please forgive my concealment. In my countless deductions, if I had told you the truth, your actions would surely have been restrained, and Jinhsi might not have awakened smoothly."
So that's how it was.
Noah nodded slightly, feeling a bit better inside. After all, he had nearly beaten Jué's Echo out of Her.
He lowered his head, looking at the two soft, warm little hands on his own, and tugged at the corner of his mouth:
"Misunderstanding resolved. I won't fight anymore. Jinhsi, you can let go now."
Upon hearing this, Jinhsi panicked like she had been shocked by electricity, quickly pulling her hands back behind her. A few small dragon scales uncontrollably grew on her forearms.
"Y-Yes."
"So, Jinhsi successfully achieved secondary resonance? No—the Sentinel did not transfer the time sequence power to Jinhsi. How is Jinhsi using the time sequence power?"
Noah had clearly seen Jinhsi use time sequence power just now.
"When Jinhsi and I achieved secondary resonance, my incomplete time sequence power could be sensed by Jinhsi and simultaneously repaired by her complete frequency."
Jué pondered for a moment before giving the answer:
"Strictly speaking, the time sequence power remains on me, but Jinhsi now also possesses an identical portion of time sequence power."
"Because of your intervention, Jinhsi and I each have a complete portion of time sequence power now. This is an unprecedented way to break the impasse."
"For this, Jinhsi and I express our deepest gratitude to you."
Look at that—She took a beating and still had to thank me.
As Jué's words concluded, though Noah found it somewhat amusing, he could not help but be astonished.
Two portions of time sequence power!
In the original Wuthering Waves plot, there was only one portion of time sequence power, transferred from Jué to Jinhsi under Rover's commission.
But now, there were fully two portions!
No—
Noah closed his eyes, carefully sensing the frequency within his body. It seemed... somewhat different from before?
The Sentinel's words did not stop:
"However, what puzzles me is why, despite having a frequency identical to ours, you were unable to resonate with me during the battle just now?"
Her words froze mid-sentence.
A familiar time flow power slowly drifted around Noah.
This was... yet another portion of time sequence power!
He possessed Jinhsi's abilities. Now that Jinhsi had time sequence power, he naturally possessed it as well.
As for when Jinhsi was weakened from Overclocking before... that had nothing to do with him. The one severely Overclocking was Jinhsi herself, not him, Noah.
Very reasonable!
When the character inflates, I inflate. The character's influence affects me!
When the character gets nerfed, I don't—I am different from the character!
"What a terrifying fellow."
Jué's gaze sharpened, then She sighed faintly:
"Fortunately, he stands on the side of humanity and is not our enemy."
Once Noah restrained the time sequence power, Jué spoke again:
"Jinhsi, and this honored guest—my time sequence power has returned to completeness. The incurable wound from long ago now has a chance to heal. Do you have any further questions?"
The flesh wounds from Noah's beating were minor; the grave injury from countless years ago was the real issue.
Now with a chance for recovery, Jué only wanted to hurry back and heal.
"Sentinel, I have no questions, but Noah likely has some things he wishes to ask."
Jinhsi stepped back, retreating behind Noah. Yet her gaze, as if drawn by a magnet, stared straight at Noah's back.
Noah did not notice Jinhsi's actions. He had long harbored countless questions in his heart, waiting to be answered.
"First question: I want to know where your Arbiter is."
"I am not omniscient." Jué shook Her head: "The last time the Arbiter disappeared, he deliberately erased all traces of his existence in the world."
"I do not know what method the Arbiter used. All my memories regarding the Arbiter were concealed until you mentioned him—only then did those memories awaken."
"I believe the other Sentinels are the same. The Arbiter did this for some profound reason."
"...Alright."
Noah felt some disappointment but not extreme. After all, it wasn't just one or two days without seeing Rover.
If he truly found Rover now, he wouldn't even know how to face him.
If Rover had appeared on his first day after crossing over, he could have acknowledged Rover as big brother.
If Rover had appeared on his fifth day after crossing over, he could have been brothers with Rover.
If Rover appeared now... (please write your answers)
"Second question: What is the deal with Threnodian creations?"
"Since the Arbiter's last disappearance, this world seems to have been invaded by some strange power. The Threnodians' powers have been strengthened to varying degrees."
Jué shook Her head:
"Some can separate their newly awakened strange powers to create Threnodian creations. Others fuse completely with the strange powers, becoming even stronger."
"I currently only know that the war Threnodian Ovathrax separated its strange power into Whisperin Erosion. I know nothing of the other Threnodians."
"I once foresaw uninvited guests invading Jinzhou, so I expended great effort to separate part of my time sequence power for Jinhsi to resist powerful enemies."
Strange power invasion, Rover's disappearance—perhaps there is a connection between the two.
Noah rubbed his chin, feeling that unraveling one fog only revealed an even larger one behind it.