Chapter 4: Group portraits in the restricted area
Broken Gathering: The Rudiment of the Seven Team
Outside the north wall of St. Erinius is a barren area known as the "Eternal Night Trail". The fog here is as thick as the essence of purple mercury, and there are ember particles floating in every inch of the air.
Lin Che stood on the edge of the city wall, and the wind blew his black hair. Behind him, three members with different personalities have been in place. This combination, which was forcibly kneaded by the Ska tutor, exudes a dangerous atmosphere that will explode at any time.
"According to tactical simulation, our probability of survival in the fog is only 42%." Su Lian's cold voice came from the communicator. Instead of wearing a bulky protective suit, she changed into a dark blue tights with countless sensor interfaces. The monocles in front of her eyes kept flashing with complex data flows. "Leonardo, please restrain your light pressure. You are like a kilometer away. A live target that can be seen.
"As the eldest son of the Saxon family, there is no word 'hidden' in my dictionary." Leonaldo elegantly arranged his gloves. Although his cuffs still had the burn marks of being corroded by Lynch yesterday, the arrogance engraved in his bones did not diminish but increased.
Irene stood beside Lin Che, dragging the chain in her hand to the ground. She keenly sensed Lin Che's tension and whispered, "Don't be disturbed by Leonardo's words. The fog will amplify your inner fear. Once your will is shaken, the shadow will take root in that crack.
Lin Che was about to open his mouth when the thick iron gate of the city wall made a tooth-souring friction sound.
A short figure walked out of the fog slowly. That's "zero". She dragged the rusty and exaggerated heavy sword, exuding a mixed smell of blood and rust. She ignored anyone and went straight to the front of the line. When she passed Lin Che, her lifeless gray pupils paused slightly.
"The shadow... is very hot." Zero spit out two vague words and then continued to move forward, as if she was part of the fog herself.
Diving into the Fog: Hayek-style disorderly hunting
The moment he stepped into the "Epernity Path", Lin Che felt that the world was completely quiet. All the senses were forcibly compressed to a range of five meters around the body.
"Keep the formation." Irene shouted in a low voice.
However, in this completely disorderly environment, the "absolute order" believed in by St. Erinius began to collapse. The space in the fog was distorted. Lin Che found that every step he took, the shadow under his feet was shifting, and sometimes he even appeared right in front of him.
"Warning, the spatial coordinate offset rate is 30%." Su Lian's instructions began to become urgent, "Leonardo, 30 degrees on the left wing, light arc suppression!"
"As you wish." Leonardo drew his thin sword, and a bright golden light instantly tore the purple fog.
The light illuminated the monsters lurking in the shadows. It was a group of low-level fog demons called "skinners". They had no facial features, only flesh like countless poisonous snakes. Under the holy light of Leonardo, these monsters let out a harsh wail, and their bodies began to melt.
But this kind of light also attracted deeper horror.
"There is something in the shadow!" Lin Che suddenly felt a chill in his ankle.
He looked down and found that his shadow was pulled down by some underground force without external interference.
"Did you see it? This is the power you rely on..." The demonic whisper sounded in Lin Che's ear, "In front of the light, it will rebel against you, and in front of the darkness, it will devour you. The only way... is to let me go completely.
"You are not allowed to come out!" Lin Che stomped his feet fiercely, and the black fog shook along the soles of his feet, forcibly scattering the tentacles under the ground.
The front line of life and death: Zero's outbreak and Lin Che's awakening
The battle broke out in an instant.
Hundreds of skinners poured out from all blind spots of the fog, forming a flesh-red tsunami.
Although the holy light of Reonardo was strong, it also began to dim under the charge of this order of magnitude. Erin's chain turned into countless meteors, which could break a fog demon with each blow, but more monsters crawled along the chain to her arm.
"Su Lian, calculate the retreat path!" Erin shouted.
"There is no path. The space is locked by the 'foggy core'. Su Lian's voice fluctuated for the first time, and the virtual screen in front of her was flashing one by one. "Unless someone can break into the center and cut off the energy anchor."
"I'll go." Zero's figure disappeared in place in an instant.
The huge heavy sword pulled out a devastating fan-shaped red shadow in the fog. Zero's movements have no rules, but are more like a beast's instinct - every swing of the sword is accompanied by the sound of bones breaking. However, even if it is as strong as zero, the mobility begins to decline in the face of the tide.
A huge "giant fog demon" fell from the sky, and its giant fist full of thorns hit the besieged zero heavily.
"Save people!" Lin Che's mind buzzed.
He has never killed, but at that moment, the anger of being bullied in reality, the despair after time travel, and the instinctive desire to protect Erin and Zero, the "same kind", were all twisted together.
Instead of charging, he closed his eyes.
"What do you want?" The shadow personality is cheering.
"Power. Give me the strength to cross this void!"
"As you wish... But remember, this is part of the contract."
The first "gliding": abandoning the shadow of the center of the earth
At that moment, Lin Che felt that the burning sensation in his spine exploded completely.
The black ink sprayed out of each of his pores. Instead of dissipating, it was like countless silk threads, forcibly fixed in the distorted space cracks around him.
Lin Che's body suddenly pulled up.
He didn't grow wings, but his shadow laid a black track in mid-air. Under the black fog, his feet were three feet away from the ground, and his whole body turned into a hidden arrow flying on the ground.
"What is that?" Leonardo turned around in shock, and the light trembled violently in his hand.
Lin Che's speed has exceeded the limit of the naked eye. He passed by Irene, who was fighting hard. One second before the giant fog demon's huge punch hit Zero, his whole body turned into a spinning shadow and hit the monster's chest fiercely.
Bang!
It is not a collision in the physical sense, but the "devouring" of the shadow.
The moment Lin Che's fist touched the monster, the monster's body was forcibly dragged into a temporary shadow realm, which was squeezed and crushed in less than half a second.
Lin Che fell beside Zero, kneeling on one knee, and his eyes were covered with dark ink. Around his body, the black fog swam like a snake, even supporting him to float ten centimeters above the ground.
"This kind of flight..." Su Lian looked at the unparable fluctuation data that jumped out of the terminal. "This is not an ember. This is his modification of local physical laws."
"Lin Che! Come back!" Irene's voice was full of fear.
Lin Che didn't respond. He looked into the depths of the fog, where there was a huge, heart-like crystal beating, which was the "fog core".
He felt that the core was summoning his shadow.
And his shadow personality is laughing wildly: "Go ahead and eat it, and you won't have to crawl on the ground anymore."
Chapter 5: Falling Crowns and Shadow Wings
Lonely Gliding: Defection from the Center of the Earth
Lin Che's sensory organs are undergoing dramatic changes.
When he stepped into the absolute forbidden area where the "fog core" was located, the shouting in his ear, the holy light of Leonardo, and the crisp impact of Erin's chain seemed to be isolated behind a thick lead curtain.
He is not running.
The black embsters overflowed along his spine and intertwined into a black rainbow bridge under his feet. He brushed through the ruins covered with mucus in an almost sliding way. What this rudiment of "flight" brought him was not the pleasure of freedom, but a physiological nausea - he felt that his center of gravity was forcibly moved out of his body and entrusted to the "shadow personality" lurking in the dark.
"Look, this is the speed you want to have." The voice of the shadow personality rubbed deep in his cochlea, with a wet and cold breath. "As long as you let go a little more... I can completely get rid of the humiliation of gravity."
"Shut up." Lin Che responded hoarsely. His pupils had completely turned into two dark holes at this time, and even the whites of his eyes were stained with thick ink.
In front of it, the fog condensed into a huge, rhythmicly beating translucent crystal. That is the "fog core". Around the crystal, the space shows a sense of folds after being rubbed strongly.
The Trial of Fantasy: The Lie of Order
When Lin Che's hand touched the folded space, his spiritual world was instantly forcibly pulled back to the rainy reservoir by a terrible force.
But what he saw was not the moment before the fall, but the "reality" after the fall.
He saw Wang Hu standing by the guardrail, with a kind of happiness for the rest of his life after the robbery on his face, and then that happiness turned into a cold and sinister.
"He jumped down by himself. We all saw it, right?" Wang Hu turned his head and looked at the few followers who were only promised.
Behind Wang Hu, there is a man in a neat uniform and glasses. He was the teaching director of the school and the "order maintainer" who once tried to ask for help but was turned away.
The man pushed his glasses, and his tone was as plain as if he was discussing a scrapped piece of equipment: "Lin Che has been isolated for a long time and has taken extreme behavior due to excessive psychological pressure... This has nothing to do with the school and other students. For the sake of the honor of the school, this matter ends here.
This scene is sharper than the sharp teeth of any fog demon. Lin Che stood in the illusory rain and watched how those people completely erased his existence with "order" and "reason".
"Is this the order you believe in?"
In the core of the fog, a human figure made of dark shadows and exactly like Lin Che slowly walked out. He was naked, and his skin was as deep as the starry sky, and the wings behind him were like a pair of huge, torn black cloaks.
"Hegel said that everything that is rational is real." Shadow personality smiled mockingly, "Well, your disappearance is in line with their reason, so your death is the inevitable reality. Since the real world doesn't accommodate you, why don't you join me completely?"
The shadow personality opened his arms, and the shadow wings behind him fluttered violently, setting off a shadow storm that was enough to tear the space apart.
"Leave your anger to me. I'll take you back, fly back to that reservoir, and crush all the so-called 'rational maintainers' into the shadows!"
Desperat Resistance: The Third Order
"Lin Che! Don't listen to it!"
A dark golden light forcibly tore the fantasy world.
Erin rushed into the restricted area covered in blood. Most of her chains have been broken, and her originally neat combat suit has been torn to tattered pieces, revealing her scarred shoulders. Behind her, Leonardo's holy light was extremely weak, which was the remnant after he overdrawn the embers to protect Erin.
"It is using your hatred as an anchor!" Irene gasped violently, and the chain in her hand clasped Lin Che's ankle, trying to pull him back to the ground from that floating state. "If you fly here, you will never fall to the ground again!"
"Irene, move away..." Lin Che's voice doesn't look like a human anymore.
Behind him, two dark fogs were tossing and expanding violently. That's a sign that Shadow Wing is about to take shape. Once the pair of wings are fully open, he will gain absolute control of the air in this foggy world, but the price is that his consciousness will permanently sink into the nourishment of the shadow.
"According to...according to my calculation..."
Su Lian's voice came intermittently from the broken communicator, with an unprecedented urgency, "Lin Che... Don't use hatred... Use 'existence' itself. Hegel... Hegel also said that the individual is the embodiment of absolute spirit... If you... if you just hate, you are... you are the slave of the shadow!"
Lin Che's body trembled violently.
He looked at Irene and saw the priceless tenderness in her eyes; he looked at Leonardo, who was coughing up blood in the distance but still standing with a sword; he looked at the zero who was killed from the fog.
At that moment, these people are no longer arrogant nobles or cold machines, but "existences" who struggle in this absurd world like him.
"Hayek said..."
Lin Che suddenly whispered, and his voice produced a wonderful resonance in this chaotic space.
"Spontantary order... is not designed by anyone, but formed by the collision of every free will."
He suddenly raised his head, and his dark eyes burst out a little human, extremely weak but tough light.
"My shadow is not to take revenge on the past... but to give me the freedom to stand in this fucking world!"
The premiere of Shadow Wing: The Coronation of Will
Boom!
The shadow embers in Lin Che's body underwent a qualitative change at this moment.
The shadow personality that was trying to swallow him let out a scream of horror. It found that the host no longer passively accepted its negative emotions, but in turn forcibly compressed and reorganized all the darkness with an extremely strong will.
It is no longer a messy smoke.
In that zero point and one second, the black fog behind Lin Che froze.
Two huge shadow wings carved like obsidian suddenly broke out of the air. Each feather is compressed from the purest shadow, and the edges are sharp enough to cut off the light.
This is not the temptation given by the shadow personality, but the "sovereignty" forcibly plundered by Lin Che.
Lin Che's feet completely left the ground.
He was suspended in the air, and the shadow wings fluttered, and the distorted space around him was forcibly smoothed out.
"Is this... the real flight?" Leonardo looked up, and the blue eyes lost their arrogance for the first time, leaving only awe of some extreme power.
Lin Che didn't look back. He turned into a black lightning and appeared in front of the "foggy core" in an instant.
There are no unnecessary movements. He stretched out his hand, and the shadow on the shadow wing rushed to the palm of his hand like a tide, turning into a shadow blade that could pierce the sky.
"Shat it."
Cack--
The core of the fog, the energy node that has ruled the eternal night path for hundreds of years, collapsed into countless dense seams under Lin Che's blow.
With a loud noise enough to make the whole St. Erinius tremble, the purple fog began to collapse crazily to the center.
Lin Che caught the weak Erin in mid-air, and the shadow wings behind him fluttered slowly, supporting him to maintain the last elegance in the collapsing space.
In the shadow further away, Instructor Ska extinguished the cigarette in his hand and showed an extremely complicated smile at the corner of his mouth.
"The spontaneous monster... was finally born."
Chapter 6: The Shadow Under the Court
Silent Return: Broken Heroism
After the collapse of the core, the Eternal Night Trail fell into a kind of silence after death.
The purple thick fog quickly pulled away like seawater at low tide, revealing the real landform that was eroded to the point of holes below - it was a hill made of countless white bones and industrial waste piled up. Lin Che was suspended in mid-air, and the shadow wings behind him did not disappear, but fluttered at a slow and heavy frequency.
He held the comatose Irene in his arms, and his arms trembled slightly. Every time the shadow wing flutters, it seems to extract something called "color" from the depths of his soul. He looked at his fingertips and found that his originally healthy complexion was permerating a sick gray, as if he was gradually transforming into an active charcoal painting.
"The curvature of space... is being forced to return to the positive."
Su Lian sat on the broken floating chair. Her tactical glasses were broken, and the exposed pupil of her left eye was contracting violently. She stared at the red dot representing Lin Che on the monitor, and her voice trembled slightly, "Lin Che, land. Your shadow wing is rejecting the physical constant of this space. If you fly further, the defense system of St. Erinius will judge you as an 'foreign dimension intruder'.
Lin Che looked down at the city wall.
On the towering Gothic spire, thousands of automatic stone crossbows have locked his figure, and the tip of the crossbow arrow flickers with purified white light specifically for shadows. And Leonardo stood in the ruins with a thin sword, looking up at the teenager who was once regarded as an ant by him, and his eyes were as complicated as a broken prism.
Lin Che closed the shadow wings, and the tearing feeling of peeling made him fall from mid-air. At the moment when the soles of his feet touched the ground, his knees softened and he almost knelt down, but he was forced to stand still.
He is no longer the teenager who shrinks around the reservoir, but a rebel who has mastered the forbidden power.
The Rope of Order: The Summon of the Senate
Lin Che didn't even have time to clean the blood stains on his face, and was taken away by a team of "discipline knights" wearing platinum armor.
Instead of returning to the garden villa, they walked through the darkest corridor of the church and entered the core of the college - the "Supreme Hall of Reason". There are no windows here, only countless torches burning with white embers.
In the center of the hall, there are seven old men sitting in a semicircle. They were hidden in the shadows, revealing only their pale fingers and the corners of their robes embroidered with gold thread. This is the Senate of St. Erinius, which represents the highest executive body of the Hegelian "absolute order".
"Lin Che, originally from the old world. Illegal time traveler, serial number: zero.
The old man in the middle opened his mouth, and his voice was like a dead wood rubbing. "You forcibly ignited the original shadow without obtaining the 'ember permission' and privately built a 'wing'-level structure. According to the Sanctuary Order Law, this is a blasphemy of sacred reason.
"I saved the whole cleaning team." Lin Che stood in the center of the hall, and the chain was wrapped around his wrist again, but this time he did not struggle. He just stared coldly at the top. "If it weren't for my 'blasphemy', Leonardo would have become the excretor of the fog demon."
"Personal heroism is the residual poison of spontaneous order and the root of chaos." Another elder snorted coldly, "We don't care about the result. What we care about is the 'compliance of the process'. Your existence itself is a provocation to the stability of the world.
Lin Che felt an absurd anger. These old guys sat in a safe fortress, talking about order, but turned a blind eye to his struggle in hell. What's the difference between this and the teaching director who shirks responsibility in the original world?
The Secret of Saxony: Equivalent Exchange of Light and Shadow
"Gental elders, please allow me to interject a word."
Leonardo's voice sounded outside the hall. He changed into a more gorgeous dress. Although his face was pale, his gait was still elegant. He walked into the hall, bowed deeply first, and then looked at Lin Che.
"Although Lincher's shadow wing is dangerous, it shows an extremely rare 'space cutting' characteristic." A trace of imperceptible greed flashed in Leonardo's eyes. "The Saxon family is willing to be his supervisor and include it in the 'Shadow Knights' for in-depth development. We... can make sure that he won't lose control.
Lin Che keenly grasped the word "development".
From Leonardo's perspective, Lyncher is no longer a threat, but a top weapon called "space cutting". The Saxon family longed for this power to consolidate their position in the Senate.
"Supervision?" Lin Che sneered, "Do you want to put me in a cage and observe how my wings grow every day, or do you want to cut them off and sew them on the backs of you nobles?"
Leonardo's expression froze for a second, and then he regained his high reserve: "This is your only chance to live, civilian. In the sanctuary, the only end point of freedom that is not understood is the fire.
The Mentor's Rebellion: Ska's Game
"Hey, old guys, don't play such intimidation games in front of my students."
The sound of Ska's flip-flops was particularly harsh in the solemn hall. He staggered in front of Lin Che with the bottle of spirits he would never finish drinking.
"Ska, you have touched the bottom line many times." The voices of the elders became stern. "This teenager must be handed over to the 'Rational Laboratory' for analysis. This is the collective will."
"The collective will? That's the excuse you made up to cover up your fear. Scar burped, and his drunken eyes were hazy with a murderous spirit that made the elders restless. "If Hegel sees you play his theory into a power game, he will have to jump out of the grave and strangle you."
Ska turned his head to look at Lin Che and suddenly opened his mouth and smiled: "Boy, they want to turn you into a specimen or a hound of the Saxon family. Which one do you choose?"
Lin Che stood up straight, and the shadow pattern on the spine began to rhythm again.
"I'll choose the third one."
Lin Che's voice echoed in the hall.
"Hayek said that the real order is not designed, but evolved. Since you think my power is unreasonable, I will use this unreasonable power to evolve a new order that you can't understand.
He clenched his fist, and the shadow on the ground of the hall surged like boiling ink in an instant.
"Tutor Ska, teach me how to kill, teach me how to kill those who try to dominate other people's fate."
Ska laughed wildly and drank the last sip of wine in the bottle: "Do you hear me, old guys? This is the 'absolute spirit' we are looking for - rebellion. For the rest of this semester, he belongs to me. Whoever dares to touch him, I will demolish this broken church.
Five. The hint of the seventh person: the guardian of zero
The trial was temporarily terminated in a strange confrontation.
When Lin Che walked out of the hall, he found that Ling was leaning on the stone pillar in the corridor. She was still holding the heavy sword in her hand, and Lin Che's gloomy face was reflected in her gray pupils.
"Wings...does it hurt?" She asked.
Lin Che was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head: "No, it's just cold."
"It's right to be cold." Zero looked down at the unfathomable shadow under Lin Che's feet. "The shadow is something of the dead. You should raise it with the heart of a living person. Don't let it eat you."
She turned around and stuffed an old map with some coordinates into Lin Che's hand.
"There is the answer you want. About why you fell into the reservoir, about the... cracks in the world.
Lin Che clenched the map and looked at the desolate land that appeared after the fog dissipated in the distance. He knew that in St. Erinius, the real game had just begun.
Chapter 7: The Bell of the Dead Silence and the Lord of the Shadow
Forbidden Expedition: Marginal Eles
According to the old map provided by Zero, Lincher temporarily left the absolute monitoring area of St. Erinius with the acquiesit consent of Ska's mentor.
This action called "trial" is actually a political exchange between Ska and the Senate - Lin Che must go to the "dead bell" area to recover a space-time stability anchor that has been abandoned for many years. If successful, the Senate will give Lin Che the legitimate status of "shadow executive officer"; if he fails, he will disappear into the cracks of the fog forever as an unknown dead person.
"Death Silence Bell" is a ruin cursed by time. This used to be the clock capital of the old civilization, but at the moment of the ember, time was broken here.
Lin Che walked on the sloping street, and the buildings on both sides showed a strange superposition: the same bell tower, one second it was the magnificent Gothic original appearance, and the next second it became a collapsed remnants.
"The atmospheric pressure here is unstable. Pay attention to your breathing."
Su Lian's voice came through the enhanced remote communicator, and her frequency signal seemed fragmented under the interference of time and space. "Lin Che, your shadow wing will be very sensitive in such an environment. Don't try to accelerate here, or you may fall into the 'shadow of yesterday'.
Lin Che tightened the heavy sword behind him - this was another gift he gave him before leaving. Although it is not as good as Zero's exaggerated blunt weapon, the dark material of the whole body can perfectly carry his shadow power.
A glimpse of the sixth person's surprise: the qin master who manipulates the shadow
In the core square of the ruins, Lin Che saw an extremely absurd scene.
A man with messy silver hair and a broken tuxedo was sitting in front of a piano with two broken legs. His fingers beat fast on the wooden board without keys, and countless illusory figures appeared in the surrounding space with his "playing".
Those figures were dancing around the square in gorgeous old-fashioned dresses. But whenever Lin Che took a step closer, those figures would make a sound like glass breaking and turn into gray fog.
"Another poor man expelled by order."
The man stopped playing and turned his head. His eyes were covered with a gray ribbon, but under the ribbon, there seemed to be a faint blue light beating.
"Who are you?" Lin Che pressed the hilt of the sword.
"Here, the name is the most meaningless thing." The man stood up elegantly as if he was attending a royal dinner. "You can call me 'Chronos'. Or, according to St. Erinius, a 'sequence-wronged residual product'.
Kronos is a typical dejected aristocrat. He once had the top-level "embers of time", but he was exiled to this stationary time and space because he refused to amend the course of history by the Senate.
"Are you here for that anchor point?" Kronos turned his head slightly, "Before that, you have to help me get rid of those 'time parasites' first."
Shadow Killing Trial: Precise Cutting of Will
As Kronos's voice fell, dozens of fog demons shaped like huge gears suddenly rushed out of the shadows of the surrounding ruins.
These monsters, known as "time gring", have the ability to slow down local time. Lin Che felt that his movements became slow in an instant, as if he had fallen under the pressure of the deep sea.
"Hegel believes that time is an external form of absolute spiritual self-aliation."
Kronos waved his arm elegantly, and the surrounding shadows instantly condensed into countless illusory swordsmanship. "But in my opinion, time is just an endless reincarnation. Lin Che, use your shadow to cut off this kind of reincarnation!"
Lin Che took a deep breath. He did not resist the sense of slowing down.
On the contrary, he closed his eyes and took the initiative to sink his consciousness into the depths of his spine.
"Do you feel the crack?" The shadow personality whispered excitedly, "That's the gap of time. Shadow is not bound by time..."
Boom!
The shadow wings behind Lin Che suddenly opened. This time, due to the distortion of time and space, his wings showed a translucent black, as if they were folded by countless momentary aftergraws.
His figure disappeared.
It is no longer a movement that can be observed with the naked eye, but jumping from one shadow to another.
In Kronos's field of vision, Lincher turned into a black line and accurately penetrated the core of those gear monsters. There is no unnecessary action in every blow, and every cut point is a "logical blind spot" calculated by Su Lian.
That is the embodiment of the Hayek-style survival strategy: abandoning the macro-confrontation of the overall situation and only to make a partial breakthrough against each specific threat.
The truth of the anchor point: the collapse of the worldview
When the last fog demon turned into ashes, Kronos took Lincher to the secret compartment under the square.
There is no brilliant device there, only a metal ball covered with rust and shaped like an hourglass.
"Is this the so-called anchor point?" Lin Che frowned.
"No, this is a 'boundary wall suture needle'." Su Lian's voice suddenly became extremely clear in the communicator, even with a trace of trembling, "Lin Che, don't touch it! I just analyzed its underlying code... This is not to stabilize time and space, but to extract the vitality of the old world to support St. Erinius!"
Lin Che's hands froze in mid-air.
The reservoir flashed in his mind. If Su Lian's analysis is correct, then the reason why he fell was not an accident, but the world had been plundering his hometown in order to maintain its own "order".
"That's why so many people 'accidentally' fall." Kronos's voice was particularly cold in the dark, "Every time traveler is the lubricant of this huge machine. Lin Che, the reason why your shadow is so strong is that it carries the world's anger at this kind of plunder.
Five. The Sixth Man's Entry: The Choice of the Conspirator
"If you take this back, the Senate will reward you, but there will be more 'Lin Che' falling from the reservoir." Kronos walked to Lyncher's side, "Or, you choose to destroy it. Although that means that you will become the most complete traitor in the college.
Lin Che looked at the hourglass and then at his hands full of shadow lines.
He thought of Irene's chains, Su Lian's eyes, and Scar's cloudy eyes that seemed to see through everything.
"I won't take it back." Lin Che said coldly, and his shadow wings made a heavy buzz at this moment, "But I won't destroy it either. I want to turn it into my strength.
He grabbed the hourglass fiercely. The power of the shadow poured in crazily along his palm, and the fragile balance was broken in an instant.
The "time gravel" in the hourglass reacted violently with the shadow in Lin Che's body. His shadow wings began to alienate again, no longer pure black, but with a layer of metallic gray texture.
He gained the initial ability of **"time teleportation"**, although it was only a short second.
"Interesting." Kronos laughed after a long time, "Since you are going to challenge that fake order, I should find a place to continue playing the piano. If you don't mind, my piano sound may help you suppress the shadow that wants to eat you.
The sixth person, Kronos, the Lord of Shadows, joined the team.