Was the terrifying presence he felt another Spell that Nyxtharion could use if they worked together? It could be possible. After all, they did something similar with the Roar before.
However, Neo had no time to think of such things.
He tapped into the mimicked Concept of River of Time and used it alongside mimicked Tyrant.
Time turned back.
He returned to the moment he woke up in the cavern.
"Huff! Huff!"
He was sweating heavily. He swiftly restarted the Concept of Happiness.
Thanks to the Concept and a major portion of madness being dealt with by the Nyxtharion, he was clear-headed for the first time in a while.
Three seconds passed, and he sensed several small Nyxtharion moving toward him.
Neo bolted toward them.
He punched with enough force to create a several-thousand-meter-deep tunnel. Three Nyxtharion were on the other end of the tunnel.
They had been homing in on Neo’s location and were caught off guard by the surprise attack.
The tunnel started to shake. It would collapse within four seconds.
That was more than enough time.
Neo used Pseudo Gap along with Hydraulic Motion Technique and the Fourth Stance of his Sword Technique.
He turned into a blur of red lightning.
The dragons saw the lightning move toward them while bouncing off the walls. The next second, the lightning was behind them, and their bodies were cut apart into hundreds of smaller pieces.
True Darkness surged out of Neo, and he devoured their corpses.
’Alright, I got enough energy for another regression.’
Forty seconds passed since he regressed, and he sensed a change in the hivemind.
’Looks like they realized that multiple time loops have been created.’
’But they shouldn’t have gained memories of previous loops yet.’
From here on, everything was up to chance.
The dragons would start trying to find the source of the time loop. Since Beelzebub had devoured chaotic Time Elementals, they could not know it was Neo.
However, the memories of time loops could still be gained.
Normally, it was a random event. Time Users could sometimes gain memories of pre-altered timelines, and sometimes they could not.
Though, seeing Tartarus remember everything, Neo suspected there was a technique to do that deliberately.
’The wall guardian Nyxtharion have not yet moved. So they don’t remember the previous timelines.’
’The ability to remember timelines is either unique to Tartarus, or Nyxtharion’s mastery of the technique is low, and it takes time to remember everything.’
Neo decided not to approach wall guardians this time.
He would wait for them, and it would give him an estimate of how much time he had before they remembered everything.
His senses expanded, and he swiftly located smaller Nyxtharion.
Heads flew every second.
Neo moved with terrifying speed and uncanny precision. He kept reaping the lives of the dragons, devouring them, and moving on to the next target.
He was on his way to another group of Nyxtharion when suddenly the walls broke, and a punch came flying at Neo.
’Two minutes, thirty-nine seconds.’ Neo counted the time it took the wall guardian Nyxtharion to make a move.
He swiftly used All-Shadow to move thousands of meters away.
"You run away like an insect—"
Neo didn’t wait for the wall guardian Nyxtharion to complete its words.
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