The Hero of Time, Anakin Redfield was rooted on the spot, completely speechless and out of his wits as he witnessed Kahn return from the brink of death but also become a completely different person.
"Not only you… but he also returned in time. This shouldn't be possible at all." he said as he looked at the floating specter of the black dragon around Kahn. You did not have the spell or the required materials to come back in time!" exclaimed Anakin, his eyes still terrified while his body shivered.
"My, my… awfully curious now, are we?" spoke the older and the future Kahn.
"Well, since you aided in my travel back in time, I should tell you this much at least." he said and continued.
"Remember how you bragged about having an ace under your sleeve right when I defeated you?
Your biggest mistake was telling me about the forbidden spell given to you by the G.o.d of Time and saying to my face about how using your own soul as a sacrifice, you were going back in time to kill me." revealed the future Kahn.
"What you didn't know is that I also had the ability to read memories of the dead. It was something I never revealed to anyone and it helped me know the spell G.o.d of Time gave you." he spoke confidently.
"And after knowing it… I talked with the G.o.d of Darkness and told him what you said before dying.
As you know, the 3rd aspect of reality that came into existence in Vantrea after s.p.a.ce and Time was Death… aka the G.o.d of Darkness himself.
So he told me a method to go back in time before you kill me and change the timeline completely where you have all the advantages in the war against the Demon G.o.d." he iterated in a stern voice.
The next, it was the dragon hovering around Kahn who spoke…
"Did you forget who I am, you ignorant child?" he questioned in an admonishing tone.
"Unlike you, Kahn could not use his soul as a sacrifice to go back in time since he wasn't the Hero of Time.
However… he had me." declared the dragon in a majestic tone.
"It was me who used my knowledge and sealed both of us in a s.p.a.ce that could not be affected by the laws of time.
And do you know the main ingredient we used for the spell to work?" he spoke in a coy tone.
"It was your own core." revealed the dragon as both he and Kahn smirked shamelessly.
"G.o.d of Darkness told us about the Transcendent Rune of Reminiscisene and I using my mastery of the Dimensional Law, carried both of us back in time by sealing ourselves in that rune." he revealed an event of the future.
"And G.o.d of Darkness is one of the only few G.o.ds such as G.o.d of s.p.a.ce and G.o.d of Time who can read and detect the change in timeline much before the other G.o.ds.
So he used his powers to send the rune back in time as well." said the Dragon in a domineering tone.
Then Kahn continued in a firm voice…
"I did not know exactly when you were going to go back in time. I didn't even know much about you to begin with.
That's why, the only way I could stop all this was going back to my own beginning since it was the only constant factor no matter which time in the past you went to." "All this time, I have been watching this another version of me while being sealed inside the Transcendent Rune of Reminiscence on his back.
It's because he activated it at a different time, in this case… he activated it in the future a dozen minutes later and unlike your knowledge of time, based on how linear it is on Earth… you did not see his domain affecting the past where you hadn't seen him activate it yet.] he explained in details.
[His divine weapon, the Finality of Time freezes the world in a fixed moment and the world energy and the mana present at that moment can continue to exist without the laws of reality affecting them.
As long as his divine weapon is active, the laws of Babylon and the authority of G.o.ds which suppresses everyone to a semi-saint are no longer effective as the world is no longer following the laws of reality in this indefinitely frozen time.
That is why both of you can fight as Saints.] he informed.
[But because his Domain of Chronokinesis is also affecting and messing with the flow of time, I can move irrespective of his Divine Weapon's powers.
And Gideon needs to use it to move himself since his divine weapon also affects him to a degree.
Everything comes at a cost. So he has no choice but to let me move as well inside his domain.] he iterated and kept on explaining.
[And that's where you can use its weakness.
You see… the most powerful weapon against Time is s.p.a.ce.
Since you have already achieved the 3rd enlightenment in the s.p.a.ce Law in this timeline…
You know that True s.p.a.ce is independent of time, ma.s.s, and any form of energy. Everything is just temporarily occupying it no matter how long that temporary time is.
So to break the effects of any divine ability related to time or a domain that functions on laws of time… the most effective way is to break the s.p.a.ce itself.
Like this.] declared the future Kahn and in the next moment…
Snap!
Shatter!
He snapped his fingers and the s.p.a.ce shattered in the 30-kilometer radius.
Crumble!
Crumble!
Whether it was the fabric of reality in the real world or the black and white world of True Dimension where time was 10 times slower… both planes of s.p.a.ce and reality that coexisted together shattered, overlapping each other and creating an unbelievable sight of billions of cracks in reality.
Soon, the flow of time started moving again and the frozen battlefield within Anakin's domain also became free like before.
"Don't be so full of yourself, Salvatore. This time, I will definitely kill you!" bellowed Anakin in rage, his vengeful eyes revealing his hatred.
"Do not talk about Death in front of me…" replied future Kahn.
BOOM!!
He quickly activated War Dominance and declared in a tyrannical voice…
"Unless you've died a million times."