GACHA SOVEREIGN

"Say, what do you think about the combination of this and this." Lin Xingzhi was still talking with Silvia while showing her two books. The first book was none other than Lin Xingzhi's p*rn book, while the other one was a medical book.

Silvia narrowed her eyes, thinking about it seriously.

"Master. What are they doing?" Rose tilted her head in confusion.

"No need to pay attention to them. My smart teacher becomes an idiot when she is talking about this topic." The one who answered was Axis.

Rose already saw him, but she didn't know about him. "Ehm, may I know who this is, Master?"

"Silvia's student, Axis. He is good and well mannered, but you can say that he loves studying more than any of you." Alex shrugged.

"My name is Axis." He politely bowed his head to Rose and the others.

"Nice to meet you, I am Rose Skewes. I am Master Alex's disciple."

"I am Letizia La Scola…Or maybe Letizia La Sirius. Nice to meet you."

"Evelyn."

Alex nodded as he kept using his Teleportation Array while talking.

Surprisingly, it took him a day before he reached the place.

"This is it." Lin Xingzhi smiled, staring at the emptiness.

"Hmm?" Alex narrowed his eyes. There was indeed nothing if they saw it with normal eyes, but Alex's Spirit Eyes could see a huge amount of energy in this place. "Time Energy?"

"Exactly. This is my father's house. The space has been suspended with time, so only those who have the key can enter." Lin Xingzhi explained.

"Indeed. The energy doesn't move or anything, so I guess it's really like a suspended place. No, should I say it's a kind of the Time Box?" Alex touched his chin, falling into deep thought.

Lin Xingzhi smiled and took out a staff. It looked like an ordinary golden staff, but when Alex saw the green jade on the staff's head, he believed that this staff was the key.

"This is the key, Time God's Staff." Lin Xingzhi smiled. She raised the staff and used the flow of Natural Energy to carry the Time Energy inside the staff, hitting the Time Barrier.

Suddenly, cracks began to appear before revealing an entrance.

"Let's go." Lin Xingzhi nodded and entered the place.

Alex and the others followed her without hesitation and arrived in another place.

"This is…This looks like our garden," Rose exclaimed in surprise.

"This is just a Special Realm that has been reinforced by the time element, so one will get stopped when entering. Unless someone brings him back by using Divine Energy that doesn't have a form, they won't be alive." Lin Xingzhi smiled.

She stretched her hand, asking them to follow her.

They then began crossing the garden for half an hour before Lin Xingzhi smiled and said, "Father. Why did you never say that you still leave your soul in this place?"

The others didn't understand what she was talking about, but a blue light ball appeared in front of them, floating above their heads.

"This is the last bit of my soul. I do feel bad about leaving you alone in Eulja, but I believe you are happy now, Daughter." The light ball turned into a translucent old man.

Lin Xingzhi closed her eyes as she couldn't help but let out tears. She slowly walked toward him and used her Nature Energy to hug something that couldn't be hugged.

The old man smiled and closed his eyes. "You have really worked hard."

If she wasn't an expert, she shouldn't be able to touch him, but the fact that his control over nature was so high allows her to hug this dear person.

"I miss you, Father."

"Yes, I miss you too, but preserving my soul here is really hard. Despite seeing you coming a few times, I couldn't meet you due to my circumstances."

"I know, Father. The fact that you appear before me because you want to talk with someone, right?" Lin Xingzhi smiled and released him.

"Yes." The old man smiled and turned to Alex. "How about coming here?"

Alex's body shook, but he still stepped forward, wondering what he needed to talk about. The Time God was a kind of his father-in-law, so he needed to greet him first. "Greeting, Fat—"

"I don't support a harem!" The Time God shouted, startling everyone.

"I am sorry, Father-in-law." Alex lowered his head while cupping his hands.

"No, I know." The Time God sighed. "How about coming with me first? I want to talk about something in private."

Alex glanced at the others and nodded as if telling them to wait here.

Seeing that he agreed, he pulled Alex to another dimension.

"It's true that I don't support harem until now." He looked up, reminiscing the memory of the past. "Due to her weak body, Lin Xingzhi's mother died after giving birth to her. I loved her so much that I wouldn't even look at another woman. However, a woman you can call a wife is the universe's strongest creature…"

Alex closed his eyes and received his words.

"In her last breath after giving birth to Lin Xingzhi, she asked me to marry another woman just so Lin Xingzhi could have a mother." The Time God wiped the tears on his eyes. He truly loved his wife. "In the end, I couldn't find another woman. I feel like I don't want to be half-assed about it.

"To raise her like a normal girl, I chose to abandon my position back then and became a loose cultivator, known as Time God. In fact, right after she was born, I used my power to create a space that could stop the time for one month. In that one month, I learned everything like cooking, taking care of a kid, and other things.

"It was hard, but everything felt worth it when your daughter called you for the first time. She called me, "Father." She was and is still my most precious treasure until one day she got taken by a jerk who thought nothing of her when she cared for him."

Alex's body shook, knowing who it was. "I am—"

"You don't need to say sorry. Knowing him, you have never known your past life, right? In that case, you don't need to ask for forgiveness. However, I do want to say one thing. Never abandon my daughter. She had gone through so much, especially after you died.

"She is a daughter that I can be proud of. That's why you shouldn't lose again. This is an ord…No, a request from your father-in-law. I don't care how many wives you will have in the future. As long as you are there, she will keep smiling. Please…" The Time God even took Alex's hand and lowered his head.

Alex couldn't help but let out tears as well, seeing the love of the Time God. He took a deep breath and said, "I believe that the family is built by a man and a woman, or you can say a pair. So, I, too, believe that you are the strongest. I promise you that even in the face of destruction, I will keep them alive… I promise you that I won't sacrifice myself so the others can live. Instead, I will sacrifice myself so we can live together."

"That's selfish, but that's the only thing I want to hear." The Time God made a gentle smile. "I leave Xingzhi to you, Alex."

"Yes, Father-in-law. I will make her happy until the end of time." Alex nodded with a serious expression.

"Great. As your father, I will give you something to help you in the future." He smiled and pointed to the ground. "This is my gift."

"A space?" Alex tilted his head in confusion.

"This is not a normal space. Have you checked it with your Spirit Eyes?"

Alex widened his eyes while activating his Spirit Eyes. "This is like the room that I used to train in Encore."

"Oh, you are there already?"

"Yes. Your Previous Life didn't know about this dimension since I kept it a secret. No matter what you did, your parents would always prepare for more." The Time God smiled and patted Alex's head. "Still, I am glad that you have learned about the Spirit Crown."

"!!!" Alex widened his eyes and asked, "How did you know?"

"You should have met that Rilt, right?"

"Yes."

"Do you know anything about his God Eyes?"

"He only told me about the fact that my Spirit Crown came from his God Eyes."

"Actually, that name was an artificial name to hide the real name. Along with your Spirit Crown, they are only used to hide the real name. His is not God Eyes. Instead, he called it Star Eyes back then. As the name implies, it used the power of the star. Everything started as a star from the beginning, even planets.

"Even though the star eventually became cold and turned into a planet, the essence was still there. The Star Eyes allows Rilt to use the Star Essence, which you could say the planet core, to increase his strength.

"And that essence is related to Nature Element. That's how you can touch me." The Time God smiled.

"Does that mean my Spirit Crown's real name is…"

"Yes, it's called Star Crown. However, to boost the morale of the Spirits, you named it Spirit Crown. You will find that fighting someone near a star or sun, or planet would give you more power than you can receive in Outer Space."

"!!!" Alex widened his eyes and closed his eyes. "I see. So, that's how the Spirit Crown increases my strength."

"Yes." Time God nodded. "As long as you understand that, then it's okay. There is another present that I want to give you, but unfortunately, I don't have it with me."

"No, no. It's fine. This dimension alone is enough for me." Alex politely declined, but the Time God patted his shoulders.

"What I want to give you is another type of Spirit."

"Another type of spirit?" Alex was confused. "Like the Spirits in Eulja?"

"Similar to that, but they are more like a beast. I would like you to create a contract with them."

"A contract? Is this to increase my strength? Now that I think about it, can't Father just go to the past and kill the beast?"

The Time God stopped him again. "I will explain everything."

He waved his hand and summoned a stream of light. He glowed two parts. "These two dots are the past and the future. Now, I am already in the future. Using the technique to allow you to travel to the past is harder than you think, considering it's taboo in this universe. However, even if I can, the time doesn't work that way."

He then pointed at the past. "If I travel to the past to change it, this past will become my present. While the future where I come from becomes the past. Do you know what I mean?"

"A little bit." Alex narrowed his eyes.

"In other words, all of you won't exist right now." He then waved his hand. From the past emerged another stream of light. "This branch will be the new future. What about me? I will be gone, erased by the time paradox. That's why even if you can go to the past, you shouldn't meet another person because it will greatly affect the flow of time. And each timeline usually has branches, not like this one stream. It's like this."

He waved his hands and created the branches.

Alex opened his mouth in surprise. The one branch became a hundred, and that one hundred gave birth to another one hundred and so on.

"Without knowing it, we have passed so many possibilities until this one now. That's why the only thing I can do is to prepare you to meet the beast. In other words, preparing the present to face the future. Understand?"

"Yes." Alex nodded.

"I do know that this is a bit complicated, but this is the only thing I can do as Time God."

"Thank you, Father. I will certainly not disappoint you."

"Good. Even if I can predict your future, I won't tell you because you might choose another future because of that variable, turning the future into a different one than what I envisioned. So, I won't tell you anything."

"No, this is enough." Alex smiled.