Dragon Who Controls Time

After killing Naga Kaporos, Garen and Volibear hadn't left yet.

On the surface in the distance, there was a flame flashing across the earth, with a majestic outline, like a running fire sheep. Wherever it passed, it left a long trail of flames behind it. It didn't take long for the fire sheep to stop. Garen and Volibear are not far away.

The flame dissipated and turned into Ornn's appearance.

Looking at the devastated surroundings full of various battle marks, Aoun looked up at the silver dragon hovering in the sky, and asked, "Fourth brother, where is Naga Kaporos?"

Aoun also received the message and rushed over immediately.

It's just that it didn't master the teleportation technique, so it could only run wildly on foot. Although it was very fast, when it arrived, the short battle that didn't take Garen much time was over.

Naga Kaporos died completely this time.

Not even an inch of flesh and blood or soul was left, completely annihilated.

Therefore, in Aoun's eyes, only traces of the battle were seen, but the result of the battle was not clear, and Naga Kaporos was not seen.

"It's already dead. It was defeated by the fourth brother...in a blink of an eye."

Garen hadn't answered yet, Volibear said in a muffled voice.

The face of the giant bear is now full of clearly visible depression.

Volibear's personality is very straightforward, and he doesn't hide his feelings. Whatever he thinks in his heart is almost always expressed on his bear face. Since he is not the opponent of Naga Kaporos, after Garen arrived, he Without any help from myself, Naga Kaporos was quickly eaten by herself in a very short period of time.

Thinking that Garen, who needed to be protected by himself before, has grown much stronger than himself, Volibear feels relieved, but at the same time, he can't help but feel a little sad.

Hearing Volibear's answer, Aoun's calm gaze also showed some fluctuations.

"Fourth brother, it seems that you have become unfathomable."

"I am proud of you."

Aoun smiled slightly and said to the silver dragon.

As early as when Garen hadn't grown up, the potential he showed had already shocked them, but in just a hundred years, he really surpassed them, and it was not only a little bit more, although it was expected, But when I felt it myself, I was still a little surprised.

You must know that Ornn and Volibear, because of the establishment of the Four Pillars of God, have been growing and are not standing still.

"Another god born from belief, how do you deal with it?"

Volibear asked curiously.

Garen considered his words for a while, and pondered: "I destroyed her divine body, and took away her divine rank......"

Garen told Ornn and Volibear about his need for godhood.

"That's it...then we will take care of you when you are not around."

Ornn nodded.

After two experiences, Garen also realized that if he wanted to be born in a different time and space and believe in gods, the first thing he needed was that after he left, his believers would still not waver in their faith. The guarantee of this premise was to have A sufficiently powerful background force serves as a shelter.

For example, the Reaper and the Nether Empire in the Faerun timeline.

The Four Pillars here.

Otherwise, once Garen leaves, he will be unable to respond to his believers. Over time, the church established and the beliefs absorbed will fall apart, and it will be impossible to give birth to a god of faith with a godhead.

"Since Naga Kaporos has been dealt with, fourth brother, is there something urgent in your time and space?"

"If not, just stay here for a while."

"After all, it's rare to come here once."

Volibear's bear paw patted the dragon's shoulder and said.

Since the current Garon is much taller than Volibear, even after he had lifted his giant deification and fell to the ground, Volibear's thick bear arms were raised very high, barely reaching Garen's shoulders .

For Garen, the current situation in the main timeline is not optimistic, but at the same time it is also a stalemate.

Even if he returned immediately, besides sleeping and growing up, Garen did have some important things to do.

If there is an emergency, Yuna will call Garon through the time alliance contract, so Garen has no worries, and it is okay to stay here for a while.

Besides, Garen was extremely curious about the so-called void creatures.

Naga Kaporos is dead, but there are still many nests of void creatures scattered across Valoran.

"Seal more void creatures and study their ability to devour and evolve."

"If I can explore the essence of their abilities and analyze them, then at my own growth rate, I will soon become a kind of powerful divine force."

"Also, what is the void? A certain world, or a general term for a race, or a synonym for the original god of desolation."

Garen was thinking in his heart.

Naga Kaporos said to be careful of the void, and it was originally a demigod from Valoran. Even if it was transformed, it was obviously not a real void creature.

In Garen's view, the purple monsters roaming the mainland are not as good as Naga Kaporos. If it is really a void creature that Naga Kaporos is dying to pass on and makes Garen wary of, maybe it's just Lowest.

As a spellcaster, the main reason why Garen was not in a hurry to leave was the research and experiment mentality bred in the face of incomprehensible creatures. He wanted to gain insight into the essence of the truth.

"Okay, fourth brother, let's go to Luxiang together."

"Brother has forged a lot of magical weapons during this time, I will take you to pick some."

Volibear laughed. Although he suffered some minor injuries in the battle with Naga Kaporos, his voice was still as thick as thunder.

Next, Garen, Ornn, Volibear, and the three gathered in Ornn's Furnace Township territory, chatting and chatting with each other.

Both Ornn and Volibear were curious about Garon's identity and experience in the main timeline, and kept asking.

Garen also chose suitable content, telling stories about himself or what he knew, satisfying the strong curiosity of the two brothers.

"So, maybe we were the first gods?"

"According to the fourth brother, we may all become the main gods of one party in the future."

Hearing Volibear's excited words, the giant dragon shook his head and said: "Don't be too happy, remember to be careful of the original desolate gods outside the plane, when they find you new and undeveloped gods At times, there may be a strong interest, with unforeseen consequences."

Volibear didn't care too much, and said: "No matter what, expanding the territory and recruiting believers is a good thing for us."

Garen nodded, and said: "The power of faith involves the level of extraordinary divine power, of course, the more the better."

Hearing Garen's affirmation, the muscular Volibear's bear eyes lit up, he looked at Aoun on the other side, and said, "Brother Aoun, did you hear that? Faith is very important to us, and we cannot let it go." Let other demigods compete with us for faith."

"The territory of the Four Pillars will not be limited to the Freljord. If it expands its territory in the future, there will be conflicts with them sooner or later."

"In my opinion, it's better to take advantage of their divine power to grow, and use our weak divine power and our already possessed demigod power to conquer Valoran continent in one go and sweep away all obstacles."

"Kill what should be killed, what should be subdued, and build the prototype of the god system with our brothers as the main body in advance."

"I know that my brother doesn't like fighting, but when the time comes, my brother only needs to forge armor for me and my people, and I will lead them to fight in all directions."

As he spoke, Volibear's hair was flaring up, and his body was full of lightning currents.

The quite militant Volibear couldn't help but be full of fighting spirit and blood boiling when he thought of the scene of going to the mainland and fighting to become the God Lord.

Compared to Volibear who was quite excited, Ornn remained silent and said nothing.

After a brief silence, Aoun looked at Gallon and said, "Fourth brother, what do you think?"

Garen thought about it carefully, considered his language, and finally said in a low voice: "For gods, faith is very important."

Although Aoun did not directly agree to Volibear, Garen's words were not intended to be a kind of acquiescence and approval.

Aoun nodded slightly, and said, "Really, I'll think about it again."

This contradictory topic was temporarily put aside, and in the majestic Forge Forge, around the forging furnace that Ornn connected to the center of the earth through the volcano, the three pillar gods of the Four Pillars Sect continued to talk and reminisce about the past.

He didn't stay in Luxiang all the time.

After a while, Gallon asked his two elder brothers to go out and search for the nests of void creatures.

Not only are their deities dispatched, but they also called on their believers to follow the traces of the void creatures, and report them immediately if they find them.

Under such circumstances, because the rest of the wisdom demigods also wanted to completely eradicate the nests of void creatures that infested the mainland, they started to do it one after another.

As a result, as time passed, more and more nests of void creatures rooted in Valoran were discovered and pulled out, and one by one they were still in the larval stage, or had already grown into legendary void creature alienation individuals. Killed and cleaned up by many wise demigods.

As for Garen here.

As it was explained in advance, if Ornn and Volibear encounter void creatures above the legendary level, they will not kill them, but directly capture them alive and hand them over to Gallon.

at the same time.

Over a void lair that stretches for hundreds of kilometers, the figure of a silver giant dragon rages horizontally and vertically. Wherever the shadow of its wings passes, all void creatures guarding the lair are completely eliminated, and their bodies are shattered and turned into dust.

Only those above the legendary level are sealed in the amber of time, motionless like exquisite and hideous withered statues.

Soon, Garen disintegrated the defense force of this lair.

Living high in the sky, Garen looked down at the lair territory, took a deep breath, then narrowed his eyes slightly, mobilized his magic power, and murmured obscure and mysterious spells in his mouth.

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Fourteen-ring spell, space weaving technique!

Under Garen's will, the space curtain covering the void lair was like a folded paper, repeatedly compressed and shrunk. In the end, the boundary of hundreds of kilometers seemed to be bitten by the mouth of an invisible beast, and disappeared without a sound. , leaving only shocking traces of vast depressions on the surface.

The void lair, including the area nearly a thousand meters underground, was compressed, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.

At first glance, the finished product looks like an upside-down miniature mountain, but it has been raised from the ground, only a few feet high, quietly suspended between Garen's sharp hooked toes.

In the woven and compressed space, the void creatures sealed by time amber are like grains of purple dust, and the void lair covered with purple veins like blood vessels now looks like an extremely exquisite work of art.

call.

Under the light of the faint sunlight, the dragon's scales seemed to be coated with a layer of gold.

Although the weaving compressed such a large area of ​​space, Garen still looked energetic and didn't seem to be consuming anything.

Looking at his dragon claws, Garen inspected the void lair.

Although the sealed void creatures inside were very small, like grains of imperceptible dust, they were still clearly visible in Garen's eyes.

"Very good, this is the third completely compressed void lair."

"With the nests that breed these creatures, and the void creatures themselves, it should be possible to study them thoroughly."

The silver light flashed away, and the dragon figure disappeared from the spot.

Returning to the area where his believers' territory was located, he showed off his figure and power. After gathering a wave of faith, Garen restrained his dragon wings and entered his temple.

After instructing the guards and priests of the temple to leave temporarily and not to disturb him, Garen began his research on void creatures.

Only the figure of the giant dragon, inside the silent and empty temple.

The silver dragon sat solemnly, with a metal platform constructed by magic in front of him.

On the metal stage, there is a legendary void creature stuck in the stillness of time, unable to resist at all. After alienation, it looks like a hybrid of a large unicorn and a giant elephant. .

Nine-ring change system, extremely effective anatomy.

With a thought in Garen's mind, the spell was cast instantly.

in an instant.

Crackling, crackling........It was as if the sounds of cruel and ruthless knives cutting skin, tearing flesh, and dismembering bones echoed in the temple.

After just a few seconds, the void creatures that were still intact just now have turned into a pile of flesh, carapace, bones and other tissue parts that have been completely decomposed and piled up in an orderly manner.

There is more than one metal table.

Surrounding the body of the giant dragon, there are hundreds of densely packed metal platforms, all of which are dismembered void creatures.

Next, Garen's eyes were flooded, and his eyes swept across the metal platforms, analyzing the microstructure information of the hole clothing belonging to the void creatures at close range, and did not miss any observable parts.

The miniature void lair was also taken out by Gallon, suspended in mid-air. The lair itself, including the living void creatures inside, was also within Gallon's analysis range.

In this way, time passed quietly.

With the in-depth study of void creatures, Garen had a clearer understanding of their primitive, ancient evil and endless desire to devour them.

During this process, Garen also selected some void creatures to feed.

During the research, Garen discovered that these void creatures have different absorption and transformation efficiencies of the food they devour. Void creatures that eat the same food have uneven levels of strength improvement. The weak ones may only be able to digest one percent of the devoured person. Strength is nothing to worry about, but if it is strong enough, it can reach one-tenth, one-fifth, etc.

This conversion efficiency varies depending on the strength of the food being devoured.

However, Garen has been unable to analyze and determine the essential root of void creature devouring evolution.

As a spellcaster, the idea of ​​pursuing the truth of all things has gained the upper hand. Garen did not give up easily. As time passed, he was obsessed with his own research and experiments, trying to fuse the blood of void creatures with some ordinary creatures and make them artificial. transform.

Garen quickly succeeded in this experiment, it was very simple.

Because... the blood of void creatures has the characteristic of active erosion, and Garen only provided a small nutritional boost, which naturally succeeded.

But this kind of success was not what Garen wanted.

Because all eroded creatures, without exception, showed an insatiable desire to devour, even intelligent creatures at the legendary level could not resist.

"Naga Kaporos has lost her wisdom... Ordinary gods and god-like powers may also not be immune to will erosion."

Garen's ambition and desire to explore were aroused, and the experiments continued again and again.

until...........

Garen, who was obsessed with research, stared, and his eyes became sharp and sharp.

Suddenly, in Garon's temple laboratory, the purple veins on the surface of void creatures, whether they were dead or alive, began to glow, and the surrounding space was dyed with a hazy and dreamy purple. The frequency flickered, looking beautiful and harmless.

The silver dragon with a purple reflection on its body looked around, and finally, its eyes fell on the shimmering purple light.

It seems to be a language.

An unknown existence is trying to communicate with Garen in this way.

Garen narrowed his eyes slightly, and began to analyze the frequency of the flashing purple light. With his existing mental strength, he quickly analyzed what the other party wanted to convey.

At the same time, the purple light flickered steadily.

[Small creatures from different time and space]

【Return to the void, dissolve in the void, the void will bestow upon you, the infinite power of evolution】

[Afterwards, you will become the apostle of the void, cross time and space under my will, devour all things in the endless timeline, start the glorious infinite evolution, and become the supreme one and only]

Garen's research on void creatures instead attracted Void's attention.

Void was very concerned about Garen's ability to travel through different timelines.

The giant dragon raised his chin and said, "Sounds good, but I refuse."

Small?

Garen felt a kind of arrogance from this unknown... let's call it void consciousness.

The void consciousness gave Gallon the feeling that it was his honor to become a void creature.

Although he really coveted the devouring evolution ability of void creatures, Gallon also knew that this thing would not be so easy to obtain. Naga Kaporos' dying warning had already explained some problems.

Perhaps, Naga Kaporos had received the same message as Garen.

The flashing speed of the purple light accelerated, but it was still smooth and orderly.

【Small and ignorant creatures】

[No creature can resist the void, resist the will of the void]

There was no intention of continuing to communicate with Garen, as if he was just stating the facts, the flickering light of the veins on the surface of the void creature stopped, and the purple light in the space disappeared at the same time.

Looking at the wreckage and living bodies of void creatures in the room, as well as several void nests floating in the air, Garen intuitively felt that a crisis was approaching.

In the northern part of the Freljord, in the vast expanse of blue ocean.

boom!

A purple beam of light suddenly broke through the sea and went straight into the sky. The entire sky and the entire sea area were dyed with purple light. Huge lakes and indistinguishable strange figures were colliding in the purple curtain and became more and more clear.

The terrifying evil aura swept in all directions.

The sudden change caught the attention of all the wise demigods in Valoran.

Countless eyes focused on the ocean.

When they saw the ocean and sky that instantly turned into a purple world, and the silhouette of the sky-covering figure breaking through the thick fog, the demigods couldn't help trembling and frightened. The fear of prey when facing top predators.

Although Naga Kaporos is dead.

However, with Naga Kaporos, Void has completed its own purpose, established a connection with this world, eroded and devoured the entire world, and then started from this to extend its tentacles to all worlds.

"Oops, what a horrible smell."

Garen's figure flashed, teleported through time, and arrived in the North Sea in an instant, looking solemnly at the sea area.

The purple curtain in the field of vision is the scene where the barriers of the plane are eroded by the power of the void. As for the looming shadows of monsters inside, I am afraid they are real void creatures.

Before the other party arrived, Garen felt a terrifying sense of oppression.

Kacha Kacha........The plane barrier is like a fragile mirror, and gaps begin to extend on it, and the purple phantoms on it are becoming clearer and clearer.

In the violent change, more intelligent demigods came here.

boom!

A gap of hundreds of kilometers was opened, revealing a strange space filled with vast purple.

The scene was only sequenced for a split second.

In the next second, a purple, crystal-like eyeball almost filled the gap, as if a terrifying and huge existence was observing the tiny world in a bottle.

Cold and ruthless, with a probing and scrutinizing gaze, it made each of the wise demigods feel icy cold.

"Small beings made of blood and flesh, let me see your structure."

There was no sound, but the mental fluctuations of will came, making the wise demigods understand its meaning.

"Damn it, this is a kind of powerful divine power, and the strength of the breath is about the same as that of the King of Heroes."

Void creatures that are powerful enough are conscious.

Moreover, these guys are indeed some kind of original existence outside the main material plane.

Garen understood this.

However, Garen is also facing a crisis now.

Such a powerful divine power is an existence that can properly destroy the main material world.

In the main timeline, there is no powerful divine power or similar powerful divine power to do so, because it will arouse the hostility of the gods, and it is very possible to be encircled and wiped out, unless the destruction is a desolate world.

But in this savage age...  

"I haven't returned the last Shilong Niuliu, so I'm going to use it again?"

Garen could feel that this huge eye was staring at him.

At the same time, the beautiful and dangerous eyes like purple crystals began to glow.

"The creatures that can be disintegrated are so concentrated, great, let me take a closer look."

Nourish!

A ray, so huge that it looked like a purple ray from the sky collapsing, precisely swept towards the area where the wisdom demigods gathered.

Garen's vision was purple, and he felt mortal danger.

Intuition told Garen that if he was hit by this ray, he would be disintegrated and wiped out, and the barrier of time would be hard to resist.

However, just when Garen wanted to use Shilong Reverse Flow.

There is a tiny star swaying its tail flame, forming out of thin air, perfectly resisting the purple rays, and going upstream against the current, smashing into the eyes of the void.

collapse!

The purple blood fell like the Tianhe waterfall and entered the ocean. Amid the tragic roar of pain, the void's eyes were sunken, and tiny stars with a diameter of tens of kilometers were deeply embedded in them.

This is just the beginning.

Garen raised his head.

Unknowingly, the sky changed.

Hundreds of millions of stars are all over the sky, and there is also a light blue energy light, forming a silhouette that looks like a cosmic galaxy in the world.

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More stars formed in the main material plane, drawing beautiful flame arcs in the air, covering the sky and covering the sun, advancing one after another, densely packed, like a never-ending meteor shower, smashing into the gap opened by the void.

This scene is too vast.

All the wise demigods present looked up at the sky, unable to intervene, and did not understand what happened.

Garen looked far into the distance, and he could see the outline of the figure outside the sky. At the same time, Tong Kong shook.

The silhouette that caught Garen's eyes was a dragon.

Sinuous and slender body like the Milky Way, strong limbs, generous and majestic dragon head... It seems to be composed of a translucent blue energy, which seems to flicker and reflect endless energy. The starry sky, the galaxy composed of stars all over the sky, flows slowly in this body, vast, majestic, beautiful and dreamy.

Its body looks like an emperor dragon.

In addition, the aura and power displayed by this dragon are more ferocious than the Lord of Storms in Garen's perception.

But these were not what shocked Garen the most.

What shocked him the most was that in this dragon, Garen felt the same soul as himself, belonging to a different time and space.

It is the first time so far that he has encountered his own space-time variant in so many trips to different time and space.

"Aurelion, it's you again."

"Oh? Since you tried to attack and devour me, aren't you mentally prepared enough? Besides, a wonderful world full of life in the chaotic universe should not be destroyed by you."

The dragon who forged the sky full of stars as a weapon said quietly.

While speaking, the stars fell all over the sky, embedded in the purple sky, and at the same time, the stars were connected together, forming a cumbersome texture, bursting out with bright light, while the purple sky dimmed and slowly disappeared.

After knocking back the void.

Casting Star Dragon lowered its eyes, and the two eyes looked like a pair of suns hanging high in the sky.

In the world, Garen, who was looking up at the sky, felt his sight falling from the sky.

"Hello, I am from a different time and space."

"You can call me, Star-Forging Dragon King, Aurelion."

In his mind, Garen's voice rang directly.

However, he directly used the name suffix as his name.

Garen thought for a while, then left Valoran, appearing in the chaos and nothingness beyond the plane.

Facing this Aurelion directly, the shock brought by his unbelievable body shape hits the face, and it becomes clearer.

"A long time ago, my heart moved, and I felt your arrival, so I searched for your location in the barren and chaotic nothingness, and wanted to see you."

"Until recently, while I was tracking the void, I discovered your breath and locked this world."

Hearing the other party's words, Garen was stunned.

This is Aurelion's timeline, meaning that, as in the past in the main timeline, he didn't exist.

Every timeline, unless it is a branch created by Garen based on his own main timeline, has a different historical trajectory. This is a time and space that is completely different from the main timeline.

Perhaps, even in the future, the Outer Plane that Garen knew would still not be born.

What's more, in the original existence here, there may not necessarily be the nine-faced dragon god, or the original sun god, etc., which Garen is familiar with.

Correspondingly, in the main timeline, the void does not necessarily exist.

If there is, it may be another form of expression.

"During the battle just now, I didn't feel the power of time."

"Don't you focus on the power of time?"

Zhu Xinglong smiled slightly, his whole body was full of radiance, as if hundreds of millions of stars were shining at the same time.

"I was born together with this universe, mastering the power of casting stars and creating the world. Compared with the invisible and intangible power of time, I love the stars of aesthetic art."

"I see."

Garen showed envy.

Obviously, this different time and space homotope has already mastered incredible power since its birth, and it does not need to develop and grow step by step. The situation is special.

"You seem to have a conflict with the void. What is the void in this world?"

Garen was a little curious.

Zhu Xinglong thought about it carefully, considered the language, and said eloquently: "The beginning of the birth of the world is the most chaotic and the most balanced. At the same time, we wait for the original existence to be conceived. the will to change the operation of the rules of the world.”

He smiled and asked Garen, "If you were the world and had consciousness, what would you think of these creatures that were born by you, lived in your body, and could trample on your balance?"

Garen pondered, "Some nasty, parasites?"

Zhu Xinglong nodded, and praised Garen without hesitation: "As expected of me, I have the wisdom as bright as a star, and I can see through it at a little bit."

After a pause, he continued: "The void, for us, represents the ultimate evil, because it is the embodiment of justice in the world, and its only purpose of existence is to devour us creatures."

Garen's face was shocked.

According to Zhu Xinglong's words, the nature of justice and evil seems to be completely opposite to normal cognition.

In the complete world itself, at the level of the multiverse, the destruction of life is justice. Void, in Garen's perception, is an evil and terrifying existence, and it turns out to be an emissary of justice guarding the world.

"The time and space you are in should have similar ultimate evil and world justice."

"If you find it, be more careful."

Zhu Xinglong continued.

Garen suppressed the turmoil in his heart, and asked, "Is the void strong? I think you easily repelled them."

Zhu Xinglong shook his head and said, "It's not easy."

"Because of the balance rules of the world itself, the ultimate thing like void has been in a sealed state, and it is difficult to get in touch with the outside world."

"If there is no seal, I will be powerless to face the void alone."

Garen was talking with Casting Star Dragon.

Afterwards, Aurelion also curiously asked about the time and space where Garen was.

After listening to Garen's narration, Aurelion pondered: "The bottomless abyss may be another void."

"It's not certain, the void of time and space you are in is in the deepest part of the bottomless abyss."

Indeed, Garen felt an evilness similar to that of the abyssal demon in the void creature.

"In this case, the bottomless abyss needs to be paid more attention to."

Garen thought to himself.

The bottomless abyss is a plane that even the demons of the abyss have not been able to explore. In the plane guide, it represents the oldest and ultimate evil. No one knows how many layers the bottomless abyss has.

If the level is limited, then what is at the bottom of the abyss?

Neither gods nor demons have answers to these questions.

However, Garen already had some conjectures that could not be completely determined, which seemed to be answers.

"Do you want to go to the time and space where I am?"

After a period of communication, Garen sent out an invitation.

"No, I still have lofty goals that I haven't been able to achieve."

"what?"

Garen was curious.

"I want to create a sky full of stars in this empty universe, and compose a wonderful picture of the starry sky."

"It's a tough goal, good luck."

Garen looked around, the vast void was dead silent and desolate. Even for the mighty Aurelion, it would be a very difficult task to fill the void with stars.

"I am in a different time and space. When you grow up, I may need your help in the future."

"I foresee the future through the long river of time and see some crises for me, but it is difficult to determine what it is."

He is obsessed with casting stars, he doesn't study the power of time very much, and his related abilities are very poor.

Garen nodded in agreement.

"Okay, I'm leaving, and I wish you good luck."

After finishing speaking, the star-casting dragon meandered its body like a galaxy, and gradually disappeared from Garen's field of vision.

"I'm already a weak-level divine power, and I'm not far from a medium-level divine power."

"However, there are still many unknowns in this world."

"But that's fine, the future is worth looking forward to."

Garen returned to the continent of Valoran, thinking silently.