Magical Girl's Knight Brother

Chapter 503 Reversing the Dust

"Is it... over...?"

Su Siyao lowered her hand that had been blocking her eyes, staring in disbelief at the scene before her.

The light began to fade rapidly, and the spatial barrier that had vaguely isolated the real world gradually disappeared. All sounds fell silent, leaving only the devastation of the city.

Everyone could clearly see the colossal figure standing in the center of the city. He stood atop scorched earth, surrounded by collapsed skyscrapers and churning, cracked ground. In his hand, he clutched a mechanical head that occasionally flickered with eerie blue sparks. Seemingly hearing Su Siyao's words, Tang Zijun slowly lowered her head, fixing her gaze on the head of the God of Time and Space. "It's not over yet."

He murmured to himself, as if he were talking to someone, or perhaps talking to himself.

"Wait for me in the wasteland, I'll come find you."

The light in the God of Time and Space's eyes had long since vanished, and he was no longer able to respond to Tang Zijun's words. All that remained of him was a huge head, which Tang Zijun had intentionally left behind. Otherwise, with that attack, nothing would have been left of him.

"But before that," Tang Zijun changed the subject, turning slightly to look at the Time-Space Temple still suspended in mid-air. "Let you make your final contribution to this world."

The post-war apocalyptic scene and the acrid smell of gunpowder seemed to be gripped by an invisible hand, and the atmosphere suddenly froze. The burning embers on the battlefield of Shanghai, the bricks and stones scattered on the ground, and even the dust flying in the air, all suddenly stopped in that instant, and the entire battlefield fell into a grand and eerie deathly silence.

Immediately afterwards, a force completely opposite to destruction descended.

Chang Lei and Shi Yao were the first to sense this power, followed by Qiu Yun, who frowned slightly, staring at the enormous figure. "What...what is he going to do?"

"This power of time..." Afran's face was still somewhat pale. After a moment of thought, she suddenly realized something. "He wouldn't be thinking of..."

Before the words were finished, the mechanical head in the giant's hand, standing in the center of the city ruins, emitted a ghostly blue glow. At the same time, the majestic outline of the Time-Space Temple, suspended in the sky, also began to be illuminated by this light.

This light was not as scorching as the sun, but a deep, gentle, and cool radiance, like the clear moonlight.

Surprisingly, the light did not spread outwards, but instead contracted inwards. As this vortex emerged, the entire city began to "come alive".

Instead of falling, a GG card floating in mid-air began to trace its trajectory back in an extremely slow, illogical manner.

Following its trajectory, the dust it kicked up with the impact also began to gather again, as if a video were being played in reverse, returning to its original position.

It was like a signal. Soon, the twisted steel bars and shattered glass began to hum and hum. They broke free from the shackles of gravity and rose into the air from the ruins. Huge concrete spun and flew up, and as the building stood upright again, the cracks at the edges were stitched together by an invisible force. Stone fragments precisely found the missing places and filled them in, while steel bars were straightened with a piercing sound. Sparkling glass shards flew from all directions, returning to the window frames like a jigsaw puzzle.

The entire city was bathed in the silver light cascading down from the Temple of Time and Space, and everything visible to the naked eye was undergoing a grand and meticulously recreated performance.

The city, which had fallen into silence, became lively again. However, in this bustling scene, there was no one, or rather, everyone who remained in the city was watching this spectacular sight with an indescribable emotion.

The power of time was once again materialized, and this time, everyone felt it even more vividly.

Apart from Chang Lei, Tang Cao, and Su Siyao, none of the others had the memory of that time being paused, so this was the first time they were watching all of this from an outsider's perspective.

Standing amidst this scene, they could deeply feel the shock that came from the depths of their souls. And in the bustling city, Tang Zijun's enormous body gradually turned into specks of light and suddenly shrank.

After deactivating his transformation, the reversed airflow ruffled Tang Zijun's hair. He looked down at his palm and saw a dark blue card lying quietly on his fingertip amidst starlight.

The card is made of some kind of technological metal. On the card surface is printed a strange entity with the heads of an old man, a middle-aged man, and a young man. This is formed from the core of the God of Time and Space, and is also the opponent's original power.

Only this power can awaken the Temple of Time and Space.

"Now we are old men on the verge of death, in the past we were middle-aged people in our memories, and the future belongs to the youth? That's really true."

Tang Zijun's lips curled slightly as she examined the cards in her hand.

Crack!

As they murmured, a bolt of lightning struck down with a deafening roar.

Then, Qiu Yun's figure slowly emerged from the lightning.

Tang Zijun was not surprised by Qiu Yun's appearance, or rather, he had already noticed the other party's movements. He discreetly put away the cards in his hand and turned his body slightly.

At this moment, Qiu Yun also began to take a serious look at the man in front of her, whom she had only met once before.

After a moment of silence, she sighed softly. "Now I understand why you're the only six-star agent in the department." Tang Zijun smiled upon hearing this, and shrugged helplessly. "Sorry, I kept it a secret for so long, and almost caused chaos in the city."

"But you successfully fixed it, didn't you?" Qiu Yun pointed to the city around them, still in a state of time reversal. "It's truly unbelievable."

"I can repair the city, but I can't repair the memories in everyone's minds." Tang Zijun looked into the distance and sighed. "After today, I'm afraid the whole world will be in chaos."

If the existence of magical girls is still under the control of the state, then at the level of the God of Time and Space and Tang Zijun, it is no longer within the control of humans.

Unlike the battle at the Crown Royal City, and unlike the battle during the Shadow Plague, this time, every conscious person in the world, except those who were sleeping like logs, witnessed this battle firsthand.

Perhaps they didn't see the final scene of the God of Time being killed, but it's safe to say that the destructive power and apocalyptic visions that were unleashed before were deeply etched into their minds.

In fact, Tang Zijun had considered reversing time and going back to before the war began, but after truly mastering the power of the God of Time and Space, he realized just how difficult it would be to do so.

The timeline of the real world is like a flood after a dam collapses. It is beyond human power to reverse. Going against the current is difficult enough, but trying to bring the raging flood back is even more impossible.

Tang Zijun can gather the power of time throughout the city and reverse the destruction caused here, but he cannot reverse the memories of so many living beings around the world.

The good news is that he did not reveal his identity to the public. Apart from the few people present and Shangguan Su, who already knew about it, everyone else only saw the giant form of the wolf rider, not Tang Zijun himself.

But this is the only good news.

With the appearance of mechanical life forms that do not belong to the heretical demons, and wolf riders that are different from magical girls, the world will probably fall into chaos again. At least Tang Zijun believes that she will definitely dominate the trending searches in a while.

Seeing Tang Zijun's complex expression, Qiu Yun couldn't help but whisper, "That guy, is he the enemy you've been fighting all this time—the monster born from the dream world?"

Qiu Yun didn't know much about Tang Zijun before, since she wasn't someone she was responsible for. The only thing she knew was that Tang Zijun could freely enter and exit the dream world, so she naturally made that connection to that aspect.

Tang Zijun shook her head slightly upon hearing this. "He didn't come from the dream world, but from another, more materialistic, more virtual wasteland world."

"A wasteland world?" Qiu Yun frowned.

"Isn't that the robot that mysteriously appeared outside the comic convention last time?" At that moment, Shiyao's voice came from the side.

The two looked back and saw the figures of the Lost Ray and Afran rapidly descending and walking towards them.

"Yes." Tang Zijun nodded and looked at Shi Yao. "Thank you for your hard work."

"It's no trouble at all. If you had come any later, we would have taken care of that guy first." Shi Yao crossed her arms and turned her head away. Afran, on the other hand, looked at Tang Zijun with a face full of curiosity, seemingly judging something. After a while, she couldn't help but ask, "Why do you, a human, possess such a strong power of greed!?"

Afran's words also piqued Qiu Yun's curiosity, and she then recalled the terrifyingly dense energy she had experienced earlier.

"Pure greed, devoid of any negative energy—this is the first time I've ever seen such power. What exactly are you?"

Upon hearing this, Tang Zijun was momentarily at a loss for words.

To be honest, he himself had only just learned about his predecessor's past. If he hadn't rushed back to stop the God of Time and Space, he really wanted to be alone and quietly think about what he really was.

Fortunately, at this moment, Shiyao gracefully walked over and spoke up to help Tang Zijun out of the predicament.

"Instead of figuring out where your power comes from, I think you should be thinking more about how to explain it to that little girl."

Upon hearing Shiyao's words, Tang Zijun slightly raised her head.

Looking back, she saw Tang Cao standing alone on the street not far behind her, her expression a complex mix of emotions.