The center of the arena.
Seeing Irene's serious expression, Dimaria's lips curled slightly. She lightly snapped her fingers, and the world instantly froze, turning into a dull gray.
She looked at the motionless Irene and said with a light chuckle, "This is the world of frozen time, the Time Gap—a world that belongs to me alone."
"This is my magic, Time Seal!"
Dimaria stepped forward and reached Irene. She grabbed Irene's chin, kneading and rubbing it, pinching it into a funny face one moment and a cute expression the next. She laughed, "This is magic that absolutely cannot lose. You can't resist at all!"
She took two steps back, her long knife ready to leave a wound on Irene's arm to win the bet.
However, just as the long knife swung out, it was suddenly caught by two slender fingers.
Dimaria felt as if she had been struck by lightning. Seeing Irene moving, she turned pale with fright and instinctively backed away. "You!!!"
This was impossible. How could someone move in her world?
Irene looked around at the gray sky and the frozen world. She said curiously, "So this is the world of the Time Gap?"
She had heard Acnologia mention the Eclipse Gate. Dimaria's time seal was extremely similar to the interior of the Eclipse Gate—both were worlds where time stood still.
Dimaria said in disbelief, "Did my time start flowing?"
"No."
Irene shook her head and explained, "I simply condensed my magic power completely and heightened my sensitivity to external feedback to the limit. I can perceive even the slightest stimulus, including attacks from the temporal level."
Without an external stimulus, even with her Dragon King Level strength, she wouldn't have been able to wake up in this world. In her knowledge, only one person could autonomously perceive time.
Dimaria's expression soured. She had never imagined someone could break into her world this way; she was no longer the only one.
Irene said with a smile, "Don't be angry. Time isn't absolutely invincible; in the end, it depends on the individual. If you were strong enough, you could seal my time completely."
Dimaria naturally knew this, but strengthening her Time Seal magic was easier said than done. It would likely require her magic power to increase several times over.
Suddenly, she noticed something and jerked her head toward the audience. She saw Acnologia sitting in a chair, one hand propping up his chin and the other holding a cup of milk tea, sipping away. She felt her world crumbling.
Was this a joke? Out of four people present, three could enter the frozen world. The only one actually frozen was Brandish. What was going on?
Had she run into everyone who transcended time?
Irene said with a smile, "What's wrong? Are you going to admit defeat already? As one of the Spriggan 12, you should have other powers."
Dimaria exhaled, her face regaining its confidence. "In that case, let me show you my true strength!"
She raised her hand, which glowed with golden light, and then slammed it onto the ground. A terrifying burst of magic power erupted, instantly shattering the ground as a burst of golden light soared into the sky.
Irene's figure drifted back. She raised a hand to shield her eyes from the blinding light, her eyes showing surprise. "Such strong magic power. This is..."
The blinding golden light lasted for a full minute before dissipating. A deep pit had been blasted into the area where Dimaria stood, and the air was thick with smoke.
"Take Over: God Soul!"
Dimaria floated in mid-air. Her body had turned black with golden patterns, and her short golden hair had become long black hair standing upright. Fiery red God Power surged around her, emitting a terrifying aura.
"God Power?"
Irene's face showed interest. "The legendary Chronos, God of Time. Even four hundred years ago, I never heard of a god manifesting in the human world."
The library of the Dragnof Kingdom had no records of gods either. If gods truly existed, they would have descended hundreds or even thousands of years before the dragons and phoenixes.
Fiery red magic power surged around Dimaria as she said calmly, "I am the God of Time, a true deity!"
"Pierce through, the Far Shore of Time!"
She extended her hand, and a golden light condensed at her fingertip before shooting toward Irene at high speed. This strike was so fast that even time seemed to slow down.
Irene said leisurely, "If you were the only one in the frozen world, this move would indeed be formidable. But since I am also in this world, it's meaningless."
Her magic staff glowed with scarlet light, and a beam of light shot out, colliding with the stream of time. A terrifying explosion rang out, shattering the ground.
Immediately after, hundreds more scarlet beams shot out like a rainstorm, relentlessly bombarding Dimaria.
However, once the dust settled, Dimaria was unharmed, still floating in the sky with a proud stance.
"Except for God Slayer Magic, no magic can defeat me!"
She pressed her hand against the void. "Age Scratch!"
She pulled all the injuries Irene had suffered in the past into the present. Only a few faint marks appeared on Irene's body; she hadn't even broken the skin.
Dimaria looked shocked. "Impossible! You've never been injured?"
Irene looked down at herself and explained, "I was seriously injured a long time ago, but your magic cannot manifest injuries from that far back into the present."
Those were injuries from her battles with dragons four hundred years ago. Her magic power was strong enough that Dimaria's time power could only manifest injuries she had suffered within the past month.
She looked at Dimaria, her magic power surging. She chuckled, "God Soul is indeed powerful. However, I am an Augmentation Mage. Having just endured your power, I have already analyzed your God Power. I can augment it onto myself as a God Slayer Attribute!"
"Ultimate Augmentation: Time God Slayer Power!"
Irene's terrifying magic power soared into the sky, instantly staining the entire heavens. Then, the scarlet magic turned into golden magic as a completely different power erupted.
"God of Time Mode!"
Along with her voice, a terrifying explosion occurred on the ground. A golden pillar of light shot into the sky, and Irene's entire body turned into golden light, leaving only a blurred human shape.
"This power is not inferior to Dragon Power at all."
Having turned into a little golden person, Irene moved her body. Her entire magic power had converted to the time attribute, and her understanding of time instantly skyrocketed.
Seeing the power that was identical to her own, Dimaria's face was filled with shock. "You stole my God Power?"
Irene smiled. "I am the Mother of Dragon Slayer Mages from four hundred years ago. I am more than familiar with augmenting a special power onto myself."
It was the same operation, except she was much stronger now than she was four hundred years ago, with a much greater store of knowledge.
Dimaria was on the verge of going crazy. She only possessed this power because she was a descendant of the God of Time. How could the person before her possess God Power so easily?
How was this possible? This was too absurd!
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