Temporal Pearls

Seth on the other woke up slowly, he felt a bit refreshed and alive again.

His face became rosy unlike the pale skinny it was. He raised his head up and saw the vice captain moving at high speed dodging and parrying the strings that were attacking him.

'Every time something impacts my mind I feel like I recover more!' Seth thought, but as if his reasoning had returned and he looked at the attackers and understood their intentions.

'I really was dumb moment ago!' Seth mocked himself.

But still, he knew his reasoning was still lacking and he needed to fight seriously but then he was feeling a strange level of serenity, what if he took a nap.

He already has a pseudo-avatar fighting for him.

This idea felt good to him and he closed his eyes. The attackers thought he was trying to remain lucid but due how damaged the attack was to him he failed to do so.

Seth regained his earlier ability of being in game and real life. Experience more on empire

Now he can feel his cabin and the people outside but also can mildly feel the battle happening in the game.

But there was something strange as he felt as if his cabin had changed a bit but then he chucked that to the device he attached it to.

The one that will make him connected with this cabin even if he logged in to Coinavator.

Upon resting he noticed something, another connection with the strings and the thing controlling them. There was a thin link between them and he can feel how he was influencing the Threefold World Fence.

No matter what they do, the strings are as strong as ever, they also don't make mistakes just because Seth seemed asleep or out cold as they presumed.

"The thing is really independent. We need to get rid of it." Captain Navy said before he looked at the cabinet holding the red book hostage, he thought, 'Based on the intel the book was his strongest weapon. This confirms it as this skill comes out of it!'

His gaze shifted to the soldier that summoned the cabinet, immediately Shema the Vice Captain and iron scale dragon dashed there.

Each placed a hand on either side of the cabinet. This allowed the summoner to raise his hand from the ground and then activate another skill.

His body radiated energy and a giant sword, his body size manifested after the ground rapture. It has intricate patterns with both blue and red colour.

The Zweihänder sword was imposing and would be devastating when it attacked.

The sword waved back to build up momentum for the strike.

At that moment, Seth, who was enjoying the two worlds, suddenly felt a chill and he was pulled back to the game. Torrent of information reached him about the Zweihänder by the First Fold String.

The string has gathered that the sword was very dangerous and if it attacked them the strings would be canceled completely.

Seth's animation was competent enough to wield the strings well better than Seth but elaborate moves and defense against complex skill like the sword will make it unable to make correct judgment.

All this happened when the Zweihänder was waving back.

To the attackers, they only saw Seth snapping back awake and the strings appeared and they pulled to move Seth from his position.

Captain Navy smirked as the strings met with transparent glass confining them in place and the sword was now descending very fast.

Seth, still holding his staff, waved his hand toward the descending sword and in a fraction of a second, a rotating chakram appeared and met the sword midway.

Bang!

Like a steel meeting another steel, the sword was pushed back but the chakram cracked and later shattered to pieces which later disintegrated into dust.

The dust blown by the wind but made its way to the confined red book.

The Zweihänder force and energy was depleted and the effect of its attack was used against the chakram.

"What happened?" The Vice Captain asked. He and the iron scale dragon were still touching the cabinet.

"He used another weapon to counteract the sword!" The summoner spat out in anger.

This sword was very special and strong but can only be used once every day and twice if he wants to suffer some consequences.

And now it was a waste.

They might be shocked but Seth was more shocked than them. He knew what the chakram was made up of and he didn't expect it to just become dust like that.

'That sword is dangerous!'

The Zweihänder can still be used but without the dangerous effect and against the dangerous versatile strings, it won't be much help.

Suddenly, Seth raised his hand toward the red book and he made a pulling gesture.

The red book shook but the summoner unsummoned the sword and he vanished and appeared by the side of the cabinet. Thick silver chains emerged within the cabinet and bound the book more which made the book become silent.

The moment that happened, Seth raised his hand and spread it as if taken in a hug. The next moment, everyone that Seth can see was pierced by a string.

Captain Navy took a step back, shocked, he was fast enough to evade the fast sinister attack but Vice Captain Shema, iron scale dragon, the soldier on the device above in the sky, the other three were all impaled in their eyes and their brains seemed to be ravaged.

He looked back and he saw even the Temporal Warrior was harmed and without his orders, the time began to rewind in time.

Second before the attack, they all sighed in relief as sweat covered them but next second another attack came from underground.

The strings came from some crevices of the boots and pierced their legs and from inside the strings reached their body and ravaged it with utter brutality.

The pain assaulted them greater than before as they didn't die instantly like before with their brain.

Ahhh!

Ahhh!

Roar…

The pain and agony made them lose themselves. Even the dragon was harmed but because his bones were steel he wasn't destroyed much but he felt the pain as his other soft body parts were crushed.

This time even the captain almost failed to respond as he had expected the attack would be the same.

'How did he change the attack, can he remember the timeline!' He was shocked. But strangely, Temporal Warrior wasn't attacked this time and as he forced a Rewind, there was some resistance.

"Tîwēñɗ"

The Temporal Warrior shouted a spell to force the rewind skill. They went a second before the attack.

This time everyone jumped back and activated their defense skills.

The worst thing was they could remember vividly what had happened and the phantom pain lingered.

Captain Navy took a step to attack when suddenly a heart reaching scream assaulted his ears. The time rewinder was now the victim.

"Rewind!" He was ordered but he noticed that the man was shimmering which he noted as a time fluctuation.

"Stop!" The captain shouted as his special eyes gleaned what was happening but the Temporal Warrior was already in time glitch.

Captain Navy's hand glowed blue and he grabbed the man before he dashed a kilometre away from the battlefield before his right hand glowed green and grabbed toward the glitched man.

The hand passed through him and he yanked something out and threw it away.

He then turned and ordered in a booming voice,

"War!"

His voice reached the struggling soldiers and upon hearing that, they all smiled before a spike of energy and pressure emitted from each one of them.

They have been unshackled!

The captain then looked at the thing he extracted, it was a piece of meter long string wiggling before it dissipated.

His attention turned to the Temporal Warrior that now had a look of horror and panting with sweat covering his face.

"It latched onto me like a Crono Leach and I mistakenly activated rewind to remove it which made it possible to rewind with me."

He panted as he spat out the experience.

"The worst part was if I hadn't rewind, it wouldn't have lasted long but upon each rewind, it regained its strength and changed its attack pattern."

Now he closed his eyes before he snapped his eyes open.

"That fellow is sinister and that strings aren't simple. In the glitch I rewind more than a hundred times but each time the strings change their attack pattern."

This implied that they can't leverage the rewind information to fight the strings.

The captain was silent for a while.

"Hmm. No wonder the commander said relying on Rewind is a greatest weakness to those who manipulate time!" He commented.

'Time Rewind is great when facing all kinds of opponents but there are those that can exploit its weakness. Like Juma of Hourglass, that monster was too great of a fighter that I will never want to face even with Time Powers. And now this guy too and he is from the Hourglass team.'

Captain Navy Blue thoughts.