After all 6 protectors had succeeded, they were all reunited. In front of them was a white light. Here would be the final test. This was the last test where Uranus died. No one knew what he had encountered here.

"Are you really that curious about what I have encountered? Unfortunately, I cannot tell you that."

There were traces of surprise in everyone's eyes as they looked at the person who spoke with the voice. This voice was out of date. It was not someone who belonged to this time period. Because this white-robed person in front of them was Uranus himself. The friend they had missed for years was now looking at them with a sweet face. It was real. It was as if you could touch it with your hand.

But Uranus had been dead for many years. 600 million years ago, when it was only 30,000 years old, it peaked and almost passed its limits.

Almost...

"Don't think I'm a fake. I am neither a liar nor an illusion. I am your old friend Uranus himself. Of course, I've slept a little over the past 600 million years, but that doesn't change the fact that I exist. In Kai's life and all my other lives. It is only today that I have been summoned by an old universe that has lost its freedom for your test." said Uranus.

As the 6 protectors came to their senses, Diana was the first to step forward. She immediately moved past Uranus to enter the realm of levels, but a barrier would not let her. Crossing the levels was not as simple as it seemed. Uranus put his hand to his face and laughed his arse off at Diana.

"Phew! You didn't really expect it to be that easy, did you?! It was never simple, Diana. You've wasted millions of years of this universe's life if you think you can get away with such a simple trick." Uranus said. Diana looked at him and sighed. It really was Uranus. He was still not tired of scolding them. Even after millions of years.

"The only thing you can do to get through here is to erase the regret that lies in your heart. I guess that would be me."

6 Guardians began to think. They knew the meaning of the regret in their hearts. They just didn't want to express it. They didn't want to say why Uranus was the cause.

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"Come on, don't push it. I know. It's the guilt of not protecting my future lives and leaving Kai alone. But you have to put all that behind you now. Kai already has someone looking after him. He... will live. And I'm dead. You can't take that back. No-one can. So stop feeling bad about it. That day, you were just novices on the sixth step. Are you feeling these feelings because you're not as good as me? Don't. "

Uranus turned round. He was as serious as ever, full of silly jokes. He was as arrogant as ever. But that didn't seem so off-putting to the Guardians anymore.

Uranus decided to tell them what had happened that day.

"After surviving 9 years with ease, I came to a place like this, but I was up against the Heavens. Or... he wanted me to think so. He took advantage of the weakness in my heart. He merged me with the Heavens, but at that moment I sent a big part of my potential to earth. Then I made a deal with the Heavens. "

"Whenever someone managed to merge all his past lives, the Heavens would leave me behind to merge with him. Of course, only my past lives were on an endless loop on Earth. And only one of them could do it. I was already dead, so only my soul would be part of their power. "

Uranus chuckled.

"I was the winner in this equation anyway. After all, my past lives were me. They were a part of me. "

"Then Kai was born. When he was young, he met the Immortal Dragon by chance and received his bloodline. He had Turkish blood of incredible purity. And eventually, he gathered all his past lives into one body. I'm sure that one day he will form the Absolute Spirit Body. There are only two left. Although it would take a lot of power to capture one of them, Kai took the most important part of me. Luck and Ambition. "

You could see from the face of Uranus that all this no longer made sense. All desire for power was gone. All ambition was gone. He wasn't so lucky anymore.

Or maybe all this aimlessness had given him the true freedom that no one else had.

"I've lost my feelings now, boys. I'm dead. And my soul is lost in this monster."

Uranus turned to them. The gentle smile on his face did not belong to someone who had been trapped in the heavens for millions of years. He took a few steps and looked at his friends. Those yellow eyes of his had always been a guide. He was always above them. But this yellow path was now lost. He did not touch them.

"But I was with you all this time, in different lives, in different moments. Sometimes on the way to a mysterious treasure. Sometimes in the face of mighty kings. I was always with you. I didn't leave my past lives so you could look after them. I left them to look after you."

PATT...

Something unexpected happened. Uranus' eyes widened in surprise. He didn't seem to realise what had happened. He could only look at the man hugging him. His black hair. He was back to his old self. Eros hadn't had his true face for millions of years, but now he was truly a man. What he had once been.

"Damn it! Just tell me you love us!"

Uranus laughed.

"I guess I couldn't hide it from the Guardian of Love."

Auron hugged. Diana hugged. Lea hugged. Elvis hugged too, but in the end Ezra didn't seem inclined to move at all. There was no hardness in his gaze. He was clenching his teeth. It must have been very difficult for him to move. After all, he was the one most affected by the past.

"I know I'm not strong enough, but one day I will go back and root out the hunters. One day I will go back and find the one who did this to us, who put these treacherous thoughts in my brother's mind."

Ezra hugged Uranus. A tear fell from his eye.

"One day I will return and kill the one who caused your death!"