It had only been a few hours since he had reconnected with his main body.
Yet, he had already covered the world in a matrix and advanced to rank 3.
But his time was up.
All of his decoys had been destroyed.
Zero was trying to breakthrough to rank 4 when everything around him disappeared.
He was left floating in a black void.
Around him he saw titans.
"I see... you are the gods who wish to die?"
"Did you hear him Chronos? This copycat thinks he can ki-"
"Enough! He has already tricked us, he is too dangerous. This may not even be his real body."
"Oh, I assure you. If my real body was here... you wouldn't dare appear before me."
A giant wearing an apron with one eye spoke:
"Then fight us with your main body."
Zero began to laugh.
He then said:
"You aren't worthy!"
Chronos.
A celestial being with multiple arms and three eyes said:
"You have disturbed all of space and time. You have peeped at the gods. You have violated the agreement between us. You have also insulted and disrespected us all with your games."
"So what? You're here to arrest me for breaking the law?"
"No. We are here to kill you."
"Is that so...? Do it then!"
The other gods spoke in whispers.
It seemed these gods were cautious.
It was the sheer confidence he gave off.
Despite being rank 3.
It made them think he had some sort of trap set up.
They were wary to act.
The silence continued... until Zero himself broke it up.
"Hahahahaha... you guys are pathetic, scared of a rank 3. If you won't attack I will!"
Zero began playing with his watch.
"Stop him."
A woman with red hair pointed at Zero.
He then was frozen.
"This is what you guys were scared of? He is clearly bluffing. He is unable to move. I have frozen his existence."
"Wait... this isn't possible. His thinking remains lucid... how could it be? It doesn't matter, he is powerless. Now kill him."
Zero expected this type of situation.
Zero was no longer concerned about his special protocol.
Since he could just reload.
He used his data manipulation to activate his emergency setting on his watch.
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If he was going to die.
He would do it himself.
A white film surrounded him.
"Stop him!"
He turned completely into white light.
His information then exploded outwards.
He was becoming the opposite of a blackhole.
He was warping spacetime up or outwards.
A wave of information escaped his body and covered all of the gods.
Zero saw millions of lines.
He also saw himself among those lines.
He saw his journey as a leaf in the river of time.
He saw himself become a rock.
He saw the world become a rock in the flowing river.
He then saw himself turn into a fish and jump out of the river.
He didn't actually become these things of course.
He just witnessed his growth.
He also saw something quite shocking.
Other realities! Other rivers!
He wanted to explore them...
He then saw a hand grab him, pulling him back into the river.
As soon as he re-entered relative time.
He instantly broke through to rank 4.
All eight of his seas broke through.
He had the equivalent power of a rank 6.
He was almost touching the border of rank 7.
A half step away from godhood.
The gods looked at him in shock.
"This pressure!?"
"Impossible!"
"He can't be a mortal!"
Zero just laughed and waved his hand.
[ECHO]: {Name: "Infinite Time Guard", Level: 4, Type: Self, Element: ???, Cost: 0, Desc: "Protects existence with infinity and time."}
He tried to manipulate time.
Rewinding their existence.
He had hoped he could revert them back to mortals.
But it didn't work.
Just like when he first tried rewinding time after entering this reality.
Something was missing.
"I see... I still lack the laws after all."
All of them started sending attacks at Zero.
But the attacks were unable to pass his infinity.
He casually flew up to Chronos.
"You wouldn't mind if I took a look at your DNA?"
"DNA?"
"Shhh! It's already happening... aww... you guys don't have DNA. Lame."
Zero casually tanked their attacks.
"How is a mortal so formidable?"
"I believe they call such mortals extraordinary. But even someone invulnerable would become paste under our combined attacks. He must be using some trick."
Zero then spoke:
"It's too bad you guys found me so fast. If I got to rank 7, I would have some of my own attacks. Tis a shame. Well... I'll see you guys later."
With that... Zero vanished.
"I thought you locked him in this dimension?"
"I did... how?"
"Just who the hell is he?"
Chronos finally couldn't help it.
He waved his hands and time rewound.
Time kept rewinding all the way to when they had first pulled Zero to this realm.
Zero was rank 3 again.
"This time. Let's kill him first and talk later."
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Zero was trying to breakthrough to rank 4 when everything around him disappeared.
He was left floating in a black void.
Around him he saw titans.
"I see... you are the gods who wish to d-"
Immediately they all attacked him at once.
"Wow, wa-"
DEATH!
Zero activated his emergency protocol.
A white film surrounded him.
He became the opposite of a black hole.
He experienced constant time and broke through to rank 4.
"Phew... that was close. Let a man finish talking before you try to kill him alright?"
Chronos rewound time again.
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Zero was trying to breakthrough to rank 4 when everything around him disappeared.
He was left floating in a black void.
Around him he saw titans.
"I see... you are the gods who wis-"
DEATH
Zero activa-
He didn't even have time to activate his protocol before he was blasted into a bloody mist.
Dead End.
"Bullshit!"
Zero revived at his save point.
He was rank 3, right before getting whisked away by the gods to their battlefield.
"Wait a second... I have multiple memories of our confrontation. This wasn't how it was suppose to go. There's been some time fuckery here hasn't there."
"Well... you aren't the only one that can mess with time."
"Let's give it another go!"
He disappeared and reappeared in their realm.
Around him he saw titans.
They attacked him.
He tried to dodge
DEATH.
Repeat
DEATH.
10 attempts.
DEATH.
100 attempts.
DEATH.
1000 attempts.
DEATH
10,000 attempts.
DEA-
Rejected!
Zero was using his ability to freeze time briefly and his flight to dodge attacks.
He was learning their attack patterns as if this were a mere game to him
He was only rank 3.
But he was dodging and weaving their attacks like they were nothing.
Even ridiculous attacks that were impossible to dodge were somehow dodged.
Chronos tried restarting Zero.
But Zero remained aware and didn't lose focus.
Even when he died.
He would just return to his save point.
Chronos had a special cosmic awareness that let him keep his memories when time rewound.
But because Zero's ability save point was multiversal.
Chronos wasn't aware that he was in an even bigger loop.
He believed he was the only one restarting.
Meanwhile Zero retained memories of both the loops made by Chronos as well as his own loop.
Zero personally was having a lot of fun.
He also saw something insane in constant time, that made him itch.
He saw other realities of the same level.
But more fantastical then the current reality he was in.
Constant time may just be the key needed to traverse this multiverse.
Invading other rivers of time.
But even if he visited constant time now.
He would get pulled back by Chronos.
Then he would become rank 4.
Then they would enter a stale mate again.
Chronos would then reverse time.
The cycle continued.
"Let us see... who will go insane first!"