Chapter 479
**Chapter 252: What?! The Time Binder?!**
In the West District, Maifeier District, at 22 Yiselin Court, Shaer’s residence.
After finalizing the means of communication with Pope Aiergemar, Shaer retrieved Xiao Zuo and returned home with the others.
Eleanor, due to her identity, did not accompany Shaer back. Instead, she left a secret contact method and used her abilities to return to the Archbishop's residence.
At this moment, Peirxi watched the red-haired girl hunched over the desk, sketching something on the map. Her mindset had completely changed since their first meeting.
Shaer’s initial “fantasies” had, within just two short hours, transformed into a tangible possibility.
Peirxi found herself reconsidering why Teacher Tara showed such deference to the red-haired girl. Now it seemed... this girl, who could directly communicate with the other realm, was likely connected to the sect in some way.
She might even be a divine servant... Previously, their infiltrators had intercepted some information regarding divine servants from the Church of the Savior Goddess.
With this conjecture linking to reality, Peirxi reassessed Teacher Tara’s attitude and set aside most of her doubts.
Now, she decided to quietly observe the true identity of this girl while protecting Teacher Tara.
Meanwhile, Shaer was attempting to communicate with Xiao Zuo in the other realm.
On the map before her, she drew a red circle around the direction of the Order of the God of Order—that was the location of the other realm’s node.
She instructed Xiao Zuo to head to the corresponding location in the other realm to see if it could directly find the pure white knight and communicate with it.
If she could communicate across the other realm, she wouldn’t have to risk summoning the pure white knight again through the blood array—after all, it might not help her.
However, Shaer still had a bit of confidence in this... After all, after the system had warned it, the knight had helped her merge the “Uniqueness” pocket watch into her eyes, greatly facilitating her control over the watch.
Perhaps... this was a gesture of goodwill. But first, she needed to establish communication. If that failed, she would have to try contacting the Anworm and reconstruct a node that could directly connect to its location in the other realm—this was a hellish difficulty, and Shaer wouldn’t attempt to research the other realm nodes privately unless absolutely necessary.
As Shaer gazed at the map, she continued to observe the red light in her mind, waiting for Xiao Zuo’s response... but for some reason, Xiao Zuo had been silent for a long time.
Ever since Xiao Zuo obtained the Faceless Goddess pendant, it would call out to Shaer every ten to twenty seconds. If Shaer didn’t respond, it would keep calling... but now, the red light hadn’t flickered for over ten minutes.
Had something happened to it?
Although Shaer could expend mental energy to remotely control the statue of the goddess to call for Xiao Zuo, perhaps due to the barrier of the other realm, the amount of mental energy required was quite substantial. Maintaining it for thirty seconds would be enough to summon Xiao Zuo once.
To ensure her mental state remained healthy, it was best for Shaer to wait for Xiao Zuo to pray on its own.
Another five minutes passed. Just as Shaer was beginning to worry that something had happened to Xiao Zuo and was about to attempt a mental descent into the pendant to check on it, a faint red light flickered in her mind.
A sharp, faint voice echoed in her consciousness.
“Shaer... my lord...”
“Arrived...”
“Door...”
Did it see something?
“What did you see?” Shaer seized the opportunity to send a message to Xiao Zuo, but this time, Xiao Zuo’s voice completely vanished, and the flickering red light extinguished.
Shaer’s heart sank slightly.
From Xiao Zuo’s description, it should have reached the node and mentioned seeing a “door”... but why did it fall silent the moment it uttered the word “door”?
Had it... been captured by the pure white knight?
Was that knight still on the opposing side?
She needed to see what had happened.
With a sinking feeling, Shaer activated [The All-Knowing]. A fragment of her consciousness dissipated, instantly traversing an unknown number of times and dimensions, landing on a pendant.
...
On a terrifying suspension bridge covered in brains, a bizarre, claw-like hand over a meter long lay sprawled at the center of the bridge.
Its fingers, resembling feet, pressed down on the soft, gelatinous brains, crushing one dark green brain under its weight, causing a thick, viscous fluid to ooze out.
Yet, this overwhelmingly oppressive giant hand trembled at the center of the bridge, its back covered in countless bulging compound eyes quivering as if it had seen something indescribable.
Before it, the bridge swayed slightly. Amidst the hazy blood mist and ancient castle, a pure white figure slowly emerged.
With each step, it seemed to cause severe tremors in the ground, yet the brains beneath its feet remained uncrushed.
The sound of ethereal gears turning emanated from within it, and puffs of white steam erupted from the seams of its armor as it approached the giant hand monster, looking down upon it.
“*****.”
A whispering, ethereal voice emerged from within the armor, seemingly laced with some emotion, as if cursing something.
It slowly lifted its foot and directly stepped on the middle segment of the giant hand’s index finger.
Crack—
With a crisp sound, the finger snapped, black blood spraying from the severed digit, but it evaporated before it could reach the pure white armor, not a single drop touching it.
A pained shriek erupted from the giant hand monster, and the cacophony of its cries seemed to further irritate the pure white armor.
It raised its hand, the gauntlet on its right arm unfolding to reveal intricate internal structures and golden gears. As the gears turned, four spiked, curved blades shot out from the seams of the gauntlet, the gears spinning rapidly with serrated chains.
It appeared intent on sending this unwelcome, blind monster into eternal slumber.
But just as it raised its right hand, preparing to deliver the most painful, fatal blow, a silver object fell from the palm of the giant hand, halting the pure white armor’s movements.
This object from that world...
How did this lowly creature obtain it...
It reached out toward the object, which seemed to defy gravity, flying directly into the palm of the pure white armor.
The pendant... religion...
Not interested...
“Shaer... my lord...”
Unexpectedly, the removal of the pendant seemed to ignite the giant hand’s fighting spirit. It braced itself against the pressure and lunged at the pure white armor.
The language of that world...
Just a light kick landed in the palm of the giant hand.
Boom—
The giant hand was sent flying as if struck by a speeding train, blood and flesh scattering everywhere, half of its body completely torn apart, flung off the bridge, barely clinging to life.
Who taught it that language?
Shaer, my lord?
Is that the name?
Why does it sound so familiar...
It felt like it had heard that name somewhere before.
But just as it was about to throw the little object off the bridge, the pendant in its hand began to glow with silver light.
Huh?
The pure white knight raised the pendant to its face, tilting its head slightly.
It seemed to sense that the inscription on this lifeless object was emanating a familiar spirit. As it felt that faint mental energy, a voice emerged from within.
“Xiao Zuo?”
That voice, so familiar it was almost ingrained in its memory, startled the entire armor, causing it to take a half-step back, nearly dropping the pendant.
This voice! This mental energy!
It’s Him!!!!!!!!!
The Time Binder!!!!!!!!!
The image of a red-haired girl appeared in its memory.
It suppressed the impulse to throw the pendant away, and a resonant, overlapping metallic hum emanated from within its armor.
“Y-y-you... hello... T-t-t-time... Shaer.”
What had started as a somewhat ethereal, layered voice now seemed to carry a hint of echo, as if in a bathroom.
It feared that if it threw the pendant away, it would be warned again.
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