Li Lin walked into the house and found that it was a room similar to a private office.

A desk was placed horizontally in the middle facing the door. Enchanting tables, floating gear rings, and magical items that flowed like an hourglass could be seen everywhere. The bookshelves on both sides were filled with even thicker tomes.

This is a room that the drone has not scanned before, or that does not exist in the real world at all.

Li Lin quickly took in the layout of the room, then turned his attention to the desk, where sat an old man with white hair, eyebrows, beard, and temples.

He was thin, wearing a traditional robe that was striped brown, red, and gray. His beard, longer than his hair, hung down in front of him. His eyes, hidden by thick, long white eyebrows, faintly revealed an emerald glow.

Li Lin could see that the old man's furrowed brows revealed deep sorrow, and the fatigue in his eyes was something that a person who had only lived one life could never understand.

[Congratulations! You have contacted 45 heroes, increased your level by 1, and gained 2 skill points.]

[Name: Kieran]

[Race: Icathias]

[Occupation: Elder of the Icathian Governing Council, Grandmaster Elemental Mage, Master Time Mage, Guardian of Time.]

【……】

"You are finally here, the world's guardian, Li Lin."

Li Lin was not surprised that Kiran could reveal his identity.

After all, for a time guardian who can see countless possibilities on countless timelines, any subtle changes cannot be hidden from his eyes.

The butterfly effect brought about by Li Lin is really too big. Just talking about the parallel universes related to the main universe world line, it is impossible for any world to develop to the point where humans can enter space.

"Master Kiran."

Li Lin bowed to Kiran according to the method of greeting in the ancient books scanned by the intelligent computer.

"No need to be so polite, just call me Jilan." He stood up from his chair and walked past Li Lin. "I know you have a lot of questions now. Come with me."

The two walked out of the door they had just come from. To Li Lin's surprise, the space outside was not the corridor he had just come from, but a larger and more spacious space, completely different from the clock tower in Icathia.

The "click-click" sound of the winding clock echoed in the huge hall. Looking into the distance, countless yellow sands formed the desert scene of the past. The golden hollow sphere, like the shape of a planet, slowly floated through the endless yellow sand space.

In the very center of the hall, there is a huge emerald-colored crystal that is approximately diamond-shaped. It is the entity transformed by "time" and maintains the operation of this tower in the gap between time and space.

In addition to these, there were many men and women in various clothes in the hall. They were busy coming and going, stopping from time to time to cast emerald green magic to form pictures, and then communicate with each other. Some of them even held transparent jars containing void tentacles in their hands.

“This is not the tower you see, but a brand new place I created after erasing myself from the timeline and arriving at the gap in time.

"The people below are like-minded magical geniuses I've met throughout the ages. They voluntarily erased themselves from the timeline to jointly research ways to deal with the apocalyptic disaster.

"I originally planned to pull you in the moment you stepped into the outer tower, but your spirit was surprisingly strong, and it took me a while to succeed."

Kiran led the way and explained as he led Li Lin up the floating stairs that spiraled downward.

"In fact, ordinary humans simply cannot stay in the cracks of time for too long, otherwise they will be forever 'exiled' by time, just like us."

He turned around and glanced at Li Lin. "But you are different. You are protected by Runeterra and can ignore these restrictions. This is the main reason why I can directly pull your consciousness here to communicate with me face to face."

Li Lin hesitated for a moment, but finally couldn't help but ask the question that had been buried in his heart for a long time: "Can you...see my future?"

Kiran paused and sighed, without answering his question, which made him have a vague guess in his mind.

It seems that even Kiran, who can see through the past, present and future and observe different parallel universes, can't see my future...

The rest of the journey was silent, and Kiran quickly led Li Lin to the top of the bell tower.

It was a door sealed by layers of time magic circles, and only Kiran had the ability to unlock the restrictions.

He crossed his arms and made different gestures with his hands. Under the emerald light, the magic on the door receded and was soon unlocked.

Kiran took a deep breath, pushed open the door and motioned Li Lin to come in, then locked it and sealed it again with time magic.

The interior of the house was simply decorated, with only a giant circular gear floating in the air in the middle, surrounded by countless small gears, some of which resembled the parts on a clock.

Driven by Kiran's magic, the small gear drove the large gear to rotate, and then the environment in the entire house suddenly changed.

The ground beneath their feet and the surrounding walls disappeared, leaving only a dark space filled with blue-purple illusory mist.

As the gears turned faster, the giant circular gear in the center emitted a dazzling emerald green light, and then a starry sky appeared. An endless giant copper dial appeared under their feet, and the huge second hand moved "clicking", and every sound could shake the soul.

Kiran's gestures became faster and faster, and his clothes, hair and beard moved without wind, as if they were floating without gravity.

Li Lin subconsciously held his breath. He could see that Kiran was casting time magic, and he felt an inexplicable sense of insignificance, as if he was just a lone boat in the boundless ocean.

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