Mr. One wiped a cold sweat from his forehead.

When he saw Louis appear in front of him, his first reaction was that he was screwed.

Being approached directly by such a monster is much more serious than being sent to the guillotine.

The guillotine couldn't cut off his head even if it was enchanted, but Louis could blow his head off without any equipment.

Fortunately, the other party immediately said that he was not there for him.

This made Mr. One breathe a sigh of relief.

He thought that he had raised the tariffs on imported magic materials, which caused dissatisfaction among others.

But the next moment, he became nervous again.

"H-What is Hermo doing here?"

"Maybe you feel that your location on the Sword Coast is too good."

The growth rate of the Demon King's army is quite astonishing.

Being trapped in a dungeon is fine.

Once out of the dungeon, the Demon King's army can use the demonic energy to transform the people they killed into new monsters.

Once we let them snowball, the consequences will be disastrous.

Mr. One's face darkened.

Since Louis had no intention of killing him, the biggest threat became the Demon King.

Strictly speaking, facing the Demon King Hermo is more troublesome than facing Louis.

Louis is on the side of the human camp after all.

At least he can make sense.

Helmer wouldn't reason with him.

He would simply chop off everyone's head and turn them into members of the Demon King's army.

With this in mind, he looked at the other members of the O5 Council.

Everyone nodded and said, "Then we would like to ask Louis Crown to help us eliminate the scourge of the world."

Louis nodded, glanced at Olivia and said:

"Olivia, you stay here first. I'll go to the High Forest and be back."

"good."

The next moment, he disappeared from the scene.

Everyone frowned.

They couldn't even see how Louis was teleported away.

Olivia explained with a smile, "Didn't you guess it when you saw him teleport over just now?"

Everyone was terrified.

Sure enough, it was the direction they were most reluctant to face.

Wherever Princess Enser's clone is, that's where Louis can go directly.

This is simply a nightmare for extraordinary people.

A deadly sin that can create a large number of clones, coupled with a divine realm that can teleport to the deadly sin at any time.

It’s no problem to say it’s the cry of the god of death.

Olivia gave them a subtle look.

For a moment, I really didn't know what to say about the O5 Council.

Is it because he feels that his strength is closer to Enser, so he feels a sense of crisis when seeing this ability? But the Am Empire is not even a reinforcement for Louis' territory.

All I can say is that they are really good at investing.

At that time, the supply chain system had not yet been fully established, but they still insisted on joining in.

Now I have eaten some of the soup, but it is still far from being strong.

At least Tunisia, having caught its breath, wanted to find an opportunity to give them a punch.

After all, this group of businessmen took advantage of Tunisia's war with the trolls and did some tricks behind the scenes to disgust them.

After completing her mission, Olivia left and went back to her residence to rest.

But the O5 Council also had a question in mind.

Since Helmer wants to start a war on their territory...

"To activate that thing."

Mr. Two, who had been silent the whole time, said calmly.

The O5 Council looked at each other.

Mr. One was silent for a moment and said, "It's better not to activate that thing yet. Once it is activated, not only will we lose our ultimate trump card, but if the effect is not as strong as we imagined, we may be retaliated wildly."

Ms. Five added in a low voice: "It's not crazy revenge, it's a fight to the death."

Mr. Two was silent for a moment and then said, "You're right. We should not test this possibility. The O5 Council exists to lock this thing down. It is better for us and the outside world to keep it silent."

At this moment, Ms. Four suddenly looked up at Ms. Five and said, "What are you talking about?"

The expressions of everyone in the O5 Council suddenly became horrified.

They took out their weapons silently, and Mr. One said calmly:

"Four, I'm giving you a chance to explain. Don't force us to take action against you."

Ms. Four said with a confused look on her face:

"What are you talking about? Why don't I understand what you mean?"

Mr. One said with a complicated expression: "There's nothing more to say, Four, you're under arrest."

Ms. Four's face showed anger:

"You arrested me without giving any reason. Do you think I won't resist?"

But she was shocked to see that everyone in the O5 Council was looking at her with horror.

She didn't understand what was going on, but the next moment, with sharp eyes, she noticed that the corners of her mouth were slightly raised in the glass window.

But she...didn't feel like laughing.

Now she is very angry.

At this moment, she finally realized that something was wrong.

She instinctively wanted to blow her head off with her hand.

She has a way to resurrect herself after death.

But the next moment, she couldn't control herself and uttered a cold voice:

"It turns out that what that guy said was true."

The next moment, she lost consciousness.

And then...

The roar came again.

Soon, everything returned to silence.

A huge pit appeared in the capital of the Amn Empire.

A large number of citizens didn't even have time to react and turned into dust in an instant.

Citizens in the surrounding areas fell to the ground and wailed in pain.

A twisted force was tearing their flesh and seeping into their bodies.

Soon, their bodies began to swell.

One after another, twisted foreign objects drilled out of their bodies and transformed into roaring monsters, wreaking havoc in all directions.

After a moment, a cold voice came:

"It turned out to be the right decision to come here specially."

The next moment, the roaring monster was carried into the air by a black cloud.

Not long after Louis left, the Demon King's army launched an attack on the Amn Empire.

But not for long.

The original address of the O5 Council that was blown up into the sky.

Along with a strange twisted mechanical sound, the sound of constantly turning gears was heard in the void.

[O5 sequence is completely wiped out, the first-level defense is confirmed to be out of control, and the second plan is activated]

[Redemption Libra begins to supply energy, time reversal starts]

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【4】

【3】

【2】

【1】

[Deus ex machina has taken effect, O5 Council reorganized]

Mr. One said with a tearful expression on his face:

"It's over. It's out of control."

He looked in the direction where Ms. Four was.

All I saw were pieces of mechanical debris merging into Ms. Four's location at an extremely fast speed.

Not long after, a metallic figure emitting fluorescent light appeared in the air.

Soon, Ms. Four's skin, which was covered in silver metal, turned into real flesh at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The new clothes took shape on her body.

Ms. Four slowly opened her eyes and said, "I am the new Ms. Four, replacing the original battle-damaged model and taking over the O5 Council. May I ask what happened?"

Mr. One pinched his brows and said:

"First, activate our permissions and open the city's defense formation."

The Demon King's army has already begun to act. Now the city is in chaos. The enemy's main force must be isolated outside the city. Only then will they have time to discuss what to do next.

Soon, Mr. Two left.

He needed to mobilize the extraordinary weapons that were still available in the city to clear out the monsters in the protective array.

The other two also left immediately. They didn't have time to continue chatting here at this moment.

Only Mr. One stood in front of Ms. Four and said: "The countercurrent pocket watch has been taken away."

Ms. Four was stunned, and then said in a strange and angry voice: "What are you doing? Don't you know how important that thing is to us?"

"I know, how could I not know? But who would have thought that Helmer used some unknown means to forcibly occupy Ms. Four's body. We..."

"There's nothing much to say. The most important thing now is to recover the Countercurrent Pocket Watch."

The O5 Council hides a secret, a secret that does not exist to outsiders.

They are the guardians of Kronos, the god of time.

Kronos, the god of time, is said to have the power to control time.

But this god has never appeared before his believers.

Most people believe that Kronos has been sealed in a corner of the astral world by some gods who fear the power of time.

But only the guardians of the God of Time know that Kronos never existed.

In other words, He is everywhere.

He has no consciousness of his own, no form of his own, and no kingdom of God of his own.

He is the river of time itself.

But occasionally, holes appear in the river of time.

Bugs can cause problems over time.

In order to correct the River of Time, Kronos, or the invisible will of the River of Time, will exclude the loopholes from the river.

Those loopholes will be integrated into some special devices that record time.

These devices are called [Paradox] within the O5 Council.

Like the grandmother paradox, these devices are naturally able to defy the rules themselves.

But the paradox cannot be broken.

It can only gradually disappear with the passage of time.

In order to avoid the foundation of the world of [paradox], the Guardian of Time was born.

They travel around the world, disguised as fanatical traders, collecting the occasional [Paradox] devices.

Most of them have been destroyed by them.

But a small part of it still remains and is even used by others.

One of them is called Deus Ex Machina.

All members of the O5 Council in all generations are bound to the [Deus Ex Machina].

When they die in an accident, time will flow backward partially, allowing those whose life source has not completely dissipated to be resurrected.

If the source of life has been completely eroded, then the [Deus Ex Machina] will pull out the historical remnants of O5 from the past time points.

Such historical remnants are no different from real people.

But to the O5 members, Ms. Four was effectively dead forever.

What appeared here was just a shadow of Ms. Four.

Although to this new Ms. Four she is truly Ms. Four, to the other four this is not the case.

During this period, they need to use a device called a countercurrent pocket watch to wait for the paradox to slowly collapse.

Among the paradox devices they had ever seen, they were among the most outrageous.

That device can transmit a person's consciousness to a certain era in the past.

If someone with the right motives could master the upstream pocket watch, it would directly create a tributary of history.

For example, even the Unther Empire, which is now at the peak of its history, was just a small settlement countless years ago.

If someone happened to go back to that time period and gained a little more power, they could kill the ancestors of the now thriving Enther Empire.

In this way, the time turbulence created in past history will move upward along the long river of time.

If we are not careful, the entire Enser Empire may be gone.

Who will solve the current chaos by then? The changes brought about by the turbulent time may very well be the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Without the core figure who can resist the seven disasters, the whole world might be devastated.

Only a small number of people are left in the marginal corners, barely surviving.

This outcome is no different from the end of the world.

Of course, the transmission of the countercurrent pocket watch is random, and such extreme situations may not necessarily occur.

But as long as there is even the slightest possibility, we cannot let this thing spread out and be controlled by others.

That's why the Time Keepers exist.

But now the O5 Council is going crazy.

There are not many demigods in the Amn Empire.

As a newly established country, they only cultivated one demigod.

But the Amn Empire was able to expand rapidly on the continent because of the O5 Council.

All members of the O5 Council are top demigods.

Logically speaking, their strength is already the upper limit of what the world can reach today.

The chance of killing them is less than one in ten billion.

There is absolutely no problem in protecting the Paradox Equipment.

As the guardians of time chosen by Kronos, they cannot use paradoxes to interfere in the human world.

So O5 is the final safe of the paradox.

But unfortunately, the person who stole their equipment this time was one of the few people in the world who could break into a safe.

This time they received the invisible will of Kronos, saying that if the situation reached the most dangerous moment, they could consider activating the reverse pocket watch.

“This is a choice of time.”

In the long river of time, Kronos left only this information and disappeared again.

So what they thought at the time was that if the O5 Council was attacked by the other side, perhaps they could consider activating the countercurrent pocket watch, and perhaps there would be a chance to destroy the Demon King before he even sprouted in the past.

In this way, the Demon King Herme of this era will also disappear.

But now something has changed.

Not only were they unable to use their pocket watches, but their pocket watches were even stolen from them.

They felt like the sky was falling.

The only thing to be thankful for is that they used the power of time to create countless layers of maze locks on the pocket watch.

Even for Hermo, it would take at least a year to unlock the maze.

Because the operating mechanism of this puzzle lock is not something that can be solved by simply cracking it.

Instead, [no matter what means are used, the cracking time must be extended to one year later].

"Call for help. Otherwise, given the current situation, if Hermo really uses that thing, I don't know who will be in trouble."

Ms. Four said calmly.

Mr. One nodded.

This thing cannot be used indiscriminately.

They suspect that paradoxes have been used in the past to disrupt world order.

Before they couldn't guess who the disruptor was.

But now... they suspected it was an elf.

(End of this chapter)