Chapter 43: Paimon Clock

The exploration of the big world is full.

The character and weapon levels are maxed out.

The skill level is still a little off, but it’s not a big problem. It’s more than enough to kill monsters, and you don’t even need to continue pulling it when you don’t really need to kill monsters.

The main quest is almost complete, except for the last step.

There may be some side quests in the big world later, but they are not important anymore.

After returning to the big world from the dungeon, the player took a careful inventory and found that he had almost exhausted the game.

Although the game content is inferior to his liver level and is not enough to waste his one-month vacation, the experience so far is still very good.

In this case, the player simply plans to complete the game completely before logging off.

He put all the Sands of Time into the card pool and didn't pay attention to what came out until the five-star logo appeared on the screen behind a golden stream of light.

The silhouette on the fragment is the profile of Bermode. She has no smile on her face, which is rare. She looks up at the sky silently, as if she is longing for some kind of freedom.

【Time's Favorite】

[She is the beginning and the end. She has been favored by time, but she would rather not have been favored by time. After witnessing everything, the traveler who was forced to stop will be able to start again.]

There are no rewards for this role mission.

After the player clicked to open the character mission, he walked into the portal that appeared in front of him and then fell into pure darkness.

When the light came on again, he saw "himself" floating in the universe.

No, not him, but the world's perspective.

The universe was also different from the one he knew.

The player wanted to move his hands and feet out of curiosity, but found that he seemed to be imprisoned and unable to move. He could only observe "his own" small world in the world bubble, and look at the powerful and mature worlds that occasionally passed by.

The world can be observed by other worlds, thus accumulating power, but a world that is too young will not even have much power.

The wishes of some worlds can even reshape some things, but they will be isolated outside the world bubble, attached to the natural activities of the world itself, and occasionally fall off.

Just floating quietly like this, as if a baby is sleeping in the womb, when the player is about to fall asleep, he suddenly feels an ancient and powerful world passing by in the distance.

A clock formed by willpower came crashing down on its head, and the crushing pressure of reality and laws made it embed itself into this world in an unreasonable way.

Then, the time laws it carried began to distort the time of this world.

The player can feel himself waking up, and wants to repel the clock and the time power that comes with it, but fails.

The price of not being able to resist is that problems begin to arise in this world.

The first alienated time appeared.

Fortunately, a small amount of willpower has accumulated outside the world bubble, and people's sincere love for the characters has caused this initial period of alienation to be distorted by willpower.

The player's perspective falls into this period of time.

The old man with the cane was unwilling to die like this. He wanted immortality and wanted to reverse time. He was powerful enough to take action for his fantastic ideas.

Then, the Black Organization emerged.

The original Black Organization was a violent organization that provided illegal resources for the laboratory.

But it was extremely difficult to make a breakthrough in this area, and there was no progress until the organization absorbed the crazy scientists Miyano and his wife, and obtained another treasure.

It was a broken clock that could not be turned.

But it has power beyond imagination.

During the time of mutation and invasion by willpower, the Black Organization unexpectedly got a part of the clock by chance, and in this completely unreasonable and distorted world, they actually developed a drug related to time.

But no subject could withstand its power.

Finally, Karasuma Renya sent the woman, who was not called Vermouth at that time, into the laboratory.

They watched her die, and just when they thought the experiment was going to fail again, her heart started beating again.

Perhaps most of the power of this distorted time came from her, and she didn't know whether it was luck or misfortune that she became the darling of time.

This time was cut off.

The alienation seemed to have stopped temporarily.

But from a bird's-eye view of the entire world, players can see that the clock embedded in the world has turned into large pieces of golden sands of time, which are constantly eroding and distorting the time of this world like ink drops in water.

Some of the grains of time that had clumped together transformed into different shapes representing time.

A broken clock showing the time of Vermode's death.

Scottish Death Time Hourglass.

Pocket watches from the time of death of Jinpei Matsuda and Kenji Hagihara.

In fact, there are many more items. They stay in different time periods. The most are when you die, which then leads to time mutation and invasion of wishes.

The time spent intercepting Vermode did not stop the world for long, and soon, the time of the entire world began to collapse.

The World Tree had to find a way to save the world, but it could do nothing with these external time forces.

At this time, a traveler who was once favored by the Devil of Time passed by.

The player just watches as "himself" pulls his confused self into this world.

They also directly imitated the original game system discovered through the power of the clock and created a local version of the scientific world. They even arranged the monsters and tasks so that travelers who can gather these time powers can continue to collect them by completing tasks.

With the Traveler as the middle transformation zone, and after taking out the stronger time forces that condensed into shapes, and with the increase in willpower, the World Tree was finally able to slowly return time to normal.

And after this disaster, he turned a disaster into a blessing and mastered the more advanced laws of time.

Now, the world's chaotic timeline will no longer trap travelers passing by, and the world tree will no longer be eroded to the point of time distortion.

This is the root of everything.

The sound of the World Tree rang out.

[Go to the beginning of time, retrieve the broken clock, and put an end to this unexpected journey]

The player escapes from this magical perspective and falls back into the time of Belmode, appearing out of nowhere in a laboratory where time is suspended.

A broken clock slowly flew out from Bermode's heart.

Her time was suspended at the moment of death and resurrection, and her expression was filled with pain.

The player presses the dialogue button that appears in the game.

【Will she die? 】

[No, but after the "plot" ends, she will lose this ageless specialness]

[Do you want to fuse the special item [Pocket Watch of Time] with the [Broken Clock]? ]

The player chooses Yes.

These two items formed by the power of time merged in front of the player into items that he was very familiar with and had seen countless times in the Genshin Impact series and those Genshin Impact self-made games.

That was the clock that crashed into the scientific world in the previous plot, or, it has a more familiar name - Paimon's Clock.

The culprit is actually you, Paimon!

No wonder there is no Paimon in this world, only Gin!

No, according to all these settings, it must be because people have played Genshin Impact too many times, and Paimon's Clock is a particularly commonly used prop, which caused it to be condensed into a physical object by the power of will and smashed into this linked world, messing up the time of this world. The World Tree couldn't handle it, so it created its own game system and asked the Traveler to save the day.

Or is it about breaking the fourth wall?

However, players have played too many games, and holographic games have been developing towards realism, and everyone wants to break the fourth wall.

This tactic was still novel in the Blue Star era, but now it has become a household name.

The last dead branch came back to life and returned to the World Tree. The time power of Paimon's Clock was also taken away, leaving only a game prop that looked exactly the same as a souvenir.

【Mission Completed】

[You not only found the reason why you were trapped in this world, but also saved a world. The World Tree expresses its sincere gratitude and blessings to you. You are its distinguished guest. Whenever you want, it is always waiting for you to come and play.]

The game also gives an ending CG.

The scene where the black-haired traveler turns around and starts anew under the huge World Tree has a very blockbuster feel.

Um.

At this point it seems like it’s time to start playing the ending song and the list of leading actors, just like the end of a movie.

"etc!"

The player angrily deleted the CG and shouted loudly.

"Isn't this right?!"

At the end, they play a plot performance and give him some empty words of thanks and blessings, then use him up and throw him away. Do you think he can't see through it?

It's okay that the Traveler is just a passer-by, but he is the hero who saved the world. All the well-known NPCs in Teyvat, uh, all the scientific research are his friends (probably). No matter what, we have to hold a grand farewell party for him!

"Just walking away like this, I am so embarrassed!"

At the very least, there should be a farewell party of this level, with the Seven Gods of Heavenly Justice, the Seven Dragon Kings, and their followers, plus farewell dialogues with voiceovers for all the characters that have entered the card pool!

He didn't even ask to hold it on Sky Island, so it's fine to just do it here.

After all, the background of the Science World is quite consistent with the technological level of the Blue Star era, and is relatively normal. Of course, it is also possible for the World Tree to temporarily create a sky island.

In short, he must leave with dignity and in a very powerful way!

Otherwise, not only will he not leave, but he will also destroy this world!

It’s up to you, World Tree!