sbdcsierra Chapter 485 Layers
Chapter 485 Layers
Howard stepped on the pure white feathers, stained with mottled red.
Everything in the surrounding world was frozen in time, covered by a dark filter.
This feather is the only bright color.
Howard took a half step back and withdrew his foot, and then it was like a blocked spring was unblocked, clear water gushed out, and color spread.
And those things that had already been frozen slowly began to move.
Howard heard the sound of weapons clashing from afar. The sounds of countless swords clashing, roars and shouts mixed together, forming an almost tangible wall of sound waves that swept towards him. When the sound waves penetrated Howard's body, he felt his eardrums bulging and his skull trembling.
Howard remained motionless, not because he was frightened, but because so much information poured in at once that his brain had to filter it and make a judgment before taking the next step.
"clang!"
But before Howard's brain could completely filter out the information, a crisp sound of metal clashing exploded like thunder not far behind his head.
The sudden danger signal overwhelmed the unprocessed information, and Howard was instantly awakened from his thoughts. He turned around and looked behind him, only to see a power spear with a blade nearly three palms wide and one meter long hovering less than half a meter away from him.
Including the handle, the length of this power spear is more than four meters. A ferocious beast head is carved at the end of the handle, and the spear blade extends from the carved beast's mouth. The finely carved beast head is not just a decoration. The fangs of the beast head are the terminal electrodes of the power long-haired decomposition field generator, and the two beast eyes are hollowed out, from which protrude the muzzle for long-range attacks.
In addition to these, this power spear is also engraved with runes and inlaid with gems. At this moment, these runes and gems are all flashing, and powerful power is flowing through them.
The owner of this power spear is a giant who stands tall and straight. He is wearing golden armor and a scarlet cloak. There are wing-shaped decorations on his shoulders and helmet. A red tassel flutters on his head. He looks majestic and murderous, like a god in mythology who is in charge of killing.
The giant's attack only stopped behind Howard's head not because he discovered that Howard was not an enemy, but because someone helped Howard block the attack.
The Pope of the Lorosa Dynasty stood between Howard and the golden-armored giant. In terms of height alone, Hevian, who still maintained her human form, was the shortest of the three. She was not even half the height of the golden-armored giant, and the golden-armored giant's forearms were thicker than her waist.
But it was this seemingly vulnerable existence that blocked the attack of the golden-armored giant.
Hai Weiyan raised her hand slightly, and a mechanical arm appeared from hyperspace, blocking the swing of the power spear.
All this happened before Howard turned around. This was the source of the thunder that Howard heard. When he turned around, the fierce wind rushed towards his face, even cutting a long and narrow wound on his face.
After the first move was blocked by Hai Wei'an, the golden-armored giant did not hesitate and wanted to change his moves to attack again. Although he was huge in size, his speed was surprisingly fast. From Howard's mortal perspective, the golden-armored giant's movements almost left an afterimage, so that it was impossible to distinguish which one was the real body, and it was impossible to be sure where the next attack would come from.
But Hai Wei'an had already raised her hand, with her thumb and middle finger touching each other.
"Snapped!"
After a snap of the fingers, the bright colors faded instantly, and the giant's actions, along with everything that "came alive" around it, all stopped at the same time.
“Huh—” Hai Weiyan lowered her hand, and the mechanical arm constructed from hyperspace also disintegrated. Then she said, “It was really dangerous just now! I saved you!”
"Here it is!" Howard was already shocked beyond words.
How could he not see that the giant who was about to chop off his head without saying a word was a royal guard?
Then he slowly turned around and looked around, making sure his eyes did not miss any building layouts or people's positions. Although he did not see what he wanted to see most, after turning around, he was almost certain that what the Necron was showing him was the scene on the Spirit of Vengeance during the last node of the Great Heresy... during the worship of Horus.
But that alone wasn't enough to shock Howard. What truly shocked him was how this Imperial Guard, clearly a holographic projection, could cross the line between virtual and reality and attack him? Could it be that what he saw wasn't a recorded image, but something real?
"Here...is all this real, or is it fictional?" Howard asked Hai Wei'an: "I'm not talking about this incident, but about these...things I see now, such as this imperial guard. Did you really imprison a royal guard to perform a past drama, or...um..."
Howard was suddenly speechless because he couldn't organize the right words to express what he was thinking.
"This is a record of the past, a record of past events that we've preserved," Hai Wei'an explained, then revealed a proud yet mysterious smile. "We've preserved this historical process with the highest standards to ensure it's authentic... so authentic it's far beyond your imagination."
"This is definitely not a holographic projection or a replay of the past. You humans can't fully understand the principles behind it yet, but that's okay. You only need to understand what you can." Hai Wei'an took Howard's hand and said, "Follow me."
Hai Weiyan held Howard's hand and jumped lightly. Although the distance of this jump was less than 20 centimeters in terms of space, Howard, who was in the middle of it, clearly felt something strange.
How to describe this feeling... Howard found it difficult to find the right words to describe it, but if he had to say it, it was that Hai Wei'an pulled him up and jumped out of the original level.
That’s right, the “layer” popped up.
Originally, Howard and the imperial guard were on the same layer, but Hai Wei'an pulled him and jumped to a higher layer.
When Hai Wei'an brought Howard to land on a higher layer, the time in the layer of the Imperial Guards began to flow again, but this time the color of the armor on the Imperial Guards had faded a lot and was no longer as shining as before.
"I slowed down the flow of time," Hai Wei'an explained. "Otherwise, with the limits of human vision, you wouldn't be able to see most of the following scenes clearly."
But even though the flow of time slowed down, the speed of the imperial guard was still terrifyingly fast. After Howard entered the advanced layer and time began to flow again, the power spear pierced the ground where he had originally stood.
Howard made a rough estimate and found that apart from those top monsters, the strongest individual he had seen under normal circumstances should be the orc leader Crazy Fang. Crazy Fang's punch to the ground could cause earthquakes that could be detected by satellites in space. The imperial guards in front of him seemed to be able to tie with Crazy Fang, or even kill him.
The attack failed, and the guards drew their spears and looked around, seemingly confused as to why Howard suddenly appeared and disappeared.
But in fact, Howard and Hai Wei'an were standing right there, right in front of him. It was just that they were on a higher level and the imperial guards on the lower level could not see them.
But Howard was soon slapped in the face, because after the imperial guard glanced back and forth a few times, his gaze was once again directed at the position of Howard and Hai Wei'an, and his goggles burst out with a sharp red light, full of murderous intent.
This imperial guard's perception penetrated the present and the past, penetrated the virtual and the reality, and discovered Howard and Hai Wei'an?
Howard's breathing suddenly became disordered. There was nothing he could do. Being stared at with hostility by a member of the Imperial Guard, perhaps he was one of the few creatures in the universe who did not feel nervous.
Noticing Howard's nervousness, Hai Wei'an held his hand, tightened it a little, and then released it, obviously to comfort him and reassure him.
Sure enough, the imperial guard in front of him seemed to have noticed the surveillance from higher-ups, but he couldn't find a way to fight back for a while, so he decided not to dwell on what had just happened. He twirled his spear behind his back and rushed to the battlefield not far away, fighting with the imperial traitors and demons.