Chapter 287: The Battle of Infinite Resets [2]
What did Brunhilde see?
To be honest, she could barely discern the fighting techniques—only the destructive aftermath left by both combatants.
Thus, being caught in the crossfire, she witnessed her own numerous deaths.
The arena shattered under the impact, and she was crushed beneath its ruins.
Normally, how could she die so easily from being crushed?
But the clash between the two had distorted the world's laws, thrown all phenomena into chaos, rendering ordinary powers unusable. Her body became as fragile as that of a normal human, leading to her being crushed to death.
As for the stronger gods, while they weren't crushed to death, they were later torn apart by the collapse of space.
Well, Brunhilde also experienced being compressed by spatial forces, causing her body to burst like a tomato.
She also went through space suddenly splitting open, bisecting her body at the waist.
So, are these memories of repeated resets flooding her mind real memories or not?
Had it really repeated the opening this many times?
This third round of Ragnarök had truly surpassed her imagination!
During the previous reset, the human world had also been affected. The destruction of the Central Celestial Realm caused many things from within to fall into the human world.
For a time, the severely impacted crust seemed to burst the magma layer entirely onto the surface, burning the human world to ashes.
This time, the reason the human world was affected again seemed to be because another figure had intervened—it appeared to be the Primordial God Gaia.
She was attempting a sneak attack!
Brunhilde didn't see the final outcome; she only knew this round ended with the destruction of the human world, unable to determine which of the three emerged victorious.
It probably wasn't Gaia who won, because if she had truly succeeded, this kind of regression would have stopped.
Then Brunhilde wouldn't still be standing here in the arena.
So, whose ability was this endless regression?
Buddha's?
The reason Brunhilde first considered Buddha was because his ability allowed him to see the future through fluctuations in the soul.
And now, having transformed into the Six Paths Guanyin form, Buddha's future vision had likely changed; it might indeed be capable of such regression.
Perhaps it could also be said that Buddha saw countless possible futures, and these visions uncontrollably flooded into everyone's awareness as if being broadcast.
Of course, it could also be Qin Shi Huang's ability.
But regardless of whose ability it was, if this continued, the endless regression without a decisive outcome would be disastrous.
"Sister Brunhilde!"
"Sister!"
"Is it our turn this time?!"
The sudden panicked voices of her younger sisters around her made Brunhilde sigh.
Time had begun to flow, meaning this timeline was now their worldline.
That infinite regression was like constantly shifting and repeating worldlines.
And until the moment before the shift, none of the Valkyrie sisters—no, none of them—were aware that the battles had already occurred repeatedly.
For example, if the timeline had reset ten times, they wouldn't know those ten iterations had passed until their worldline's turn came.
When time started moving, the memories of the previous ten cycles were dumped all at once into the unaware eleventh iteration of themselves, rather than them experiencing each reset sequentially.
When their eleventh iteration ended and reset, it would bundle the previous ten cycles, forcibly injecting the memories of all eleven cycles into the twelfth timeline's versions of themselves.
There was no gradual buffer—no understanding the first cycle, then slowly receiving the second.
So this time, once time began flowing throughout the entire arena, all the humans and gods who received the memories of all previous cycles looked particularly grim.
Even the opposing armies battling around the Central Celestial Realm stiffened upon receiving the memories, their focus in combat wavering.
The mental burden from the endless regression began to outweigh the purely physical strain of battle.
The moment it surpassed that threshold, both sides would lose the will to fight in reality.
If at this moment, there were still humans or gods paying attention to the ongoing live broadcast of the battle between the divine army of the Central Celestial Realm and the Primordial God's legion, they would notice that some of the enemies suddenly collapsed without warning.
They fell like kites with severed strings, appearing as though dead, yet it was certain their bodies remained alive. The eeriness lay in the fact that their souls had vanished.
In other words, their bodies had become like the Living Dead.
Was this because these individuals couldn't withstand the constant reloading and collapsed?
But if it were collapse, it should only result in mental derangement—going insane—not the disappearance of their souls.
The true reality was that the souls of these people had been used by Buddha as shields.
The so-called backtracking, which seemed like time reversal, was not actually the entire spacetime rolling back.
It was Buddha's Future Sight undergoing changes. If he felt the current path was unsolvable or that he couldn't win, he would use Future Sight to leap his consciousness into the past.
Simply put, it was the consciousness of his future self leaping into the present.
As for why others could also remember, it was due to his carelessness or, one could say, a slight rampage of the Future Sight ability.
Initially, during backtracking, only he himself could remember.
While facing off against Qin Shi Huang, Buddha eerily discovered that no matter how he changed his approach, even though he clearly knew his opponent's moves and countered accordingly, the other party seemed to foresee his counters as if he could also see the future.
For example, in the previous iteration, in the same scenario, Buddha had already understood what his subsequent reactions would be, so he adjusted accordingly. However, the adjusted Buddha should have successfully attacked from a blind spot, yet Qin Shi Huang appeared to anticipate his anticipation and reacted accordingly.
Thus, this situation led Buddha to suspect that Qin Shi Huang possessed a similar ability to see the future!
But through continuous exchanges afterward, Buddha realized that Qin Shi Huang wasn't seeing the future but calculating it.
His calculations were terrifyingly precise, catching up to the future Buddha saw.
Every moment of Buddha's actions and more were constantly being computed by him for various possible future behaviors.
In that case, would the two be locked in an unsolvable stalemate?