130: The author of this story is me

"— — Let me, start over!!!"

Accompanied by Sword River Fish's roar, which almost exhausted all his spirit and luck.

A mighty force, unobservable by any instrument and incomprehensible by any logic, descended with a crash!

That was not the reversal of time, but a more overbearing reset of causality!

Just as Supervisor Bai's pupils suddenly contracted, an instant before his words "Stop him" were about to escape his lips.

The entire world seemed to have been rewound.

Everything returned to the exact moment he had just smugly pressed the "Publish" button.

Supervisor Bai's smile remained gentle, carrying the playful amusement of a cat toying with a mouse.

The guards behind him still maintained their rigid posture, their eyes filled with indifference towards the "experiment subject."

The piercing alarm had not yet sounded, and the "Reality Stabilizing Anchor" still lay quietly dormant in the corner.

Except for Sword River Fish himself.

No one remembered the failed escape attempt that had lasted less than three seconds.

...It worked!"

A tidal wave of ecstasy surged within Sword River Fish!

The Spring Autumn Cicada really could "reload a save file"!

Although this reload had almost drained all of his "luck," leaving him with a feeling of being hollowed out and weak all over.

But, it was worth it!

He had gained a precious chance to start over!

And this time, he wouldn't make the same mistake again!

"Very good, Mr. Sword River Fish, it seems you have thoroughly recognized reality."

Supervisor Bai's voice, like a script, sounded precisely on time.

"As a reward, you can now enjoy the readers' 'praise' for your 'new work.'"

He approved Sword River Fish's "request" in a tone filled with condescending benevolence.

And the moment his words fell!

Sword River Fish transformed all his "spirit," all his "will," all his "desire to survive" into one sentence!

— — 【Immortal's Roam】!

— — 【Man Will Conquer Heaven】!

— — 【— — Open!!!!】

Buzz—!

Invisible ripples once again spread out from the bell as its center!

The "spatial aisle" leading to Wangjia Village was forcibly re-established!

"Alarm! Alarm! High-intensity spatial energy fluctuations detected in Isolation Zone Seven!"

"Activate the 'Reality Stabilizing Anchor'!"

Almost simultaneously, the piercing alarm and the cold mechanical voice once again echoed throughout the entire base!

The smile on Supervisor Bai's face instantly froze!

The expression on his face, from bewilderment, to shock, and then to furious rage, took only one second!

"No good!!! My work!"

"Stop him!!!"

He let out a hysterical roar!

The two guards behind him reacted extremely quickly!

Two silver-white pistols, with a futuristic design, slid out of their holsters!

Those were no ordinary pistols!

The energy gathered at the muzzle was not gunpowder, but a faint blue "power of rules" capable of distorting light!

— — "Causality" bullets!

Once hit by such a bullet, the wound would be unable to heal, and the existence would temporarily be unable to be "observed."

However, just an instant before they were about to pull the trigger.

Sword River Fish unleashed the second "great gift" he had prepared for himself in this "do-over" second!

He no longer wasted "luck" to activate "Man Will Conquer Heaven."

Instead, he poured all his remaining mental energy into the bell.

Sending the clearest and most urgent "link" request to the endless "Sea of Stories"!

The ability he wanted to link was not some world-destroying divine skill or secret art.

But an inconspicuous yet incredibly practical "setting" from a story called "One-Punch Man"!

— — 【King's 'Engine of the Emperor'】!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

A series of heartbeats, like war drums from hell, filled with supreme majesty and terrifying aura.

Suddenly erupted from Sword River Fish's frail chest!

That sound seemed to possess substantial power!

The two well-trained, resolute elite guards, the moment they heard that heartbeat, their bodies stiffened abruptly!

An irresistible fear, originating from the instinct of life, instantly coiled around their hearts like a cold venomous snake!

In their minds, uncontrollably, various illusions about "Cosmic Overlords," "Hellish Demon Gods," and "Unspeakable Horrors" appeared!

As if the person they saw was not a defenseless "Author."

But a peerless ferocious beast about to awaken, capable of destroying the world!

...What a joke..."

...Can this 'aura' be possessed by a human being?!"

Their hands were trembling violently!

Their foreheads were covered in large beads of cold sweat!

They hesitated, not daring to shoot!

And it was this brief zero-point-five-second hesitation, bought by the "Engine of the Emperor"!

Sword River Fish activated the third, and most crucial, "link"!

He linked the core ability of a certain character from a story called "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure"!

— — 【Star Platinum: The World】!

"— — ZA WARUDO!!!"

A silent roar, exploded from the depths of his soul!

In an instant!

The entire world lost its color!

Supervisor Bai's face, distorted by rage.

The guards' movements, stiffened by fear.

Even the four "metal anchors" that were frantically drawing energy, attempting to stabilize reality.

All fell into absolute stillness at this moment!

Time, stopped!

...Hoo... Hoo..."

Sword River Fish gasped for air, taking large, ragged breaths.

Activating three "links" consecutively had almost completely drained his mental energy!

His head felt like it was splitting open, the pain was immense!

But he knew he had no time to rest!

The "time stop" brought by "Star Platinum" could only last for two seconds at most!

He had to do everything he needed to do within this brief period of "invincibility"!

He didn't choose to escape immediately.

Instead, he rushed to the huge one-way glass wall!

He reached out and pressed his hand against the cold surface of the wall.

Then, he activated the fourth "link"!

This time, he linked a spatial ninjutsu of a certain character from a story called "Naruto"!

— — 【Kamui】!

"Open again!!!"

He used his last ounce of strength to shake the bell in his hand.

The space before his eyes twisted like a vortex!

That one-way glass wall, made of special material and capable of withstanding missile bombardment.

Faced with this "power of rules" from an "otherworld," it was as fragile as a thin piece of paper!

In less than a blink of an eye, it was twisted, broken open, and sucked into an unknown space!

Revealing the girl on the other side of the wall, who was also in a "time-stopped" state, with tear stains still on her face!

— — Lin Wan'er!

Sword River Fish didn't hesitate for a moment!

He lunged forward, scooped up the girl who was still in a "head-in-hands, crying bitterly" posture, and held her horizontally in his arms!

Then he turned and rushed towards the "spatial aisle" that was slowly collapsing!

One second... one and a half seconds... Just an instant before his foot was about to step into the passage!

The "time stop" effect ended!

"— — Don't even think about it!!!"

Supervisor Bai's roar, full of rage and disbelief, sounded again!

The two guards finally broke free from the "fear aura" of the "Engine of the Emperor"!

They pulled the triggers without hesitation!

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Two faint blue beams of light, capable of erasing "causality," shot towards Sword River Fish's back at a speed exceeding the speed of light!

It's over!

Too late!

At this critical moment!

Sword River Fish rang the bell again, linking an ability from a certain Logia Devil Fruit in a story called "One Piece"!

— — 【Glint-Glint Fruit】!

"— — Light Speed Kick!!!"

He didn't choose to use "elementalization" to dodge the attack.

Because he knew that kind of "physical level" defense simply couldn't block "causality" weapons!

He chose the most direct and most unexpected method!

— — Offense as defense!

Holding Lin Wan'er's body, he suddenly spun in mid-air!

His right leg was instantly covered by a layer of golden light so dazzling it was impossible to look at directly!

Then, with a speed that surpassed the limits of human dynamic vision, he kicked forward fiercely!

Boom—!!!!

A dazzling golden beam of light, like the sun, erupted from his toe!

With an overwhelming and unstoppable momentum.

It instantly swallowed and annihilated the two faint blue "causality" beams of light!

Then, with undiminished force, it slammed fiercely into the pure white wall!

Rumble rumble rumble—!!!!

The entire base seemed to tremble violently under this "light speed" strike!

That wall, made of special alloy and touted as "never-wearing-out."

Like butter melted by high heat, a huge hole, over ten meters in diameter, was vaporized out of it!

Revealing the outside, the metallic passage filled with a sense of technology!

"..."

"..."

Supervisor Bai and the two guards were dumbfounded.

They stared blankly at the huge hole that had been kicked out.

Then they looked at the man holding the girl, his entire body radiating a faint golden light.

Their minds were left with nothing but an incomprehensible blank.

This... what the hell kind of monster is this?!

And Sword River Fish gave them no time to continue thinking!

Holding Lin Wan'er, without any lingering attachment, he plunged into the "spatial aisle" that was about to close!

From the ripples of that blurry space, Supervisor Bai.

He saw Sword River Fish, his face full of mischievous smiles, holding a black-covered notebook transformed from a bell, showing him Supervisor Bai's name on it.

The bewildered Supervisor Bai, no matter how slow, should have realized that it was an item from the anime "Death Note."

The next second, the power of rules activated, and Supervisor Bai clutched his chest, eyes wide, slowly falling down.

...Supervisor Bai..."

A cold voice, full of exhaustion yet carrying a hint of gratification, drifted from the spatial ripples that were about to heal.

...This 'story'...

...From now on...

— — I will write it."