Chapter 2: Prologue: Beginning of The End
"Hahaha, you people want to get your hand on my researches and inheritances? Come get them then!"
In a space, more than hundreds of people were floating while they surrounded one man.
However, instead of that one man, it was those people surrounding him that possessed dread expression in their faces.
They truly didn't want to go against him because, in front of this person, they were no different from cannon fodder.
"Ryan, just hand over your AI chip and the inheritances. Considering your contribution to the clan for more than a thousand years, we will forget this enmity and even give you compensation"
Hearing the words from one of those surrounding him, Ryan can't help but sneer in his face.
"Contributions? Ha! More like being enslaved. Holy Flame clan forced one side contracted on me to obey them and made me take a production profession as their alchemist. It was only thanks to this inheritance that I unintentionally got, that I managed to bid my time slowly and loosen the contracted using my strength. Now that I finally able to broke the contract it's time for me to take revenge for my suffering all these years!"
After that, Ryan immediately raised his hand to cast his Innate Talent. Unlike spells that needed to be prepared when one cast them, Innate Talent can be cast instantly.
"[Slow Perception]"
This Innate Talent made other people's perception to slow down and made them no different from meat waiting to be chopped.
After all for powerhouse at their level, a millisecond difference in battle wasn't different from a matter of life and death.
His Innate Affinity<Time>was actually more suited for alchemy than for battle. With it, Ryan will be able to do a delicate refinement and made his alchemy concoction process become more successful.
It was also because of his innate affinity that the Holy Flame clan, a clan that famed for their production profession such as alchemy, forging, and array, to force a slave contract on him when Ryan was still a mortal.
After all, someone that possessed Affinity Attribute <Time> was very rare.
Ryan will never forget that those bastards was also the one who caused the death of his last family that he had in this world.
That's why Ryan was feigned obedience while he bid his time.
He only a need time in order to grow strong enough to annihilate the Holy Flame clan, with his sources of confidence being his inheritance.
With this inheritance, he can slowly increase his cultivation from a weak Mana Cultivator (Mana Gathering, Mana Condensation, and Mana Core realm) to become an expert that hailed as Soul Cultivator (Star Origin, Moon Expansion, and Radiant Sun realm).
Thanks to his inheritance, starting from the Star Origin realm, Ryan was able to fight evenly against those one realm above him.
Now that Ryan was able to reach the peak of the Radiant Sun realm, he can be said to be invincible under Law Cultivator Realm.
Several seconds later, Ryan already finished killing more than one hundred of Holy Flame's experts using various spells in his arsenal.
"Hahaha, now I only need to find the clan's leader and end this enmity completely"
"*sigh* looks like I was too late to rescue those guys"
Suddenly Ryan's thought was interrupted by a majestic voice.
Ryan's expression can't help but froze since he didn't feel any presence when this man appeared.
In that case, Ryan can only conclude one thing, this man was a Law Cultivator.
Suddenly Ryan feels despair.
Even though Ryan was capable to fight across realm, the difference between Soul Cultivator and Law Cultivator was wider than the difference between heaven and earth.
As for the man before him, Ryan was sure that he was the Ancestor of the Holy Flame clan, a law cultivator at the realm of God.
'But how come he appeared here? I already thoroughly check that their ancestor was exploring a ruin that belongs to an Overlord law cultivator. In my estimation, he shouldn't come back for at least 10 years'
As if knowing Ryan's thought, the Holy Flame Ancestor gives an answered to his confusion.
"There is no need for you to thinking hard. Your beloved partner Circe betrayed you and revealed your information to the clan because of her greed toward your researches and inheritances. Knowing that the clan can no longer deal with you, the current clan leader hurriedly call me to come back. Well, I should praise you, to think that you secretly increased your cultivation without the clan's knowledge and made the forced contract lose the effect…"
However, the ancestor's word didn't register in Ryan's mind.
The only thing in his mind was a revelation about his partner betrayal.
Suddenly it all becomes clear, why the Holy Flame clan tried to ambushed him before he made a move and why they know about his AI chip and his inheritances.
The fact that the only person that he trust had betrayed him cut him deeply more than his suffering as slave alchemist all these years.
"Hahaha, so that's how it is. I truly was a fool for believing her. Since that was the case then I had nothing to lose. I already made a plan in case something like this occurred. It was a gamble with very low probability, but I don't care anymore"
Suddenly Ryan took out a law crystal from his Soul Space and directly ingested it. It was a very rare law crystal with <Time> attribute that suits his Innate Affinity. He kept it just in case he needs to directly breakthrough to become a law cultivator if he was faced with a hopeless life-threatening situation such as right now.
Of course, the probability of success in case of such forced breakthrough was very low, but he didn't have time to care about such things when he had no other way out to survive.
Right after Ryan ingested the law crystal, suddenly his soul energy was expanded countless times as though it was about to burst.
All kinds of heavenly phenomenon suddenly appeared in the space around him, and it made the ancestor flabbergasted.
"What?! This phenomenon, don't tell me?! You lunatic! You actually tried to forced breakthrough to the realm of god! You're insane! The moment you failed to breakthrough your soul will be extinguished beyond redemption!"
The holy flame ancestor suddenly gets away from Ryan.
After all, in case a peak Radiant Sun cultivator failed to breakthrough to a God realm, there will be an impact from the burst of law inside them that will be more than enough to fatally injured other god realm. Ryan knew this thus he can safely breakthrough to God realm.
Ryan's soul keeps expanding seemingly without limit, accompanied by a strange phenomenon around him.
If there are onlookers, they will see that the time around Ryan seems to become slow, but at the same time became fast.
Ryan's feature also sometimes aging, but sometimes made him like an infant.
After quite a bit of time passed finally, the process was over, though Ryan's face was very pale with blood seeping from his lips.
[Beep! Host had successfully reached the God Realm. Congratulations host, starting today you deserve the title of Law Cultivator. Please check your status for further information]
[Name: Ryan Tempus
Strength: 8600~new~
Agility: 6800~new~
Vitality: 12000~new~
Mana: ∞ MP
Soul:9200 (23000) OP~new~
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Soul Core: Black Hole Core (99.99%) ->Universe Core (0.01%)~New~(Soul core start to evolve, now able to produce its own 'chaos origin' infinitely and refine it to 'origin essence')
Soul Status: critically damaged, maximum Origin Point capacity was greatly reduced
Laws Comprehended: Time (100%)~new~
Status: Healthy, however Black Hole Core was critically damaged, usage Origin Point (OP) for spells will further spread the damages. Please repaired it.
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Cultivation: God realm~new~
Profession: Life Alchemist (Grandmaster)~new~
Innate Affinity: Time (100%)
Acquired Affinity: Fire (69%), Wood (63%)]
Innate Talent:
1. Mana Cultivation Talent<Time>: [Fast Thinking]
2. Soul Cultivation Talent<Time>: [Slow Perception]
3. Law Cultivation Talent<Time>: [Time Reversal]~new~]
[Beep! Host's soul receive critical injury. Advise several means to deal with soul injury: 1. Ingest Life Dew, 2. Perform Soul Plundering ceremony, 3. …]
A series of AI chip notifications were rung inside his mind, but Ryan didn't have time to check on them.
His endeavor to the breakthrough was successful, but his soul was seriously injured since he forced the breakthrough with a weak foundation.
He thought that if he was able to breakthrough to the god realm, he will be able to confront the ancestor because of his inheritance, and even if he was no match for him because of his injury he can still run away.
Unfortunately, he was too naïve.
He knows that if he confronted the ancestor now he will lose without doubt, because after he became a law cultivator he found out that the ancestor was actually already reached the Overlord realm.
This ancestor was actually very shrewd, intentionally concealing his true cultivation at Overlord realm when in public he was known to be at God Realm
That's whyRyanintend to immediately escape for a sliver of survival chance.
Unfortunately, before the thought to escaped was registered in his mind he suddenly feels an immense pain all over his body and soul. The ancestor had actually ready to ambush him in his moment of weakness.
"Hahaha, congratulations on your successful breakthrough. With my cultivation realm, it was actually a breeze to kill you without fear when you try to breakthrough. I just love seeing the despair of ants when they were robbed of their opportunity even though they were only one step away from their success" said the Ancestor with mocking expression.
The ancestor was sure that Ryan will fail to breakthrough, but he still wants to saw his struggle like seeing an ant, thus he waits until Ryan dies by breakthrough failure.
However since Ryan had been successful, the Ancestor immediately strikes him without hesitation since Ryan already had unresolvable enmity with Holy Flame clan.
The fact that Ryan managed to reach the realm of god in a bit more than a thousand years was already spoken enough about his heaven-defying talent, thus he needs to cut the grass from its roots by attacking his soul with his strongest spell charged with his law of flame.
As a result, Ryan immediately dies, and his soul had started to crumble.
'Damn old goat! Looks like this is the last of my journey'
Ryan immediately lost his consciousness, thus he didn't manage to hear AI chip notifications.
[Beep! Host's physical body had been destroyed]
[Beep! Host's soul starts to crumble]
[Beep! Host had exceedingly close to the state of eternal death]
[Beep! Host had fulfilled the criteria to activate his Law Cultivation Talent<Time>: Time Reversal]
[Because of Host's predicament, Time Reversal had been automatically casted on Host's soul by AI chip's authority]
[Host'sBlack Hole Core had started to be consumed to fuel Time Reversal]
[Host's soul start to undergo an evolution because of a combination of Time Reversal and Black Hole Core]
CREATORS' THOUGHTS 
GaRage
GaRage This isn’t xianxia cultivation novel, this novel was more similar to magical fantasy genres such as WMW or WW, fusing with typical Korean’s fantasy genre.
Don’t be deceived by this prologue!
I’ll try my best to prevent this novel from becoming a standard xianxia novel.
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