‘Master…’ Taling’s cold voice sounded in Zach’s mind: ‘The abnormal time flow rate was detected, and the breakage occurred in synchronization with the time of the Santa Tower.”

‘Well, I noticed it too.’ Zach responded ‘

‘Master, I suggest you apply for time synchronization to the Holy Tower again.’

‘Wait a little longer.’

Zach rejected Taling's suggestion.

He continued to stand there quietly, watching Alsace Minaihill complain again, and Kelthas Sun Chaser got angry again.

These conversations have just happened, and now I will do it again.

At the end of the conversation, Arthas looked at Zach again: "His Guardian, what should we do next?"

Zachllo thought and said slowly and tentatively: "My suggestion is to go straight to Stansor..."

Sure enough, before he finished speaking, time retreated to an hour ago as the phantom-like scene changed.

Zach is trapped in a time loop.

He shook his head: ‘I finally couldn’t help but interfere.’

At this moment, he already knew it in his heart—

There is a bronze dragon making a fuss.

There are many forces behind the scenes of seclusion in this world. When ordinary people fight to death, they hide in unknown places and observe the progress of the world.

The five-colored dragon is one of them. They represent the "creators" who transformed this world to manage this world, and also have the authority to interfere or even manipulate this world.

Among them, the Bronze Dragon assumed the responsibility of managing time. They hid in time and protected Azeroth's timeline from being disturbed by external forces and unexpected factors.

If the timeline turbulence occurs and leaves the booking trajectory, they will show up and force it back to the "normal" process.

As for what is considered normal, the bronze dragons have their own definitions.

At least some of Zach's own actions have been regarded as "mistakes" that need to be trimmed by the Bronze Dragon.

The correct method is obviously - do it again.

Zach looked around, looking for the mastermind behind all this.

The bronze dragons rarely appear in mortals and other races.

But there is one exception.

Sure enough, Zach saw a short figure standing in the camp in the distance.

It was a female dwarf. She had white blond hair, two buns curled on her forehead, some freckles on her face, and a white mage robe.

She was standing in the open space between several tents, looking at herself playfully.

Zach walked over directly, leaving Alsace to look at each other in confusion.

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The black-haired mage looked at the female dwarf for a while, then sat on the ground in front of her.

"Hello, Kronom. The first meeting, lucky meeting."

This little girl with the pseudonym Cromi is not very good-looking, but her real body is a bronze dragon named Cronom.

Unlike other bronze dragons, he likes to appear in front of mortals.

Of course, he is the one who likes to meddle in other people's business the most.

"Hello, Zach Stuart," Cromy seemed unsurprising that Zach knew her real name: "Meet again."

"again?"

Zach narrowed his eyes: "This is not the first time you have thrown me back."

Cromi giggled when she heard this: "I have to say that every time you talk to you, the wisdom you reveal will open my eyes."

She restrained her smile: "I can't remember how many times have I been. Not only you, but also your mage tower. To say more, your tower spirit is really responsible. Every time we look back on time on you, it will remind you. Later, we can only tie it to you and trace back. Wow, that's a waste of our efforts."

Zach immediately asked in his heart when he heard this: "Ta Ling, you just said that the time difference between the Holy Tower was detected."

’Yes, master.’

'how long?'

’62 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes, 09 seconds.’

Zach almost covered up his shock when he heard this.

These bronze dragons are really good methods.

He actually spent two months in the cycle of time without any awareness!

This Cromi did not bluff. He might have been trapped in the cycle of time for a long time, and perhaps he had been reincarnated hundreds or thousands of times without knowing it.

The Bronze Dragon obviously knew his identity long ago.

Thinking of this, Zach asked, "But this time, you didn't let my memory disappear, and you also appeared in front of me. Why?"

"It's easy to talk to smart people. Yes, we have tried many backtracks, hoping that in that infinite possibilities, you will take the initiative to make the right choice..." The female dwarf had false sadness on her face:

"But unfortunately, you are so persistent. No matter how many times we try, although you have some subtle changes in your behavior, you are always stubbornly trying to prevent the Stantamme incident."

"So, you decided to let me go through a time retracement when I was conscious and then show up to negotiate with me?"

Cromi waved her little hand and giggled, "It's like that. It's really a pleasure to talk to you. Unlike many others, just explaining it clearly will take a few days to waste."

"Thank you for your compliment..." Zach stared at the dancing dwarf, and asked in a cold voice:

"Why didn't you kill me directly?"

This sentence calmed Cromi. At this moment, the dragon that had lived for thousands of years seemed to tear off its disguise and stopped playing the somewhat neurotic dwarf. The childish face quickly became gloomy: "Zach Stuart, how did you know that we hadn't killed you?"

The gloomy expression lasted for only a moment, and Cromi once again became hippie: "Although I admit, you really have a hard time killing it. Your followers' performance before their death was also very interesting, I can talk about it all..."

"No need..." Zach interrupted her: "I'm not interested."

The female dwarf smiled and didn't say anything more.

The black-haired mage leaned out again: "I have one last question, my appearance..."

Cromi continued the second half: "Will it lead to the end of time?" She looked at the dark-haired mage with interest and looked surprised: "You will ask this question every time."

[End of Time] is a statement from the Bronze Dragons. It is one of the countless futures of Azeroth and the worst ending.

Zach doesn't know how bad it is, but it must be a disaster for all living beings.

The reason why the bronze dragons tried their best to fix the timeline is to avoid the "end of time".

The female dwarf also sat on the ground, as if expecting the next long speech: "The answer is - we don't know."

"Then why do you stop me?"

"Because we cannot take this risk. The web of time is extremely fragile. The world is like walking on a narrow single-plank bridge. The end of time is the abyss on both sides. Any disturbance will cause it to deviate from its original trajectory and fall down."

"Mr. Mage, your appearance has indeed created countless unknown possibilities, but we cannot try them at the risk of making this world gobroken."

After a while of silence, Zach asked slowly, "What do you want me to do?"

"With your wisdom, you probably guessed it."

Zach said expressionlessly: "You don't want me to stop the tragedy of Stantosom. You hope that Arthas will massacre tens of thousands of residents of Stantosom according to the established script."

"You are so smart!"

"You hope that Arthas can continue to fall, and then start the invasion of the Burning Legion, allowing the demons and the undead to massacre the millions of humans and elves of Lordaeron."

The short dwarf jumped up happily, clapped his hands and said, "That's right, that's it!"

Zach was silent again.

The Cromi looked in front of him, but it made him feel the long-lost creepy.

In order to maintain the correctness of the timeline, these bronze dragons have surpassed the levels of good and evil and have become cold and ruthless "time maintenance workers".

To a certain extent, this is indeed their responsibility.

But Zach doesn't like being manipulated so much.

The Bronze Dragon's ability to manipulate time without restraint is simply impeccable. But Zach did not overwhelm the surging sense of powerlessness, but quickly thought about the countermeasures.

Through these brief conversations just now, Zach has sorted out a rough idea.

I have obviously experienced countless time retracing, but it seems that every active behavior of my life cannot produce a timeline that satisfies the bronze dragon.

During that period, I might have realized my own situation and what kind of resistance I made? How to fight wits and courage with these bronze dragons is probably never known.

The Bronze Dragon even tried to kill himself, but still failed to get the results they wanted.

Only then did they rebaptize Zach the perception of time backtracking.

The Bronze Dragon also told Zach calmly what happened, allowing him to feel his insignificance and powerlessness, hoping that he would succumb to the power of time, and thus proceed according to the trajectory of the Bronze Dragon design.

‘Ta Ling, you have heard all the conversation just now.’ Zach silently communicated in his heart.

‘Yes, Master.’

‘Although you don’t remember, thank you for your hard work.’

‘Yes, Master. I’m very hard.’

‘..., when the time exception just happened, what type of time synchronization error did you mention with the Santa Tower?’

‘Our time has a negative deviation from the Holy Tower, and the time in our body produces a negative flow rate in an instant.’

‘Yeah, I got it.’

After the communication with Taling ended, Zach smiled: "Kronom, I agree with your proposal..."

The black-haired young man stood up and patted the dirt on his body: "I will suggest Alsace act according to the scheduled plan."

The female dwarf jumped up: "Your wisdom of doing good is admirable."
Chapter completed!