"No matter what… turn back time."
Ultear gave a sharp cry and unleashed her time magic with everything she had.
In that instant, it was as if the entire world had been enveloped in the radiance of Ultear's time magic.
The glow of time magic didn't last very long.
Once the light vanished, Ain, Raki, and the diary copy holders immediately looked up.
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Makino said, "Is it just me, or did Ultear not seem to change anything? Everything around her still looks the same."
Whitey Bay said, "It really is a little strange. What was Ultear's reason for using time magic?"
Stussy said, "At a moment like this, Miss Ultear should have been planning to use time magic to erase the dragons' magic and give the human wizards more of a chance."
Hancock said, "But because those dragons are too powerful, did Ultear's magic fail?"
Smoothie said, "No, wait. The time on that clock tower over there seems off."
Cinnamon said, "Now that you mention it, the time really does seem a little off."
Ultear also raised her head and looked toward the clock tower, and her voice reached everyone's ears as well.
"Even after using everything I have… time only went back one minute?"
Ultear murmured.
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"What? Time went back one minute?"
Ain stared in shock, following Ultear's gaze toward the clock tower.
"If my memory isn't wrong, the minute hand on that clock tower was one notch farther ahead earlier."
Robin propped her cheek on one hand and spoke.
"So what's going on now? Did time really go backward by one minute?" Raki asked.
As if to answer Raki's question, images of other people suddenly appeared beside Ultear.
Ain and the others could see clearly that they were people who had already died earlier.
But now, they had come back to life perfectly, and were even repeating the exact same movements as before.
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Gion said, "That's amazing. It looks like time really did go backward, and those people who were already dead came back to life."
Doll said, "Even if it only made time go backward by one minute, that's already incredible enough."
Hancock said, "To think it can affect the time of the entire world. This really is an incredibly powerful template."
This time, even Hancock couldn't help being amazed by Ultear's power.
Although Ultear's time magic wasn't as special as the fate power in the Shilwa template, nor did it have the same incredible potential as fate itself, the power of the time magic Ultear had displayed right now was far more shocking than what Shilwa had shown.
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"That's amazing. But if time only went back one minute, can that change the outcome?"
Ain looked worriedly at the image of Gray near Ultear.
She still remembered that Gray had been pierced through the chest by a laser earlier and died right there.
Just as that thought crossed Ain's mind, Gray suddenly seemed to sense something in advance and looked toward the direction the laser had come from.
And at that exact moment, a laser really did shoot toward him.
Chapter 687: The Consequences of Making the World Flow Backward
Gray caught sight of the incoming laser ahead of time.
This time, he successfully dodged the laser and quickly defeated the being that had fired it.
And it wasn't just Gray. In the other scenes, the people who had originally died once already, after experiencing time flowing backward, also sensed in advance the attacks that had previously killed them.
Because they sensed those attacks ahead of time, everyone dodged them this time and smoothly launched their counterattacks, just like Gray had.
After that, the battles on every front seemed to use this moment as a turning point, gradually developing in a direction favorable to humanity.
"What exactly is going on? Why does everyone seem to know an attack is coming?"
"Did Ultear notify them ahead of time?"
"No. Ultear was clearly disappointed that she only turned time back by one minute."
"And right now, she shouldn't have any extra energy to do anything else."
Ain shook her head and glanced at Ultear, whose aura had obviously weakened by a great deal.
"Ultear indeed didn't do anything else. Making the world flow backward by one minute already exhausted her energy."
"But although she believed that turning time back by one minute was useless, in reality, that one minute became the turning point of this war."
Arton waved his hand, making the battle scenes around Ultear disappear.
Once the battle scenes were gone, everyone present turned their gazes toward Arton, hoping he could clear up their confusion.
"Although the world Ultear is in flowed backward by one minute, the events that happened in that timeline won't simply vanish for no reason."
"People with sharp senses, like Gray, will have an intuition-like reaction to major events that occurred during that minute."
"To put it another way, Gray would sense the image of his own death."
"And then, as you all saw, Gray and the others successfully launched counterattacks through that intuition."
Arton explained.
"So that's how it is. Ultear really is amazing."
Ain spoke excitedly.
As the person who was about to inherit Ultear's power, Ain was also happy that Ultear had been able to accomplish what she wanted.
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Smoothie said, "She really is impressive. I originally thought that since Ultear's time magic had no effect on living beings aside from plants, I didn't expect her time magic could make time flow backward. I never imagined things would develop like this."
Whitey Bay said, "Making time flow backward… that's something ordinary people would have a hard time even imagining. Could it be that, because Ultear was targeting the world this time, and the world doesn't count as a living being, her time magic succeeded?"
Makino said, "It's also possible that Ultear broke through her limits."
Hancock said, "To use time magic to such an extent… the price must be enormous."
"Next comes the end."
Arton raised his hand and snapped his fingers. In the image, the young and beautiful Ultear instantly vanished.
In her place stood an elderly woman dressed in purple, with white hair and a kind, toothy smile on her face.
She was standing by the roadside, gently watching Gray leave.
And Gray still looked incredibly young.
Ain's eyes widened the moment she saw this scene.
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