A game where you have to pay to win? But I have a lifespan roulette wheel!

Did we go back to the past?

Jiang Lin was a little confused.

All the signs clearly told him that he had traveled back in time.

Now, this king of fantasy, with just a few words, tells him, "Didn't we go back to the past?"

"The timeline is irreversible; you are currently at a conceptual discontinuity!!!"

"What fault line?"

"Conceptual gap".

"What concept?"

"A conceptual gap!"

"What did you mean by irreversible?"

"Timeline".

"But you're clearly players from before the 100,000-player mark!"

The King of Fantasy suppressed his smile. "That's just the truth you see in your own timeline. I guess this great battle was just too brutal. The concepts of countless unique professionals and forbidden creatures collided, and finally, they randomly captured passing beings on the spacetime plane, dragging them into a spacetime rift where concepts are mixed. This place is neither the past nor the future, but a chaotic place where the possibilities of all timelines are intertwined."

"Wait, wait, teacher! This great battle happened 100,000 years ago for me, but it shouldn't have happened yet for you, right? Why were you dragged into this chaotic place?"

The King of Fantasy looked at Jiang Lin as if he were an idiot.

As if the person before him were the worst class of students he had ever taught, his voice held a hint of resentment: "I've already said, this place is neither the past nor the future. If you, from the future timeline, can be dragged into this, why can't I, from the past timeline, be involved?"

"...Okay...that seems to make sense."

Jiang Lin felt that there seemed to be some truth to it.

The King of Fantasy looked at Jiang Lin: "You just said you encountered the Book of God's Prayer and even turned it into Balus, which is how you got involved here?"

"Huh? When did I say that???"

No?

Aren't you the King of Fantasy?

How come he seems to know everything, just like that old man, Bitden, the Magic King?

Jiang Lin looked at the King of Fantasy with wary eyes: "You can read my mind?"

The King of Fantasy waved his hand: "Who would use that lowly thing?"

"Then how do you know I encountered the Book of God's Prayer, and what do you mean by turning him into Barus? How come I didn't know that?"

"Huh? You still haven't said it? I thought you already had." The King of Fantasy scratched his head and chuckled, "There's nothing strange about it. From your perspective, you might only be talking to me in this current state, but from my perspective, I might be talking to you in several dimensions at the same time. It's normal for me to know more."

"..."

Appeared.

Information that's even more sinister than mind reading!

Even the Magic King could only read minds.

Even if they knew Jiang Lin's secret, it was something Jiang Lin himself knew.

Now, the King of Fantasy suddenly revealed something to him: he turned the Prayer Book into Balus?

When did this happen?!

Could it be that casual pinch I made before I left?

It seems to be somewhat inspired by Barus, but...

The King of Fantasy's expression turned strange: "Then do you know... in the normal timeline, Balus was indeed a forbidden creature in disguise, and that forbidden creature later actually became the Demon King's servant?"

"what?"

Jiang Lin was stunned.

I don't quite understand what the King of Fantasy meant by suddenly saying this.

"It seems you didn't know." The King of Fantasy stroked his chin. "Interesting. So your experiences are actually filling a gap in a timeline? Or rather, you're becoming a part of history?"

Jiang Lin felt his mind was becoming even more confused.

"Wait a minute, you mean what I'm doing now was actually supposed to happen???"

It's not a matter of my mind being confused anymore.

Instead, it felt a little painful.

It feels like being pricked with a needle.

This wasn't the first time Jiang Lin had done something like altering cause and effect.

For example, his own sister, the Ghost King.

Baili Qingqiong, a proper maid.

Jiang Lin even once thought that his innate talent was something like reversing the future or turning cause into effect.

But what does "King of Fantasy" mean now?

These things were supposed to happen anyway?

Is it that I am not changing cause and effect, but that I am also a part of it?

"In one possibility, yes," said the King of Fantasy. "Conceptual gaps can cause people to experience all sorts of events that should have happened but never did. Your meeting with me is also part of this gap."

He suddenly looked at Jiang Lin seriously: "Kid, since you've already been dragged into this, I have a suggestion for you: don't try to force your way out. The conceptual rift has its own operating rules. It will make you experience all the events that you need to complete, and then it will naturally send you back. If you try to break free by force, you may be trapped here forever."

Jiang Lin remained silent.

Even if he were to break free by force, he would need the ability to do so; he had absolutely no clue what to do.

After a long pause, Jiang Lin asked, "Then how am I supposed to know when I'll be done with it?"

The King of Fantasy smiled: "When you meet another version of yourself."

"Another...self?"

Jiang Lin felt something was off. He didn't know if he had experienced some kind of conceptual gap in the events involving the Ghost King and Baili Qingqiong, but he hadn't encountered another version of himself back then.

"Yes!" The King of Fantasy stood up, brushing off non-existent dust from his leather trench coat. "In the conceptual rift, all the possibilities of timelines will appear. Sooner or later, you'll encounter yourself from other timelines. It might be you after changing to your only profession, or it might be you as an ordinary person, or even become a forbidden creature?"

"..."

Why does this sound so unreliable?

Jiang Lin's ultimate professional class includes the class that eliminates other parallel universes of himself.

Are other timelines considered parallel universes?

"Are you kidding me?"

Jiang Lin looked at the King of Fantasy with a serious expression.

The King of Fantasy pointed to the depths of the World Sea: "I must continue on my journey." He turned to Jiang Lin, "I don't know how your story should have unfolded before, but your encounter with me was bound to happen after I chanted these fantasy epics."

"Your conceptual abilities? You're trying to trick me?"

The King of Fantasy glanced at this disciple who lacked comprehension.

Resist the urge to roll your eyes at him.

"Your storyline might have ended here, and I'm just adding a continuation to this fantasy epic." The King of Fantasy turned around. "Alright, head to Jianmu to participate in the battle. This is also a part of the story that I must complete. Kid, let's part ways again. I hope we can meet again."

After speaking, the wooden boat beneath the King of Fantasy's feet began to accelerate, quickly disappearing into the tides of the World Ocean.

Jiang Lin sat in his wheelchair, staring in the direction the other person had disappeared, remaining silent for a long time.

Another version of myself from another timeline?

Surely he can't be a cuckold, right?

No, no, no, it could also be the King of Chu Nan, the King of Shura, or something like that.

Having successfully transformed into the King of Kings?

Hard to say.

There's a conceptual gap.

To fill in the gaps in history.

Jiang Lin rubbed his temples, feeling overwhelmed by the amount of information.