Why is his holy light red?

Chapter 103 An Unreachable Distance

Lucas was also stunned. He recognized Mercury all too well and had been thinking of capturing the kid and torturing him severely.

The Holy Light Angel was clearly brought here by this kid, so why was he thrown away?

go Ape?

surrender?

still----

Just as Lucas's attention was focused on Mercury, the angel of holy light, who had been silent all along, finally made a move.

A flash of golden light appeared, and the Holy Angel was already standing in front of Lucas.

Lucas felt a sudden tightness around his neck; he was being gripped by the Holy Light Angel and being propelled into the sky at an incredible speed.

Lucas hurriedly enveloped the Holy Light Angel with the Gray Time Domain, only to be shocked to find that the golden light was unshakable in the torrent of time.

Whether time is accelerated, reversed, or stopped, the god shrouded in golden light remains unmoved and completely unaffected.

No, it's not that they're unaffected. The golden holy light is indeed being constantly diminished in the realm of time, and the two forces are visibly colliding and annihilating each other.

Although Lucas has accumulated a vast amount of time power over a "hundred years," the amount of power he can use in a single instant is not much.

It's like having a reservoir full of water, but only one tap that slowly draws water.

But the Holy Light Angel is different; he is like a deep sea, and every move he makes can cause a tsunami.

So much so that the power of time could not shake the golden light surrounding him, and therefore could not have any effect on the Holy Light Angel.

Lucas was about to try his old trick again. Unable to affect the Holy Light Angel, he decided to return to his original position and break free from the restraints. But as soon as he had this thought, the Holy Light Angel, as if it had been foreseen, punched him in the face.

The sound of flesh shattering exploded.

The Holy Angel's fist, carrying terrifying kinetic energy, smashed straight through Lucas's sturdy scales. The violent force exploded on the monster's head, instantly shattering Lucas's head and half his body, sending dark red organs and blood splattering everywhere.

Any carbon-based life form would have been killed by such an injury. But this fatal blow failed to kill Lucas completely.

The shattered flesh was rapidly coalescing. No matter how fast the Holy Light Angel flew, the flesh was gathering at the wound even faster, growing back into Lucas's head.

"Hahahaha—!"

Lucas let out a piercing, maniacal laugh.

"Push harder! Push harder!"

Lucas spread his arms, letting the Holy Light Angel punch his head again, denting it, only to have it grow back perfectly in a flash of gray light. He was constantly shattered and reformed under the Holy Light Angel's relentless onslaught.

"No matter how hard your fists are, can they shatter time?!" Lucas stared at the ever-expressionless golden god before him, his arrogance and madness reaching their peak. "As long as I don't want to die, you can never kill me! I stand in this endless river of time, I am immortal!"

The power of time has become an instinct for Lucas in the "Centennial Time," and this is the power of time that grants immortality.

The angels of light cannot kill him; he can infinitely return to his normal state. Even if his cells are burned to ashes, he can recover from the ashes.

This is true immortality, so Lucas has no fear of the angels of light unless he can destroy every single atom that makes up his body.

But the angel of light clearly didn't throw a punch to kill him.

Under the relentless barrage of punches, Lucas could only recover instinctively, unable to think rationally.

After what seemed like the umpteenth restoration, Lucas suddenly heard the angel of light say, "Robert, is the orbital calculation complete?"

Orbit calculation?

Before Lucas could grasp the implications of those four words, the Holy Angel's attack abruptly shifted. A powerful uppercut, carrying terrifying kinetic energy capable of breaking through the atmosphere, slammed squarely into Lucas's stomach.

This attack caused Lucas's vision to go black, and his consciousness blurred once again.

The scene before my eyes turned into a blurry afterimage, and the violent friction of the air currents in my ears abruptly stopped a few seconds later, replaced by a maddening silence.

Lucas suddenly opened his vertical pupils.

Where did this come from?

Before him was a vast, shimmering, azure arc; and all around him lay a deep, boundless abyss of darkness, devoid of any warmth.

He was punched into near-Earth orbit.

The extreme environment controlled this mutated body in milliseconds.

The immense pressure difference between his body and the outside world made Lucas experience true despair. The remaining gas in his chest expanded wildly, and his alveoli were instantly ruptured. The nitrogen in his blood rapidly boiled, turning into countless tiny bubbles that caused large areas of his scaly skin to crack, and his eyeballs to bulge outwards in a terrifying manner.

Dark red blood gushed from his mouth, nose, and wounds. Half of it instantly froze into ice crystals in the extreme vacuum, while the other half rapidly vaporized under the unobstructed high-energy radiation of the sun.

The extreme pain drove Lucas mad.

He frantically waved his claws, but in the airless expanse of outer space, such struggles were futile, leaving him to tumble slowly like a comical piece of space debris in a state of weightlessness.

The angel of holy light, hovering not far away, watched all of this, its golden light still shining brightly.

As expected, after a few seconds of panic, Lucas, enduring the excruciating pain of his physical collapse, activated the power of time.

A gray halo of time unfolded in the vacuum, rapidly covering an area of ​​several kilometers. The instant the force field unfolded, he froze his own state, and the physical tearing caused by the vacuum immediately ceased.

Immediately afterwards, Lucas's body began to fly backwards towards Earth—he was using time rewind to try and return to the surface along the route he had just been blasted along.

However, just as the backward trajectory began to extend, Lucas's back slammed into an invisible wall.

That was the edge of the gray force field.

The Holy Angel's punch sent him flying tens of kilometers away, but this time barrier, which covered several thousand meters, was only enough for him to rewind a small portion of that displacement.

The laws of time only apply within a given domain.

His rapidly retreating body was abruptly halted, his internal organs feeling as if they had slammed into a steel plate during a sudden stop. As the force field dissipated, the icy coldness and boiling sensation of the vacuum once again brought Lucas to pain.

Lucas wiped the ice crystals from the corner of his eye, a sinister glint flashing in his vertical pupils. Distance didn't matter; as long as he kept repeating the process of "opening the domain, retracing, intercepting, and opening again," he could always teleport back to Earth piece by piece.

But when the angel of holy light in the distance saw this scene, his previously tense shoulders relaxed slightly.

The laws of time are indeed on Lucas's side, but this nouveau riche overlooked a fatal detail: restarting the time realm requires "time".

These fractions of a second are absolutely not negligible.

A burst of golden light flashed.

The angel of holy light appeared instantly in front of Lucas, this time delivering a powerful kick to Lucas's chest. In the unhindered expanse of space, Lucas's body, like a cannonball, slid an enormous distance into deep space, far from Earth.

As the gears turned, Lucas reassembled his shattered body in the vacuum.

But when he regained his vision and prepared to continue moving the coordinates, he was completely stunned by the scene before him.

That azure arc representing Earth had shrunk into a distant sphere. How could it be so far? He was only unconscious for a few seconds!

Lucas's lizard brain raced, cold sweat instantly turning into ice crystals in the vacuum. He finally understood the fatal common sense he had overlooked.

The Earth is not stationary.

This massive planet is hurtling through space at nearly thirty kilometers per second.

When he first used Time Freeze, his "inertia" disappeared.

Originally, Lucas possessed the inertia to move along with the Earth, also at a speed of thirty kilometers per second, much like a satellite orbiting the Earth.

But the angel of light knocked him off course, and he then used time freeze to completely fix his "position".

In such a short time, the Earth abandoned him.

Now, the speed difference between the two is thirty kilometers per second.

This means that even if he does nothing, the Earth is still leaving him behind at a speed of thirty kilometers per second. And his time domain, at its limit, can only extend a few thousand meters, meaning he can only move that little distance each time he rewinds.

There is also a casting pause of a fraction of a second in between.

Faced with a cosmic speed difference of thirty kilometers per second, his retracing of several kilometers each time is just a drop in the ocean, and the distance between him and Earth is constantly increasing!

Lucas was a smart man, and after a simple calculation, he came to the conclusion that he would never catch up with Earth.

Lucas looked in horror at the golden figure that was moving further and further away from him, yet still hovering in the same spot.

Those furious punches weren't meant to kill him, nor were they the angels of holy light venting their anger; rather, they were meant to prevent him from thinking and from discovering the plan.

The Angel of Light is not afraid of his own power; he simply does not wish to fight on Earth, lest it cause widespread casualties.

The Angels of Light had planned this space exile from the very beginning, just as they had dealt with the same enemy before.

Lucas's vertical pupils contracted violently, panic completely overwhelmed his reason, and he unleashed his power like a madman.

Since he was able to turn a few minutes into a hundred years before, allowing him to completely control the power of time by relying on bio-batteries, he can now simply repeat the same trick.

As long as he can accelerate his own time flow to the maximum, forcibly accelerate his evolution within the force field, and extend the radius of his domain to hundreds of thousands of kilometers, he can re-enter Earth's gravitational field!

"I can—spread it for me!"

Lucas gritted his teeth and unleashed the power of time without reservation.

The gray time force field struggled to expand outward in the vacuum.

Three thousand meters, four thousand meters, five thousand meters—only a few seconds had passed for the outside world, but for Lucas at the center of the force field, time acceleration had allowed him to endure a long ten years all by himself.

His size had grown even larger, and ancient patterns resembling rock strata had even settled on his dark scales, indicating that the range of his time domain had indeed increased substantially.

However, this negligible growth is a joke in the face of the vast cosmic scale.

Lucas looked up. The enormous blue planet that had once filled his entire field of vision had now shrunk to the size of a fist.

A relative speed difference of thirty kilometers per second is like an insurmountable chasm.

At this rate of receding, it won't be long before Earth becomes nothing more than a dim point of light in deep space.

A chill ran down Lucas's spine and straight to his head.

His proud time law does indeed allow him to repair his internal organs and regenerate his flesh and blood infinitely in this vacuum, never having to worry about suffocating or freezing to death.

But what is the meaning of this "immortality" if we can never reach that planet?

He will drift consciously in this endless abyss for ten thousand years, or even a hundred million years, with this immortal body.