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Chapter 1472 - 639: The Pocket Watch Shatters, the Truth of Time_3

Chapter 1472: Chapter 639: The Pocket Watch Shatters, the Truth of Time_3

Mu You stared intently at the chessboard, fully focused, his mind racing at full speed.

At that moment, he seemed to enter the chess game itself, one that used the world as its board and all living beings as its pieces.

What unfolded before him was a vast, boundless cosmic sea, but the surrounding area had already been entirely occupied by celestial bodies representing Chaos.

He stood alone, representing Order, a solitary presence out of sync with the chaotic world.

The meteors symbolizing Chaos began hurling randomly toward him.

Mu You gripped the Pen of Order, wielding it as though it were a sword, continually shattering one meteor after another while also striving to locate other forces he could call upon.

Poisonous Velvet Knife? Omniscient Crystal? Synthesis Furnace? Mechanical Heart...

No, this was the Order server, and a special divine power confrontation scene. In this space, all tools other than the Pen of Order were unable to manifest.

The only entities able to show themselves in such divine power confrontations would undoubtedly be various Authorities.

Mu You immediately began attempting to manifest the Authorities under his command.

The Thief God’s Stealing Authority?

Unable to manifest!

Perhaps its hierarchy was too low—just as the Stealing Authority began to appear, itself not yet fully formed, it was instantly annihilated by the forces of Chaos.

Mu You then tried to deploy the Silence Domain.

Still unable to manifest.

The Silence barrier lasted less than a second before it collapsed under the frenzied onslaught of countless meteors.

Then, what about the Demon God’s Counterattack Authority?

Mu You summoned all his willpower, forming the Demon God’s Fist in front of him and sending it hurtling toward the incoming meteors.

This time, it managed to persist slightly longer, but even then, only for five seconds, before being crushed into annihilation by the Authority of Chaos...

Next came the Blood God, the Shadow Fur Ball...

But the outcome was no different...

Mu You tried every method available to him, and yet nothing could be used.

In this endless cycle of attempts, he gradually arrived at a realization: divine powers are classified into hierarchical levels. For example, among the divine powers he currently possessed, the Authorities of the Thief God and Shadow God were the most basic tier; next came the Silence Authority, while the Blood God and Demon God Authorities belonged to high-ranking Divine Powers, on par with the Seam God and God of Decapitation.

However, Order and Chaos are absolute entities independent of those other high-ranking Divine Powers—they exist in a tier unto themselves.

Therefore, in this ultimate battlefield of Order versus Chaos, any divine power whose hierarchy is distinctly lower than those two cannot manifest at all, as its emergence would be obliterated by the superior Authorities.

Mu You tried all the abilities at his disposal, but none—not a single one—could come into existence here.

Wait...

Just as Mu You had exhausted all options and began to feel the creeping weight of despair,

he suddenly noticed that, within the deep reaches of the space ahead, an extremely familiar object had quietly surfaced.

It was a watch—a small, circular pocket watch.

A copper casing, a white clock face, a prominent button on its top, and a golden chain secured to the button.

The Time Pocket Watch?

The item that had accompanied him since the very beginning had astonishingly manifested at this moment.

Mu You froze, only now realizing that in his physical form, the familiar sensation of holding the Pocket Watch was no longer present.

In reality, he could no longer sense the Pocket Watch’s existence.

It wasn’t that he had destroyed the Pocket Watch—it had come into his consciousness world of its own accord.

"Old friend, are you here to help me?"

Mu You murmured, gazing at the Pocket Watch floating among the stars in the distance, his thoughts muddled with uncertainty.

In this highest plane of divine power confrontation, where even the most elevated Authorities could not manifest, why could such a simple item come into existence?

There was only one explanation: the Pocket Watch was not merely an ordinary tool, nor even a Divine Artifact—it was the manifestation of a genuine Authority.

Moreover, in this sacred battlefield, the only Authorities capable of manifesting were those of the same tier as Order and Chaos.

When paired with the Pocket Watch’s power, the true name of that Authority was now self-evident—Time.

Only the Time Authority could possess the ability to reverse the flow of time.

But the Time Authority already exists—the god worshiped under Dawn City is none other than the Time God.

How could two distinct forms of the Time Authority coexist?

The only plausible explanation was that the Time Authority is too vast to manifest fully within one single Authority Stone.

The Time Pocket Watch and the Time God might each just be fragments of a complete Time Divine Power.