Chapter 71: Waiting for you in the real future (Part 3)
Leon listened attentively. “Transported… here?”
Aurora nodded, “Yes. ‘Here’ is just a simpler term. You could also understand it as a ‘time point,’ ‘space-time,’ or more accurately—”
“The world of twenty years later, where Leon Casmod does not exist.”
“For you, only a few hours have passed; But for us, living in this world where ‘Leon doesn’t exist,’ twenty years have passed, for real.”
“Let me give you a simpler analogy:”
“The world is like a stable, running production line, and every person plays the role of a component.”
“But one day, you, this component, jumped off the production line.”
“Although this didn’t cause the production line to collapse, everything related to you has already changed.”
“For example, me, Big Sis, and Second Sis—without your company, we’ve become what we are today.”
“But if you had been with us, I believe we wouldn’t have turned out like this.”
Pausing, Aurora tried to lighten the heavy atmosphere by glancing at Noa,
“At the very least, Big Sis would have become a long-haired beauty.”
Leon quickly absorbed and understood Aurora’s explanation.
He grasped the concept, and he also got the meaning behind her joke.
Turning from a short-haired cool sister into a long-haired beauty was just a metaphor. The impact of a father’s absence during a child’s growth isn’t limited to something as superficial as hair length.
From the start, he agreed with Rosevitha to let the children grow up healthy, with both paternal and maternal love.
A childhood without a father’s love would undoubtedly be incomplete.
Aurora was right. If Leon had been there, they certainly wouldn’t be the way they are today.
Although they’ve grown stronger now, having Leon to guide them during their childhood and adolescence would have made them even more exceptional.
That much is certain.
And this also explained why Leon had been feeling a certain “disconnection” ever since he regained consciousness.
He had always felt that he didn’t belong to ‘here.’
He didn’t belong to… this world where ‘Leon Casmod doesn’t exist.’
“So, after clearing up this concept, here comes the key point.”
Aurora said, “I’ve spent more than ten years researching the reverse magic of Ravi’s space magic.”
“Reverse magic?”
Leon’s thoughts shifted. “You mean… time travel? Traveling back to the past?”
“No, no, Dad. Time doesn’t work that way.”
Aurora immediately corrected, “Under the interweaving of various coincidences, you traveled through the space rift to the future twenty years later. We can call this ‘moving forward’; But in the rules of ‘time,’ you can’t ‘move backward.”
“All events can only progress forward as time passes, and no magic, no matter how powerful, can defy this. Even Ravi’s heart-protecting dragon scale-infused runaway space magic could only transport you to the future, not the past.”
At this, Leon frowned slightly, “Then doesn’t that mean we can’t change any of this?”
“Don’t rush, Dad. Although time’s rules are fixed, I still found a loophole in this system.”
Aurora showed a confident smile unique to researchers, “It’s what I just mentioned—reverse magic.”
“Although we can’t go back in time, it doesn’t mean we can’t reverse known magic.”
“Over these ten-plus years, I’ve been researching Ravi’s space magic from back then, and I’ve successfully created a prototype of reverse magic.”
“Once the research is complete, you’ll be able to go back, fix everything, and change it all.”
Leon lowered his brows, his mind racing.
A moment later, he asked, “I think I get it, but I remember you saying something earlier about… only six months left? What’s that about?”
“The battle that put Mother into her deep sleep happened six months after you entered the rift,” Noa said.
“But shouldn’t that have nothing to do with Little Light’s research progress? As long as the reverse magic succeeds, wouldn’t you be able to send me back to the exact moment I left?”
“No, Dad,”
Aurora explained, “For example, from the moment you woke up until now, roughly eighteen hours have passed.”
“So that means time has already passed for you by eighteen hours. Even if I completed the reverse magic now, I could only send you back to the moment eighteen hours after you entered the rift.”
“Time operates linearly; it affects the world, and it affects you.”
“If you were to return to the world ‘eighteen hours ago’ in your current ‘eighteen hours later’ state, no one knows what might happen—it might even tear your body apart.”
“Do you understand now, Dad?”
Leon shook his head in confusion, “No, I don’t.”
Aurora expected this and turned to Muen, “Second Sis, use your method to explain it to Dad.”
“Oh, okay.”
Muen stepped forward, looking at her father, “For example, Dad, say at noon, you ate a steak and filled yourself up, and you ate until 12:30.
“Then, in that full state, if you used reverse magic to go back to noon and ate the steak again, you’d overstuff yourself.”
“That’s the principle.”
Leon: “Now I understand.”
“One last point, Dad.”
Aurora stood before Leon.
Noa and Muen stood on either side of her.
The three sisters looked at their father, their expressions serious.
“You’re the only one who can return to the past through reverse magic.”
“This world is a chessboard, and you’re the only piece that can jump off the board.”
“You are the variable, Dad, and also the key to saving everything.”
“In these six months, Little Light will complete the reverse magic.”
“And you, Dad, you have to become as strong as you were in the beginning.”
“Only you have the power to turn things around and reverse the future.”
Muen stepped forward, half-crouched in front of Leon, and stretched out his arms to hug his father, “Mom and we are waiting for you in the real future, Dad.”
If Claudia isn’t his Master’s wife then who could she be?
Claudia es la tía de León