Two Cities, I build mecha in Picheng

Li Lin walked into the door and found that it was a room similar to a private office.

A desk is placed horizontally in the middle of the door. Enchanting tables, floating gear rings, and magic items that flow like an hourglass can be seen everywhere. The bookshelves on both sides are full of thicker classics.

This is a room that has not been scanned by drones before, or that does not exist in the real world at all.

Li Lin quickly took a panoramic view of the layout of the house, and then turned his reflection to the desk, where an old man with gray hair, eyebrows, beard, and sideburns was sitting.

He is thin and thin, wearing a traditional brown-red and gray-and-white robe, with a beard that is longer than his hair hanging down in front of his body, and a pair of eyes covered by thick and long white eyebrows faintly reveal emerald light.

Li Lin could see that the old man's frowning brows were filled with deep sadness, and the tiredness in his eyes was beyond the reach of those who had only lived a lifetime.

【Congratulations!You have contacted 45 heroes, your level has been increased by 1 levels, and you have gained 2 skill points. 】

【Name: Kieran】

[Race: Icacia]

[Occupation: Icacia governs the elders of the council, master-level elemental mage, master-level time mage, and guardian of time. 】

【…】

"You're finally here, the caretaker of the world, Li Lin."

Li Lin was not surprised that Kieran was able to reveal his identity.

After all, for a time guardian who can see countless possibilities on countless timelines, it is impossible for any slight change to hide from his eyes.

The butterfly effect brought about by Li Lin is too great. Only talking about the parallel universe related to the world line of the main universe, it is impossible for any world to develop to the point where human beings enter space.

"Master Kieran."

Li Lin bowed to Kieran according to the method of saluting in the ancient books scanned by his brain.

"You don't have to be polite, just call me Kieran." He stood up from the chair and passed by Li Lin, "I know you have a lot of questions now, come with me."

The two walked out of the door just now. To Li Lin's surprise, the outside was not the corridor he just came in, but a larger and more spacious space, which was completely different from the clock tower in Icacia.

The sound of "click click" clockwork clocks reverberates in the huge hall, and it can be seen from a distance that countless yellow sands constitute the desert scene in the past. The golden hollowed out sphere looks like a planet. The space drifted slowly.

In the very center of the hall, there is a huge diamond-shaped emerald-colored crystal, which is the entity formed by "time", maintaining the operation of the tower in the gap between time and space.

In addition to these, there are many men and women in different clothes in the hall. They are busy coming and going, stopping from time to time to cast emerald green magic to create pictures, and then communicate with each other. Transparent jar.

"This is not the tower you saw, but a brand new place I created after I erased myself from the timeline and arrived at the time gap.

"The people below are like-minded magical geniuses I have met in various eras. They voluntarily erased themselves from the timeline and worked together to study ways to deal with the final disaster.

"I originally planned to pull you in when you stepped into the outer tower, but your spirit is surprisingly tenacious, and it took me a lot of work to succeed."

Kieran explained while leading the way, and led Li Lin up the spiral downward floating ladder.

"Actually, ordinary human beings simply cannot stay in the cracks of time for too long, otherwise they will be 'exiled' forever by time just like us."

He looked back at Li Lin, "But you are different. You are protected by Runeterra and can ignore these restrictions. This is the main reason why I can directly pull your consciousness here to communicate with me face to face."

Li Lin hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't help asking the question that had been buried in his heart for a long time: "Can you...can you see my future?"

Kieran paused, just sighed, and didn't answer his question, which made him have a vague guess.

It seems that even Kieran, who can see through the past, present and future, and observe different parallel universes, can't see my way forward...

The rest of the journey was silent, and Kieran quickly led Li Lin to the top of the clock tower.

It was a door sealed by a time magic circle, and only Kieran had the ability to undo the restriction above.

He crossed his arms and made different gestures with both hands. Under the emerald light corresponding to each other, the spell on the door receded, and it was unlocked soon.

Kieran took a deep breath, pushed open the door to signal Li Lin to come in, then locked it, and sealed it again with the time spell.

The decoration inside the house is very simple, only a huge circular gear in the middle is floating in the air, surrounded by countless small gears, some are similar to the parts on a clock.

Under the urging of Zilean's magic, the small gear drives the big gear to rotate, and immediately after that, the environment in the whole room suddenly changed.

The ground under their feet and the surrounding walls disappeared, and what was left was only a dark space filled with blue-purple illusory mist.

As the speed of the gears rotates faster, the giant circular gear in the center emits a dazzling emerald green light, and then the galaxy in the sky appears, and an endless giant copper-colored dial appears under their feet, and the huge second hand "clicks" to move. Can shake the soul.

Kieran's gestures became faster and faster, and the skirt, hair and beard were automatic without wind, as if they had lost gravity.

Li Lin held his breath subconsciously, and he could see that Kieran was casting time magic, but he felt an inexplicable small feeling, as if he was just a lonely boat in the boundless ocean.

After Kieran made a few gestures again, a clock dial and a magical pattern of a planet of Runeterra appeared on the fingertips of his left and right hands respectively, and several copper-colored rings floated out of the big gears and slowly stopped on them. In front of the two of them, like a holographic display, different dynamic images were projected.

Li Lin was surprised to find that these flashing pictures seemed to be parallel universes related to the world line of the main universe.

The pictures they show do not have the slightest similarity, but they all show what happened in each country of Runeterra:
Swain, who gained the power of demons in advance and overthrew Darkwill's rule, killed Irelia in Presidium, then led Noxus to defeat Karma, slaughtered the Kinkou sect, and completely captured Ioni Asian scene;

There is a picture of Ionia uniting, completely knocking Noxus out of the land of birth, and then being crowned as the queen by Irelia;
There is a scene where Demacia counterattacked Noxus and finally captured the Immortal Fortress. Galen personally beheaded Darius, the leader of Noxus, and then Jarvan IV publicly executed Swain;

With the Shurima Empire never falling, Azir and Xerath joined forces to spread the light of the Sun Disc to every corner of Runeterra, establishing a symbol of the Empire's provinces around the world - the picture of the Golden Disc;

With the help of the demigod Anivia, the warmother Ashe of the Avarosa tribe in the Freljord finally defeated the warmother Sejuani of the Winter's Claw tribe and Lissandra the Frost Witch, and unified the Freljord. The picture of Germany becoming the queen;
There are also scenes where the curse of ruin sweeps across the world, engulfing the entire Runeterra in black mist, Mordekaiser leads the army of the underworld to return to the material realm, completely turns the world of the living into a paradise for the dead, and incorporates different parallel universes under his own rule.

However, there is only one destination for these different parallel worlds:
Black and purple corrupted and filthy creatures occupy the land, and the Void Watcher breaks out of the ice, descends on the material realm, devours time and space, brings everything to an end, and everything turns into nothingness...

Li Lin couldn't help but gasped, and subconsciously stretched out his hand to hold his left chest, feeling his beating heart.

"Time, space, and reality are not a linear path of development. They are a prism with infinite possibilities. Any simple choice will lead to another completely different time and space."

Kieran's eyes were completely covered by the blue light, and his voice carried a sense of detachment and emptiness, as if he was not in the same time and space as Li Lin when he spoke.

"With so many parallel worlds, is it possible that there is no successful case that can solve the void?" Li Lin couldn't help asking.

The frequency of Kieran's clicks slowed down a bit, and then with a big wave of his left hand, most of the circle images in front of him were dispelled, leaving only a row of circles with scenes where "Li Lin" appeared.

But what puzzled Li Lin was that the "self" in the pictures he saw did exactly the same thing from beginning to end.

Same time, same place, unified action and dialogue...

No matter how the people he communicates with change or the surrounding environment changes, what he does is always the same.

"Li Lin, in order to avoid the war, fled to Piltover. At first, he worked as a handyman in a watch shop, and later seized the business opportunity to become a multinational businessman. In the end, he encountered the ocean disaster Planck on the Watcher's Sea. Killed with a gunshot to the head, his bones sank to the bottom of the sea, to be devoured by sea monsters."

Kieran glanced sideways at the sluggish Li Lin, "Perhaps the repetition of events in certain timelines will lead to close and similar connections, but each timeline is unique, and there cannot be only one ending for a person. Even if it's me."

Immediately afterwards, he waved his hand again to disperse these scenes, leaving only the last ring, which is the past picture shown in the current timeline.

The above shows that during the Evolution Day celebration two years ago, Li Lin bid farewell to the owner of the watch shop on the pier, and then followed the crowd to the northern part of Piltover to participate in the selection of craftsmen and craftsmen by the Gilaman family.

"As for you, at first I didn't realize that you are the patron of the world, but you are different from countless other timeline branches, and you made a completely different choice.

"When I wanted to use the power of time to spy on more clues on your timeline, I was shocked to find that you are on our timeline.

"And the end of the mass extinction that I spied on Runeterra, after you made a completely different choice, the fog of time that cannot be dispelled covered my vision, making it impossible for me to see the future of our world clearly.

"But it's also our hope, because it means a deviation from our established destiny."

Kieran stopped gesturing, the emerald green light on his body faded away, and everything around the two of them returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.

Then, Kieran turned to face Li Lin who hadn't recovered from his sluggishness, and put his hands on his shoulders with a very solemn expression.

"I've been watching you all the time, but your pace of progress is too slow. With your current growth rate, you can't fight against the void at all... I have to give you another push."