Back to the place where Raon and Altair had died and the place where Lia tried to destroy her spirit core.
The entire laws of space and time coalesced to the point of being invisible to everyone on the planet since it was a higher power than what they could handle.
Suddenly, a big rift appeared there, from which the same power appeared, which altered and affected the already-present space-time laws.
The laws were covering not just Raon's body but also Altair's body and Lia's spirit core.
They had covered the three due to the bloodline and because of the abundance of laws available from the rift present at the site.
What Raon could have never expected was happening since spirits could technically look into the past and future, and Lia was a spirit while Altair was her daughter.
Raon was the carrier of not just the treasure but also a bloodline that was coveted by countless people who didn't know its true limitations but just its fake strengths.
The three souls were covered in space-time laws for an unknown period of time before they vanished from that timeline completely.
James, who could finally move, tried finding traces of Lia or the other two, yet all he found was nothing that confused him, but suddenly his spirit core shattered.
He couldn't understand what happened, but he was sure of one thing: even if he knew, he wouldn't have been able to stop it.
As James was dying, the entire timeline was isolated from the actual one before getting destroyed by the heavens.
It was all because of the intervention of the entity that fixed Raon's time of regression, since had it not interfered, the timeline would have remained stable and continued.
This wasn't the first time those two entities interfered, and every time it was for regression to prevent multiple timelines from existing at the same time.
They had their own reasons, but this time, its intervention was far greater than usual, causing its sibling entity to question its decision to direct intervention.
Yet, all of that was in the past, as the timeline ceased to exist completely and only one timeline existed once more.
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Raon, who was lying on his bed one month after having intercourse with Lia, was thinking about the next mission he should take and self-reflecting regarding his feelings towards Lia.
Lia was in seclusion since she was already aware of the fact that she was pregnant with a child with Raon due to the aphrodisiac she was given.
Rodric was planning his next steps to get Lia under him since his plans last month failed and he was done venting on his followers who failed to locate her.
Just at that moment, a thunder struck across the Arcane Empire inside the Arcane Academy directly at Raon.
Surprisingly, no one saw it, heard it, or felt it as it phased through the roof and directly reached Raon's head, causing him to feel intense pain as his soul itself suffered.
For the next few hours, he was unconscious due to the immense pain before he finally awoke and moved his body to get used to the weakness.
'This... Arcane Academy?'
'Is Lia alive?' He stood up as soon as he thought of this possibility.
But as if to break him out of his stupor, a goon of Elric came to his room just when Raon was thinking about the possibilities, and his eyes turned lifeless due to the intense information he had to process.
The goon forcibly entered his room as he kept speaking to Raon, who was lifeless since his mind was busy comprehending all the knowledge that he gained after his regression.
"Oi, Master Elric called for you."
"Oi, what are you doing? Ignoring me? Hah"
The goon thought it was Raon's rudeness and whatnot, so he decided to beat up Raon.
The guy directly punched him in the face, in response to which Raon got hit and fell back on the bed from his sitting position.
Confused by the unresponsive Raon, he pulled Raon, and Raon fell to the ground, causing him to spout curses as he kicked Raon.
After figuring out that he was unresponsive, he thought that Raon had died, but after knowing he was alive, he kicked Raon and beat him out because he was frustrated because he thought Raon had died.
How stupid.
Yet what else could he do except vent his frustration? He had been ordered to bring Raon to Elric's room immediately, and he just lightened his own burden by beating up Raon.
He dragged Raon alongside him by keeping his hands on Raon's shoulder so that it appeared that they were walking like normal.
However, he dropped the facade, threw Raon at Elric's feet, and told him that Raon wasn't responding, so he had to beat him a little to be able to persuade him to come here.
"Wow! Isn't he the perfect punching bag then?" One of the followers said.
"Master Elric, may I test a new combat style I learned?" said another follower.
Elric turned to the one who brought Raon in here, as he was the only one who could answer these questions.
"Say, if it is a lie, you'll become the punching bag" said Elric in a threatening tone.
"Y-yes" the goon answered in a fidgety manner, even though he was sure of the unresponsive behavior.
Everyone in the room began to use Raon as their punching bag except Elric since he was 'superior' to these pests and would do it alone.
Elric was the one who started it by smashing Raon's face on the ground and kicking him in the chest, after which he rolled away.
The others joined the fray and completely beat him while showing off to each other.
"Look at my dragon punch."
"Hahaha"
"Look at my thunder kick."
"This is my new serpent technique."
All the people in the room except for Elric beat him up to the point he was bleeding, yet it was still only to a light degree since none of them used cultivation energies as it was against the rules.
Well, as time passed, they forgot to limit themselves and totally beat Raon to the point where any cultivator would much rather die.
Even the embarrassing and idiotic names they were muttering were to laugh at his misery since it wasn't them who was going to get beaten.
They were all aware of Elric's superiority complex and how stupid it was, but they had no choice but to butter up and follow the guy since he was the easiest to exploit.
Elric himself was following Rodric only for resources, just like these 'pests' were following him, but somehow he was better than them.
After witnessing everything, Elric finally appeared and started by kicking Raon around.
He kept kicking and punching him while asking his followers to hold him in place.
At this point, Raon had multiple fractures and various internal as well as external injuries that were bleeding intensely.
"You piece of crap."
"You should just die."
"Just leave the family."
"You have no place in our family."
"You are a complete disgrace."
"Just like your filthy mother and her blood."
"Even your fiance is the same."
...
As the insults were getting out of hand and way too derogatory, even Elric's followers were worried that someone might hear them and cause issues since the Tenke Clan was far stronger than Elric's backing, the Tesra Family.
Yet just as Elric had placed the family abandonment contract on the ground, Raon's bleeding thumb fell on it, signing it.
He felt shocked because he had yet to speak and command Raon to leave the family, and it happened automatically.
Raon's family seal was removed, and his cultivation started to be abolished since he was far weaker than when he did this in his previous life.
Just at that time, the elders of the Arcane Academy appeared since they could sense that someone's cultivations were being absolved.