Chapter 319 - Repairing The Village (1/2)

A large wide blue circle could be seen, with numbers and patterns written all over it. After giving it closer look, anyone would have been able to tell that it was a clock.

It spread out throughout the sky, covering as much distance as it could, being nearly as wide as the whole village.

”Advanced Sacred Treasure Art: Regressus” Muttered John / Translation: Regress.

Everyone witnessed what happened next, and no one could believe their eyes.

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”Mum… What's going to happen to us…” A young boy asked his mother while crying.

”Don't worry… We'll be fine… We'll find a new home… And…”

”But I don't want a new home… I want our home…” He muttered

The mother's hands wouldn't stop trembling as she held her son. She didn't know what to tell him.

They were one of the countless families in the refugee just outside of the village. The refugee was being protected by countless adventurers, and had been created by Earth Magicians in the last moment.

It prevented anything from getting in from around, however it wasn't perfect. They weren't going to be able to last much longer.

As they stood and rested confined in that shallow filled space. They noticed a large blue magic circle appear a moderate distance away from and above the village. At first it looked like a regular magic circle, however, after getting a closer look they realized that it resembled a clock.

*Tic* *Toc* *Tic* *Toc*

The sound of ticking could be heard as the second hand, moved along the clock. The minute hand followed behind with each minute that passed. It was a properly functioning clock.

”What the hell is that thing doing there?”

”What's that clock doing above the village?”

”Mummy, is that safe?”

Questions began to raise themselves amongst the villagers, however, after the final tic. They were all speechless.

*Tic*

The hour hand on the clock, along with the minute hand and second hand, began to move anti-clockwise. The hours were going back, and as this happened, the villages structures, buildings and flames all began to fan out and move in reverse.

It was hard to understand what was happening at first, but after a while, the village had appeared to be fixing itself on it's own. Reverting everything back to normal.

Construction which would take years to fix, fixed in mere seconds. It seemed almost like a divine blessing or miracle from god as the buildings reconstructed themselves.

”My god…”

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”Hey… As if that beam of light wasn't enough… What the hell am I even looking at?” Satire asked as she stared down at the village before looking at John who floated in the sky with his hand in the middle of the magic clock circle.

'Construction magic? Is that even a thing? No… Wait, the way the buildings are constructing themselves… It's almost as if it's moving in reverse…'

Upon realizing this, her eyes widened.

”No… He couldn't have…” She muttered in disbelief

'A clock, moving backwards and the village is moving in reverse… He's rewinding time…'

The moment she considered this fact, she could feel her curiosity grow once more, she absolutely had to find out how he did it. Hell, she was tempted to fly over to him right now just to see how he was doing it.

”Argh… Why did I call back phoenix!?” She shouted in regret

She then let out a sigh before looking down, as she muttered. ”It was for the better…”

Phoenix was an Emperor Class Summon. She could only control around ten percent of it's full power, any more than this and she'd lose control. Not only would that have endangered the entire village, the phoenix could probably rampage throughout the continent.

This was why she was reluctant on using it at first, but after seeing what John was capable of, she doubted that even at one hundred percent of it's power. It would be able to handle him.

”That guy… What do you have to do to reach that level? He's long surpassed the strength of the Average S Ranker which is the highest known rank, even though officially it's the third highest.”

'Not that it matters as you can only count the number of people above the third highest in one hand. And there's only been one to reach the first highest rank which made so many people unaware of it.'