Chapter 46 630 Trillion (1/2)

”You know that even if you try to stop me now, I will still have enough time to reach your friends…” Aleksei said as his afro hair started to sway freely in the air. ”I can just defeat you right now, and then I will just proceed to follow them.”

”You could have the strength to defeat me…” Clint started to smile as he spread both of his arms to his side. ”But do you have the TIME to catch up to them?”

”Time? What do you mean by that?” Aleksei frowned as he suddenly felt that something was wrong around him.

A few seconds passed by, and the frown on Aleksei's face turned into a snarl as he realized what was happening.

”You bastard! Are you dilating the time in our area right now?” Aleksei rarely looked angry, but this time, his rage was quite apparent. ”Are you out of your mind? You really dared to dilate the time here just to let Lord Ergo get away?”

”What if I did?” Clint looked a little pale, but he still stood upright as he gave Aleksei a sleazy grin. ”I just did what I think is for the best!”

”You bastard!”

Aleksei had the every right to be angry as what Clint did was really irritating.

Using his control over gravitational force, Clint increased the local gravity in the area around him and Aleksei.

By doing this, the spacetime in their area became so bent that the time inside that area started to slow down compared to the time that Alex and Alina experiences.

This phenomenon is called Gravitational Time Dilation, one of the consequences of the General Theory of Relativity.

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In order to understand this phenomenon well, one must understand a consequence of the General Theory of Relativity.

And that is that the speed of light is always be constant to any observers, no matter what happens to the environment around light.

Let's say there are two points in space, point A and point B.

If light travels from point A to point B in normal conditions, the light will travel in a straight path, ensuring no problems with time.

However, in an area with strong gravity, spacetime will be curved.

Light passing through this curved spacetime will have to move a longer distance in order to travel from point A to point B.

But since the speed of light is the same, the time traveled by the light must also be longer in order to match the longer distance traveled by the light.

Thiscompensation naturally results in the slowing down of time in that area.

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”I thought that you are just a musclehead… I never expected you to form an idea like this.” Aleksei said as he rotated his limbs.

”You are impressive too.” Clint replied as he gazed at Aleksei intently.

”This gravity field that I created, not only is this meant to slow down our time inside this field, this is also meant to crush you into a paste. However…” Clint narrowed his eyes as he glared at Aleksei. ”It seems like you are unaffected even by the strong gravity in here.”

”Oh, so you noticed that huh.” Aleksei seems to be unperturbed by Clint's revelation as his eyes turned scarlet. ”It seems like I cannot hide my real power from you anymore.”

”You… you really did fuse with the World Diagram!” Clint declared as he observed Aleksei's body. Aleksei's body looked extremely fit, as if it had been imbued by the essence of the world.

Aleksei also looked like he had a subtle control of things around him, something that had Clint feeling wary.

Now, Clint could feel power welling out from Aleksei, which started to interfere with his own gravity field.

From the looks of it, Aleksei's body became so powerful that it was able to resist the strong gravity that should have been crushing him already.

”How… could you have survived fusing your mind with the World Diagram?” Clint asked as he saw Aleksei slowly approaching him. ”That should have been extremely difficult to do!”

”Fuse my mind with the World Diagram? Are you kidding? I am not that idiotic!!” Aleksei said as he clothes slowly disintegrated slowly, showing his perfectly lean muscular body.

”Even a mind of a Star Esper would be not able to handle the strain of fusing the mind with the World Diagram. Even I would not attempt to do that.”

”But then how did you fuse with the World Diagram? Clint inquired as he saw Aleksei's rippling body.

It took Clint only a second to realize the answer.

”You did not fuse the World Diagram with your mind… you fused it with your body!”

”You are right!” Aleksei declared as he showed off his powerful body ”Since a mind fusion is dangerous for obvious reasons, I decided to just use my body as the fusion material with World Diagram.”

”…” Clint was silent and horrified as he tried to imagine how desperate Aleksei could be that he was forced to do something like this.

”It was… painful at first.” Aleksei wistfully said as he seemed to remember some memories. ”It took me some tries to fit it all inside me, but in the end, I managed to fit them all inside my body. Good times indeed.”

”Good times huh.” Clint tried to ignore the way that Aleksei's statement had sounded as he knew that his fight will be much harder than before.

Clint was not sure on how Aleksei was able to fuse his body with the half of the World Diagram, but he can basically see that it was the truth.

”This will be really bad…” Clint muttered to himself as he prepared himself for a large fight.

Aside from locally strengthening the gravity around them, Clint also started to generate trillions of volts of electricity as he pocketed out some hollow metal spheres that he always carried with him.

Clint weakly applied his ability on the hollow metal spheres, causing them to glow, indicating that they are seconds away from actually activating.

Clint allowed Aleksei to see his set-up before freely taunting him.

”If you really want to be free, then you need my permission to leave… But since I would never allow that to happen, then you should do your best to defeat me!”

”Defeat you? Heh, I will do more than that!” This is Aleksei's reply to Clint as his body began to glow white.

Clint started to tense as he knew that the fight starts now.

”Boom!” Aleksei accelerated towards Clint as his body started to reach speeds that should not be reached by any kind of bodies before.

Clint could barely believe it as he saw Aleksei's glowing body almost in front of him already.

Aleksei's fist shot towards Clint, and the only thing that Clint could do was to use on of his metal sphers to block it.

”Kaboom!”