Chapter 677: Powerful Time Abilities

Fortunately, none of these echoes from the past could replicate the divine artifacts they were skilled in. The mirror images of Thor in the past only held illusions created from the energy of Mjolnir, possessing only the attack power of a lower-tier divine artifact. Otherwise, Thor would likely not even have the leisure to shout in frustration!
Especially Donald, who seemed the weakest but actually wielded a powerful higher-tier divine artifact. If Faeani could borrow the Book of Truth from the past, even a higher deity like Loki would likely be forced to regret it on the spot.
Of course, such a scenario was absolutely impossible, as the uniqueness of higher-tier divine artifacts ensured that no two identical entities could exist in the same universe at the same time. Thus, time replication had no effect on them at all.
If these Faeani had encountered higher-tier divine artifacts from other universes, they might have been able to replicate their illusions, but at a great cost. Unfortunately, they had never seen any such artifacts.
Donald and the two other true gods struggled to deal with both their own replicated versions and Faeani’s surprise attacks. Though not in a desperate situation, they were somewhat panicked. Only Donald, the weakest among the three, seemed to handle things with ease.
The Faeani hiding in the shadows also faced difficulties. Stealing power from time was not easy even for Faeani, who were naturally adept at controlling time laws. One-tenth of the power of higher deities was already their limit. Moreover, the two opponents from the past were both higher deities, making it extremely costly for them to obtain such power. After all, even their strongest ones were only at the level of lower deities, while ordinary Faeani were only at the peak of legendary or demi-god status.
These rare abominations relied solely on their special innate abilities. Against opponents who also mastered powerful higher-level laws, this advantage was not just insignificant—it posed little threat at all.
In ancient times, some deity parents related to time or fate gave birth to Faeani, beings of hatred unbound by time. No two Faeani were identical, but all of them were shrouded in shadows and lacked a physical form.

The Faeani can manipulate time. Due to the constantly chaotic and evil factions that use this ability to spread chaos across the universe, coupled with the strength of the laws of time, few are able to detect their presence—except for one creature: the Faeani’s natural enemy, the mighty Time Dragon, a legendary being that also controls the realm of time.

This ancient and powerful dragon, said to be one of the three primordial dragons, exists in a form that is elusive, to the point where even some dragon races consider it a legend. In contrast, the other two primordial dragons—the Platinum Dragon and the Rainbow Dragon—appear from time to time, with the former being the sole god of good dragons.

It is said that the Bronze Dragon is a superior dragon with bloodline ties to the Time Dragon. Thus, Donald had thoroughly studied the legends about this race, intending to have Nozdormu, the king of Bronze Dragons, awaken the Time Dragon bloodline within him, allowing him to master the power of time and become a true Eternal King.

Later, because the legends proved too vague and fantastical, they were set aside. Unexpectedly, during this interstellar expedition, they encountered the legendary abominations known as Faeani, which reignited Donald’s desire to find the Time Dragon.

But that’s for later. For now, they must first deal with those Faeani ahead—otherwise, they would constantly suffer ambushes from enemies they couldn’t even see, which would undoubtedly frustrate even the true gods.

With that thought, Donald hesitated no longer. He repelled his own clone with a single strike and then unleashed the power of the Book of Truth. He gained control over a portion of the realm of time. Though he couldn’t manipulate time as effortlessly as the Faeani, he could defend against their attacks using the laws of time. Among the three true gods present, he was the easiest to deal with.

A clone with strength barely equal to his own Order Avatar could be easily defeated by him.

These Faeani abominations were indeed as cautious and elusive as the rumors suggested. Sensing that Donald and his companions posed a serious threat, they collectively used their time-stop ability—something they could only employ once a day—and launched time shockwaves at the weakest of the three true gods, then attempted to flee using Instant Transmission.

Unfortunately, they miscalculated. Although Donald was the weakest among them, his combat prowess was on par with Loki and Thor, even surpassing Thor without the power of a higher deity.

At the moment when time stopped functioning, sharing similarities with the legendary spell of the same name and even being amplified by Faeani’s racial innate abilities, both the supreme god Loki and the god of thunder Thor were instantly frozen in place. However, Loki, the god of doom, immediately radiated forces of destruction and annihilation, likely able to break free from the time stop in the next instant. As for Thor, things were less favorable—he would need at least a breath’s time to escape, enough for his opponent to deal a fatal blow. Yet Faeani’s main target, the weakest incarnation of a true god, seemed to vanish the moment time stopped, emerging from that temporal state and appearing before them, thus avoiding the powerful time shockwave that could have threatened his true form. With a wave of his hand, Donald unleashed the immense power of his divine kingdom, enveloping the group of Faeani. The divine kingdom’s rules, on par with those of a supreme god, immediately disrupted their teleportation process. Only the two strongest Faeani managed to activate a time stagnation field using their time powers. Although such a time domain application was quite limited for beings who also controlled time, it still affected Donald for a thousandth of a second. That brief moment gave the two lower-tier gods and demigod Faeani the chance to use time traversal and escape the rules of the Kingdom of Truth, disappearing in an instant—so much so that even Donald’s methods could no longer track them. Time traversal is a powerful ability that allows one to move forward and backward in time to escape various constraints and negative effects. When used by god-tier Faeani, even the strict rules of the Kingdom of Truth couldn’t prevent them from escaping, especially since Donald was distracted by the time stagnation field for a thousandth of a second, losing control over the kingdom. Relying solely on the power of his own divine kingdom, it was naturally difficult to bind beings with strength surpassing that of demigods.