CHAPTER 13
DEFENDANT OF SPACE AND TIME
A boy of about fifteen lay on a hospital bed. Silver hair matted against the pillow, a thin hospital gown clinging to him. Slowly he opened his blue eyes.
They were dazzling—anyone who dared stare too long would get lost in them. The boy’s name was Ethan. He had been reincarnated ten years into the past. He remembered the earlier raid: an earthly dungeon, goblins, the squad healers unable to patch him up fully. He nearly died.
A voice sounded inside his head.
[congratulations on gaining the ASTRUM system — press the home page to claim rewards and check attributes]
“Ah—damn,” Ethan breathed. The old immortal had been no joke. The man claimed to be the creator of the jade temple and had said he was on his last rope. If such a being could die, and
