When his journey through the Desire Tower ended and Wen Xishu returned to the Ark, his surroundings had not actually changed much.
But some of the dead had come back to life-Reno, one of the Ark's great generals, for instance. That made perfect sense. Changes at the source had altered the future.
As a result, Reno had never died in Sirius's little world.
The Strange Tower challenge had now changed from awakening Sirius to awakening the people of the Ark. That even included existing ability users such as Antoine, Nicolas, and Reno.
But not Von Neumann.
In other words, the Captain's Weakness Path had become even stronger in the future, but it no longer targeted Sirius alone. It targeted everyone.
However, Wen Xishu had already completed every challenge.
This situation was nothing new to Wen Xishu.
When the Desire Tower changed the source, the Strange Tower changed accordingly. The difficulty of a floor might drop, or too many other unexplored factors might keep it from dropping, leaving it merely altered.
Wen Xishu's current experience was not much different from his previous Strange Tower experience. He had to find lost concepts in worlds governed by all sorts of bizarre rules. The only difference was that instead of avoiding the Sin Sea Behemoth, he now had to avoid the mental sweeps of the Captain and Von Neumann.
But without Sirius, these worlds of bizarre rules were purely mental worlds. For Wen Xishu, who had some mental resistance as well as Nightmare Absolution and Personality Party, they were far easier than the previous version of the Strange Tower.
Moreover, although the pattern on the blue sun had, from a historical perspective, effectively never existed... Wen Xishu still remembered it.
And Yin Junchi's sacrifice had paid off. That pattern on the blue sun truly