Angel focused his gaze.
At the very center of the light screen, a small flipping hourglass had appeared once more.
This seemed to mean that it had entered a "loading page" again.
However, this loading sequence was different from the previous ones. This time, two lines of text had appeared beneath the small hourglass.
"First-clear announcement confirmation in progress. Number of confirmations for this announcement: 0/" "Confirmation time: 3 minutes."
Angel stared at it, utterly baffled. What was this? A first-clear announcement?
First clear... did it mean what he thought it meant?
Angel scratched his head. If it truly was the "first clear" he understood, then Wonderland Authority was openly copying game settings this time, wasn't it?
Angel found it absurd, but when he carefully considered the series of actions Wonderland Authority had taken since its birth, he felt that... it was somehow understandable.
At first, Wonderland had been called a Special Dream Realm.
But after Angel named the authority "Dreamwalking Wonderland" and frequently referred to it as an "instance," Wonderland Authority had accepted the name itself. Corresponding changes had even begun appearing in Wonderland prompts.
Clearly, Angel's subjective awareness could gradually cause changes in Wonderland Authority.
To put it bluntly... Wonderland Authority was very good at "copying" Angel.
And it did not merely copy. Sometimes, Wonderland Authority was especially shameless.
For instance, Wonderland Authority was very skilled at swooping in and snatching things away.
Back when Angel had tried to pull Sweet Dream into the Dream Crystal Plain, he had not ultimately succeeded. Yet some unknown thing had entered the Dream Crystal Plain.
At the time, Angel had not even had the chance to decipher that unknown fragment before Wonderland Authority swooped in and snatched it away.
It turned that unknown fragment originating from Sweet Dream into