Can You Tell Me More?

"Say... shouldn't we introduce ourselves?"

"You're right."

After Linsey voiced his guess, both he and the young man's expressions changed.

The two reached a consensus almost instantly, then stated their names at nearly the same time:

"Linsey."

"Nolan."

The young man—or rather, Nolan, the ancestor of the Law Knights—questioned Linsey further:

"Linsey, I hope you can explain this in detail. What does 'neither of us belongs to this era' mean? Could it be that you're ancient relics who slept through the time before the Exile Era and have only now awakened again?"

"The Exile Era?" Linsey had heard a new term.

Nolan's mention of ancient relics made Linsey realize that the other man had guessed the direction of time wrong, so he shook his head.

"It's not what you think."

"The Feathered Serpent and I didn't sleep in the ancient past. We came from the distant future."

Nolan's eyes widened.

"From the future? Time travel? How is that possible?!"

Linsey was somewhat surprised as well.

"You're a Seventh Stage Awakened. Don't you know about the control powerful people have over the concept of time?"

Nolan immediately shook his head.

"I've never heard of such a thing."

"..."

Nolan and Linsey stared at each other.

With his extensive adventuring experience, Linsey quickly realized one possibility.

In Kang Song's era, after the Awakened had developed over countless years, not only did the City of Law stand upon the earth, but other schools had flourished as well. This included knowledge of arts involving time.

But in Nolan's era—

The City of Law had only just been established. Perhaps not even the first glimmer of abilities related to time manipulation had appeared yet.

"In your era, has no one developed any time-related abilities yet?"

"In your era, has someone already developed arts related to