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Hermione's expression turned somewhat strange.

How should she put it?

Last year, when Lake had taken her to the Great Snow Mountain to support Kamar-Taj, Hermione had already known that Lake seemed to know the Sorcerer Supreme.

But...

The kind of "knowing" Hermione had imagined was not the kind Lake was talking about.

Seeing the expression on Hermione's face, Lake frowned slightly. Then the corner of his mouth began to twitch, and his face darkened a little. "Isn't that idea of yours a bit too outrageous?"

Me?

The Ancient One?

How could that be possible?

Although I was currently drawing closer to Zeus, I definitely wasn't Zeus. I wasn't so indiscriminate in my choice of partners.

Hermione wanted to laugh, but seeing the expression on Lake's face, she simply coughed and apologized to him before pulling the topic back to the matter at hand.

"So he stole time from you?"

"From Karen."

Lake said this, then pointed at Ben Stillman in the interrogation room. "Back in 1982, he created a time machine capable of entering the river of time, all to retrieve the woman who had broken up with him. Later, after his wife died, he tried to create another time machine to retrieve her again."

But...

From the very beginning, Ben Stillman's ability to create a time machine had been nothing but an accident.

Simply put, it was because of a bug.

And ultimately, it was a bug related to Lake that allowed Ben Stillman to create the time machine.

Ben Stillman created the time machine on January 15, 1982, while Lake reversed Karen's time on December 22, 1981.

At that time, the Sorcerer Supreme had severed the river of time, extracted Karen's time from it, cut away the final segment of time, and rewoven a path for Karen