Speculation

Chapter 415: Speculation

The dizziness of passing through the spatial rift arrived as expected, but this time, the strangeness Benjamin felt was far clearer.

It was not merely a "sense of familiarity."

When the team members behind him voiced their questions, when he raised Artorius's written order, when the Level Six wizards of the guard force flew over to interrogate him—

Every moment before his eyes seemed to perfectly overlap with some hazy afterimage in his mind.

He could even "foresee" the tone of the other party's next sentence, the faint omens of shifts in the surrounding energy flow, and the exact moment the insect tide on the distant horizon would begin to stir.

This was not déjà vu. It was memory.

When he saw the two thousand support wizards behind him, their expressions slightly bewildered, the thought cleaved through the fog like lightning.

The cycle had already repeated many times. This was another beginning.

And those recurring "déjà vu" sensations, growing clearer with every repetition—were memories from his past!

The adaptive evolution of the Body Tempering Method— Benjamin immediately understood.

Deep within the body tempered a thousand times over through the Body Tempering Method, after resisting physical impacts, energy corrosion, mental interference, and even time-slowing force fields, a subtler, deeper "adaptability" was awakening.

It was no longer merely protecting his body. It had begun to anchor his existence, resisting the complete reset of the individual known as "Benjamin" caused by time reversal.

Though he still could not preserve his memories in their entirety, this increasingly powerful "déjà vu" was proof in itself.

His consciousness, his soul, was gradually gaining resistance to the law-like phenomenon of "time cycles."

He quickly steadied his mind and, while waiting for Frost, sank his consciousness into his Internal Grotto-Heaven.

Four metal plaques stood quietly: